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Any unusual result in surgery is
heralded from coast to coast. At best,
surgery is only mechanical. The real
accomplishment in medicine of today
is the conquering of chronic and So
called incurable diseases. The effort
of medical science is devoted to that
end.
The Rockefeller Institute, the
greatest pathological laboratory in
the country, is employing the best
men to be had to search for-not the
best way to cut into and sew up the
human body-but the best way to
avoid that by finding remedies and
other means of curing those chronic
diseases that are everywhere about
US.
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Thanksgiving evening eight boys
left tHays bound for Hutchinson to
attend the Fourth Older Boys Con-
ference held there November 1928,
under the auspices of the State Y. M.
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Sure Cure. Anyway.

An Ohio man is said to have been
cured of rheumatism by being struck
by lightning, but no mention is made
of when and where the funeral was
held.-Anaconda Standard.
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Reeord Hurricane pamaae.


The worst hurricane Of which any
record exists was that of October 10,
17SO, which started in the Barbados.
An English feet anchored off st. Lucia
simply disappeared. Nearly every
building on the island was blown
down and 5000 people buried.
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DR.. BROWN
WILL BE III
Saiina, Monday, December goth; in
Wilson, Tuesday, the 21st; in
Ellis, Wednesday, Dee. 22nd,
at the Union Pacific Hotel;
In WaKeeney, Thursday,
the 23rd, and In Oakley,
Friday. the 24th.
For One Day Only

Friday. the 24th.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-01
A Pallid Story
Title of Shaw Desmond's
Novel Misleading

nY FAR the most colorful thing
~ about Shaw Desmond's story is
the title, Passion" (Scribner).
That, scrawled on the cover in scarlet
on black background, has powerful
and sinister effect, as the story has not
There are promises in the early part
OF the book of disturbn. disclosures
to come, Of vivid and unconventional
episodes which should bear out the
assertion that passion is the blind and
vital force in life. The hero is a neurot-
ic red-haired young Irishman, with the
abusive name Of James Tempest He goes
through a childhood Which is strongly
reminiscent of James Joyce, and boy
hood which suggests Beresford and Wal
pole. There is Frank Norris in the pic
ture of "The Cave" where Tempest finds
financial career. His stormy career at
school is meant to clear the way for an
even more stormy life in London, but
there Mr.. Desmond seems to find him
self at the end of his resources. For
though he gives the young man lawless
impulses, his escapades are of the
slightest. His life as young clerk in
London, his rise in the world of finance
is accomplished with the utmost cir
cumspection
Shaw Desmond has atte mpted to sur
round the story with the sinister glow
OF menacing, immoral force But the
means by which he attempts this are
obvious to the point Of banality. The
hero's name is a case in point. The
house full of strange dodgers in Soho
is on Fear Street. He encounters
temptation through the priestess of an
cratic cult who is, by kindred method
of violent antithesis, q fragile, Dres-
denchina old lady in bonnet and
curls.
The episodes of "Passion" are as vague
and f1accid os the characterization. 1t
makes gestures in the direction of the
unconventional.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-01
An Idealization of Whistler
The Pencils Biography Interprets His Art
More Frankly Than His Personality

artist, and realized his character
literally.
The stories of his escaDades arc
characteristic and amusing. There !,
the story of a journey on FOOT frsro
Cologne to Paris, undertaken h,
Whistler and a French fellow studen,
They fell in with a company which
played at the autumn fairs. BEATING
drum, they announced themselves a.
distinguished artists from Paris. ore,
ing to draw portraits at FIVE francs tba
full length, three francs the bals
length.
"At times Whistler was reduced n
charging five SOUS apiece for his por.
traits, but he did his best, he said. and
there was not drawing to be ashamed
Of"
His battle with British official az. :,
matter Of history. AS time goes bv
1t grows more and more clear how
heroically he fought Philistinism. H.
outraged all the cherished ideals Of
British art. He scorncd the anecdotsl
and the sentimental in which II wal.
lowed. He made the pre- Raphaelitss
ridiculous. And British art returned
by matchmaking him, ridiculing his
ideas of decoration, his drawing. his
coloring, his titles, even his FRAMING
of his pictures. His eccentricities. bis
foppery, his audacity Of wit were
sore of protective coloring. The more
he shocked British society, the more
he desired to give them cause to bs
shocked.
His fortunes were at lowest ebb at
the time of his libel suit against Rus.
kin. Ruskin, who had "made" the pre-
Raphaelites and become the pontif of
British art, saw in Whistler's art
something he could not understand. and
he assailed it venomously. The cause
for the action was a criticism in which
Ruskin said:
81 have seen and heard much of cock
ney imoudence, but never expected to
hear a coxcomb ask 5000 for fiinging
pot of paint in the public's face"
The libel suit was Whistler's excuse
for bringing into public discussion the
question whether an artist was to have
the right of his vision.
"At the time Whistler was to the
British public a charlatan, a mounte-
bank. Ruskin was to the people q
preacher, and it was this pom
tifcate that Whistler wished to see put
to the test The verdict was to Whis-
tier, damages one farthing, and perhaps
Whistler eked out his revenge by say
ing of Ruskin that political economists
considered him a great art critic and
artists looked upon him as great po-
litical economist"
New-York tribune., 1920-08-01
PORTRAIT of Miss Woakes from reproduction of the
painting IN The Life of James McNeiU Whistlero
Plea of Jugo-Slav
History of Dalmatia Re.
viewed in Detail

TIME Jugo-slav nationality of the
peoples living along the eastern
coast of the Adratic is vigor-
ously asserted by Count Louis Voino-
witch in "Dalmatia and the Ju,goSlav
Movement (Scribner's). The author
is more scholarly than most propa-
gandists. He reviews the history of
Dalmatia in exhaustive detail and
bases some of his arguments against
Italian possession Of this region upon
the well-nigh forgotten medieval wars
between the Byzantincs, Venetians,
Croats and Hungarians.
The author draws a sharp distinction
between civilization and nationality.
He admits that Dalmatia is indebted
to Italy for many cultural contribu-
tions. But he maintains that the
racial affinity between the Dalmatians
and the Croats and Serbs is quite in
disputable Even Venice in the days
of her domination looked upon the
eastern coast of the Adriatic as a
colony to be exploited, not as a land
bound to her by racial ties
The author describes the compli-
Gated course Of politics in Dalmatia in
the days of the Austrian Empire. His
father seems to have played an impor-
tant role as one of the leaders of the
Slavonic faction. Count Voinovtch cites
a number of parliamentary victories in
proof of his contention that the over
whelming majority Of the Dalmatian
population is Slavic, rather than Ital-
ian, in it's sympathies.
The author makes an excellent his
torical case for the Jugo-Slavs as
against the Italians, although his
treatment of the subject is perhaps too
highly specialized to appeal to the
average American reader, who is apt %
be trifle hazy about the exact loca-
tion of Fiume
New-York tribune., 1920-08-01
Alsace in 1918
Beauties of Redeemed
Province Described

~ URING the closing months of
the war Edith O'Shsughnessy,
who had been in Paris engaged
in routine work, was Conveyed to the
blue valleys and the rust and gold and
jasper hills Of Alsace," to become one
with the SCARED officers who, members
Of the French Military Mission, were
administering Alsace. In "Alsace In
Rust and Gold" (Harpers) she gives
the story Of her sojourn in that long.
disputed part of Europe.
There's lot Of color in this book
the very title implies it-and one ques-
tions at times the wisdom Of the rather
hectic hue Of its prose. But it is a
human, womanly work for all that, in
spired with a spirit Of generous affec-
tion for and sympathy with the Alsa-
tians In the moments Of their deliver
ance. AS such it has place among
the writings on the war that are valu-
able as interpreters Of events that are
purely episode or detached from the
main theme Of tho great story.
Mrs. 'Shaughnessy succeeds in ef-
fecting crescendo from the rather
quiet days Of her travel from Paris to
Alsace u2 to the really mendous
period OF the armistice. Her best
chapters from an American standpoint
are the two that conclude her book, on
"The Vigil Of the Armistice" and "Dies
Gloriae!" In the first We have, in al
most seriatim. diary-like form, the
record Of the cumulative effect of the
news Of the armistice on the minds of
those who received it. The second is
paan of victory, with one peculiar
note right in the midst Of it, a French
lieutenant singing many of Schumann's
songs. Well, Schumann wrote the 1.-TWO
Grenadiers," with it's swing into the
chords of the "Marseillaise," "No-
body found 1t strange" says our au-
thor, for music is above all boundaries.
is the universal voice for all times and
all occasions. And so ends a little
book that wins through its sheer sin
cerity.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-01
By w. L. George

~ EEING America, I feel 1t In
ga advance, is no small jon. One
~ doesn't, l suspect. get into an
expensive train in New York
and come out five days later at San
Francisco knowing all about It, One
has received impressions, seen sky
scrapers, discovered on the train bath
rooms, manicurists, shorthand writer's;
but that's surface.
And l fear that too many English
men when they visit America do not
even go so far as that. I suspect that
they pass most of their time in the
Northeastern states. Generally, they
stay only in New York; they visit a
few intellectuals in Boston; they run
up to the Adirondacks; they note with
interest that the English Portsmouth,
Plymouth and Gloucester are dupli-
Gated on your side; they try the cock
tails q mean, used to try), also the
ice water, Coney Island and the can
vas-backed duck. Then they write
book about Anne RIGA.
"Skimmed Columbia"
Do not imagine that I sweep every
body into this limbo Of superhciality,
for Mr.. Arnold Bennett, in "Those
United States; Mr.. H. G. Wells, in
"The Future of America" and several
others have produced works which GER
tainly deserve the admiration Of Eng
land and possibly may earn the toll
erance Of America. But many people
have not exactly libelled Columbia;
they have nearly all admired her, but
they have SKINNED her.
America is rather too largo a
caldron to skim with a small ladle.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-01
Mr.. Fitzgerald's Popular Novel

The Scribners announce that f. Scott
Fitzgerald's "This Side Of Paradise" is
now in its seventh edition, which is not
surprising, inasmuch as this novel,
which gives an extraordinarily frank
picture of the thoughts and actions of
our younger American generation, is
being SO much read by and discussed
by debutantes, college professors and
literary critics. A good many mothers
and elderly minded people have been
shocked by this book and saw the young
people they know aren't like that, but
the younger generation seem to be
reading it with an undisguised delight
that would indicate pretty clearly it was
faithful and perhaps a remarkably
frank comedy Of modern manners.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-01
New Literary Columbus Sets Sail to Discover Us
Of her history. This is tho least COM

Of her history. This Is tho least COM
pliment one can pay to people. I
must say that was, to a certain ex-
tent, prepared for this by my French
education, in which American history
considerably figures, not only in the
shape Of romantic Lafayette, but in
the more prosaic form Of lectures on
the Civil War, Free Silver and the
Dingley Tariff.
So, at present,.I am increasing that
slender store of knowledge. and you
might any evening see me with one
Of the histories used in your schools
patiently working out the exercises
which demand of me: "Why was the
Embargo act a failure?" Or: "Give
the reason why Vicksburg was so i'm
portant to the South"
repeat, it's the least one can do
To 60 among a great people, to lee
New-York tribune., 1920-08-01

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New-York tribune., 1920-08-01
Books for Bows

As the fall Juvenile season ap-
proaches Appletons announce these
various printngs of old favorites-
the sixth printing of Ralph Henry
Barbour's spirit of the School," the
twentieth printing of his Captain
of the Crew. the seventeenth printing
of Molly Elliot Seawell's Decatur
and Somers," the sixth printing of A.
Frederick Collinss Book of Stars" the
sixth printing of Cole & Ernst's First
Aid for Boys" and the tenth printing
of Joseph A. Altshclers Scouts of the
Valley"
New-York tribune., 1920-08-01
Business Morale
Human Factor in Industry
Analysed

nERSONS who read for pleasure
Il may take up "The Human Factor
In Industry" (Macmilan), by DR.. Lee
X. Frankel and DR.. Alexander Fleisher.
without fear Of being lulled to rest by
drab economic treatise. Although this
volume is intended as textbook on
personnel and service work in large
corporations, the tabled lay reader will
find it an interesting discussion of hir
ing and holding workers and Of those
aspects Of big business which are not
altogether matters Of profit and loss.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-01
Modern British Poetry

The demands from schools and IL
brarics for Modern American Poetry"
compiled by Louis Untermeyer has en-
couraged Mr.. Untermeyer to compile
q companion book of British verse, to
be entitled Modern British Poetry"
Harcourt Brace G. Howe have just
published this. 1t covers the period
from 1870 to 1920. About eighty poets
are represented and the collection is,
Ike the earlier book, marked by its
variety. Poems arc included from as
dissimilar writers as Henley, Steven
son, Kipling, Yeats, Noyes, de la Mare,
Rupert Brook, etc.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-01

ture to It, to write about It without
learning something of the historical
events which have created it is an
impertinence do not intend to
commit.
To Know Americans
Above all, when, in August, | reach
America I want to try and realize
what kind of people l am meeting
how much of the pioneer spirit still
lives in nation that has only
touched the fringe of its wealth, who
has not long ago torn its land from
the grasp of the savage, who in a
short hundred years has created more
universities than England did in a
thousand, who has, with speed and
thoroughness akin to miracle, rugged
up from stick and stone civilization,
criticism and humanity
little Of this Columbian spirit
must, it seems to me, run through
every male, some Of the national ideal
ism through every American woman.
I want to find all this because I don't
think it fair to avoid trying.
1t is horrible to misrepresent people,
for they cannot reply; they must suf-
fer in silence; they can do nothing
to repair the Misunderstanding. I
want to understand America more than
have ever wanted to understand any
other country. may 1Yisrepresent
her all the same, but if do the blame
will lie against my brains rather than
against my good intentions.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-01
But w. l.. George Is Different
English Novelist Is Cramning on American
History in Advance

Mr.. W. L. George, tho English
,,ovehst, 1cl,o Wiu aqr-iue IN Ne1v
York about the middle Of this
month, preliminary to a tour Of
the United States, is going to
knofo something about the col,,-
try before he a'7'ires. In per-
so1,al letter to a friend here he
reveals that he IS spending much
time studying our history, so that
he .ciU be IN position to under~
stand as and ,U,-ite about as IN
telligently, for, of course, he IS
going to ac'-itc q book describing
his uisit. An e1tract from his
letter folloacs:
New-York tribune., 1920-08-01
w L. GEORGE, Gnthor of Coi6on, to be published
" by Harper Brothers, coming to the United States
to give the 0ver

cussion arises on tho repainting Of
the pump.
The foreigner in America should see
something Of the prison system, of
the hospitals, Of the relief Of the poor.
He should so about not only among
people who entertain him, but among
people who don't know him and take
him for what he Is: an internally in
quiring nuisance. That, at least, is
how I hope to see America, just as
have tried to gain some idea of con-
ditions In various parts Of Europe,
where I have always sacrificed twelve
receptions for ono chat with a street
sweeper.
How Mischief Is Done
It seems to me that If the foreigner
does not mako an effort Of this kind
when he goes to America he may
bring about damage. If he obtained
his American impressions and then
fell down dead q don't mean this as
an inevitable coincidence), the mis-
chief would stop. But the traveller
survives and comes homo to give par
tial and prejudiced accounts Of the
country he has seen; this leaks from
conversation into the press, the novel,
tho stage and into politics. The errors
make an atmosphere, the wrong at
mosphere.
Ono Of tho many points which oc-
cur to me Is that before spending. as
l propose to do, five or six months in
America one should know somethinp
New-York tribune., 1920-08-01

y
business-an avid snatching
at privacy, an intrusive prob
ing for the failible human
element in the heroic-in which sue
macy the property Of every one. The
less the biographer is inhibited by the
accepted reserves, the common safe
guards Of privacy which make up the
gentleman's code, the more likely he
is to write the kind of biography which
is fascinating and true.
But for this sort of callousness the
Pencils (E. R. and J.) have gentle
folks distaste. They have written this
biography of James McNeill Whistler
(Appleton) as Of friend who might
chance upon the book. They have dealt
with all his indiscretions discreetly-
mindful Of the reverence due master.
No more suggestive subject for the
modern psychological process offers
itself than Whistler. He presents
such q dramatic contrast in character
as does not fail to stir the new genera
tion, sharpened on antithesis What
might it not make of his mordant wit,
his manifold eccentricities, his violent
enmities, the numberless stories about
him, given genuine intimacy with
him? It might come to an understand
ing Of the contradiction between Whs-
tier the harlequin and Whistler the
austere artist.
But there is no avenue to an intimacy
with Whistler in this book. The Pen
nells seem to fear to intrude on his
personal life. Specifically, Whistler
may be said to have had no personal
life. He loved living on parade. His
escapades, his retorts, the episodes of
his colorful life were common property
sufficiently recorded here. But Of his
deeper personal life, Of the friendships
which influenced him, his love affairs,
his family life, there is practncally moth
ing in this bulky volume.
Few men," says the biography, ode
pended more on companionship than
Whistler, and to few was the COM
panionship women alone can give more
essential. All his life he retained his
ceur de femme, and most of his
friends were women"
Whistler seems to have soaked him
self thoroughly in Murger before going
to Paris to study, and to have become
the most reckless Bohemian of them
all there. Paris in those days
sheltered Du Meurier, Leighton, Poyn-
ter, Armstrong, and many other future
R. AS, but Whistler was even in those
dramatized himself as Bohemian
New-York tribune., 1920-08-01
"The Case for Capitalism"

In "The Case for Capitalism" which
the buttons announce for publication
next week, Hartley Withers, the Eng
lish authority upon financial and eco
nomic questions, argues for the inter-
dependence and cooperation of labor
and capital and shows that when
rightly considered their interests are
identical rather than opposed.