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Imperial Valley press., 1920-09-22
FULLER PLANT IS
INTERESTING TO
PAY VISIT TO
Paint Manufacturers, Color
Grinders and COrrOders of
White Lead PrOUe NeUer
Failing Source of Interest to
Visitors.

One of the oldest firms in San Fran
cisco is the historic house of w. ?.
Fuller & Co. Unquestionably the lead
ing paint dealers this side of Chicago,
with one of the largest paint factories
in America, and with thirteen branch
houses scattered at strategic points
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03
Problems and Personalities

About It and About is a book Of
studies Of present-day problems and
personalities, by D. Willoughby, which
has Just been published by E. P Dutton
4 Co. Some idea Of the content and
temper of the volume may be gained
from the books final paragraphs "The
new policy for the new people IS not
easy to frame. Yet after oil, the idea
of the League of Nations was war-be-
gotten, and still survives as revolutions
alternative. Hostility or Indifference of
Senates or Parlaments wellnigh choke
it, but it is kept alive wherever there
is majority Of the generation which
has been at war. Until 1t Is made
effective there can be no great hope Of
return to an orderly way Of life. 1t is
idle to ask men and women to devote
themselves to the serious details of re-
constructing civilization before the
foundations have been we'll and truly
laid" The English author, who is a
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03
Revival Of Mademoiselle Maupin
Translation of Gautier's Work Among the Sea
sons Publications

less unconcern for the general outcome.
he revelcd in beauty to the point Of
intoxication, he made an orgy of beau
ty, and in the end he accomplished a
work of art that has served as a model
for many a literary aspirant
Opinions on Translation
AS to the fitness of the book for
translation, there are diverging opin-
ions Some claim that any translation
is like viewing a glorious sunset second
he nd, like a picture postcard description
Of the Alps. Yet, if the practice had
not been instituted how much would
be lost to all save the professional lin
guist. There are few who insist the
translation Of the Bible was mistake.
The plain, homely English language
can do some queer things to French ex-
pressions. Exquisite snatches of French
phrases may become ugly ribaldry when
interpreted in our own tongue. Our
intimacles are not always their init
macies. What may appear blunt and
crude takes on a different form in the
French of it. Unless two nations coin
eide exactly in habits, customs and tenn
peraments, any exchange OF literary
products must meet with these handi-
caps.
In English, Mademoiselle de Maupin
is not book for general, indscriminate
circulation. 1t has no place in the cur
riculum of young ladies' seminary. In
the home, it is not for the library table
for the casual reader to stumble on un-
eXpectedly; nor Is it of that class of
book that must be hidden away on the
top shelf of the bookcase away from
reaching hands. Rather, let it be freely
accessible for the discerning reader who
delights in the romance of beautiful
things.
There Is some irony in the cover blurb
of the present edition which points to
"the permanent Importance of a classic
such as Mademoisclle de Maupin "Was
it not Gautier who wore the flaming red
vest Qater reports softened the charge
to a pink doubloon) and the green
trousers as direct challenge to the
classicsts, who clapped loudest at the
Notorious premiere Of "Hernani," who
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03
Notes of Books
And OF Authors
l6rV~ HIS play of mine Is fascinat-

kkTN HIS play of mine Is fascinat-
ing adventure" says Edna
Ferber in speaking of "S12OC
Year, which Doubleday, Page e. Co.
have just brought out in book form.
Il wrote 1t with Newman levy, whose
regular job is being a lawyer. We're
both more or less amateurs at play
building Perhaps that's why we had
so much fun in writing. The plays
motif is jut little comedy thrust at
the topsy-turvy world to-day Beneath
the hlarity Of 1t we tried to express
real idea and hope it will get across
as we'll as the laughs. We've had the
usual ups and downs that 20 with
playwriting Watching the fortunes of
play Is much more absorbing-and
harrowing-than following the luck of
book. Once you've finished your
book and turned 1t over to your pub
Usher you feel toward 1t ns you would
toward q daughter who has married
and gone to India to live. You hope
1t will get on all right, but you know
that your intimate association with it
Is ended. The only response that
reaches you from the public Is SYM
polized by the figures on the royalty
check. But q play Is different You
can see and feel and hear its success
or failure"
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03
More Thrills Abound in New Crop of Books Of "

WIS recognized as the most ardent cham
p;on Of the Romantic group? And now
Gautier himself is despised "classi-
cist"
In his preface Gautier devotes several
pages to bitter dcnunciation of jour
nalsts in general and critics in par
ticular. After cataloguing the multi
tudinous vices of the average critic, he
tries to put all of his violent prejudice
into these two paragraphs:
Criticizing Critics
what, after all, are these critics
whose tones are so peremptory and
words so short, that one might take
them for true sons Of the gods? They
are simply men who have been at col
lege with US, and who have evidently
profited less by their studies than we.
since they have never produced work,
and can do nothing but bespatter and
spoil the work of others like ~ysritable
stymphalian vampires.
Would it not be something to crit
clze the critics? For these fastidious
grandees, who make such an affectation
Of being naughty and hard 10 please.
are far from possessing the infallibility
of our Holy Father. There would be
enough to fill a daily paper of the larg-
est size. Their blunders, historical or
otherwise, their forged quotations, their
mistakes in French, their plagiarisms.
their dotage, their trite and iil-man-
nered pleasantries, their poverty of
ideas, their want of intelligence and
tact, their ignorance of the simplest
things, would provide authors with
ample materials for taking their re-
venge, without involving any work but
that of underlining the passages with
pencil and reproducing them word for
word"
Hardly was the ink dry on this
harangue when Gautier had associated
himself with newspaper and soon he.
too, became critic. For the next thirty
years he served in the capacity of dra-
matte and art critic for La Presse and
the Moniteur. And thus did the critic
of critics pay in blood for the thunder
he had brought down on the heads of
his fellow craftsmen.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03
ILLUSTRATION from The Pedder, by Henry C. Roola7d
Published by Harper e Bros

ants Of New York State suddenly re-
fused to pay the PATRON rents. Organ
lied into various tribes Of "Indians,"
they defed landlords, agents, sheriffs,
officers and the law.
Tar brushes, hickory whips and even
more drastic measures were resorted to
as protest against rents.
Thus the anti-rent Indians" were the
forerunners of the Klu-Klux Klan, the
White Caps, the Night Riders, etc.
While they did not win lower rents by
actual rebellion, they soon became
strong enough to elect Governor Of
New York, and this ended the PATRON
landholding system in this country.
The anti-rent rebellion serves as q
background for Don Cameron Shafer's
romance, Barent Creighton, just pub
lished by Alfred A. Knopf.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03
William Lyon Phelps
writes of
LEONARD MERRECK

! have read with keen IN
terest every one of his novels
that you have published thus
far.
They are all works of dis
tinction, of high literary art.
The best thing about them
is that every one is a good
story well told.
They are so well-wrought'
the plot basis is so admirable,
that apart from ones con-
stant interest in the story,
it is pleasure to see such
workmanship. quite under
stand why Barrie calls him
the novelist's novelist.
Some of his short stories
resemble O. Henry in the
element of surprise and con-
cision.
Mr.. Mcrrick's novels Iii tho
Collected Edition are:
Conrad I'm Quest os His Youth
The Actor Manager
Cynthia
The Position OF Peggy Harper
The Man who Understood
Women
The WOrldIEnuS
When Love Flies Out o. the
Window
while Paris Laughed
Each, $l.90. To follow this Fall
The House Of Lynch
E. P. Dutton & Co., ssl ssh Ave, N. Y.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03

regular contributor to the London
Everyman, writes of current affairs and
questions in the spirit-and, we may
add, with the careful study-of the
moderate, who would have the world
move forward constantly, but along
sane paths Of honest progress. Yet the
essays in About 1t and About are not
all political. The book contains a study
of "The Imperialist," but also Of "The
Young Lady" paper on "The Orange
man" and one on "The Actor Manager"
little essays on the "Poor Law" on the
sportsman, on Mr. Bernard Shaw. 1t is,
in short, a collection of sketches on
many subjects, bound together by their
timeiness.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03

interesting characters. But tho most
interesting of them is not the main
character. The most interesting Of
them Is William Kirkland, ono Of the
foils for the main stem. EMORY
Clamp, as he is known through most
of the book, the peddler and hero is
bit too fantastic to be as interesting
as William Kirkland, for William can
always be accepted as true.
The Peddler brings before the public
again some of Mr.. Rowlands old
friends, followers Of the late Ivan and
the more recent Chou Chou, le Tondeur.
From this it may be gathered that
The Peddler is q crime story, not a
mystery story, for the crooks are in
troduced as crooks and there is no mys-
terry about who stole the wonderful
blue diamond and the various other
valuables, but story Of struggle
with criminals, resulting in the clear
ing Of the names Of the innocent, but
also in the escape Of the criminals, to
be used again in the story of another
crime in another book.
If one chose to be critical about this
book, which Is not intended to be any
thing more than frothy amusement,
one would soy that Mr.. Rowland's
trouble is that he must move always
in the best circles. So, not to lower
himself, even for moment, from the
cerulean blue, he invents a quite i'm
possible band Of criminals, and, still
not satisfied with these extraordinary
creatures, includes among them one
who is frankly neither fish, flesh nor
fowl. His story thus has q Jack and
the Beanstalk atm osphere that is pret-
ty hard for the reader to live in for so
protracted a period
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03
Further Roamfngs of Harry A. Franck

Harry A. Franck, whose Roaming
Through the West Indies is about to
appear under the imprint of the Cen
tury Company, has just returned to New
York after buryng himself for some
time in the Canadian wilds with Profess
sor E. A. Ross, of the University of
Michigan. Mr.. Franck looks much ben
Gifted by his outing and is eager to be-
gin work on a new book to be entitled
Working My Way North The "Prince
Of Vagabonds" collected material for
this volume while on four years walk
ing trip through South America. He
was about to put it in shape for publ
cation when the United States joined
the Allies in the World War Mr..
Franck, with characteristic promptness,
at once dropped everything, went to
Plattsburg and soon was on his wav to
France, where he served with distinc-
ton till after the armistice Now that
he has come home, roamed awhile in
Southern waters and camped in the
Great North Woods, he thinks it is
high time to set his house in order. AS
every Franck "fan" remembers, tho
author described his experiences tramp
ing down the backbone of the Southern
continent in that remarkable book,
Vagabonding Down the Andes The new
volume, it Is understood, will take up the
tale at the point where the intrepid
hikes reached Patagonia and relate
in Franck fashion the joys and sorrows
OF the road as he wended his way up
the east coast. And, of course, it will
all be Illustrated by the authors own
Photographs.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03
A Great American
Excellent Short Biography
OF Theodore Roosevelt

DMUND LESTER PrApco,..,
Theodore Roosevelt (Aao-si,s,,
IS an admirable short b.srra,t,,
lie outstanding facts Of Rooseys,.,,
career arc stated clearly and coooi..'..
he author holds Up the late ex-pr.
dents character as model o. r.od c...-
zensh'p and good Amer.caaism n,
describes Roosevelt's eariy career ss
sane and practical reforner. -.
achievements with the Rough Rider. -
Cuba; has remarkable political ssr~s..
IS leader Of the Progress've party. ri.
record Of stalwart patriotic service -
his country during the way. No ;,.;-
dent IS overemphasizsa, and con-ersen.-
~ Mr.. Pearson is able 10 comnr.ss
very adequate sketch Of Roosevelt. ns-
sonal'ty and work into little book Of
159 pages
The author IS obviously animated bz
spirit Of very warm and unreserysd
admiration for the subject Of his work
He defends Roosevelt mos, vjoororslv
against all the aspersions Of personal
and political enemies. lie draws some
obvious, if unspoken. Comparisons be-
tween the war reactions Of Theodore
Roosevelt and President Wilson. Mr.
Pearson's work is primarily designed
for young people, but it is calculated to
appeal to much wider audience. L
IS valuable addition to the great mass
Of enthusiastic tributes which are al
ready associated with the memory Of
the great leader and great American
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03

prairie fires his experiences of hunting
and clearing and settling a Nebraska
homestead are skilfuIly woven into the
none too substantial story.
The orphaned heroine is born to dis
tressful adventure. A mysterious fate
overhangs her, until it is disclosed that
wicked uncle is the secret agent of
many Of her troubles. When he meets
the fate he deserves it is dicovcred that
she is an heiress. She is then not too
proud to marry the lover of her friend
less days, and they live happily ever
after.
The Heart of Cherry McBain, by
Douglas Durkin (Harper), stresses the
psychological note a little more heavily.
1t is the story Of mans fight for self
mastery in a remote railroad camp.
Here the hero comes with secret on
his conscience. He has struck down his
brother in a fight over a woman, and
he dares not thereafter trust himself
to fight. In country where right and
wrong is settled by the fist, this brands
him a coward. But when danger faces
the girl he loves, when the intrigues of
the villain and his gang close ia on
the girl and her father, he finds the
courage to fight hard and proves him
self man.
The Canadian woods are not over
looked. The Conquering Hero (Jane
Lane), by John Murray Gibbon, retails
in g long, dull, rambling story tho ad-
ventures Of a Canadian guide who en-
lists in the retinuo Of motion picture
princess.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03
Mark Twain on Stage and Screen

Following upon the successful screen
presentation Of the trio Of Mark Twain
features, tom Sawyer" "Huckleberry
Finn" and "Huck aud Tom" comes the
announcement that William Faversham
will present a dramatization OF Mark
Twain's The Prince and the Pauper,
and thai Emmett j. Flynn is preparing
screen version Of Twain's historical
story Of the Middle Ages, Con-
recticut Yankee in King Arthur's
Court The Harpers. Mark Twain's
publishers, have responded to the de-
mand for companionabe volumes of
the great humorist's works with COM
plete edition of Mark Twain's works,
pocket size, bound in flexible leather.
They have just taken from the press
reprints, bound in leather, Of The
Prince and the Pauper, The Inno-
cents Abroad, Huckleberry Finn and
In Defense Of Harriet Shelley.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03


America goes marching on
IN Western fiction. No matter how
civilization may subdue and tarnish the
West, the country of the imagination
In which Western romance occurs lies
perennially renewed with each seasons
crop Of fiction, ageless and chaneeless
Prairie Flowers, by James B. Hendrix
(Putnam), is Of q type of Western
story so classic that to alter it would
be desccration. It's hero Is q wild-riding.
hard-drnking. languorous knieht-errant
cow-puncher. His hand on the trigger
IA swifter than the eye From the
moment in which he arrives at the Tim
Dor City saloon with the businesslike
declaration of getting drunk to the mo-
ment he rides out with the rescued dam
sci things happen with cyclonic rapid
ity. The story Is one wild mslee, in
which spin around bad men, cattle
thieves, distressed damsels--so swiftly
that it IS difficult to know just what is
happening, until the hero energies
triumphant out of the dust, firmly
clutching the girl he is to marry. The
story closes with a wedding Impressive
in its simplicity"
A Prairie Schooner Princess, by Mary
K. Maule (Lathrop, Lee & Shepherd),
pictures the historical pioneering West.
1t concerns the Swiss Family Robinson
adventures Of Quaker family who,
crossing the plains. find little girl
orphaned by the Indians The pioneers
adventures with good and bad Indians,
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03
A Tale of the Orient

Talbot Mundy, who has been in Pal
estine and Egypt for the last six
months, is expected home shortly. His
new story, Told in the East, will ap-
pear from the Bobbs-Merrill Company
press about the same time.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03
A Penitentiary Motto

That Sing Sing Penitentiary has
adopted the motto of Sunny Ducrow,
the heroine of the book by that name
recently published by the Putnams, is
set forth in the current issue of The
Sing Sing Bulletin.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03
Oly1npian Crooks
Henry G. Rowland Clings
to the Superhunan in
The Peddler

ENRY c. ROWLAND'S The Ped
dlsr is not new born as it ap-
pears between boards from the
publishing house Of Harper & Bros. 1t
is = rebirth, and as the story was popu-
lar In its original serial form there Is
good reason why 1t should gain new
friends in It's new form. In fact, 1t is
. good story and deals with several
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03
Memoirs OF
The Count de
R0chechOuart

Vivid indeed are these personal rec
cllec.ions mothers burned fight for
life in l795; his own escape to England;
soldier in Portugal at twelve years Of
age; adopted by his relative the Due
de Richeheu in Odessa; leading Cos,ack
raids in Circassia; Aide-de Camp to Tar
Alexander; paying cour, to Nine. Mar
ishkin in New Russia following the re-
treat from Moscow; sharing tho advance
on Paris; and finally commanding the city
from which he had been hunted a. a
child. He was behind the scenes in many
interesting political and military sveut.
and writes with authority. $500
E. P. Dutton & Co., esl Fifth Av., N. Y.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03
An Author After Big Game

George Agnew Chamberlain has gone
to Africa on big game hunting expedi-
ton. His book on Mexico, entitled Is
Mexico Worth Saving? and q volume of
fiction will appear from the Bobbs-
Merrill press during his absence.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03
Tho Anti-Rent Rebellion

These days OF rent raising recall to
mind the great anti-rent rebellion Of the
'40s. Very little has been published
about this "rebellion," which was the
most serious affair Of It's kind this coun-
try ever knew.
Seventy-hve years ago Ae land ten
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03

-
n n borrowing from the dusty
Il bookshelves of q sister ma
tion to help meet the vicari-
GUS needs of a modern reading public
IS no novelty to the publishing
game, though any fair-minded person
will admit it a scurvy, unworthy trick
to play on the present generation of
toiling, perspiring writer's.
From a reviewers standpoint there
Is much to be said in favor of the Gus
tom. Imagine the ease, the com
Portable assurance with which one may
step into the opening paragraphs of a
column Of comment concerning Made
moiselle de Maupin, translated from
the French of Theophic Gautier and
published by Knopf in uniform edition
with Madame Bovary and Manon Les
caut. Difficult indeed it would be to
go far wrong in describing this SEN
sational success of nearly a century
ago, straight from the school of French
novelists about whose collective head
there will always rest certain halo
Mademoiselle de Maupin is the in
spired work of a young man barely
out Of his teens, written-this carries
all the earmarks of pure rumor-in
eight weeks under contract, behind a
locked door with a stern parent stand
Ing guard and refusing to open up
until a specified daily stint had been
accomplished.
Parental Cooperation
While the book could only have been
conceived by very young man, this
idea OF parental cooperation is some
thing to be viewed with skepticism.
Any modern youth who attempted a
like feat would Of necessity seek for
his sanctum the highest limb Of the
furthest tree in the orchard, and he
might expect no further sympathy from
his parent than to have his allowance
cut off, and a 8 o'clock curfew
regime established at the discovery
of single page Of his manuscript.
But the French were and are a diff
ferent people. At least, we like to think
so. In wholly boastful spirit, opinion
is current in this country that as q ma
ton we are inherently more virtuous
than France. Tourists who know only
the boulevards of Paris incline to this
belief, and returned soldiers whose OBJ
scrvations may have penetrated no
deeper than that provided by Buvette
acquaintanceships
Yet, actually, the French people were
shocked when Maupin was originally
published. Their storm of protest was
not against the subject matter, nor
against the realistic descriptions which
we have grown accustomed to expect
only in vague hints and suggestions. 1t
was the total disregard of the existence
of any moral code, French, American or
Grecian, which offended the finer sensi-
bilities.
Gautier, painter at heart, cherished
ideas that followed along the lines Of
"beauty for bcauty's sake A moral
code bore too much of the utiltarian
taint to have any place in his writings
Faithful to beauty alone, he was able to
give expression to thoughts with recS-
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03

Brave Souls Perform Daring Deeds in Cause of
Fiction and Romance

wv HATEvER borders are lost
AN or changed in the West
the pioneering youth Of
New-York tribune., 1920-10-03

PIPING inte the dim past or
& n borrowing from the dusty
Il bookshelves of q sister ma
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-10-27
NeWs of Sapulpa
SAPULPA TO GET
z CITY NURSES
City and County School
Children Will Be
Cared For i.
Special 70 The World.

Special TO The world.
SAPUTPA, Oct. 2s.---A meeting Of
the board OF directors OF the He'd
Cross was held yesterday at Red
Cross headquarters. The main fea-
ture OF the meeting was the recon-
mendation to employ two additional
public health nurses to assist tho
one now employed. The nurse now
employed is Mrs Olive Tosh, who
| is to be head nurse. and the two
nurses employed will be in charge
Iot the school work One OF the
nurses will be in charge OF the
county schools. while the others will
have charge OF the children OF the
Sapulpa schools. Arrangements
were also made for the annual
meeting Of the Creek county Red
Cross chapter, November 3. At this
time officers for the new year Will
be elected. on that day meeting
OF the officials OF the Red Cross
from all parts OF the county will he
held and plans for the annual roll
call will be perfected. The roll call
is to be November IL to II.