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New-York tribune., 1921-05-08
Motor Fuels

GASOLINE AND OTHER FUELS. BY
Carleton Ellis and Joseph V. Meigs. Pub
llshed by D Van Nostrand Company.
The processes of making gasoline
and other motor fuels are analyzed in
detail i'll this valuable. work, which
covers the field very thoroughly and
completely. The book is provided with
two folding plates and more than two
hundred illustrations. The authors are
especially to be commended for follow
ing up the latest inventions and de-
velopments in the motor fuel industry.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-08
A Promising Novelist

BLIND MICE. BY C. Kay Scott. Pub
lished by Doran.
In this record in fiction Of the evil
influence of a mother who steps into
hitherto happy little family and,
through tears and Establishments, wins
a way to the fulfillment of her pur-
poses, C. Kay Scott has written sue
cessful first novel. The daughter in
the story is married to young archi-
tect, whose close business friend is
almost a member of the family. The
cleavage effected by the mother re-
suits in a new alignment of the
four characters with no little disas-
ter and pain for all concerned. While
melodramatic in spots, the suthor's
easy control Of his terse, frequently
pictorial prose reveals novelist ef
promise.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-08
Democracy In Practice
Surveyed by Lord Bryce
Distinguished British Scholar Believes That
Democratic Theory Has INDICATED Itself
in America and Other Countries

science, as "The American Common
wealth" has long been. 1t would be
impossible within the limits Of this
review to follow the author in his sur
vey. What he says about the United
States, covering 1874 pages, will inter-
est Americans most.
He still finds the two especial weak
nesses of American government to lie
in an inadequate system of Justice and
IN municipal maladministration The
municipal failure he attributes largely
to the excessive alien element in the
big cities and to the survival there of
the rule of low grade party bosses. He
thinks that the election Of judges has
great deal to do with the present
discomfort with the shortcomings of
justice. Most Americans will be in
clined, however, to attribute it rather
to the retention of archaic court pro-
cedure and, in the criminal branch of
the law, to an absurd habit of over
protecting the accused and extending
to him even after conviction all sorts
Of legal indulgences.
The author recognizes, however, the
great advance in civic consciousness
and the long strides made here in the
last thirty years toward improving the
public service, repressing political cor
ruption and eliminating maniforld po-
litical abuses tolerated by the genera
tion which followed the war. Of the
American awakening since 1890 he says
in conclusions:
mo Englishman who remembers
American politics as they were half q
century ago and who, having lived in
the United States, has formed an affec-
tlon as we'll as an admiration for it's
people what Englishman who lives
there can do otherwise q will fail to
rejoice at the many signs that the
sense of public duty has grown
stronger, that the standards of public
life are steadily rising, that democracy
is more and more showing itself q
force making for ordered progress,
true to the principles of liberty and
equality from which it sprang."
In the conclusions, which he draws
from his study of modern democracies,
Viscount Bryce refutes two charges
commonly brought against them. One
IS that democracy cannot maintain
a consistent foreign policy. This is
easily disproved in the case of France
since 1870 and in the case Of the United
States. Public opinion in the United
States; he shows, has tended to become
wiser and more moderate on questions
OF foreign policy, and also juster and
more pacific.
The second charge is that efficiency
Of administration IS not as high in
democracies as it is in monarcnies. In
the authors view only Germany out
ranked the democratic countries OF the
world in administrative efficiency. But
the Germans paid price for that dis
tinction which free people cannot af-
ford to pay.
Summing up the case for and against
modern democracy the author says:
Il. 1t has maintained public order
while securing the liberty of the in
diyidual citizen.
"2. 1t has given a civil sdministra-
New-York tribune., 1921-05-08
Tragedies Of Kings and Of
Common People Contrasted
Hidden Sorrows of Royalty Described by Lou;s
Couperus- Pierre Hemp's Stories Reveal
the Art of French Gorky

cne royal family is admirably c,,..,
out. Lovers Of Couperus's other nog.,.
will find in Majesty the best qualities
of his work: subtlety of thought .ns
keen psychological insight combina,
with extraordinary beauty and dslic,s,
Of language.
The work of NJ. Pierre Hamp win
come as a distinct shock to those Win
have been brought up on a str;o.I,.
academic literary diet. For he r;an.
soughshod over all classical rules y.
uses no apparent principles Of sel.,.
tion in arranging his material. y.
simply projects whatever fragments ~
experience come to mind, without hots
ering to inquire about the ar+irt;,
significance of what he relates.
Hamp is realist par excellenc. ~.
is not afraid to use ugly words. ..
order to describe ar ugly subject !,
he is telling story of vulgar nso,I.
ne doesn't attempt to gloss over tb.,,
vulgarity.
Hamp's work may he crude and form
less, according to accepted rule, ~
composition, but it i, enthusiastically hi,
and vital. 1t has strength, sincerity
and humor. There is exuberant fun (,
"a Man With a Soft job" where a ear.
penter, called in to repair q critic,
bookshelf, goes into scstsssss At
laughter at The idea Of 9 man who s,.
nothing TO do in l!fs except vxtss
plays and write his opinion pf them.
There is stern and bitter nets 4,
"a Rich City" which throws light upOs
French labor struggles. And all the
stories, even those in which the plot
is negligible and the style unusually
bad, are worth reading, because OF
Hamp's remarkable genius for chsrse.
terization. One feels that the authoy
knows intimately the cooks, railway
workers, cabmen and seamstressss
whom he describes, and his perception
is not clouded either by aloofness or
by sentimentality. Hamp possesses
many of the qualities which lend de
tinction to the work of Maxim Gorky:
genuine contact with poverty and mis-
fortune, a wide acquaintance with
humble workers ana derelicts who are
not on the calling list of most respect
able writer's, and a capacity for seeing
men and women as they are, without
sour pessimism or mushy optimism,
New-York tribune., 1921-05-08


sos, 676. Published by the Macmillan
Company, New York.
W YISCOUNT BRYCE has spent
U I many years in the study Of
rnment-especially of dem
ocratic government. In this
field his authority is great and his
mastery Of detail is uncontested. He
is believer in democracy. In British
politics he has been an advanced Lib
eral. But in his books he has avoided
dogmatism and turned away generally
from the theory of democracy to con-
slider it's practice.
In his two latest volumes he adheres
to his former point of view. He is an
observer rather than partisan. He
wants to see democracy tested by its
works. The democratic system came
in with high hopes, encouraged by the
theorists and philosophers Of the
eighteenth century. Many Of these
idealistic hopes have not been realized,
because they didn't take into account
the fixity and rigidity of human nature.
The author is sensible enough of the
divergence between the golden dreams
of Rousseau and jefferson and the
actual operation of the democratic eX=
pertinent to eschew anything like
radiant optimism, He says in his
preface that he has sought "to repress
the pessimism of experience, for it is
not really helpful to the younger gen
Grafton, whatever relief it may give to
the reminiscent mind" Perhaps a Ger
consciousness Of a changed attitude
toward democracy in very recent times.
A generation or two ago, when the
tide of democracy was rising, Vis-
count Bryce points out, mems minds
were occupied almost exclusively with
the problems of free government. Now
they have been drawn more toward
ideas of economic and social recon
struction. They are inclined to test
democracy by it's capacity to promote
that reconstruction rather than by its
success in promoting civil, political and
individual liberty. 1t has sometime 8
seemed to the author, he confesses,
that in writing this book he was ad-
dressing himself to the Last generation
rather than to the present one.
These questions, however, are lightly
touched on. The two volumes are de-
scriptive, not argumentative. Viscount
Bryce seeks to picture the institutions
and workings of the Democratic
scheme of government in the modern
democratic states. He selects six:
France. Switzerland, the United States,
Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
He takes brief note of the Latin
American republics, which are demoera-
cies only in name, and of some of the
ancient democracies. He excludes
Great Britain because he feels that he
cannot discuss British politics and
administration with the necessary i'm
partiality.
The study of the institutions of these
six states is minute and comprehen-
sive. 1t will doubtless remain a
standard contribution TO political
New-York tribune., 1921-05-08
c Expounds Democracy Tales Of Kings and Workers

ton as efficient as the other forms
Of government have provided.
20. Its legislation has been more
generally directed to the welfare os
the poorer classes than has been that
Of other governments.
"a. 1t has not been inconstant or
ungrateful. S
"5.I It has not weakened patriotism
or courage.
"6. 1t has often been wasteful and
usually extravagant.
."7. 1t has not produced general
contentnent in each nation.
"8. 1t has done little to improve
international relations and insure
peace;. has not diminished class
selfshness witness Australia and
New Zealand); has not fostered a
cosmopolitan humanitarianism or
mitigated the dislike of men Of
different color.
"a. 1t has not extinguisbed cor
ruption and the malign influences
wealth can exert upon government.
40. It has not removed the fear
Of revolutions.
al. 1t has not enlisted in the serv-
ice Of the state sufficient number
of the most honest and capable
citizens.
"12. Nevertheless, it has, taken all
in all, given better practical results
than either the rule Of one man or
the rule Of class, for it has at
Nleast extinguished many Of the evils
by which they were defaced."
Viscount Bryce didn't carry his OBJ
servations beyond 1914. He didn't study
the democracy In war. 1t is regrettable
that he did not, for in the great war
the modern democracies proved their
true quality. France, Great Britain
tho United States, Canada, Australis
and New Zealand met the supreme test
Of unity and sacrifice, while the great
empires Of Europe melted away.
Ludendorff WAS a stiff monarchist
But he lamented bitterly in his book
that whereas France could produce g
Clemcnccau and Great Britain q Lloyc
George both temporary democratic
diotators was tied down to
the feeble leadership of the Kaiser ano
weakened by cumbersome and inelasti'
governmental machinery.
Democracics are more unyielding ant
tenacious in modern war and arc capa
BILE Of higher patriotism than arr
peoples under a. monarchial form o
government. For to millions of mel
and women in Germany, as in Russi
or Austria Hungary, the war presente'
itself partly as an opportunity to ex
tort greater freedom from domesti
oppression. The monarchy could sur
vivc in Germany and Austria -Hungar,
only if it won military victory. Bu'
in the democracies no one thought, II
victory or defeat, of inviting in
monarch. Democracies correct then
worst peace faults in time of war. They
are terrible in battle because then al
last they put into practice in its high
est form their underlying principle
of equality in responsibility and duty
as we'll as in opportunity and privilege
New-York tribune., 1921-05-08
The College Student

DISCIPLINE AND THE DERELICT. BY
Thomas Arltle Clark. Published by the
Macmillan Company,
Mr.. Clark, who is dean of men at
the University of Illinois, notes some
of the familiar sfailings of college stu
dents in this collection of shrewd and
penetrating essays. The loafer, the
persistent borrower, the man who gives
too much time to athletics, the "fusser'
and other delinquent types are dis
cussed. AS result of his long years
of experience, Mr.. Clark is well quail
fed to suggest ideas for making the
wheels of academic disciplinary admin
istration run smoothly.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-08
A Skeptic Speaks
Defects of Our Democracy
Pointed Out.

E
DEMOCRACY AND THE HUMAN EouA-
TION. BY Alleyne Ireland. Published
by IT, r. Dutton &c Co.
-. HE relative merits OF direct de-
\ mocracy and representative re-
publicanism as theories of gov
ernment have been actively canvassed
in America ever since the days Of
Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Ham
ilton Neither theory has found many
supporters in its most extreme appli-
cations. The most ardent democrat
must admit that it is quite impracti.
cable for the citizens of large coun-
try to make laws en- massc, without
recourse to some sort of representa-
tive machinery. And the most con-
vinced republican can scarcely feel that
an elected legislator is emsncipated
from all consideration for the wishes
and feelings of his constituents.
Mr.. Ireland believes that the pendu-
pubicanism toward democracy. he
sees sinister significance in Ae
growing demand for the initiative,
referendum and recall. He protests
vigorously against the tendency Of
various organizations to bring press
ure to bear upon legislators to support
or oppose particular measures. This
tendency, he believes, has the effect
of reducing the representative to
mere delegate, incapable of rendering
independent judgments and bound
hand and foot by the changing de-
sires Of his electors.
The author looks upon government
as the proper business OF a small class
OF trained legislative experts. In re-
gard to many matters Of technical ed-
ministration he is no doubt correct,
But he certainly goes too far when he
expresses contemptuous doubt Of the
capacity of the masses of the Amcri-
can people to decide whether or not the
United States should enter the League
of Nations. After all, it is the masses
of the people who may have to pay
with their blood for the consequences
of a mistaken policy.
Arguing that democracy is not favor
able to the development of genius, Mr..
Ireland calls off list of distinguished
men who lived in France and England
under undemocratic regimes. But the
first concern of government is not the
production of genius; it is the welfare
of the governed. Before the adoption
Of the various electoral reform acts
the misery of the town workers and
poorer farmers in England was a no
torious scandal. And, however many
dramatists and philosophers France
may have boasted under the Bourbons,
the great majority Of the French peo-
pie lived in a state Of intense poverty
and suffering, from which they were
History does not bear out Mr.. Ircland's
contention that peoples fare best when
they turn over the work of govern
ment to the sole charge of an oligarchy
cious arguments against democratic
theory and practice are effectively an
swered by Sir Henry Campbell Banner
mans pithy phrase:
"Good government is no substitute
for self-government."
New-York tribune., 1921-05-08
Farms of New York

RURAL NEW YORK. BY Elmer o. Ftp.
pin. Published by the Macmillan Com
pany.
The past history and present condi-
ton of rural New York are entertain
ingly set forth in this volume. Profess
sor Fippin describes the various kinds
of soil to be found in the state, to-
gether with the chief agricultural prod
ucts and the best means Of marketing
them.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-08

PEOPLE. BY Pierre Harnp. Translated
by lanes Whitan. Published by Har-
court, Brace Co.
SHESE two novels, widely differ
ent in style and substance, pre-
sent two contrasted tragedies:
the tragedy of kings and the
tragedy of the very poor. Louis Cou-
pcrus, in delicate, aristocratic prose
that often assumes distinctly poetic
quality, portrays the brooding unhap-
piness of a sensitiveFprince who sbud-
ders at the thought of being compelled
to take up the burden of absolute
power. Pierre Hamp tells his stories
CT the French slums in language that
is as rough and unpublished as the men
and women whom he describes.
The scene of Majesty is laid in an
imaginary kingdom called Liparia, but
many Of the incidents in the story
suggest that Liparia is only a pseu-
donym of Czarist Russia. There is
the same autocratic power, based upon
official terrorism and the correspond
ing terrorism practiced by the revolu-
tionists. The figure of Leo Tolstoy
is plainly represented in Zanti, a no
bleman who shares all HIS property
with the peasants and prophesies the
ultimate downfall of tho monarchy.
The hero Of the novel is Crown
Prince Othemar. He is too gentle. too
conscientious, too interpretive TO
make good tyrant. Unlike his father,
the Emperor Oscar, who exercises his
absolute power in the calm confidence
of divine right, Othomar constantly
doubts both his right and his ability
to dispose arbitrarily of the lives and
fortunes of his subjects. He shrinks
from the future burden of power.
Ottoman finally comes to an open
breach with his father. He wishes to
resign his inheritance, and in a spen-
did dramatic scene his father denounces
him. as coward and degenerate.
However, the brother in whose favor
Othomar intends to abdicate dies; and,
after his father is killed by revolu-
tionist's bomb, he decides to take the
heavy burden of kingship upon his
shoulders.
This Interpretation Of D. tragedy
that must have occurred in more than
New-York tribune., 1921-05-08

M E ERE is a volume of Conrad
N that reveals the man himself.
B It is not often that q writer
of fiction turns critic and
commentator on contemporary life and
books, and this volume is enc to be
treasured 70 realize how rare treat
1t is one has only to imagine how in
teresting it would have been if Shakes
peare had left q volun.e of delight
Tully written, pointed essays on the
plays that other men wrote in his time,
the corruption at court and just how
idiotic the government was, from the
Prime Minister down to the play
censor.
In Notes on Life and Letters Conrad
covers al random a period of forty
odd years, from the time he first went
to London, foreigner, speaking no
language but his native Polish, uatil
in 1919 we find him famous author
saying "Well done" to the seamen of
his adopted country for their splendid
keroism during the war.
He had the address of a shipping
agent in one hand and torn map of
London in the other when he arrived
In the city. The shipping agent proved
to be sn elderly man in long coat of
black brosdcloth He had gray beard,
big nose, thick lips and curly white
hair, which made him seem to the i'm
aginative Pole like burly apostle in
an Italian painting. He was kindly
New-York tribune., 1921-05-08
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By William L. Mcpherson

MODERN DRMOCRACIEs. BY James
Bryce (Yiscount Bryce). 3 vols, pp
sos, SIS. Published by the Macmillan
Company, New York
New-York tribune., 1921-05-08

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By Grace Phelps

NOTES ON LIFE AND LETTERS. BY
fosepb Conrad Published by Double
day, Tsge & Co
New-York tribune., 1921-05-08
By William Henry Chamberlin

MAJESTY BY Louis Couperus Trans
lated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
Published-by Dodd, Mead g. Co.
PEOPLE. BY Pierre Hamp. Translated
by James Whitan. Published by Har-
court, Brace 8s Co
New-York tribune., 1921-05-08
Mental Traits
Processes of Thought and
Feeling Analyzed

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THOUGHT AND
FEELING. BY Charles Platt Published
by Dodd, Mead 6 Co.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-08

DEMOCRACY AND THE HUMAN E2UA-
TIoN BY Aleyne Ireland. Published
by f. r. Dutton & Co.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-08

w ERE is volume of Conrad
- that reveals the man himself.
& 1t is not often that writer
The daily times., 1921-06-18
MUST PAY CASH

We have lost SO much money. and
the accounts are of so much trouble
and the difficulty of collection is so
great, that hereafter cash must ac-
company all legal notices for inser-
tion in the Times.
Attorneys claim they are not re-
sponsible for the accounts when
their clients do not pay them and so
we frequently lose the money.
Hereafter attorneys must require
clients to deposit sufficient funds to
cover the cost of publication before
we will insert legal notices.
We have probably $4,000 worth
of legal notice accounts on our books
tLat we have worried over for the
past two or three years trying to
collect and are no nearer now than
when we started, and we need the
money for our paper is cash when
we get it and our help must be paid
every Saturday night.
The daily times., 1921-06-18
A VERY IMPORTANT CASE

Mr.. H. G. Connor, Jr., of this city
has been retained as counsel by the
Federal Reserve bank Of Richmond
to defend it's suit against what is
known as the country banks in the
famous par clearance case, the
smaller banks charging for the col
lection of checks, while the Federal
Reserve system insists that all
checks should be cleared at par.
The authority for such charges is
based upon an act of the recent
legislature which seems to have been
passed at the instance of the smaller
banks and which was given little
thought in its consideration.
The case will be heard before
Judge Webb in Charlotte Wednes-
day, the 22nd, and the other attor-
neys in the case on the side of the
Federal Reserve Bank are Mr.. M. G.
Wallace of Richmond. general coun-
sci, and Col. Henry w Anderson, al
so of Richmond. The opposition
will be represented by Mr.. John J.
Parker Of Monroe, candidate for
governor on the Republican ticket in
the last campaign and Alec w.
Smith, of Atlanta, Ga.
The daily times., 1921-06-18
ATTENTION ODD FELLOWS

Enterprise Lodge, No. A, I. o. o.
F. will observe our annual memorial
in memory of DUR deceased brothers
VIII have died during the past year.
This memorial will be held at the
First Christian Church. The pastor,
Rev. J. E. Stuart, will conduct the
services. Therefore, in accordance
with the proclamation Of our Grand
Sire, all members of Enterprise
Lodge are earnestly requested to
meet at their hall Sunday, June 18th,
1921, at 1890 o'clock and march to
the church in body.
Special dispensation has been
granted to wear regalia ON this oc-
casion.
Don't fail to honor the memory of
our deceased brothers with your
presence.
All Odd Fellows in the city not
members of Enterprise Lodge, and
the widows of all deceased Odd Fell
low sand Rebekahs are cordially in
vited to meet with us in this service.
C. Woodard
w. r. Spillers
W. z. Barbour,
Committee.
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