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The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-11
Texas Jail Breaker Is
Nabbed BY D. c. Cops

OKLAHOMA CITY Dec 10
Texas authorities were expected TO
arrive here today TO take Bob Hen
nett back to that state to face q
penltentiary breaking charge II H.
alleged Bennett, alias ! w. Matthews
alias h. Il. Miller, escaped from the
state prison at Huntsville last July.
where h was serving a sentence on
charge OF grand larceny He had
been booked here on n "vag" charge.
Photographs and finger prints in ih,
rogues gallery here are said 20 COM
pare with the dorrtpt.ap OF iben
nett.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-11
HABEus CORPUS EDITOR
I,lwrll of Wisconsin Gnins stay of
Execution Untn Next Monday.

CHICAGO, Dec l0,--pretor II
Flwcl, managing editor OF the Wis
consin News OF Milwaukee. and for
mer city editor OF the Chicago Eve
ming American, uuuer sentence tn the
county inll for contempt OF court.
today WIS granted "a wit ~ hRhcas
corpus 10y Judge Louis l'itzhcury
sitting Tor Judge LRndls In the United
states circuit court.
The writ IL rcturnahle next Friday
and " mAde permanent. win lay tn,
basis for an appeal of the Caac,
Elwell was fined and sentenced I,
reveal sources OF information con
corning grand fury proceedings. III
attorneys conteuded that tho sen
tcnCc, which was 90 continue until
he answered tho grand iury's quos
tions. amounted virtually to No
sentence since the grand Jury U
question Is no longer In existence,
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-11
PAROLE MISSOURI KILLER
Wont Up In 1907 ON IAfc TERM aud
Let Out Throu4h Aid of Ex-senator


JEFFERSoN CITY. Mo. Dec. 10
Amelek Brooks sent 10 the state pen-
itentiary here In 1907 TO servo a life
sentence for murder, was today pa
rolled by Governor Hyde. The parole,
~ was stated was granted on recon-
mendatioRs made By former United
States Senator Burton OF Kansas.
brooks and hrN>hcr were first
sentenced to be hanged, hut the SEN
tenco was commutcd to life lmpris-
onment by former Governor Folk
through Burton's effort, Burton met
the two condemned men in the coun-
~ Jail az lronton, whore Burton was
serving a jail sentence after his con
vlction in federal court on charge
of accepting a feo FOR legal service
In appearing before federal hu-
reRu In WashinEtc~ while he was a
member OF the senate,
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-11
The Southern's Toyland
Is a Wonderful
Land of Toys
THE.
CHRISTMAS
STORE

We want all tho little tots and
larger boys and girls TO come and
see this wonderful land OF toys.
Bring the children In and let them
tell us what they want for Christ
mas. Let them see all the fine
new toys We have here for boys
and girls OF Tulsa. A bigger and
better showing than THE SOUTH
ERN has never been seen before
Toylnnd Main Floor
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-11

At Christmas time most everyone is troubled with the
gifts would be best and most suitable to give to Father
Brother to little folks and others that are usually remen
In order be of most help to each of our friends we hf
worked for many months to make this store the best pa
gifts Now everything is ready and it's holiday disp
we believe you will want to see.
You are cordially invited to make this store your CHR
will be a pleasure for us to serve you.
The New York herald., 1921-04-17

by name in the other The late Nat Could
who could not write his stuff fast enough
for the hungry British public obtained no
public here. Harold Bell Wright is the
enormously selling American who does not
seem to be able TO stand salt voyage.
The American manager Of an English
firm of publishers, who do a fine business
in this country. gave his opinion on the va
rious points raised in connection with the
authors of the two English speaking coun-
tries. Said he:
I'm too good an American to hold out on
our native authors anything favorable that
is coming to them, but in a comparison
with British authors l have in honesty to
hand the latter the palm. They are better
educated, they know the language and they
are willing to take pains. / have known a
good many fine books written here that
could have been truly great books, but their
authors were content with second best.
1T is rare when a novelist here is not
content with his work. although the critics
keep telling him how much it might be i'm
proved with little more pains. The Ameri-
can is willing to let ii go from him to the
public. trusting to its spontaneity rather
than to it's finish. The latter quality need
not kin the former But few writer's here
will listen to criticism after they have made
a first success. Therefore. they seem to be
willing TO turn out crude work
This may not be the fault Of the writer
or not wholly so. The public that enjoyed
reading his first book urges him to write
second as quickly as possible, and, as he
generally needs the money. he yields to the
demand and turns out work that isn't his
best.
1T is said that Sinclair Lewis declared
that New Workers DO not read. / don't
know whether he said this or not: | didn't
hear him, but this / can say that few
American writers read. They prefer to deal
material with what they get out OF
themselves and from observation. | don't
say these are not valuable assets for the
novelist. for they are. But, with little
well chosen reading added to their natural
endowments they would realize that there
are In literature such delightful things as
style and polish. and then they might try
to get these things into their own books.
I'm my position here with British house.
The New York herald., 1921-04-17

used in schools were of British authorship
and mauui. cture-a great mistake that has
been corrected. We make all our own school
books now. 1t is essential that we get our
education from books that are written on
American ideals and on those of no other
country"
Professor Matthews was reminded that
Wells, Galsworthy Walpole Bennett and one
or two others. novelists who are writing in
England had an assured vogue in this coun
try. Their books are bought by Americans
in large numbers. and are even more widely
read than bought. Said he:
This may be. / see no reason why it
should not be so. l hope it is so. That
does not alter my opinion that the British
novel has only a fair sale in this country
and then only when it deserves a sale, while
an American book that has made a success
full appeal scars into enormous numbers.
The English novelists named have a pretty
steady sale. and the sale of new book by
one of them can be estimated by the number
of copies his first successful book sold here.
The fuctuation will he found to be slight"
ID. Appleton & co. are becoming more and
more publishers and purveyors of American
fiction, although they do not exclude good
British fiction. a publishing house like this
one. that now numbers popular men like
Wright in its list, is not apt to rave about
It's foreign authors. AS a matter of fact this
house does not rave nor deal in superlatives.
1t does believe that the American author
has come into his own after more or less
wandering in the wilderness.
The best sellers OVER here are, according
to Macmillan & Co. Wells. Arnold Bennett,
Hugh Walpole. with several new men like
Stacy Aumonier and Sir Harry Johnston
creeping UP toward their peak Of popularity.
The spring book published by the indefatiga-
BILE II. g. Wells. The Salvaging of Civliza-
tion." is expected 10 sell we'll being described
stimulating and especially opportune. but
the high water mark of this author seems
to be touched In his outlines OF History"
another immense printing OF the two big
volumes having just been ordered.
An odd thing in connection with the work
of authors Of either nation-American and
British-s that certain authors that sell
enormously in one country are barely known
The New York herald., 1921-04-17
II. G. WELLS,
British author, whose books sell we'll
on both sides of the Atlantic.

been done in America since Hawthorne than
is shown on some of these pages The con-
sequence was that in his next book. which
was a collection of short stories, the young
author by haste and cocksuredness in his
method exaggerated his faults and perhaps
perpetuated them as a sign of his originality.
am informed that he boasted of having
written one of the stories, containing 5000
words. in a few hours.
Foolish aduation has dried up many
nice little literary trickle that might have
run along for miles cooling and delighting
the thirsty vicinity. 1t has harmed English
writer's as WELL but II does not seem to be
so common there"
Perhaps the truth may be summed up in
another that has long been accepted. II is
that big, real book belongs not to any
nation but to the world. But to earn these
adjectives for his work, big" and real" the
author, be he English, American or Conti-
mental, will have to consider certain things
that are at least suggested in the remarks
quoted above. and more, he will Nave TO
make them his own
The New York herald., 1921-04-17
Prof. Phelps of Yale Frank
In Praise of English Authors

Prof William Lyon Phelps Of Yale Uni
versity holds pronounced views on the com
paratve vogue of English and American
noveists of the day. and ne frankly ex
pressed the reason for the faith that is in
him without manifesting much mercy FOR
the authors he mentioned, believing. indeed
that they would be better served by Justice
Sitting in the great divan or smoking room
Of the Yale Club the other evening. he
chatted freely about our authors. Said he:
I'm my opinion, British novelists Of to-day
are, the whole. superior 10 American
novelists. ] do not think that our Amer
lean novelsts of the moment are producing
work that is equal To the novels OF Thomas
Hardy. joseph Conrad, John Galsworthy j.
NJ. Barrie. n. g. Wells. Hugh Walpole Ar
mold Bennett Archibald Marshall Alfred
Ollivant, w. j. Locke and May Sinclair. to
say nothing Of others who might be mem
toned.
If any Americans feel badly because
English authors sell better In the United
States than American authors do in Eng
land. one should remember that national
boundaries have nothing whatever 10 do
with art. III British authors sell better in
America IL is because they write better
books. This would prove. then. that Amer
lean readers are good judges of what il best
in literature and know how 10 appreciate II.
1T is true, however. that within the last
few years American novelss have shown
great Improvement The year 1920 was the
best year thus far In the twentieth century
for the production OF good American nov
elists.
"In this year were published The Age Of
Innocence Main Street Miss Lulu Bett,
three good novels. differing i'm scope and
power but all far ahead Of their immediate
predecessors. Miss Lulu Bett' is. think. a
notable achievement, wrought as by a chisel
with hardly a superfuous word 1t is. in
it's severe concentration, an austere work
of art.
Main Street Is tie antithosis of Miss
Gales novel. IL succeeds BY being volu-
minous-by having mutitudinous, photo
graphic details. by means Of eXpansiveness
ID makes an impression Of truth
To these works Of a notable fiction year
The New York herald., 1921-04-17
Praise of Public and Press
Most Injurious to Writers

"If | seem 20 have gone rather TAR in 4
hopeless view of American fiction, / can say
that the adoring press and public which hnd
a genius in almost every newcomer with
talent, by aduation and hattery do NOR.
harm to this art than can well be estimated
OF course unwonted and unreasonable praise
gets nobody anywhere. Advertisement can
make a good book known but no amount or
1t can give permancnce to an inferior work
"On the other hand. harsh and unwar-
ranted dispraisc will just as surely die ava,
from a good book. An American author
William Allen White has been given both
Of these things. a Certain Rich Man ami
In the Heart of "A Foo are books Of thi.
genial writer which many readers have de-
lighted in and as many others cannot read
at an. The first are able and the latter arc
unable to forget the obvious tract In them
The intense desire OF the author TO teach
has removed these worthy books from the
realm Of art. Now in The Martial Adven-
lures Of Henry ana Nc, simple, charming
account OF two fat men In Europe, William
Allen White steps easily into the sanctum
Of art. In this book he forgot the text and
the sermon both and was content to tell his
story.
"Other men and women, too, will learn To
be- simple without being empty: they will bc
willing 10 learn their art with years Of ap-
premiership. they win reject praise for what
they know Is scamped' work. Ii won't be
possible then 20 number American novelists
the good ones-on the fingers OF one
bauNH
The New York herald., 1921-04-17

land, doesn't give an author the advantage
over his American rival. The advantage
dwells somewhere else. / think il may be
looked for in quality. Nine out Of ten Brit
ish authors offer more to his reader than
the American author does. You may call
this quality background If you will, or
fabric The name does not matter il the
thing is there 1t generally is there in the
British writer, and it too commonly isn't
there in the American.
Suppose we consider type of book that
is always sure fire We can always sell
book if we call il a mystery book Arthur
j. Reese and j. T. Ferguson are two Eng
lshmen who write this kind of story. The
first is more successful here than he is at
home; the second writer, with his Stealthy
Terror is running Reese hard over here.
There are plenty of people writing this kind
of story in America, but / do not recall one
American writer who takes the pains these
men do to invest their yarns with literary
style and finally to polish them
Facts don't always explain. EXtraneous
things may lead author to popularity or
comparative neglect, both here and in Eng
land. Over there Harry Leon Wilson goes
very well and Harrington not so well. Over
here Bennett Wells and Galsworthy may
each have frost with new book or
may sell in the thousands Robert Hichens
is the same. And if these Britishers haven't
The New York herald., 1921-04-17
Many Writers Celebrated Here
Are Unknown to English Critics

THAT is difficult to answer said Mr..
Jones: possibly every publisher in the city
would give different man. But | will say
that for steady popularity w. j. Locke is
the man. For every new book of his
edition Of $4,000 Cthe first edition) is
brought out That. iin the talk of the day.
says something"
For all his encyclopedia knowledge Ches-
terton admitted his complete ignorance of a
good many writing Americans who are
pretty well known here. American authors
Of the Bret Harte and Mark Twain type
have as many readers abroad as they have
at home, and let any writer of a subsequent
date to these show the quality Of 'humor'
then, according to this celebrated critic. he
is apt to be picked up and touted' by the
British papers.
Dodd, Mead & Co. are looked upon as dis
tinctly American publishers-that is. they
prefer to affix their imprint on works by
Americans. yet number Of foreign authors
manage to appear in their lists. In these
lists appear transations of many famous
authors in many languages. and a cursory
glance at the lists would not lead to the
assumption of q national narrowness on
their part. Their opinion, also is liberal in
spirit for they think that a meritorious
American book has much chance in the
world as an equally meritorious French or
English book. In other words. good thing
in literature is cosmopolite and goes
everywhere. poor thing i'm English. Ger
man, French, Italian Spanish rarely gets
beyond its own country's frontiers. II can
die Of its diseases at home and doesn't have
TO 90 abroad to do IL.
who says that British novels have the
right of way here-that is. that they
more popular and sell in greater number
than our home product" repeated Prof.
Rrander Matthews Of the chair Of English
literature i'm Columbia University. "They
haven't this right Of way. / cannot recall
any novel published in the last decade--not
to 20 back farther-in England that has
had anything like the sale OF Main Street
Miss Lulu Bett' or The Age OF innocence
THE author Of the first named ought TO
know by consulting his own royalty returns
that British novels have no such sale here
as the home product. understand that
Mrs Wharton's book il a best seller. but
still is far behind the other two In point OF
sales. Well, 1t will sell better as IL grows
older. and II will sell longer than the other
two.
n am strong believer IN friendship OF
the hrmest kind between England and
America. but / should call II a bad sign If
American books sold better than English
books over in England. and vice versa.
Every nation needs its own works OF fiction
with the national background.
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes said that
books were society in solution. Just as tea
Is tea leaves in solution OF hot water. II
would be bad indeed for nation if II took
its solution from a foreign country.
Especially Is this true in school books
works intended for use in education. When
l was boy three quarters Of the books we
The New York herald., 1921-04-17

for America Should be added The Third
Window by Anne Sedgwick, who, although
living in England, is an American and
Dorothy Canfields The Brimming Cup
There is a noticeable Improvement in crafts
manship in this latest novel of this gifted
woman
But after we have singled out a bare
half dozen whom we feel like unreservedly
commencing the general inferiority of
American novelists remains impossible to
forget What is the cause of this? 1t may
be found, perhaps, in the lack of long
literary tradition. An Englishman sits down
to write his novel. aware of all that has
been done since Chaucer and haunted BY
the ghosts of the past. Literature has been
cultivated in England for centuries. Its
gradual and yet sure growth from generation
to generation must increase the veneration
of its adopts Yes, / believe that in litera-
ture, as in most of the arts, the older coun-
tries hav@ the advantage.
IF we are hurt by remark like this, then
let us get what comfort we can by compar-
ing our literature to that of a much younger
country; let us look at Australia, for in
stance. That is more than an island; it is
a continent; its cities. Melbourne and sgd
ney. are great cities. II has a teeminglife in
places where dramatic contrasts inject
themselves into ordinary existence. But
Australia has not as yet produced one good
writer. Let America find comfort in that
negative fact
is ii not possible also that our fctionists
do not prepare themselves as thoroughly as
they should before embarking on this 'un-
charted sea-? Hawthorne was twelve years
trying to learn to write. He sold his first
stories for SO apiece He described himself
as the most obscure man of letters in Amer
ica But his long probation, filled with ef-
fort. left him our, leading and best known
man of letters.
why go back far? Joseph Herges-
heimer told mo that he spent fourteen years
toilng away at the art of composition. They
were years well spent. for in whatever he
puts out we find the texture OF literature.
The New York herald., 1921-04-17

A 6ANY Of tho leading banks of the
MI country now publish o magazine,
and In New York city the custom
may almost b. called general. The object OF
these magazines is primarily 10 bring GER
tain things to the attention or employees OF
banks, but interest in them has spread
beyond the counter and they are read by
other people. In an article entitled Bank
Magazines" by Henry w. Toll. In Gdddbout
the significance Of these publications is
given also some idea Of their extent.
Recently, a plan has been mooted Of pub
fishing two editions Of the bank magazine,
one intended for publicity and the other an
employees edition, exactly the same as the
regular edition except for the insertion OF
ar employees section The latter edition
would contain material Of importance 10 en-
ployees but not suitable or interesting for
outside circulation.
The New York herald., 1921-04-17
Interesting Notes From Odd Sources

placed above the bed. The committee ex-
poets to purchase two additional beds in a
few months. The fund at its disposal was
raised az dance last October and has been
kept up by contributions.
Feigl Post which has headquarters at the
Hotel Biltmore, Manhattan has about 50 per
cent. Brooklyn members. william j. De-
laney vice commander, $40 Koscusko street
Brooklyn, and Dr. Ralph Goldberg, 562 West
l64th street, Manhattan, invite communica.
tons from All former members of the First
Division. with view TO increasing the MEM
bership
The New York herald., 1921-04-17

TT is proyerb Of modern science that
loss Of one sense quickens the percep-
tion Of another IL is the acute de-
velopment of other senses which makes 1t
possible for the blind to get about with in
creasing ease; II is the same truth which
has given rise to the seeming paradox Of the
blind leading the blind about London i'm q fog.
But whatever Of scientific fact Il behind
these things, II is certain from practical cx-
perience that the blind are excellent piano
tuners. The New York Association for the
Blind reports that many blind men coming
under It's care have become extremely pro-
icient tuners and that the number has
grown 10 such an extent that the Blind
Tuners Guild OF New York has been char
tered and monthly meetings are held.
The present repoN of the guild shows that
the amount Of business has increased stead
ily az the skill OF the members became
known
The New York herald., 1921-04-17
Serial Publication Hardship
As Authors Are Harassed

IAN these statements are congratulations
even when illustrated by specifications, re-
marked Prof. Phelps. "and what we ought
to be finding out, il we can, are the things
that keep our near great writer's from
being altogether great. The serial publica-
ton of novels has been injurious to the best
interests of literature. / think. 1t is true
that Dickens and Thackeray published their
greatest books in parts. and they were
harassed-at least Thackeray was--by the
effort to keep up with the printer. In the
work of both certain unevenness is to to
attributed TO this kind Of production. And
Thackeray's Henry Esmond,' his most per-
feet example Of novel, was not written for
this part production.
THE magazines. too have burt our au-
thors and our readers. Their needs are 50
urgent and vast that they accept-in
some cases they seem to demand-hurried
work.
What win happen when all our novelists
write with an eye not 10 the magazines first
and public afterward only. but with the other
eye on the movies ] shudder to think Of
IT must he that they will produce only the
atrical rather than dramatic material They
will end as Hall Caine did. who from a kind
Of sincere writing at his best wound up BY
pennng everything for the mclodramatic
stage.
The New York herald., 1921-04-17

NT. JEFFERSON FEIGL POST Ameri-
can Legion, has adopted welfare plan
- out Of the ordinary which contem-
plates the purchase Of hospital beds in per.
petuity TO be available for the use OF the
members that need them. Through It's
medical committee the post recently estab-
lished one such bed IN the Lutheran Hospital
in Convent avenue near Hath street, arl
Col. Fcigl, IN honor Of whose son the post Is
named, has donated a bronze tablet 10 be-
The New York herald., 1921-04-17

Writers Many British
Author Publishers Has So Vast and Loyal Audience Either Home the
Columbia
The New York herald., 1921-04-17
OF THE BOOKS SHOWS THE ENGLISH AHEAD

Prof. Brander Matthews, who holds
the chair of literature at Columbia
University, and who sees American
authors in the lead.
The New York herald., 1921-04-17
w. ]. LOCKE,
English writer, who has steady popu-
larity with American readers

the right of way you're asking about
assure you they have11't-the lesser lights
cannot be expected to-
what Englishman now writing is most
popular in American"
The New York herald., 1921-04-17

Prof William Lyon Phelps Of Yale
University, noted essayist and literary
critic, who praises the art of the Eng
lish writer.
The New York herald., 1921-04-17
SINCLAIR LEWIS,

SINCLAIR LEWIS,
young selling
greater consideration
to with English rivals