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The Cordova daily times., 1921-08-25
NO SHAKING HANDS WITH BLOODY
 BOLSHEVISM

The proposal is now advanced that loan of from two to four billion dollars should be made to the Russian boIshcvik government in order to enable it to get on its feet.
 The Russian government will never get on its feet so long as it is founded upon commun- ist principles. Production and communism are absolutely incompatible. No system which penaliZes toll, thrift and enterprise in favor of loot, lust and laziness will lead a people anywhere but into the abyss of misery. Rus sia has only illustrated the truth anew. The world might lend Russia untold bilIions but so long as an autocratic government, based not upon public opinion but upon bayonets, flies the black flag against the fundamentals of civilization, the effort of the rest of the world to pull its people out of the pit will be in vain.
 The relief of famine in Russia is of course a world duty. But is should not be forgotten that this famine is due to no lack of the ma terials out of which the millions of that un- happy nation may be clothed and fed, for no country in the world is richer in resources than is Russia, or better capable, since most of its people live on the soil, of self support Russia has been longer out of the World war, has had longer opportunity for economic re-
The Cordova daily times., 1921-08-25

construction from within, than any other coun- try in the world. But no nation dominated by ]" "statesmen" who preach murder and theft as a political creed can be rescued except by an uprising of the masses against their mas ters Nor can the world help the Russian mas Ses by recognition and economic assistance to despots who have declared war on civiliza- ton and have been for four years preaching a crusade against every non-socialist government in the world.
 Nations, like individuals, must live with the consequences of their own mistakes If they submit to tyrants, if they follow dema- gogues and doctrinaires, if they turn their backs on all the lessons of human experience and attempt to tear out the foundations of civ Iiization, they must as surely suffer as the child which thrusts its hand into the fire
 One of the great opportunities of history came to Russia leadership with the overthrow of czardom. How tragically that opportunity has been wasted! The history of Russia since the revolution has been one succession of wholesale murder, robbery, and oppression. A nation with an area, population and natural wealth equal to that of the United States is being stabbed and starved to death by mad men and mediocrites, swollen with egotism and authority %nd entirely incapable of sens ibIe and unseiish service to their country men.
 It is no part of the duty of the United States to bolster up this travesty on government. Until the hunger of millions baggared by mal- administration began to threaten it's stability, 1t was shaking the mailed fist in the face of civilization and threatening to carry on a war of conquest or eXterminaton against the rest of mankind. Mercifully feed the victims of boIshevism, yes, but prop up the government which has wrecked Russia, no! Let is suffer the consequences of its own acts; let it be judged and punished by the nation it has led through slaughter house into an open grave
 To shake hands red with the blood of mil ions whose only crime was political dissent would be crime that would react upon the government guilty of such proclamation. Let boIshevism. Waided, play its string to the end, in order that Russia may remain burned in the memories of men as the worlds horrible example of state socialism in practice. Better that Russia should suffer through the death of boIshcvism, than that the rest of the world should be menaced by its survival
The Cordova daily times., 1921-08-25
Voice of the Alaska Press

The lips that touch liquor shall touch mine" emphanticaly declared the young maiden fore her love-sick thenceforth to take his moonshine through straw-Hyder Miner.
 The finding of a large of highgrade oil in the Canadian Far Northwest will further encouragement to hastening the reorganization of Alaska in the in terest of it's material political development chikan Chronicle
 The recent platinum strike has caused mild stamp pede The has returned assays of $6O to S2o per and a mountain is in sight If it should turn out rich indications Valdez will be q town of ten thousand population inside of years Valdez Miner.
The New York herald., 1921-04-24

to young Lord Monkhurst The Hon Muriel
Pym demands Of her crystallized and con-
ventionalized mother: Hasn't II occurred
to you, even yet, that the aristocracy
racket's played out?"
The guardian of a daughters happiness.
who has once been fiery in demand for the
new. pronounces on an impossible suitor.
even though he Is genius, the following
judgment:
And what IL he is? Are geniuses to be
the kings OF the earth? Not quitel Geniuses
have to be kept in order like criminals II
there's one thing above all to be said In
favor OF the English character II is that
we've known the proper way to treat
geniuses"
familiar TO most Americans. and previous
reading makes Frank McGlynns marvellous
presentation OF the role doubly enjoyable.
The play undoubtedly had TO be written by
an Englishman with perspective, and, for
tunatey. as played. the few unfortunate
phrases are changed. The black minister
no longer talks like Fiji Islander, BLACK.
black, white, white" and Gen. Grant no
longer remarks testify: Where the deuce
is my hat?" Such minor. insignificant de-
tails do not matter, since Mr.. Drinkwater,
while missing out now and then on the in
depreciation OF the letter of the characters,
has caught unquestionably and unforgetta-
bly, the eternal spirit OF the great emanci-
pator.
King Argimenes," the Dunsany selection,
is less compelling than "The Gods OF the
Mountain" or even than The Laughter OF
the Gods
TIC one who was being taken to see Peter
Pan" when The Easiest Way" was pro-
duced, reading Of II now seems strangely
like reading a last years yellow newspaper
yellow meaning old-not lurid). The movies
have taken most OF the pathos out of the
more sinned against than SHINING Lauras
and the cynical movie fans will fail to be
moved by the 1908 version of the problem,
The cinema has taught US for so long that
virtue is rewarded. that all women are beau
tiful all men brave, and that the wicked
vllaincss Is always foiled in her attempt
TO be wicked and left miserable at the end
that any one trying to get UP any sym
pathy for the erring sister has a hard time
in this filmed shock proof day and genera
ton.
Mrs. Marks's "The Piper" Is always
charming and pleasure 10 rcread. Her
artistic propaganda against cruelty, selfish
ness and greed and her picture OF the re-
awakening of the desolate town when the
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without Duse falls far short of the effect
produced for instance by such entirely
different type of play as "Milestones." The
long, elaborate speeches in the d'Annunzio
piece fail to make themselves convincing.
This is in immediate contrast with Bahrs
delightful version of the same theme-the
difficulties resulting from the attempts of
feminine and domestic women to cope with
the artistic temperament in their husbands.
Artists have a hard enough time anywhere.
but at the hands of the dramatist they re-
ceive particularly rough treatment. Never
a sculptor but has his domestic peace shat
tered by an unfeeling playwright who scat
ters bewilderng sirens about the studio with
a sort Of BE strong II you dare," air. What
can the sculptors do but fall? Usually their
marble masterpieces fall also with a crash,
on or off stage. either before or after their
own debace.
Hermann Bahr with his temperamental
musician has fewer crashes, emotional or
otherwise He treats the subject in much
lighter vein. While d'Annunzio's outraged
wife and brazen rival are fighting the thing
out on the old lines II II takes all summer.
Bahr's women discuss the delicate matter
casually and agree to n legal transposition
OF husbands as a pleasant variation from
the monotony on one hand and uncertainty
on the other OF their previous home lives.
The artists wife confesses artlessly to being
a bit bored with his erratic disposition, his
tiresome lovesick pupils. the continuing
necessity of seeing that his disposition isn't
ruftied by breakfastng alone and other such
insignificant and potent details. Bayard
Quincy Morgan, has done an extremely deft
piece of work in preserving the lightness.
the flavor OF the original, In English.
The Bennett Knoblock play (by the way,
one learns from the anthology that the au-
gust Arnolds name Is also Enoch) is n de-
light "Mestones" depicts in three acts
three different generations. In the first the
players are young, with enthusiasm for radi-
cal IDEAS which at the time happen to be
concerned with the building of iron ships.
In the next act the molten hot enthusiasm
Of youth cools-hardens in the now middle
aged people. The advocate OF iron ships,
now man OF affairs and influence, pooh
poohs the next generation with its talk Of
steel ships And In turn that younger gem
Grafton ages while third set OF youngsters
demand their moments.
IF you hadn't been born In the right
bedroom you might have been a billiard
marker" caustically remarks an irate rela-
tive. who has married into the Cibey family,
The New York herald., 1921-04-24
New international play anthology holds the mirror up odens

children and love and laughter are piped
back into II is a satisfying thing to remem-
ber.
Georges de Porto Richie and Gunnar Hell
berg give their respective interpretations
Of what occurs in households where
"L'Amoureuse." THE Loving Wife" loves
her husband not wisely but too well. The
Frenchman, Porto Richie. restores happiness
by restoring interest In the household after
q slight infidelity of "L'Amoureuse." Hell
berg with cold, northern brutality, in iThe
Tragedy of Love" makes the wife confess
to an uncommitted infdelity. and. seeing
that even that fails to have any effect, kill
herself behind a curtain. Both plays might
act better before a Continental audience
than they read in America, where the taste
for this type of thing Is, again. not Guilt
waited by movies. A play of the same sort
OF drawing room melodrama that seems
more significant than either OF these plays
is that Continental Offering given in New
York this winter at special matinees as
THE White Villa"
Jacinto Benavente and his Commedia
DELI Arte Harlequin, Columbine PoIinchi-
nellie Bonds of Interest" Is consistently
amusing.
One wonders why Living Hours" was
selected to represent Schnitzler or the rea-
son for including THE Lower Depths" there
is no question. Were one of our light and
less respectful magazines that frivol about
the serious side Of life endeavor 10 Jest
about the unmitigated. unrelieved, sordid
tragedy and horror that Russians can depict
there are whole scenes to be lifted straight
from the text. One would doubt IL even
Russians could be quite so overwhelmed by
the oppression OF the world until one read
again the original version.
The power OF Gorky is unmstakable. RE
makes one OF his characters. even after e
grading acts have followed one another, d.
fnand respect for mankind rather than pity
or compassion. IL Is an amazing thing that
contemporary human minds, living on this
planet, can conceive two pieces Of writing.
both inevitably called plays" Of such end
lessly separated import as "Poyanna" and
"The Lower Depths" Bizarre, ridiculous II
Is that play" must apply 10 both. And yot
one intelligent and sympathetic comment
made by a playwright after seeing Polly
anna might also apply TO The Lower
Depths" He felt "a great pity for the
audience that there should be so little color
so little meaning in their lives. that they
should take that as ALL" Couldn't the same
pity Be felt for those. who see THE Lower
Depths" as all?
The New York herald., 1921-04-24

announced for the autumn. The other two
plays have already been placed before the
public, visibly and audbly. Both tragic.
THE Emperor Jones" is one of those rare
stage vehicles that acts itself in the readers
mind. 1t should hold its own as literature.
Whatever be the reason. this expression
of fear comes nearer producing the classic
mood of pity and terror defined by the Greek
philosopher than any of O'Nell's other
works One is not stirred to that resentment
felt at the close Of Beyond the Horizon"
For brief as 1t is there is kind of COM
The New York herald., 1921-04-24

THE EMPEROR JONES: DIFFERENT: THE
STRAW. BY Eugene O'Neiil Boni & Live
right.
T~HE reader who cherishes the delusion
that there is a sun and Furthermore
that it shines now and then will
catch at ONeill's Straw" for support in his
absurdly optimistic view of life on the tragic
planet For though 1.-THE Straw" shows the
winds of hope and love blowing through
sanitarium, hope and love are unmistaka-
bly, there. young writer, touched with
disease. meets a girl who is in much worse
case He RECEIVERS and later returns to find
her in a crisis She loves him and has evil
IDENTIFY been cinging to the faint hope that
his heart is not unresponsive. When the
young man realizes the situation, at first
he decides to act out of pity. But as he
turns from his own selfish plans to put
himself in her place. deeper experience
comes to him. To turn her mind from her
own case he pretends that he has fallen
again victim. He says to the nurse:
"She must marry me at once and | will
take her away--the Far West-any place
Stanton thinks can help. And she can take
care of meas she thinks-and / know she
will grow well / seem to grow WELL Oh
Miss Gilpin, don't you see? No half and
half measures-no promises-no conditional
engagements-can help us-help her. We
love too much! (Fiercely as II defyin0 her)
But well win together We can. We must!
There are things you doctors cannot value
cannot know the strength Of! (ETuH-
dntly) You'll see. I'll make Eileen get
well, tell you Happiness will cure Love
is stronger than (He suddenly breaks
dolcn before the pitying negdtton she cannot
keep from her eyes. He sinks on a chair
shoulders boaced face hidden In his hands.
aoith a groan Of despair.) Oh, why did you
give me a hopeless hope?'
MISS GIIPIN: Isn't everything we know
just that-when you think of 1t? (Her face
lighting up lcith consolin0 reUeldtion) But
there must be something back of it-some
promise of fulfilment-somehow-s
wherein the spirit of hope itself
MURRAY (DuiIy.) Yes-but what do
words mean to me now? (Then suddenly
starting to his feet and fIin0ing of her hand
acith disdainfm stren0th-Uiolently and al
wen win. We must! Oh, I'm fool to
waste words on you What can you know?
Love isn't In the materia medica. Your pre-
dictions-all the verdicts Of all the doctors
what do they matter to me? This is-be-
yond you And we'll win in spite of you!
fScornfully) How dare you use the word
'hopeess'--as IL 1t were the last! Come
now confess. There's always hope, isn't
there? What do you knotcp Can you say
you know anything?"
MISS GILPIN: (Taken nback bD his
uiolence for a moment, finally bursts into
laugh OF helpiessness tohich Is close to
tcdrs) I? know nothing-absolutely moth
ing! God bless you both"
This play is issued in book form before
it's presentation on the stage, which Is
The New York herald., 1921-04-24

STANDARDIZATION OF THE MINES BY
Frank Hodges. Thomas Setzer.
Il RANK HODGES. who has been play
r ing 2 leading role in the British
miners strike threat. wrote this
book last year while secretary of the Miners
Federation of Great Britain. He states that
the only way to save the coal industry is for
the Government to take It over, compen-
safe the shareholders and let the workers
run the industry themselves.
Mr.. Hodges claims that naturalization
alone will reduce the cost OF production.
benefit both the public and the workers and
maintain the welbeing OF the dependent
industries.
"The industry has arrived at a stage
when, were it not for the fact of the sensa-
tlonal export prices, it would, owing to high
labor costs and deficiencies in technical
equipment, be a burden on the nation" Let
the taxpayers pay for the operation. he says.
for the underlying principle of nationaliza-
tion is to benefit the whole community
Competitive wastes would be wiped out in
buying, producing distributing and selling.
Acknowledging that governmental owner
ship of coal would give the Government new
political power, Mr.. Hodges anticipates the
criticism that the raising of price to any
country might be regarded as an act OF
hostility. No. he would place full RESPONSE
bility in national corporation which would
not be subject to political considerations.
Two other objections are taken up: That
individual initiative would be destroyed and
that the Government would trespass be-
yond the bounds OF it's proper Office OF
governing. To the first he replies that the
lure of money does not provide Initiative:
what the worker wants is to be human
being above everything else. Such i'm
partial observer as Whiting Williams has
made the same report in What's on the
Workers Mind" SeIf-expression. interest in
life. interest In work-these are the spurs
OF initiative.
To the objection that the Government
has no right 10 engage in production Mr..
Hodges replies "Tt is indeed thin philoso-
ply which declares that a government has
no right to do this or that when II is the
people themselves composing the state who
are the arbiters of what is or what Is not
right" But by naturalization he does not
mean administration by UNIT politicians; let
those who are actually working in the In
dustry remain. Let there be n rational
mining council composed Of men OF techni-
cal and practical knowledge. Let there be
q system of self government
MT. Hodges writes MS briet exposition
lucldly and with n cool head. His sincerity
is not to be doubted. Surely, he s think.
ing along the channels OF human happiness.
But whether the defects OF the present sys-
TEN are impossible OF eradication without
naturalization is still moot question
Labor costs have been lowered since his
writing. technical deficiencies may be over
come and cooperation and sensible think
ing among tho present owners may avert
the avoidabe wastes Of competition Hon
orabe treatment OF the workers IL another
factor
If naturalization carnot better conditions
Of life. private ownership must come for
ward with mitigating plan OF It's own
The New York herald., 1921-04-24
Reviewed by ELEANOR HAYDEN.

"HIS companion volume to Prof Dick
ensons first anthology Of contem-
porary plays supplements and com
petes the earlier work In glancing through
the new series. excellent as is the collection
of dramatists and interesting as is the ma
terial offered there Is the usual temptation.
when considering a collection, to transpose,
omit and include certain plays. For in
stance, there is strong feeling that Cyrano
de Bergerac belongs in the first series and
that Rostand should stand with Brieux and
Tchekhov in the earlier book
Together the two volumes make a splen-
did contemporary background though the
newest bit of the new day In America is
still to be served, since Prof. Dckenson
chooses as his one play that is strictly
American In content by an American THE
Easiest Way" Though the anthology can
not be called strictly modern until some at
tention is given and some representation is
made OF what such younger American play
wrights as those in the Provincetown group
are achieving. the collection is an adequate
one. including plays by Vaughan, Drink
water, Ervine. Dunsany. Bennett. Schnitzler,
Guitry and Cork.
The American representation is weak Out
Of eighteen plays only four can In any way
be claimed as American contributions.
Hazelton and Benrimo. two native sons, coll
laborated on that irresistible play "The yell
low Jacket" Josephine Preston Peabody Is
the author OF THE Piper" Knoblock. born
in New York, but since become natural
lied citizen OF Great Britain, collaborated
with Bennett on "Milestones" and, of course.
Eugene Walter Is strictly American. For
the rest the collection includes English and
Irish paywrights as well as contemporary
Continental successes.
Among a readers Impressions, striking
things stand out. Though Prof. Dickensor
In his introduction suggests that the thesis
or problem play is less in evidence than in
the earlier work. surely Mixed Marriage"
Morals of Ludwig Thoma" and The Lower
Depths" pose. concretey or by implication.
as definite problems as one could wish.
Another impression one gains from this new
collection is that the play Of ideas Is
much stronger on the printed page than the
play Of emotion. "Gioconda" OF dAnnunzio
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pleteness and balance about The Emperor
Jones'" The mans whole life is presented
as in a Judgment day review-and he himself
is judge jury and prisoner at the bar.
1t Is worth while to give some of the stage
directions which justify themselves as good
writing and put the reader in the position
of spectator. Here is the word-painting Of
the stage for scene two, scene three and
scene four:
"Nightfal. The end Of the plain where
the great forest begins. The foreground
dotted by few stones and clumps of stunted
The New York herald., 1921-04-24

CHIEF CONTEMPORARY DRAMATISTS,
SECOND SERIES. Edited by Thomas Fl.
Dickinson. Phi D. Houghton Mifflin Com
pany.
The New York herald., 1921-04-24
Daybreak Song
in old Savannah
By RALPH M. THOMSON.

IN AYBREAK and promise; night
is almost done;
Out of the darkness of the east
ern sky
The morning star, forerunner of the
sun,
Signals the world the far, prophetic
cry
Of watchful gulls is echoed through
the still,
Dense wilderness of marshes; rest
lessly,
Like children half asleep, each briny
Tosses in its soft bed; in youthful
glee
The winds and wavelets dance sara
band
On polished shores, smoothed by the
ebbing tide;
TO music played by conch shells on the
strand
The palms intone their madrigals;
the pied
And lowly fiddlers from their mud cots
crawl;
The white cranes hasten to their
sand bar trysts;
Sparrows and marsh hens answer
Heaven s call;
And-life's transfgured with the
melting mists.
Daybreak and promise; night is all but
past;
A rosy glow of hope lights up the
main
And thrills the earth with radiant joy
at last.
Awake, my heart, you have not
dreamed in vain!