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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1921-10-21
MRS. ALICE A. BENTON
DIED AT RIPE OLD AGE
Esteemed Pullman Lady Succumbed
Sunday Night-Services Held
Wcdnesday-BOdy Shipped
to Spokane

DR.. Alice A. Benton, aged so years,
six months and 10 days, succumbed
Sunday evening after an acute ill
ness of only a few days duration,
death being due to senile decay. DR..
Benton had resided in Pullman many
years and was the wife of H. NJ. Ben
ton, veteran Northern Pacific en-
ployee. She was practicing physi-
clan many years, but several years
ago retired from the profession. She
was we'll known in this community
and throughout Whitman county and
her death is widely mOurned. Two
daughters, Mrs. G. S. Stockton, of
Grangeville, Idaho, and Mrs. r. w.
Marine, of Creston, were with their
mother when death came and two
other daughters arrived from Cali
fornia in time for the funeral, hav-
ing been summoned when Mrs. Ben
tons illness became critical
Funeral services were held We'd
nesday morning at Kimballs chapel.
with Dean G. w. Laidlaw of the
Episcopal church officiating. The
services were largely attended and
the numerous floral tributes attest
ed the high esteem in which de-
ceased was held. DR.. Benton was a
member of the Eastern Star, w. r.
G. and st. James guild.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1921-10-21
CITY TAKES UP
WATER BONDS, $4,000

Two thousand dollars in city
water bonds, not due for 10 years,
have been taken up by the city, the
necessary funds being borrowed
from the cemetery fund until such
time as the amount is available in
the water fund. By this means the
city will save the interest on the
bonds from now until their maturity
date. A few months ago the bond
holders refused to release the bonds
to the city until maturity, but this
week wired that they would sell
bonds to the extent of $4,000.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1921-10-21
HIGH SCHOOL FAIR
A MARKED SUCCESS
rvbibits Many and Varied--Ralph
role Wins Loving Cup for Best
owmanship-Other Prizes
Given

hundreds of people visited the
fret annual high school agricultural
and home economics fair on Grand
otreet Saturday afternoon. The ex-
hints were many and varied and
indicated the proficiency the boys
ond girls in the agricultural and
home economics courses. The event
was under the direction of c. B.
Wilson, instructor in agriculture.
Aside from the live stock entries
the exhibits included grains, fruits,
vegetables, cooked and canned foods
and sewing. A demonstration of
dry picking of poultry was given in
the afternoon by Prof. r. V. Mitchell
Of the division of poultry husbandry,
State College, and several reels of
agricultural movies were shown.
After winning first, second and
third on fat steers and first on sheep,
Ralph Cole, first year student and
son of Arthur Cole of near Pullman,
was awarded the silver loving cup
offered by Dean Edward G. Johnson
of the State College for the best
showmanship.
A total of over $50 entries were
made in the various classes of ex-
hibits.
The classes having most numer-
GUS entries of exhibits were: Cakes,
among the cooked food exhibits, 9
entries; night gowns, in the sewing
exhibit, II entries; display of gar
den vegetables, 8; potatoes, s; fat
steers, 6; breeding hogs, 10; Shrop-
shire and Hampshire ewes, 10.
Perhaps the outstanding feature
Of the fair was the showing of fat
Shorthorn steers fed by the local
Rothrock Beef Calf Club and the
Duroc Jersey hogs grown by the
Armour Pig Club. All of the steers
and most of the pigs will be entered
next week at the Western Royal Live
Stock Show at Spokane, where they
will compete for special club prizes
gwen by f. NJ. Rothrock of Sprague,
Armour Packing Co. and the Stock
Show management. The boys own
Ing the stock will also attend the
lalr to exhibit their animals and to
TAKE part i'll various contests. This
CUB work is part of the agricul-
tuFal extension work of the State
college and has been promoted in
Whitman county by County Agent c..
A. Lodge.
Inc generosity of the chamber of
commerce, the business men of the
'own and members of the college fac
a'y IN donating prizes and thus MAX
ING the fair possible is greatly ap-
feclated by all concerned with it's
management. The merchandise
prizes were all of excellent quality
anu were highly appreciated by those
VINO were fortunate enough to win
them.
~ addition to the list published
,~'' week special mention is due
watts Pharmacy for donation of an
Continued on page eight
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1921-10-21

w, S. c. substitutes: Sax CD,
Iaepfel G5), McIver go, Sandberg
90, LOOMS I'D, Meeker (20},
Kramer G9), Davis 90, Jams
C22), Winans (14).
Idaho substitutes. Hoover, Bar
ton (23), Vohns co., Babe Brown
40).
Officials: Referee, George VAR
nell, Chicago; umpire, Sam Meyer,
Franklin and Marshall; head lines
man, Mulligan. Gonzaga.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1921-10-21
WANT MORE SONGS
FOR CHAMBER CONTEST

The time limit for the submittal
of songs in the chamber of commerce
booster song contest has been ex-
tended to give the amateur song
writer's more time to prepare their
manuscripts. Several songs have
already been submitted but Secretary
Thorpe says that many more are
wanted to liyen up the contest.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1921-10-21
STAGE ALL SET FOR
BIG IDAHO GAME
Rival Teams to Clash ON Rogers
Field This AfternoOn--I}ig Dele
CATION Coming from Moscow

The stage Is all set for the annual
football game between Idaho Uni
yersity and the State College of
Washington and at 2;30 this after
noon the Vandals and the Cougars
will clash for the twenty-third time
since the beginning of football rela-
| tons between the two schools in
1894. Both teams are primed for the
fray and a battle royal is expected,
with dope odds favoring the Cou-
gars for small margin victory. Ida
no has acquired habit of playing
better football against w. S. c. than
any other team in the conference,
however, and dope upset may be
recorded in football history when the
final whistle puts an end to play
this afternoon
All of the local business houses
and those at Moscow will close for
the occasion and one of the biggest
crowds in the history OF Rogers field
is expected,
Previous to the game the annual
| Harvard club roofing contest will be
held and the new grandstand will
/ pc officially presented to the college
by Jack Dobbin, president of the
associated students
The lineups announced by the two
coaches, with the mineral which
will appear on the jersey of each,
are as follows:
W. S. c. Idaho
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1921-10-21
1921 budget, $5,693.24.

1921 budget, $G693.24.
subtracting from the total assets
OF $171,&24.41 the total liabilities
aud special road fund, shows the
city to be $10251I19 under the le-
gal maximum of Indebtedness. a con
dttion which can be equalled by
but few cities of its population in
the Northwest.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1921-10-21
PULLMAN HIGH MEETS
PALOUSE TOMORROW

The Pullman high school football
team will meet the Palouse high
school team on Rogers field tomor-
row Saturday afternoon at 2:30.
Both teams are in good condition
and an interesting game is predict
ed. The price of admission will be
80 cents.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-10
An Indian Story

RICHARD HADDON. By William Stan.s-
laus Hoffman. Published by the STRAIT
ford Company
THIS is a romance of the days when
wild Indians still roamed about the
Great Lakes. Richard Haddon, young
Southerner, goes off into the North
western wilderness in order to fulfill
a mission intrusted 70 him by a French
friend. Here he encounters adventures
aplenty with white men and red men
alike The story ends in time-honored
fashion, with the heroine falling into
the hero's arms.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-10
The Life Of Bishop Greer
Sympathetic Biography of Great-Hearted
Churchnan Written by DR.. Slattery

ties as rector of St. Barth olomew's, as
coadjutor and as Bishop of New York.
The book is full of anecdotes which
illustrate Bishop Greer's kindliness
and humanity, together with his sly
sense of humor
"Soon after DIR. Greer became bishop
Of the diocese" writes DR.. Slattery
she went down to Philadelphia to
speak to the Church Club. The face
tious postmaster said: 4 now intro
duce to you the Right Reverend DR..
Greer, who is the Bishop of-of-of-
Of, | can't remember the place--but
it's an island just off Jersey City-oh,
yes, I remember, New York The
Bishop, rising amid the laughter, be-
gan his speech, In the midst of life,
we are in--in-in-Philadelphia.'
New-York tribune., 1921-04-10

TRAINING FOR SPORTS. BY Walter
Camp. Published by Charles Scribners
Sons.
W. ALTER CAMP, the grand old
w man" of American collegiate
sports, has combined text
book for the trainer, first aid for the
athlete and a physical culture manual
fer the schoolboy into the one volume,
Training for Sports.
Mr.. Camp brings up the question as
to whether or not college athletics un-
fit a man for a sedentary business life
The author discusses general phys-
cal conditions, and then gives a series
OF chapters on specialized training for
football, baseball, track and rowing. AS
ar appendix, he puts his official stamp
cf approval on a daily schedule of set
ting-up exercises. In no instance does
the book wander from its main purpose
it is all sport.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-10

thetic biography gives an intimate
picture of the personality of this spirit
ual leader and emphasizes those traits
tion of all who knew him: his unfail-
ing gentleness and kindness, his whole
hearted sincerity, his single minded
devotion to the highest ideals of Chris
tian life.
DR.. Greer was an able administrator
and an eloquent preacher; but the
dominant characteristic of the man, as
DR.. Slattery portrays him, was the
simple, strai ghtforward goodness of his
nature. DR.. Greer always owed a great
part of his influence, over his clergy
and parishioners to the fact that he
expressed in his own life so perfectly
the ideals which he preached. AS the
author says:
"One could not listen to DR.. Greer
without being impressed by his good
ness. There was simple piety radi-
ating from his presence of which even
The constant theme of his preaching
was Christ. Subdued enthusiasm wa,
the reflection of the light which hs
himself was always seeing. He knew
that as preacher he must be an eye.
witness of the truth as it is in Christ
With his own eyes, with his own mind
with his own heart, with his own soul
with his own moral and spiritual anC
intellectual nature he must see Christ
DR. Greer was born in Wheeling, w
Va, in 1874 His mother wished him
to enter the ministry, and his educa-
ton was shaped with that end in view
After serving for time in country
parish in Missouri he was assigned tc
church in Covington, KY Here he
seems to have been assailed by doubts
about the truth Of revealed religion
and, with characteristic intellectual
honesty, he resigned from the church
and took trip to Europe, where he
struggled with and finally solved his
spiritual problems
Upon returning to America he be-
came rector of Grace Church, in
Providence. From there he was
called to ST. Barth holomews, in this
city; and the rest of his life work Is
closely associated with New York. DR.
Slattery devotes most of his biography
to a description of DR.. Greer's activi-
New-York tribune., 1921-04-10

l. 4. /.
ham. Published by John Lane.
4 MONG the novels of last fall
~ imported from England was
n one with the title St. John of
Honeylea. The author, G. L.
Whitman, was newcomer in the
ranks of novelists, but the story had
so many points of contact with the
high lines of excellence that a re-
viewer naturally picks up The Guarded
Room. from the same pen, with an
ticipations of pleasant hour or two
This novel is one part success and
two parts failure. The protected room,
the storm center of action and plot, is
the abiding place Of old Mrs. Bowes,
a widow and mother of two sons and
two daughters, all four children being
as far apart in sentiment and deed
as the poles The inspiration of the
book is to be found in certain valuable
papers, intimate journals ard letters
Of once famous English author, which
are concealed in the guarded room,
only to be spirited away and sold
Mrs. Bowes, an invalid, has known
grief in her life, and the efforts of
three of her children to save her from
the importunate demands Of the brazen
wife of the absent son, together with
their attempts to conceal from her
the facts of the disappearance of the
papers, infuse some glow of interest
into chapters otherwise dull and over
clogged with spiritless talk.
G. I. Whitman should have waited
for the coming of a sound plot suf-
ficiently fortified by action and spark
ling speech, before essaying a sue
cessor to St. John OF uoaeylea.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-10
Pearls and a Dupe
Princess, Pearls and a Man
Figure in Clever Story

THE SPIRIT OF THE TIME. BY Robert
Hichens Published by the George IL.
Doran Company.
~ EADERS OF novels who remem-
Der we'll The Prophet of Berke
~ ley Square and The Garden Of
Allah are likely to pounce upon
Robert Hichens's latest addition to his
long list of novels, The Spirit of the
Time.
This story is a mere bagatelle of a
book when compared with any one Of
Hichens's more pretentious novels, yet
even in it's pint-measure of plot and
surprise it exhibits much of its au-
thors old skill in creating atmosphere
and facility in delineating physical
backgrounds and environments. The
word-sketchings of snow in the Alps,
in the opening chapters, are photo
graphic in their exactness, with
sepia quality of depth and feeling.
AS Hichens tells US, Derrick Merton,
an Englishman Of over fifty, haunted
by memories of the war, goes to the
Alps for relief and recreation. At a
hotel on a snowclad slope he meets two
Russians, the Princess Aranensky and
the Baroness Hausen. Both women
bear the traces of suffering and voice
their conviction that the war left man
kind embittered, degraded, in a spirit
Of revolt that forced the individual tn
fend for himself, though the means at
times be questionable.
Merton comes under the spell of the
princess, is on the verge of declaring
his love for her Then occurs her con
fession, through the baroness. that
she is broke, is on the verge Of being
ousted from her hotel. Merton, not
daring to offer her money, suggests
that he buy from her, for $4,000
her splendid string of pearls. Tn,
deal is effected, and then follows /
surprising phase of this novel. The
pearls are limitations We refuse t,
ruin the readers pleasure in reading
The Spirit Of the Time by telling more
New-York tribune., 1921-04-10

core Maynard. Published by the Fred
erics A. Stokes Company.
EN THIS novel Theodore MAYNARD
q has not given as thrilling a por-
trayal of the quest Of the soul az
that other Catholic poet, Francis
Thompson, might have written, yet he
has shown both skill and humor in his
work, and not little insight into the
hearts Of men.
Primarily it is a story of men and
the attitudes toward life of two in par
ticular, John Bradley and Michael DON
evan, John is Meltonian, by force
rather than conviction, and Michael is
a Catholic born and bred. Meltonian-
ism, which may or may not be an au-
thentic religion, is the faith of an OBJ
is foregone conclusion that John will
embrace Catholicism soon after he es-
capes from his aunt's apron strings.
He is not allowed to come to the
Church, however, until after good bit
Of talk among a group of young men
with whom he associates in London, nor
indeed until after an unhappy marriage
with a girl of inferior education and
equally inferior spiritual qualities. He
marries full in the faith that the ideal
Of love had brought him back to God.
His actual conversion takes place in
America, and it is not quite clear, since
the reader does not follow him there,
just what caused his spiritual convic-
rion
OF greater interest and more sympa-
thetically drawn is the character of
Michael, the poet and mystic. Michael
deplores his own mysticism and re-
lates how he had to discard his visions
before he could have spiritual peace.
His deliberate sacrifice was made be-
nunciation. He had taken a VOW to
remain celibate as penance for a sin,
and when he fell in love with John s
sister, fed to a religious community
where he planned to become monk
After a years novitiate he is told he
has no vocation for the life and he
returns to the world to face his prob
lem. A wise old Jesuit with a broad
understanding of human nature sends
him to the bishop, who grants him a
dispensation and releases him from his
VOW
In the end it Is John who seeks the
shelter Of the cloister and Michael who
fulfills his vocation in the secular
world, where, as editor of The Re-
corder, he puts his pen at the service
Of his faith.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-10
Authors Portray Conditions in Central European Natio1

On one occasion, when DR.. Greer was
walking side by side with his
suffragan, the late Bishop Charles s.
Burch, some one, observing the dis
parity of their heights CDR. Greer was
a man of medium height, while DR..
Burch was very talD, remarked:
David and Goliath" "No, no." said
Bishop Greer, David and Jonathan"
AS Bishop, DR.. Greer found it painful
and difficult to enforce ecclesiastical
discipline. To administer even
reprimand cost him hours of suffering
AT the same time, no consideration Of
personal suffering ever swerved him
from what he considered the line of
his duty. He gave notable demon
stration of moral courage in his stand
on the war. Profoundly shocked as he
was by the German atrocities
thoroughly loyal as he was to the
American government, he did not be-
lieve that any emergency justified the
setting aside of the Christian doctrines
of love of ones enemies and forgive
ness of injuries. His brethren of the
clergy did not agree with him; but,
as DR.. Slattery testihes, they "reccg-
nized the splendor of his isolation" ."
The author furthermore observes:
"The suspicion came to us time and
again, especially when we heard the
cheap and easy speeches which kindled
applause, that he was seeing more
deeply than the rest of us; that he
cared nothing for the approval of men
if he might scrupulously obey the still
small Voice"
Dr. slattery more than satisfies the
first test of successful biography. His
book is suffused with the spirit and
personality of it's subject. Bishop
Greers friends will welcome this fit
ting literary memorial, which recreates
so admirably the inspiration of his
r. n avnc+or
New-York tribune., 1921-04-10
Pacific Island
One Figures in Louis
Dodge's Latest Novel


rAwI TAwL BY Louis Dodge Pub
lished by Charles scribner's Sons.
"AWI TAWI has all the elements
of good story, but they are
rather unskillfully mixed. The
tale would have been vastly i'm
proved had the first six chapters
been told briefly and in retrospect The
story really begins when Victoriano
to escape a downpour and is thrust into
the middle of a tragedy. The tragedy
concerns him not at all, but it is the
means of carrying him to cannibal
island in the Pacific where his adven-
lures are many and mysterious.
Half way through these adventures
Vctoriano meets Ramon, his rival
for the hand of Fidesia, the very
American daughter of Spanish ranch
man on the Texan border. Fidesia has
asked for year in which to make up
father while her lovers wander about
killing time until she returns and in
cidentally getting into adventures. In
the course of their adventuring on
Tawi Tawi the rivals discover each
others good qualities and become
friends, refreshing and unusual turn
to books of this character, which
ordinarily insist upon one lover be-
ing shown up as a villain.
In spite of its faults, Tawi Tawi
makes entertaining reading, especially
in the middle section devoted to the
island adventures.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-10

greatest need is comfortable nights
sleep"
The only criticism one might offer
Of Mr.. Jessup's handling Of the topic
is the paucity of information on how
to get out of trouble. Only q single
brief chapter is devoted to this highly
important branch Of the business,
whereas it seems almost essential
that half the look should deal with
getting out Of trouble For most camp
crs, it is half Of the sport.
in regard to the care of the car in
general" writes Mr.. Jessup. at may
be said that the important thing is to
start out upon trip with the car in
top-notch condition and keep 1t that
way"
Which is good advice, but vague
Many camper would be interested in
further and more explicit details OF
the system.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-10
The Breakdown of Europe
Coningsby Dawson Pleads for Starving Children
Impressions of an American Traveller

1T MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED TO YOU.
By Coningsby Dawson. Published by
John Lane Company.
INVALID EUROPE. BY Alfred F. seliss-
-~rg. Published by Bcni & Livcsight.
~N HE breakdown of Europe under
the double strain of the war
and peace is vividly depicted
in these two books. OF the
two writer's Mr.. Seligsberg is the more
ontimistic, for his observations were
confined largely to western Europe. On
.he other hand, Mr.. Dawson, who visited
the most miserable regions of Europe.
Austria, Poland and Hungary, paints an
appalling picture Of human misery, and
insists that the suffering of central
rurope must be relieved if q catastro-
NH, collapse Of European civilization is
10 be averted.
Readers Of Mr. Dawson's war books,
which breathe spirit of fierce patriot
sn and undying hatred of the Ger
mans may be surprised to find the au-
thor pleading the cause of the beaten
nouulstions Of the Central Powers. Mr.
Dawson explains his changed attitude
in the following passage:
sympathy With Suffering
"My reason-I will not say my excuse
is that I have visited our late enc
mics need, and in the presence Of
human agony aninosity dies. One
ceases to question how far their suf-
fering is the outcome of their folly;
his sole desperation is to bind up their
wounds, especially the wounds of their
children When witnessing death and
starvation on the wholesale scale now
prevailing in Europe, he forgets his
austere self righteousness and substi-
tutes mercy for justice. 1T might have
happened TO me- he says; these women
might have been my wife, my mother,
nv sister, and these children. save for
the grace of God. might have been my
children.
The tragedy of child life in cities
Ike Vienna, Budapest and Warsaw is
almost beyond conception. Practically
all the children are dwarfed by under
nourishment; only the very worst cases
New-York tribune., 1921-04-10

own, conducted on more or less Of a
haphazard basis. There have even been
those who applied to it the undignifed
title Of tin can touring. But with the
publication of an authoritative book
on how to motor-camp and where,
motor camping attains new dignity.
Elon Jessup, author Of the book,
explains his purpose when he writes:
"It has always seemed to me that one
of the most difficult things in the
world to get is plain, definite, una
dorned information. This is what l at
tempt to give to the best of my
ability
Mr. Jessup misses none of the de-
tails of motor camping. He gives
minute directions of how to make q
camping tour, varying from a week
end jaunt to a transcontinental jour
ney. He tells what to take and what
to leave at home, how to bake potatoes
in q southeast gale, and how to carry
on eighteen-month-o baby without
breaking in on the nourishment
schedule.
All these matters are useful to any
person setting out to join the road
gypsies. Three chapters are devoted
to the nights sleep, for Mr.. Jessup
acmits that perhaps the campers
New-York tribune., 1921-04-10
The Man insh G Dark

II -fTDTfT a SUI STHuHV
A story Of adventure, night
riding and n7onshining in the
West Virginia hills, with a mys-
terry running through it which
keeps the reader guessing to the
last page This is the best novel
yet written by the author of
Lad and Bruce" $500
New-York tribune., 1921-04-10
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