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The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-07-07

Miss Lou Ellen Marshall. who has
been teaching school in Stigler. Okla,
returned home this week. After
school was dismissed for the summer
vacation, she visited her sister, Mrs.
Norris Lanier, at Wichita Falls,
Texas, before coming to Covington.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-07-07

Messrs. G. A. Girdner and ]. H.
Flippin left Wednesday morning in
the automobile Of the latter for
trip to Mt. Pleasant, Tenn. They VIII
return to Covington via Franklin,
where Mr.. Girdner will visit his
mother for a few days.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-07-07

Baby carts at Hamilton Bros.
DR.. Walter w. Sale. Of cuero.
Texas, visited relatives here Tuesday.
He arrived Monday evening, accom-
panied BY his brother, DR.. H. w. Sale.
who had been visiting in Dallas,
Texas.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-07-07

Mr. Frank Entriken left Tuesday
morning for Colorado Springs, Colo,
where he will spend a vacation Of
several weeks.
The New York herald., 1921-02-13

on the Drama) and to revise and bring
up to date my book on the Drama.
1.-The Happy Highways was written
during three or four months in the
spring and summer Of 1918, when I
had nothing to do and was doing 1t on
farm in Hampshire on the edge of
the South Downs. The writing Of 1t
was interrupted at intervals by the
conversation Of the officer command
ing an American Aero Squadron sta
toned near the farm. His conver-
sation was very interesting; his life
had been full Of adventures though
probably not so full as he said I re-
gret that the book was not suited for
including any of them. He also lent
me a beautiful typewriter. He might
be said to be the only interesting cir
cumstance connected with the compo-
sition of my book. Apart from that,
the book was originally intended to
remind me of my idiotic student days
when one is always laughing at moth
ing, always penniless. always happy.
1t didn't turn out quite like that
Possibly because 1t was impossible to
forget the catrastophe of August, 1914,
which rang down so dark a curtain
on our laughter and our talk"
The New York herald., 1921-02-13

! alytical faculty leading him to results
which at times are slightly, although
not unprecedentedly, unorthodox, and
which, whether or not we agree with
them, we must recognize as the au-
thentic product of thought. In re-
gard to the Greek gods. for example,
he makes the pertinent but not en-
tirely novel statement that they were
essentially the gods of the ruling
class--for the benefit Of which class
civilization exists" and after some
comments on the condition Of the serf
and of the wage Garner in all ages, he
records this doubt:
1T is questionable whether the pro-
cess Of civilization has not been to
the hurt rather than to the advantage
Of mankind as whole" For, as he
points out, the slave living and dying
underground in the silver mines con-
Quoted by the city of Athens was not
the gamer from the glory of Greek
culture, any more than the child la
borer Of to-day Is benefiting from
modern civilization. DR.. Crapsey is
perhaps too pessimistic. and therefore
inclined to be extreme in his opinions;
but 1t will be apparent to the most
casual reader that he is not entirely
| without Justification.
Passing from the Greek divinities
to those of the Romans, the author
declares that Rome was successful
because the city of Rome was the god
of the people-a god whom they wor-
shipped with an absolute devotion"
No ethereal. impracticable creed. that
of the Romans! their deity was ''the
God Of the Organization" who "al-
ways has been and Is now the god of
the majority. Whether he be
Tammany Hall or the Old Guard, !.
he demands and receives the obeisance
Of men as the price of their peace and
prosperity"
Regarding the gods Of the Hebrews
Mr.. Crapsey has some vivid and illu-
minating remarks to make. He terms
the exodus of the Israelites from
Egypt under Moses the most success
full labor strike in history; he de-
clares that of all the gods whom men
have worshipped none can be greater
than Jehovah the Righteous, the God
Of Isaiah-the God of the Social
Order; he mildly denounces the God
Of Jacob as a Bargain God" based
upon ''the contractual conception of
religion" which has been the preg-
nant. moving thought of the most sue
cesful religion known to the human
race" The deities of the Western
World, he observes, ARE not heredi-
tary gods holding office for eternity;
they are elective gods chosen by the
people and rejected by the people.
The New York herald., 1921-02-13

Story Of Mans Developing Faith

THE WAYS OF THE GODS BY Al
gernon Sidney Crapsey. The Inter
national Press
The New York herald., 1921-02-13

Unless the gods meet In a measure
the expectations Of the people the peo-
pie vote them out of office and choose
new gods"
Equally interesting are the remarks
the author makes concerning what he
terms ''the God Christus." Referring
to the announcement of the Christians
he delivers an innuendo against the
accepted respectable point of view
Of every age by declaring that If
we had been of the ruling class
we would have said of Christ that
HE was not only foolish but
wicked-a demagogue, an insane ego
ist, 80. deluding and deluded,
In reality a criminal" For
Christ preached such revolutionary
doctrines as that the slave was the
equal Of the master. and that captive
~eri,en and children should not be
given in slavery to their conquerors!
1t was enough to horrify any man of
proper breeding! 1t was destructive
of the cornerstones of society! For
such an offence the death penalty was
not too severe. And so 1t was natural
that there should be antagonism he
tween the God Christus" and the
Roman Cesar, since theirs was the OPP
position of conflicting ideals, the oppo-
The New York herald., 1921-02-13
Eloquence in Print
THE WINDS OF GOD. BY Louis AL
bert Banks. Funk & Wagnalls Com

THE WINDS OF GOD. BY Louis Al
bert Banks. Funk & Wagnals Com
pany.
In one OF the most pleasing of his
sermons DR.. Banks declares that
among the foremost of virtues is
charm. But he does not confine him
self to a mere statement of the case:
he performs the rare feat of practising
what he breaches, for charm is per-
haps the outstanding characteristic of
his essays. 1t must be admitted that
they offer no material which has not
been presented many times before;
that they contain no profound
thoughts or penetrating wisdom; that
they are theological to an extent that
may be annoying to the lay reader.
and that they abound in ideas that
many will refuse to accept: yet, when
all is said, one must confess that they
are charming.
These pages are written with that
tender beauty which seems to reflect
beautiful soul; they are permeated
with a sincere idealism that the reader
is likely to find contagious; they are
tinged with poetry. and the author
seems to find loveliness a goal second
only to goodness. And they are made
doubly impressive by the authors wide
and excellent use OF illustration: by
the fables and parallels with which he
makes his points vivid: by the anec-
dotes, the SMILES and metaphors. and
the innumerable poetical quotations
with which he fiavors his work. For
example, there Is something very ef-
fective in the story of the hermit in
the woods made human by the music
played by master hand on tuneless
violin, and even the well worn COM
parfson of the growth OF the human
soul to the development of a butterfly
from the caterpillar and the chrysalis
is freshly used.
BY no means all of the subjects are
OF formally religious nature. For ex-
ample, there In an interesting one on
the Romance and Joy of the Pioneer"
and another that Is devoted to a
tribute to Abraham Lincoln. DR.. Banks
attributes Lincoln's appeal not only to
his ability as a statesman and orator
but to his absolute unselfshness, TO
his unimpeachable integrity, and to
his sense Of humor and the genial
playfulness of his nature"
The New York herald., 1921-02-13

sition that has endured through all the
generations between the ruler and the
subject, the master and the slave, the
oppressor and the oppressed.
THE God of the Latin Lawyers" Is
the next subject discussed by Mr.. Crap
sey; and he emphatically assails the
idea of a god that Furnishes. the idea
that Justice must have it's victim be-
fore mercy can have it's way" 1T is
this grim justice" he adds, that has
been the occasion of the greatest
crimes in the human calendar. :.
Justice does not protect the people, it
only guards the portals of the king.
1t should be pictured as a
grim and CORY man holding an AK"
In much the same spirit Mr.. Crapsey
proceeds to attack the gods Of later
times, the Childish" god of the Media
val period, the more modern gods Of
the market and of the machine. And
he closes the book appropriately with
a plea for a new god, ''the god HUI
manus." god that will protect human
labor, a, god that will provide all with
a sufficiency of all things and enable
every man to recover the freedom of
his soul and of his intelligence; the
right to think and the right to the full
expression of thought"
The New York herald., 1921-02-13
Song Book of Thomas Burke
And he learnt difficult Lesson of
Love, which he offers to the reader:

And he learnt difficult Lesson Of
Love, which he offers to the reader:
And quickly I clothed her again, gar
ment by garment.
And gave her back her thoughts. one
by one,
And awoke I'm JOY.
/ was glad that the dream was a dream
And that all OF her was not mine;
For had learned
That love. released from bond, and un-
burdened Of its fetters,
Is love no longer.
I wish that 1 could reprint AT the
Feast of Lanterns" or quote page
after page Of the confidences' that
Quong Lee has to whisper. as he sits
cross-legged on silken cushion, in a
dimly lit corner putting at his pipe
of poppy-seed. musing with half-closed
lids on days that were they real were
fragmentary; on fragments the poig-
nant desire of which made them real.
You must read, when you do. his dis
tant. waited songs, quietly, and with
sympathetic response.
The New York herald., 1921-02-13

and the action is not spoiled by too
much weight.
The author has put down this brief
autobiography:
Born twenty-six years ago in
Whitby, Yorkshire, the most beautiful
town in England Private school of
the type more or less unknown In
America. where the education con-
sisted of getting by heart quantities Of
information--an education ideal much
preferable To tho new one of education
without pain. A year of a municipal
school and three years of college
Leeds University. p. A. degree-First
class honors and research scholar
ship. M A. degree. Then I wrote a
novel called Tho Pot Boiler which
nobody read, though II was better
book than The Happy Highways and
not so duh The Happy Highways
was written in 1918, and In the same
year ! started to write advertising
copy. That was great fun. ia rather
be good advertising man than Sue
cessful novelist
"In September. 1919, began TO
sub-edit q new weekly called The Nctc
Commonwealth. I worked like galley
slave for six or seven months until I
could bear IL no longer and resigned to
become contributor Ct wrote the po-
itical and economic columns and a page
The New York herald., 1921-02-13
Student Adventure in London
THE HAPPY HIGHWAYS BY Storm

THE HAPPY HIGHWAYS. BY Storm
Jameson. The Century Company.
Here is a book that will be classed
with ".Potterism" largely because It
comes out Of thinking. growing Eng
land, and. like the other book, appeals
to the reader who is not afraid to
think. Like the other 1t achieves this
effect through a circle of characters
very much alive and representing va
ried attitudes toward life. The per-
sons of the book are young students.
come from the country to live together
in London, and they learn more from
direct contact with other people than
from books. Storm Jameson is rather
less epigrammatic than Rose Macau-
lay, author of "Potterism." She is not
less convincing. The reader gets in
side the mental and emotional proc
esses of her people and feels them
growing. 1t is the kind of book that
helps one to realize more clearly his
own evolution, and that is saying a
good deal. But it is first of all story,
The New York herald., 1921-02-13
Reviewed by
c. BLYTHE SHERWOOD.

This Is much more than the song book
of Thomas Burke, who is known here
In America as the author of Lime
house Nights and the provocator OF
D. w. Griffith's film production
Broken Blossoms" The new volume
In a refreshing lemon-colored binding
decorated by a philosophic dragons
head Is very much Song Book.
Mr.. Burke can fool all Of the people
some of the time into believing that
these are translations from the scented
pipe of Quong Lee and some of the
people all of the time into taking faith
that Pennyfields is redolent of music,
dreams and lily maids; yet he can't
fool me any of the time into doubling
the sincerity of the revelation of Mr..
Burke himself. He composed these
fugues. He dreamed these dreams.
He had visions Of yellow lads who
swooned in alteration before slim god
desses with pale hands and amber
curls. He knew the querulous, eyes
of adolescence. And what he did not
experience he was intuitively aware
of. He says-and he pretends Quong
Lee is reciting it:
AS lie on my pallet at night
I hear from the street the sound OF
passing footsteps,
And / can sort and name these passing
footsteps.
But those that tread most heavily on my
heart
Are the light and lingering footsteps Of
tired young women
In a tiny room at the top Of a tenement
Lives a white maid OF SURPRISING virtue.
Gentle in manner and quiet and dutiful.
Combing her golden curis each morning
Before a window that looks out to hell
That looks upon cesspools OF mud and
mounds Of refuse and the offal Of
the shops.
And the same note of deep sympathy
is heard in these lines from the song
AT the Time of Clear Weather:
In the untitled field Of my heart
Many buds are bursting.
There is a little bush OF kindness
toward all men,
There is a slender tree OF forgiveness
for all wrongs.
There is a humble growth OF repentance
for past sins
And around the field Is a thick hedge OF
And 10 IN the midst OF all
Stands the tree of hundred boughs,
Laden with the sweetest OF all buds
which are breaking to flower under the
sun of a maiden's eyes.
There are Iambent moods in Mr..
Burke's book, Quong Lee though he
call himself. There's "A Portrait"
there are quaint Directions For Max
ing Tea" and "Going TO Market"
where
I shall buy meat ana fsh and loaf OF
bread,
And fresh fruit ana potatoes;
I shall buy a cluster of flowers and a
bottle of wine,
Some butter and some jam.
And biscuits and nuts and candy;
For I give an English feast tonight to
a friend with yellow curls,
And every dish shall be cooked by me.
The New York herald., 1921-02-13
Reviewed by
STANTON A. COBLENTZ.

Nearly fifteen years ago DR.. Crapsey.
who had once been on the staff Of
Trinity Church, was deposed for
heresy. At that time he was rector of
st Andrews, Rochester, n. Y. The
matter made great noise at the time.
One wonders whether he would have
been brought to trial at all to-day or
If the same charges were preferred
whether things would seem as black
either to his brothers in the clergy or
to the general public.
However that may be, the author of
this new study of mans spiritual prog
due to one who had the courage of his
convictions at a time when religious
radicalism was less commonplace than
it is to-day And DR.. Crapsey's pas
sion for a more social view of religious
service has expressed itself in works.
He was appointed a parole officer of
the State in 1914.
If H. G. Wells has achieved some
thing prodigious in compressing into
two volumes his comprehensive "Out-
line of History" DR.. Crapsey has ac-
complished a feat scarcely less difficult
in presenting In a single volume a
summary of the social, religious and
intellectual experiences of the Aryan
race. ''The Ways Of the Gods" is an
ambitious book; it is historical and
sociological study, vast in range and
original in conception; it is chronicle
of the customs and beliefs Of the vari-
Gus western races, and a record of the
embodiment of those beliefs and GUS
toms in popular conceptions.
THE spiritual history Of the race is
nothing else than history of the pass
ing of the gods" says DR.. Crapsey; the
theory Of the economic determination
Of history will explain the nature Of
the GODS as II will explain so many
other human institutions; and the ma
ture- of the gods will give one the key
not only to the economic state Of a
people, but to their social and political
conditions as well. For the story Of
the gods is parchment on which
each race has inscribed It's soul, It's
hopes and its fears. it's baseness and
its nobility, and to him VINO can read
that parchment is revealed the secret
of the development of mankind.
DR. Crapsey, it must De said, has
not only done that reading, but done
T. WELL To his investigations he has
applied keen insight and an an
The New York herald., 1921-02-13
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The New York herald., 1921-02-13
Preaching
Through Centuries

e. Garvie. d. ID. Charles Scrbner's
Sons.
1t is fact too well known to require
explanation that the preacher fire.
quently plays a leading role in the life
of the community. In former years
that part was perhaps a more promi-
nent one than at present, and in rural
districts 1t undoubtedly has a larger
share in the life of the people than in
urban communities. But even at the
present time, and amid the congestion
of the cities, it is a social factor that
cannot be overlooked. And the
preacher that has most Importance
from social point of view is not the
one that travels from town to town
attracting large audiences by flares of
fiamboyant oratory; it is the one that
remains in one place, associates inti-
mately with his congregation. takes an.
actual part In their lives. builds his
sermons on a personal knowledge of
his hearers, and endeavors to be help
full to the individual as well as to the
group.
These and numerous kindred consid-
erations are brought forth in DR.. Gar
Preacher" The book is intended pri-
marily for the clergy, and accordingly
abounds not only in technical informa
ton regarding the construction and
contents of sermons, but in theological
references uninteresting to the aver
age reader. None the less, it contains
considerable material of general value.
1t opens with a comprehensive history
of preaching. from the time Of Christ
till the present; 1t deals successfully
with Christ and mis- disciples. priest,
monk and friar, Anglican and Puri-
| tan, evangelist and missionary; and 1t
comes to the conclusion that the pc.
riods of decadence have been marked
by the loss of power of the pulpit, and
the eras of revival and reform have
been heralded by a renewal of the
preachers influence"
In the latter part of the volume DR.
Garvie considers more specifically the
problems of the preacher in relation to
| his congregation Starting with the
premise that the minister is the rep
resentative Of the community" the
author discusses the ways in which the
preacher may make his influence con-
structive. And incidentally he refers
to the harm that has been done by the
ministry as when German preachers
defended the war and claimed God on
the side of the Prussian battalions.
Though the author does not admit any
such view, one is inclined to wonder
whether In all ages and In all coun-
tries. from ancient Judea to modern
America, the State has not found
priests ready to Justify whatever the
State justified, and by a subtle sophis-
try to identify political expediency
with religious right.
However, that is. beside the point.
The ideal that DIR. Garvie sets for the
minister Is high as well as socially
useful one; and he undertakes by
means of voluminous information ana
advice to show how that ideal can be
attained. The preacher, in the authors
conception, should be the man who is
a friend to the people. as well as
teacher and helper. "the man who has
won the confidence, gratitude and de-
yotion of his congregation by his va
ried ministry in their common life.'
There can be no question that such
preacher is blessing to any COM
munity.
The New York herald., 1921-02-13

Moffat. Yard & Co. have just re-
ceived from Johan Bojer COLLECTION
of short love stories which are sup
posed to show the. author OF Tne
Great Hunger" and THE Power OF the
Lie" in an altogether new mood. These
will make their appearance In various
American magazines before they are
issued in book form.
The New York herald., 1921-02-13
Before Catherine
RemovedHer Mask
THE IVORY FAN. BY Adrian Heard.
O. p Putnam's Sons

THE IVORY FAN. BY Adrian Heard.
@. p. Putnams Sons.
Advising people about the great de-
cisions of life is dangerous business.
But Jim Conway saw no way out OF It.
He knew that GATHERINGS mother was
more or less of tryant and that the
two things most to be feared were that
she would prevent the girl from
marrying a man she might love or
that Catherine would marry somebody
she did not love to escape from her
mothers surveillance. which extended
to every act--reading, for instance.
you are allowed to read?" asked
Jim.
"Yes. Mother does not like II. but
she has not tried to stop me since the
day you came"
You will have to be very firm about
II, Catherine, even II you give In over
other things"
Catherine sighed. IT am always CIV
ing in," she said.
II think" he said quietly. that
there IL a great art in knowing when
TO give In. In your place you would
do well. to make up your mind just
what things are precious to you and
then hold on TO them till the death,
and let all the rest CO."
Not bad working rule OF life. And
II might be thought that the man who
gave Il would be wise enough to go
or making other suggestions. But
Jim is only part of GATHERINGS educa-
ton. The carnival OF courtship was
yet to include various dances. And
when catherine raised her hand and
removed the black velvet mask" Il was
not to Jim.
The New York herald., 1921-02-13

THE SONG BOOK OF oUoNG LEE
OF LIMEHOUSE BY Thomas Burke.
Henry Holt & Co.
The New York herald., 1921-02-13

New foreign laurels for Walt Whit
man are implied in the plans for an
elaborate French edition of his Song
Of Myself" In English text John
storrs, the Chicago sculptor. one of the
younger pupils of Rodin, who is most
successfully carrying on the tradition
of the master. will illustrate the edi-
ton.
The Cordova daily times., 1921-11-28
DENIES REPORT BRAND
 ATTACKED ITALIANS

WASHINGTON. Nov 2S. Rene Niyiana. one of the delegates from France to the armament conference. last night made an emphatic denial of the reports that Premier Hriand spoke sIightingly of tn" manner of Italy and the Italian delegation at a private meeting of the conference. Anti-Freuch demonstrations in Ital- ian cities have been attributed to the publication of these reports.