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New Britain herald., 1921-09-26
DAUGHTERS BORN

New Britain General hospital this morning to Mir. and Mrs. Arthur Hayes of Richard street. and Mir. and Mrs. Harold Swift Of 99 Winthrop street
New Britain herald., 1921-09-26
Deaths and Funerals.
Lawrence F. knaus

Lawrence Frank. three months old son of MT. and Mrs. Frank Knaus of Connerton street, died last night The funeral will be held to- morrow afternoon at o'clock.
New Britain herald., 1921-09-26
CONCERT AT CHURCH
Boys Band of War:burg Orphans Farm School to Render Program at St. Johns Church.

The Boys Band of the wartburg orphans Farm Schoor, will give a con- cert tomorrow evening at St. Johns Evangelical Lutheran church, on Arch street at o'clock. The following pro gram will be rendered.: Star Spangled Banner; march, The Thundere:, Sousa; overture. Poet and Peasa mt, Suppe: II Trovatore selection. Verdi: "Sccne and Air" "Luise De Montfort," Bcrgson, clarinet solo; waltz, 'Lens und LieEe," von Blon: "German Lied erkranz." Tobani: overture. Morning Noon and Night in Vienna" Tobani; Grand Fantasia Op.- -Maritana Round: The Sunny South. selection Lampe; "Nigger in the Rarnyard," ." Lovenbnrg: A Night in Berlin. selec- ton, Hartmann; America
New Britain herald., 1921-09-26
SOVIET GOVT. REPLIES
Statement Sent Lord Curzon Today in Answer to His Charges of Breach of Faith in Intrigue.

London, Sept. 26, (By Associated Press) An outline of the reply of the Russian soviet government to the note to Lord Curzon, the foreign min
New Britain herald., 1921-09-26
$59,644,OOO IS
 INVESTED IN N. B.
(Continucd From First Page)

tContinucd From First Page). used in the census reports may mean moro than one mill or plant. provided they are owned controlled and oper- ated by a single individual, partner- ship, corporation or other owner or operator, and are located in the same town or city.
 The reports were taken for the cal endar year ending December 31, 1919. or the business year of the establish ment most nearly conforming to that calendar year.
 Explanations.
 Tho census inquiry calls for the total amount of capital. both owned and borrowed. invested In the business. but excludes the value of rented prop crty.
 Tn addition to the component ma terials which enter into the value ol products. the cost of materials in this summary includes the cost of fuel, mill supplies. and rent of power and heat. Tho value of products represents their selling value or price at the plants as actually turned out by the factories during the census year. whether sold or on hand.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18
An Elephant Hero
ny Jungle Thrills in
Hindu Romance

serIy. Putiished " q. P. Putnsm's sons
$3.50.
~ IDE by side with Kipling's Rikki-
"a Tikki-Tacsyi, the gallant mon
w. goose, and Mowgll, the wolf
child, room must be made for another
animal hero who comes striding out
Of the jungles Of India. This is Bad
shah, the elephant Of Colonel Cas-
scrly's story, who not only saves his
master, British officer, from dcstruc-
tion on several occasions, but who is
able. when the emergency demands it,
to mobilize herds Of wild elephants
for rescue work on large scale.
Badshah and his master, Major Der
mot move in an atmosphere OF con-
stant excitement. For India, as por-
trayed in this novel, is honeycombed
with conspiracies against British rule
At one time Major Dcrn,ot is invited
to an entertainment given by dis
loyal rejah. In rapid succession his
rather inhospitable host introduces a
cobra into his bed, thrusts an even
more poisonous little snake into his
slippers, poiuons his morning toast
and tea and tries to have him trauap!ed
to death under the feet of q mad
elephant. Major Dermot escapes the
first devices by his prudence and re-
source; he checkmates the last scheme
by the uncanny psychical power which
he possesses over the whole elephantine
tribe.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18
War Silflouettes
Vivid Scenes in London
and Paris


PARTS DAYS AND LONDON NIGHTS.
BY Alice ziska Snyder and Milton VAL
entine Snyder. Published by E. P put-
ton Co 81
T<HE reactions which the British
4 and French capitals experienced
during the closing stages of the
war are very ably described and in
terpreted in this volume of letters ex-
changed between an American CORE
spondent in London and his wife, who
was doing Red Cross work in Paris.
Many observations that would prob
ably not have escaped tbs eye of the
censor in cabled dispatches find ex-
preston in this private correspond
ence.
The heartbrenking anxiety Of those
days in the spring Of 1918, when IL
seemed as if the Germans might break
through the Allied line, is vividly por-
trayed In this day-by-day chronicle OF
London and Paris life. Mrs. Snyder in
Paris is inclined to be more optimistic
than her husband in London. Her faith
in Foch and his poilus is unshakable,
whereas her husband is not unaffected
by the gloom which he sometimes en-
countered in British official circles.
Then the tide turns, as more and
more American troops are poured into
the battlefront. The letters become a
crescendo of exultation, reaching
climax with the armistice. The de-
scription Of tho simultaneous peace
celebrations in London and Paris must
be considered one OF the high lights
of the book.
The authors succeed in creating an
admirable composite picture Of the
two cities in war time. All sorts Of In
teresting intimate details are found
in the letters. The hardships Of food
rrtiening, the famous baseball game
played In London on the 9TH Of July,
the surrender of the German feet,
Lloyd George answering his critics In
Parliament, tha wounded and refugees
arriving in Paris, chance bits OF con-
versation with men and women Of va
r;ous classes, all these topics lend
color and variety to the work. "Paris
Days and London Nights" is ap4 @just
another war book" 1t issuniqus and
distinctive In design and execution.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18

proved profound disappointment. No
publishing house, no literary maya
zine seemed able to take permanent
root in the Illinois metropolis; and Mr..
Garland finally felt obliged to make
his home in New York, although his
own and his wife's relatives lived in
the Middle West.
The author sets down 8 frank record
o. his successes and failures; his ear,y
struggles with an unsympathetic pub
lie, his extensive travels in the Far
West in search OF background and at
mosphere, his friendships with men
prominent in public and in literary
life, such as Roosevelt, Howells, Mark
Twain and Zangwill, his sngularly
happy family life. which is described
with notable tenderness and beauty.
Everything is told without reserve;
Mr.. Garland even analyses at length
the feeling of depression which over
took him on the eve of his unexpected
success with "a Son of the Middle
Border" There are many passages of
quiet beauty in the book. Mr.. Gar
lands description of the last days of
his father and mother in the old Wis
consin homestead is a masterpiece Of
sympathetic narration. Hamlin Gar
land has better right than most
American authors to indulge in auto
biography, for his work as q novel
ist has brought him into close contact
with some OF the main currents Of our
national DEVELOPMENT
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18
A Traveller Of Olden Times
Presented IN New Guise
There's a Touch of the Christ Spirit in Dom
Byrnes Fine Story of Venice
and Old China

on the wnnderings of Marco Polo. 1t
gives a delightful twist to the running
narrative of the old fellow who is
supposed to spin the yarn. Pickering
at intervals against the solid. opulent
tones of Venice at her prime, the
stormy background Of an Asian desert
and the exotic strangeness of old
China, it is q delicious thing to meet
and relish in Byrne's book. It was a
shrewd conception, that Of having an
lrishman resurrect the bones of an
ancient traveller, picture him as
young fellow fired with zeal to preach
Christ to a China then on the limits
OF dreamland with mere fringes of
reality, and then send him forth. on
foot and on camel. to win through to
Kubla Khan and Golden Bells, the
miraculously beautiful daughter.
In brief, this little book deals with
two fervors, that of the Crusader and
that of the lover almost against his
will. Marco Polo, after hazardous
journey. told by Byrne in few nerv-
Gus pages where no word is superflu-
Gus, arrives, in swarming sandstone
at point where Golden Bells is aware
mystically of his nearness. He is saved.
is brought to her and her father, and
soon tells the story of Christ to Kuble
Khan and his aged counselor. The
naive surprise of the Celestials, mixed
with much sagacious comment, is fine
foil for the impuisive, generous ardor
of the young man. Then follow his
love ioyl with Golden Bells, their mat
ing and her death. Not much to out
line, but very much in its beauty as
related by Dom Byrne.
One sees a 6rt Of palimpsest in
"Messer Marco Polo" an Illuminated
text wellnigh medieval in It's colors,
and over it, superimposed, but min
Cling with it, text of to-day. The
phrase OF Celt with a bit CT slang on
the tip of his tongue, merges curiously
with gorgeous imaginings of the jour
ney and the fate Of Marco Polo.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18
Sy Samuel Abbott

xsssER MARCO POLO. ny Donn Byrno.
papIished by The Century Company
ti.ss
~ T0LEMAlC atla-es and even
maps of the sixteenth century
showed Eastern Asia as 8 mys-
teal land partly under the
spell Of the legends of the story and
traditions Of Marco Polo. Even as late
=, the middle eighteenth century the
leading mapmakers of Europe printed
on the hazy reaches of China names
that had origins in the minds of men
who guessed at probabilities. The fas-
chatting era of the unfolding of the
world through discovery and explora-
.ion, cvystallizing in the printed word
os history and empires. yielded little
in romance, great poems and equally
great action. inspired by the wonder
Of strange lands and hitherto un-
dreamed-cf peoples
After all, the centuries Of the heroic
ssafarers and trailmakers were not
ones for pens busted with the faneied
things Of romance. II has been re-
served for writers of the past few
decades to inaugurate q looking back
to those days OF high spirits and keen
love Of daring in lands then remote.
And it has been the good fortune of
Donn Byrne to Gull from the accepted
iore Of old Marco Polo some few choice
references and TO transmute them,
through the quaint alchemy of his i'm
sgaaticr, into the substance Of a little
BOOK that yields the perfume of pure
delight We are rather decisive in our
assertion that "Messer Marco Polo" is
for US book for our group of a Sc
lecs few writings of the year, a dozen
CT so volumes, big and little, 80 which
We shall return at intervals for re-
frsshment and corroboration of our
belief that there are folks to-day who
know how to write.
There is a touch of the brogue Of
Ulster il this twentieth century variant
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18
Master Of His Fate

MAsTERFUL PERSONALITY BY orison
SWEET Marden. Published by Thomas Y.
Crowe!l Company. 81.
DR. MARDEN, the we'll known writer
Of optimistic and inspirational
books. tells every one how TO become
master Of his fate in the present VOL
ume. The book contains instructions
designed TO enable the reader to meet
every conceivable emergency of life and
come off victorious. The assets Of &
dominating personality are listed, and
the author contributes advice about the
best means of acquiring them from his
store of spiritual and psychological
wisdom.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18
Hamlin Garland in Biographical Novel
An Unusual Diary
Youthful Impressions in
Freudian Style

YOUNG GIRLS DIARY. Translated by
Eden and Cedar Paul, with a preface ny
sigmund Freud. Published by Thomas
aeitzer Price SIS
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18
s'They don't Urite such English noscadoy
is charming. .'-The NesC York Sun.

is nnnuchn Of he
to o
to dteaure.
book and The
she wo
in
Of nifh
fcAectual o.
DR. Wills Fletcher Johnson of The Tribune
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18

A pAUGHTER OF THE MIDDLE BoR-
DER: By HeInlin, Garland Published
oy the Macmillan Company. So
M W AMLIN GARLAND'S "Son of
~ the Middle Border" was
q s more than volume of per
sonal memoirs. 1t was a
realistic epic of typical American
pioneer family, vivid portrayal Of
the way in which our great Western
territory was filed up and settled
after the Civil War.
In his present book Mr.. Garland
preserves the method of his earlier
photographed volume. Into plain,
unernbellished record of his own ex-
periences he weaves the story of Amer
ica's growth and development.
In certain eense Hamln Garland,
as novelist, encountered the same ex-
periences which befsll his parents on
their pioneer farms. Like them, he
turned to new country with hope
and expectation; and, like them, he
suffered many rebuffs and disappoint-
ments. The West did not like to be
told frankly Of its faults and crudi-
ties; and Mr.. Garland's Main Travelled
Roads" did not mact with the en-
thusiastic reception which greeted Sin
clair Lewis's "Main Street" It was
only when he went to the Far West
for his material and mingled more
romance with the realism of his novels
that he received his due measure of
popular appreciation.
Chicago as an intellectual center
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18

SIR THOMAS WHITE, Canadian Min.
isfer cf Finance: II have read Ny I'm.
knoscn Churr many times over With
IS s5ies1ssrr. Nf,as g bcautif.', simple.
ciesr style, deep human sympathy and
insight it exhibits. II Is indeed we'll
r'nliles'' for is is truly a chum TO those
who love literature
L. s. SENATOR DAVID /. WALSH of
Massachusetts: (The only book he has
ever endorsed 70 the pubIic) M, Um.
hno noscn ChAm-T cannot too strongly ex.
press the pleasure and companionship
| found in this excellen, book 1t is all
that is claimed for is-even more. 1t is
moi only a companion. but friend
THE BAKER & TAYLOR CO.. Iarxes,
wholesale booksellers: ''My Unknorn
Chun is wonderful book-appeals to
the cultivated classes. Has a remarkable
sale. We sell more copies than we do of
many best selling novels.''
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18
Give
MY UNKNOWN CHUM
TO those you love-and to yourself

LEAN literature and
w. xafon and MY UNKNOWN is the
around Bohk the Engsh language"
read will be Chua all through
When Daughter, old to
liz iovc, insstnty They
will be grateful yomr thoughtiunes
The essay~story OF a beautiful English girl and
cife ,oiU remind many youth tandm of schat he
acomanltood in taesefr truly chaotic times
fulhi Rcseberys Of the theefod
Of FURNISH INFORMATION LITERATURE
RECREATION"
yon will agree with
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18

LIFE OF Ellie METCHNIkOFF. By Olga
Mstchnikoff Published oy fToughton
MiHln Company. SIS.
T%HE world ewes Metchnikoff
E tremendous debt for his tireless
research into the causes and
cure of diseases through mastering the
mystery Of bacteria. His wife, who
shared in his work, has written the
story of his life, and the resultant
look will stand as last word on the
great scientist. In it the whole range
Of Metchnikoff's interests and efforts,
from the days when, a boy, he evinced
passion for natural history down to
the hours of his major triumphs, is
given with a tender love of the man
and q profound appreciation of his
service to humanity.
When sixteen years old Metchnikoff
studied the fauna OF inferior animals
with borrowed microscope, and, soon
after, passed his examinations brill
liantly and received a gold medal.
Within two or three years Of that time
he had resolved to concentrat, all his
efforts on the comparative embryology
of animals. His researches, constant
ard untiring, led him to the conviction
that the key of animal evolution and
genealogy was to be sought for in the
most primitive stages. From the prime
thesis that every animal begins by be-
ing unicellular, and that this first cell
evolves by dividing itself into consecu-
tive segments, each new cell, he con-
structed complete system of growth
and dem 1nonstrated conclusively that the
development of lower animals takes
place on the same plan and follows the
same laws as that of higher animals.
He had proved that there is a real
communion between all living things,
which is the concrete confirmation Of
the theory of evolution"
In 1865, when but twenty years old,
ne discovered the fact which proved to
be the starting point of all his future
work, the intercellular digestion Of an
inferior worm. Not realized by him in
it's vast meanings, this discovery be-
came the basis of his future phagocyte
theory which appeared eighteen years
later.
The substa nee of Metchnikoff's theory
is in the FLOWING: Diseases affect all
living beings, and the greater number
of plants and animals would cease to
exist without innate or acquired i'm
munity. Unicellular beings are gen.
orally immune against infectious dis
eases. Their bodies being almost en-
tirely made up of digestive protoplasm,
the microbes which they absorb are
directly introduced into noxious me-
dium and are destroyed. Man is intra-
cellular, and his immunity in infec-
tious diseases is linked with cellular
namely, with the phenom-
ena of the resorption Of morbid agents
through intracellular digestion. The
evil lies In the intestinal foria. If they
can be conbated successfully by
introduced into the intes-
tines, the life of man can be definitely
prolonged"
This biography tells the story Of a
very great man, one whose theory. If
carried out TO it's conclusion by sue
cessors, will result in revolution IN
tbs life Of mankind. The fear of death
vaIs ha eifmanated through sac con-
suest Of infectious diseases. s. A.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18
Poems Of Paris

BALLADS or A BOHEMIAN. By Robert
w. Service. Barse s. Hopkins. s1.so.
Service is far from the Yukon In
this collection Of poems with Paris
setting. The 10y Of the great city is
tempered with shadows Of life's deeper
meanings in these verses, always
human and possessed Of buoyant lit.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18

N F SOME wise grown-up had taken
8 Crete aside and volunteered few
n biological explanations on her
49, al L. l. 1. Il L. E..
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18
Growth Sketched in
Hamlin Garland's Life Story
Continuation Of Novelist's Autobiography
Possesses All the Fascination of Fiction

pAUGHTER OF THE MIDDLE BoR-
DER. By Hemlin Garland Published
BY the Macmillan Company So
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18
MetchnikOff
Life Of the Bacteriologist
by His Wife

LIFE OF Ellie METcHNTKoFF BY Olga
Mstchnikof Published oy Houghton
Misltn COMPANY S.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18

EX-MAYOR yAEIES LOGAN, worces-
ter, Macs. Tice-Ghairynss 7. nj. c. A.:
"A friend gave me copy Of NY Unknorvn
C7unl, and since then | have given away
about ten or twelve copies. recently
made n trip to San Francisco and took
Ny Unknoscn CIsurn with ms for a
second reading from cover 10 cover,
thing | have not done for thirty years,
/. C.. read book the second time. II is
wonderfully inse~esiing."
SIR PHILIP GIBBS aha. "Nfy Us.kno,pn
Cham is deiigitfui.''
SIR CHARLES FITZPATRICK, Chief
Justice Of Canada: Ny Unkno,cr Ci,Mn.
is wonderful book. 1 can repeat some
of iaie pages almost by heart. buy i,
30 give TO those love and 10 friends who
csn appreciate q good book
CARDINAL CAsQUET, the worlds
foremost scholar: Il have read My Tn.
knocn Chmm will, the greatest possible
p.eRsure.''
The Washington herald., 1921-11-24

outiawing OF the submarine. In
this connection he. by inference,
the British standpoint.
France has not complained about
the British ratio on capital ships" g"
he said. I'VE did not consider II
a menace ito France, although
France has built no craft Of this
character since 1914. Britain does
not need to maintain a great navy
now against the German or the
Russian menace. The navies of
these two powers no longer exist.
But France has an ever present
menace. She needs light cruisers
and submarines, to protect her
coast These are cheap to build.
and they are wonderful weapons
of defense. France wants peace
She has no desire for offensive
weapons. We are all friendly now
ers here. We have no potential en-
emies on the sea. But great ships
of war are, essentially offensive
weapons. They cost greatly to com
struct, they cost greatly to main
tain, and they afford a reason for
aggressiveness. The contrary is the
case SO far as light cruisers and
submarines are concerned. And
again we must point out that the
powers gathered here are facing no
foes on the seas.
Reduced to Limit.
In land armaments France, fac
Ing two possible enemies-Germany
and Russia - already has reduced
her forces to the lowest possible
mark. We have had to furnish The
troops to enforce the treaty of Yer
sailles. There are 100000 French
troops controlling regions under
the treaty We must retain them"
The French Premier made it plain
that he does not expect the subject
of land armaments to be material
factor in any Of the subsequent
discussions of the conference.
The Washington herald., 1921-11-24
EUROPE'S STUDENTS
SUPPORT ARMS CUT

PRINCETON. N. J.. Nov. ga
ca blegram received today by Chas.
DENLY, jr.. of Princeton. chairman
of the National Students committee
for the Limitation of armament, re-
vealed that college students of
Great Britain and France are or
ganizing to promote the armament
restriction movement
The Association General des
Etudiants Of France is in conven-
ton at Montpelier University TO
discuss the question. Students of
oxford and Cambridge are arrang-
ing a conference.
The Washington herald., 1921-11-24
Delegates Favor Holiday"
On Army and Navy Gridiron
Many Foreigners to See Thanksgiving Game
Chinese Students Have Rare Oppor-
tunity for Learning.

Probably the most effective way
of scrapping the battleship and
disposing of land armaments Is to
arrange more frequent games of
football between the army and
navy, for both of these branches
of the service declared a holiday"
last night. Unfortunately 1t is
only a week end affair. Every Off
Ger at the army and navy depart
ments, the expert advisers to the
American armaments delegation
who could muster railroad fare to
New York and a ticket to the
great show, closed their desks last
night for the weekend. Incl
dentally a large number OF officers
with the visiting delegations will
go to New York as guests of the
American officers many of them to
witness American football for the
first time.
The Washington herald., 1921-11-24
INTERESTED CHOP SUEY BOYS
MAY BE PRESIDENT SOME DAY.

The most active propagandists
concerning themselves with the
conference on Limitation of arma-
ments are the walters In the
Chinese restaurants. Most of them
are of the student class, working a
certain number of hours each day
and going to classes in the morn
ing or the evening. These usually
uncommunicative fellows. are now
the most talkative persons imagin-
able and do not hesitate to express
their views to any diner who Will
listen. They are of the progressive
group and expect tc see China
work out her own salvation
through the efforts of thousands of
their countrymen who are getting
their education and ideals in
America
The Washington herald., 1921-11-24
CAMoCFLAGE EXPERTs FIND
Use FOR SOUND AMPLIFIERs.

While the arms conference Is con
sidering what to do with new engines
Of warfare, camouhaxe experts of the
United States have devised an en-
tirely new torture" Thep propose
to utilize huge sound amplihers. like
those which carried President Hard
ing's voice all over the country on
Armistice Day, in connection with
machine guns. A couple Of amplifiers
would make a machine-gun nest sound
like q battalion to the enemy.