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Doubter in Fiction n Hero of the Oregon Settemen

finally absorbed by the ingenious sur
faces they've surrounded themselves
with, and life lies forever buried be-
hind tho inventions Of engineers,
scientists and business men" The
world is without an understandable
ideal on which an intelligent man
would pin his faith for minute; and
there is no moving art to absorb the
emotions which religion has failed to
claim. Enstei:a'a tAeory of rclativitv
is symbol Of the present state of in
telligcnce: it reduces reason to math-
ematical diversion and cerebration to
an exercise of legerdemain. George
Santayana's elaborately ingenious phil
osophic nihilism is another proof that
Intelligence is at the end Of its rope.
Modern artists and astheticians are
rapidly eliminating from art all emo
lions which are not concerned with alb
stract form, and are thus helping to
minimize sentiment III the life Of the
sentient being. The tendency is tow
ard biological atavism, highly intel
lectualized. A philosopher has said
that we have lived emotionally beyond
our means and that we are reaping a
harvest of completes and neuroses
which cripple the nervous system and
weaken the body. Perhaps Erik Dorm
is a prototype of the not unusual man
of tomorrow.
At all events, Erik DORM the novel,
is the prototype Of new manner in
fiction. Its form is as carefully con-
ceived as q sonata. Its parts are
"Sleep," Dream" "Wngs' and "Ad-
venture" with "Sience' as an ironjc
rccapitulation of the original theme
Of senility still waiting for something
to happen in life. 1t is easy to trace in
Hecht the influence of Huysmans in the
use of epithets and his Interpretation
Of life in terms of vivid pictures. 1t
also is easy to observe the influence
Of Dostoievsky iii his starkly pessimis-
tic analysis Of human motives The
eruptve, staccato rataplan Of images
whereby ne conveys the incohercnt
cross purposes Of war and revolution
in passages Of astounding effectiveness
is an adaptation of the method Of
James Joyce and the point;l|istcs. A
capricious juXtaposition Of noun and
adjective. verb and adverb, now and
then suggests The influence Of Maxwell
Bodenheim. But Hecht has tempered
his acquisitions to his own requirements
and made them the servants Of his
agile intellect and his rich creative
subconsciousness. The very cxuber-
ance of his imagination and the spon-
taneity Of his verbal associations be
tray him occasionally into grammatical
confusions and meaningless sentences
but the nature Of his composition pre-
supposos this. Any competent proof
reader could eliminate these never
serious faults. 1t is enough to have
created literary work so original
and provocative as this book without
insstence on minor blcmishcs of which
no mediocrity would have the creative
impulse to be guilty And that in
Ben Hecht America has a new literary
figure Of high achievement and high
CT promise it is not permissible to
doubt
New-York tribune., 1921-10-02
g. Burton Rascoe

~,rx DORM By Ron Hcch,. Published
G. Y Putnam's Sons. 81
IT'S to Ben Hechts credit that for
several years he refused 10 per-
NIT the vanity OF authorship or
the badgcring Of admirers to
,.--s him into the slight. quick re
.a. 81 immature hook publication
while others Of his age we're enjoying
hrisf posture in the hmeight as
.,onsoes with names attached to
.,.,s nsres he was patiently banking
tss Ares of his genius. Now and then
10 would test his amperage By skits
and stories. plays and articles, but al
rays with the sell absorbed air Of an
.vnsr;menser who was convinced inst
"a had not yet attained the perfection
,oxard which he was working.
His friends recall that some two
wars ago he was persuaded to send
~. manuscript of a novel he had writ
,sn TO a New York publisher. The
script had hardly been deposited in the
walls before he wired Imperative or
dora that the package be returned un-
or.ned. A sense of its imperfeetions
s.saulted his artistic conscience, and
onee he had tho manuscript again IN
hand he put it awsy Tor leisurely
tinkering over q period Of years. IT
,s strange, fantastic and highly orig
,pal work which probably will be the
third OF his published volumes for it
is a creative effort wherein he hopes
10 realize complete sef-expression q
literary artist.
Meanwhile no has given US in Erik
Dorm" move. so rich in ideas and so
brilliant in execution that 1t stands out
RS a literary event of the FIRST i'm
portance. To buttress this statemcn.
one has only to get at the purpose
Hecht had in the novel and TO show
wherein he achieved it with startling
success. The dramatic skeleton is OF
unfamiliar. but the ideational integu
ment is idiosvncratie and distinctive
and the clothing a triumph of techni-
csl innovation.
In Dorm the author has attempted to
present an absolute skeptic and
complete individualist in tragi-comic
relation to modern civilization, to the
American scene. 10 marr age, to war, to
revolution. and to current faiths The
book will be disquietine to some, !rrl-
tatinq to others and unintellis Die to
few: but it is irrelevant 70 quarrel
With the hardness and br.ttleness Of
me novel for the hero is conceived as
hard and brittle. The book lacks
sustained glow Of warm humanity fol
the obvious reason that the hero rs
aevoid Of TINS quality Dorm l., to be
sure, scoundrcl, judged from oouven-
,oual standards. But we should not
overlook the fact that conventional
standards made him a scoundrei 1t
was given him TO see the petty mo
.ves Of lust ard scilishness, hunger
and greed ben nd humanity 3 elaborate
pretense OF nagaanimity and altnism,
nobility and sacrifice. He is social
outlaw out o. sheer honesty and out Of
refusal completely TO share thc pre-
vsillng decsits and hypocrisies. Tie is
New-York tribune., 1921-10-02

the time in the light of criticism O.
as furnishing food for fiction have al
most Invariably represented the Ror-
gias as group of evil men. Now
comes one Johannes Burchardus.
through the translation of F. L. CHASER,
and this Master OF Ceremonies at the
Papal Court gives in detail mater
from which radiates a new light The
book is rich in the colors of conten,.
porary life. thronged With passages
that describe mlnuteiy professions.
pageants, carnivals and the r.ore hid
den figures of court ana private vi.
trigues.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-02
Love Against Duty

THE OTHER SUSAN Py Jcnnettc Lee.
Published by Charles Scritner's Sons.
sl.75.
rYNHE problem of New England farm
ia cr's wife who finds herself in love
with another man after years of mar
ried life supplies the theme OF this
story. The struggle between the two
powerful emotions, ending in recon
citation Of love with duty. is handled
by Mrs. Lee with a wholesome sense
Of the ultimate moral values.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-02
japanese Aspirations

WHAT JAPAN WANTS Ry Yoshi :
Nuno. Published by the Thomas Y
Crowell Company. 81.
FAPANS aspirations in China, Corea
and Siberia, the problem Of the
Pacific and the past and future course
of American-Japanese relations are dis
cussed in this little volume. The au-
thor contends that Japan's demands
are reasonable enough to be satisfied
without bringing her into collision
with any other power.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-02

pected revelations, startling scenes and
vivid picturings
Marie Van Worst, although she has
written in "Tradit;on' a novel of excel
lence, has not in its chapters reached
the high level of her Big Tremaine." :"
published in 1914. 1t is interesting to
note that these two novels portray life
in dissimilar sections of the country,
Virginia and New England.
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81 Lyra non lyrasset,
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and it may we'll be that had it not
been for king" McIoughlin the en-
terprises Of these famous men would
have been far less successful, certainly
fal more arduous.
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the style of romance it ia in every
chapter instinct with the truth of the
Ncrlest annalist. All the character
and all the essential events and acts
are real-and she makes us feel that
TACT and see them as vital, red -blooded
men and women Of like passions with
ourselves, and occurrences as actual as
the recent war in Mingo County. Even
where there is some question as to
what actually occurred, as. for cx-
ample, in the case of Marcus Whit
mans famous ride and visit to Webster
at Washington. she adopts the version
which is so plausible and congruous
and logical that we cannot help CON
viction that it is the true one. OF
other matters, the mission of Jason
Lee, the migration of American set
tiers across the mountains, the passage
OF the Dalles, the Cayuse War, the
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~ HE ITALIAN Renaissance, glitter
ing in its list of statesmen,
Il churchmen and great artists,
gave history period that will ever be
q fount of romance Of all the domi-
nant families of the era that of the
Borgias, especially as typifed in Alex
ander VI and his son Caesare, played
the leading role. Men who have studied
New-York tribune., 1921-10-02
The Borgias
New Light on Famous
Family in Diary

POPE ALEXANDER VI AND HIS COURT
From the Latin Diary OF Johannes Bur
chardus. Edited by f. l.. Chaser Pub
lished by Nicholas l.. Brown. 81
New-York tribune., 1921-10-02

Al l-oUGlll-IN AND OLD OREGON BY
liva Emery Dye. With portrait Pub
lshed by Doubleday, Page < Co. Price
VT WAS a gracious and worthy deed
Il --dulce ct decorum-for Mrs. Dye
to write this stirring historical
romance, and it is a fine interna-
tlonal service for the publishers to
reprint it in this attractive edition;
Tor it will go far, very far, we trust,
toward putting in his proper place q
noble character who was shamefullv
mlstreated by two nations which he
greatly served and who has been
strangely neglected by historians. The
average American, thinking of early
years in Oregon, recalls the names Of
Lewis and Clark, of John Jacob Astor
OF Marcus Whitman and Henry Spal-
ding, perhaps of Jason Lee, and pos-
slbly of Nathaniel J. Wyeth. Worthy
pioneers all of them, Of Christianity
of civilization and of American SOW
eregnty But
New-York tribune., 1921-10-02
Historical Justice Done 10 Man
Who urthered Oregon Settlement
Memory Of King Mclaughlin, Who Served
Both England and America Well, Vindi-
Gated in Mrs. Dyes Stirring Chronicle
By Willis Fletcher Johnson

J
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Eva Emery Dye with portrait. pub
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Sl.75.
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1921-12-03
Editorial
fll
The Depravity of
Lazy Indifference

We know of a public school ma a'am
who teaches French and who has just
given one of her classes an examination
test, has herself examined their papers
forty of 'em-and marked each individual
paper, all in the space of 4O-minute hour.
In other words a test that was just about
worthless because the 40 pupils only had
20 to 40 minutes in which to show what
they had actually learned in the proceed
ing month. There was no need of this
senseless speed because the teacher is ex-
pected to go over the examination, papers
at the conclusion of the five-hour recita-
tion period.
The explanation, of course, is that
the young woman was merely lazy-didn't
want to work after the regular school
period-and carelessly indifferent to her
high duty.
1t is simply amazing how this twin
headed microbe of inefficiency and lazi-
ness has spread over America in this last
decade. 1t has invaded all classes-not
everybody, but great masses of people.
Millions haven't the slightest pride in the
thing they are doing in life. All they care
is to drag grudgingly and stupidity through
routine of alleged brain or hand labor
for few hours day and draw as much
pay for it at the end of the week as they
can make the higher-up guys" hand over.
This vice has never bitten very deep
ly into the people of the country districts
but it is epidemic and rampant in all our
cities
The farmer has suffered deflation to
the hilt The mass Of the city people has
resisted it successfully SO far. at the same
time mending their ways not bit. We
wish hard times for nobody but it looks
very much as if nothing less than real pow
erty will cure the city masses Of the de-
pravity represented by that French teach
er.
Let's thoroughly understand that in
difference is mediocrity and mediocrity is
bankruptcy. God will that the nation es-
cape that!
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1921-12-03
Nfn1ieR III ANs
Great Scouts I 1s...i
2. Westsrn lsevspeper Unioa.
j W90t9tb H1W1p4VU Outo6
SIMON KENroN. TnH AlaERl.
CAN AAZEPpA

Second only TO the name Of Daniel
Boone-whose iife he once aaved-is
written In the annals of kentucky the
name Of Simon Kenton. Kenton was
q virginian who served - q scout In
Lord Dunnore's war shortly before
the outbreak Of the Revolution and
who crossed over the mountains Int
the OZARK and Bioody Ground" Of Ken.
lucky In search Of adventure. His ex-
pI0lts there SOON won for him the un-
dying hatred Of the Indians and no
less than eigA, tinses be was csptured
By them and sentenced to death.
In ITS KentOo with two c0mpan.
Ions went north into Ohio to spy upon
Q tribe At war with the whites. While
returning. they came upon . herd Of
indian horses. TIE Kentuckians ~
solved to take some Of the animals
along ~ trophies Of the successful ex.
pedition. The Indians quickly discov.
eFed the theft and overlook the scouts
Just before they crossed the Ohio
river.
One Of the Kentuckisns was killed.
another escaped but kent0n wss taken
prisoner.
"You steal injun hossf" they taunt-
ed him. "All right. We give you ride
on him!' fr
SO they tied the scout on 4 Wild
young horse and set II free In the for.
est. He hnaliy was taken from the
horses back more dead than alive.
AT the 6rst village the indians
reached. they condemned the scout to
run the ganiiet. When the signal was
given. KentOn sprang through the line
Of warriors. armed with clubs and
hatchets. and reached the council
house. his goal. almost untouched.
Near Zanesfeid preparations were
made to burn him AZ the stake. but the
arrival Of Simon Girty. the ''white
renegade" who recognized Kent0n a.
an old friend. saved him.
His freedom was short-lived. Three
weeks later the Indians again voted
10 put him to death. Again he was
saved by = friend-Chief Logan, the
noted orator Of the Cayugaa. When
the Sandsky towns were reached. the
Indians held Z council and once more
iecreed the death penalty. kenton
wns tied TO the stake. Just ms the
torch WAS beIng applied. q British Of.
ficer appeared and demanded the sur.
render of their prisoner TO his Cum
mnnder a, Detroit.
Kenton was kept captive In Detroit
until i.79. when through the aid ~ IN
Indian traders wife he e~caped to
Kentucky where he died In lSA.
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1921-12-03
Colorado the Place
Where Tubercuous
People Seek Miracles

That Colorado has for three
years had the highest death
rate from tuberculosis in the
United States and that for the
past five years that death rate
has been increasing IL the
startling fact obtained from
statistics given out by the
Colorado Tuberculosis associa-
tion. That Colorado 10 isnor-
Ing this fact Il even more
alarming. Although this ex-
csssivs death rate In Colorado
u largely due 70 the immiSra-
ton Of the tuberculosis, In Cal-
ifornia, where conditions of
climate and migration are sim
liar, the tuberculosis death
rate u dscreasins.
Why II this1 Because Colo
rado, with the most serious
tuberculosis problem in the
Union. sivss no protection 70
its citisens. who are constant
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1921-12-03
Honey Philosophy
For 1921

What good is there in any plan that
breaks down under the very conditions
it was called up to face? In every single
phase of life in this living world plans are
adopted only for the purpose of making
the conditions of the matter at hand bet
ter. When they don't they are swiftly
thrown into the discard. Lenine, in ad-
hitting the utter failure of Communism in
Russia blames the failure on the condi-
tions it had to face. Out of his own mouth,
therefore. he admitted that the plan called
communism is no good-therefore, an USE
less, dead one. Shovel in the dirt, men!
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1921-12-03
Poem by Uncle John
The Passing Show,

The pirate thrives on his victims lives.
an revels in boundin' health; he knows
no strain of the bed of pain, as he lolls on
his couch of wealth; he feels no sting that
the fierce winds bring. nor scorch of the
blazin' sun: an the starveling's groan or
the widder's moan. they never annoy him
none. An when he dies. there points
to the skies. mighty sejestive stone. that
marks his rest till the final test, when the
soul comes into his own.
An the saint strives fer his scant re-
ward, an faints betimes with his load; he
trusts his God rs he leaves his blood on the
flinty stones Of his road. He defies the
worst when his bubbles burst. an laughs
at the festerin' sore; he struggles on, an
knows when he's gone, he'll never come
back no more. When he boards the
ship At the final trip. there's nobody seems
to cry.-but some proclaim that he won
the game,-can somebody tell me why?
YOUR OWN UNCLE JOHN
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1921-12-03
street they say economic conditions
America 90 up and down with steel E
puA. aax what thex nleaae about hanl

street they say economic conditions in
America 60 up and down with steel
But. say what they please about baro-
metric pressure Of diamonds. shining
gold and herculean steel, they have togo
some to find anything better in barometers
than the mule, the gentle mule, the mule
with forty-hoss power heels, the mule Of
our fathers!
The mule as barometer of business
absurd? Listen to what comes from Mis-
souri,, which is the home by the way Of the
poet, DIR. J. J. Gaines, otherwise 'Uncle
John"
Just now the mule trade is good in
cotton sections, therefore business condi-
tions are improving in the south. Mules
for mines aren't selling well, so the coal
mining business is slow. Sugar mules are
depressed; it follows that there are hare
times in the sugar industry. The demand
for draft mules is good; accordingly road
construction work is booming. Farm mules
are quiet, so the farming business is quiet:
it follows, too, that farm implement manu-
featuring is slow. Rice mules are in the
dumps, so rice farming must be up against
it.
But glory be, and best of all, the army
mule trade is quite poor because the war
industry Is at very low ebb!