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The Washington times., 1921-10-02
President Regrets

you have made many and great
sacrifices already for the party. and
I know that am speaking the SEN
timent Of all loyal Democrats when
! express the very deep appracia-
ton have felt Of the great services
you have ungrudgingiy rendered.
1T am sure that the greatest re-
grets will be felt at your retirement,
and that q host of friends VIII Join
mo In the hope that your new bust
ness connections will bring you con-
tinued abundant success.
with best wishes.
Sincerely yours,
WOODROW WILSON"
EDITORS NOTE-After the. IN
auguration Of President wilson and
the meeting Of the Democi stic Ma
tional Committee which reelected
Mr.. McCombs chairman. he returned
to New York, to the practice Of law
with his partner, Frederick r..
Ryan, At No. 81 Broadway. But hav-
ing "waded through fire." overtax-
ing his serength to make Woodrow
Wilson President, he had 70 pay q
terrible penalty Of shattered health.
He was advised to go for q rest
in Europe. where he could not bs
bsset by office-seekers. He did 90,
but found himself 30 lionized In Lon
don ~ the maker Of q President
that, after two months there, he
went to Paris. He was taken seri-
ously III and. on July 8. 1918, was
operated upon by DR.. Du Bouche.
the famous French surgeon, for APP
pendicitis. ~
His recovery was followed by q
happy season In Paris during which
Mr.. McCombs became engaged to
Miss Dorothy williams. daughter Of
Colonel John r. Williams, y. 8. A.,
and sister Of Mrs. JOSEPH Letter,
Of Chicago. They were m,rried in
London in the Roman Catholic
Chapel Of St Peter and st. Edward
within the shadow OF Buckingham
Palace, by the Rev. Father Bernard
Vaughn. the subscribing witnesses
being the American Ambassador to
London. Walter H. Page; the Amer
lean Ambassador to Paris, Myron T.
Herrick; Lord Derby; the Earl Of
Suffolk: the Earl and Countess Of
Craven. and Charles w. Halsey, a
Princeton classmate, who was Mr..
McCombs' best man.
Mrs. McCombs had met Miss VIII
-liar>s q Che, Inauguration II Presi-
den. Wilson, In Washington After
th>'r ro.urn 10 the United States Mr..
The Washington times., 1921-10-02
CHAPTER II.

IMcConsbs Quits as National
Chairman-Defeats All McAdoo-
Bnrleson-T NmtIty Plots TO- Dust
Him-Wilson Coterie Co,sspirss
Four YeGrs to Supplant the
President-Maker McCombs
WINS Fight for 1915 Convention
City and Voluntarily Retires IN
Formal Notice to the President
--Wilson's "Greatest Regrets."l
A McAdoo Burieson Tumulty
cabai plotted four years to Dust
Mr.. McCombs az chairman Of the
Democratic National Committee.
Though apparently inspired by the
benediction of the President him
self. the conspiracy forcibly to
overthrow him was thwarted. Mr..
McCombs. backed by q large
majority Of his fellow committee
mon. stuck to his post for the full
term for which he was elected.
In. q pert note to the President
personally, he asked to be relieved
after his successor was chosen at
the national convention Of 1915.
He then gladly retired. ...
AS already limited. the White
House coteris sought McCombs'
scalp even upon the eve Of VIII
sons first Inauguration. but were
unsuccessful. Taking their cue
from the Presidents refusal to
honor any Recommendation Chair
man McCombs made in hehaif Of
the National Committee, the VIII
son group. almost from month to
month, sought to Gust McCombs
and name q substitute next the
throne" aa. ..
The Washington times., 1921-10-02
Wilson Grudge Shown
In Futile Cabinet Plot
To Eclipse MIR. McC onbs

McCombs, the instant he became
Postmaster General. filled his offices
with ardent wilson-McAdoo satel-
lites. ,..
The Washington times., 1921-10-02
Noted English Man of
Letters Amazed by
Fight Films
By BERNARD SHAW.

by BERNARD SHAW.
r. oNDoN. Sept. 1o.--I have just
seen the Carpenter Dempsey
fight for the heavyweight
championship of the world in Lon
don in tho movies
I had q much better view Of It
than nine-tenths of the people who
saw It In the flash from Mr.. Tex
Richards benches In New Jersey. I
could have seen It three or four
times over without leaving my seat.
Perhaps I should have done 30 II II
had It not been padded out with =
great deal Of matter dncludins some
very dull boxing and some bogus
trainins) Of the sort that bears see
ing once and once only. am tempt
cd 10 ,moralize on the enormous
propaganda Of pugilism that IL
being effected by this film. which
repeats the fight again and again
before millions Of people all over
the, globe. and goes on for q year
after the newspapers have been
compelled to reject every aIlusion
to II az intolerably stale.
WILL NOT MORALIzE.
But I refrain. and return to the
subject only because Of its technical
interest for boxers. and the right Of
o boxing film to its criticism equally
with ordinary sob stuff. ..s
And first, ! must warn those who
have seen Monsieur Carpenter only
at New Jersey or In this film that
they have no idea OF what he IL
like and what he can do when he
II at the top Of his form and master
Of the situation. The film shows
only what he can do when. no is
sandbagged. This IN no excuse for
his defeat. It was Mr.. Dempsey's
business to sandbas him. and It
was his own business to prevent
Mr.. Dempsey from sandbagEing
him.
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The Washington times., 1921-10-02

1t was pretty generally conceded among all Democrats
Of course, the minds of the people cenered upon
question-that keeping out of that terrible
conflagration.
The Washington times., 1921-10-02

NEXT SUNDAY--No McCombs'
Promises Of Offices. But Applicants
Be Barred Because He Urged Them
Victims Of Wilson's ThanIslcssness
President Makers Punished and
Rendered Outcasts by Executive
Edicts-Sulllvan Opposed for United
States Senator After Clinching Pres
ldent's Nominstion--Murphy Asks,
'wm Wilson Break Usf"--Scnator
Reed Persecuted-
The Washington times., 1921-10-02

and Mrs. McCombs were entertained
at the White House.
Governor Glynn offered Mr.. Nc
Combs the position Of Public Service
Commissioners. the most lucrative
office within the gift Of the Cover
nor. but Mr.. McCombs declined. say
ing that he could not afford to aban-
don his law practice.
Mr.. McCombs was chairmsn Of the
platform committee In the New
York State convention OF 1914. and
a delegate to the Constitutional Con-
vention Of 1915. His only other
political activities were rs chair
man Of the Democratic National
Committee.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-17
Auction Bridge
Art of Game Explained
BY Expert
Bv H. H. Mcclure

AUCTION BRIDGE STANDARDS. BY
H Wilbur G. w san,ei Published by
The announcement of new book on
Auction Bridge leads the average devo-
tee of the game to remark:
what! Another! Probably some one
with a new system, and there are too
many now"
1t is natural thought. For, although
there are in this country millions of
people devoted to the game and thou
sands who study it, all Of these are
followers of many different systems
and authorities. Thus far in the his
tory of the greatest card game ever
devised there has been no proper
standardization of its theory and prac-
tice.
SO it was with some scoffing that
took up Auction Bridge Standards, just
published by Frederick A. Stokes & Co.,
and written by Wilbur C. Whitehead,
managing director of the Knickerbock-
err Whist Club. But if came to scof,
now remain to praise. Mr.. Whitehead
has made practically all of the previous
books on the subject unnecessary and
has closed the field to future writers
for long time to come.
The present book makes possible the
long needed Standardization of the
game. 1t gives the correct method of
valuing cards, and therefore of bid
ding them, which is, of course, the
basis of the game. Mr.. Whitehead's
discovery that the bidding value of
hand is double it's defensive value has
enabled him to lay down definite prin-
ciples whereby any combination of
cards may be instantly valued and bid,
whether initially or supporting, and
thus provided a standard for the game
never before possible. 1t is we'll to
explain that this discovery is not a
theory. 1t is a mathematical fact shown
by the analysis of thousands of hands
actually played over period of sew
eral years in the duplicate auction
games of the Knickerbocker Whist Club
Mr.. Whitehead has in this book, and
through the years of preparation in
volved, made himself the greatest au-
thority on the game of auction bridge.
Expert himself, he has not, however,
written merely treatise for the expert
He has written an extremely entertain
ing story though most compact, for the
beginner or even for the reader entirely
ignorant of the game. The clear, con-
else, unmistakable two plus two logic
of the book telling the story of a
great game is bound to impress any
one. Every one who plays or wants to
play auction bridge ought to read it for
pleasure if rot for profit.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-17
Adventures on Sea and Shore
Color Book on South Pacific
Captain Monckton, in Tanning New Guinea,
Writes a Moving Picture Record of
Dangerous Days

voted to the navigation Of curious
things that contrive to keep on top Of
the water, with here and there pas
sages Of real ocean stuff, big waves
and the howl of the wind. And one
cannot overlook those other pages that
give pictures of the dangers of diving
Tor pearls, the nature of good pearl
grounds and the habits of peculiar and
deadly fish. Monckton met Captain
Siocum while on visit to Sydney and
admired that old New Bedford salts
pluck in circumnavigating the globe in
his yawl Spray.
But we are getting beyond our depth
or limit in this review. The powers
that be in New Guinea soon saw what
Monckton had in him and made him
resident magistrate. We don't believe
iE extended quotations from book in
any notice in these columns, but no
better idea of what this man was up
against can be obtained than that pre-
sented in his own statement Of orders
and advice given to him on The day of
his commission:
"Now, then, here is list Of things
that need attending at once. There Is
murder at Awaiama, a man cut his
mother-in-law's throat, catch him; there
is to be new mission station at Cape
Vogel, survey and buy the land for the
natives; Fellows is in trouble at the
Nd ~,<.
Bromilow has collected a lot of orphans
at Dobu, go and mandate them to the
mission; man named Ryan has shot
native at Ferguson Island, arrest him
and inquire into the case; Carruth has
been supplying grog to the natives on
Burns, catch Carruth and deal with him;
the Siai's decks need caulking and she
needs new wire rigging; I've got the
wire, but there is no money with which
to pay any one to do the job Patten
has got into some sort Of trouble at the
south end of Goodenough, find out what
it's all about; Thompson has started a
cocoanut plantation on the northeast
coast Of the island, look him up and see
that he is all right; when you get some
spare time, go and buy cargo of vans
for the Jail, and don't pay more than
los per ton for them; see that Billy, the
cook, shuts the pub at IL o'clock, there
are only fights and rows if he is open
later. Don't use the police for arresting
white men il you can possibly avoid;
arrest them yourself"
There's program that calls on the
pluck and mental resources of a real
man. If you are looking for book that
mingles cool intrepidity with canny eau
ton, one always giving native back
ground of rich hues, get a copy of
Tanning New Guinea and read it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-17
New Novel by Cournos Is
Tragedy Of Maladjustment
Story OF Modern Diogenes Seeking in Love
and Art for Ideals That Cannot
Be Bought
Be Bought

ish life is wildly portrayed in the
hgures OF Gombarov's stepfather and
uncle. Both are men of extraordinary
erudition; and the uncle, at least, has
some genuinely original theories of
giving life a philosophical interpreta-
ton based upon modern biological dis
coverles. But both men, because of
poverty and lack of influence, are un-
able to gain an audience for their
ideas.
Many of the incidents in the book
convey piercing conviction of &C
tuality. This is notably true of the
Jury-box scenes, when Gombarov finds
out how much the impartial melting
out of justice is Influenced by the
crotchets and prejudices of the indi-
vidual jurors.
But the somber realism of the book
Is repeatedly illuminated by flashes of
romantic ecstacy. Gombarov, or Cour-
nos, has his eyes fixed on the stars.
rather than on the earth. He is more
interested in discovering possible
passages Of escape from the wall by
which he is hemmed in than in giving
a minute description of the stones out
of which the barrier is constructed.
With its scene laid in the character
lstlcally American city of PHILADELPHIA.
The Wall is by no means pleasant.
but generally faithful, picture of
cross-section of American life. Bitter
at times almost to the point of morbid
lty, it is work of undeniable power
and beauty.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-17
Told in Talk
Clever Novel Built on
Conversation
THREE LOVING LADIES. BY the Hon
Mrs. Dowdall Published by the Houvh-

THREE LOVING LADIES. BY the Hon
Mrs Mrs ,DoWdall Published by the Hough-
hCCASlONALLY a novel built on a
Y foundation of talk succeeds in
holding readers interest. A
DOCK SO constructed requires at least a
slender thread of plot, a string of Incl
dent or episode binding it together, but
Its give and take in conversation must
be clever, flashing in repartes or en-
lowed with sound sense in comment on
life. The Hon. Mrs. Dowdalps Three
Loving Ladies answers all the above
demands. We read it through from
cover to cover, and gladly confess that
the authors development of her three
principal people, a mother and her two
daughters, convinced US that her forte
is one difficult for an imitator for the
whole novel is full of pure chatter.
emotional confession or shrewd iude-
ment expressed in vocal terms always
pat Or final.
General Fulton leaves his comforta-
ble little home in Westminster for an
army position in a small manufacture
ing town on the sea, Millport. With
him go his wife, Sue, and his daueh-
tiers, Evangeline and Teresa. A square
Of more completely realized characters
would be hard to find in any other
English novel of the day. Sue is full
of platitade, and wins sort of queen
ship in Millport through her progress
give banality of obvious utterance. The
two girls-their love affairs are re-
freshingly clean-are distinctly oppo-
site in physical charms and speech.
Each realizes the Victorianism of her
mother, admires the bluff honesty of
her father, and releases sentences of
criticism on local manners and morals
that are wise with the insight of
searching vision. This is a good book
for reading aloud in q little circle of
folk who know the zeal thing when
they hear H.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-17
Old ''Blue Laws" OF TODAY

What were the blue laws? asks Will.
lam f. Barton, and in an article in
The Congregationalist he answers that
they simply were not; that they were
the malicious invention of a Tory, who
driven from America at the time of the
Revolution, wrote book upon the
Colonies in revenge. Yet, turning to
the references of Gustav Myerss new
book, Ye Olden Blue Laws, one finds
dozens of blue laws cited by chapter
and verse so explicitly that any one
can look them up who chooses to take
the time. The conflict of statements
here may rest upon differing interpre-
tations of what blue law is.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-17
Tales of Terror
Their Place in English
Literature
THE TALE OF TERROR. BY Edith
Birkhead. Published by E. P Dutton

THE TALE OF TERROR BY Edith
Birkhead. Published by e. P. Dutton
& Co. So.
s"HE tale of terror seems to have
existed ever since the human
- race became articulate. Archaol
oglsts have found nature myths in the
Oldest Assyrian writings.
Miss Birkhead, however, does not at
tempt anything so ambitious as a
study of the influence of the terror
theme upon literature throughout the
ages. She confines herself to de-
scrlptlon of the growth and develop
ment of supernatural fiction in Eng
llsh literature, beginning with the
vogue of the Gothic romance toward
the end of the eighteenth century. She
brings to her task the equipment of a
trained scholarly mind and a vast
store of erudition.
Several chest sellers" of hundred
and fifty years ago are resurrected in
her pages. Prominent among them is
Mrs. Radcliffe, whose fantastic novels,
with their inevitable apparatus Of
lonely castles, secret prisons, trap
doors, daggers and DISCUSSES, are
cleverly satirized by Jane Austen in
Northanger Abbey.
The author takes up the stories of
Irving, Poe and Hawthorne in a chap
ter on the tale of terror in America.
She predicts that, with the advance of
science and psychological inquiry, new
forms of horror and mystery will make
their appearance in literature.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-17
Aspects of Child Life

"A volume of essays by G. Stanley
Hall, the distinguished writer and psy-
biologist, and some of his pupils is To
be published in new edition by D. APP
pleton & Co. within a few days. As
poets of Child Life and Education is
the title, and DR.. Hall has added an
interesting preface to the material al
ready included in the volume. The psy-
Geological studies of which the book *
made up are of exceptional interest to
parents, teachers and students of nsv-
chology. Such essays as "The Con
tents of Children's Minds on Entering
School," "The Psychology of Day
Dreams" "a Study of Dolls" and "The
Story of the Sand Pile" are some of
the unique topics covered.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-17
By Samuel Abbott


EAl<rNo NEw GUINEA. BY Captain
q A. w. Monckton. Published by John
LAne Company. IS.
"a FORTH of the coast Of Queens
mi land lies New Guinea, a
fringe of the British Empire.
A week ago if friend had
asked US our opinion as to this regions
state, physical and in its evidences of
civilization, we should have surmised
that it is an orderly province. one of q
huge collection of dependencies, blessed
with luxuriant foliage, few wild
animals and q people that might
kindie glow OF mild but transient in
terest. Now we know better. New
Guinea is, or was few years ago, a
land of hectic surprises Bring back
Stanley, give him Baron Munchauseu
as companion, send them to this spot
in the East to record their impress
sions. The former would find mate
rial for pages as enthralling as his
Darkest Africa, and the latter, telling
the truth, would be considered the
same old liar. That is an idea we OBJ
tain from reading Captain Monckton's
Tanning New Guinea.
Monckton went to New Guinea in
1895, quarter of a century ago, and
there may have been some changes in
the way of progress toward a refine
ment Of living as we know it since them.
But twenty-five years is brief period
In which to work necromancies in cul-
tural affairs and, as this books story
trails along down to the years of the
opening of the late war, we have reason
to hope that things are just about as
gloriously barbaric in New Guinea as
they were when the captain arrived
there originally. We wouldn't have
them otherwise, if we could, for a
benign providence sent this born mar
rator of rafting good book on Gus
toms and habits and startling human
proclivities to his ground of study and
refreshment. It's tremendously
human thing that he has written, spark
ling with witty talk, sprinkled with
shrewd observation and comment, pune
tared with swiftly sprung adventures.
IN these days of vanishing of the yes
tiges of old barbarism this mans
story of close and human association
with living relics is to be cherished
as one of the last worthy volumes to
close a long shelf.
Monckton reached New Guinea in
1895. His early pages get him into his
stride at once. We are in an atmos-
phere of pearl fishing, easy life on
beaches and in strings of forest, and a
yet easier life of smooth and slick
business dealings conducted by men
who gesture and say one thing and
think another. Read what the captain
has to report in the matter of num-
ber of ships-to be correct, small sail
ing vessels-especially in reference to
the wholesale embarrassing and de-
ccit that ruled all sales and purchases.
Time and again he put to sea in a
leaky, disreputable tub that groaned
and wallowed, keeping her afoat in the
teeth of hurricane and smothering
squall solely through sheer grit and
able seamanship. There are many live
pages in Tanning New Guinea de-