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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-09-16
GRAVITY Of
SITUATION
APPARENT
Dali Eireann In Session
Hoping To Find
Solution

LONDON, Sept. Is.-The door TO
Irish peace was nearly closed today
The action OF Premier Lloyd George IN
calling OF the proposed peace confer
ence. while not ending negotiations
etwee Eauonn de Valera and him
self has brought a possible renewal OF
Irish hostflities closer than at any
other time since the peace discussion
started.
The next move Is up to the Sim
Fein. a Of Dali Eireann and
the 6inn Fem csoinet was IN confer
ence at Dublin today and belief exist
Cd in official circles that the irish
would lose no time IN replying 20 the
communication which the premier :
70 Dublin late yesterday.
Premier Lloyd George IS suffering
from a slight attack OF Illness, but his
physician believes he VIII have recov-
ered In a. day or two. He had a recur-
renee OF the chills that have bothered
him from time to time for several
years
cabinet council Will be held at
Inverness. The fact that the premier
decided thai another meeting OF the
cabinet was necessary in Scotland EN-
phasized the importance OF the latest
developments
The press. while admitting the gray
.ty OF the situation. has not lost hope
OF a solution.
TT is not necessary 70 try to en-
phastze the seriousness OF the decision
20 cancel the pea e conference" said
The London Times. There is no ques-
ton OF the sincerity OF the govern
ment's desire 20 reach an Irish set
tIernent. The government has gone
70 the utmost limit thst the country
win sanction. Wiser councils may yet
prevail in Ireland"
The Manchester Guardian argue
that De valera's federation Of his re
publican principles was necessarS
from his point Of view as leader ~
the Sinn Fem movement.
but de Valera did not ask Britain
70 accept his views continued the
Manchester Guardian. Therefore Il
was not necessary for Premier Lloyd
George TO refuse to hold the peace
conference"
CONSERVATION has spread through
South Ireland over the contents Of
Premier Lloyd Georges letter or
Thursday evening" telegTaphed tbs
Dublin correspondent OF the Daily Ex-
prese. THE public, however, refuse
20 contemplate a return TO warfare.
II ts believed Dali Eireann will at
tempt to And a solution without de-
lay"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-09-16
GARY PRICES
MAKE SHARP
REDUCTION

Following wage reductions in the
Gary steel mills ranging from 55 20
nearly IS per cent. merchants. land
lords and sven the professional men
have announced reductions in the cost
OF necessities.
Some OF the landlords have reduced
rents s. and $40 q month and in some
cases fifteen. Many tenants however
are paving the same tents though that
they did during the war. Many @
these rent hogs face unrented mats
as renters are moving IN focks and
seeking more ~relsonaule e7nes.
AS q matter Of fact landlords simply
nave to come down IN their rents as
incomes OF steel workers in the steel
city have slumped from so TO 20 per
cent in most instances. In tae
words they are not able to pay the
exorbitant pre- war prices OF living
any more.
Although clothing has dropped a
marked degree in the Broadway
stores other necessities OF life such
as edibles have not come down with
the wages. Groceries are still de-
handing exhorbitant prices. Cuts
nave been made In some grocery lines
but they are not the ones commonly
used by the housewife. Meats arc
also higher than they ought to be.
Along with the others, professional
men such as awyers and physicians
have announced cuts. Dentists OF tho
city are also considering reductions.
The latest trade TO cut prices are
the BARRIERS. Starting next Monday
shaves will come down from SIS to .,
cents. hair cuts from IS to 60 cents
and union BARRIERS vii accept a fve
per cent wage cut.
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on TIE ors AMI tile ~work.
which Is or solid walnut, has ocen r.
finished.
All Of the old furniture has oocn re-
tanned. but a number OF the piecos
Rave been re-upho1tsered. In ehc
original planting Of the suite Italian
architecture was carried cut. Suisse
quently. It seems. this was lost sight
Of by those who replaced dr&Pes and
carpets. The original idea Of the
architects hos now been restored and
the entire suite presents a dtsn.dec
-nnpcarnnce.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-09-16
GOVERNORS
QUARTERS ARE
.REMODELED
TIMES suReAu AT STATE cAPI1ALi

Hoosiers who now visit the state CAPT
tol VIII not feel abashed about the
suite Of rooms used by the chief
executive OF the state. For many
years the governors OF Indiana have
permitted the suite TO say as they
found 1t. AS a result the furniture
and decorations became very shabby.
R~emodeling of the suite has just been
completed by Governor McCray.
One of the features OF the suite is
the portraits Of former governors Of
the state which are now hung in the
office Of the executive. Facing the
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-09-16
Where the bible ia Barred.

Over 2OO.OOO,OOO Bibles, translated
into 5oS different languages, have been
distributed by the British and Foreign
Bible society. Thibet, Nepaul, Abyssi-
MIA. part Of Arabia. and Afghanistan
are still closed TO the society.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-09-16
"oid NICK Applied to III. Dovll.

"Old Nick popular sobriquet Of the
devil, is derived both from St. Nicho-
las German Nicolaus, diminutive
Nickel, often used oe the deviD and
from Nekker Cor Nfkker). Il TOGtonic
water sprite whose appearance to sell
ors foreboded death and drowning.
"Old Harry" 'Old One" and "0ld
scratch are other names similarly
used.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-09-16
AZ No Mean. Uncommon.

II Is common among the insane TO
have decisions OF persecution. And
plenty Of sane people have them
louisville Courier-Journal.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-09-16
Dream Lore.

To dream you see 8 flag Tying In
the wind denotes trouble. To carry
one yourself foretells Il change 10
your affairs, generally for the better,
To see one at half mast denotes
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because ii is in effect nothing of a
philosophy. 1t is sitting of philoso-
ply. a prohibition of inquiry. 1t de-
clares a mans happiness to be wholly
In his own hands, to be Identical with
the strength of his will, to consist In
a certain pdrti.pris of self-control,
steadfastly maintained. 1t teaches the
absolute supremacy of virtue-its su-
periority to health, riches. honor and
prosperity. Virtue consists in state
of moral satisfaction with those things
which reason tells us are In our power,
and In sublime independence of those
things which are not in our power"
Be it said for James that he recog-
rized the dangers of Stoicism, its de-
liberate perversity. its paralysis of all
those finer sensibilities that make for
progress. He recognized also. that Il
only succeeded in simplifying human
troubles by ignoring half of them"
and he attaches value to the Dis
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Max as a GreCian Urn

watch In the night, and each new
day has dawned smilingly upon the
world that gains continually some
mellowness from his gentle persistence
in living TO adorn it. in kindly villeity,
with yet another wreath of tolerant
acceptance OF it's changing ways.
For Max is now not only torch
bearer but flamen, not only pillar OF
fire but a whole burning bush. not
only an eminent contemporary but
a great tapestry of literature steadily
receding into classic perspective. nat
only among those present but a price
less heritage from a gentler, mere
handmade and less mechanistic and
Gathering past, when people did not
write by machinery. Indeed, he comes
near to being our avatar of that
Grecian urn from which life's incense
still rises. Compared with Mr.. Wells
(say) Max has not written so much;
surely we may think of him as
foster child of silence and slow Time
whose graceful outlines still serve to
display for our behoof what men or
gods? What maidens 10th?
What mad pursuit? What struggle
to escape? What pipes and timbrels?
What wild ecstasy?"
We cannot be too grateful to him
for his stout service, or yeoman or
knightly, in steadfast defence of what
we still call the English language. Tie
knows how to write 1t trippingly upon
the pen and he is not afraid some
times to grant us one of his unusual
words, or to let himself go. Yet not
so frequently since the Victorian
period has sunk fairly out of sight
does. he call upon us to dance and
be glad and trip the cockawhoop,"
and for this reason Mr.. Lane is to be
thanked for the new editions, because
the earlier books have long since been
read to tatters Cor shrined in cabinets)
and a whole new generation has come
along with their mouths open who
have-prob felt the thrill
sent down the spinal cord by (for n
stance) his indignant moaning at the
deadening influence of Walter Pater.
He saw Pater in an Oxford booksnop,
and was shocked. naturally at the way
he dressed; and touching his stvle:
mot that even in the more decadant
days of my childhood did / admire the
man as stylist. Even then i was
angry that he should treat English
as a dead language, bored by t1at
sedulous ritual wherewith he laid out
every sentence as in a shroud-hang-
ing. like widower. long over its
marmoreal beauty or ever he could
lay 1t at length in his book, its Sc
pulchre."
Such beams shine out from these
earlier pieces which are now once
more cast before the public contem-
plation at Gas must be confessed)
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courses, not for the philosophy which
he maintains is not theirs, but for
their revelation of the character of
Epictetus. intellectually he was no
genius. He was simply a
moralist: he had a genius for vir-
tue" So with great sanity, and re-
markable sagacity for one 50 young,
James suggests eclecticism:
"The good a man does the world
depends as much on the way the world
takes him as on the way he offers
himself. Let us take what
suits us, and leave what does not suit
us. There is no doubt but we shall
find much 70 our purpose; for we still
suffer and as long as we suffer we
must act part
Here we cannot refrain from re-
calling THE Portrait of a Lady"
1t is interesting to advert to some
other criticisms Of James which bear
more directly upon the work OF con-
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temporary novelists. Strangely enough
he is continually calling attention to
faulty technique. He admonishes
them TO work less hastily-to write.
scratch out and rewrite; to let their
puppets speak for themselves. and,
above all. to hold fast to their idea. II
they have one. With few exceptions
his youthful judgments have well
withstood the test of time. One OF
these exceptions is Anthony Trollope.
James is singularly harsh In his esti-
mate of Trollope. although, as Nj. la
Rose mentions, he ultimately modified
this judgment. Another possible ex-
ception is Charles Reade. whom James
regards "as the most readable of liv-
ing English novelists."
George Eliots novels have none OF
the inspiration. the heat nor the es-
sent,al simplicity Of masterpieces.
James would classify them with the
Austen, admitting. nevertheless, tina.
George Eliot "is stronger In degree
than either of these writer's" He
prefers her "low-life to her high-life."
And. Maggie Tulliver excepted her
men and women reveal little genuine
passion" All this apropos of Felix
Holt" which. "as a story is singularly
inartistic." but displays much power.
much brilliancy and much discretion"
Mrs. Gaskell's genius Is little else
than a peculiar play OF her personal
character" wives and Daughters"
Is the best" of her tales. apart from
Crawford" which James believed was
destined to become a classic"
Dumas's "Affaire ClemenceG.
though depressing and suggestive Of
cynicism. is so severely executed"
that its writing is reading for men,"
James regrets the fact that Les
Travailleurs de la Mer" was written
exclusively from the head" because
he has an enormous respect for NJ.
Victor Hugo's heart" And he would
seem to be exceedingly annoyed with
Miss Prescott, the author OF "Aza-
rian," not only because she is verbose,
possessing, like the majority of fc-
male wpters. the fatal gift of fiuency,"
but because she is forever fusslng
with the externals of her characters:
1T is an injustice to men and wom-
en- to assume that the fieshly element
carries such weight. In the history
Of loving and breaking heart, is that
the only thing worth noticing7 Are
the external signs and accidents OF
passion the only points to be detailed?
What we want is Passions self-her
language. her ringing voice. her gait,
the presentment OF her deeds. What
do we care about the beauty OF man
or woman in comparison with their
humanity7'
No form OF writing portrays the
character Of an author better than
criticism. Henry James apprehended
this in the case OF that relentless
critic Epictetus as do we In the case
Of James the reviewer. He says Of
Mile. dc Guerin's quiet reaction to
Paris. "She had changed her sky but
she did not change her mind" In the
light Of these Notes and Reviews
let the faithful reader Judge to what
extent changed skies ever changed
Jamess mind
MILDRED BLUMENTHAL.
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American Verse Since 1880
MODERN AMERICAN POETRY. By
Louis Untermeyer Harcourt, Brace

MODERN AMERICAN POETRY BY
Louis Untermeyer. Harcourt, Brace
& Co.
- VERY once in a while appears
some new volume to proclaim
that the poetic renascence in
America is no merely accidental or
fugitive phenomenon. but a genuine
literary reforescence in which are
many Of the hues of permanence. II
the works OF the poets themselves
were not sufficient testimony to this
fact, the critical volumes and antholo-
gies would be; and unmistakable evi-
dence of the poetic rebirth might be
found in the essays of writer's such
as Marguerite Wilkinson. John Liv-
ingston Loves. Amy Lowell and Louis
Untermeyer.
Among these, not the least notable
is Mr.. Untermeyer. In his New Era
in American Poetry" he has traced the
principal poetic currents OF the times;
In Modern American Poetry" OF
which revised and enlarged edition
has just been issued. ne supplements
his previous work by selection OF al
most three hundred poems from ninety
eight contemporary or near-contem-
porary authors. Arbitrarily placing
the boundary line so as to include only
poets born in 1880 or thereafter. Mr..
Untermeyer commences with Emily
Dickinson and proceeds from her
through such conventional versifiers
as Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Sidney
Lanier and Edwin Markham down to
the Imagists and the ultra-modernists
as represented by Alfred Kreymbors.
Maxwell Bodenheim and Ezra Pound
Each author Is introduced by a brief
biographical sketch and by a critical
preface in which his work is sue
cinctly characterized; and the book is
lent unity and point by an essay on
the influences in operation In Amcri-
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rHE WORKS or MAX BEERRoHM

THE WORKS OF MAX BEERBOHM.
With photography by John Lane.
John Lane Company.
MORE. BY Max Beerbohm. John Lane
Company.
T TERE are two finely printed lit
n tie volumes of uniform make
= up, reprints of those twin
masterpieces of youthful genius dog
gedly determined to wonder at moth
ing and take the consequences-"Th
Works of Max Beerbohm' and More"
by the same gifted arranger of flowers
of language in becoming nosegays.
Now. this is a considerable incident in
the publishing business.
Inexorable, irrevocable Time has
flown since 1S95-1S99, when those
titles first irradiated Vigo street with
their soft illumination quite as actu-
ally, even if with much show of arti-
flee, as Mr.. Pickwick's benignant face
irradiated Goswell street when he
threw up his window sash at Mrs.
Bardell's and gazed out upon a well
coming (if unconscious) world SO long
before. Even then, on the brink Of
this so-called twentieth century" Gas
the curate said), that same world
looked indescribably old and fin
ished to Max, the punctilious torch
bearer, whose sensitive spirit was
wrung with the inaudible rustic of
every falling leaf; even then he
felt the evanescence of all things
registered, minute by minute, in
his own blood and bones. What
ineffable pathos sounded through the
calm, brave sentences of "Diminu-
endo"-words of Socratic tranquility:
Once l wrote a little. But
the stress of creation soon over
whelmed me. Only Art with a capi-
tai III gives any consultations to her
henchmen. And !, who crave no
knighthood, shall write no more. AL
moded. l belong to the Beardsley pc
riod. Younger men. with months Of
activity before them, with fresher
schemes and notions, with newer en-
thusiasm. have pressed forward since
then. Cedo junioribus. Indeed / stand
aside with no regret. For to be out
moded Is to be a classic, if one has
written well. :"
1t is worth noting that these words
of parting were dated at Chicago. fit
arena for the nunc dimittis. in 1895,
of this quiet soul. 1t is well, indeed,
that we cannot look forward over the
way our feet are to go. Figure the
emotions which would have convulsed
that reed shaken in the lake winds
IL he could have foreseen the day when
his publisher should issue a Jubilee
Edition of The Works of Max Beer
bohm. And yet the twenty-five years
which have rolled over his polished
head surely have passed for him like
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can poetry since the appearance of
Whitman's Leaves of Grass"
II any criticism is to be launched
against the volume as n whole IL must
be on the ground that il assumes a
distinctly partisan attitude and places
undue emphasis on the works Of
writer's of the GERS Hbre school. II is
Mr.. Untermeyer's contention that
American poetry has been undergoing
a gradual evolution which finds Its most
complete fruition In the works of the
Imagists; and because the Imagistio
work represents the elimination of the
tendencies of several decades he seems
10 assume that 1t is the highest de-
velopment in present day poetry.
II Is to be expected that in choosing
from so extensive a field he should
have omitted some writer's of genuine
merit: and one notes with regret that
the names OF Hermann Hagedorn, Jes-
sic Rittenhouse and Gale Young Rice
arc not even mentioned. 1t is to be
expected. likewise, that some of the
critics comments upon the authors
should impress one as mistaken: and
while Mr.. Untermeyer's remarks are
usually acute and discriminating. they
occasionally fail through being too
brief and too comprehensive, as when
he at one stroke condemns the poetry
OF George Sterling as "namboyant and
rhetorical" and thereby stigmatizes
many simple and smooth flowing lyrics,
and that majestic. original and i'm
aginative, IL too prolix, poem. The
Testimony OF the Suns"
But while one may disagree as to
the details. one must admit that on
the whole Mr.. Untermeyer's anthology
is n notable one. He has gathered to-
gether many excellent poems from
widely diverse sources: he has made
his volume vast In range and generally
high in standard: he has included all
variety of verse from love sonnets to
s-.irical jingles; and If occasionally
he seems to have selected a poem too
cheap In tone or to have favored
writer's of particular school there
is no denying that the collection as a
whole il representative of the best in
present day American poetry.
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NS POETS, SATIRISTS AND LITERARY CRITICS

risky time. But regret for probable
thickheadedness of individuals should
not stife the joy that these youthful
intimations of authority are once more
to be made accessible TO the undeserv-
ing poor How gentle is his manner
how stern his moral in self-judgment!
In his memories of school days he re-
marks: Not that / had any special
reason for hating school. Strange as
it may seem to my readers. | was not
unpopular there. was a modest, good
humored boy. 1t is Oxford that has
made me insufferable."
The name OF oxford calls out all the
glory of counterpoint in the score of
Max Beerbohm. By Himself
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Max Beerbohm. BY Himself

this great artist in word orchestration,
who is also almost the only living lit
erary heir of Pope. No matter how
large an 0rder this may seem. you will
find, / think, that Max has the goods
in stock With all reverent homage
to Emmanuel Burden, Zuleika Dob
son is no less incarnate Buddh.
AS they used to say of Pope and
Dryden: IF one flies higher. the other
continues longer on the wing" The
artistic delicacy of Mr. Belloc's etch-
ing does not slant at the colored
crayons in Max Beerbohm's gorgeous
cartoon. And as we turn through
these earlier pages we understand how
Zuleika became possible. Portents of
mastery glitter all through them. What
prescience in the Defence of Co.'S
metics" And in his study of the
abysm of 1850 what indulgence could
be nobler than his sigh: There is al
ways something rather absurd about
the past,"
WINFIELD SCOTT MOODY.
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SECOND APRIL. BY Edna ST. Vincent
Millay. Mitchell Kennerly.
w HAT more can be said of Edna
w St. Vincent Millay than that
she's feminine? This. perhaps,
and perhaps superfuously: She is lyri-
cal. she is emotional. she is young.
Oh young, above all things-young
In impetuosity. in fiuctuation. in be-
ing able TO get excited
oh, laughed. / cried, to see
All my heart became a tear.
All my soul became a tower.
Never loved / anything
As loved that tall blue flower.
She is a little girl sometimes afraid:
had forgotten how the frogs must
sound
After year Of silence, else think
I should not have ventured forth alone
At dusk on this unfrequented road.
And the woman, she is weary:
All my life,
Following Care along the dusty road.
Have I looked back at loveliness and
sighed:
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that the momentum of his name would
keep his works forever rolling abreast
Of the centuries. But before sin
| gle century had passed he had begun
TO live rather in the stiffness than in
the strength of his eminence; and an
other century saw him laid carefully
away among the heroes"
We of the twentieth century are
perhaps far removed from the Amos
phere in which Dryden wrote, yet
much of him has a strangely modern
ring for we too live in an era that is
more critical than romantic, more
national than ecstatic; and In the
satires and ratiocinative verse of Dry
den will be found much sthat echoes
the spirit of our own day. He did not
wait for inspiration: he deliberately
went in search of ii, and much of his
best work Is on purely casual themes,
topics of the moment that called forth
from within him resources of thought
that went deeper than the subject de-
manded, and hence invested his occa-
sional pieces with the stuff of perma-
nence. II was a failing of the age to
expect that everything, whether inn
portant or not, should be said i'm
portantly": and consequently much of
Dryden's verse is so ill adapted to It's
purpose as to give the impression Of
great viaduct suspended over two
foot creek.
Yet when the subject really demand
ed eloquence Dryden responded mas
terfully. In fact, "he carried elo-
i h texh pa In
etry"; he "has no equal in prayers.
objurgations, polite addresses and
4 speeches of defiance: he wears the
robes that he has borrowed from the
orator with a splendid assurance; his
accents, though they too are borrowed.
ring true
Perhaps more than any other writer
before or since he has proved the va
riety of uses to which poetry is ca
! pable of being applied he has ex-
tended il into fields into which others
would not dare to venture, and in the
realm of rational or argumentative
poetry he occupies a unique and un-
approached position. Even to the poet
of the present Dryden should stand as
testimony that verse need not be con-
fined strictly to lyric or narrative
forms, but that it may be employed
as a wide ranging instrument for the
transmission of thought.
The lyrics have shown the strongest
tendency. to endure, and certain Of
them. such as the famous Alexander >
Feast" and the odes for st. Cecilia's
Day, have attained a secure place
among the English classics. However
Prof. Van Doren expresses doubts as
to whether some of the satires. such as
"Absalom and Achitophel." are not
better poetry: and II appears certain
that the fullest expression of Dry
denis genius is to be found In his sa-
tirical and reflective verse.
STANTON A. COBLENTZ.