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Cleveland County herald., 1921-06-16
CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN OF 1922 UNDER WAY AT
 WASHINGTON
By L. c. Martin

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Washington, June 14-Sharp pol itical lightings, presaging the storm of the congressional elections of 19- 22, are forking the sky hereabouts, and the issues of that campaign are beginning to loom up like thunder clouds.
 For despit the fact that the repub- lican administration has been only little over three months in power, de- mocratic party leaders are already active. They count each day of the G. o. P. administration day in net campaign, and are proceeding as though the elections were only a short way off.
 The issues which have already taken definite shape, in the demo- cratic mind, at least, are these:
 1-Governmental expenditures and the tax burden.
 2-The tariff.
 3-The World peace.
 The democrats are proceeding on the theory, their leaders in congress knowledge that the republican ad- ministerstration will accentuate issues day by day and month by month untl they will furnish all the material needed for a first class democratic campaign, as exemplifi- fight for control of Congress. The ed in the tactics of leading demo- crats in Congress, is to call public at- tention day by day to failures, real apparent, of the republicans to live up to campaign pledges of economy, reduction of living costs through slashing of federal spending, aids to business trough speedy tariff railroads and kindred domestic ques- tions.
 They have already begun to call attention to what they name the de- lay of the Harding administration in working out an international ar engagement to insure peace, as a substitute for the Wilson League of Nations. Senator Underwood, democratic leader of the Senate, did that in speech on the pending Navy Bill.
 "You said when you rejected the Versailles Treaty that you favored some international understanding, said Underwood to the Republicans. You have been in power three months, and what have you done?"
 It is by that sort of thing the de- mocrats hope to get the country to watching for every mistake. Error of commission or on commission and every delay of the G. o P. By the time the campaign actually begins, they hope to have the voters in state of indignation. Republicans in and out of Congress are aware of this. They are urging leaders to fol- low Hardings tip and cut Govern ment expenditures until it hurts Hurting a few officeholders to the benefit of the great army of voters back home would be not only wise economics, but extremely wise pol tiles, these somewhat worried repub- licans argue.
Cleveland County herald., 1921-06-16
SIMS IN BIG HURRY
Rushed off and Forgot His Steam
 ship Tickets

London, June 15,-Admiral Sims was in such rush to get back to the United States in response to Secre- tary Denby's order calling him home, that he rushed off and forgot his steamship tickets.
 He was given an enthusiastic farewell there by several hundred British and American admirers.
Cleveland County herald., 1921-06-16
cHANCERY COURT MONDAY

At the adjourned term of Chan cery Court held here Monday Judge Elliott was unable to come and Wood son was chosen special Chancellor to preside over the court.
 No cases were tried at this term of court and the court adjourned Monday after until July 18th.
Cleveland County herald., 1921-06-16

James Abraham of Philadelphia was elected Superintendent of the Rison Schools at a meeting of the Board of Directors Monday after noon. His election which was unan- imous followed a conference with the Board
 Mir. Abraham, well known over the state as Jim is a graduate of Ouachita College. He was shining light in State Collegiate Athletics circles, being an all state man and a star on the Ouachita football and base ball teams during his entire col lege career. Last year he was mem Der of the faculty and athletic in- structor at Dermott. He is also a graduate in music.
 The school Board is to be congrat ulated on securing the services of MT. Abraham, for his selection not only insures a good strong school but strong school athletics as we'll.
Cleveland County herald., 1921-06-16
WILL REPRESENT LEAGUE

Miss Agnes Robertson and Bouie Reid were selected Sunday evening by the Senior Epworth League of the Methodist church to represent the League at the Summer Assembly. The Assembly will convene at Hen derson-Brown College, Philadelphia, June 20th and continue four days.
Cleveland County herald., 1921-06-16

V. B. Gresham returned Monday from visit with relatives in Tex as while drilling operations were suspended on the Gladys-Bel well.
Cleveland County herald., 1921-06-16

Hair dressing is serious matter. Every once in while somebody gets $500 damages for a broken leg or cutoff foot or something of that sort. But the other day New York woman, Agnes Gilson, was awarded $2,000 damages in suit against a hair dresser because he burned her scalp while he was waving her hair.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-20
A Fighting Romance

THE SPOILERS OF THE VALLEY BY
Robert Watson. George II. Doran Co,
New York. $3.50
DHIL RALSTON escapes from prison
in British Columbia. The beautiful
Eileen Pederstone, daughter of the
village blacksmith, hides Phil in the
woodbox at her home and assists in
his getaway. But the evil Mayor
Brenchfeld betrays Phil who goes
back to prison, only to find that his
time is out, anyway, and he is free.
Evidently they do not penalize pris-
oners for jail breaks in British Co
lumbia.
Then Phil takes hold of matters in a
way that makes the reader suspect that
he is going to win fortune and Eileen
Pederstone in the last chapter.
The book is supposed to be romance
but one feels that there is touch of
grim realism in the literary confes-
sions of Phil's partner, who says he
wrote fifty dime novels in days gone
by. only to have them rejected. But
now, he says, publishing firm has ac-
cepted six of them. "They say these
six, with little toning up in language
little toning down in cold-blooded
murder and explanatory remarks, would
make ideal, cloth-bound books fol
boys, for Sunday school prizes and
junior libraries"
New-York tribune., 1921-11-20
Pageant Of Great City
In -Four Decades of Growth
lanes L. Ford in His Recolleetions Of Press
Stage and People Writes
Book of Value

ana even to-day finds its hillboaras IN
al sections of the union. Then come
the greater and lesser lights of the
stage, nterspersed with the candles
and stronger CLEANS of men who were
making distinctive American Iitera-
ture.
New York'g hyways and quaint re-
sorts find descriptive paragraphs in
"Forty-Odd Years in the Literary
SHOP Ford was an omniverous as
simliator of odd and alluring bits of
experience. The vocabulary of the un-
derworld owes him at least two def
nisions added to it's lexicon. We quote /:
1T was the atmosphere OF the joint and
the conversation of the frequenters
that fascinated me, and let it be re-
membered that they enriched our Ian
guage with two bits of slang. The
pipes were made of joints of bamboo.
hence the word joint now applicable
TO all sorts of places; and dope which,
with its derivatives, is now used in
common parlance, had its origin in the
following fashion" He then proceeds
to inform us that the "daub stick
used in lubricating axles, employed by
men on prairie schooners in transit
across the continent, became corrupt
ed into DOPE" as the opium paste
looked exactly like the axle grease.
Fell Street was not slow in adopting
the word.
A booklet on the history of New York
journalism could be compiled from
Ford's passages on the great names of
the city's newspapers of the latter
years of the past century. Pulitzer,
ever eager and willing to incorporate
new and striking ideas; Dana, "pos-
sessed of vigorous mind, great politi-
cal knowledge and q noble capacity for
hating, easily the leading figure in his
profession"; Bennett, with his motto,
keep the people guessing; ;.are passed
before US in brief, sententious charac-
terizations. Ford was at, the hub of
metropolitan journalism for years, and
his views, while assuredly personal,
are genuine additions to an important
department of New York history, now
beginning to receive it's just recogni-
ton as vital as a clearing house of
closeup information for decades to ar
rive and go their way in the welter of
years.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-20
British Close-Ups
Sketches of Prominent
Political Figures

sidebot ham Published by Houghton. tor
Mifflin Company So.
Nv HAT with Mirrors of Washing
wv ton, and Mirrors of Downing
Street, and Washington Close
ups, and Mrs. Asquith's Diary, this has
been an open season for cunning after
the regulations of men who are prom
inent in public life. And now we have
Mr.. Sidebothams "Political Profiles. y
another series of pen sketches of out
standing British political figures.
One marked feature of Mr.. Sideboth
ans work is it's good humor, which at
times almost verges on complacency
He will not hear of mean motives being
imputed to public men, whether he
agrees with their political convictions
or not He always proceeds on the as
sumption that 1--WE are all decent peo-
pie, honestly desirous of doing the best
for our country"
But, although the book lacks the
caustic sting impaired by malice, it is
not by any means heavy or uninterest-
ing. Some of the sketchss are master
pieces of psychological appreciation
and witty comment; and all leave Q
definite impression of the subject.
The author is at his best in discuss.
ing Lord Grey, Lord Curzon and Mr.
Lloyd George. Lord Grey is shown as
the type of British statesman in whom
straightforward honesty HAS become q
genius; the majestic vice-regal figure
of Lord Curzon is adequately por-
trayed; and Mr.. Lloyd George, a some.
what threadbare subject, takes on new
life under the authors skillful han
ding. Mr.. Sidebotham points out that
the fires of<the Premier's early radical
ism were banked long before the war.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-20
ork and London in Mirrors of the Past and Future

pathies. For jacob Abbott was q man
own comprehensive interests and SYM
OF extraordinary range of vision and Of
action. A theologian, a professor Of
mathematics and natural philosophy,
an educator of girls and juvenile
psychologist, historian, writer Of
childreu's tales, he touched life at
many points, and as was said of more
famous writer but immeasurably lesser
man, he touched nothing that he did
not adorn. 1t may be, as DR.. Abbott
tells US, that his Little Rollo" was not
intended as picture or suggestion
Of any one Of his four sons. To q
larger extent that is often realized; he
is picture of the American boy in
an estate which we might desira Cor
all, and the "Franconia Stor:es,' are
veritable sagas of American childhood.
On almost every page of this book we
can trace some of the authors inherit
ance from his gifted father and per-
ceive the explanation of his ability so
we'll to portray and TO interpret his
varied subjects. Marshal Catinat may
have been right in saying that no man
is hero to his valet-de-chambre; but
that is because the valet is incapable
of recognizing or appreciating heroism.
None but a man Of greatness Of mind
and heart and soul could so have ap-
preciated these other great ones as to
write of them as DR.. Abbott has done
in this singularly luminous and illu-
mnating volume.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-20
The Planning and Governing
OF Great Modem Metropolis
The London of the Future Considered by
Experts With Pertinent Lessoz.s
for Other Large Cities

ting of broad new highways through
the heart of London. We have in New
York many of the finest buildings in
the world, but they are often placed
without the slightest regard to gen.
eral harmony Of design, so that the
result is often either ineffective or
actually offensive, where, with pre-
c;sely the same material rightly ar
ranged, it should be splendidly impress
sive.
The intelligent and ordered interest
which London takes in the transforma-
tion of hotch-pot medieval congo
ries into an enlightened twentieth CEN
tury metropolis is strikingly evinced
in the stately and sumptuous quarto
before rs. 1t is great thing to have
a London Society devoted to the
practical promotion of that interest,
comprising such authorities as the writ
ers of the monographs which fill this
volume. 1t means something to have
Sir William Richmond now deceased
discuss the abatement of the smoke
plague; and Lord Davenport the de-
velopment and management of the port
facilities; and Sir Arthur Fell the
Channel tunnel scheme; and Lord
Montagu of Beaulieu the problems
of commercial aviation; and Colonel
Heliard the street traffic; and the
Bishop Of Chester the redemption OF
the East End; and other comparable
authorities the problems of street
planning and housing and parks and
open spaces, and what not else.
Some of these problems are peculiar
to London, or at any rate are unknown
here. But many Of the most important are
substantially the same in New York
/ and other American cities as in Lon
don, and at least as urgent here as
there. Doubtless we have here men
just as competent to deal with tn prob
lens as any in England, and just as
much devoted at heart TO the civic
welfare. We wish that we might add
that they are also just as energetic
and efficient and are accomplishing
just as much fer the improvement of
the city. Perhaps some day we may
De able TO say so, truly. There is room
for hope that the impre essive display OF
civic spirit and intelligence which is
made in this volume will have some
effect in arousing Americans to emu
late the work of the London society.
Even those chapters which have no di-
rect application to conditions in any
American city are still of immense
value as an inspiration and a stimulus
to American municipal administrators
and citizens generally-to take hold
in similar spirit Of the problems which
confront them and which increasingly
clamor for solution. New York and
London are now neck and neck in popu-
lation, with New York perhaps slightly
leading and destined still more TO lead.
That is and will be gratifying. It
would be more gratifying to be as
sured of the realization Of such fu-
ture for New York as is envisaged in
this mastery prospectus of the London
OF the future.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-20
PENCIL sketch of MaG Beerboh from. "Taoemtaor Por-
trolts, By William Rothemstei (Horcoat Brace co.,
DR.. Lyman Abbott Gives Graphic
Pen Pictures of His Friends
Interesting Men and Women of Present Dav
Intimately and Entertainingly Discussed
in "reminiscences of a Half Century
By Willis Fletcher Johnson

SILHOUETTES OF MY CONTEMPO-
RARIES. BY Lyman Abbott Published
by Doubleday, Page &. Co. Price So.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-20
BY Samuel Abbott

ronTS,ocrnr rr i.sass rnra g q IL Pana,s
MT. p. putton S Co. SIS.
sr-s He present year as not likely
to close with any book on the
journalistic and dramatic life
- Of New York during the last
s.Is century, mere interesting and val
ssb,e than James L. Ford's "Fcrty-Odd
Years in a Literary Shop The author
,.rsea All apprenticeship of years of
.satiauous work as reporter, dramatic
aatie literary critic, press agent and
.2tor. Where other men would have
ailed to catch and net for present and
,.te. consideration the essential hu-
u.nity Of the many and varying per-
sonalities that swarme9 by him in the
,ds Of years he gathered to his
rsmory the fact of these men and
xomen, always with a kindly motive.
nj. ever with keen, searching in
sight into their foibles, their graces
sud their relations to the development
j: the arts they represented at times
npided.
This book, an absolutely natural re-
suit Of the authors sympathy with the
people and the events he pictures, is
. document OF permanent historical
value. 1t opens with glimpse of the
New York of the Civil War days.
fards swift sketehing of phases of
;Ae period is stamped with the au-
shentic touch Of the recorder blessed
With the ardor of the true historian
who merges himself in stream of
sontemporary life, and later is able to
reproduce faithfully it's high lights
sad shadows. His memory is infallibIe
in Its reference to events and places.
We sense the backgrounds of Edith
Tharton's "The Age of Innocence"
when Ford speaks of the young men
sho made New Years calls, beginning
he days work ''at the Battery and
hs south side Of Bowling Green and
ending 1t not far from Thirty fourth
Street Those were days, we'll over
sarty years ago, when the Wall Street
Ferry from Brooklyn carried the most
aristocratic families" for the boats
drained the Heights, where dwelt the
Lows, the Lymahs and other high-up
people. The Academy OF Music. the
Park Theater and Hooley's Minstrels
we're then the only places of amuse-
nent, the salient ones that stick in
Ferd's memory.
But the charm and chief value of
iAls book are to be found wholly in
It's rich kaleidoscope of many figures
aasbing in and out 81 the narrative,
ZACH finely defined and revealing moods
md ephemeral fancies Of days long
gone. Barnunl gets into the early
stride Of the record, to be followed by
ether amusement managers. of the day,
and we find fresh and revelatory pre-
ssntations Of their fascinating and
creative selves; for they were pioneers
il business that became countrywide,
New-York tribune., 1921-11-20
A Misogynist

BEN THORPE BY Arthur Crsbb Pub.
Ashed by the Century Company. 50.
A RTHUR CRABB, who has hitherto
been known as a writer of mys-
terry stories, here turns his hand to
.ho-analytical fiction. Ben Thorpe
iS misogynist, man whose hatred
of women has it's roots deep in his sub
conscious self. His struggle against
this hidden emotion when he falls in
love and his final adjustment consti-
tute the theme of story that is alb
sorbing in its power and fnesse.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-20

none the less so is that of Alice Free
man Palmer and John G. Whittier
So with John B. Cough and Daniel
Bliss and Rutherford B. Hayes; COM
mon humanity makes them all con-
genial company in the authors and in
the readers mind.
We have said that Dr. Abbott is
equally felicitous in his treatment of
all his varied subjects. If, however,
we were TO single out one chapter of
his book, not SO much for special
admiration as for special gratitude, it
would be the last, relating to the au-
thor's own father, Jacob Abbott. For
there is need that the present genera
tion should be reminded of this OK
traordinary man and his works. Men
tion of the "Rollo Books" may provoke
smile; yet the frequency with which
thsy are referred to and adapted in
parody attests the remarkable impress
sion which they made upon both juve-
nile and, consequently, mature minds.
AS for the other stories, we must in
deed pity children who grow up with
out the acquaintance of Beechnut and
Phonny and all the rest of the "Blue
Book" company. We must doubt if
more vivid, enduring and on the whole
accurate knowledge of great men and
events is obtained by the school pupils
Of to-day than that which was gained
by the delighted and absorbed readers
in his "Red Histories" Nor in the
domain of moral and didactic litera-
ture for the young are we prepared to
concede that the new output of to-day
surpasses in sincere and sane phil
osophy and effective exhortation the
once-famous trilogy of the young
Christian Series"
1t is in this account of his father
that DR.. Abbott most reveals himself,
or at least reveals the secret of his
New-York tribune., 1921-11-20
England in 1870
Franco-Prussian War Seen
Through British Eyes

BRITISH POLICY AND OPINION DUR
ING THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR.
BY Dora Neill Raymond. Published by
Coirlrbia IyDtyersity
New-York tribune., 1921-11-20
"A New World Force
Problems of Universe to
Be Solved by Science
THE sEcRnT POWER by Marie corelll.
Subaiahed. by Doubleday, Page & Co

N ARIE CoRELLI essays the role
lVl of prophet in her latest novel,
"The Secret Power" 1t is q
thrliling tale of the possibilities of
science for good and evil, for destruc-
ton OF the whole world or it's develop-
ment to point where men and women
are as gods. And the choice, she inti-
mates clearly, will very shortly be
upon us.
Morgana Royal is strange woman,
Possessing a tremendous power of at
traction fer men over and above the
lure of her millions, but herself feeling
nothing of the thing men call love, To
Don Aloysius she confesses two of the
rare moments of happiness that had
come into her life. The first was when
she first saw the ''inside of sun raw
and the second was when her dour
Scotch father took her to call on a
witchlike old woman in the High
lands, where she had been born. 1t
was this witch who called her "fey'
and commanded John Royal to leave
her his millions unfettered that She
might work out the Secret power"
which was her heritage from the "fey"
people.
The third moment of happiness came
when, disregardings the old woman's
hot
a fey woman, she met the scientist,
who, like herself, had discovered the
secret power, but who was bent on his
own ends and would have none of her
and her vulgar wealth.
While Morgana in Italy used the
secret power to run an airship of her
own design that was to carry her to
an undiscovered country, Roger Seaton
spent his time in a mountain hut in
California meditating what to do with
the'bowl of sparkling fluid, which could
give life that could not cease and
force that could not die," or, used an
other way, could sweep the planet
clean of its greedy contentious human
microbes and found new race"
Despite his scorn for "world that
is overripe and over rotten, over
crowded with fostering humanity
that is inhuman," Seaton dedicates his
discovery to the prevention of wars.
1t is here that the author falls down
IN her attempt to contrast the aims of
Seaton aid Morgana. Seaton's motive
is humane, even though his intent is
to annihilate the nation which per
sisted in declaring war Morgana's
motive was humane, but while her in
tent may also have been to advance
the race, she sails out of its problems
to join the men and women of~the
new race, the people of the Brazen
City, where she would have lasting
life, lasting beauty and lasting love-
not even leaving the secret for the rest
of humanity to use or misuse.
Aside from this little inconsistency,
the story carries the interest of the
reader with it to the last page, and
leaves him there to speculate on the
possibility of similar escape. The
plot is secondary to the theme, but does
we'll enough as framework, leaving
every one save the unfortunate Seaton
to the prospect of as much happiness
as any one of us may expect to see
outside the Brazen City. y G. P.