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The New York herald., 1921-11-27

at anchor near Berehaven, Ireland
These are things that cannot be told
until after the war has graduated to
the past tense.
Any one who has sat in a steamer
chair and watched the mildly interest
ing antics of guarding destroyer, or
who has huddled by the rail clutching
a life preserver and cheered the little
devils of the sea as they scooted
through the waves dropping depth
bombs on an enemy periscope, any one
who has passed through the danger
zone under protection of the tiny craft
cannot fail to have keen curiosity
about what takes place on the deck of
a destroyer.
Willis j. Abbot gets on the deck of
destroyer and tells what happens
under fire. In places he improves on
this method of narration. He hops
about the fleet and tells what happens
on each bridge and in each engine
room. When he has finished you have
an intelligent conception of what really
took place.
Yet he does it all so briefly and con-
cisely that you never feel that he is
tossing heroics at your teeth. He con-
suits the official records when neces-
sary and when they aren't too labo-
rious. He even quotes n correspondent
when the clipping can add to the main
picture.
In reciting so many events of mag
nified importance the historian does
not forget that 1t is the little things
that count, even in the second greatest
navy in the world. Describing the
sinking of the Alcedo. he breaks in to
quote from Commander w. T. Conn a
story that never found its way into the
Washington records.
II had a boy with me-" said Com
mander Conn, "a yeoman, one of the
Naval Reserves. One day told him
that If we were ever torpedoed 1t would
be his duty to save the muster roll, so
that when all the survivors had re-
ported we could check up and find out
who had been lost
Sure enough, the torpedo came, and
in the very dead of night. The ship
floated just four minutes. Hours after
l encountered my young yeoman in a
boat while we were waiting to be
picked up. He was soaked through, for
he had gone overheard when the ship
sunk and clung to broken buoy, hold
ing UP with one hand hospital stew
The New York herald., 1921-11-27
Soundings
In the Sea of Ink
Business and Poetry.
r ONE folks think that booksellers
care for nothing but best sell

n ONE folks think tnat DoOkSeiierS
care for nothing but best sell
ers. Some folks are often wrong.
John Erskine came down from Morn
ingside Heights the other evening
and talked to the Booksellers League
half an hour on John Milton, and
when he sat down you might have
thought, if you had just entered the
door, that he had announced reduc-
ton in the tax rate.
Milton a back number? Not this
wear, with Columbia University max.
ing the first really complete and au.
thoritative edition of him that has
been done. Think of that! England's
second poet, and after three centuries
no satisfactory text of his entire
work. Professor Erskine will tell
the readers of this section before long
some of the things he told the book
sellers. The point to be made here is
that business men are not immune to
poetry if it is rightly presented.
Poetry needs good salesmanship as
well as automobiles.
The New York herald., 1921-11-27
Integrity of China Is Real Though Invisible

CHINA, JAPAN AND THE U. S. A.
By John Dewey: No. l of the New
Republic Pamphlets. Republic Pub
fishing Company; New York.
r F the flood of information on the
Far East which the Washington
conference has let loose upon
the world does not completely glut all
interest in it, the greatest danger this
side of actual war will have been
averted. For the greatest curse that
was set upon the world was not in the
destruction of the Tower of Babel
itself, but in the confusion of tongues
that followed. Two years ago a West
ern newspaper editor told me that
though he was in constant touch with
some five hundred Of the biggest news
papers in the country, he couldn't get
any of them to take much interest, If
any, in Far Eastern affairs. To-day
every pen, typewriter and ticker is
doing a tat-a-ta tat-tat to the tune of the
Mikado and Chu-Chin-C Chow.
In all this blazing print on Pacific
and Far Eastern problems there are
but dozen names of men who have
any real first hand knowledge of what
is toward and whose judgment is clear,
conscientious and adequate. OF these
none stands above that of Prof. John
Dewey. It was amazing to us in the
Far East how quickly Mr.. Dewey
grasped the fundamentals of the sit
uation after his arrival in Japan. In
spite of some of the light observations
The New York herald., 1921-11-27

in his book of published letters, his
trained academic mind turned upon
Mysterious Japan" (oh! that myster-
ious Japan which is still giving scribes
a chance to write without knowing a
thing about IT'D and 10, the mystery
seemed to vanish. He went to China,
and instantly we began hearing things
from China that were so obviously
free from propagandist taint that it
was what bathing in the Ganghis is to
a Hindu. There is always something
fresh and young about Prof. Dewey
of the campus rather than the closet
His constant sympathy with Young
China is a repercussion stimulus to
Young Everywhere.
This does not mean that everything
Mr.. Dewey says is so to the last par
ticle. For instance, in the pamphlet
at hand, contrasting the Chinese char
acteristics with those of Japanese, he
says: ITO put it mildly, the Japanese
are not a loquacious people: they have
the gift of doing rather than of gab,"
and further on, Things which are
spoken of only under the breath in
Japan are shouted from the housetops
in China" Unimportant as this point
may be, it seems to me that to con
tinually rereat the myth of Japanese
secretiveness is to establish the bogey
Prof. Dewey says Immediately after
ward that 1T would hardly be good
taste in Japan to allude to the report
that influential Chinese ministers are
in constant receipt of Japanese funds.
- The implication is that Japa-
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nese never air their scandals. The
fact is that the extreme talkativeness
of the Japanese male, his delight in
financial and other scandals, takes
such form as would result in a tangle
of libel suits in America.
This does not imply that there is
any serious flaw in Prof Dewey's
analysis of Chinese and Japanese af-
fairs. Quite the contrary. This PAM
phlet is reprint of articles which ap-
peared in the Ne1o RepupbHc from
time to time during the last two years.
They are fresh from the scene of ac-
ton, but have been revised in that
perspective which comes to all with
startling suddenness after return from
the Far East. And the very discon-
nectedness of their origin gives this
collection an element of unity which
is better than any academic plan un-
der which most pamphlets and books
are generally written. 1t is a small
pamphlet. but it will go far toward
clarifying the worlds mind as to what
is and is not taking place in China.
We emerge from reading it with a
consciousness of a Chinese integrity
that, am afraid. is not the integrity"
of the bankers. politicians and i'm
perialists. There is no indication that
China is going to throw itself into the
arms of Japan, failing to free herself
from European aggression. Rather
are we left With the impression that
integrity is the soul of nation, not
it's broken shackles.
SYDNEY GREENBIE.
The New York herald., 1921-11-27
Report of Talks With His Host and Aide
At Amerongen and Later at Doom
THE EX-KA1SER IN EXILE. BY Lady
Norah Bentinck. George H. Doran.

IftE 1l<\-hAlSEIs In EAlLE. by Lduy
Norah Bentinck. George H. Doran.
r ADY NORAH is related to Count
GODDARD Bentinck, at whose
castle William Hohenzollern
was received when he became an ex-
ile She has since heard most of those
who were about him at that time give
accounts of him.
Among the chief of her informants
was Capt. Won Ilsemann, the former
Kaisers closest companion, who later
married Count Bentinck's daughter
At this wedding Lady Norah was
present But to go back to the begin
ming, this is the account of the arrival
on the evening of November IL, 1918:
"At last, in the failing light, the car
drew up at the castle. And as he
crossed the bridge over the inner moat
to the main door, relief, obvious and
deep, at the successful end of his jour-
ney from the bewildering transforma-
tion scene at Spa to the restful quie-
The New York herald., 1921-11-27

TOT often are two books issued
M at one time that so beauti-
fully supplement and inter.
pret each other as do Grant Over
tons novel, The Answerer," re
viewed on another page, and Emory
Holloway's "The Uncollected Poetry
and Prose of Walt Whitman" Double.
day, Page G. Coz, from which bit
was quoted here. Some of the best
material in the latter work is taken
from the poets notebook.
This little notebook, 31a by 512
inches in size, locks with pencil
thrust through three improvised
leather loops. 1t is the earliest Whit
man notebook extant, containing the
date 1S47. In that year Whitman
was the editor of the Brooklyn Daily
Eagle. The authors addresses are
given as II Prince street and 80 Full
ton street (the Eagle Office. How.
ever, both of these have been subsc-
quently cancelled and '106 Myrtle
avenue written in their stead. Now,
II this alteration in the address indi.
Gates a change also in the date Of
composition, some part of this note.
book must be assigned as late as the
middle of tS4S; that is to say, after
Whitman's return from New Orleans.
for the first city directory to give log
Myrtle avenue as Whitmans resi-
dence address is that for 1S49.'
The drawing of Whitman repro.
duced here is from the notebook,
where some artist friend probably
made it. For if Walt had been able
TO draw as well as that we should
have had hundreds of sketches by
him. Whatever he did was done
voluminously. The woman's face
shown here was also found In the
book. And 1t might we'll serve as an
illustration for the New Orleans cpl
sode in 'Overton's novel
Under the pen name of George
Selwyn," Walt wrote for the Critic a
piece about himself Here is the
passage describing his home .in Cam
The New York herald., 1921-11-27
ct r ELLO BUCKwHEAT. Nav
don't want Broadway.
Gimme BuclSwheat. That

Gimme BuclSwheat. That
you, Buckwheat? Well why in -
don't you answer George Washing
ton wants to talk to Harry Thaw and
too sweet too"
A reviewer gone crazy--not a bit OF
it. just the way the A. e. r. telephone
operator at some headquarters told
another operator at some other head
quarters that General So-and-so
wanted TO talk with Colonel Some body
Else. Plain English wouldn't have
done at all because the chances were
that some Boche who used to drive a
brewery wagon on Avenue A was cut
ting in along the line waiting for an
earful on the next American jump
off.
Even such disguises as the above
didn't always work, and the instance Is
related by Capt Lavine where a num-
her of Choctaws or some other Indian
tribe were used as operators and
transmitted the messages In their in
imitable native way and thereby
ruined the hearing of four listening
ferries.
Capt. Lavine's style is a bit remi-
niscent of Mr.. George Creel and his
story strays at times considerably
away from the receiver. There is a
constant distant booming Of "The star
Spanglcd Banner which at times
The New York herald., 1921-11-27

Bible, several Shakespeares-a nook
devoted to translations of Homer and
Eschylus and the other Greek poets
and tragedians, with Felton's and
Symond's books on Greece-a collec-
on medieval poetry-a well thumbed
volume (his companion, off and Oh,
for fifty years. of Walter Scotts
Border Observation-Disclosures, Os-
sian, Burns, Omar Khayyam, all mis-
cellaneously together. Whitmans
stalwart form itself luxuriates in a
curious, great cane-seat chair, with
posts and rungs like ships spars;
altogether the most imposing
The New York herald., 1921-11-27

j. ApDot Doud, Mead q co.
NJ ITHOUT wasting any words
w on false sentiments or leap
ing to any heights of ora
torical splendor, willis ]. Abbot tells
the story of the American navy in
the great war. He tells it simply
and directly, calling a COB a COB and
torpedo torpedo, and succeeds in pro-
ducing a fascinating tale of sea tri-
umph that makes one wonder why the
fiction writer's ever bother to use their
imaginations in manufacturing sea ad-
ventures. The simple history of Amer
lean naval man9uvres throughout the
war is thrilling at almost any stage.
More than that. it is at times magnifi-
cent The printed page can hardly do
II justice.
In the more or less jumbled ac-
counts of war activities probably
there was less accuracy about the
navy than about any of the other
departments. The public was let in
only on the high moments. When the
President Lincoln was torpedoed 700
miles off the French coast the story
reached the headlines with consider
able detail. Again when the Tus-
cania, British troopship, was sent
to the bottom there were more head
lines and more details. But these were
mere offshoots of the main story.
When Commander Taussig steamed
into Queenstown with the first flotilla
of American destroyers and reported
for immediate patrol duty there was
no mention of the event in American
journals. When week after week
passed by with the arrival of q fresh
squadron each Monday on schedule
time still there was no great publicity
given to the plan of the naval cam
paign.
While Americans were wondering
what had become of their battleships
and rumor spread that they wer,
cruising leisurely about in southern
waters Admiral Hugh Rodman with
a feet of dreadnoughts was forming
one of the fastest wings of the Brit
ish Grand Fleet in North Sea opera
tions. Another squadron, ready 10
so to the aid of troopships. was lying
The New York herald., 1921-11-27
Words and Meaning.

~ NE of the rare books that digs
down to the hidden sources
Of life is Edwin Sapir's Ian
guage" (Harcourt, Brace & co... 1t
will be quoted here more than once.
Apropos of Whitman, there is pas
sage referring to the distinction be-
tween the forms of speech and the
underlying truth. A few men, like
Shakespeare-though nobody is really
like him-have an equal gift for di-
vination of truth and the expression
of 1t. Others excel either in form,
like Swinburne, or in content.
Certain artists whose spirit moves
The New York herald., 1921-11-27

Julian Streets new book. "Myste-
rious Japan" Doubleday. Page). Is the
fruit OF the authors trip to the East
with Frank A. vanderlip and his party.
AS n guest of the Japanese Govern
ment, which wished to give group of
representative Americans the oppor-
tunity to familiarize themselves with
Japan, its intimate life, it's customs
and ideals, Mr. Street saw the country
under the most favorable circum-
stances. Never had been so fas
cinated." he says, "by a foreign land.
Never in so short time had seen
so much that was new and strange
and charming. yet never had my OBJ
servations been so fragmentary. so
puzzling."
The New York herald., 1921-11-27

colyum and they'll take volyum
The volyums that have come in from
Don Marquis, Chris Morley, Hey
wood Broun, Keith Preston, Robert
Benchley and others will take page
to review.
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largely in the non-linguistic (better
in the generalized linguistic) layer
even find certain difficulty in get
ting themselves expressed in the
rigidly set terms of their accepted
idiom. One feels that they are un-
consciously striving for generalized
art language, literary algebra. =.
Their art expression is frequently
strained; it sounds at times like a
translation from an unknown origi
nal-which, indeed, is precisely what
it is. These artists-Whitmans and
Brownings-impress us rather by the
greatness of their spirit than by the
felicity of their art Their relative
failure is of the greatest diagnostic
value as an index of the pervasive
presence in literature of larger,
more intuitive linguistic medium
than any particular language"
The New York herald., 1921-11-27
Take 'Em Seriously.

TIME columns of Americas Par
thenon are newspaper col.
umns At this moment their
conductors all appear to be issuing
books made out of their days work.
not bad way to make book if the
days work is well done. Anyhow
they furnish variation on the old
inch and ell proverb. Give them a
The New York herald., 1921-11-27
The Whitman Library.

TOT often are two books issued
M at one time that so beauti-
fully supplement and inter.
The New York herald., 1921-11-27

BLUE JACKETS OF 1918 BY Willis
]. Abbot. Dodd, Mead & Co.
w TITHoUT wasting any words
wv on false sentiments or leap
ing to any heights of ora
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-20

Washington, Aug 1s-Senate and house conferees were reported tonight 10 De virtually agreed on contested points m the anti-beer bill and hopeful of nnal enactment of the measure prior to the recess set for next Wedensday
 While the conferees declined 10 indicate the nature of the agreement. their prsc- ucal adjustment Of differences was taken 10 mean al least partial rejection of the stanley amendment, designed 10 protect the home against indiscriminate search Tor liquor. in view or the known desire ot Renresdntat Voistead. head Of the gouse managers, 10 throw the beer bill overboard' rather than accept the amend ment as originally drawn and passed Oh7nmously by tie senate.
 That part Of the Stanley propossl re- lating to search of a mans dwelling was said 10 have been retained. however. Mir. Nolsteads chief objection to it as a whole was based on the ground that 10 require a warrant 10 sesrcn an automobile. or other property. would make rigid enforce ment of national prohibition ineffective.
 When Senator Sterling, republican, south Dakota, left his office for the nigh, he announced that there was strong prob
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-20
AirpIanG Fails To
 Disp|ace Batt|esF1ip.
Finding As Result of Bomb ing Held Off the Virginia Capes-Report of General Pershing Approved by Sec retary Weeks.

Washington, Aug. 19-Results of bombing tests held off the Virginia Capes from June 21 to July 21 have fau- ed to displace the battleshlp from it's pre- eminent position as the nations chief defense at sea.
 This was the outsta nding conclusion of the report of the joint board of the army and navy, made public today by General Pershing, the senior member and approved by Secretary Weeks and Act ing Secretary Roosevelt
 The tests, which resulted in the sink ing of four ex-German warshius by aerial bombs, proved, however, inc board added, that it has become imperative as a matter of national defense to oro- Vide for the maximum possible develop ments of aviation in both the army and navy"
 The tests proved also, the board agreed, the necessity for aircraft car riers of maximum size and speed
 as an effective adjunct to the fleet" and for the development of ef- fective anti-aircraft armament.
 Instead of furnishing an economical instrument of war leading to the aboli- ton of the battleship. the development of aircraft has added to the complexi- ty of naval warfare" the report stat ed
 The board found that military air craft when used beyond he'radius action of shore bases possessed limited ass st. ance to gunnery in the control of fire limited assistance. in the service of r. formation and security, land importar strategical and tactical qualities in op- erations of coast defense" but might prove a decisive factor in coastal op-
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-20
Prepared To Defend
 Prisoners From Mob
Lives of Three Negroes, Charged With Robbery and Criminal Assault Upon a White Woman, in Jeopar- dy at Barnstable, Mass.

Barnstahle, Mass, Aug. 1s.-Prepar- ations to defend the county jail here against the possibility of another at- tack were completed late today by Sheriff Irving L. Rosenthal, who, With four assistants stood off a mJ1 that threatened to seize and lynch three ne- groes early today. The prisoners, Jobn Dies, Benjamin Gomez and Joseph An- drews, are charged with highway rob- bery and criminal assault upon young white woman last MondaT night
 Additional shotguns Were delivered at the jail late in the day and the sheriff increased his guard t1 fifteen men. Five members of the $ s-a.e police pa ci, mounted on motor~cycles, arrived at Wareham this aftern o3n and will be held tonight subject to emergency call at Muddy Pond, near that village.
 The prisoners have been held in S15,- 900 bonds each for a hearing of August 29. They were kept in widely separated parts of the jail ton.ght. Ire sheriff said he would stay at the jail day and night until he believed al aareer Of a recurrence of mob all h was rast
 Governor Cox telsoI. red Sheriff RCs- enthal tonight that troops we-e ltajN if needed and that any help 'i'e Barn stable authorities mig1t requi~e would be quickly available. The sheriff rs- piled that he bei' wed he had enough men and could handle the situht'rl.
 Brigadier General S.@r)r:Ie, in onm- mand of the second ield artlllpTy natlcn- al gua~d, in ctno at We.: 3arnstab;e. informed the sherid lat h's ccmmahl would be available a. any me saL;A. { to telephone call
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-20
TO EXPOSE INVESTORS WHO
 PROFITED THROUGH PONZI

Boston, Aug. 19.-Publication of the names of persons who profted through investments in Charles Ponzi's quick-rich scheme before it was exploded last sum mer, and who have failed to turn in their profits for division among those who were less fortunate, is planned by the bank ruptcy trustees. James A. Lowell, one of the trustees, said today that suits would be brought not only for the profits but for the entire amo Ints 1tceNed from Ponz;, both principal and interest. The total amount recoverable for the benefit of about 15.O00 persons who gave their money to Ponzi on his promise to pay 56 per sent. interest in forty-five days is approximately S6 O0O, ,O0O, MT. LoweI said Of this sum. one and quarter millions represents profits" paid by Ponzi with money obtained from other investors.
 Trustee Lowell's statement follows:
 The bare statistics of the develop ment of Ponzi's scheme read like fnan- cial fiction. In December 1919, an1 January. 1920, he persuaded only IS people to risk a total of S1,77O. Feb ruary, 1920, brought r investors with S5,290. March and April gave the wizard 5S1 new victims for the total of s17,395.S3 May was a big month, but June was five times as big, 7,S43 men and women trusting him with S2,- 546,944S9. And July, the last month that the Napoleon of finance accepte deposits found 30, 23O persons scramlbling to get to him to invest S6,415, ,675. .SS- taken from their savings bank accounts borrowed from friends, in many cases all they had.
 And this money he reinvested-chec ec zs to himself and cash s307,S66.93, with personal and family expenses of s145,- 556.32 notes redeemed, $6,14S, 67z90 investments in mortgages, stock and per sonal loans, s1725,5746S; commissions to agents $7s7,44s.2s and donations $9, 615.
 For the most part the very pool ! people were those who trusted Polzl
 This is the story of the figures. Lei | those who received money illegally froV
 Ponzi read the sufferings that is writ ten between the lines, that they r1ay not neglect to pay back the moAey tha
 they owe the Ponzi estate"