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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-10

character study Of this son which de-
serves perpetually an outstanding place
among literary masterpieces. From
childhood to manhood, in a multiplicity
and variety of scenes and incidents and
under the stress Of every emotion and
passion that moves the humon heart,
he enters into and depicts from within
the very soul of the youth The boy
inherits something of the temperament
OF each of his parents and has pas
sionate love for both.
At first he has all the ingenuousness
Of childhood, though he instinctively,
without knowing why, revolts against
the "Beast"-a singularly repulsive
creature, by the way--who happens to
be his mothers lover at the time A
little later the first crisis comes, cul-
minating in divorce, and the boy grows
to manhood under the care of his
father, imbued with truthfulness, clean
llness and honor. Then the unquenched
love which he cherished for the mother
Of his childhood memories impels him
to seek her and to strive for recon-
citation between the pair. This the
father and husband refuses, whereupon
the son deserts his father and casts
his lot for a time with his mother.
There follows the second and incom-
parably greater crisis, when the
mother, to facilitate one of her own
rancid amours, deliberately attempts,
with all the wiles of an utter wanton,
to debauch her own son and involve
him in an unclean and criminal in
trigue. This eliminating horror frees
the sons vision from the glamor which
filial piety and chivalry have created,
md he fees from the noisome tolls
which have been spun about him, to
rescue his stricken and desolate father
from despair, and with him to begin a
new existence.
Ii is not pretty tale, though
touched here and there with idyllic
charm and illumined with hearty humor.
But it is true, in general and in de-
tail; in relation of incident, in por-
trayal of character and in analysis of
motive. 1t has, moreover, the fine quail
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-10
Are Strikes Moral?

THE MORALITY OF THE STRIKE BY
Ronald A. Mclean. Published by P. j.
Kennedy g. Sons. s175.
THIS question is generally answered
in the affirmative by Father Nc
Lean, who surveys the labor problem
from the viewpoint Of Catholic faith
Citing the opinions of eminent eccles-
astical authorities, Father Mclean
holds that the strike. as weapon in
the hands of labor, cannot be pro-
ncunced immoral per Sc. He also con-
dennis as unjust and unavoidable
schemes of compulsory arbitration, such
as have been attempted in Australia
and New Zealand. Father McLean's
work should command attention from
roralists and economists alike, for the
author is obviously we'll versed in both
aspects of his subject.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-10
BY William l.. Mcpherson

THE FIFTH ARMY IN MARCH, 1918. BY
W. Shaw Sparrow. With an introduction
by General Sir Hubert Cough. Published
by John Lane, the Bodley Head, London
and New York. Sc,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-10
Life of Suvorof
Career of an Eccentric
Military Genius

euvoRoF. BY w Lyon Bleasc. Pub
sished by &c. p. Dutton 6. Co. So
TSHE name of Suvorof is neither
well nor favorably known outside
of Russia. Scarcely one person
mas heard of the great Russian gen.
erai where ten are familiar with the
exploits of Napoleon or Frederick the
Great Lord Byron summed up his
estimate Of Suvorof in the bitter line,
"Hero, buffoon, half demon and half
Dirt"
This is scarcely fair. Suvorof was
no more of demon than the average
military commander of his time, and
ae possessed distinguished merit as a
general. He was tested in many wars
and he was never found wanting.
Whether called upon to lead the Rus
sian armies against the Turks, with
their Asiatic methods of warfare;
against the Poles in their desperate
struggles for independence or against
the fiery troops of revolutionary
France, he always demonstrated the
same high military gifts-audacity
tempered with good Judgment, quick
ness in decision and vigor in execu-
ton, the power to estimate his oppo.
nents' strength at it's true value with
uncanny accuracy.
Suvorof's most spectacular achieve
ment was his last - his campaign
ocaips& tho Erorch -, C1y;+,orI,sJ rL.
story of his marches and battles among
the Alps is picturesque and striking
to the last degree. The campaign
failed because of the defeat of one of
his lieutenants, but the daring and
endurance of the old general and his
troops are beyond praise.
Innumerable stories are told of Su-
vorof's eccentricities, and some of them
are doubtless apocryphal. However,
there is no doubt that the illustrious
general was something of buffoon.
In one of his early campaigns he is
said to have habitually awakened his
men by growing like a cock. After his
capture of Warsaw in 1894 he was
given the rank of field marshal by the
Empress Catherine. Upon receiving
the news he set number of stools in
row and gleefully leaped over them,
one after another, reciting the names
of the generals whom he had passed
in the race for promotion.
Mr.. Blease's book includes a number
Of similar anecdotes, which lend a
touch of piquancy and lightness to an
admirable military biography.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-10
General Coughs Leadership
In March, 1918, indicated
Responsibility for the Defeat Before ST. Quentin
Placed on Shoulders of British
War Council

Marwits employed forty-three infantry
divisions.
Byng's Sd Army, to the north Of
the 9Th, held only twenty-six and two
seventh miles of fxont with seventeen
infantry divisions. Opposing them were
twentyfour German infantry divisions.
Yet Byng's right and center were as
unable to resist Ludendorff's over
whelming attack as Coughs army was.
byng lost Bapaume and Albert. In the
latter days of the retreat his line
showed more gaps than the 9Th
Army's did 1t broke connection with
Cough and the latter was forced to
take over the defence of territory
originally assigned to Byng. Yet Byng
was neither censured nor removed from
command.
The British War Council had allowed
the British fighting strength in France
to run too low. In the winter of 1917
1918 the battalions in each brigade were
reduced from four to three. Yet 100000
British troops were kept in England and
Ireland. They had been withheld de-
liberately, because Lloyd George dis
trusted Haig's leadership, which had
caused such enormous casualty lists in
1916 and 1917. Haig was consequently
left with inadequate reserves. He
couldn't reinforce Cough sufficiently, or
Byng, either, and the arrangement ne
had made with Petain for French aid
was an illusory substitute, for French
cid couldn't and didn't arrive in time
to relieve the hard-driven 5th Army.
Cough made good fight under existing
conditions. His army wasn't beaten be-
cause of poor leadership.
Lloyd Georges defense, as set forth
by Captain Peter E. Wright, is that the
Allied line in France could have been
held, in March, 1918, if strategic re-
serve had been created and put at the
disposition of Foch and the Allied War
Council in Paris. The British Prime
Minister favored this rational scheme.
But he didn't put it through, and Foch
was called to command only when Lu-
dendorff was at the gates Of Amiens.
1t is the merit of Mr.. Sparrow's book
that it shows convincingly that what
Captain Wright calls the greatest de-
feat in the history of the British army
was due not to mistakes in the field,
but to vacillations and shortcomings
within the British War Council.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-10
A New Triangle Projected
In Story by Philip Gibbs
Famous Correspondent Portrays Sons Reac-
tons to Parents Quarrel With
Mastery Skill

By DR.. Willis Fletcher Johnson
BEAUTY AND NICK BY Philip Gibbs
Published by the Devin-Adair Com
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-10

ity Of always seeming TO be pure nara
tive, told for the story's own sake, and
not hating the action to indulge in
metaphysics or moralizlng.
1t is never either "preachy" or
prurient, though in a less masterful
hand than Sir Philip Gibbs's it would
have been in great danger of being one
or the other, and probably both. It
might, too, have degenerated into either
sentimentality or melodrama, but hap
PLY avoids both Trying as is the
theme, the treatment of it is always
clean, manly, straightforward. 1t points
moral but it does so only as every
relation of timely truths must point
moral, as inevitably the sowing of
seed produces harvest.
1t is the drama of every child of
clashing and divorced parents, in which
ittingly the child is made the hero of
the plav. In the book the m other is SO
worthless as to forfeit every shred of
the sympathy which in mere weakness
she mlGnC nave oiiuOut NiAAAC eiiO
fathers appeal to human interest is
dulled by certain stolidity and blind
ness, but from every point Of view and
to every observer the appeal of the son
is irresistible And that is the supreme
truth of the whole story, whether in
fiction or in real life. Husband and
wife in harmony or in discord reap
chiefly what they have sown, while the
child must gather the tares which
others hands have planted. That is
the truth with which this tense and
vital tale is instinct, and which the
author has presented with the same as
sured authority with which he has SO
often addressed himself to US on the no
more tense or vital themes of war and
politics.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-10

Z HAVE here a new triangle
or at least an unusual one
1t is not husband, wife ant
mistress. for "Bristlesn has
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-10
Poems by Yeats

SELECTED POEMS BY William Butler
Yeats. Published by the Macmillan Com
pany. $3.50.
T'HE lover of romantic verse finds In
the work of William Butler Yeats
a strange and irresistible magic, born
of haunting beauty of thought, ex-
pressed in melodious and majestic
rhythms. Yeats has assmilated all the
folklore, the rich traditions of his ma
tive Ireland and he returns the old
themes of the Celtic bards enriched
end made still more beautiful by his
mastery of poetic imagery. The pres
ent volume, which includes the best of
his writings, gives an adequate meas
ure of the quality of his genius.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-10

An English edition of II. L. Menck-
ems Prejudices has been bought out,
and the critic of The Times has some
sharp things to say about his methods
While admitting that it does no harm
to have ones literary standards and
prejudices we'll shaken up" he writes:
"Mr. Mencken is very severe on the
defects which he sees in the American
intellectual world; he has no mercy
for the intolerant puritan, the univer-
sity Mandarin and the dupe of demo-
cratic clap-trap. But does his own
work show a relapse into faults of
which Henry James and others had
purged the best American citicism, the
faults of rawness and brutality? MIR.
Mencken's wide knowledge and keen
intelligence will never have fair play
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-10
What London Literary Folk
Are Thinking and Writing
Sinclair Lewis Says Authors Must Think as
Well as rite-American-MadeB Books
A Criticism of Mencken

printed pages, often difference in the
way of spacing the lines, a difference
in the method Of displaying head
lines, a sort of 'squareness' in the
binding, and, of course, difference
in the spelling, which identifies an
American-made book at once. On the
whole, am inclined to think that they
arc better looking than our own books,
and there is seldom one of them in
which the workmanship is not thor
oughly good; and yet people in the
trade tell me that books of the Ameri-
can type are not popular in London
and prove to be difficult to sell. There
can be no deliberate prejudice in the
matter; so what is the explanation ?"
He answers his own question by
mentioning the word price. The popu
lar English novel ranges from IS. to
IS. 3D., while the American edition costs
generally So, or los.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-10

| M PIOteSt dEa1nSC the injustice
4 Y Il done by the British War
Council-and especially by
Premier Lloyd George-to General Sir
Hubert Cough and the ill-fated British
9th Army. 1t is marked by an in
tensity of personal feeling which might
be expected to weaken its value as
military criticism. The author is full
of moral indignation and determined tn
set wrong right. He accomplishes his
purpose not so much because Of his
emotional vehemence, but because he
has good case.
Cough was badly treated after the
defeat of the 9th Army. Lloyd George
who must have been conscious of his
ewn major possibilities for the loss
of the Battle of st. Quentin and the
uncovering of Amiens, tried to use
Cough as scapegoat. The latter was
relieved of his command and an un-
fairly colored account of the defeat was
given to Parliament and the country.
General Cough, a gallant soldier and
gentleman, says of Lloyd Georges con-
Duct:
Can we wonder that the country
failed to estimate the truth when a
minister of the crown, who was in a
position to winnow facts from fool
lsh rumors, could repeat, even to me.
that the troops left their positions
on many occasions without sufficient
reason? If such was the case it
was certainly not true of the troops
Of the Fifth Army, as is sufficiently
proved by the numbers who re-
manned in their positions and are
buried there. But fear does not make
men either just or generous: it is
only the greatest and noblest char
acters who can maintain these quail
ties under such conditions, and there
IS no doubt that our ministers and
others were torn with fear during
those fatefuI weeks"
Cough was sacrificed to this feelin~
OF panic. He was an available victim
on whom to saddle responsibility for
a disaster due to vices in the British
governments military policy.
Haig's official report (held up for
months by the government and eEded
IN part) put matters in d truer light
Ludendorff's first attack was fully an
ticipated. There was every indication
tnat 1t would fall mainly on the 5th
Army. Haig preferred to lose ground
on that part Of his front, if he had
to lose ground at all, because this sec
tor was furthest away from the coast.
The British line had been extended
south twenty-seven miles in the winter
of 1917-'1S. Cough was left to hold
forty-two miles, with only fourteen in
| fantry divisions and three cavalry
divisions. Three of the infantry
divisions were kept in reserve far back
by Haig and two of them weren't I'D
until the second day of the fighting
Against Coughs weak force Hutier and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-10

-w ONDON, June Is. 49, Sinclair
Lewis is visiting here, and the
author of Main Street has
many social engagements to
i'll. Even in summer, tea-time is a
favorite hour for bringing together
Lodon's literary folk, though the host
ess must be careful not to have her
three day cricket matches in which a
team of Australian amateurs is doing
its best to sink all England in gloom
heavier than we had in 1918, when
Haig said Our backs are to the wall"
Clement Shorter, Willias Petit Ridge,
Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, K. Phillips Open
helm and many other English writer's
drank tea the other day with Sinclair
Lewis at the house of Aady Holder
Williams, whose husband is the senior
partner Of the publishing house Of
Holder g. Stoughton. There was con-
siderable talk about poker, especially
as Mr.. Phillips Oppenheim has been
arguing with the legal authorities on
the question of when it is lawful to
play the game and when it is crlml-
nal offense; but interesting as it would
be to know Mr.. Lewis's views regard
ing English poker, we shall have to be
satisfied with his comments on the diff
ference between newspaper reporting
and fiction writing. He says there is
q difference. ~ have to train myself,
now that am an author, to write slow
w." he says. "As journalist I had
got so that I could sit down and write
about anything-an article on Etruscan
sculpture, for instance-at a moments
notice. That fatal gift stands in my
way as an author"
A journalist present. suggested that
as an author he had to think as we'll
as write, and Mr. Lewis nodded assent.
It Is the general opinion here that
American books have higher standard
of typographical excellence than those
published in England. Says writer
in The Westminster Gazette:
"The paper, the type and all the
materials may be exactly similar to
those which our English publishers use,
and vet there is something in the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-10

"A MR. SPARROW's book is a
ME protest against the injustice
4 Il done by the British War
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-10
Children's Stories

THE MEADOW FOLKS STORY Horp
BY Prudence Gruelle. Published by tbs
Gregg Publishing Company. SIS cents
THESE animal stories, accompanied
by thirty-six illustrations, should
provide an excellent supplementary
reader for children in the lower gram
mar grades.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-10
BY Arthur S. Draper

ONDON, June IS. - Sinclair
Lewis is visiting here, and the
author of Main Street has
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-10


no mistress. 1t is rot husband, wife
and lover though Beauty" has lover,
and indeed more than one. But it is a
triangle of father mother and son;
these three, and the chief of these is
the son. Given a wife who is beauti-
full and brilliant, but selfish, vain, ex-
travagant and quite destitute Of truth,
honor and moral decency, and a hus-
band who is hard working and plod-
ding, true and devoted, partly blind
and partly over-patient, but at last in
eXorabe in his righteous wrath, and
we have the elements of the conven-
tional problem novel But the uncon-
ventional and the really worth while
element enters when the wife is a
mother and the husband father, and
we have to consider the effect Of their
relationship and of their final ire
parable estrangement not upon them
selves but upon their son.
Sir Philip Gibbs has given us a
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1921-06-01
RETAIL0RS TO
MEET IN FARGO
Many From Western North
Dakota to Attend


Many retail merchants in Bismarck
and other western North Dakota cities
and towns will attend the 23rd annual
convention of tn eNorth Dakota Re.
tail Merchants association, which will
be held in Fargo, June 7-10.
The first session will be held Tues.
day morning, June Z, when the meet
ing is called to order by E. A. Kicker,
president, Fargo Business Mems asso.
citation. Annual reports OF F. p. Mann,
president; w. A. Donnelly, secretary,
and C. J. Stickney, treasurer, will be
made on that day.
An open meeting with presentation
of answers to questions propounded
by members will be made that after
noon. Among the speakers FOR the
convention are: John A. Cunningham
of Dubuque, Iowa; C. s. Wittlesey;
Bentley ,P. Neff. Geo. F. Heindel of
Ottumwa. Iowa; J. F. Jordan, Joseph
Chapman, Of Minneapolis: Tracy
Bangs of Grand Forks; Dan E. Wei.
gle, general secretary of the st. Paul
association; Usher IL. Buriick. presi.
dent, North Dakota Farm Bureau Fed.
Grafton; A. A. Smith of Minneapolis,
and E. r. Montgomery, secretary Of
the State Fair association.
Booths Of manufacturers and Job
bers and special entertainment feat
ures will add to the convention.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1921-06-01
PRISONER who
ESCAPED STILL :
BEING HUNTED
Denial of Right to Appeal For
Pardon Believed to Have
Caused Lehman Escape
FATHER HAD lNTERCEDED

Information that state pardon board,
which meets this week, would not con-
slider his plea for clemency is believed
to have prompted the action of Adolpn
Lehman, prison convict, in failing to
return to the prison after he had been
out exercising prison bloodhounds
with another "trusty.'
Lehman's father, it was learned, was
in the city intercedlng with members
of the pardon board, but he received
no encouragement, it is understood.
Lehman was serving 20-year SEN
tence fol, murder in the second degree
and had ben in pris son about a year
and five months.
Lehman was convicted of killing
Matthias Wetstein in Richardton. He
was sentenced BY. Judge w. L.rNues-
sle. then sitting as judge in the Sixth
district. He had been charged
was convicted of murder in the sec
ond degree. The case went to the
supreme court, but his appeal was de-.
MED. i
Condemned Crime.
The supreme court, according to
Justice Grace's opinion, found that
lat the commencement of trouble, as
suming the evidence true, the deceased
committed an. overt act by threaten
ing to take the life of defendant AMI
engaged in physical encounter, later
desisted, threatened to get gun and
shoot defendant and defendant pur-
sued deceased and shot at him while
pursuing, followed him into the house
and through 1t to a bedroom, where
deceased had taken refuge, and where
he and his mother-in-law tried by
holding against the door to prevent
the defendant from entering and who,
after falling to push the door in shot
into and through the door twice,
wOunding the deceased and afterwards
entering and shooting him to death. ;"
a.-.. s.
Claimed Self.DefenSe.
Lehman claimed self-defense. Jus
tice Grace, speaking OF the crime, said
that: "Seldom, in the annals of crime,
is there recorded.a a more revolving one,
or one accompanied Iy more savage
cruelty. 1t is crime which undo
the record in this case admits OF NO
excuse"
The supreme court opinion, speak
ing of the cause of the murder, re-
cited that Lehman had called on Mrs.
Wetstein before her marriage, and
wished to continue the acquaintancl
but Mrs. Wetstein objected.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1921-06-01
T0CL0SB:E|ARLY J
ON SATURDAYS
Bismarck Banks Adopt Rule Of
Other Cities

Banks of Bismarck will close at !
P. Mon Saturdays during the months
of June, July, August and September
1t was decided today. In taking this
step the Bismarck banks are adopt
ing rule now prevailing in all of the
larger cities of the state. In Fargo
Grand Forks and Dickinson banks
close at noon Saturday, but It was de-
cided to make the closing hour at /
p. NJ. in this city. The banks an
nouncement follows: g, ~.
In accordance with the established
custom of all other states and of many
cities in North Dakota, we the under
signed national and state banks doing
business in the city of Bismarck, here
by agree to close at one o'clock on
Saturdays during the months of June
July, August and September of tile
year 1921. instead Of the usual closing
time of three-thirty.
(Signed),
FIRST NATIONAL BANK,
CITY NATIONAL BANK,
BISMARCK BANK, ...-
FIRST GUARANTY BANK,
CAPITAL SECURITY BANK.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1921-06-01
ODD FELLOWS HOMES IN MANY
STATES IN UNION CARR OUT
... true FRATERNITY PRINCIPLES

North Dakota will join the long list
of other states having Odd Fellows
homes, If the expected action of the
present convention here materializes
A description of Odd Fellows homes
in the United States is given by Jo-
seph NJ. Wolfe, of Minneapolis, in a
book in which the principles upon
which the homes are established and
maintained are set forth.
The first home, erected in Pennsyl-
vania in 1872, was established for the
purpose of securing better attention
for dependents than the individual
lodges could possibly give, and to sys-
temize and remove from the individ-
ual lodges the responsibility and study
of such cases which might come to
their attention. Since the first lodge
home was established in Pennsylvania
at Meadville,. others have been added
u1t1l there are now seven in that
u ,, .