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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-30
MIcHELANGELo NOT REALIsT

Realism an dideaIism in so far as these words apply to art, would seem
 to contain much of the paradox. Thus while one might reasonably suppose
 that realism concerns itself particu- larly with reality, or the actual ap-
 pearance of things, 1t would be man.
 ifestly Incorrect to designate Mich- elangelo as a realisH He was. we know, a thorough student Of anatomy and one, above all others interested
 in reality of effect. With the 5caipel
 he explored the mysteries Of human aratomy the better to clothe his fig
 ures with the aspect of reality yet in
 the last analysis his seeming realism
 will be found to be idealism. It is, in deed a fair statement of his creed to say that nature was to him an indlf-
 ferent craftsman whose work. even
 at its best. was bound to fall short of perfection Hist titanic prophets
 and sybils of the Sistine ceiling and
 his impressive nudes of the Medfci
 tombs he knew never trod this earth
 They were rather tho likenesses of supernatural race with which the artist peopled the world Of his im- agination--forms which might have existed had nature Workeu perieCthy' In so far as these giants are prop erly constructed to that extent they are realistic: in their presentation or types that never existed, to that de- gree they are ideal
 So, in spite of his profound knowl-
 edge of fact and his most literal rep resentation of the human body Mi chelangelo remains an idealist. con- versely by a simplfication of surface and color, which may be called an
 idealization of natural phenomena, Manet aimed at andtsuceeeded in pro
 ducing realistic effects. Therein lies the seeming paradox.
 Yet the explanation is at hand. If idealism in art is groping toward the expression of an intellectual conception, If it is an attempt 10 re- alize visually something that. owing to natures negligence. never existed but might exist in perfected w~- then realism should be the reverse It might be described as that form of artistic expression which concerns itself with literal representation of nature, or fact. and it matters little in either instance how the result is
 obtained With Manet, as with Giotto. realistic effects were pro- duced by idealizing facts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-30
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

his soul to good. Light can do that It Is like an instrument we ars learn ing to play and have not yet mas tered.
 Modern New York!
 Evening. Sunday October IS, o'clock.
 Picture yourself standing in tho great Hippodrome in New York with the surging, storming, pushing, clamoring. thousands entering the vast auditorium, while stalwart po- ltoemen stationed here and there cry out:s
 Keep in line" And the myriadS obey like marshalled troops at the stentorian tones, and youu know what tho audience Of l6,OOO people was like whichs flooded the Hippo drome to hear tho most beloved sing CT in tho world. John Mccormack
 We stood beside Mir. McCormack'E manager, Mir. Charles L. Wagner, in the foyer 1mportant? Well, rather we feltD as he spoke to the hun dreds of notables as they passed in singers, artists. ministers. visitors, every class and creed and kind who had to come to hear the golden voice of the wonderful Irish singer.
 Through the courtesy of MT. Wag- ner, Mrs. Kettig and 1 occupied a box for tho concert, just next to that occupied by the great tenor's wife, Mrs Mccormack. and her party and it was genuine treat to sec this petite black haired. gray eyed, grlish looking wife of the great artist as she looked upon the multitudes assembling to hear that glorious voice.
 Sixteen thousand people (and this I do not bring on my own authority but because the New York Times and morning) attested to the popularity ot John Mccormack that evening" while 10000 had been turned away from the box office, a tribute that IS
 
 One thousand lovers of John Me Cormacks beautiful voice sat on the | vast stage, and when at last the | tall, handsome singer appeared the house went wild with enthusiasm, and for fully 10 minutes he stood lowing his thanks, his appreciation to the throngs, for the great ovation ac- corded him.
 Presently the first notes of the piano were heard. and as John Me Cormack opened the flood gates of that glorious voice of his in song, the angels in their heavenly chor- uses must have heard and listened. 1 What did he sing?
 He sang about little children and roses and violets and love; he sang about home and mother and about God. And as the pleading, tender, golden notes burst from his throat 1 i thought that no more beautiful end l ing to one of the most perfect days I have ever spent in my life could 1 have been planned.
 No sermon is more appealing than John McCormacks Mother Ma chree;" no anthem more expressive than John McCormack's "On the Beach at Otahai;" no offertory more i soul satisfying than John McCor- mack's Beautiful Isle of Some where" and no aria more touching than John McCormack's "The Gar tan Mothers Lullaby" bringing one into a sweeter intimacy with the things that are real and genuine in life.
 ] God gifted John Mccormack.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-30
ONE SUNDAY IN NEW YORK

Morning: Sunday October 1s; Il o'clock.
 If you have ever reaa any of pr. Harry Emerson FosdicKs appealing, soul satisfying, little books, ''The Second Mile" The Meaning of Ser vice." "The Manhood of the Master" "The Meaning of Prayer" The As surance of Immortality"-tiny little modest volumes. a half dozen of which takes up less room in my "five-foot bookshelf" than The Mir TOTS of Downing Street" or "Emi- nent victorians"; and if in reading these books they have meant to you what they have meant to me. you can readily understand without further explanation the sensation that l ex- perienced when l read in the New York newspapers that Dr. Fosdick would be the minister at the First Presbyterian church C'The old First as it is more familiarly known) on one Sunday morning recently when was in New York.
 Before the break O day, awak- ened. thrilled with the idea that, l was at last going to see face to face, and heart to heart, this wonderful work day Christian man whose messages of hope and love have been sent to the uttermost parts of the world through his little books.
 To my sweet friend, Mrs. J. F. Dill ard, the wife of our own Dr. Dillard, pastor of the Southside Baptist church, owe my acquaintance with Dr. Fosdick-for it was she, who three years ago or more sent me one of her encouraging. beautiful mes- sages with -The Second Mile" asking me to read 1t and say what I thought of 1t.
 Later my acquaintance with Dr. Fosdick was made more intimate through my beloved pastor, pr. w. R. Hendrix of Highlands Methodist church who seldom misses an oppor- tunity to refer in his inspiring ser mons to Dr. Fosdick and his great spiritual messages.
 With my heart bubbling over with the thought of sitting at the feet of Dr. Fosdick (which afterward was literally true, although I was think ing at the time In figurative terms), I jumped into a big old numbering double-decker Fifth avenue bus" bright and early that sunshiny, beau tiful October morning, and giving myself what I regarded as worlds of time to arrive at church, I quietly en- joyed peering out at the great sky scrapers-with drawn shutters-and quiet Sabbath-day mien. But later, arriving at Eleventh street, down near Washington square, I was amazed as the bus stopped, for what should greet my eyes but crowds which rivaled the crowds at the world. series and the John McCor- mack concerts!
 Two blocks long-either way--the people were packed like sardines in & box; the church-yard, for you know 2 the rOld First" Presbyterian church towers above an old-fashioned church yard, one of the few left in. New York now, was filled with people-young, old, rich, poor-push- ing and probing their way to the doors of the sanctuary.
 ]. Presently rly eye espied number
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few other ministers understand lt, for he is as compact as an essay ot Bacon's;" he does not skirmish nor f!nesse; he does not feint nor flour ish; his sentences of orderly speech march into action like disciplined units marshaled and drilled and every word reaches its mark he has the terseness of speech which is taught by the pen rather than by the tongue
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in immi grants. plantations and iron works, and was the trusted agent of foreign capital. He also donated 400 acres bf land to found pub lie school in Westmoreland county. He was the captain of his own vessel as well as of the industries of his neighborhood
 When he died after a brief illness in E43. in much the same manner as his illustrious son did many years later, this Captain Washington left a large and valuable landed and per sonal estate, and by his last will am ply provided for his sons, Lawrence and Augustine, born of his first mar riage (to Jane Butler), and his sec ond wife, Mary Ball and her children, George, Elizabeth. John Augustine, Charles and Samuel.
 Lawrence Washington, the eldest brother of George Washington, was born in 171S and, like his father and other forebears. was an enterpr+sins m q n
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achieve an ever-increasing measure of personal liberty.
 The book shows historically how religion and philosophy, war and revolution, have been used to but tress the various political systems by which the conservative mind has re- tained control over humanity; and how each succeeding liberal effort toward freedom has solidified into a conservative organization. The art of politics has been transformed into a. scientific method of state control which, declares the author, Is the an- tithesis of liberty.
 "THE HIGH COST OF STRIKES" B. Marshall Olds. c. P. Putnam's
 Sons, Publishers, New York City.
 Marshall Olds, the author of "The High Cost of Strikes" writes with full knowledge, from the inside, of the conditions controlling labor, both organised and unorganiaed. He has himself had years of experience as q working man. He tells us that he has never been an employer. He has endeavored in this volume to make clear the wasteful absurdity of strikes as means of securing just division of the proceeds of produc- ton. It is his contention also that the practice of adjusting labor ques- tions by means of strikes is incon- patible with the safety of the re- public. The measures that he sug gests for such adjustment deserve and should receive the most careful
 THE LABOR MOVEMENT" By Frank Tannebaum. G. P. Putt
 mans Sons, Publishers, New York
 City.
 In speaking of Frank Tannebaum' s book. The Labor Movement" the following reviews from eminent au- thorities are we'll worth reading:
 q know of no one who tackles know of no person so peculiarly fitted to deal with the labor move ment both from within and from without; I know of no work of the sort that is so broad In vision and So stimulating in suggestion :. The book is temperate and fair minded; and the discussion (even the disscnt) which 1t will evoke will be worth while."-Prof. Carlton J. H. Hayes.
 "A genuine contribution to the sub ject."-Prof. Benj. B. Kendtick. ''So far as I know this Is the first eIltIt Dy all AMcIiCdN SAuQcHt to III terpret the American labor move- ment in the light of the policy and performance of American trade unions. This is sadly needed. In England it was done early and we'll by the Webbs. Prof. Leo Kolman. "REvOLUTION''
 By J. D. Beresford. GA Story of tho Near Future in England.) G. P. Putnam's Sons. Publishers, New York City.
 An intensely moving story. perhaps prophetic-certainly 1t seems so with its vivid sweeping power and its overmastering sense of inevitability. This is in no way a picture of the past; 1t Is the story of great gen. eral strike which paralyzss the in- dustry, yes. the whole life. of the nh<ion. and of counter revolution re- establishing the old but by then dis integrated and disabled order of
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nifieauee of life which is so easily in the midst of our getting and spending"
 "The rising tide of spiritual power" pr. Fosdick declares, "is the hope of China. Most of our mission aries are pictured as pale, ptous. and pulmonary, ,in the comic papers on the stage and in the modern novel; this is miscoucepuon; for most of
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HUMOROUS GHOST STORIES" AND
 FAMOUS MODERN GHOST STO-
 RIES'
 By Dorothy Scarborough. c. P. Put
 nam's Sons, Publishers, New York
 City.
 In these two volumes entitled "Hu- orous Ghost Stories" and Famous Modern Ghost Stories" Dorothy Scar borough has given to the world a most entertaining and delightful col- lection of ghost stories-weu worth reading.
 In Humorous Ghost Stories'' theae world famous stories are containued: "The Canterville Ghost" by Oscar Wilde; The Ghost t-Extinguisher," by Gelett Burgess; 'Dey Amt No Ghosts" by Ellis Parker Butler; "The Transferred Ghost" by Frank R. Stockton; The Mummy's Foot" by Theophile Gautier; "The Rival Ghosts" by Brander Matthews; '"rhe Water Ghost of Narrowly Hail," by John Kendrick Bangs; Back From I that Bourne" Anonymous; The i Ghost Ship" by Richard Middleton; 'aThe Transplanted Ghost" by Wal lace Irwin; The Last Ghost in Har- mony," by Nelson Lloyd; "The Ghost of Anser Brimpson.' by Eden Phill- pots; "The Haunted Photograph" by Ruth McEnery Stuart; The Ghost That Got the Button," by Will Ad- ans: 'The Specter of Tappin6ton," compiled by Richard Barham; Tn the Barn. by Burges Johnson; "A Shady Plot" by Elsie Brown: The Lady and the Ghost" by Rose Cecil O'Neill
 In Famous Modern Ghost Stories" such classics in the ghost stoyy line as the following are noted:
 The Imperishable Ghost: Introduce tion-The Willows by Agernon Blackwood: "The Shadows on the Wall" by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; "The Messenger" by Robert w.. Chambers: Lazarus. by Leonid An dreyev; The Beast With Five Fin gers" by ". F. Harvey; The Mass of Shadows" by Anatole France; What Was It?" by Fitz-James o'Brien; "The Middle Toe of the Right Foot" by Ambrose Bierce; "The Shell of Sense" by Olivia Howard Dun bar; .The Woman at Seven Brothers" by Wilbur Daniel Steele; At the Gate" by Myla Jo Closer; "Ligeia," by Edgar Allan Poe "The Haunted Orchard" by Richard Le Gallienne; "The Bowmen," by Arthur Machen; "A Ghost" by Guy de Maupassant
 "A DEFENSE OF LIBERTY" By the Hon. Oliver Brett. c. P. Put
 nam's Sons, Publishers. New York
 City.
 Is socialism actually 'reactionary? < In this extraordinarily able book a its disting guished author elaborates SR the idea that socialism, far from being. as it's friends and many of it's ~ enemies believe, movement to the xleft in politics. is in reality danger Nous reaction toward primitive con- sservative ideas.
 The "Defense of Liberty deals With the origins and tendencies of modern political movements. It dem- Eonstrates that men naturally divide Themselves by temperament into con < and progressives. Conser- aHvatives. with little respect for hu- 3Aman nature. seeks to preserve con- z trol dver the mob. Progressives, be- heying in human progress. seek to
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: tunate as I have been in getting in- side the church"
 Walt B moment" said she, and you'll see they will be cared for many of them"
 And sure enough-just before the sermon-the surging masses of hu- manity rushed through the aisles-to the aItar--where every inch Of space where people could stand-or sit--was occupied, and when Dr. Fosdick ss- eended the pulpit he had literally to pick his way among the people who were sitting in his path.
 Who says that New York doesn't 90 to church?
 Who says that religion is fall dre?
 Who says ths, Christianity is a thing of the pasti
 Who says that Gods word isn't the The Greatest Thing. in the world?" 1 Not l!
 The preliminary service was over, the LeSsOnS, tho OlOrlA Iatris the Athens" and the "Onertory - and presently tall, slender, young ish looking man ascended tFe pulpit. ] 1 had never seen Dr. Fosdick be- fore. was all eagerness. All at tention, for here was the man berore my very eyes who had written The Second Mile" and had said in that remarkable little book:
 The love that goes The Second Mile is more than q solvent for moral drudgeries in the individual life. It is distinctly force of social revolu- 1 ton and Christ is witness that there Is such love, God himself under ground in a mans life, rising in artesian wells of living water-a love so exhaustless in it's willingness to serve that he who knows 1t under stands the safety of St. Augustine's g profound injunction, Love God and do as you please
 There was q hush over the entire eongregation; the frock coated. white-haired multi -millionaire deac- ons of the church--a Vanderbilt-a ] Whitney-a Gould-an Astor-per- haps those who had marched in line passing the collection plate-were citing now dignified in their pews- | while others were in an attitude of veneration and solemnity-as tho minister took his place in the pulpit
 Without notes-with not even a text-Dr. Fosdick raised his magic voice Tn the second of his series of sermons on Foreign Missions' and as he progressed the strident notes of pleading for those yellow and black people beyond the seas became face-strangely Semitic in contour and his eager heart-sent out the plea with a sincerity that was un- mistakable-undispu
 pr. Fosdck has the enthusiasm Of humanity; he loves mankind in the mass after the fashion of the phil anthropist; and his heart goes out as he tells the moving tale of Buddha and the little Chinese children--their 1 bound feet" and their long lines of ancestors before them who wor- shiped the graven image; he then turns his attenton to the Japanese, whom he pictures in powerful, glow ing, colorful nuances and rides glori- ously on, sounding the Valkyrie note | of mans humanity to man! pr Fosdick under stands brevity as
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-30
HE HELPED

From Practical Druggist.
 Sunday school teacher: Can you tell me whe-n1ade you. Joseph?"
 Joe: God made part of me-
 Sunday school teacher: why, what do you mean by that?"
 Joe: "He made me real little, and I just growed the rest myself"
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DR. HARRY EMERSON FosDlcK

them are dp-standing. upright splendid, life-s sized men and women. They do not live in Gopher village nor on the outskirts of Greenwich village, a mere periphery of stone.'
 Dr. Fosdick spoke eloquently of his various visits to China and Japan; of how he had seen necromancy and magic at work and how aptly enough "it works" Of their terrible fear of
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| the spiritual" which rules the yellow and black people across the seas. and the tremendous need of help from-our American hearts and purses.
 He then paid a Blowing and elo- qaent tribute to the work of the mis- which have sent such splendid mis- Yonary implements to the land of the Chinese and the apanese-referring to the great Methodist missionary work, the Presbyterian and the Bap- tst-of 35S Christian congregations now existingtn China.
 "These Congregations chant O, For Thousand Tongues to Sing our Great Redeemer's Praise, paying us the sincerest form of flattery -imita- tion," said pr. Fosdick, and this ob- tains wherever Christianity has taken hold while within only 25 miles of Peking they sit in utter darkness and were never aware even of the fact that there had been revolution! Oh. what a work for us to do!'
 What China needs-young China mean" shouts the earnest. eager, emotional Apreacher, lis the undis- coura geable faith in Jesus Christ. Today in China wherever the spirit of Jesus has got it's hold there Is H. lumination At the coming confer ence at Washington three out of the four Chinese and Japanese delegates have rece,ved their education al Christian universities, provided by the missionary work of our Protestant churches. 1t is to us Christians that the Far East is looking today-that China and Japan look for enlighten- ment, for spiritual grace; to see if America is in earn6st about peace and religion. Do we not pause for a moment and reflect with our Master whcr he said:
 "Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thor1s or figs of thistles?
 l The minister has delivered his mes sage it has burst like bomb shell | into the garden of old Khayyam he has delivered a flawless "tone poem" which has shown us that the Far East is in flames and that we've l got to help to extinguish 1t; he has aimed lis plea directly at every in- dividual member Of that great con gre ga ton, to you and to me, and you are made to feel your responsibility and then--suddenly the deep-toned bells of the organ bring you back to earth-it is like a greeting; like the breaking of a spell!
 pr. Fosdick is neither genius nor super-man; ho would be the last to claim either prerogative, imagine; he Is just an ordinary man in an extraordinary degree, honest clear-sighted, and with an awakened conscience and he has no fear oi consequences if men will only stol | and4-thinkl
 pr. Fosdick is the antithesis oi those Christians who, in Dean Swift's phrase. Have just enough religion to hate each other" on the other hand he Is all tolerance and love and he does not deliver his belief from an infallible throne, but as il were he comes down into the mar ket place and talks the matter over with you, offering you his opinion and seeking yours.
 As the great congregation fashion. able, wealthy, eminent, dispersed. turned to the lovely lady who hac