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New-York tribune., 1922-10-15

a quent and influential hgur,
"a in French journalism (where
pace Mr.. John Macy, fey
articles go unsigned) as in the metro
politan press Of America. He Is
equally as entertaining, in spite Of the
fact that he depends in no wise upon
contributors. or all column writer's
most witty, the most solidly critical
and the purest stylist is G.. de La
Fouchardiere, whose "Hors d'oeuyre''
! in the Paris "Oeuvre" Is the Joy OF
many thousands every morning.
| am told that La Fouchardiere COM
menced his journalistic career as a
writer on sports, that number of
years ago his racing and boxing
articles appeared to his managing edi-
tor to be Of such quality rs to win for
him the challenger Is no less--to
write daily an interesting column on
any subject whatever. Except for
periods of indisposition and vacation,
La Fouchardiere has written day after
day articles which for wit and pro-
vocative thought may be paralleled
only by the Free Lance" column which
Mencken wrote before the war in "The
Baltimore Evening Sum-"
La Fouchardiere angry, La Fouchar-
diere indignant, Is one of the most ex-
hi.arating spectacles in France. l do
not mean at all that he loses his polse,
that he becomes gross, or violent, or
even that, figuratively, he raises his
voice. But he becomes Voltairean. His
words wrap themselves around the
victim like the lash Of a whip; they
whistle in mid-sentence and they crack
at the end At such time no man
writes more admirable French, a
French classical in restraint and
clarity, colloquial in graphic quality
and picturesqaeness. Writers are
rare whose instrument is so perfectly
attuned to their subject; rarer are
those able to employ acceptably a
combination of literary style and a
vocabulary of argot. Even Mencken
has worn away his inventions until
they have become stereotypes, while
whitley, in the "Book of Scoundrels"
is too inclined to preciosity for COM
parison with the living speech Of the
Frenchman. (Whibley, nevertheless,
does it excellently, as in this COM
mentary upon a pious burglar who
I died in bed: "If he had been fated to
die upon the gallows, how unctuous
had been his croak.")
Complete aesthetic disinterestedness
is state highly difficult of attainment,
and very much fear have still some
way to go before achieving it. l offer
this observation by way of apology to
explain that | have secondary, yet
important, reason for presenting Mr..
de La Fouchardiere to your notice. For
he, heaven knows, rather than all the
Poincares and Barreses In this malgov-
erned country, is truly representative
of that which is best In the French
spirit-its reason and measure, it's
sanity and resiliency. it's urbane
skepticism and intelligent tolerance.
Robert Dell, in an interesting (and
occasionally too petulant) book called
".My Second Country" extols Voltaire
as the representative Frenchman; q
cliche, this judgment, if you like, but
one difficult to contest.
The bons mots of La Fouchardiere
are many and they live in the memory
of all who knew him. There are the
facile ones: "In the Legion of Honor
New-York tribune., 1922-10-15
"They don't uurite such English Nowadays The
book IS charming. The Ne.v York Herald

"MY UNKNOWN CHUM much aiUe any Of the best
sellers Of the week and likely
readers to read and publishers publish
need sDonder Dhy Open the book random
sentences and the question awsed Read the Dh0e from first
last and conviction edupLafDely confirmed
perfect unfaingl feicous ord and
period that
lDth the intellectual and spiritual appeal of his
DR.. Willis Fletcher johnson of Tribune.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-15
America and the Jews
BY Florence Kiper Frank

ate adjurations Of Mo... -.
hssn powerless to preven. a. ~. u NJ
large infiltration Of sliens .r.s ssos
Jews. one NJ
MRS. Austin, though stimu..,,.s. !,
her discussion Of racial tend.~ ~
discussion that, with the pre,sr. 'esti g
OF our knowledge, ought to be d., 3. q
ward most cautiously and u;,h. - "
masism). becomes confusing WA vbs,.!
says that 1--WE have only sen.sss s,s'as Y
observation that pure races ,ss
form indurated surfacesv ana s w,
next page speaks Of the "indurs,.,s ,.Iss =
face' Of the American y.
she identifies the Jew with II. 3 .
mendous sense Of tribe. tssh = y
population of the "thicktv ,o.,s,. =
tribal-minded central Europe sra 49,
trasts them, thus identified vi.tgs y.
"tap-rooted American" ~
II ! may psyeho-analyss Mrs. a.
tin in the manner in wh,ca w
psycho-analyzed Mr. Lewisohn I s,,-,, y
say that she is so alarmed by ths !, l.
iuence exerted by the Jevs !,
lea on American culture thar Il. 80. 8
built up the hypothesis that. .,,ss = -
jews are pure race, II liz sc,@rsA..,
ly impossible that they exert suv ~. !,
iuence. "The indurated sartacss !,
the Jew that has rendered him sia..,.
tive to sub-conscious assirnilss;o, y
the experiences of other racese T., {.
! think. been as indurated az Mr. a MS &
tin would wish to believe.
AT any rate, he has been roto.,,..
as an assimilator of the experi.,,s,
OF other races. Mrs. Austin vs,si
doubtless retort that the notoristv &.
been undeserved and that the ssssGr;
lation has been Of the surfsxss a.
It is difficult for me to beiievx sl.
MIR. Lewisohn, it seems to me, ii ma.
Teutonic in viewpoint and ss,.
American than either of us "a Isr;,.
However, l may misunderstood bsts
myself and Mr.. Lewisohn. 1t would i.
indeed valuable to have further elrs.
dation Of the "sub-conscious rectal ri
experiential induration"-saluabIA /,
those of Us who wish to orient an,
selves in this land Of our birth ans j
our emotions.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-15
HAVE juss rsaa Mary Aussin's

4 review In the current "Diai," Of
IL "Up Stream The matter Of the
Jew In America IL evidently con-
,tinuously provocative--and the Amer
ican-Jewish "intellectusi- is especially
SO, have observed, to Mrs. Austin.
1t IL TO mo, TOO. 1t is q matter of im-
portance. For there is considerable
number Of us--American Jews Of the
second and Of the third generation
who do not feel ourselves alien to the
American scene. Though one deplore
the necessity Of hts birth, even Mrs.
Austin must admit that the Jew that Is
born must be native TO some place.
Yct In this review Of Mr.. Lewisohn's
book Mrs. Austin speaks not Of the
German, bus Of the Jew, as q foreigner,
and refers In herself to that "faint
suffusion Of prejudice with which the
native always approaches the alien
point Of view"
Iconfess myself hers little alarmed
as to the fact Of nay existence. My
parents were born in Kansas. ! was
born in Kansas. am neither spiritu-
ally nor physically a native of Ger
many, Of Russia, Of Jerusalem. In fact.
here confess that, in spite Of my ad-
miration for the beauties Of Mr.. Lewis
sohn's book, dared to share with MRS.
Austin certain irritation at his lack
OF understanding of the yeasty ferment
that Is young America.
T THINK Mrs. Austin entirely over
estimates the persistence of the
Jewish culture" In group that, dur
ing the last fifty years, has lost its re-
ligious cohesion-the only vital force
preserving It's tradition. She is GER
tainly misinformed on the matter of
racial purity--an assumption given q
scientific cast by Teutonic anti-Semi-
tisrn, but disproved by modern ethno-
logical research. Absolute purity of
race is an achievement Of only very
few groups, isolated by unusual geo.
graphic conditions, and all the passion
New-York tribune., 1922-10-15
THR PENrTENr. b. Edna worthley ua-
derweod Houghson. MiHnn.

- Pic NOVELS are rare in any
literature. IL aThe penitent's
is not the Hrst TO be prodaced
- by an American, It's predeces-
scr does not coYae to mind
readily. They are rare because the
writing OF one requires double gift,
historical and iictional It is no easier
to reanimate a once-iiving character
than to create one out of Imaginative
whole cloth. Perhaps it is harder, IN
voiving as IL does a reversal of the
Usual process Of good novel writing, in
which action develops from character.
Character must be adduced from the
action asseady on record. The novelist
pure and simple is free to eliminate
snd rearrange refractory material. The
historical novelist (as distinguished
from the writer of period novelsl
cannot dc so, not alone because he will
be caught at it, but because he will
falsify mis- conclusions. And the record
for Imagination to reconcile it to it
self. Implicitly or explicitly, a heroic
historicai novel must cover the whole
field; vast task, If the epoch be one
OF change and upheavai.
Toistoy, who wrote the greatest of
all epic nevels "War and Peace" Mt
tered truth that is profound in its
simplicity; and so obvious that till
then II had never been clearly per-
cievsd, not alone by novelists but by
That is, that the whole is
composed Of al it's parts, and the sum
would be altered by the subtraction of
the least of them. Hence If any single
person at any given time in the worlds
history should act otherwise than as
he does act, the subsequent course of
his nations history. and hence of the
worlds history, would in that degree
New-York tribune., 1922-10-15
a ''This Free,cm"
Day Book
TUESDAY. October 8

Lots OF recorders for This Freedom"
came In this morning. Ordered the
,ourth printing, 10000 copies 1t will
s, ,ape 10 DC rushed. This makes $4,000
pslhtea SO TAR Numerous clippings in
the mail Including one from Johnny
Weaver's page In The Brooblun Eagle,
IA which he calls Hutchinson utterly
negiislbie Chat will please Burton Ras-
sosl ana FOUR announcing This Free
oon' as the subject of sermons to be
preached In Greater New York Churches
"has controversy the book has started
WEDNESDAY. October a
Barton Currie. editor of Tho Ladies'
V mV,'c Joh'hoi, was In for an hour. and
said he heard of This Freedom" every
Wnere. savage attack in the October
D'dt, with the suggestion that John s.
ou,"Aer prosecute those who publish,
.rh seli, recommend. or give away the book
Thls tcas surprise!
Today's Netp York Times contains its
third editorial about the book
tlodue' Stoughton. Ltd, the English
lao oeo ans write tss, that they have printed
surely TOD every sale there this autumn,
THURSDAY. October &
~, we : shall run an advertisement In
- ase ..,D Dsai quoting six ciergymen's praise
OF This Freedom" To date thfrtv-
three have advised us that they win
preach sermons on the book. incirdiny
Two boston ciergymen who called this
.g morning to get full information about
the author. Ao'os
FRIDAY. October
Baker G Taylor Co.'S o.to,,er nao,.
naiteffn Is In. This Freedom. which
.hss can the fiction ace of the fail ),
ss, re'tss ,heir list of September's best seuars
.ae " Wafnsh CITY Club of Boston an
m nmoohces 1or October lssh. reading nv
tha ,sai. arafies peabody Of passages from
M .ne oook Members are asked to reaa
the story and come prepa red far Az
cusslon. Aor als-
SATURDAY. October !
Good news, but NOT unexpected ,ra,,
1as Publishers Wcekly. Boohs -, sh
MSHth Wal show This Freedom as
ths best seller in September throughout
the country, with sixty-eight points out
OF possible seventy. 1t has q big Isa.s
over the second book on the list.
MONDAY. October o
Recorders this morning from all over
the country Tie Lfteraru DIGEST /.
writing 10 all married women In Wba,s
VINO ~ America. asking FOR their views
on the problem deal, with in .tThls Free
dom AcGiaros Book Rul,etin and Tha
Bookseller and Stdffoner both ,vfre tn.s
the book heads their best-sel,er iista sar sas
September. That makes II unaninna,rsi
This Freedom. the best seller eyery.
whe.a 1t looks very much like ssjn sl9o
by Chrissmas. which was our prediction
last Slay.
Is5sh Thousand. $500.
Boston LITTLE.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-15

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THE PRIVATE DIARIES OF
SIR ALGERNON WEST
Edited by Horace Hutchinson
The story of Gladstone's final adj
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THE PRIME MINISTERS OF
BRITAIN. By Give B ga1am
Fascinating sketches reflect the
shifting conditions surrounding the
Sc holders of this Office. $500
SOME REVOLUTIONS AND
OTHER DIPLOMATIC
EXPERIENCES
BY Sir Henry G. Elliot
Inside information about Italy,
Greece and Constantinople in criti-
cal times. $500
THE RUSSIAN TURMOIL
Memoirs. Military, Social and
Political.
By Gen. A. I. Deniken
An exceedingly important record
of the Russian situation. $500
LORDS AND COMMONERS
BY Sir Henry Lucy
(eToby, M. P.")
Sketches which RANGE in subject
from England's leading figures to
American dollars. 5000
DIARY OF A JOURNALIST
Later Entries)
By SIR Henry Lucy
Extracts from the record of busy
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| LIFE OF SIR EDWARD COOK
By J. Saxon Mills
| Full of anecdotes of the great jour
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$500
1 MEMOIRS OF A CLUBMAN
MORE MEMOIRS AND SOME
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Both by G.. B. Rurgin
GAS an intimate chronicle and por-
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THE STAGE LIFE OF MRS.
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I REVOLUTION
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A gallery of Interesting portraits
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4 Introduction by Sir James c.
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The Washington times., 1922-04-30
Political Ups and
Downs Fail to Move
Seven Small BianchiS

REVOLUTIONS and wars mean
nothing to the little Bianchi
children. They are quite used to
'em. Down there. or so they say,
a person can go to sleep at night,
a loyal citizen Of the government
and wake up next day a traitor
to his nag. The aforesaid flag
having changed overnight.
A revolution sent the seven
little Bianchis to the United
States when their daddy, DR..
Julio Bianchi. was appointed min.
lister. And another revolution Is
taking them away. A recent politi-
cal upheaval in Guatemala dis.
posed the president responsible for
the presence OF the Bianchis in
Washington and now the State De-
partment doesn't know just who
is minister. DIR. Bianchi, however.
is about to settle their difficulty
for them. With his family he Is
leaving shortly for Mexico City,
Mexico, where he expects to estab.
lish himself permanently.
Washington will miss the Bian.
CHS. In the two years they have
been here the youngsters have
learned a number of things from
their Yankees cousins. Emilio,
the eldest, is a Boy Scout and
belongs to a local troop. Mar
garet, the baby OF the family, was
born in Washington and is a
Yankee baby by right of birth.
Emilio, the Oldest of the small
army of youngsters. is just thir.
teen. Margaret, the baby. is not
quite two. Between them there is
Elisa, Matilde, Edward, Martha
and Robert, all handsome sturdy
youngsters, decidedly Spanish
American in appearance.
The Washington times., 1922-04-30
Benefit Concert to BE
BrOadcasted bY Radio


pATRIOTS and music lovers of
Washington are deeply inter-
ested in the two concerts to be
given on Tuesday and Friday Of
next week at the National Thea
ter at 4:30 p. m. These concerts,
under the auspices of the Soldiers
Institute, feature four artists of
different nations. Patricia Ryan.
American grand opera prima
donna; Willem van den Andel
pianist. former professor Of piano
at the Royal Conservatory Of
Rotterdam: Samuel Furedi, Hun
garian cellist, pupil and successor
OF the famous Pepper OF the
Royal Conservatory of Buda.
Pesth; Elsa Louise Raner, Polish
violinist. pupil OF Auer.
The accompanies will be Mrs.
Rhea Watson Gable, pianist, COM
poser and wife OF Congressman
Cable OF Ohio, and Mrs. Adele r.
Bush.
An interesting feature OF the
May 2 concert is that 1t will be
broadcasted all over the country
by the naval air station at Ana.
costa, under the direction OF
Capt. s. w. Bryant, chief OF the
Radio-engineering department OF
the navy. Captain Bryant Is be.
ing assisted in making this fea-
ture brilliant success by Lieu
tenant Commander Davis and
Comdr. Albert Hoylt. the inventor
OF the modern method OF broad
casting.
A RRANGEMENTS are being
made for the wounded sold
iers in the hospitals to listen
in" at this concert, which is be-
ing given for the purpose OF
raising funds to give the wounded
men a summer outing. Some of
the "shut-in" soldiers who had
not left the hospitals since being
brought on stretchers from
France are overjoyed at the pros
pect OF being given a chance to
get out in the open for a while.
Perhaps they get to thinking
of the lines:
When the war Is on and the peo-
pie excited,
God and the soldier" they cry
affrighted; ~
When the war is over and the
wrong is righted,
God is forgotten and the soldier
slighted.
The artists. each Of whom repre-.
sents the highest and best in his
or her line of art, have donated
their services for these benefit
concerts.
The Washington times., 1922-04-30
Diplomat to Wed
Washington Girl

A WEDDING OF international
interest will take place on
Thursday when Miss Grace East.
ment becomes the bride of Dr.
Bernard Jan Gratama. counselor
OF the Netherlands legation.
The ceremony will be performed
at noon in All Souls Church by the
Rev. DIR. II. II. ID. Sterrett. who
will be assisted by his son. the Rev.
j. McBryde Sterrett, and will be
followed by a reception at the
home of the brides parents. Mr..
and Mrs. George w. Eastment,
who live in Ordway street.
The bride. who will be given in
marriage by her father, will have
her sister. Miss Elsie Eastment, as
her only attendant.
Baron G. w. de Vos van Steen.
wyk, attache OF the Netherlands
legation. will be best man. and the
uGhers will be Capt. John Wood.
Nop&. fitiIc AkhcW' Napbaih ChtD-
herd and Captain foung. all of the
army.
Among those from out OF town
who will come 20 the wedding will
be Capt. and Mrs. II. L. Mason, Of
Brookline. Conn, uncle and aunt
of the bride, and Mrs. Charles Lee.
OF Glen Cove, L. T.. another aunt.
who will be the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Eastment; Miss Clara Day. of
Hartford. Conn. and p. c. East.
ment, of Glen Cove.
The engagement was made
known last summer at the same
time that the engagement Of Miss
Helen Eastment to Charles r.
Schultz was announced.
The Washington times., 1922-04-30
WTELDERS OFF PEN AND PENCIL ASSEMBLE
FOR PENWOMENS LEAGUE CONVENTION;
NOT FORGETTING TYPEWRITER ARTISTS
Women From All Over Country Attend Silver
Jubilee-Authors' Breakfast an Event.

Housekeeping. to which Mrs. Keyos
is a regular contributor. and--I
forget who else.
Mrs. Geldert. who was toastmis-
tress, and a most graceful one,
seemed to have rallied the army
and navy to her support-she had
General Pershing, chief Of staff,
u. 8. A.. and Admiral Coontz and
Mai. Gen. John A. Lejeune. And
Anna Katherine Greene Rholfs was
there. and Ida Clyde Clark, and
Helen Rowland. and Nine.
Grouitch. and Princess Cantacu-
zene and Basil King, of Boston;
and Mrs. Arthur Lee, and-well,
several hundred ''also rans'-even
as you and /.
Mrs. Keyes introduced rather
briefly the honor guests-most of
whom looked pleasant and said
nothing. She presented Henry
Cabot Lodge as the leading literary
light OF the United States Senate,
and he made a very graceful little
address.
Basil King gave an amusing
talk, taking for his text the
Scotchman's remark that America
was "a MIGHTY fine country. but It
was run by the weemin, with a
wee bit of assistance frae Meth
odist meenisters." General Perish.
ing assured his hearers that his
literary experience was confined to
a series OF model love letters which
he has written as a "compos~..ion"
while he was at West Point, and
sadly enough he had ceased writ
ing love letters very soon after he
graduated. so that practice seemed
time wasted. Which, of course.
everybody took with several grains
of salt. And when the general
pried himself loose. the fluffy
bunch Of pretty girls, gotten UP az
CoNcibt bo WNi y oci Nihb
as pages, all nuttered along to be
photographed with him-and per-
haps you think those sweet young
things weren't thrilled They had
thought 1t Joy enough to be pho
tographed in a group around Mary
Roberts Rinehart, each of them
trying to make herself believe that
she looked like Bah" But that
paled into insignificance beside
this. Their cup Of bliss over
flowed.
IT really was a most interesting
occasion-or IL would have been
had there been less OF 1t. 1t was
too long! Those things always are.
The thing was supposed to begin
at noon-and 1t was getting on to
o'clock when ] left-and even
then 1t was still going strong"
There were all sorts of stunts still
on the program. and one didn't
quite see how they'd ever get
through in time for the ordinary
afternoon engagements. Mrs.
Hughes sfor instance, was due at
recital-Mme. Matzenauer, the art.
iste-for the benefit OF the Welies-
ley College endowment fund. Mrs.
Coolidge, Mrs. Hoover. Miss
Hughes and General Pershing were
to be members OF her box party
Continued on Next Page.)
The Washington times., 1922-04-30

'IT1E LedSuo VI AiifSfiCdn IeH-
women was holding it's silver
Jubilee and first biennial confer
ence during the greater part Of last
week. I don't know just how
many of 'em were here, but to use
my small nephew's favorits express
sion. "They mus We been mos'a
million Of 'em"' And, my! but they
were a busy bunch! The opening
gun OF their aforementioned "sil-
yer jubilee and biennial confer
ence"-I quote from their rather
deliberately gotten up ppogram, a
nice little pamphlet in jade green
and silver covers!-seems to have
been an afternoon tea at the White
House on Tuesday. Or. no-the
Women's National Press Club en-
tertained their national and State
officers at luncheon at the Madril-
lon on Monday,
The President and Mrs. Harding
are certainly joiners! They belong
to more different organizations
than any President and First Lady
that have ever been in the White
House. Mrs. Harding belongs to
the l.. A. p. w. She was invited
to become a member a month or
two before she entered upon her
duties as chatelaine Of the White
House, and filed her application
for membership in due and regular
form. SO. of course. she had to
give them a tea when they came to
Washington. She must have been
rather tired by the time she got to
1t, for Tuesday certainly was her
busy day. She and the President
together received the Daughters
Of 1912 that afternoon, and then
she received the Danes of the
Loyal Legion; and then gave. her
tea for the delegates to the League
OF American Penwomen's confer
ence-a tea is a little more hos
pitable hospitality than merely re-
ceiving. you see.
Perhaps the most sensa sational fea-
ture Of the conference was a break
fast at Wardman Park Hotel
which was the headquarters of the
conference-on Wednesday. There
were several hundred women,
most Of them clever. and many Of
them really notable at that break
fast, and a sprinkling OF men.
Writers of some achievement, COM
posers, editors, artists, publishers
and critics rubbed elbows at that
Authors breakfast" and I for
one was most impressed.
Mrs. Henry Wilder Keyes. the
acting president, had at the table
with her Mrs. Coolidge and Mrs.
Hughes and Mrs. Taft. and she
read a letter of greeting from
Mrs. Harding. And Henry Cabot
Lodge was at that table, and Mrs.
Daniel Lothrop, of Five Little
Peppers" fame-apologies to either
or both for the juxtaposition-and
Mary Roberts Rinehart. who writes
better prose than most, and Angela
Morgan, who can, and sometimes
does, write real poetry; and Cora
Rigby Cbless herD president Of the
National women's Press Club. and
w. +. Bigelow, editor Of Good