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The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-12-06

| Many Restrictions.
One Of the largest business enter
| prises conducted under one manage
ment in the United States during the
last year has been the government s
job of disposing of surplus war ma
terial. More than 100000 different ar
ticles have been sold for cash through
nationwide auction sale system.
Sales have been in progress five days
in every week all the year. and prop
erty that cost nearly $500, 100000 has
been disposed of, the cash proceeds
turned into the treasury aggregating
approximately $S3,OOO,OOO.
A summary obtained for the office Of
Assistant Secretary of War VAIN
wright, Uncle Sans head salesman,
shows that, on Sept. /, 1921, there
was available for sale about $75O, OOO,-
600 in surplus war stocks, ranging In
character and size from locomotives
to pins and needles. One year later
there remained on hand Of that
amount property worth $249, 900, 900,
and officials today expressed the hope
that Uncle Sans shelves could be
cleared in another six months.
The rate Of return to the govern
ment varied tremendously. On one
small lot Of lumber it received 116
per cent OF what 1t paid in war times !;
on a great mass of gas masks sold for
salvage the return was one-half of 1
per cent of what they cost.
Satisfied With Return.
s'The average recovery during the
year for all classifcations is about Is
per cent, which, under the circum-
stances, is considered very creditable,"
the summary said
The government has faced restric-
lions never imposed on commercial
transactions of the kind In the bust
ness world. For one thing, 1t had on
hand vast quantities of munitions and
other military stores of no value what
ever except for war purposes. They
could be sold only as scrap, to be
broken up and revoked into articles
of peaceful commerce. The return on
such sales could have no relation to
the cost value.
Another restriction was the neces-
sity Of disposing of those classes of
commodities which are a part of peace
full industry in such fashion that pri-
vate enterprise would not be crushed
under the floods of materials to be sac
rificed out Of government stocks. In
some cases the governments stocks
were sufficient to have met normal
peace time consumption Of a given
commodity for a period of years.
Still another restriction was the ne
cessity of making the war supplies |
available to all classes of American |
rich or poor. The sales were |
conducted so that the smallest retail
or might have his chance, and the pub |
lie auction system of small lots was /
followed for this reason.
First Call by Departments.
BY direction of cosgress, the army
surplus stocks of all classes were made
available to other government depart
nents and an aggregate amount was
Of a cost value Of $1O5,-
700, COO
Very few sales, 1t 10 stated, were
made ~ other than 4 strict cash basis.
A. An Illustration Of the widespread
nature Of the selling operations, 1t 10
,eintsl cut that, during the year In
question. Tiers were 100 large auction
aIss held in 81 different places In ~
tatss. Incidentally, this plan re-
tsved the government Of the nscessity
4 Transporting Thousands Of tons Of
ommsd and adding the cost OF
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-12-06
THIRD OF ARMY
STORES REMAIN
United States Is in Immense
War-Stocks Business.
GET IS PER CENT OF COST

Half BilIion Dollars Worth of Goods
Disposed of During Past Year for
$4,000, 0OO-More Than 100000 Diff
ferent Articles Sold for Cash
Through Nationwide Auction
Sale System-Government Faces
Many Restrictions.
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puDllSnlnS THIS DeSC story as well
as his other works in graceless pri-
vately printed editions? Perhaps
there is something in the very char
acter of his literary excellence
which has helped to work against
him.-From "The Case of Frank
Harris." By j. W. Krutch in the
Nation.
Dostoevsky at Work.
CONSIDER thepease of Dostoev-
~ sky. One of the few valuable
pieces of information in his daugh-
ter's biography is that he could
write only in absolutely clean
clothes and linen. II there was a
single spot or stain on his coat he
was compelled to give up work
until it had been removed. The
presence of stain affected him like
physical contamination. His
mind was obsessed by it as by
direct physical sensation. l con-
fess that this information concern
ing the painter of so many tremen-
dous pictures of physical sordidness
surprised me, just as was sur
prised when 1 first saw photo
graph of his incredibly neat study.
1t seemed more like the work room
of an Ambassador than the great
novelist. My surprise was naive.
have since come to believe that
it was precisely because physical
degradation plays so great a part
in the world Of his literary creation
that Dostoevsky had such an exag-
gerated nervous horror of it in
reality.-From the London Times.
Unpublished Letters of r. L. S.
THE letters are addressed to his
i cousin Bob" Robert Alan
Mowbray Stevenson, the well known
painter and art critic, the novelist's
only confidant during his early
manhood. These letters are of great
biographical interest, point which
the writer seems to have realized,
for in one he says: did 1 ever be-
come great, this letter would figure
in my life: and in another: "If
you keep my letters and I keep
yours, what a curious retrospect it
will be for US! My letters to you
would form a history Of myself,
which, as I am too indolent to write
diary, / should like to have for
future instruction and amusement" ="
All the letters are long, and nearly
all date from 1S66-70, a period Of
Steveneon's career about which not
much is known.-From the London
Times.
Flaubert's Lady Friend.
A LII those to whom Flaubert's
"A personality is at once enig-
matte and intensely interesting are
awaiting eagerly the life of Louise
Cole.. The book is oddly named
"A Lady Of the Salons" That.
with all due submission to the
author, D. e. Enfield. is surely a
curious misnomer. OF course, salon"
is a wide term; in sense, every
woman has a salon. But Louise
Colet, strange, unhappy, morbid,
jealous, was the Cinderella of the
brilliant circle composed of de Mus
set, Sainte-Beuve. de Vigny, George
Sand and the other members Of the
highly vitalized group who knew so
much of each others love affairs.
The melancholy story of Louise
Colet's Iaison with the author of
Madame Bovary" becomes very
clear to any one who can read be-
tween the lines in Flaubert's pub
lished correspondence. 1t may be
doubted IL he ever loved her in
the sense his great contempo-
raries understood love. She was
bitterly hurt and incensed by his
determination never to introduce
her to his mother and sister. and
after their final quarrel she wrote q
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MERCVRlIE: 4 :
FRANCE

poor, spiteful little book. giving her
version of their friendship.-From
the London Times.
George Russell: "A. E."
A T the time / write of him he
"A was the religious teacher, and
that alone-his painting, his poetry
and his conversation all subservient
to that one end. Men watched him
with awe or with bewilderment; it
was known that he saw visions con-
tinually, perhaps more continually
than any modern man since Sweden
borg; and when he painted and
drew in pastel what he had seen
some accepted the record without
hesitation, others, like myself. no
ticing the academic Graco-Roman
forms, and remembering his early
admiration for the works of Gus
tave Moreau, OWNED a subjective
element, but no one doubted his
word. One might not think him
good observer, but no one could
doubt that he reported with the
most scrupulous care what he be-
lieved himself to have seen; nor did
he lack occasional objective cor
roboration. Walking with some
man in the park-his demesne, as
we say in Ireland-he had seen
visionary church at particular
spot, and the man had dug and un-
covered its foundations; then some
woman had met him with "Oh, Mr..
Russell, am so unhappy" and he
had replied, You will be perfectly
happy this evening at o'clock"
and left her to her bushes. She
had an appointment with a young
man for z o'clock.-From More
Memories" By Wiiliam Butler
Yeats in the Dial.
The Spirit of Shelley.
WITH a zealot's precision Shell
w ley demanded the absolute.
His was religious spirit, always
fascinated by the supernatural,
seeking communion with an lm-
palpable divine essence. There
fore, in spite of the buffetings of
fate, he stands for the revelation
to men of ineffable spiritual reali
ties beyond the reach of sensuous
experience. His soul famed mp
ward like Blake's, though with less
detachment. He explored the en-
pyrean, he touched the intangible;
his poetry brought down to earth
the vision of supernal beauty which
had eluded even the blind eyes Of
Milton. Through him the vitality
of mystical distractions. the power
and sweep Of subtle, unseen forces,
the loveliness of secret beauty, the
glory Of naked truth aud the up
ward reach of the human mind to-
ward the infinite splendor are given
the fiery proof of song. On earth he
was ill at ease; in the highest
heaven of imagination his poise was
perfect.-From Poetry
Is Shakespeare" Patchwork?
T AM not one of those who hold,
L with Oscar Wilde, that when
Columbus discovered America he
ought to have hushed it up. Facts
have to be faced, however incon-
venient and disturbing they may
be. There are moments, however.
when one wavers in this stoical
creed; and such a moment comes
to me when / open one of the
lengthening array Of studies in
which Mr.. j. M. Robertson has set
himself to reapportion the works
commonly attributed to Shake
speare among almost all the other
playwrights, his contemporaries.
Mr.. Robertson brings to his task
colossal industry, prodigious
memory, no small critical acumen
and immense mowers oS ayxxunnnta-
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Shakespeare's Summers.

Shakespeare's Summers.
THE richness and radiance of
i Shakespeare suggest high
summer, and it is certain that his
summers warmed his genius. He
was born on May 5 (allowing for
the change from old to new style)
and therefore summer received him
into her arms. He must often have
recalled a summer of his school
days, that of 1875, in which Queen
Elizabeth visited the Earl of Lei
cester at Kenilworth Castle. From
Stratford, only twenty miles away,
the boy may have been taken by
his father to see some Of the moon
light pageants; and some critics
see in the vision of Oberon, in "A
Midsummer Nights Dream" ref
erence to the Queen as the fair
vestal throned by the west" 1t is
clear that Shakespeare's wonderful
flower and bird lore, so rustically
accurate, came to him in his young
Stratford summers.-From John O.
Lond0n's Weekly.
Shakespeare's London.
OHAKESPEARE was but two
~ and-twenty when he came to
London, then a Gothic city whose
summer days and nights were pure
and glorious, its river pellucid, its
winds free and fragrant. He who
wishes to see London as Shake
speare saw it on summer morning
should look at Visscher's panoramic
view taken in the very year of
Shakespeare's death. We are stand
ing, probably on a roof top, in
Bankside, a spot now sacred to
Shakespeare's memory. In the fore
ground are two curious octagonal
buildings labeled "The Globe" and
the Bear Garden" Beyond these
are the backs of houses fringing
the Surrey side, and over these we
see the broad bosom of the river
which mirrored the London Of
Elizabeth and James.-From John
o. London's Weekly.
William Morris and English Taste.
MORRIS and Burne-Jones settled
AvA in London in 1857, and they
were soon on intimate terms with
Rossetti. Morris went on writing
poetry, and he learned to paint
illuminated vellum manuscripts in
the fifteenth century manner. From
this work he turned his mind to
decoration and furniture. The in
terror of the ordinary Victorian
house was an offense to high
heaven. Even Dean Inge can hardly
enthuse over the taste of what
probably will live in history as "the
antimacassar and wax flower
period" We owe it to Morris more
than to any other man that our
chairs and tables are now very
often good to look at, and that our
curtains and sofa covers have some
thing like beauty.-From John o.
London's Weekly.
Harris the Truculent.
MO doubt this public and private
4N turbulence is enough to ex-
plain Harris's disappearance from
the great world of journalism. "One
could not ask you," said Shaw on
another occasion, ito meet Mrs.
Humphry Ward"-and you cannot
have a career in London as a jour-
nalist and politician unless you can
be trusted to take Mrs. Humphry
Ward down to dinner" But though
the disapproval of the various Mrs.
Wards may explain the wreck Of
Mr.. Harris's public career, it does
not explain the failure of his purely
literary talents to impress the pub
lie. Mrs. Ward would have found
Poe trying at times, but his works
survive while those of Frank Harris
threaten to be submerged along
with his fortunes. Why is it that
a. -. ~v~oxn wbof Arpo1d
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he Nation
THE ATHENEUM

by future generations of scholars l
do not doubt. Yet again and again
one asks himself: "n it be true that
the body of work we have hitherto
thought of as Shakespeare is in
fact a mere patchwork guilt COM
posed Of fragments of Marlowe.
Greene, Peele, Drayton, Chapman,
Haywood. Jonson and several 9TH
ers, ought not Mr.. Robertson, in
tenderness to posterity. to have
hushed the matter up?"-From "Re-
distributing Shakespeare" BY Wiu-
lam Archer in the Contemporary
Rerieso.
Ministers and Manuscripts.
TN his American Diplomacy"
L Carl Russell Fish, professor Of
history at the University of Wis
consin, says: when a President
wished to gain applause in the first
half of the nineteenth century he
appointed an author. like James
Fenimore Cooper or Washington
Irving, who was expected to repay
the nation by writing a book" We
have. indeed. always had Diplo-
matte Corps that has somehow been
given the tasks of the author.
David Francis, Whitlock, Gerard,
r. w. Child, r. U. Johnson, Egan,
Reinsch, Van Dyke, A. d. White
and John Quincy Adams-have all
returned, at one time or another,
with manuscripts in their brief
cases. No one of them, however,
did lay claim or would lay claim
to being a linguist." Litter.
dry American Diplomats" By Allen
W. Porferfeld in the Forum.
Book Tastes in British Columbia.
WE find that historical ro-
~ mances are popular with
most readers. With that in mind,
we supplement the Government Ii
brary from our small private sup
ply. Beginning with light fiction
such as the Scarlet Pimpernel,"
we followed with a Tale of Two
Cities" A year, and our library
contained a most interesting life of
Marie Antoinette, which was much
appreciated by those who had read
the other books dealing with the
same period. Weyman's stories Of
the black Bartholomew gave birth
to q real interest in the religious
struggle that convulsed Europe in
the sixteenth century, and we
found many Of our members became
anxious to gain more knowledge Of
European history.-From "Trovel-
ing Libraries and the Open Shelf"
By Mory Richie in the Nanitoba
Free Press.
Shelley's Lyrics.
CHELLEY met the world of men
~ and women with. the solemn,
unquestioning belief of some flower
or child, and when things proved
not what they seemed he thought
they must be the exact reverse. The
strength of the recoil was the nat
ural result Of the violent eagerness
of the attack, and it was all q part
of his passionate youthfulness. For
not only the glories of youth. but
its weakness were his-its irrev-
erence. its fiery impatience, its
naughty intolerance Of the worka-
day world, its reckless daring In
the first onset tagging under pro-
longed effort. Thus II is by his up
ward reach more than his capacity
for sustained flight that Shelley
wins his place among the masters
From Poetry.
Poets and Poetry.
THERE may be doubts as to
1 whether this Is an age Of
The New York herald., 1922-07-09

before the public. Books of poems
by modern poets come to the re-
viewers desk with frequency and
regularity. The issue may be linn
tied in number, but despite that the
books get the authors work before
the public, and the number of sales
depends on the public's willingness
to buy. In addition to books Of
poems there is the very consider
able amount Of verse OF a frag-
mentary nature appearing in tha
magazines. The magazines are nup
merous and the total of magazine
verse published in year on this
continent would make a very stout
volume indeed. In view Of this
people make a mistake when thoy
say that there are no poets to-day.
There are thousands of them. The
point really is whether they are
writing poetry. No doubt some Of
them are, but it is apparent that
the great mass of modern verse is
forgotten almost as soon as pub
lished. The war years were prolific
in the production of verse, but Il
half dozen of the war poems sur
vive and pass into the common
literature of life it will be almost
all that will.-From the Manit0bo
Free Press.
Language Of the English Gypsy.
ON account of the limitations Of
~ their vocabulary, the Gypsies
often take English words, or use
some very curious methods of ex-
pressing their meaning. The IRE
Quent use Of the word "engro" is
one of these. According to Borrow,
This word affixed to a noun or
verb turns it into something figura-
tive, by which they designate, sol
dom very appropriately, some OBJ
ject for which they have no positive
name. 'Engro' properly means .
fellow and 'engri,' which is the
feminine or neuter modification, .
thing When the noun or verb taf-
inmates in a vowel, 'engro' 10
turned into 'mengro' and 'engff
into 'mengri.'" As an illustration.
Of this curious method of forming
words it might be pointed out that
the literal translation of "poven-
gro" (potato) is "earth-fellow"s
kaunengro," which means hare
Is literally "ear-fellow":: and the
name for squirrel. which is 'ruk-
heangro" or "rookomemgro," really
signifies "a fellow of the tree
Thus, 'LAvengro." who is the auto
biographical hero OF Borrow's bese
known book, il "vord-master," a
"linguist- The R0Aoa1
ysb: A Stroll scith George Bres0As
By Robert Ayre IN the Hasitobo
Free Press.
Gypsy Place Names-
OEvERAL of our modern slang
~ words are quite gypsy, such as
fake" which means ito work, In
dishonest sense: steal, pick pock-
ets"; and pal" one Of the words
for brother" II is curious fac4
(apropos Of the late war) that the
gypsy word for a common is "kAk-
keno mushe's poov"-"no mans
land" Gypsy place names are 6g-
urative and often quite appropri-
ate. The Romany name for France
is "Monseer-tem," and the French
are called -parley-woo guero8s
Sheflleld is known as -Cutlers'
tauu. fChuri-men1re<kev 1ayl.
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poor, spiteful little book. giving her
version of their friendship-From
the London Times.
The New York herald., 1922-07-09
Poets and Poetry.

THERE may be doubts as to
1 whether this is an age Of
poetry. but Of q certainty Il is an
age Of the publication Of verse. At
no time has the poet had q better
Opportunity Of getting his wares
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reduced not only to editing a
struggling magazine but also to
publishing this "best story" as well
as his other works in graceless pri-
vately printed editions? Perhaps
there is something in the very char
acter of his literary excellence
which has helped to work against
him.-From "The Case of Frank
Harris" By j. W. Krutch in the
Nation.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-10-15

=. l.. Rhodes. william =. stone Ray
Roster, ! W. West. j.. y. shallen-
berger. w. J. Collier, j. VI G Usher.
FarrIs. r ". Allen. John Pickens.
A. " Argue. A. y Bradshaw, Roy
Garbett, r. NJ ChamDliHs. John
Reynolds and Miss Isabel Chambliss
Thuradav evening A. the Coffee
CUP inn members 0f the ~ Kappa
Phi fraternity OF the University Of
Tulsa entertained their rushees at
= dinner party Mcmhcrs present
were. Messrs Glen Huford. John
Woolery. W A. setter Joe Trimble,
Louis Reeves. Billy Thompson Vic
tor Atherton. John Crowdcr. James
Meione. Ralnh Ne1tah, Ralph Pull
liam. Layne Perry Arthur small.
Guests were Howard Acher, Albert
Lukkeu, VI. o. stokum. Glen North.
George dill George Bond. Percy
Gray Raymond Shultz Dewey price,
Hayden Mcdonald, Br'iton Haven
strife. Levy Henson. Edward Fike.
Ted GottiuEer. Fay Hixon. Tow
Swlndlor. John Watson, Walton
Roth, Charles zimmerman, Dean
Roberts. Courtney Berlin John
Lcwls. Earl Barrett. John ThOmp-
son, August Zollner.
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mounted with great ciusters of au-
tumn foliage and chrysanthomums
in the golden bronze. a semi-arch
OF the foliage and chrysa'themums
formed a doorway 10 the chancel
while tall iva grasses in tho autum-
nal tlnts fl1nkcd the altar which was
decorated with the bronze blossoms
and had background Of smilax.
Bronze satin ribbons and clusters OF
chryeanthemums marked the pews
reserved FOR the members OF the
two families and out-of-towu guests.
An organ program % wedding
music preceded the ceremony. the
numbers including 'Eutrce du
Cortegc" and "Beued ictlonc Nup-
uaIe" from Dubois Wedding
Macs" Hollins' Spring song an
"intermezzo' by Rogers. Ind An
dantlno" by Lemare and Meditation
From Thais' by Massenet Mrs. j.
wallace Perry, an aunt OF tho bride.
sang Cadmans AT pawning' after
which the Bridal Chorus from Loo
heugrln" was heard as the bridal
party appeared.
Like the last Of flaming autumn
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flowers. the bridesmaids made q
charming picture as they passed
down the aisle In their gowns OF
brilliant hues---the gowns alike in
their long skirts, draped and over
draped until they reached the toes
% the silver slippers. with side trains
extending well upon the floor. The
blouses. which were sleeveless and
hip length. we're Joined 10 the skirts
with girdlee of swicled ornaments
OF silver cloth and chiffon. The
gowns were of chiffon made over
cloth OF silver woven In tones TO
match each shade.
Entering together came Mise
Archie Burnett Of Sapulpa who
wore Jade green. aud Miss Mary Eli
len Mellon. Kowned In aurora rose.
Next came Miss Dorothy Hoffman,
In gown Of sunset blue. with Miss
OLIVIA Allen Of shreveport. La, who
wore a gown Of deep orchid shade.
Misa Ruby Ingram. the maid ~
honor. wore a gown OF sunburst yell
low. quaint and becoming llttie
poke-shaped hats OF silver cloth and
lace. trimmed with bands and
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mn PLEASANT MNNDAnfN

There la = pleasant mandarin
Who looks across tho sunrise
seas
ln lotus lands where lovers win
Their frofb beneath the cher
ry trees.
SO ..ash ~ couflch breaks his
ElZr,
or turns him from HE vigil
long.
Across Tho years burn summer
days.
while wu'ar looms like s.mo
read wrong
Behind nm towers tear Tho sFIoe.
Aud purple forests stretch afnr
Iff Whsgc tHH blazing daylight
dice.
Topped bv the first faint eve
nIuE star
fims.s fingers touch him not. not
din
or wheeling worlds obirude or
lean.
rhero SIS n pleasant mandarin
Upon my painted bamboo
screen.
THOMAS j. MURRAY.