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Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-06-23

llNHl WV ubNliNul' Nv 'hlHN
Tuesday, looking rather pale, but
the "Island Air" will soon prove
a cure for him.
Miss Helen Hillic is home for
few days, She likes BothclI
but always likes to come to
Vashon. We miss "Amt Helen ~
too.
Don't forget the Strawberry
Festival at the Cove Hall Satur-
day evening, July l, The silk
quilt will be given away at that
time.
Leonard Tronas is home for the
summer. He says its a grand
and glorious feeling to be away
from the heat aud altitude Of
Arizona and New Mexico, to say
nothing of the dark Mexican PEG
pie.
Mrs. Ole Lmd asd Mrs. Frank
Eldon and small daughter, Dor
0thy, are spending the week with
Mr.. and Mrs. Eldon. 1t helps in
the busy berry season.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elim Smith, and
two small sons, were guests at
the Sigrist home Sunday. Mrs.
Smith was formerly Miss Ruth
Olson and taught the South Cove
school. She is now living in Ia
coma.
A small beach party was Gu
ioycd by the young people Sat
urday night on Shipley's Point,
The object was to plan a large
party for this coming Saturday.
Mrs. Marsh visited friends in
Seattle over the week end.
Don't forget the program at
the Cove NJ. E. church Sunday
evening, June 25. The children
are working hard. Do your part
and comel
Harold Shipley was in Seattle
over Saturday and Sunday and
attended the commencement at
the university.
The Epworth League Institute
meets IN Beula Park this week.
There is a small crowd owing to
the berry season and poor time
for vacation for those who work
in town.
Mr.. Baker, who has been Ill
for some time with a growth ON
his neck, is reported to be slow
" improving. We hope he will
continue to improve.
Mrs. Ruth Abrams Anderson,
little daughter, and Nellie Abb
rams visited at home over Sun
day. They all seem very well
and glad to be home.
The funeral Of Tobe Bison was
we'll attended. He left a large
number of friends who paid
their last respects to real!
friend and neighbOr.
Mrs Leila Sullivan and son,
Eugene, were guests of her dau-
ghtcr. Mrs. Gantenbem, the first
of the week. Eugene was a grad
uate of the 1929 class OF Ballard
High School. Has been a star on
the football team all thru the 4
years.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Gallagh-
err of Seattle were week end
guests of the II. Gantenbeln and
family.
Our singers from the Cove NJ,
E. choir were part of the pro
gram at Burton Baptist church
entertainment Friday eve.
Mr.. G. 0. Guy and his son,
George of Seattle were guests at
their farm on Cove Heights last
Friday. They were delighted
with work done on the farm.
CENTER
New-York tribune., 1922-06-11
Filming American History

Work on the first reels Of the Yale
University Press's series Of motion
picture films depicting American
historical episodes is progressing
satisfactorily. More than two years
preparation by experienced histori-
ans, cooperating with motion pic
ture producers, has resulted in the
collection Of mass Of pictorial and
other material which is now being
worked into dramatic scenes repro
ducing actual episodes in the coun-
try's history. Particular efforts
have been taken TO combine histori-
cal accuracy with dramatic and
technical perfection, so that the fin
ished product will be at the same
time true to life and interesting.
The possibilities Of education by
the movies have scarcely been
touched upon. The average person,
and more especially the average
child, learns more readily by what
he sees than by what he reads. He
is also more prone not to forget
visual impressions. How easy,
therefore, to make a permanent rec
ord in the child's mind through the
use of educational motion pictures!
Certain topics lend themselves
particularly well to this medium.
This is especially true Of history,
which to too many people has been
the dry and uninspiring topic that
schoolbooks have made it. Unfortu-
nately history has also labored too
long under the curse Of being per-
petually jammed down the young
ster's mental throat, with the result
that the entire subject has become
permanently unpleasant.
If, however, history can be shown
in motion pictures-and well shown
it can be brought out Of the dead
past into the vital present. Children
will see that the stuffy heroes Of
whom they read are real people and
that incidents which they have been
forced for practical purposes to as
sociate with meaningless dates were
full Of dramatic interest. By max
ing the past alive the picture will
fulfill one Of the true functions OF
historical instruction.
II the series Of films Of the Yale
University Press turns out as well
as now seems probable, it will ee
among the most important educa-
tional innovations Of the time.
New-York tribune., 1922-06-11
Notes of "A Lonely Flute"
Professor Shepard's Feeling Nature
Verses-A Word for IF. +. ""

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir; Every lover Of the great out
doors will feel indebted to Arthur G.
Staples FOR his informative and touch
ing tribute 20 the oldtime Maine log
drivers and their "Graves by the
River in The Tribune. II calls 10 mind
beautiful bit Of verse by one Of our
most gifted poets, who is deserving Of
a greater vogue and a wider circle Of
readers than such a modest book title
as "a Lonely Flute (Ioughton Mialin)
would accomplish. ! refer 20 Professor
odell Shepard, Of Trinity College, Hart
ford. The poem in question runs thusi
wHENcE coMETH MY HELP
Let me sieep among the shadows OF the
mountains when die.
IN the murmur of the pincs and sliding
streams
where tho long day iolters by
Like q cloud across the sky
And tho moon-drenehed night Is musical
with dreams.
Lay me down within a canyon Of the
mountains far away,
In valley fiicd with dim and rosy iigh',
where the flashing rivers play
out across the golden day
And roise ot many waters brlms tho
night
Let me lie where glintinR rivers rambls
down the slan,ed GLADE
Under bending slders gsrrulous and cool,
where they gather IN the shade
To the dazzling. sheer csscade-
Where they plunge and sleep within the
pebbled pool
All the wisdom. AZ the beauty have lived
for unaware.
Came upon me by the rote o, highland rilis;
have seen God walking there
In the solemn. soundless AIR
When the morning wakened wonder IN
the hills
I am what tho mountains made ne of
their green ard gold and gray
OF the dawniight and tho moonlight and
the foam.
Mighty mothers FAR away.
Yc who washed my soul m spray
am coming. mother mountains. coming
home.
when draw my dreams about me. when
leave the darkling plain.
Nher' ny SOU iorgets 20 soar and learns
shall 80 back hone again
To the Kingdoms of The rain
To the blue purlieus OF Heaven. nearer God
That's mighty good poetry. Mr. Ed
itor. commend it to those whose
thoughts and aspirations occasionally
rise above the level Of the asphalt. IN.
eidentally, while I'm paying a well-de-
served tribute to one poet let me not
overlook another with whom you are
more familiar, the sure touch and gor.
geous yirility Of whose verse dstn-
gu'shes "The Tower" from all other
"eolyums' extant-Frederic F. Van De
Water, your own inimitable "F. F. v"
ROBERT FROTHINGHAM.
New York, June s. 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-06-11
Increasing Buffalo Herds

Forty-six buffalo calves were
born this spring on three Of the four
government game preserves. This is
goodly addition to the herds which
the government has been preserving.
1t shows that the buffalo have ac-
cepted the restrictions imposed on
their wanderings, and if protected
will once more thrive.
Contrary to the popular notion,
wild buffalo are not yet extinct
outside of reservations. While in
the United States the only remain
ing herds are on game preserves,
in Canada there is still at least one
herd that is apparently as wild as
it was before the white man came.
It wanders south Of the Great Slave
Lake. The country is heavily
wooded and still very wild, and
only occasionally crossed by trap
pers and Indians. Locally they
are known as woods buffalo, and
those who have seen them claim
that they are a species differing
slightly from the plains buffalo COM
monty found in the United States.
The accepted explanation Of their
locating there was that they had
been driven into the woods by the
white men. Those who claim that
they are a separate species cite the
fact that the plains buffalo generally
Stunned the woods, and say that
these woods buffalo are darker IN
color. have somewhat longer and
silkier hair and are longer in the
back. BY way Of historical proof OF
the contention that these animals
are indigenous they point out that
the great explorer Mackenzie men
toned the existence Of herd OF
buffalo in these same parts in l1S'
and that some of the other trappers
who have left diaries also record
having hunted them there.
The Canadian government is en-
deavoring to protect this herd, so
that when its number is added to
the total on reservations IN Gan
New-York tribune., 1922-06-11
Near East Rivalry

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Il is impossible 70 appraisc
the international political and eco
romic situation without reference to
the Near Eastern question and ma
tional aspirations Of the Mahometan
people. The attempted subjugation Of
the Near and Middle East 10 European
political control since the armisiice
has been followed By Egyptian, Arabic,
Moroccan and Tripoltan instructions
and by the powerful national move
ment Of Mustapha Kemal.
The destruction Of the upper and
middle classes in the Caucasus,
Armenia and Turkestan has served as
warning TO the Turkish power Of the
menace from Moscow and Petrograd.
This warning has been heard in An
CORA. and coupled with the factor OF
religious antagonisms precludes any
real conceit between Turkey and Soviet
Russia.
The interest Of France in Ottoman
debts Is estimated TO be approximately
go per cent Of the external obligations
OF the Turkish government. England
Italy and Germany participated in "the
balance before the war. Rivalry is
keen to-day, both through the agency
Of governments and financial commits
sions and the penetration Of private
enterprise for the commercial ad-
vantages TO be derived from explota-
tion of Turkey, between these great
powers or their nationals. But IL Is
restrained by the uncomfortable fact
that the new constitution Of Turkey
and the powerful military arm Of
Kemal make the administration Of
mandates a difficult, IL not a hopelessly
impossible task.
French writers are openly accusing
Great Britain OF discriminating
propaganda in aid Of Greek, Armenian
and Jewish minorities. as part Of a
gigantic plan TO place the Leyant under
British hegemony. The conflict in
these national aspirations gives no
assurance that economic rehabilitation
Of the Near East is an immediate pos
sibility.
For this reason. Turkey looks to
America for impartial treatment and
just cooperation in the exploitation
Of her natural wealth, free from a
purpose to take from her aught which
by right is hers or to impeach her
territorial integrity and sovereignty.
II is a great opportunity for service
with profit and honor which confronts
the American people, an opportunity
which, If availed Of. promises ameliora-
tion OF the conditions OF minorlties
within Moslem lands, and a strengthen.
ing Of American oversee commercial
interests, as we'll as political accords.
FRoNTINUS.
New York, June 8, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-06-11
Taking Hun1or Seriously By Richard co"Dsu

the same time laughing at themselves.
Man seeks 70 cover his nakedness,
!. G.. his true self, with various gar
mcnts - dignity. self-importanee, So
lemnty, sentimentality. hypocrisy.
Along comes humor. a lightning fash
Of the truth. 1t strips of his dignity,
tears aside his scntimcntality, pierces
his hypocrisy. Therefore. he fears
humor. Humor is truth. II it is true
that the truth shall make you free, il
Is equally true that the truth shall
make you uncomfortable.
We need humorists. 1t is a shame
20 see the younger writers going
astray. Let them remember that Berg
son has said, "A humorist is moralist
disguised as a scientist" and "a comedy
is far more like real life than a drama
is" Let them remember that laughter
has concerned all men who have
thought deeply about life.
BY way Of encouraging the younger
writers to develop into humorists, |
should like to offer, as a glorious ex-
smple, a sort Of all-literature football
team, composed exclusively Of humor-
lists, and | hereby challenge all cham
pions Of solemnity in literature TO pro-
duce a team that in weight, force, in
huence and scoring power could possi-
bly, stand up against my team.
Right nd-Arstophanes.
Right tackle-Cervantes
Right guard-Juyenal.
Centor-Shakespeare.
Left guard-Voltaire.
Left tackle-Lucian.
Left end-Swft.
Observation-Disclosures.
Right halfback-Thackersy.
Left halfbaek-Dickens.
Fullback-Rabelais.
Substitutes-Twain, Gogol, France
and Shaw.
Such a team would soon convince any
other you can name that in the words
Of Professor James Harvey Robinson,
"Humor must be taken seriously, but
not solemnly."
New-York tribune., 1922-06-11
Uncle Toms Cabin"
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Mrs. Stowe was morally
obliged to write Uncle Toms Cabin
because she held 4 pen Of power be-
longing 10 no ore else. To her, as to
Queen Esther. IL might have been said:
"who knoweth whether thou art come
10 the kingdem for such a time as
this"
She was not without personal knowl-
edge Of slavery. having lived for
wears near the Kentucky line. Her
book gives by no means "the blacklist
picture" as one Of your correspondents
.ays. Two Of the pleasantest homes
described we're in the South. and some
Of her finest characters were slave
holders. II has been said on good
authority that she tried TO eoneiliatc
the South by impnrtiality. The effect
was a surprise; in Dixie land the book
excited rage. II was written, not so
much from a sense Of duty as In un-
eontrollable grief md Indignation at
New-York tribune., 1922-06-11

and slap a fine lady, for instance, be-
cause she gave ne a eontemptuous look,
il IS really right They won, admit
il. but It's right. and that is why they
laugh. make them conscious Of life.
You think this is il. dom, your I say,
Well, it isn't. but this is, see' And
then they laugh"
Tears are noble. laughter vulgar.
This is the accepted formula. Thus We
ind Mr. Henry B. Fuller in a recent
paper on Chicago novelists, giving
columns to the latest piece Of sordid
"egg on the vest" realism, and dis
missing two Of our foremost humorists
in this lofty manner, "sueh popular
character sketehers as George Ade and
Peter Dune lie has used the second
most deadly epithet in the vocabulary
OF the contemporary critic, popular
The most deadly. OF course, is "humor-
ist." Why he did not make a thorough
lob OF it and utterly annihilate the
creators Of Doolcy and Of the Fables
In Slang" by calling them popular
humorists" is one OF the mysteries Of
the critical brain which am unable to
solve with my microscope.
Tears are noble, laughter vulgar.
And here we encounter paradox
which must be shocking to such as
Mr.. Fuller. Man seems to prefer
laughter to tearsl Can it he that man
is inherently vulgar? or can it be that
the formula is wrong and should be
reversed?
Everywhere is evidenced that man is
eager to laugh. pathetically eager. Con-
slider the things he will laugh at. /
grant you he is often cheated by
shoddy goods and this may be a con-
tributory cause why laughter is not
more highly esteemed. There is moth
ing poorer than poor humor. And we
have a deluge OF il.
Many men have gone into the busi-
ness Of manufacturing what passes for
humor. not because they have any
equipment or any sense Of the comic,
but because II pays. OF course, ii pays.
Humor is the most precious commodity
in the world; diamonds are dirt beside
IL. One celebrated editor says. Il can
ge, twenty. yes. forty good serious
stories for every good humorous story
Man wants so earnestly 10 laugh that
ne will deal with bogus humorists.
Thoy can continue 10 exist only be-
cause OF the low ebb in our taste. You
know the men | mean. They are like
the Irishman, who, when asked II he
PLAYED the trombone by note or ear, re-
piled. Neither By main force We
have men who are humorists BY main
force, the go getters" Of literature.
Now. poor humor deserves no more
critical consideration than poor paint
ing. music or poetry. But good humor
deserves fully as much critical atten-
tion and appreciation as any OF the
arts. Il does not get II. Whyi
Humor does not get It's due because
Of the greatest fault in mankind. /
mean fear. The simple truth is that
most men. including the critics. are
afraid 10 laugh. That Is because they
cannot laugh at other men without at
New-York tribune., 1922-06-11
Outlaws in Eden

The June comedy in the Maine
woods has come 70 an abrupt end in
the police court. adam and Eve"
intent on proving that man was still
master over nature, have subsisted
for two weeks in the wilderness
without food or clothing other than
that secured by their own ingenuity,
but by so doing have violated the
game laws. The humorless hand Of
the law stretches up into their neck
Of the woods and the twentieth cen
tury knocks the old archaic into the
ombers.
Thus is Mother Nature revenged
for impertinent juggling with her
laws.
Il is written that man shall live
to-day by steel and electricity and
mail-order catalogues. Those who
cannot avail Themselves Of these aids
to life are to be pitied, as behind
their generation, but those who
wilfully deny themselves make a
mock Of civilization, and their tri-
umphs are the futile triumphs Of
those who with endless toll accom-
plish an unnecessary end. The
twentieth century has other business
than learning TO live in the woods.
We left that to the Stone Age men.
This is not to deny the lure Of the
primitive for civilized man. Every
one Of u who digs a suburban gar
den or gathers wild flowers on the
Wcstchester hills admits a longing
for the good old days when man
could not live unless he planted and
when he had no objects Of beauty
but those he found in the woods.
Even the most hardened children
If the twentieth century often con
fess a fondness for stories Of ad-
venture in "the great out Of doors"
Not such adventures as befcll the
Suttons, hunting deer out Of season
in the Maine woods as a newspaper
stunt, but real adventure which en-
ters into the plot only when persons
accustomed to notwithstanding
standards are by some catastrophe
deprived Of them, and so are obliged
to match their wits against the
forces Of nature.
They may be cast by storm on the
desert island as were Robinson Cru
soc and the Admirable Crichton, or
they may drop from a balloon as did
the three heroes Of the Far Rock
away Naval Station in the Canadian
wilds two years ago.
We must pity our heroes for their
predicamcnt or there can be no JOY
in their triumph. We have only the
droariest academic interest in the
details Of life as the professional
woodsmen live it, but drop an avia-
tor into the woods and you have the
greatest news story Of the year 1t
is because this appeal to pity is lack
ing that the performance Of the Sut-
tons makes such tawdry reading and
we welcome their collapse into the
realm of farce.
New-York tribune., 1922-06-11
Week

CFrom The World To.morsu)
MEAT walks and lawns and w.rebonnd
aowcgbeds
Betray my friends determined quest for
beauty;
His trees are trimmed and taught 70 DO
their duty
As teachers train concei,s Of childish
heads.
About the house IN studied earelessncw
clean-paintei arbors glare through
climbing vines,
And clematis around the porch rail
twines
In disciplined, obedient dures'
Ny own hillside Is wild and oyergrowai
A tangled path twists % the shack
above;
And beauty is not bound upon a throne.
But is the yagabond that free hearts
love.
This perfect order subtly lots me know
/ must be eireumspect a day or 70.
DEyERE ALLEN.
New-York tribune., 1922-06-11
Nearly a Hero

On Wednesday Mayor Hylan an
nounced tragically that he would 90
to Jail for contempt rather than APP
prove an appropriation Of s. 500 900
for the expenses Of the Transit Com
mission. On Friday the Mayor de-
cided, apparently, that the weather
was too hot TO 70 TO jail, so he ap-
proved the appropriation.
II is difficult to be a hero in hot
weather. The courage that moves
men 10 defy an entire hostile world
in an eager and nipping air oozes
out at the finger tips when the tenn
perature hovers around 90 degrees
in the shade.
Mr.. Hearst, pausing on his cruise
up the Thames to accept the hospi-
tality Of riparian nobleman, must
have read with indignation Of Mr..
Hylan's decision to surrender to the
commission rather than to weekend
in the Tombs. To Mr.. Hearst a
Mayor in jail would be an issue, and
an issue is what Mr.. Hearst is going
TO need when he is done with Eng
lish country life.
To the taxpayers o. New York
this remuneration of glittering op-
portunity to languish in durance vile
for the sake Of a cause will be well
come. Nobody on this side of the
water wants 10 see Mr.. Hylan in
jail. 1t is far more important to
the city that he abide in the cool,
sub-cellar retreat which Mr.. Hirsh-
field built for him in the City Hall
and approve appropriations for the
Transit Commission as fast as they
come in.
The weather, which so profoundly
influenced Mr.. Hylan. emphasizes TO
his fellow citizens the necessity Of
getting more subways, and getting
them as speedily as possible. This
can be accomplished only by permit
ting the commission to 90 ahead with
It's work.
To the millions Of straphangers it
makes little difference how much the
Mayor opposes the commission con-
versationally so long as he does not
oppose it officially. His approval Of
this Particular appropriation will
establish a precedent. which he will
doubtless follow, although he may
speak darkly every time he acts Of
getting even with the commission by
having himself locked up.
In any event the commission can
continue its labors for a time and
get many necessary developments
under way. That will be Of ad-
vantage to the city.
There are those who intimate that
possibly it was not the fear Of Jail
but the fear of drastic action by the
Governor which made Mr.. Hylan re-
tract his threat. The Tribune pre-
fcrs to believe that it was the heat,
and to hope that there will be enough
hot spells through the summer to
keep the Mayor outside prison bars
and the commission in the funds it
needs for its great undertaking.
New-York tribune., 1922-06-11
The Flamc.Irees

(Fropi The Ncasu
TOR have reached f. ger place
- Than | had dreamed 20 find,
With all the life that had known
A scroll cast-of behind;
And changed into a slgh,er thing
The torrent Of old grief
Than heavy waves that break in spray,
White on the outer reef.
And love so sure and Joy so strong
That pain and sorrow are thinned
To little mist that cannot blur
The hame-trees in the wind
MUNA LEE.
New-York tribune., 1922-06-11
Sonnet After Re-reading Shake
speare

spcarc
(From The London Nsrcpryl
oh I can never be myself again,
~ It is too late to live, too soon 10 die;
am a poet made Of many men
And each was far more beautiful than I.
This meagre candle pales before a sun
Too bright TO bear, and now within the
mind
Ny thoughts, like lamps put out, die
one by one.
The Very Light has burst and I am
blind.
Sorrow was mine long since, and love
and faith,
Companions sweet, sufficient for my
need,
But these are treading on the heel Of
Death
And from all else but passion am ! freed,
For never now, remembering his name.
Shall | set pen TO poem save in shame.
EDWARD DAWSON.
New-York tribune., 1922-06-11
Good Work

-'gn dishonest bucket shop op-
MAJORS have been convicted of lar
sny and sent TO jail. These worthless
'A'e not been permitted to plead to
- 'harge but that Of theft. They
ave been tried and convicted in
Ane fashion as highwaymen
y 'arglars are tried and have re-
n0eh the same sort Of SEN
|... .ns eject Of this method Of pro-
|l,.. Is bound to be salutary. AS
II, = . 'he confidence men engaged
= ' ..s Particularly despicable form
=, s'ery could pose as business
| ar, and their thievings could be
|ul, BUSINESS troubles, many ras-
!. 'ould be found who would fit
NAees and institute swindles,
- mat the appearance Of re-
S'''ll'y NJ would save them.
\, ,n mere was no money left to
|ssla 1ep0sitOrs or investors, they
N, p'esd failure and hide their
As,.. ""0er q pretense of bank
~ ~ 'hey are being tried and sent
thieves, their chances of