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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1922-07-12
HARDING PRAISES
II AMERICAN LEGION
Dedicated to Preservation Of Constitu-
tlon. Last Day at Marion.

Marion, Ohio, July $50 long as
the American Legion is consecrated
to the preservation Of the constitution
and Of law and order, the American re-
public is cverlastingly secure, Presi-
dent Harding asserted in a brief ad-
dress today to several thousand World
War veterans who held reunion here
! Reminding them that they were now
charged with a greater responsibility
than they were on the battle fields OF
France, Mr.. Harding declared the des-
Tiny of the United States was in the
hands Of former service men.
Il have no hesitancy in saying" he
added, that it is in good hands"
The president urged the men in his
audience, all of whom earlier in the
afternoon had participated in his
torical parade which he reviewed, to
serve their country as civilians with
war time conservation, and devotion.
The president started off his last
day among the home folks with a
morning round of golf on the new links
here with o. S. Rapp, a close Marion
friend; General Pershing and Charles
g. Dawes, former budget bureau di-
rector. After luncheon at the home
Of G, B. King, Mrs. Harding's brother,
the president went to reviewing
stand to witness the parade, which
depicted various stages OF Marion's
history.
During a 65 minute wait for the pro-
cession to start Mr.. and Mrs. Harding
were serenadcd by the Buckeye Repub-
lican Glee club of Columbus. AS the
parade passed both the president and
Mrs. Harding, frequently recognizing
an acquaintance in the procession,
waved a greeting.
The president entered into the spirit
Of the pageant with the enthusiasm of
school boy. He grinned broadly
when a float passed on which a colonial
mother was rocking cradle placard-
cd with a sign
mo flapper rocked in this"
An old prairie schooner, drawn by
70 mulos, and dilapidated rural from
tier wagon in which there was a smok-
ing stove, also CAUSED the president
to smile. Mr. Harding leaned over the
railing to wave to four foot drummer
who Strutted by at the head of ono
band Both the president and Mrs.
Harding applaudcd when an automo-
bile occupied by a war veteran. his
wife and baby girl PISSED. On the
machine was a placard announcing
that the child was the "flrst American
baby born on the Rhine"
Former service men from all parts
OF Ohio had flocked in to Marion to
participate in the parade and to hold
IA reunion later at the fair grounds.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-01-25
MILITARIsM RULES SPAIN.

Octogenaan Weye the former chiefofstaf Of the Spanish
army will probably his job The utterly nhuman dictator
brutal disregard the rights of noneombaants ana
the horrors had much to do with
bringing about the United HIS
resignation will be withdrawn The Maura ministry has fallen and
with it the minister of who FLASHED with Weyler.
refused take Weyer dictatlon lie read
the riot act to the unas He made apparently
civilian control such the constitution OF
Spain contempate without which parliamentary responsibility
exist indeed free government He has gone down.
mtarsm rules the Spain of today that tn"
power enforce their constitutional authority; that
King Alfonso reigns people that not free and regs at the
mercy of military cabal How long the people the king will
condition know. BE certain that
and that world where democratic
forms becoming almost universal Spain stands
shocking object retrogression- Eagle
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-01-25
SECRET OF A GOOD DISPOSITION

woman who carefully safeguards
her health benefits her disposition.
She will be heppy and attractive TO
all. The world unfortunately is filled
with sweet women who are unhappy
because they are held back from use
fulness by troubles so common among
them. Fretfulness and nervousness
rapidly destroy good dispositions.
Sickly. all-worn-out women cannot
make happy homes.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pounds is safeguard of women's
health. This is clerly proven by the
many letters we are continually pub
fishing in this paper, from women who
have been restored to health and hap
piness by its use after years of suf-
ing. Why don't you try it? g,
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-01-25
PROPOSED AMENDMENT
WOULD TAX ALL
TAX.FREE BONDS
Resolutions Are offered To Offer the
Twentieth Amendment TO the
Federal Constitution.

Financial conditions and heavy tax
es have directed much attention to the
proposed twentieth amendment to the
Federal Constitution. 1t affects al
taxpayers without regard to political
affiliations.
Three resolutions providing for an
amendment to permit Federal taxation
of state and municipal bonds have
been introduced and referred to Con-
gressional committees.
They are all in harmony with the
recommendation of President Hard
| ing's message to Congress-
II think our tax problem, the ten
dency of wealth to seek non-taxable
investment, and the menacing increase
of public dept, Federal, state and mu-
nicipal. - all justify a proposal to
change the Constitution so as to end
the isue of non-taxable bonds
The last resolution introduced, that
by Representative w. r. Green, OF
Iowa, is received with favor because
il prohibits and discrimination be-
tween Federal and state securities.
The Ways and Means committee OF
the House has it under consideration
1t would add as the amendment the
following:
THAT from and after the adoption
Of this amendment as part of the Con-
stitution the provisions Of the six
teenth amendment to the Constitution
shall apply to and include income de-
rived from securities thereafter is
sued or created by any state or polit-
ical subdivision thereof, or any de-
tendency of the United States; but
taxes on incomes derived from such
securities must be laid without dis
elimination in favor Of income derived
from other securities Of the same term
and general class issued or crceated
after the adoption Of this amendment
as part of the Constitution"
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-01-25

| one can easily picture as being the
premiere qualifications for a gently
nurtured young lady. Then five years
ago she came to Los Angeles with her
parents and continued her schooling
with no thought of the fact that she
was resident Of the capital of the
film world.
But one day Alice needed the plead
ings of one of her girl friends to go
with her to the studios where the girl
friend was playing the part Of an lex
ira" Sho talked with the director
and few minutes later was sharing
a dressing room with a number of
other extras and being initiated into
the art of making up.
Alice had come to movie wonder
land.
Then like the traditional Alice in
Wonderland, things began to happen
with dizzy speediness for the little
school girl and soon she was playing
prominent part in "Shore Acres"
which Re X Ingram directed for Metro
and when Mr.. Ingram started gather
ing his cast of principals for 1.-The
Four Horsemen,' Miss Terry was as
signed the leading feminine role.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-01-25
PRESBYTERIANS HOLD
SESSIONS IN ASHLAND

Ashland. KY, Jan. % A confer
ence of delegates from the Presbyter-
ian churches from May iville to Pike
vile was held nj the PRESBYTERIAN
church this afternoon.
Dr. George II. Mack. chairman OF
the New Era Movement OF the church
in this district, was in charge Of the
conference.
Speakers at the session wee the
Rev. Charles Ryan Adar + s." ns-
field, Ohio, formerly district selrc AIRY
at Chicago; the Rev. w. A. Eisscnhart
Bush and Mrs. f II. Porter, pre- 'Gent
Of the women's synodical
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-01-25

Like the adventures of a certain
alice in Wonderland" beautiful
golden-haired Alice Terry, stepped in
to the movies and with only a few
months as an extra girl, was cast in
the chief feminine lead of THE Four
Horsemen Of the Apocalypse" Rex
Ingram production for Metro Pictures
Corporation coming to the Washington
opera house next week
For this eighteen-year-old high
school girl, whose beauty and grace
stand out in this colossal picturiza-
ton of the world-famous novel by
Vicente Blasco Ibanez, as adapted by
June Mathis, actually sautnered into
the movies and found place all wait
ing for her.
: 1t was not with deep design nor be-
cause she was an ardent picture fan
that modern Alice became heroine in
movie wonderland, for until the day
when she went on visit to the Holly
wood studios, the girl who today is
known from coast to coast had never
been innoculated with the camera
germ.
In her little native town of Vincen-
mes Indiana, her early girlhood was
spent in acquiring those arts which
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-01-25
MAFFI FAVORED BY
ITALIAN INTERESTS.

Rome. January "A. While there
seems to be no doubt that the next
Pope will be an Italian, the news
papers draw difference between
Italian popes. expressing the hope
that the next pontiff may be one who
will put an end to the long discord
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-01-25
NOT PRACT1cING WHAT HE breaches

Henry Ford is shouting for fiat but commercial reports
sells Ford automobiles Europe he de-
nands gold its equivalent payment Fortunate that Mr. Ford
sitting the Senate helping make laws for the
Cor he apparently would adopt business the
principles he does in his private business.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-01-25

between the church and the Italian
government. Seemingly for that rea-
son, Cardinal Maffi, archbishop Of
Pisa, is universally favored by the
ltalions. judging from the coment,
and IN virtually all the newspapers his
Name appears at the head of the list
or the tiara of St Peter.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-01-25

Sufferers from chronic headache
should have their eyes and their teeth
examined by oculists and dentists.
The boundaries OF the area covered
by the London County Council have
not been changed since 1856.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-01-25

A centenarian OF Aldershot. Eng
land. Is recorded as having lost his
first tooth at the age OF lO2.
The Crown of Hungary consists OF
two diadems, one dating back to 1000
and the other to 1912.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-01-25

Try . ledger Want Ad. II Paws
Evening star., 1922-01-29

Jerry Bun is worthwhile dog, earning his feed and
CHASING Just little above the average canine in intel
gence Jerry is employe of Hot Springs, Was hotel
every day he takes the hotels mail bag and from the
tran The photo shows him tossing the bag to the rail-
way mail clerk of the Great Northern ,-.-..,...
Evening star., 1922-01-29

President Harding and Secretary Christian en-
route from the White House to the Willard Hotel
last Monday morning. where he opened the farmers
6ve-day conference.
The New York herald., 1922-11-05

monarch, King Merriwig of Euralia has
gotten himself into mess by promising the
hand of the Princess Hyacinth and half of
his kingdom to no less than seven different
princes who are engaged upon seven diff
ferent enterprises. The experimenting King
of Barodia commits the indscretion of
hopping, eighteen times, over the break
fast table of the other Majesty, which nat
urally led to conflict. And there was
a terribly fascinating Countess Belvane.
who was resolved to be wicked, and wanted
to marry the King.
That is quite enough to start things
and the reader can readily foresee the joy
Gus tangle of adventure that is possible.
1t is Hans Andersen without any pathos
or moralizing. but as the tale goes on it
tends more and more toward Alice" At
first the people remain just what he means
them to be, but ultimately the fairies are
a bit too much for them. and most of them
turn into strange. fascinating beings. who
are not quite humans and not quite Fabu-
lous Monsters. But for the most part they
have as much solidity as (for compari-
SOM the royalties of THE Rose and the
Ring" though at any moment they may
turn into something else. They remain
less conventionally wicked than the ogres
of Thackerays tale and have none of the
primitive savagery of Grimm or the real
old folk legend
1t is-for those sufficiently intelligent
to follow it-one of the most charmingly
entertaining Obligations from the common
place of recent years. Mr.. Milne has no
solemn purpose no AK to grind and does
not care a bit for anything but the pure
joy of telling a story. And such a book
is treasure nowadays.
The New York herald., 1922-11-05

believes. deeply. that "all things work to-
gether for good" and so on, and his faith
in traditional Christianity is unshaken. He
is always emotional. even sentimental, and
wholly sincere; a pre-Darwinian survival,
and also firm adherent of all the old con-
ventionalities. His oldest son. David, has
broken away and is a soldier in India, but
his three daughters and his youngest son
are still living at home when the story
opens. just after the war. To them comes
Owen Quentillian. former pupil of the
Canon and once an inmate of his family
Owen is the embodiment of hard modern
ism, disillusioned. determined to face facts
and refusing to deceive himself with senti-
mentalities. He is a counter type to the
old Canon. but there is no open conflict
between them. Owen judges him, and un-
derstands. but, like the Canon's own chill
dren. he recognizes the true nobility of him.
mo one could hurt father" The children,
each in his or her own way, are dominated
by that feeling.
And, as one of the girls puts il, Father
has sheltered us from everything. in the
HiOob bOtiutAAui ways IINtH lIOIl luedS
and growth and freedom. OF course revolt
comes. in each case. in one way or another,
except in that of the eldest daughter, Lu-
ella, who maintains her sacrifice" to the
last. and is then rewarded. somewhat sur
prisingly-as if the author felt that she
simply had to atone. somehow. to poor
Lucilla. All the characters are carefully
and vivaciously drawn and accurately dis
tinguished. They are people, not mere
types. 1t is a penetrating. skillfully con-
Quoted analysis. woven into a smoothly
moving plot with enough action to carry
it. The book shows a very striking gain
in technique over "Humbug" and is i'm
portant enough to place Mrs. Delafield in
a prominent position among the newer
British women writer's.
The New York herald., 1922-11-05

Greer, and of his daughter Beatrice upon
lines that converge. and behind these is
also a contrast between this pair and the
more stolid mass of humanity against
whom they are thrown out, as vivid pic
lures against a background. Joseph Greer
is brilliant inventor and engineer; he
is aptly called "kinetic," the kind of man
who makes things and makes them go, and
is interested chiefly in that process rather
than in ultimate results. The same traits
crop up in his daughter. who is an ex-
plorer of life. girl who IciH have her own
way and who >justifes herself by its sue
cess. 1t is impossible to summarize the
plot. but it may be noted that she marries
her chauffeur. lives happily. and ends as
stunt" aviatrix. flying for the movies =
10 has become greatly interested in flax
and it's possibilities; he invents a marvellous
machine for making linen, and is eventu-
ally robbed of it. That leads to the con-
trast between these 'kinetic" people and
the static. acquisitive sort. whom he con-
temptously calls the stall fed" They are
soft. irresolute. kindly. gregarious &.
by tradition and temper collectors, harvest
ers, showers away and a man like 10, who
has no real interest in property beyond the
dynamic use of it F.. stands little
chance with them" Incidentally 10 ex-
periments with alcohol. and falls in love
with his antagonists wife. and there is
plenty Of minor action and intrigue,
through cleverly built plot to a proper
climax. II. L. PANGBORN
The New York herald., 1922-11-05

ONCE UPON A TIME. BY A. A Milne
q. p. Putnam's Sons.
KR. MILNE'S latest almost belongs
VI on shelf by itself-but not quite.
We shall have to place it beside
The Rose and the Ring" and Alice, "
though the first part of it is something
really different 10 either of these. But
there is no better company for such book
than that: that delectable shelf is all too
scantily furnished. and there is plenty of
room there-as much as there always was
at the Mad Hatter's Tea Party And there
are very. very few candidates really fit to
join that entertainment. once more Mr..
Milne is genuinely a public benefactor.
He carefully explains that this lis not
a children's book wrote it for
grown-ups. For ii Is a Fairy
Story for grown-ups because I have tried
to give some character to the people who
wander through its pages" The idea is to
take genuinely human people and put them
through the good old plots and adventures
OF the fairy tales-with a difference. The
King OF Barodia acquires a pair of Seven
League Boots but he uses them as a
serious minded adult might. The other
The New York herald., 1922-11-05

THE OPTINIST BY E NJ. DeIafeld. The
Macmillan Company.
TT is no doubt difficult for those who
have never lived in it to realize fully
that the Victorian era is by no means
wholly dead: that it survives not merely
in certain remote backwaters. but still
lives, here and there among the most
modernly progressive folk. sometimes
jostling elbows with them, but more often
holding aloof The term Victorian" has
been sadly oyerworked. but it is hard to
think of better one, and every one recog-
nizes its connotations In this novel, as in
her earlier story. "Humbug." Mrs DeIafield
is concerned with the contrasts and strains
between the habits and beliefs of the
fathers and those of their twentieth CEN
tury children. In the other. and heavier.
story she dissected the evils OF the sup
pressions" and humbugs OF what passed
for education; in this she goes deeper and
treats OF the fundamental philosophy Of life
and of religion in the contrasted eras. This
is vastly better book than its forerun-
ner; kept looser and lighter in its move
ment with no less OF dignity. And she does
not here make the mistake of rendering
her Victorian" old man repellant or al
together fatuous. Instead. he is a real
saint. splendid in his courage and truly
noble. though he is also exasperating, and
il Is hard to be patient with his obsolete
ideas
Canon Morchard. aged sixty or so. a
Widower with five grown up children. is
the invincible "optimist'' Of the title. He
The New York herald., 1922-11-05

JOSEPH GREER AND HIS DAUGHTER
BY Henry Kitchell Webster. Bobbs-Mer-
rIl Company.
ER WEBSTER is perhaps the most
V expert technician among Ameri-
can novelists OF the day He un-
derstands the novel. and handles it with
a sureness and an apparent ease that
mark a master craftsman. His approach.
too. differs from that OF many successful
writers. many Of whom. nowadays. seem
10 start out with definite thesis some
thing to be proved. or a problem to be
solved a purpose either ethical or phiio-
sophical apart from the desire to tell story
Mr.. Websters work has ethical and philo-
sophie content, in fun measure, but he is
primarily interested in his story as a novel
a presentation of a cross section OF life. He
assumes no air of responsibility for his
characters; he viii not compel them to this
or that. but let's them. as it seems. work
things out for themselves. His method
here Is comparable to that Of the older
masters, Thackeray especially. OF course
il IS the most subtle form OF art. in It's
apparent artlessness.
The thing that strikes one most about
his people is that they are never echoes.
They do not remind you Of any one you
have read about before. Each is new: just
as each human being is a new entity In
himself or herself: one OF the infinite
variations in the theme. but emphatically
a variation. Mr.. Webster's people are al
ways exactly differentiated. They are not
built up from any formula. but just seem
to happen, each in his own way. That is
more evident in this novel than in any of
its predecessors; it indicates a growth In
ability. a wider. surer vision
The plot is twofold: the story Of Joseph
The New York herald., 1922-11-05
New Fiction
Continued from Preceding Page.

the early sufferings of "Jane Eyre"-of
course in modern guise. And there is a
frankly acknowledged debt to the mournful
Olive Schreiner Indeed. one feels that
something of the exasperatingly hopeless
tore of the book is due to these influences
Perhaps the end of it holds out a promise
one to which Miss Hull should be held. of
another book, to take poor Jean further
upon her quest" and let her have a bit
more luck. That is not a silly demand for
a happy ending" but plea for broader
view of possibilities.
The story is another arraignment of
family life. with its patriarchal vestiges,
and a demand for something better. 1t is
also continuation of the fictionists' clinic
upon the peculiar case of the young per-
son OF the day. 1t is. however, not another
diatribe upon changing customs and the
license of the day; the theme is as old
as human temper and marital infelicity and
the incompetence of parents as parents. and
might have been dated fifty years ago
The villain of the piece is no one person.
but a sort OF giant misfit who bedevils all
OF the characters chiefly the unhappy
parents of the questing Jean. They quar-
rel stridently-brawl, in fact-while the
children listen shivering or run out into
the night and put their fingers in their
ears. The mother appears to be the
worst offender. but when Jean and her
brother abandon the old folks to fight 1t
out one comes to sympathize a little with
her tantrums. There is also a series OF
unsatisfactory lovers, and horrid episode
Of teaching at a country school. where
the stencil of rural vices comes to her
knowledge. And we get vision Of her
desultory study at college. her eye
screwed to the cold top of microscope
until the brass grew warm and pulled at
her flesh. She speculated. The
Bible was a story. Darwin was truth. No
one made the world. 1t was making itself.
Nothing done yet. In the making"
This girl at the microscope might have
come out of one Of II. G. wells's books
which Is very good place for a young
woman to come from. But one also feels
that Miss Hull got her from the same
source that Wells drew upon-experience
and observation of the living model. OF
course such girl would have to throw
off an ugly environment and unsatisfac-
tory parents along with II. But # is very
necessary that Miss Hull should go on
and write that other book-when she 10 old
enough to do so. For jeans last word is
"Im off now. away from all the old years.
IN quest of-whatf Love. work. myself,-
GEORGE WOOD.
The New York herald., 1922-11-05
ALIEN SOULS By Achmed Abdullah The
James A. McCann Company.

ALIEN SOULS By Achmed Abdullah. The
James a. McCann Company.
A CHMED ABDULLAH has endeav
~ ored to add a few chapters to the
Arabian Nights" ALIEN Souls
is a collection of his best short stories in
which the swiftly changing scene takes the
reader from China across the wastes Of
Afghanistan, through Persia and Arabia,
into Turkey and Ma edonia, finally TO
reach a climax in the squalor of New
York's Chinatown. The author does well
with his tales. First of all, he knows the
East and into his narrative he injects the
soft, subtle charm of an ever mysterious
Orient. He knows his meter and touches.
here and there a really vibrant chord.
BLACK Poppies" is the best of the lot.
Here he weaves his atmosphere so visit
fully through the haze of opium smoke
which obscures the scene that the reader
fails to realize until the conclusion that
Yung Han-Rai is lying upon the hard.
wooden bunk of his dirty Chinatown home
instead of in the luxury of aristocratic, an
cestral halls in his native land. In The
Handed Sword" tale OF the honor
Of Japanese "samurai' in Germany at the
outbreak of the war, ii is a question of
honor. and the author carries his point with
Continued on FolloirinO Page.
The New York herald., 1922-11-05

Continued on FolIoioin0 Page.
The New York herald., 1922-11-05

JOSEPH GREER AND HIS DAUGHTER
BY Henry Kitchell Webster. Bobbs-Mer-
rlIl Company.