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The daily times., 1922-02-15
NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL
ASSOCIATION MEETS

Chicago, Feb. 15.-Types of edu-
cation the country requires; what
physical property will be necessary to
insure it's promotion; what technique
in education may be expected from
the advanced Curricula; how much
education can the country afford:
how much more can we secure for
our money through elimination of
The daily times., 1922-02-15

Jordan was the principal actor secur-
ing the suit case first, and the ther
negroes were indicted for aiding and
abetting in the crime. Jordan was
given twelve months. Lester Williams
and Jesse Ward were fined $5425.
all given five months. They will pro-
badly go to the roads.
The daily times., 1922-02-15
AMERICAN RANCHER

Washington, Feb. l5.-Chas. Bur-
row, also known as Chas Miller,
American manager of ranch near
the city of Monterey, Mexico, was
shot to death by unidentified persons
advised today from the American
consul at Monterey.
The daily times., 1922-02-15

When
there
Better Clean
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Wilson Dye
Works
Phone 10
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Observation-Disclosures
BRITISH TROOPS
LEAVING IRELAND

Belfast, Feb. 15.-Arrangement
for the evacuation of the British
resumed tS5ay after suspension
lasting two days. At Dublin pre-
parations were making for the en-
barkation of 400 men.
The daily times., 1922-02-15
NO COURT TO-DAY.

There were no cases ready for trial
today in the Civil term of court be-
ing held by Judge Horton in his city,
but court will open as usual tomor-
row morning.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02

s9n n2 Rh0ws' 2I,[},s AED sPARM AT THAT!
by Houghton- Minlln Company. $3.50.
MERE was no lack of adventure
on an old-fashioned New England
whaler. Such ship would often
go fer cruises OF two or three years,
travelling from the Arctic Ocean to the
Straits Of Magellan, from Brazil to
Java.
Mr.. Hopkins's story OF his expert
ences rs cabin boy and sailor on the
whaler Clearchus reads like q Steven
son romance. No element OF excite
ment is lacking. The captain nips
threatened mutiny by shooting the
leader as he sits in the rigging of the
vessel, Going ashore at Zanzibar, the
author sees a hillman from India, Of
whom he gives the following pictur-
esque description:
The man seemed to be talking or
muttering to himself and he stopped
In the middle Of the opeH place, or
square, and the sun beat down upon
his head as he looked about him with
fierce and melancholy eyes. They
looked as if he had been long time
In hell and saw no chance Of getting
out"
All Of a sudden the hIllman ran
amuck, killing two or three inoffensive
Zanzibar merchants with g knife. The
madman's career was only stopped
when a sailor pierced his throat with
skillfully thrown knife.
Toward the end Of the book there is
- spirited account Of a threo-cornered
fight between the crew Of the Clear
chus, band of mutineers and horde
Of South Sea natives. And no one
should miss the story Of the fight with
the Chinese pirate junk, which Was
routed by liberal application OF boil
ing oil. Mr.. Hopkins catches the
spirit OF the old-time whaling voyage
admirably, and his narrative Of the
long cruise Of the Clearchus deserves
place among the maritime classics
of our literature. W. II. c.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02

white and black life 7 saw eoin9 on
ABOUT me ell the time. always had
an idea Y would do book about
negroes.
Two years sgo was at Harvard Just
as tho university was holding rs en-
trance exaninstlons. The grounds
wera almost deserted except for one
negro lad seated ous on bench by
himself. He looked so lonely and woe
begone I thought would 60 over and
cheer the kid up. Felt cure he would
be glad to see somebody from the
South. Sure enough ho was. We eat
and talked long time and he told me
all his plans and ambitions. We talked
over the race question, rs far Is the
youngster knew it; Of the sort Of treat
ment he hoped TO get from the white
boys in Harvard. Finally he promised
TO write to me and tell me exactly What
happened TO him in the Northern uni
versity.
"Then suppose ne forgot al about
IT., for I never heard from him, but
didn't forget MIN. lie was q Missis
sippi darkey, and I kept wondering
what would happen TO hiyn when he got
back home.
"That, OF course, vas Peter S!ner.
"No, the negro question, as you
Northern folk are inclined philosoph-
,cally 70 phrase 1t, was furthest from
my thoughts when began 'Birthright.'
was simply setting down The sad and
funny little things I knew about the
man across Che street end the rheu-
matte IN my Kitchen"
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02

RENFREw or THE ROYAL MOUNTED.
BY Laurie Y. Erskine Published by
D. Appleton & Co. 31.7e.
FT>HE themes for this volume OF boye'
stories are furnished by the courage
and devotion Of the Canadian Royal
Mounted Police, Renfrew, member
of this famous force, tells one story
OF adventure after another to an eager
audience Of his boy friends. Most Of
the stories deal with exciting deeds
in faroff places, battles with Indians,
pursuit Of criminals over the snowy
wastes. In the end an opportunity
comes to the boys to practice the vir-
tues which they have admired in Rem
frew's stories, and they prove worthy
of the occasion. The last Of al the
tales, which describes Renfrew's sin
gie-h&nded stand against furious
mob, is perhaps the most exciting in
the book, W. II. C.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02
Italian Romance

MC~'rtrrRS-TN- N-1Aw ry Baron.sn Won
Hutton publtahed by the George II.
IN .NUNL.o., Won hUTTEN wcsvcs
an interesting story around the
romance OF a handsome young
Italian aristocrat and sweet- tempered
American girl. The author extracts
the maximum amount Of humor and
pathos from tho strange contrast be-
tween tho two rnothers-in-la law. Mrs.
Roper Is gay, unconventional Aneri-
can widow, while Donna Laura is
tragic figure, bowed under many suf-
ferings and finding her sole consolation
N religion. Yet these two women, far
apart as they arc In their ordinary
paths Of thought and feeling, come to
understand each other and co-opcrat.
splendidly in a great crisis that in
wolves the life and resson Of tho Amer
lean girl.
"Mothers-tnLavv" Is not work Of
profound literary significance, but It
Is written in a smooth, diyerting style,
the plot Ia cleverly conceived and the
reader's interest is never lost. Some
now, despite the tragedy that enfolds
the latter part of the story, one does
not carry away an impression OF essen
tiai badness. This Ia doubtless due to
the fact that the author never entirely
losea sight Of The comedic aspect Of
thingn, even In the moments Of darkest
So1roW. ". H. C.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02

flags Of truce. One seholds the feasts
OF the money-changers very pleasantly.
Ihey ate nicely and often. It would
startle the analyst Of Mr.. Galsworthy's
method to make count Of pages or
even of lines devoted to description Of
the scene itself.
Sometimes his abusive touches col
iepse. The future historian will won
der whit Montague Dartie's "Wardour
Street good looks" might be. An Eng
lish lad in this year might wonder. who
knows Wardour Street as q stretch of
American motion picture offices. No
where in the Saga is there passage
e description so extended rs the pam
dramas achieved in "The Patrician" or
THE Country House" In "The Man
CT Property perhaps, the background
is most solid. In "An Awakening" the
scene snd people merge as a lovely
mist, This is an interlude OF pastoral
music, 1t has nothing to do with
earth. 1t is little dream Of Mr.. Gals
"orthys klnd brain. 1t - singularly
charming. No other artist in English
could effect it save the Compton Mac
kenzie. who vanished with Guy and
Pauline
In fact, there is no other artist in
English who does what John Gslsworthy
docs. You may doubG the longevity Of
"The Forsyte Saga" but The Importance
OF its author remains indubitable, The
figure is somewhat lonely, somewhat
rlsible to the polished plowboys who
mistake sentiment for sentimentalism,
Int u ia q fo,ro
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02
This and That
BY Charles Hanson Townc

energy and gusto, magniAcently put
together--a story OF chat wild, re-
oeliious, amazing San Francisco Of the
SOS, when women wore crinolines
and furbelows, and tainted readily, and
men were drinking and gambling their
lives away. The story opens as 8 COM
monplace enough triangle, but soon
surprises the reader by sweeping on
to something far bigger. From the
Coast il suddenly makes up its mind
to dash to New York, and the picture
given of the old Five Points is SIS fne
piece of writing as Mrs. Athcrton
has given Us IN long time.
ran into Samuel Hopkine Adams,
whose "Success' is anything but q
failure, the other afternoon, browsing
among the rare manuscripts in Mr..
Morgan's library. But 70: all his in
terest in "Endymion," he had Gime to
speak enthusiastically OF the work that
is being done to-day by the younger
generation.
"a thing o. beauty Is joy 2or-
ever" he said, looking up from the
opening line of Keats. "I think 'Privi-
lege,' by Michael Sadleir, Is the best
book that has come out Of England for
a year, don't youG"
do. But Adams and I are not slone
in our opinion. Mrs Atherton and
Porter Emerson Browne also like
Privilege" But Fannie Hurst and
Edna Fcrber don't.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02

"Mr Hughes said that the cong.v
ence itself was quite q tame agsi,
but when he read his CLIPPINGS -
night he was astonished at all thai
was being read into it and could
scarcely sleep"
"The only true history Z, tb.4
little scrap OF our own tine qb,n,
We can tell because we see IL s,d
feel it and know it. Defnitivo truth
is already dead truth and written
history a cemetery"
'Tew York has the effect .non
me Of meeting an fchthyossury, =
Berkeley Square. It is all smazIn,
and gargantuan ard I cannot
imagine any ono wanting 70 live
here
admiral Sims, on being asked
what the Supreme Council wogId
do about the freedom os ta. sea,
replied that ne did not care % iony
as they did not interfere wi.h 7ajx,d
bathing"
'Jay thought tnas the best war
Of doing business was shat Of 4 cey.
tain American minister At Cen.
tral American capital. He went
into MS balcony With a polio.
whistle and whistled once for tho
President, twice for tna Forsira
Minister, three tiraea for the Min.
ister Of Commerce ard they cars
running round to him"
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02

Tho fot1otoins entrooss ays from
Colonel Repincton's Infect book, pub-
tshcd By Honghton. MiGfin Company:
"Of ali Che lower animals Of crea-
tion the politician is the most in
effective"
Secretary Hughes sank in thirty
five minutes moro ships than all
the adrnirals Of the world have do
stroyed in cycle Of centuries"
"The French (at tho Washington
confercnce) seemed furious that
they should not be at the top table,
and Jusserand wss white and
cl-nched his fists"
"G7snv.Il. fthe British Minister
at Athens) said It was quite true
that The Greeks were fighting the
Turks st our instance"
"Clemenceau was asked how he
felt after his operation for ap-
pendicitis. Quit. WELL replied the
Tiger. There arc only two perfect
ly useless things In tho world. Ona
is an appendix and tho other is
Poincar6"
"The French correspondents az
the Washington conference sent
deputation TO BRAND to demand
some Of the champagne that he
brought over snd offered to pay for
it!7
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02
EDNA FERBER

"Ex-Chicagoans will be particu-
larly interested in The Girls because
its scene is so explicitly local. :.
In case your tastes are similar to mine
in fiction, you will find The Girls
the best Of the American novels since
Main Street. Percy Hammond,
New York Tribune.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02
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New-York tribune., 1922-04-02

: aE fOSSfTE SAGA. by Joun Gals
worthy Published by Charles scribnevs
"HE collection of the Ave studies
printed in "The Forsyte Saga"
Is an act of sense and justice
on the part of MIR. Galsworthy's
publishers. "The Man of Property" was
not SO widely read in this CO 7try as
IN England and many readers. one
lnagines, have been rather baffled by
the spread of the Forsyte tribe as
revealed In the following taies. This
single volume makes the course Of the
history quite lucid. Here is the family
descended from old Superior Dosset
Forsyte. the jerry builder. What is one
TO make Of it?
Mr.. Galsworthy has so often been
washed in food of syllables looscd
by critics who are awed by his reputa-
t.on and yearn for safety that he must
weatily smile when he sees that "hs
work Will be Of the utmost value to
<uture historians Of our age," or some
variation on that weak judgment. "The
Forsyte Saga" perhaps, is Mr.. Gals
worthy's most absolute approach to
sheer social reporting. 1t seems doubt
tul shat the historian worth his salt
will get anything out Of it except
pleasure. What the five evocations offer
= charmingly panelled room in which
sits Mr.. Calsworthy, the last defender
Of dying art. The art is gentility,
Many writers have specified in good
breeding successfully before the pub
.ic and several have advanced the posi-
zion to posture Of such irritation that
The public is hooted. Mr. Galsworthy
has, without a gesture, exposed his
nature TO the world and gained our
respect. He remains solidly among his
creations. He is visible as q Conrad
without once employing the direct
recital so favored by the greater artist.
Iis triumph is less, but quite as open.
His work has one theme and the theme
IS never stated.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02
The Author of ''Birthright"
By Robert Pickett


rN ORDER TO reach the home OF the
author Of "Birthright," followed
sequence Of jerkwatcr railroads
to Perryville, Tenn, and then went
up the Tennessee River to Clifton in
an asthmatic gasoline launch On the
wharfboat at Clifton an inquiry for r.
s. Stribling evoked thoughtful stare
from the wharfboat's caretaker. After
q moments consideration he said, II
guess you mean Tom StrblIng You'll
lind him up Rt Mrs, Stribling's house."
The Stribling home is an ancient,
hefore-the-war house, with new rooms
tackled on from behind ns the decades
demanded, until now it runs back from
the street In two strings. One airing
makes an cell" and finishes in q cistern
house, while tho other continues
straight northward and finally winds UP
in an oid-fashioned smokehouse The
plan Of the house Is further enlivened
by well dug squarely in the middle
OF the hallway which divides the two
strings Of rooms.
In person Mr.. Stribltng Is Il long,
lank man, Of the Tennessee mountain
nosed, dish faced, with wide. humor-
GUS mouth and bull-moose chin. He
has his study in the eastern string of
rooms-tho one leading to the cistern
house-and he keeps this In the most
violent disorder.
In il be has E hotch~potch OF books
desks, tables, chairs, valises, clothes,
pictures, original drawings of iliustra.
lions FOR his stories sent 20 him by
magazine editors, guns, butterfly net.
typewriters, bottles, manuscripts, al
invalid's chair, in which, stretched out
at full length, lie writcs his stories.
He showed me big rolltop desk in mis-
room filed ny with letters about
"Birthright."
"That Is almost symposium, OF
American opinion on the negro qucs-
tion," explained my host. an my let
ters about 'Birthright' / have received
every shade Of sentiment from violent
anti-negro to equally unrestrained pro-
negro. They come in from whites and
blacks. All OF my colorcd correspon-
dents have been laudatory, although
come say never went far enough
"What about your white Southern
critics 2" l inquired, wondering how the
Southern people as whole had ac-
cepted tho indictment of "Birthright."
ssE'OUR-FIF1HS Of the letters from
white Southerners arc laudatory."
answered Mr.. Stribling earnestly. II
was uost agreeably surprised. l knew
all the time that in the South there
exists very wide and deep sympathy
tense and personal sympathy than
believe the negro ever receives in the
North. Up there they sympathize with
the negro just as they sympathize with
tho Armenians, impersonally and at
long range; down here we sympathize
With The man across tho street, and
very often with the old rheumatic in
our kitchen.
"a leading negro journal OF Chicago
in commenting on the variety Of let
ters received by THE Century Maga
zine concerning 'Birthrsht' made e |
series OF perfectly logical deductions
which showed that p1ort ~ tha rohiG
anti-negro letters received by the Cen
tury' were written by the better class
Of Southern whites who hated the
negro. I regretted to sec such m ar
tlcle appear in that negro journal be-
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02

cause, while the logic was very good
logic, IL did not happen to tally with
the facts.
"Tho educated Southerners have
given 'Birthright' most sympathetic
hearing. A number Of them objected
to certain philosop sophizingB in the novel,
but then readers in the North objected
to the game thing. And as FAR az that's
concerned they are right. To have any
novel break out into long philosophy
is certainly an unmitigated bore, ex-
cept. OF course, when you wrote the
thing yourself. You bear with that
checrfully, because you know it couldn't
be helped"
..IF YOU don't mind trito quas-
tion," l said, lone thst all nom
writing folk put to all writer's, how
did you ever come to do 'Birthright,'
and why did you tackle tho negro qucs-
tion %
~ didn't tackle the negro question.
/ never cared row OF soy beans for
the negro question In all my life, but
for q number Of yeara have fcls the
dramatic possibilities in the mixed
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02
A Last Defender
BY Thomas Beer

MI "Th
a. knopf II mher
~os attributes to
Ar. Gaisworhg the @h{otnod
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02

Is 1lOHSNlAn s n S0fOp SNlTG LAG
reminds me Of an anecdote Of
that great poet.
When, in 1895, he sent his manu-
script to London publisher, it was
accepted forthwith. In the letter Of
acceptance was query as to when
second book Of verse might be expected.
Housman replied; CAS- ii has taken NC
thirty years TO write this volume, may
be after thirty years moro III send
you another"
met Housman last summer in Cam
bridge, where he teaches Latin. He
has never heen to America, but he was
on the eve Of flying to Paris for
holiday with q fellow professor. He
is the shyest, most retiring of men, and
N his quiet study, among his best
loved books, | could think CT nothing
but little gray mouse, aloof from the
world, content TO remain always in
that dream-haunted atmosphere Of the
English university-cne who would
shrink from the undignifed publicity
Of our press, who would ahhor Amer
lean banQuets and who would loathe
being made q fuss over. A delightful
contrast to some Of the poets Of this
day, who, as Heine once said, had only
10 be taken TO London to be ruined
utterly
y c. WODEHOUSE is back in
- America for brief stay-just
long enough to put Oh play with
Grossmith. He tells ne ne can write
4 Short story in four days, once he gets
his plot and characters firmly fixed in
his mind. He has contracted already
fcr no less than eighteen short stories
and two novels, TO be delivered within
few months. tie is the kind of popu-
lar author whom editors meet at the
pier, so anxious are they for his gay,
delightful work.
rEHHE last part Of Glare Sheridan's
Diary" is so fine that it is a pity
the earlier portions OF the book were
not edited. Her chapters on Charlie
Chaplin are as sincere and vigorous as
the heads she molds. She seems, in
the brief time that she got to know the
great screen star, TO have fathomed
HIM. to have read his very heart; and
She puts upon paper all that he stands
for-puts it there with fine restraint
and delicacy, I hear it rumored that
Mrs. Sheridan, like Frederick OBrien.
has written play. I think she can
do almost anything she turns her hand
to. She has become completely capti-
waited by America and hopes to remain
here indefinitely.
Gertrude Atherton is back IN New
York, after two and half years in
California. She slipped quietly into
town not long ago and told no one she
was here until she had looked at the
glowing shops, seen again the vivid
life on Fifth Avenue, and gone to
few plays that she wanted to see alone.
Coincident with her arrival comes her
novel, Sleeping Fires,' from the house
Of Stokes. II is full Of the Atherton
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02

THE mans gentiIity is Of himself
Heavy and rough bowlders have
been flung st John Galsworthy by the
surviving country squires in English
letters. He was held radical. His
attitude is Aurelian, with Christian
warmth. His pity includes Plate and
Farabbas. In fact, John Galsworthy
has deep affection for Pilate-the
slightly bewildered and well-ored man
who wondered why the people how,ed
this gentle poet down, who called for
fair play in the wrong hour.
In the "Forsyte Saga" PLATE is
member Of the family. His name is
Jolyon Forsyte for three generations.
Money doesn't much allure him. He is
the servant of beauty, the irresolute ar-
titst, the uuwor'dIy queer" chick in
the batch of eggs. lie matches as a wild
pheasant. He must live cooped, and he
II not unkind, but the hens arc agi-
tated. He wills incomes to vagrant
ladies who have fed from Forsytism;
IN aaother incarnation he marries one;
his last representative flies away to
Canada. He is g protest to the notes
in circulation on the Forsyte change,
as strange to his cousins as Lord Ha!-
dane is to Lloyd George, as George
Washington would be to the Mayor Of
New York City.
AS for the background, touted by
the press as Mr.. Galsworthy's sum
total, it is a luscious haze. Social
color appears and disappears. The /
actua. tents of the Phiistines are at /
some distance. Que sees heralds with !
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02

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