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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-04-23

their mother. Mrs. S,apleton Whit
lock
Miss Bessie Euos. who is teaching
In WILLIAMSBURG. and her friend.
Miss Mary I.oman. OF Portsmouth.
spent the Weekend Il, her home
here.
Rrucc Roxlcy. Ir.. Of tho l'nivcr-
sity Of Virginia. spent saturday and
sunday in Louisa.
John lfrookheld. Of the University
of Virginia, spent the week end with
his relatives, MIR. and Mrs. Worth
smith. at their home here.
Clarence Perkins. of the Medical
college Of Virginia. was the week
end guest OF MIR. and Mrs. l.. T..
Bush
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-04-23
FRECKLE-FACE
sun AMI Wind Hiring Ont Ugly spots
How to trmoNr Easily.

Here's u chance. Miss Frcckic- face
to try II remedy Tor frrrklcS with the
guarantee of a reliable concern that
II VIII not cost you Il penny unlcSs II
removes tn" frcCklcS. while If IL does
give YOU a clear complexion the cx-
pcnsc Is triflinS.
simply get AN ounce rf Outline
double StrcnGth-from amy druggist
and Il few applications should Show
YOU how easy il is to rid Yourself ~
the homcly frccklcs and got a bcauti-
full complexion. Rarely is more thar
ono ounce needed FOR tho worst case
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-04-23
CLIFTON FORGE

Special To The Times Dispatch
CLIFTON FORGE, VA, April ~
Curtis Lee, OF Washington, is spend
ing several days In the city.
Mrs. w Il kcadlc and little dangh-
tor have returned from a visit TO
Charlottesville.
Misses Ruth and Kathleen Bur
ford. OF i.ynchhurE. who have been
visiting Miss Gladys Tucker, have re-
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-04-23

echo across Broadway as wallis open
and c'utChinK hand advances to-
ward sleeping heroine.
Perhaps theatrical managers are
taking lessons from movie kings
why Girls Leave Home" and Ten
Nights in a Bar Room are now sue
ccsSful movies: Nellie. the Beautiful
Cloak Model" and Bertha. the Sew
ing Machine Cir" are soon to be
released.
SophistiCationr
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-04-23
THAT'S A GOOD ONE

You sayi, times
umni in the
hv
ING hlSiATCliS lthy Paragraph
tho Evening" Dispatch Will he
So bright
arc axe uslu
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-04-23
BLACKSBURC

Especial To Th" Times Dispatch.
Bl.AckSBfRCi. VA. April 22-rh.
Woman's Club, of BiackSburg, gave
The New York herald., 1922-03-19
Continued from Page scren.


the effect of deus or machind in
his reeurrent appearances. function
ing little mechanically.
The subsidiary pair of lovers and
the minor characters are very well
done. In the handling of the indi-
vidual character, as Mr.. Milne points
out in his preface. the dramatist has
an advantage when he turns to novel
building. one Of the first things. =
says he. which the dramatist dis
covers IS that he must know all
about anybody who steps into his
play before he can show the least
little angle 81 the character cor
rectiy to the audience. He must be
assured Of his OthcIlo's color all over.
even If he b exhibiting no more
than the face and hands 1t follows
that with every play the
dramatist has within him fun ma
te-ial for 4 novel
But that doesn't follow al all, He
may have must haNe-a fuzzy un-
derstood. adequately conceived col
lection Of individuals an adequate
cast Of Characters for a noyeI. in
deed, but there IS. o. should be. more
to the makeup OF novel than that.
More. too. than good dramatic sit
uation. If il Is to be anything but
"novelized' play. Its perspective. its
background. is whole composition
are radically different 10 the neces-
sarily narrow selectiveness OF a play.
Possibly that IS one reason why 50
much OF our current fiction Is SO
thin; much Of it is merely attenu-
ated stage stuff
The New York herald., 1922-03-19


rE. F'YFE has a long esJab-
lN ,ishcd reputation as a
publjcist ami newspaper
man Of solid achievement. Until re-
Gently he has been connected With
the Northclife papers and. among
other things. his study OF Mexico has
been recognized as a book of impor
tance. But with the publication of
this story he becomes entitled to a
higher rating. as figure Of no small
magnitude among the hovelists of
the day. This book should rank him
at least with Locke and Arnold Ben
nett. aud one may venture to believe
that IL has automatically lasting
quality. a minor star in the galaxy.
if You ike. but one that may well
go on twinlSling entertaiHingly bit
beyond its first day Ii is some
thing better than ephemeral fiction.
There is a manifest kinship to
Locke, aud to Locke at his best, but
with a little more sedateness. and
perhaps a more sardonic quality in
his satiric analyses OF humanity.
Locke might have done the eecen-
trie man OF the story as well-and
much a. Mr. F'yfe does him--but he
surely would not have handled the
The New York herald., 1922-03-19

woman so unsparingly or to SO en-
tirely good an effect. Mr.. Fyfe's
creation OF Florence Poore" is
nothing less than masterpiece. 1t
is not at all pretty picture. but there
is nothing malevolent or in any way
exaggerated about her. She lives.
Most readers will have met her and
will recognize the essential truth of
the picture, but she has not often
been drawn with such precision.
Florence is the center of the
theme. II is comedy, in a broad
sense. with an underlying tragic
note, and in the denouement it al
most becomes farce comedy, ending
in a grotesque situation that keeps
its dignity BY reason of its grim sat
ire. Mr. F'yfe does not sneer at his
people-in fact. he keeps them rather
lovable in spite of themselves-but
his laughter is mocking, sardonic and
always Illuminating.
Florence is an absolutely selfish.
cold blooded. almost hen minded
woman, but always human. capable
Of inspiring affection, very feminine,
good looking enough to be desired,
and highly efficient in having her
own way. She is also sincere. in so
far as such a person can be; She
succeeds in actually deceiving her
self into a belief in her Importance.
She is never a monstrosity. although
she is, essentially. a comic absurdity
but always a reality.
Chance married her to an eccen-
trio genius. Everard Poore. who is
disillusioned as to her character
even before marrying her. but who
nevertheless manages to make the
hest of her. He is minor journal
ist leader writer. newspaper hack
who has gained an assured but by
no means brilliant position. He
lives a double life, intellectually. He
and Florence get on well enough,
though she is disappointed with him.
being ambitious socially and want
ing a larger income. She regards
him as a failure. There is no love or
even real affection between them,
but no break, no outward quarrel.
His most intimate friend is Sir Lewis
Dane. a popular novelist of some
what anGmic mentality but a very
decent sort Dane is n IDLY inter-
ested in Florence, who finds him
useful. as sort of tame cat. Eve
rard reuews his boyhood friendship
with n very different kind OF woman,
Lady Margaret. now a divorcee, a
woman of fine intellectually and ar
tistic perception. There is no crude
love affair between them. but 10 her
he discloses his other side, and at
her instigation he begins to write.
to produce truly creative literature.
But he publishes none Of it. His
attitude toward life is ironic-a gen
eral mot worth whilcness," and an
outward making the best of it.
Then he goes off on an arctic expe-
dition and is killed.
But he has left his four undi-
vulged books in the care Of Sir Lewis
as literary executor. Sir Lewis rec
ognizes them at once as beyond ques-
ton works OF genius. and also capa-
ble of great popularity. He per-
suadeS = highly commercial pub
Usher twao. by the way. is n vividly
and somewhat malioiously drawn
The New York herald., 1922-03-19

JANE JOURNEYS on. By Ruth
Comfort Mitchell Appseton.
+" HIS is another case OF the
sprightly. highly intelligent.
ambitious village maiden who
breaks away from her early environ
ment and humdrum lie 10 work
miracles in the city. This one. Jane.
Is or the writing variety Instead OF
marrying the obvious young man of
her Vermont village she escapes 10
New York in pursuit OF a career.
The New York herald., 1922-03-19
CHANTING WHEELS. By Hubbard
Hutchinson. G. P. Pu,nam's sons.

Hutchinson. G. P. Putnam.s sons.
TT is difficult % b quite fair 10
this book. 1t means 50 well
and has 50 much that IS at
tractive and really good about it
that one does not like to be obliged
to record that a. i whole it does
not succeed. II is an affair Of i'm
possibilities. Of impossible contrasts
and unrealities. but there is. now
and then. 4 bit or poetic glamour in
il. and the underlying idea Is worth
while. But the central figure. Dante
Gabriel Raleigh is jas unlikely as
his name. He is compound OF pure
music and solid beef. OF artistic fine
ness and practical. unitarian bust
ness sense. Not ineanCeivable. pos
sibly. but pretty hard to swallow.
His background also is mixture
OF violent. raw realism and rainbow
yagaries. The elements do not mix.
and Instead Of couplemcnting they
kill each other.
Moreover. the language attributed
10 him and to other characters IS
Enthusiastically stilted absurd 10 the
point Of caricature at its worst.
Raleigh. who is a highly equipped
musician. goes TO work ii a foundry
and mixes in with the men. Slavic
and other "extraneous" races, and
gets on marvelously with them be-
cause OF his music. and in spite
of the fact that nc talks a language
that would be quite uaintelligible to
them. The sociology of the whole
thing IS strained. que rly. though
there are very effective bits of real
istic description. The spirit of the
great machines gets into the musi-
clans blood and he produces a mar
velous ''ehantey" that gives fun ex-
preston to the rhy ythms and har,
monies OF the wheels. 0ne may grant
that as an achievement and still
fail 70 see IN it a possible cure
even symbolically-fo- labor troubles.
When a strike is threatened the
musician manages to have the men
sing themselves out Of it. turning
their emotional expression into mel
ody instead Of sabotage. The incl
dent characterize the whole book.
One feels that tho author Is an ideal
ist rather gone astray into q field
that does not really welcome him.
But he has true descriptive power
above the average. and is ooviously
entirely sincere. II. as - infer. IL
is first book Mr.. Hutchinson may
find himself and produce something
very wei worth while. for there Is
at least. nothing commonplace about
either his manner or the subject
matter of his thouqht
The New York herald., 1922-03-19

not say that he is wrong in his In
depreciation. And it all makes an
extremely good story.
The opening sentences tempt to
quotation:
1T lay apparently afioat on the
sluggish, family discolored tide-a
placid. horse faced. shovel nosed
head, with bumpy holes for ears and
immense round eyes of a somewhat
anxious mildness. The anxiety in the
great eyes was not without reason.
for their owner had just arrived in
the tepid and teeming waters of this
estuary. and the creatures which he
had already seen about him We're
both unknown and menacing.'
That IS imaginative description Of
a high order; a picture that stays
with you. The book Is full of such
good things. enough in themselves
10 make ii worth while,
The New York herald., 1922-03-19


r. r. Dutton < GO.
HR. TERHUNE has done two
IM excellent things in this his
latest dog story. He has
once more given Us a thoroughly
doggy de- this time without a trace
of exaggeration Or humanized psy-
choiogy -aud he has also produced a
human character sketch that is more
warmly and accurately human than
anything in his more pretentious
longer novels. Link Ferris. the young
farmer who has grown up. lonesome
and abandoned. in the hard environ
ment of sour soiled. rough, stony
farm in secluded corner of northern
New Jersey. is striking figure, quite
out of the run of stock characters
in current fiction. He is a breathing
reality. The dismal. utter isolation
Of such 4 life may he hard To realize.
but il is IN actuality. even to-day,
within a very few miles Of Tuxedo
to the north and the emphatically
urban Paterson TO the south. One
can get further away from rail
road in that neck Of the woods
than in any other section short of
the AdirondaCks.
Link literally hadn't friend in the
world. and no relief from the bitter
monotony OF such a life except an
occasional drunken spree. until he
happens upon a collie with a broken
leg lying in the roadside ditch. His
FIRST impulse is to put the animal out
of its misery but he hasn't quite the
heart to do il and rescues him in
stead. Thereafter. for the first time
in his life. Link has a friend. The
dog makes "A man OF him. "He drug
me up TO my feet says Link, ''outn
wuthlessness. and he's learned me
that livin' is wuth while" What if
the process is just 4 little senti-
mentalized in the telling? Such
lonely man would be sentimental.
There IS no unreaiity. no exaggera
ton in the course of Links growth
under the impulse of love and-yes-
respect for his dog The more |
know Of men," said caustic French
critic. the more esteem dogs. ="
The remark is capable of other than
satiric application.
The dog. Chum. is a fine gentle
man. but he remains entirely canine.
The presentation of animals in fic-
ton Is always hazardous business.
1t is so easy. SO natural to equip
them with thoughts and feelings
and reasoning powers that are not
demonstrably or even Conceivably
animal. Mr.. Terhune himself has not
always escaped that pitfall. but he
does keep wholly clear of it here.
Any one who has ever enjoyed the
friendship of real dog viii accept
Chum at oEce-and other people
really do not matter at all,
--rrt. ,,-Vv~,v.-.l. ..nr-..rr II. TT "a
The New York herald., 1922-03-19
New Fiction

The miracles come off promptly /;
No. | being her instant success with
one act play. Not that dashing it
off at once is at all unusual: the
wonder OF it lies in its instant ac-
ceptance. After that. Of course. all
else is easy. Her literary career
sends her careering over a good dea,
of the map, from Maine to Mexico.
with Chicago as a way station.
Tie other thread of the story is
largely ''uplift," and a general glad
dening Of the spirits Of all with
whom she comes into contact, in
cluding a sentimental young Irish
man. Ii plunSes into settlement
work and general and specialized up
lift. The incidents are well engi-
neered and the book is not lacking in
humor. af which there is enough 10
tone down the generally sentimental
lied atmosphere. 1t Is a soundly
conventional. pleasantly told ro-
nance. with occasional indulgences
i'll more lurid melodrama as. for in
stance. in the description of a fire in
a subway cara situation strenuous
enough 10 bring Jane and the Irish
man 10 an understanding Of each
others love. II all moves. as maga-
zine serial fiction must nowadays.
The New York herald., 1922-03-19

Continued on Fohoicing Page.
The New York herald., 1922-03-19

THE WIDOWS CRUISE. By Hamil
ton Fyfe Thomas Seltzer.
The New York herald., 1922-03-19

HIS DOG. BY Albert Psyson Terhune
r. +. Dutton K CO.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1922-08-03

and place-hunters who constantly
devise schemes and pans and or.
CARNATIONS to increase their power,
patronage and patrimony. They
live and work exclusively that they
may subsist upon such efforts.
THIRD - The Presbyterian
Church commits a folly when she
permits her enemies to begin to
build machinery and c~entralize her
government, thereby detracting
from her power.
/ don't believe Presbyterians will
submit to centralized power nor to
dictation by agents and machines.
They crushed that kind of power
once. / hope they will crush IL
again. II must be crushed in gov
ernments and it must be crushed in
the church.
The Presbyterian Church should
return to the sovereignty and
power and supremacy of her Pres
byterian government and to the
control by her presbyteries.
Hear my pieal Awake, grand old
Church of liberty, righteousness
and evangelism.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1922-08-03
YOUR SMOKE E
YOUR

Why is it that many people condone
pipe and cigar and condemn the popu-
lar cigarette. An exchange says it is
because the Williams in plays for fifty
years back have all smoked cigarettes.
1t also says that pipe smoking is look
ed upon with more favor because the
simple liver, the mar about the home,
the grand dads and the gentle loving
men have smoked pipes in movies and
on the stage for the same length of
time.
Many smokers will say that the
cigar is more harmful than the ciga-
rette, yet the common idea is that the
cigarette is a real coffin nail" and
the cigar is a pleasant nerve pacifier.
And h old pipe is really a comfort
ing influence around the home.
Consider your friends. These who
go about with a pill" in their mouth
are they treacherous, brazen, decep-
tive, cunning and vileanous?
And the cigar smokers-are they
harsh and relentless? Do they snap
their jaws when they talk and glare
at you with steely eyes? Do they
squeeze their debtors when the chance
arrives and kick widows and orphans
into the street?
And now consider your pipe smok-
ing friends. No doubt they are typi-
cal movie pipe smokers. They trot the
babies on their knees at eventide and
Groom sweet melodies as the day goes
out. They re kindly and generous.
always willing to extend the helping
hand, tolerant of their neighbors and
simple folk in mind and spirit.
And those who don't smoke-how
are we ever going to diagnose their
dispositions? Are they not enigmas in
our daily life? With no means of de-
termining their traits and character
through the smoke medium how can
they expect their fellow man to treat
them with the same consideration that
is given the smnkar2 ~
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1922-08-03

on the roads, says Mr.. Record, there is
always some obliging railroad official
ready to sidetrack or divert them un-
til the ice melts and the food reaches
an unmarketable condition. 1t does
not take many operations of this kind
to put the average small man out of
business. Thus the meat monopoly is
maintained.
MI. Record points out that govern
ment ownership of railroads would de-
feat this system. The people should
not be compelled to wait for so uncer-
tain a solution. The roads should be
compelled as common carriers to pro-
vide an adequate supply of refrigera-
tor cars, and it might not be amiss to
prohibit the use of private cars.
The right of the rails to the Meat
Trust, to the Pullman Company and
others, means that these monopolies
get the benefits of public service cor
porations, without restrictions or re-
gulation. They enjoy franchises which
never have been granted to them. The
subletting Of franchises puts the pub
lie in jeopardy.
AS a fact, passing the right of way
by the railroads is perhaps a greater
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1922-08-03

vanced methods when he is to be pen
allied for his enterprise?
There seems to be occasion to give
this subject some thought. 1t ought
to be possible to take into considera-
ton what might be termed losing i'm
p~rovements" made in good faith in an
ticipation of better business, but which
for the time causes a direct loss.
When profitably utilized, these evil
dences Of progressive operations and
a desire for greater production, great
er service, upon more economical lines
could be made to bear their share, but
some ean should be provided so in
the meantime a measure Of relief
could be afforded.
Such a policy would encourage the
advanced methods we hear of which
is only another way of saving that the
public would be the better served.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1922-08-03
IA YOUR
INCOMEf

To what class do you belong when II
ONE to paying income tax? There
are 25,755 people in Idaho who by the
last report paid income tax totaling
$1,085 $4,000 on a total gross icome OF
s67, 1891, 639, 900.
OF that number 9,346 have an in
come of from $1,000 to $4,000, there
are 1O,414 people who pay on an in
come Of from $4,000 to $4,000 and from
that point the number begins to drop
until it gets down to just one person
in the state who pays on an income of
from 100000 to $4,000, and from 70
to $4,000 and from so to 100000. The
exact figures as to the numbers are in
teresting
The average net income returned in
Idaho was $2,616.64, and the yerage
tax paid was s42.19. The returns for
1926 were the largest eveF made for
any OF the states, and the collections
that year surpassed all previous years
since an income tax has been levied.
The income taxes paid in 1920, as
stated, amounted to $1,O86. 614. as
ag1nst $1,475,023 in 1919, and S1.493y-
BIS in 1913. Prior to that year the To-
tails were about half the last figure.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1922-08-03

declined only 4 per cent between De-
cember, 1921, and March, 1922, in the
country as a whole.
True, since June, 1920, there has
been a drop of % per cent, but despite
this the cost of living remained 81 per
cent above 1913 in March of this year.
The retail cost of food did not
change at all from March to April,
either in the country as a whole or il
the leading cities of the great Empire
State.
Surely our political economists can
find a lesson in such Figures. When
we poke under the public nose such
evidence of outrageous p~rofiteerlng,
plus bungling and faulty taxation, we
create a condition that is appalling, if
not inflammatory. The American
workman never can rise to a state of
happiness and contentment if he is the
continuous victim of the profiteering
see-saw.
And discomfort is dangerous. Out
of discomfort came America.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1922-08-03
BUST THE BEEF TRUST


George L. Record, star OF the Chi
cago convention when Roosevelt head
ed the Bull Moose movement, now
comes to the foreground in New Jer-
sey, swinging his axe right and left at
the Beef Barons, mercilessly expos
ing their system of control
The facts are SO patent that fair
ness demands steps be taken imme-
diately to put IN end to the abuse
which spells nothing but control of
prices, the ability to extort from the
people the heavy 1.-THE they must pay
nowadays for the privilege of living.
Fortunately Mr.. Record does not stop
at exposing the system. He points
the way to relief.
The railroads have few or no refrig-
orator cars to carry meat or perish
able products. The Big Five, com
prising the meat monopoly, have their
private refrigerator cars. Small COM
petitors are thus placed in an impos-
sible position. They must either put
cars Of their WI on the roads or hire
cars-if they can get them-from the
Beef Trust.
If a little fellow puts his own cars
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1922-08-03
A WEAK PRIMARY.

Not more than a third Of the regis
tered votes were cast at the primary
elections Tuesday. This was occas-
stoned largely by the lack of contests
on both tickets. The three candidates
for prosecuting attorney on the Repub-
lican ticket made no special effort to
get out their vote, all depending on
the loyalty of their support, for sue
cess. There were many more than
enough votes out to nominate any one
OF them had an active campaign been
organized.
The surprise of the primaries was
the strong race of L. B. Evans Of Ar
bon precinct. Evans beat Commission
er England in the latters own precinct
and carried his own with an over
whelming majority If the third dis
trict could elect its own commissioner
Evans would have had a walk-away.