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about everything, and the value OF
H. G. Wells is that he realizes that
these changes of mind are inevitable
and that he helps US to change our
minds for the better.
Apart from the writer's of Ethel
NJ. Dell fiction, whose readers no
man can number, II. G. Wells Is
read in England more than any other
contemporary writer, more than Ar
mold Bennett, more than John Gals
worthy. more than Joseph Conrad,
far more than any of the younger
writer's who nowadays regularly
spend profitable winters in lecturing
on culture and themselves to Ameri-
can audiences. Wells has tremen-
dous vogue in the public libraries
and he is one of the few writer's
whom people discuss and whose point
of view the English world is eager
to know and to understand. This
eagerness is not due to the fact that
he is original or whimsical or selfish.
1t is due to the fact that ordinary
workaday England realizes that
here is a man who belongs to them,
as Bunyan and Dickens belonged to
them. I have never been able to
understand how any one who is not
an Englishman, not common Eng
lishman, with a common English
mans love for common English fun,
can possibly read Dickens. 1 have
equally never been able to under
stand how a common Englishman
can contrive to live without reading
the Dickens novels through and
through. Similarly it is to me a
matter of astonishment that III. G.
Wells, certainly a prophet not with
out honor in his own country, should
be so widely read outside his own
country, for the mans whole sig
nificance is entirely missed unless 1t
is realized that he is absolutely and
pugnaciously English. His cosmo-
politan popularity is tribute to the
best that is England to-day. EN-
pires come and go. The old boast
that the sun never sets on the Eng
lish flag may soon be no longer true.
and it may be that no one (not even
the ordinary Englishman) will be
penny the worse. particularly if the
old boast should give way to the new
boast, that the sun never sets on the
Wells novels.
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The we'll advertised disagreement
of III. G. Wells and the London Daily
Mail over his letters from Washing
ton may have deceived America in
one important particular. Since the
war the Daily Mad and the rest Of
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Doubtless deserve an audience.
But I wish Hervey A. would try
To be a more explicit guy.
I've never heard, the screams Of a
child
Born with neuralgia.
Are they anything like the screams
OF a duckbilled platypus
Suffering from eG0rthmaIgias
Come on, enlighten me!
How does it sound, this noise
That "fits the landscapes drab gro
tesquery"?
Ornithology is well represented on
the list Of books received by Niscount
Lascelles and Princess Mary. IN ad-
dition to Birds One Should Know"
wild Birds in Their Haunts' and
British Birds" one finds "Old Lon
don," which, we take IL, contains
many birds eye views of the dear ola
burg.
THE INFLUENCE OF DE La
MARE.
Don't sit in that chair. It's for
pygmies. - From 'The Fair Re-
wards" by Thomas Beer.
mark, it's after ten," said Olive
(also in "The Fair Rewards"l. 60
to bed"
This speech was made by Olive in
the dark days of 1912 when people
went to bed. In those days there
were no fiappers, yet Mr.. Beer refers
to one. If they had had fiappers in
1912 Olive, we are certain, would
have been one and she would have
thought it ridiculous what flap
per does MOTTO tell any one to so
10 sleep SO early.
we are interested in Mr.. Beers
spelling of the name of certain well
known dance that is popular with
drummers and others. "Hoochy
| coochee" he calls it. and our die
tionary being too prim to include
the term, we have no authoritative
support for our own version
"hootchy kootchy." We spelled it
| that way in a poem We sold to a
magazine a long time ago and it
went through uncorrected; but that
doesn't necessarily mean we are
| right. The editor probably took it
| for granted that any one who would
mention the "hoochy coochee, ito
return to Mr. Beers spelling, would
be sufficiently familiar with the sub
ject to get the spelling correct.
Will some kind drummer please
tell us how it is spelled?
IN. B.-Wheezes to the effect that
1t is not spelled but snee@ed are
| barred)
Judging by the number of 'em we
| continue to see in the subway, IL
and street cars, BUY a 'Sheik' a
Week is the new slogan of the book
! buying public.
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you'll stop reading in the hes
are junk and you'll start in tai
I've lately sunk).
books in the Forty-second street
library and perhaps 1t was a medical
student, hazarding a trial operation.
who removed the appendix from one
of the big dictionaries in the main
reading room.
THE NAUGHTY ALGERNON.
Swinburne used at one time to
terrorize cabmen with his stock of
swear words in various tongues. ac-
cording to writer in BldcKtrood's
Hdgdsine.--The World.
The class in wheezing will now as
semble. Children, what is the pre-
scribed comment (see Testers Hand
book for Use by Entertainers" and
Colyumnists) on the foregoing para
graph? Right. "And his
first name was Algernon!"
Billy f. told US the ether day that
he thought it would be a good one
on Bryan if the birthday of the emf
nent anti-Darwinian is an occur
renee that takes place in the month
of Ape-ril.
Don't start anything you can't
finish" is an excellent motto. but if
It were applied to the reading OF
books it would cause much needless
suffering.
Here is paragraph from B. L. Us
1.-THE So-Called Human Race"
(Knopf) that says more than many
book we have read:
The fact that Abraham Lincoln,
George Washington and other
great departed whose names are
taken in vain every day by small
whack these persons over the
heads with tsmbourine is almost
-as Anatole France remarked in
an essay on Flaubert--is almost
an argument against the immor-
tality of the soul.
Don't read too much or you win
get headache" writes one of those
newspaper syndicate medicos.
Headache? Dear. mo- Tome-aine
poisoning.
REvIEwETTE.
AS fine book as I've lately seen
Is "The Life and Death of Harriet
Frean."
POEM SEIZED.
Irish Republican troops seize Linz
erick.-THE Sun.
IT was probably very malicious,
A limerick utterly vicious.
Composed by poet
Too stupid TO know 1t
is wrong to write poems seditious
THREE WORD PHILOSOPHERS.
"And that's that"
Frank Swinnerton.
"what was was"
Gertrude Atherton.
How to avoid embarrassing mis-
takes In EnglAh," reads an an
nouncement of the Self Correcting
= Language Method.
The safest way. our experience has
been. - to shut up.
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Middle class England loves mill
ing" 1t loves a fight with bare fists.
and H. G. Wells was never more
thoroughly English than when he
said that Winston Churchill (ours,
not yours) was "iIattentive to any
reality, untcachable by any experi-
ence," and then he went on to call
the eminent English statesman "the
running sore of waste in our Gov
ernment" and to assert that The has
smeared his vision with human
blood" That is the real England,
not the kid glove Mayfair England.
but the England of Leeds and the
London suburbs. II. G. Wells pre-
fers Charley Chaplin to Winston
Churchill. So does England.
The trouble with England is that
she hides Englishmen under a
bushel and allows herself to be rep
resented in foreign countries by dis
tinguished persons who are often far
less English than United States Sem
ators from the middle West. At
Washington this country was oft5.
,ially represented by that urbane.
delightful Scotchman Sir Arthur
Balfour, aided by that other able
Scotchman Sir Auckland Geddes.
The real English representatives at
Washington were my friend Lord
Riddell and II. G. Wells. At Genoa
England is represented by a Scotch
lawyer, a Welsh lawyer and one Of
those exclusive aristocrats who
really belong to no country but the
upper classes.
If it be a matter of Importance
that England shotId be heard and
understood tand it may be-, then
H. G. Wells. the virile little man
whose father was a professional
cricketer tand cricket is a game
that the Welsh and the Scotch un-
derstand as little as the Americans)
and whose mother was the house
keeper in a great English house, who
in his early days lived the life of the
lower English middle class and who
now with his splendid genius can re-
veal the mind of England to the
world. is one of the most important
and certainly one Of the most inter-
esting of living men.
AS / have said, he has come back
from America to the jolly country
house in Essex. where he lives and
works and plays hockey and other
strange games which he invents for
himself. His literary production has
already been prodigious, and one
wonders what will be the next di-
rection in which his abounding in
tellectual activity will work itself
out. 1t is certain that whatever his
hand finds to do he will do it with
all his might. 1t is certain. too. that
he viii remain to the end the spokes-
man of England Indeed he oo,1ld
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Many students use the reference
books in the Forty-second street
library and perhaps 1t was a medical
student, hazarding a trial operation.
who removed the appendix from one
of the big dictionaries in the main
reading room.
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England and H. G. Wells
By SIDNEY DARK.

TT G.. WELLS has returned to
London from the Wash
ington conference, after
The New York herald., 1922-04-30

Foolish persons have often accused
Wells Of inconsistency and frequent
changes of opinion, of swallowing
his own words with the gusto of a
serpent swallowing a rabbit. As a
matter of fact, / prove in my book
that H. G. Wells is a consistent pro-
gressive. His opinions to-day are
the logical consequences of his opin-
ions of yesterday affected by the
course of events. Americans have
criticised II. G. Wellss alleged in
consistency far more than English
men because the English have rec
ognized in his development of mind
something that is natural and ma
tional. l understand that in Amer
lea If you are born a Democrat you
die a Democrat, and if you are born
a Republican you die Republican,
and that it would be considered just
as unnatural If not immoral for a
Democrat to turn Republican as it
would be for an ostrich to become
an alligator. I may be q probably
AMI Ill informed but / am told that
if all immigration were to cease the
party in power in the United States
to-day would be in power forever.
We are not like that in England.
We change our minds between every
two elections. We change our minds
The New York herald., 1922-04-30

REvIEwETTE.
AS fine a book as I've lately seen
Is THE Life and Death of Harriet
Frean.'
The daily times., 1922-02-08

their generous but urgent offers. A
gentleman from Missouri forwarded.
with his letters sworn affadavit to
prove that he was not married at
present but has hopes"
Asked for her views on marriage
the woman mayor replied 'As far as
marriage goes believe in only one
Klnd; marriage that is the natural
result of true love. Marriage does
not interfere with a woman's career
II more people married for love and
fewer for money and social position
this world would be far happier"
mo, l have never been in love but
expect to be perhaps some day."
Miss Kaukonen naively concluded.
The daily times., 1922-02-08

doubt that when you receive this soul
plea from poor widower with nine
motherless children wherein one
learns little farther on that the sup
plicant weighs two hundred and
twenty pounds and 'yearns for some
one who can make apple pie, save
money and love me- He also states
that he is the best cornet player in
Bird Centre
MANY of the writer's sent their
photographs with the letters. One ell
derly farmer from Kansas wrote that
he owns a farm of over a thousand
acres and though he has a little hard
cider in his cellar if his suit is sue
cessful he'll right soon get rid of
that and close by saying that though
he'll be 'seventy-fice, come next
March, to marry the first woman
mayor in Ohio would be the climax
of my ambition
Another said he would be willing
to give up his pay envelope EVERY
Saturday night and not fight about
it either and earnestly requested
but don't let this get into the pa
pers or magazines
"a few of them wanted me to tele-
graph at their expense my answer Il
The daily times., 1922-02-08

her services have broken of such
negotiations since the publication of
the Chicago company's refusal to let
her appear. The contract with the
Chicago company was signed last
November 8.
Madame Gadski described herself
as citizen of Germany and a resi-
dent of New York with her daugh-
ter since 1914. Concerning her hus-
band she asserts he devoted the en-
tire period of his residence in Ger
many during the war to the allevia-
tion Of suffering among American
prisoners and that he has come here
at the invitation of the United
States government, to reveal pro-
cesses of metal manufacture invent
ed in Germany and hitherto known
only to them.''
She Never Appeared.
Chicago, Feb. 6.-Madame Joahan-
ma Gadski, the opera singer, was un-
der contract to sing with the Chicago
Opera company this season, but never
appeared. and according. to an an
nouncement some weeks ago was paid
$500 to cancel her contract. The
contract was made in Europe last
summer by Mary Garden. general
The daily times., 1922-02-08

would refuse to hear her sing be-
cause OF the presence in America of
her husband, a former German army
officer.
Madame Gadski asserts cancella-
ton of the contract and the attend
ant publication of false and mali
clous reports caused her the loss
OF the stipulated $4,000 and have
destroyed her earning power.
which heretofore has been very
large so that she is without en-
ployment and will be unable to OBJ
tain employment in her profession
Plalnt1n also alleges that numer-
GUS persons who were negotiating for
The daily times., 1922-02-08
WOULD INSURE CROP
AGAINST WEATHER

Washington, Feb. 6.-Estab-
llshment of a farm risk insur-
ance bureau which would in
sure growing crop of non-per-
ishable products against loss or
damage resulting from adverse
weather conditions is proposed
IN a bill introduced today by
Representative King, Republi-
can, Illinois. -.
The daily times., 1922-02-08
OPERA SINGER SUES
FOR HALF A MILLION

New York, Feb. "a half mil
hon dollar libel suit against the
chicago Opera company was filed in
IeoeraI court here today by counsel
for Madame johanna Gadski wife
OF Captain Hans Tauscher, a German
subject.
madame Kadski charges that the
operd company, after contractine
with her to sing the role of e.Iso1de,
III TWO Chicago performances of
tristan and Isolde" at $500 each
publicly cancelled the contract on the
sround that patrons of grand opera
The daily times., 1922-02-08

The bureaul
al of the secre
ury, would b
adopt a formI
icy and to |
premium rate
fund of $10,0
created for p}
The daily times., 1922-02-08
FEMININE MAYOR
REFUSES TO MARRY,

Fairport, O., Feb. 7.-Despite be-
ing deluged with marriage proposals
during the first month of her i1cum-
bency as mayor of this little town. DR..
Amy A. Kaukonen, youthful and
pretty, claims she is still able to pay
strict attention to the business of
being mayor and that thus far her
heart has resisted the efforts of her
numerous suitors.
MissKaukcnen says:
Zone letter begins there is no
The daily times., 1922-02-08
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The daily times., 1922-02-08

A brand new JOY for nation! If they
were "hot cakes" they couldn't go faster
Throughout all America. A million and
more day are being sold to those who
love good ice cream and luscious chocolate,
made into tempting chocolate bar and
delivered to the delighted consumer in a
protective wrapper of sanitary tin-foil.
Buy it wherever ice cream is sold. Made
by local ice cream manufacturers, licensees
under the patents of the Russell Slower
Company, Mallers Building, Chicago.
The daily times., 1922-02-08
director of the company.
REDUCED ROUND TRIP FARES
via
Norfolk Southern Railroad
account
M A r DI G AS
New Orleans, La.

Febfuafy II, "a, I9ZZ
Tickets sold Feb. 24th-28th in
elusive. Final Limit March Z, 1922.
Extension of limit to March %, 1922
on payment of One Dollar Fee.
J. F. DALTON,
General Passenger Agent.
Weekly journal-miner., 1922-12-06
DAY ON TRIAL FUR COLORADO
 NURDER|NG
tAgsooiated Press NIght wirel

DURANGO. Colo, Dec. 4.-The prosecution and defense each had ex- hausted five of teh fifteen peremp- tory challenges allowed them when the first days trial of Rod. s. Day was concluded late today.
 Day, managing editor of the Du- rango Democrat, son of the late and widely known Dave F. Day, whom he succeeded in the directorship of the paper, is charge with the staying here of William L. Wood on April "A, last. Wood, city editor of the Durango Herald, a rival newspaper, was shot to death on the principal street of the town.
 Day, according to the testimony of a number of witnesses at the coroner's inquest, fired revolver twice at Wood when the two men met on Main street, after Wood is alleg- ed to have knocked Day down. One bullet struck Wood back of the right ear. He died two hours later
Weekly journal-miner., 1922-12-06
SENATE REPUBLICANS SURRENDER DYER BILL
 ID DEMO F|L|BUSTERS
NEW SESSION CONFINES WITH
 FEW HEARERS
Associated Press Night wirel

WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 4.-
 Congress put off the old and on the new" today, with the ending of the special session which had been called primarily to consider the shipping bill, and the converting of the regu-
 lar statutory December session. The
 change in congressional fashions was
 made within 10 minutes, the extra
 session begun two weeks ago ad
 journing at 11:50 o'clock and the
 new being called to order at high
 noon.
 The routine sessions winding up the special session and opening the new. developed little business and drew small crowds. Formal surren- der of the senate republicans to the democratic filibuster against the Dyer anti-lynching bill ended the tie up and allowed confirmation of about 1,700 delayed nominations before the final gavel of the special session, but the nomination of Pierce Butler, St Paul attorney, to be associate justice of the supreme court, failed and went over until the new session, through of Senators Lafollette, re- publican, of Wisconsin; Norris, re- publican, of Nebraska, and others.
 Receipt of the annual budget was the principal business of today's ses- sion. The usual committees called on President Harding and notified him of the assembling of the new session, but were not advised def initely when the president would pre- sent his opening message. It was be- lieved the president would address in joint session Wednesday with a message stressing the admin desire for enactment of the shipping bill, farm credits legislation and the annual supply bills, in the hope of cleaning up all business by March and avoiding an extra ses- sion of the new congress next spring. The shipping bill, passed last week by the house, is scheduled to be brought before the senate late this week. It will be taken up Wednes- day by the commerce committee with a view to prompt reply to the sen ate.
Weekly journal-miner., 1922-12-06
.L.E. BEHYMER TO ADDRESS \ CLUB
 LUNCHEON TODAY

L. E. Behymer, impressario of the Philharmonic orchestra of Los An geles and musical godfather during more than a quarter century to hun dreds of world-famous artists, today will be the guest of honor at a luncheon to be given at the Yava- pal club under the auspices of the chamber of commerce.
 MT. Behymer, who arrived in Pres colt yesterday, has been opening concerts by famous musicians in several southern Arizona cities, and is now returning to Los Angeles. He will speak this noon concerning the concerts to be given here this winter under the auspices of the special attractions committe of the chamber of commerce. An entertain ing converser, with a fund of remin iscence and experience in addition to his professional talents, he will have many interesting and enlightening things to say of the present appear ance here of Alfred Cortot, Efrem Bimbalist and Carolina Lazzari.
 Those who intend to be present at the luncheon are requested to tele- phone reservations to the chamber of commerce this morning.
Weekly journal-miner., 1922-12-06
MAJOR KELLY WILL
 BE NEW HISTORIAN
Associated Press Night Wire)

PHOENIX, Dec. 4.-Major Geo. H. Kelly, editor of the Douglas h. ternational of Douglas, Ariz,, has been selected for appointment to the office of state historian of Arizona, it was announced today by Cover nor-elect George w. P. Hunt The appointment will take effect when the governor-elect takes office in January.
 In making the announcement MT. Hunt stated that he Lad known Major Kelly for the last quarter of a century and knew of his construct i've work for the development of Ari- zona. Major Kelly has been a resi- dent of Arizona for s years, having arrived in Tucson the day after Thanksgiving, 1887, to take a job as typesetter on the Tucson star.
Weekly journal-miner., 1922-12-06
HOUSE WANTS DATA IN MOVE TO GUST ATTY.
 DAUGHERTRY
Associated Press Night wlre)

WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. A. The house today directed its judiciary committee to send for all the persons and papers it needed in its investiga- ton of impeachment charges against Attorney General Daugherty, as filed by Representative Kellar, republican. Of Minnesota.
 There was no discussion or division when Chairman Volstead asked and obtained consent for authorization. He explained that the committee earlier in the day had agreed unani- mousley to take this course.
 Appearing before the committee with Jackson H. Ralston as his coun- sel, MT. Keller declared that he was not prepared to proceed at once, and December F finally was fixed as the time for taking up the charges.
 The bill of particulars, in which MT. Keller set forth II charges against the attorney general, and the latter's answer, maGsa public last night, were formally filed with the committee.
Weekly journal-miner., 1922-12-06
REBEKAHS ENTERTAIN

Members of the green" team of the Rebekah lodge last night were the guests of the pink" team mem bers at a chicken dinner given at the Odd Fellows hall. The dinner was the outcome of membership contest between the two teams of the lodge, which the "pinks" lost to the greens" Rebekahs and Odd Eel lows enjoyed an excellent dinner served by the pink team members. Afterwards, a large number of new members were initiated.
Weekly journal-miner., 1922-12-06
BURCH INSANE. COMPLAINT I OF
 COUNSEL SAYS
Associated Press Night Wirel

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 4.-Indict- ments against Arthur C. Burch and Mrs. Madalynne Obenchain, charged with the murder of J. Belton Ken nedy, young Los Angeles broker, were dismissed today by Judge Joyh w. Shenk on motion of District At torney Thomas Lee Woolwine. MT. Woolwine moved dismissal of the in dictments on the grounds of insuf- ficient evidence.
 Paul w. Schenck, attorney for Burch, then swore out an insanity complaint against his client and Judge Shenk directed that he be committed to the psychopathic ward of the county hospital for observa- ton.
 The courts action left Mrs. Oben- chain free to leave the county jail, which she announced she would do as soon as she could pack her be- longings. She said that she planned to leave Los Angeles, but did not in tend to go very far away. She de c1ared that she would not return to Chicago, her home at the time of the Kennedy staying.