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Evening journal., 1922-03-18
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Special 20 The Evening Journal.
DOVER. Del. March 1s.-Gov-
ernor Denney today sent a long let
Ter TO City Council Of Wilmington in
reply TO a resolution adopted by that
body recently. and forwarded TO him,
favoring the manufacture and sale
Of light wines and beer. and urging
the Governor. In event Of a special
session OF the Legislature. 10 have
the Legislature act on that sub
3ect.
Governor Denney emphasizes that
the Prohibition Constitutional
Amendment Is the supreme law Of
the land, and says Wilmington
Council can champion II Il sees At
a light wine and, beer mobilization
Of the law, but he (the Governor)
will not
How far could Delaware go In
such a nignoble. and. I may say at
Evening journal., 1922-03-18
CAUGHT STEALING RIDE

William Lopenas, arrested last
night by Baltimore and Ohio
railroad officers on the charge OF IL
legal train riding. was sent TO the
New Castle County Workhouse' by
Magistrate Stradley this morning.
for a period OF ten days.
Evening journal., 1922-03-18
BRITAIN ASKS
JAPAN toad
IN CRUSHING
india REVOLT
American Commission Won
ders If America VIII BE
Drawn in If Threatened
Trouble Starts
VTSCOUNT PEEL Is
NEW SECRETARY

LONDON. March is Omitted
Press) .-Mohnndas X. Gandhi
non co-operationist Indian lead
or. has been tried and sentenced
TO six years imprisonment. ac-
cordlng to a news agency dis
patch from Ahmedabaha. re-
ceived here today.
Evening journal., 1922-03-18
TREATY FOES
LOSE GROUND
Bitter Enders" Unable to
Gain May Appeal to
Wilson
RATIFICATION VOTE
MAY BE II TO 25
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON. March 1S
(United Press) ).-Dissention among
the four-power Pacific treaty's foes
in the Senate was Interfering TODAY
with their efforts to win over
enough Senators to defeat the pact
Il was affecting the relations be-
tween Republican irreconcilables
and their more numerous Allies.
The Democrats. finding the four
Republican bitter enders'' unable
to increase their strength. began to
take the position that they. rather
than the Republicans. should be
Continued on Page Ten.)
Evening journal., 1922-03-18
GET YOUR MOVIE TICKETS

Invitations 10 the Movies are ex-
tended 10 six persons today through
our Classified Advertising Depart
ment. Look through the classified
ads and II your name is there come
to the Journal Office and receive
free tickets for two (war tax paid
TO see Cecil De Miles production.
Fools Paradise" az the Queen. or
Trust Your Wife" at the Arcadia.
Tickets good for Monday only See
Page 10 today.
Evening journal., 1922-03-18
FOOT MASHED ON RAILROAD

John Harris. Negro, aged 81 years
OF sos Rodman street. an employe
Of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company, had his left foot badly
mashed at the Delaware avenue sta
tion. by the falling Of a heavy rail-.
lie was taken TO the Delaware Hos
pital in the police ambulance.
Evening journal., 1922-03-18
NOTICE

The Gas will be shut on sunday.
March 19. from 8 a. m. 20 a. m.
in the districts OF Elsmere. Brack-
Ex. Forrest Park, Roselle. Prices
Corner. Richardson Park. Ashley.
Elmhurst. and 500 Block south
Union street. Wilmington. on ac-
count OF repairs to be made 10 gas
main. weather permitting.
Wilmington GAs Oo.-AAv.
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OVERCOME BY GAS

Daniel Bohm. aged So years. was
overcome by gas while vulcanlzlng
an automobile tire at Fifteenth and
Marke tstreets shortly before noon.
lie was taken TO the. Delaware Hos
pital by Walter Tomiinson. His con-
dition is not regarded as serious.
Evening journal., 1922-03-18
Storm Due

WASHINGTON. ID. C., March
is Omitted Prcssl The Col
orado storm will move east
northcastward during the next
30 hours attended by rain. snow
and slcct In all States except the
Florida peninsula and probably
New England. the weather bu-
rcau forecast today.
The temperature win he
somewhat higher tonight and
Sunday In all except the New
England States, the bureau
stated.
Evening journal., 1922-03-18
THIEF TAKES AUTO ROBE.

An automobile robe. valued at SIS
was stolen from the car owned by
c. NJ. Turner Of 11l4 Rodney street
while the car was parked az Fifth
and Market streets. between and
o'clock last night
Evening journal., 1922-03-18
SPECIAL DANCE TONIGHT

Souvenirs. S-piece orchestra. The
Auditorium. 7O6 W. 18th. Admis-
sion, 33c.-Adv.
Evening journal., 1922-03-18

LOST-Between 519 Vandever Ave. and
22nd and Church streets. ladys pocket
book containing small amount OF money
and gold wrist watch. Finder please
return to 2iO2 Lamotte ST. and receive
reward. maris-lt
CONTINUED on Page rhirteen.)
Evening journal., 1922-03-18

Say il with Glover Dairy safe MIX
and Butter Phone 1540-l541.-
Adv
Evening journal., 1922-03-18
BOMB EXPLOSION
IN BELFAST; 2 HURT

BELFAST. March 1s Omitted
Press) .-Shipyard workers were am
bushed on their way 10 the yards
here today. and a boy was shot dead.
Two We're wounded in a bomb eX-
plosion. Workers OF the various
parts Of the city were attacked by
gunmen.
Evening journal., 1922-03-18
ToDAY,s TENIPERATURE

At The Evening journal Office.
500 A. M.2S 1901 p. NJ. 81
1000 A. M.32 100 p M...39
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ID o X Il. DANCE

Tonight. Q to u. Pythian Castle.
Prizes THE KINNEY ORCHES-
TRA.-Adv.
Evening journal., 1922-03-18

victrolas Repaired by Experts.
SHORTS. q W. 4th ST. Phone 4426.
ADV.
Evening journal., 1922-03-18
SIN AND TIDE.
LOST.

High water. $50 A. NJ. AIS p. NJ
Low water .11.15 A. NJ. 1885 p. NJ
Evening journal., 1922-03-18

LONDON, March IS (United
Press).-A Belfast dispatch today
reported that a woman OF 81 and a
girl, 25. were bombed and shot
while in bed. The girl died Of her
injuries and the woman was seri-
ously wounded. Another woman.
50 years OF age and her 11-year-old
grandson. were shot in their beds
according TO the report and both
seriously wounded.
Evening journal., 1922-03-18
The Weather

Increasing cloudiness and not quite
so cold tonight; Sunday, rain. snow
or sleet and slightly warmer. north
shifting TO east winds and increas-
ing Sunday.
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told the Judge they never had to pay
for more than five ordinary sized
people in other cities, and he agreed
with them; however they missed
their train.
Furthermore. Floyd Scott, who is
an old hand with midgets. tells us
that one Of this same troupe Is a
dwarf only from the waist down, be-
ing Of normal size above, and that
once he was in swimming at Mon
terey and was standing waist deep
IN a bare few inches Of water when
four men come up on the dock and
asked How is the water?" and the
dwarf answered Fine" and they an
dove In and broke their necks. But
1t don't sound hardly probable, does
1t, Ed?
I have owed you letter ever since
I promised to write about my tour of
the Bowery with A. P. Herbert last
September, but the truth is we didn't
get to the Bowerie because Herbert
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Aspects of Balzac's Paris

washed down by a glass of you-
vray. He is again at his desk nv
TWO In the morning. He writes
from that time to six, refreshing
himself occasionally with coffee
from a pot kept in the fireplace.
AT six he has his bath, in which
he remains for an hour, meditat-
ing. Then I call; I am admitted
to bring proofs, to take away the
corrected ones. and to wrest. If
possible, fresh manuscript from
him. From nine he writes till
noon, when he breakfasts on two
boiled eggs and some bread. and
from one to six the labor of cor
rection goes on again. This life
lasts for six weeks or two months.
during which time he refuses to
see even his most intimate
friends; then he plunges again
Into the ordinary affairs of life.
or mysteriously disappears, to be
next heard of in some distant part
of France. or perhaps in Corsica,
Sardinia or Italy.
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Continued from rwcedine Page.

he acquired his amazing knowledge
of the streets of Paris.
After his failure - a publisher
IN the Rue des Marais Saint-Ge
main Balzac went to live I'm other
streets Of the left bank Of the Seine.
nrst in the Rue de Tournon and
then In tho Rue Cassini, near the
Observatoire. In the latter street
he wrote, among others, la Peau
de Chagrin,' Eugene Grandet,"
lie Lys dams la vallee,' lie Medecin
de Campaigns" lie Pere Goriot," LIE
Cure de Tours" Cesar Birotteau."
rLouis Lambert" la Duchesse de
Langeais," Ia Femme de Trente
Ans" and the first part of Illusions
Perdues." 1t was this period of Bal
zac's life that his new publishez.
.Werdet, described when hB wrote:
He usually goes to bed at {
o'clock. after . light dinner.
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Little, Brown & Co. announce for
publication on May 81 1.-THE SUI
preme Court in United States His
tory" by Charles Warren, formerly
Assistant Attorney General of the
United States, and author of "A
History Of the American Bar" The
history of the Supreme Court is
considered from its beginning in
1888, not from the standpoint Of law
but as living element and a very
vital factor in the development q
the nation.
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OUR OWN MOUNT VERNON COR
RESPONDENT.

Sir: To real your satire on Zane
Grey's stories makes me wonder if
you have ever Travelled west of the
Mississippi. Perhaps if you Travelled
the byways Of our West you might
have the good fortune to meet some
Of the few remaining pioneers who
30 gloriously helped to open the way
to the Pacific and would thrill at
the strange tales of lawiessness and
heroic sacrifice so simply told by
these time-worn men who lived
through those years of struggle. 1t
Is the West Of the nineteenth CEN
fury, not the West of the twentieth
ceutnry, of which Mr.. Grey writes,
and I think it is well for us to have
preserved in fiction romantic stories
of our romantic West. I am glad
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that Mr.. Grey has been gifted with
the power to make the old West live
again and regret that any one would
attempt to misrepresent the ancient
cattleman" and cheat him of his ro-
mantle heritage.
M. K. SMITH,
Mount Vernon. N. 7.
Bless you, MIR. Smith, nothing was
further from our intent than to
''cheat the ancient cattleman' Of his
romantic heritage" We don't doubt
that the West was once Wild and
Woolly place and we agree that the
preservation of the riotous doings Of
the old days, or "carryings-on as
they call 'em out Big Horn (Wyo.)
way, should be preserved in Ameri-
can letters-or. should we say, epis-
tolls ?-but the Bill Hart scenarios of
Zane Grey win never accomplish
this.
Perhaps the old West was even a
more exciting place than Zane Grey
makes it. but, to US. at least, every
thing seems wildly exaggerated in his
books. This is because it takes an
artist to handle material of this kind
and make. it sound plausible; and
Mr.. Grey is not an artist. The poig-
nancy Of the struggles Of the old
pioneers is completely lost on him.
Herbert Quick, ON the other hand, let
something Of this get under his skin,
and as a consequence wrote a good
book (''Vandemark's Folly"). Zane
Grey is primarily interested in shots
in the night, struggles on precipices
| and red-blooded tits meath the
orange sun for the blue-eyed daugh-
ter of the foreman (while the purple
sage looks sagely on).
And much of his work is painfully
obvious. We recall in one instance,
The Light of Western Stars" that
we knew on Page 25 that the
drunken roughneck who insults the
sweet young thing from the East. on
Page or 4 Cor somewhere in the
first ten pages), would prove a he
man In the end and-but can't you
guess the rest. as we did? When he
Is obvious like that we can't stand
him at all; when he DISCUSSES the
bunk he can be entertaining and we
manage to gulp the stuff down. But
the bunk is always there.
Mr.. Grey is good landscape artist
but poor portrait painter; his de-
scriptions Of Western country are
frequently admirable, his characters
are unreal, wooden. We suggest TO
Mr.. Grey that he read Dane Coo
lidge's "The Man Killers" which. as
poor book as it is, is written with
an appreciation Of the cowboys hu-
manness and sense of humor. The
conversations. at least, arr OCCASION
ally real. Even so ardent g Zane
Grey fan as Mr.. Smith will not con-
tend, we are sure, that people in real
me ever taik-or talked-as the
characters do in a Grey novel
Yes, Mr.. Smith, we have been Yves,
OF the Mississippi. We spent several
months on ranches in Wyoming and
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A Wilmington of the Fifties

/ $1,000 pounds Of bacon or pork,
sugar, coffee, molasses, 1000 pairs Of
shoes. 1000 pairs of socks, 1000 felt
hats and 100000 in United States
money. The town could not raise so
much currency and Farquhar COM
promised with Early by giving him
s2S,610 and a due bill for the balance.
Then came the news that the troops
were needed at Gettysburg and away
went the rebels. They never COLI
lected on the due bill.
AS soon as the news of the Cons
federate defeat at Gettysburg reached
York the pinchbeck patriots of that
town crawled out of their holes and
assailed Farquhar as a rebel and a
traitor. He was pointed out as "the
man who sold York" Farquhar. who
felt that he and his committee had
saved York, perhaps from being
burned, went to Washington and saw
John Hay. who praised his action.
He saw Lincoln, too, and received
the Presidents thanks,
Farquhar, who assisted in caring
for the wounded at the battle Of
Gettysburg. saw Pickett's charge:
1 saw the men rushing forward
and dropping. wave after wave,
each wave gaining few rods over
the last. And then they stopped
and seemed almost to clutch. as
does drowning man at a stick,
and went down. They were near
enough for me to see their faces
and shall never forget that
sight.
Farquhar was at Gettysburg again
when Lincoln made the great adj
dress and he was one of the few
that were Immediately impressed.
Most of the audience. he says, really
did not know what they had heard
A year later Farquhar met Horace
Greeley and chaffed him about the
manner in which Greeley had dis
missed Lincoln's few remarks.7
Greeley replied: ut was one of the
many times we were damn FOOLS"
Mr.. Farquhar's recollections Of
great Americans-and he has known
every President since Lincoln-are
worth reading. Much of the interest
of the book, though. lies in his de-
scription Of the business methods Of
his youth and middle age as COM
pared with those of to-day. BUSH
ness, he says. has lost something of
craftsmanship, but its methods have
improved. The same amount of
| work to-day brings better results
than it used to. And business Is
more moral now:
'"The leading men were as a rule
scrupulously honest; many of the
smaller men were not, and even In
the largest and most reputable con-
Germs it was sometimes considered
quite legitimate to get a prospective
customer drunk in order to capture
his order. In fact, drinking was
quite commonly associated with
selling and / have heard concerns
boast that they had statesmen who
could outdrink all comers-for, of
course, it spoiled the whole game
il by any chance the salesman got
drunk ahead of the customer" The
author declares that in spite of Mr..
Carnegie's ideas, he himself has
thrived on hard work. In 1916, at
the age of 7S. he went to France as
a member of the United States In
dustrial Commission.
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FRANK sPIER IN LARDNERIAN
MOOD.

Dear Ed: I read in ycur valued
Book Factory an item where it says
Walter de la Mares Midget (the one
who wrote the memoirs) ought to
move to Philadelphia, because there
they let persons under 81 inches in
height ride free on the street cars.
Well, Ed, that's not as funny as it
sounds, even though you meant it
seriously, because I know Of a case
where ten midgets (Singer's vaude-
vile troupe. the whole lot Of them)
travelled from their hotel to the sta
ton In a taxicab out in San Fran
cisco and the taxi driver tried to
charge them double rates on account
of there being so many, whereas they
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LIE ciNoI MlLLlON The dAR.D-
EST. By A. B. Farquhar In COL
liberation with Samuel Crowther.
Doubleday, Page & Co.
|"HIS is an autobiography with a
fanciful and misleading title; a
title which does not suggest the
really human quality of the book.
The author. Arthur B. Farquhar of
York, Pa, really did have a great
youthful ambition to make a million
dollars and he got his wish long ago,
but the making of millions is not the
backbone of his story.
Mr.. Farquhar is in his eighty
fourth year. In 1858, when he was
19. he left his home in Sandy Spring,
Maryland. and went to New York to
ask millionaires how to make a mil
lion; not that he was greedy for
money but that he wished to be sue
cessful in business. The moment he
got off the ferry this raw country
lad went to the Astor House, left his
bag and started for William b.
Astor's office:
He had two little rooms. In the
outer was an old round shouldered
clerk and in the back room, writ
ing at a plain board table, was a
heavy set man with full face and
bushy brows, whom instantly
recognized from the picture in the
magazine as Mr.. Astor. The fur
niture was Unpublished. there were
no decorations of any kind. and a
rough mental inventory gave me
value of about $40.
The old clerk refused to let the
rustic youth see Mr.. Astor, land then
made grab at my coat as tried to
dive past him. I shook him off and
landed somewhat ruffied before the
desk Of the richest man in the coun-
try" Astor looked up from his writ
ing and snapped, well, boy. what
do you want?" Young Farquhar
drew up a chair beside New York's
greatest landlord and said, "I want
to know how to make a million dol
lars"
DO you want to make yourself
as miserable as 1 am" said Astor.
and stay up all day and half the
night to keep people from cheating
you? I never made any money my
self. 1t takes all my. time to collect
rents. There is nothing in it. 1 am
too afraid that people will cheat me
and. in spite of everything, they do
cheat me. II you really want to
know how to make money you had
better go and see some of the men
who have made money and not waste
time with men who do nothing but
try to keep and increase what they
have" The lad pulled out his list OF
rich men and Astor commented
briefly on them. 'Ill tell them Mr.
Astor sent me-" said the shrewd
Maryland youth. Astor protested
but Farquhar insisted, and prevailed
The boy went to John A. Stevens's
Office, but that great man. declaring
that he did not make money but took
care of other peoples, sent Farauhar
to George s. Coe. vice. president OF
the American Exchange Bark. The
magic of Astor's name carried Far
quhar into a meeting of the banks
directorate, and there ne me. several
rich men of the day.
| II.
James Gordon Bennett, the founder
of The New YORK HERALD, was Mex
on the visiting list:
1 had no trouble seeing Mr.. Ben
nett He was in a little Office all
alone at plain desk. / started to
tell him what wanted. bu. before
1 had said half a dozen words and
was just beginning to realize that
his remarkably keen eyes were
looking right through me, he broke
In: Look here. young man. you
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In . letter we received from ouy
Friend, George L., the other day, we
lind this merry bit: Tin q conversa-
tion with k last night I asked
him DO you revise your stuff much 2
oh. yes answered he, I hack it up
after write it. That makes you a
hack writer, what?' seq I, lodging
the dictionary he chucked at me-
OUR OWN PHILADELPHIA COR
RESPONDENT.
Some weeks ago Mr.. John Francis
Harvey. s12 Liberty Building. Phila-
1slphia, sent US one Of the merriest
poems we've read in a long time.
Mr.. Harvey's poem is too long (and.
Alas. bit too numerically to print;
but the gentleman has an excellent
sense Of humor, and we think we
ought to tell you something about
his offering.
Mr.. Harvey. 1t seems, knows moth
ing about books, not because he Is a
oonehead. he insists, but because
and we admire his frankness-if he
; read books he wouldn't have time for
golfing. baseball and other things.
One day he picked up THE HERALD
Book Section and was puzzled by
some Of the titles mentioned in The
Book Factory. His poem Is a ques-
fionnaire in which he asks US, among
other things:
Is6El Supreme" the, name of a cigar:
Is this "Jurgen" a new brand of choco
late bar?
Is THE Red Badge of Courase' tive
had a dozen of those)
Another name for a bloody nose?
Do Sleeping Fires" sleep in a bed?
Why eat plum Pudding" when there's
bread?
After rubbing elbows with wild
eyed bibliomaniacs land, gosh, what
bores they are when they want to
be!) 1t Is a pleasure to hear from a
man who doesn't take books too seri-
ously.
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was in no condition what with being
feted and dined all over Chicago and
Pelham and one thing and another
(and you know how one thing does
lead to another, when you can get
it), so we simply went to a sacred
Sunday evening concert at the Pal
ace, where Mr.. Herbert had fine
time. After that he sang the famous
parody he and ]. C. Squire wrote
called Little Billee" to Stuart Rose
and me, accompanying himself pref
lily on the piano at Baronfs restau-
rant. After that-but dear me, these
intimate revelations of famous people
are being overdone, don't you think3
Yours rsfy.,
FRANK SPIER.
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TO CONTRIBUTORS.
Gre Pome at Top of ColyaBs-)
Shakespeare indorses Bible: TT
blesses him that gives" (The Mer.
chant OF Venice.)
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The Book Factory


Contributors, had decided to thank
You for sending a goodly supply
OF stuff. Then mused-and don't think me crank
"They benefit lots more than l.
IF blessings they seek-and what mortal does not?-
Why shouldn't they write for my colym?
Why shouldn't they send me of wheezes lot?
Of letters and poems volume?
TT holsters their chances of heaven. High-souled
They have this in mind, believe
That it is more blessed to give Gas is told
In the Testament) than to receive!
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Montana two years ago and thrilled
the cowboys with our stories Of the
gunner and gangsters of the East.
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that Mr.. Grey has been gifted with
the power to make the old West live
again and regret that any one would
attempt to misrepresent the ancient
cattleman" and cheat him of his ro-
mantle heritage.
M. Z. SMITH,
Mount Vernon. N. Y.
The New York herald., 1922-05-18
Mile. Lenglen Continues
to Score in Love Sets
Has Yet to Lose Game in Brus-
sells Event.

BRUSSELS. May II fAssociated Press).
Mile. Suzanne Lenglen again was vic
torious to-day in the international hard
court championships here, defeating
Mile. Alison OF Belgium, two love sets
Her victory to-day places her in the
semi-finals against Miss McKane OF
England. The French champion so Far
has not lost single game and all the
six sets she has played In the tourna-
ment have been love sets.
Count De Gomar of Spain, jean Boro-
ira Of France and Watson OF Belgium
also survived the third round of the
mems singles in another day OF fine ten
mis- and splendid weather
Tho one disappointment of the day
was the inability of Manuel Alfonso. the
Spanish star. to go on the courts. as he
strained his side during yesterday
play and was forced to default to-day's
match in mixed doubles. in which he
was to have played with Miss Elizabeth
Ryan OF California.
In the mems singles DE Gomar de-
feated Flaquer OF Spain. T--5. 6--4
81 Borotra defeated F'yzee OF India
3--6. 6--1. 6-S, 6-3, Cd. and Wat
son defeated J. Alfonso Of Spain. Cd,
6--1, 6--3.