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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-11-25
MAYOR AND DAUGHTER TO
SEE ARMY AND NAVY GAME

Mayor Leroy Harvey, accompanied
by his daughter. Mary. left early this
afternoon for Philadelphia. where they
will attend the gridiron classic 10 be
staged on Franklin Field by the Army
and Navy elevens.
Others who will attend the game
from this city are DR.. and Mrs. Charles
NJ Handy and Chief Quartermaster
c +. Graham and Charles Finn. in
charge OF the local navy recruiting
station.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-11-25
Salem Ex-OfficIsI Renrrested,

Salem. y. j.. Nov. 25.-Alfred d.
Mitchell. former city treasurer, who
is charged with embezzlement OF $780,
coo in school bonds, and who has been
IN county prison since September 20
in default Of $4,000 bail, gained his
liberty for thirty seconds yesterday
when friends raised the required bali.
Immediately upon his release he was
rearrested and held in $4,000 bail in
q civil suit filed against him by the
city Of Salem.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-11-25
Five Want 90 be Policemen.

Five candidates for the polics force
are undergoing the required two
weeks schooling prior 10 their six
months probationary appointment
Police Sergeant Wilmer Hahn Is in
structor. The new scholars are
George II. Gift. 1907 Lincoln street;
Dennis A. Goldsborough. 500 West
sixth street; Earl V. Mailman, 1921
Linden street; Peter NJ. Smith. 6iS
South Head street. and Thomas G.
Riale. 1909 West Ninth street.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-11-25
MRS. G.. s. WHITE DEAD.

Special Correspondence Every Evening.
Delmar. Nov. 25.-Mrs. Amelia
White died at her home here Thurs
day. She was the wife of q. s. White
was Ga years OF age and liz survived
by her husband and five children
Mrs. Nellie Stevens. Mrs. Linwood
Lowe and Oscar Paul and Floyd
White.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-11-25
DroutA Hats Cotton NYls.
One.eishth In United states to Stop
. Day Each Week.
| Nv Asaociated Prasa 70 Every Evsn,ns

Charlotte. ". c, Nov. 25.-One-
eighth OF the textile ~sp.ndles in the
United States will be made Idle one
day weekly, beginning Monday. Cha.
!. Burkholder. vice-pres.dent OF the
Southern Power Company. announced
today in making known that his COM
pany had been compelled by diminish
ing watsr power supply due 10 drought
to curtail operations until the winter
rains begin.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-11-25
FRANTZ CASE MONDAY
Trial VIII BE Started In Court Of
General Sessions.

Trial q DIR. Abram L. Frantz, his
son. Howard u. Frantz. former secre-
tary % the Board Of Health. and Hen
- w.. Hook. agent for the Davis Gar
baEo Furnace Co. will be begun in
Court Of General Sessions on Monday
The trio are charged with conspir.
acy In connection with the Davis gar.
haze moderator contract.
Robert O.. Hartman is attorney FOL
the Ms~srs. Frantz, and David j
I.eInhardt y counsel for Hook.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-11-25

William Randolph Hearst. Million
airs magazine and newspaper publish
.r, purchased a number Of antiques
from the estate OF Caesar A. Rodney,
which were auc,ioned yesterday in
Philadelphia. Rodney was a former
attorney general of the United States.
Mr.. Hears, paid $500 for an antique
English ~. Domingo mahogany Sec
rotary bookcase; $3.50 for a carved
mahogany console table; S45 for a
manosany mantel clock and $500 for
a mahogany high-caso clock.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-11-25
GRAIN AND PORK CLOSING.

Chicago. Nov. 25.-Closing-wheat,
Dec, i.lsHs; May. 1l5h July. 1861
Corn. Dec. 60; May. $50; July. eS%
ats, Dec, 42h; May. AZ; July. 3s&
Lard. Jan, 1925; May, 1910. Ribs.
Jan. $50; May. $50.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-11-25

Magistrate Black has issued mar
riase licenses 10 James l.. Whaley,
Y. NJ. c. A., and Dorothy G.. seraf-
ford, ? Buena Vista street, Charles
c. Dawson. 3o2 East Twenty-fourth
street. and Ethel q. Mallick. 2310 Jes-
sur street.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-11-25
Liberty Bond Quotations.

BY Associated Press 10 Every Evening
New York. Nov. 26.-Liberty bonds
closed: Three and one-half's. lto.06;
first AIS. 1924; second 4h's. s7.72;
third fH's. 1886; fourth 4h's. ss.0s;
Victory 4%'s. uncalled. 10000; do.
called, loo.oe; 4. 5. Treasury AIS.
so. 40.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-11-25
PHILA. PRODUCE.-cLOsING
Associated Press to Every Evenins.

Philadelphia, Nov. 25-Closinr-
wheat lower; No. ?. red winter. IFS
Gll@2s; No. ]. garlicky. 1I7Gli.ls.
Corn. lower; No. 2. for export, so@
81; No. 3, sa7s; No. 4. 7s@77; car
lots for local trade. No. 2. yellow:
s7h8ssh; No. 8. yellow, sssAs7X.
Oats. lower; No. 2. white. 54654b F:
No. 3. white. 62isa5S.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-11-25
Patterson Wins Victorian Tennis Title,
By Associated Press TO Every Evening.

Melbourne. Nov. 25.-Gerald l.. Pat
terson won the Victorian Lawn ten
mis- championship in singles today. de
feating j. II. Hawkes. In the finals,
Ga. SIS, 90. rs. Patterson and
Hawkes. won the mems doubles and
oTHara Wood and Mrs. Lister won the
mixed doubles.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-11-25
New York BANK Clcarinss.

By Associated Press TO Every Evening.
New York. Nov. 25.-The actual
condition OF the clearing house banks
and trust companies for the week
shows a deficit in reserve Of $500
olo. This Is an increase of si4.o74,-
$50.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-11-25
SOUNDS HARDING on BONES.
Senator Watson Has Interview q
White House With the P~resilsat.
Nv Associated prsas In ESvavv rv>nynV

By Associated Press to Every Evening.
Washington. Nov. 2S.-vie~s OF
President Harding on the soldiers
bonus question. IN the light of the re-
cent elections, and in view OF the de-
termination OF some bonus advocates
to bring up the matter at tho regular
session Of Congress- were sought by
Senator Watson Of Indiana. Republi-
can leader In the Senate. in a visit
today 10 tho White House.
Numerous members OF Congress
are understood 20 have returned 20
Washington feeling that the bonus
stu remained a question OF which the
Administration take cognizance.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-11-25

Building Inspector Ellis II. Preston
has issued a permit TO Il. j. Sawyer
OF 500 West Fourteenth street. to en-
close a porch. The work will be done
by T. 4. Burkin. and will cost $40.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-11-25

Have you a piece or antique FUR
niture that YOU desire to turn into
cash? Tell our $4,000 interested read
ers. Many are interested in what you
have to offer.-Adv.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-11-25
Miss MarSwiney's Condition.

~ Associated Press to Every Evening.
Dublin. Nov. 2S.-The condition OF
Miss Mary MacSwiney. who has been
on a hunger strike In Mountjoy prison
for II day~. wac reported as un-
changed today.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-11-25

The i. o. of A. will give a masque
dance this evening at u. o. s. of A.
Hall, 40G West Seventh street.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-11-25
DIR. Mueller Quits Cuno Cabinet.

bN Associated Press TO Every Evening.
Berlin, Nov. 25.-Dr. Herman Muel-
Ter. minister OF agriculture and road
controller in the new cabinet OF Chan
'cellor Cuno. resigned today.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-11-25

n YOU need a cook cal 220O-ask
eot I'd i4Acr.-Ady.
The New York herald., 1922-07-30

indeed, merely a snobbish pastime.
First editions naturally are harder
to come by than later issues of the
same work. Consequently so long
as they are in demand higher prices
can be asked for them. A real ad-
mirer of a mans writing, however
a reader, would do well to look for.
the latest revised edition, for in
that the author has corrected the
asinine mistakes of the typesetter1
and the pedantic miscorrections Of
the printers copy readers; he haa
presumably even corrected his own
mistakes, and possibly even added
something to his first careless rap
ture. Collectors of first editions
as a matter of fact, are intrigued
enormously by these very errosss
which frequently add to the value
of volume, for an error may have
been heinous enough so that the
book may be recalled for reprints
ing after only forty or fifty copies
have escaped.-By Carl Van FecAs
ten in the Reriewer.
The New York herald., 1922-07-30
Dario, Spanish Symbolist.

A S symbolism in France devel.
"A oped apace after the Franco.
Prussian war, so in Spain symbol.
ism swept over the country after
the Cuban war. The man in Spain
who introduced symbolism into
Spanish poetry was a Spanish
American. Ruben Dario was born
at Leon, the capital of the Central
American State of Nicaragua. in
1864. In his youth he took up jour
nalism as a livelihood, and at IS
years of age, when an employee in
the Custom House of Chile, pub
lished in Santiago his first famous
work, "Azul." He then came to
Europe and lived in contact with
verlaine and his group of young
poets. From France he went to
Spain, from Spain to Italy. and
finally from Italy back to America.
where he died. prematurely, in
1916. Victor Hugo said, %L'art c'est
Pazur," and this is the thought
which gave Dario the title "Azuls
for his first work.-From Modern
Spanish Poets By Waiter Starkie
in the Pdn-American Magazine.
The New York herald., 1922-07-30
More British Literary Amenities.

wore Dritisn Literary Amenities.
ON Thursday week last the Haw-
~ thornden prize of sI0O was
awarded Mr.. Blunden for his book
of poems, The Shepherd. MIR.
Blunden being a poet of no mean
order. though there is no good rea-
son why young Oxford should stand
in excessive awe of him, no COM
plaint need be made against the
award. Complaint, however, may
justly be made against the heavy,
turgid oratory of the chairman. Mr.
John Masefield, in presenting the
prize-an oratory from which po-
liteness alone must have prevented
many from escaping before il ended.
Mr.. Masefield's reiterated use of the
word illumination" was without .
any glimpse of light. His attempts
at humor resolved themselves into
ponderous facetiousness which re-
minded us of Mr.. Wells's comment
upon the style of Henry James: 1t
was like a hippopotamus trying to
pick up a pea" But dullness could
have been forgiven him had he not
the occasion being what il was
almost wholly ignored Mr. Blunden
for his own views upon life and LETT
ters generally.-From the Ncsc VII.
ness.
The New York herald., 1922-07-30
How Spoon River Anthology"
Came to Be Written.

pEEDY had been advising Mas
~ ters for some time before re-
suits became evident. He had i'm
pressed on him the value of real
ism. He induced Masters to read
the Greek Anthology" whose
poignant brevities. as Masters has
himself said, were most influential
in determining the form of Spoon
River" Some time before the inn
pulse came to publish. Masters had
begun casting his Illinois material
into epitaphs. encouraged to this
flier in poetic realism, as Harriet
Monroe asserts, by the appearance
of Sandberg's first poems in the
new Poetry" magazine. The i'm
petus to print these experiments
according to close friend of Reedy
and Masters, was supplied as fol-
lows. After some hesitation Reedy
arrived at the conclusion that al
though Masters's regular verse had
been good enough to print it was
not good enough to print indefi-
nitely. He returned a batch of man
uscript to Masters with the blunt
comment that this was leading no
where. The reaction, as the story
goes, was the first numbers OF
Spoon River" which Masters petu-
lantly signed with pseudonym
The New York herald., 1922-07-30

A discussion of the Fundamental
problems involved in the crgani-
zation and carrying on Of social
and political life will be found in
Morris Ginsberg's "The Psychology
of Society,"" which E. p DUtton q
Co. will soon have ready for putli-
cation. The author is a lecturer in
philosophy in University College,
London.
The New York herald., 1922-07-30
Aspects of Thackeray.

THACKERAY'S gentleness car
i ried him far. In a sense he
never, like Dickens, went down
with the crowd; they did not know
him. Bret Harte tells us that the
miners of Roaring Camp paused in
their card game at the news of the
The New York herald., 1922-07-30
Mark Twain's Best Critic.

THERE are some books that re-
Il fuse to be written. They stand
their ground, year after year, and
will not be persuaded. 1t isn't be-
The New York herald., 1922-07-30
Nietzsche and Wagner.

WAGNER and Nietzsche met
w for the first time in the
autumn of 1865. and in the follow
ing summer Nietzsche visited the
composer of Tristan" at the villa
in Tribschen. on Lake Lucerne,
where Wagner was living with the
wife of Hans Won Bulow, Cosima,
the accomplished daughter of Franz
Liszt and the Countess d'Agoult.
For so stern a moralist as Nietzsche
the situation must have been some
what trying. Wagner told his friend
Malvida Won Meysenburg that Metz
sche had suffered unspeakably"
over the irregular relations of Wag-
ner's household statement cor
roborated by Nietzsche's sister,
who explains to us that Nietzsche
was able to overcome his scruples"
against associating with the gifted
paramours at Tribschen on the
ground that extraordinary persons
are at liberty to adjust their per-
sonal relations according to their
own standards" and that this
was particularly true of artists. -
By laurence Gilman in the North
American ReUieso.
The New York herald., 1922-07-30
First Editions.

THE collection of first editions
i seems on second thought a
silly pursuit. II may be labeled,
The New York herald., 1922-07-30
The Personal Whistler.

THE general public are more in
i terested in personality than in
art, and his reputation will increase
as certain things are forgotten. The
folly of his action against Ruskin
in England, and his defense against
Eden in France, and his iquarrels
with others, like Leyland, were due
to defects of character. No one
could defend his conduct in the
second case; and in the first he
must have been warned that with
his slender means and doubtful
case he was rushing headlong upon
the ruin which followed. Not a
farthing was given by any one to
show sympathy with his failure. He
had a strange idea that he was the
champion of the artists who re-
fused to attend the trial. or actually
gave evidence against him. He was
a great genius who could not take
care of himself. No vainer man
ever lived. The very signature of
the butterfly on his plates is an
irritating and meaningless blot
From the London Times.
The New York herald., 1922-07-30

death of Little Nell; but during
this lecturers visit a member of the
proletariat was heard to inquire
plaintively. who the hell is
Thackeray?" Thackeray's mind
seemed impervious to many of the
issues which angered Mrs. Trollope
or disgusted Dickens. A Southern
woman remarked bluntly at a din
ner party: DO you know, Mr..
Thackeray, l thought you were
gentleman!" Again Thackeray
laughed, and declared it was the
cleverest comment he had ever
heard. What an opportunity for
Frances Trollope in such an incl
dent as this: AS Thackeray's train
came into Concord one Of the two
silent Yankees sitting near him re-
marked: "Mr. Emerson, hear,
lives in this town." yeas" was
the drawing reply, "and l under
stand that, in spite of his odd no.
tions, he is man of con-sid-er-a-
BILE probity. BY Stanley It. Will
iams in the North American Re
UieiC.
Humors of international
Censorship.
A N American novel, banned in
IA its own country, has just run
out of print in England. An Eng
lish novel, dramatically suppressed
at home, has been living prosper
ously ever after in America. A
French novel, displayed on all the
large French bookstalls for the last
half century, may not be offered for
sale by an American. An American
novel has just been stopped midway
in it's serial career by the French
authorities. An Irish novel, sup
pressed in America and published
in Paris, is daily percolating into
this country by a route too devious
for us to say anything about it ex-
cept that it is not illegal, although
actual publication here would be
illegal. From Hungary the news
comes that Walt Whitman has been
suppressed as an anarchist and
communist writer" while Casa
nova, on a full edition of whose
memoirs scholars from several
European countries have been at
work, is to be expurgated in France
and in Germany.-From the Man.
chester Guardian.
The Spanish Romantic Movement.
THE Duque de Rivas was the
L first to inaugurate the Span
ish romantic movement; he founded
school of poetry, where he drew
his inspiration from the legends
and ancient romances. In his poem
"El Moro Exposito" ("The Found
ling Moor") he shows a great spon-
taneity of genius. He is more a
poet of inspiration than of reflec-
tion: he is certainly not thinker
or philosopher like Alfred de vigny.
The most popular of the Spanish
romantics is the creator of the
nineteenth century Don Juan Zor-
rilla, who, by his sparkling wit and
irony, has had deep influence over
the next generation. Espronceda
the most passionate, withal the
most pessimistic, Of poets. brought
the human note in poetry to pitch
hitherto unheard His verses were
written, as Valera, the great critic.
has said, 'cOn sangre del cOrazon,
with his hearts blood" and no
one will deny that his heart was a
great one. Espronceda, with his
thoughts of an angel and weak
nesses of a man." initiated Byron
especially in lei Diablo Mundo'
and the Canto del Pirata. He is the
very reincarnation of the romantic
movement.-From Modern Span
The New York herald., 1922-07-30
Lost Marx Twain Stories.


THERE is another unfinished
L book, which l should probably
entitle THE Refuge of the Dere-
licts." 1t is half finished and will
remain so. There is still another
one, entitled 1.-The Adventure of
Microbe During Three Thousand
Years; by a Microbe." 1t is half
finished and will remain so. There
is yet another, THE Mysterious
Stranger" 1t is more than half fin
ished. l would dearly like to finish
it, and it causes me real pang to
reflect that it is not to be. These
several tanks are full now, and
those books would go gayly along
and complete themselves if I would
hold the pen, but l am tired of the
pen. There was another of these
half finished stories. / carried it as
far as $4,000 words four years ago,
then destroyed it for fear l might
some day finish it. Huck Finn was
the teller of the story, and of course
Tom Sawyer and Jim were the
heroes OF it. But / believed that
that trio had done work enough in
this world and were entitled to a
permanent rest.-Fr0m "Unpub.
hshed Chapters of the AutObi0g.
rdphy OF Mark T,rdin." In Hdrper's
Magazine.
The Versatile Edgar Lee Masters.
THOUGH Chicago finds it polite
l. to be officially unaware of
Masters. it will never go so far
as to deny his existence. In fact,
few persons in that city are better
known where reputation counts.
Long before he made himself really
felt as an author Masters was rec
ognized as an able and aggressive
lawyer, with a flair for economic
and humanitarian questions. His
defense of the striking mattresses
attracted considerable attention.
His shrewd and pitiless cross-ex-
aminations in conducting libel
cases for a Chicago newspaper are
still remembered. He dabbled to
some extent in Democratic politics.
Such practical successes, however,
were small satisfaction to a man
who at an early age had been bit
ten by the writing bug. When Mas
tiers was at his busiest as a lawyer
he had already established quantity
production as his literary side line.
He turned his hand to essays, plays
and poetry, but principally this
last.-FrOm THE Literary Spot
light in the BoOkmdn.
The New York herald., 1922-07-30

and fired into the Mirror office
more or less as a joke. The joke
proved intensely practical.-From
''The Literary Spotlight in the
Bookmdn.
James Joyce's Ulysses"
UIILYSSES" is a kind of epic
" of Dublin. Never was a
city so involved in the workings OF
any writer's mind as Dublin is in
Joyce's; he can think only in
terms of it. In his views of news
paper offices, public houses, the
National Library, the streets, the
cemetery, he has got the psychology
of that battered, beautiful eight
eenth century city in its last years
of servitude, when, as Padraic
Pearse said. using Godfrey Keat-
ing's words, Ireland was "the harlot
of England" Ulysses" is record
of a certain number of hours
fewer than twenty-four-in the
lives of Stephen Dedalus. the hero
of Portrait of the Artist and
Leopold Bloom, and of shorter
space of time in the lives of GER
tain other Dubliners, nearly all OF
whom are called by their real
names. The day opens in disused
Government tower by the sea few
miles outside Dublin, occupied for
the summer by a few young men
as their bathing quarters:-From
the Freeman.
Masters: Magnificent Solitary.
LIVERY now and then a tremor
IL of apprehension invades lit
erary Chicago. Edgar Lee Masters
has been reported OF the reserva-
ton. He is on the warpath. some
where in the East, denying the
existence of the Chicago literary
school. Presently it is whispered
that Masters is back within the
corporate limits of Chicago or in
Michigan, where he does most of
his writing, and the flutter subsidies.
Only the fact remains that Masters
has had his fling and has again
asserted himself as the spirit that
evermore denieth. For Masters
that loose federation, the so-called
Chicago literary school, does not
exist. Only Masters exists, a mag
nificent solitary, marooned in a
desert of the arts. If Masters is
aware of the feasts and gambols of
the Society of Midland Authors, he
watches them, like Crusoe. from
concealment, shocked to the soul
at the barbaric pastimes of these
literary savages.-From The Lit.
erory Spotlight in the Bcokman.
Nietzsche and Wagner.
The New York herald., 1922-07-30
De Quincey's Humor.

A NY discussion regarding De
"A Quincey's humor is sure to
resolve itself finally into a ques-
tion of the taste of the individual
reader. To his contemporaries there
seemed no question of the success
of his humorous writing. In the
Monthly Magazine (1S52), for ex-
ample, there is an article which is
almost indiscriminate in its praise:
De Quincy is "at once entitled to
be called one Of the wittiest Of
humorists and most humorous of
Wits" and the writer is indignant
because one of his "critics styles
his humor elephantine." But even
this wholehearted admirer acknowl-
edges it would be better were he
to turn the pruning knife against
the sometimes rank luxuriance of
slang" Miss Martineau, no great
admirer of De Quincy, acknowl-
edges the charm of his humor. The
Quarterly Rerieio (1S61) goes fur
ther. His humor [is1 both mascu-
line and delicate" and the reviewer
goes on to speak of his own over
flowing humOr, without making the
slightest approximation to either
flippancy or coarseness"; while Mr..
Page quotes an unnamed critic to
the effect that de Quincy is es-
sentially and always a humorist.
humorist of very rare and delicate
order. From "De Qaincey-dnd
Style By Fl. NJ. Paul in the Fort.
nightly Rerier.
The New York herald., 1922-07-30

and fired into the Mirror office
more or less as a joke. The joke
proved intensely practical.-FrOm
'The Literary Spotlight in the
B0okmdH.
The New York herald., 1922-07-30

cause the book is not there and
worth being written-it is only be-
cause the right form for the story
does not present itself. There is
only one right form for story, and
if you fail to find that form the
story will not tell itself. You may
try a dozen wrong forms, but in
each case you will not get very far
before you discover that you have
not found the right one-then that
story will always stop and decline
to go any further. In the story of
Joan of Arc" l made six wrong
starts, and each time that / offered
the result to Mrs. Clemens she re-
sponded with the same deadly
criticism-silence. She didn't say
a word, but her silence spoke with
the voice of thunder. When at last
l found the right form l recognized
at once that it was the right one,
and l knew what she would say.
She said it, without doubt or hesi-
tatiOn.-Fr0m unpublished Chap
ters from the Autobiography OF
Mark Ttcdin." From Hdrper's Rag.
asine.