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OREGON WILL MAINTAIN
MEXICAN SOVEREIGNTY
nv The Federated Pressl

Washington. Rumors and asser-
lions brought 10 Washington BY Amer
lean business men in Mexico to the eff
feet that President Obregon is waiting
only for the July elections to the Mex
lean congress before signing treaty
dictated BY Hughes for the benefit Of
American oil operators in Mexico, are
dismissed as oil propaganda BY officers
Of the pan-American Federation Of La
Dor here. Through their confidential
sources Of communication with the
Mexican capital and the labor forces
in the southern republic, these officials
learn that Oregon has not the slight
est intention to invite his own downfall
by yielding to the state departments
since these demands impair
the sovereignty Of the Mexican people.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-06-10
WORLD PEACE AND
BROTHERHOOD


All Of The people Of America love
and respect Helen Keller. blind and
deaf; she has made good fight; she
has secured a good education and has
been the means Of giving to the world
new and brilliant ideas.
Because Of her afflictions, she is in
a way. isolated and one would natur-
ally expect that the things that she
would want above all things else
would be complete restoration Of her
senses, but when she was asked few
days ago what she wanted more than
anything else. if she could have her
greatest wish granted. she did not say
that she wanted her sight or her hear
ing; she did not say that she wanted
riches or power; but she said that if
her good fairy appeared to her and.
told her that her greatest wish would
be granted, the thing that she would
wish for would be World peace and.
brotherhood.
Think Of the unseIfishness as well
as the vision of that answer. Helen
Keller is a pacifist she has never seen
soldiers go out to battle in their full
strength and vigor and come back gas
sed and MANNED for life; she has new
er heard the thunder Of the cannon's
on the battlefield; she has never seen
the mothers tears as their sons march
ed away to war, and yet in spite of all
these things, Helen Keller is a pacifist
and does not believe in war; she be-
lieves that the most wonderful thing
in the world is life and that we should
respect and safeguard it in every way
possible. Is it not wonderful that Helen
Keller. without sight or hearing, is able
to see these things, when we with all
our senses. are still bIind?- Egan's
Weekly.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-06-10
A WORTHY SPECIMAN
(By The Federated Pressl

Washington. - Atty. Gen. Daugh-
erty's resignation was demanded by
Sen. Caraway af Arkansas in senate
speech after Caraway had read into the
record the contract entere dinto be-
tween Daughtery and Thos. B. Fielder
on the one hand, and c. w. Morse, then
in Atlanta penitentiary, on the other.
whereby Morse was to pay Daugherty
retainer fee of S. 900 and was to pay
the two men another $4,000 in the
event they secured an unconditional
pardon or communication for Morse.
Caraway also read to the senate Al
letter signed BY Daugherty, under date
of April 30. 1913, to Morse. reminding
the former convict that Il was correct.
in the statement that there was ball
tance due Of $4,000 when you were
commuted."
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-06-10

By Robert K. Williams

Iof famous actors and actresses you'll
KNOW many of them who were upon
1.-The payroll Of Mr.. Brown. Their com
bined salaries ran up to $4,000 a
week. Some Of them to-day are receiy-
ling 5000 week for directing great
productions.
1888
We tell the story Of tie Magic Key
showing bits Of the film, which ran the
greater part Of last month in some thir-
Ity theaters Of Syracuse. twenty-five
thousand copies of the magazine were
sent to selected names of that city.
The Meaning Of the Stars" by a
brilliant writer Of Boston will charm
and interest you; Edison talks on the
value Of visual instruction for adult and
child. These in addition 10 much Vi
brant material.
The editorial chats by Napoleon Hill
are unique and compelling and worth
much more than the price Of the mag
|azine. They inspire and help, because
written from the heart.
$3.50 *
Good newsl Ever hear Of Dr.. Win
fired Sackville Stoner, probably the
greatest child teacher in the world.
Your memory may be refreshed when
we tell you that her daughter, Winifred
Sackville Stoner, Jr., was known the
country over as a prodigy before the
age of five, She was before the great
est educators in the nation and astound-
ed them by the depth of her learning.
At nine years she had the equivalent of
a university education.
DR.. Stoner used her methods, which
she will expound in the next twelve
months, beginning in the July issue. Ev-
cry mother, father and child should not
miss a single number of this remarka-
BE series, A new era and opportunity
is opening for you in the education of
your child. 1t is very simple and mar
velously effective.
Mrs. DR.. Stoner is to be on the Chau-
tauqua this summer with the Arctic
explorer, Steffensen, but will take time
to write for US. She has Iectured in
every country of the globe, to great au-
licences and rouses enthusiasm wher-
ever she appears. She speaks more
than a dozen languages. while her
daughter Winifred. recently married to
a brilliant man, speaks at least seven
teen and has written almost score of
books, and yet she is not twenty years
old.
YOU CAN DO IT if you'll follow the
laid down by her, begin
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Hiss Magazine.
Send Is cents for copy of this
but better still, subscribe for
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each month for the next twelve.
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(By ne Fedepaled Prsss)


man Of great talent. He il 4
lecturer; has been lecturing for
many years and had burning desire
to write. He knew that he could talk,
but was doubtful Of his ability to write.
He had message, he knew. but almost
resigned himself to small audience Of
4 few hundred, until
One day he CHANGED 10 get hold Of 4
copy Of Napoleon Hills Magazine and
sprinkIed through it were the words.
You Can Do IT. He read it from
cover to cover. He became inspired as
he read. and the page-breakers. You
Can Do III made him halt as he scan
ned the pages.
DO what. he asked himself The
answer came back positively, why,
you can write the message and Nepo-
leon Hills Magazine will carry it for
you.
He composed splendid letter and
sent ii off to Napoleon Hill. It proved
that this gentleman had intimately
known the editor ten years ago, when
each dropped from the ken Of the 9th
er as if the earth had covered them.
The letter was published. 1t looked
good TO him and he said:
4 can write; this letter is good.
It'll try again.
He did. and the result was a short
true story Of how boy had made good
when the responsibility of caring for al
widowed mother and sister was thrown
upon him by the accidental death of
the father.
The thing that made the boy prove
a man and shoulder loads, was slo-
gan used BY this magazine. ut pays to
render more and better service than
you are paid for
This delightful story WILL be in the
issue of Napoleon Hills Magazine for
June. Il will help Others because it is
4 true story.
The thought comes to US that if the
gentleman, who is grooming himself to
become a great writer, received his in
spiration through the pages of this mag
azine, there must be others who like
wise should be uplifted, and will be. if
they read the pages with any degree
Of care.
The June issue will carry the story
Of remarkable man by the name Of
Nat |. Brown. who has had wonder
full experience in the moving picture
world. He is now one of the heads Of
the Banner Films Inc, which make
and distribute industrial and education
al moving pictures. Many pictures IL
lustrate the article; one shows crowd
Attached is a coupon. Fill in and
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tram and engine service brotherhoods.
becomes more likely as reports of fresh
wage cuts at the hands of the u. S.
railroad labor board for all classes Of
railroad workers except the Big Four
brotherhooes, become public
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-06-10

ton and improvidence, there will be
reason to think that the social evil is
almost, if not completely cured
The New York herald., 1922-07-30
New Fiction

the mother of family in the Illinois
college town. She has driven her
David to financial success and she
is also determined to make her chill
dren go as she wants them to. She
cries out of her erring daughter,
Eileen, well, she is my child and I
have right to do with her as I
please!" But, as might be expected,
the children are recalcitrant. Space
limits forbid any analysis of them or
of the altogether femininely normal
Judith Ascot, who is introduced as
a contrast, and also, sometimes, as a
dea er machino to display Lavinia-
The reader will find them all worth
while.
OF course, Lavinia is rigidly
moral" in the conventional sense,
until her Indian summer revolt. AS
one observer remarks, She'll do the
dirtiest tricks and explain 'em on
high moral grounds" And Mrs.
Hutchings is merciless in her dissec-
ton. though Judith states the final
summary, after Lavinia's singularly
hideous death, "She wasn't wholly
to blame-that the frost came too
late.'
The thing is Of course sheer trag-
edy. yet it is not gloomy or de-
pressing book. since it presents an
adequate dramatic Kathdrsis of the
emotion. 1t is a powerful, strongly
individual book of true originality;
enough to make its patent minor
faults of small moment.
HENRY WALKER.
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lionaire George himself is also s,nits
ten. At first she rather dislikes Gle
bert, but he teaches her better and
according to the rules of fiction IN
such cases heretofore made and pros
vided.
There is much entertaining tangle-
ment due to the misapprehension Of
Charis's identity, when her noble
lover and finally her august father
appear. AT the crisis, her stepmother
also falls down stairs. 10 bring the
action to a head: appropriately
enough, as it is all a headlong ro-
nance. All the people are we'll done,
animated and quite in proper charac-
ter. The best thing in the book, as
TO character drawing, is the disagree
able daughter of the Brown family,
Phyllis, who aspires to marry her
millionaire cousin George. She is a
mean spirited, catty girl, but is also
pathetic enough. despite her vicious
ness. The rest of the caste are
somewhat conventional types, but
Phyllis is more acutely imagined
The story as whole is steadily in
teresting.
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any rate Bruun himself writes from
first hand knowledge of the South
Seas, as he has travelled much in
Java and among the islands. His
tropics are not imagined but drawn
from the life. In this story he
sends four partners in adventure to
an uninhabited isle, somewhere near
Fiji, to live the simple life and culti-
vate solitude. Daniel is poet, Jacob
musician (and cripple). Hendrix
is a Futurist painter and Pieter Coy
is a-waiter! The three artists are
at war with the Great Beast" the
Philistine public; they need Nature.
with large N, to bring their arts to
perfect fruition. Pieter Is carried
along by his doglike admiration of
these geniuses.
Their serio-comic, mildly satirized
adventures on the island must be
left to the reader to enjoy for him.
self-with the strange advent of the
little brown woman, who, of course,
becomes a bone of contention" and
leads to the inevitable climax. 1t is
all adroitly managed, full Of life and
color, including touches of genuine
pathos as well as comedy. Bruun
is an artist of a high order, and of
indubitable originality. both in the
conception of his themes and in their
expression. Mr.. Pritchard's transla-
ton impresses one as very good-so
far as one can judge without actually
comparing it with the original. One
hopes he may so on and give us
more of Bruun in English.
The New York herald., 1922-07-30

RHESA. BY Walter Bliss Newgeon,
ing Company.
"o produce a historical novel
dealing with antiquity is q
task for a giant 1t calls fog
the minute, accurate scholarship of
specialist, plus the gift of naratives
and plus the insight of the novelist
who is fully able TO think himself-4
and carry his reader along-into q
totally different social environment
from that of to-day. The writer
must be not merely archaologist and
story teller, but group psychologist
as well. In fact, since kingsley
wrote .'Hypatia" there are no really
successful novels of this class exc
cept, possibly, those of Edward Lus
cas- White. 1t was much too great
a task for Mr.. Newgeon, who has
only the gift of a fairly good narra-
tive power to carry him.
The story is dated in SIS B. c., at
Babylon, and deals with the fall Of
that city before the invader. Bel
shazzar. Daniel, Cyrus. ct al, are
among those present, and there il
plenty Of fighting. intrigue, love
making. feasting. debauchery and
grandiose description. But none Of
his people are genuinely antique in
thought or action. For the most
part they belong rather to the prose
romance of the fifteenth century
type, In a modern incarnation. As
to the style Of 1t. they are capable Of
talking like this:
"Oh. Heber," she cried, "I little
expected to hear such words from
thee. Thou for whom 1 would lay
down my life. Yea, Heber, I
would lay (sic) down upon this
road and let thee ride over me
with thy fiery steed, but that /
now live for Judah and not for
myself
Tell me thy meaning"
II will and thou contest down
from thy horses back
Nevertheless. it is not quite 50
bad as such an extract would sug.
gest. 1t moves, after a clumsy
start, and as a tale of romantic ad-
venture it viii do fairly well.
The New York herald., 1922-07-30

ASCENT-By Frances Rumsey. Boni
& Liveright.
FRS. RUMSEY is an acute
V psychologist. expert as a
demonstrator in the mi
nutely careful preparation Of dis
sected specimens of what may be
called human psychic tissues. 1t is
a cold blooded business. more scien-
tific in quality than emotional. al
though there is no genuine cynicism
in it. Her dissection and display of
her extraordinary heroine has even
a moral purpose, at least an implied
one, but the interest in the perform
ance centers in it's detail rather than
in the demonstration OF a specific
proposition. That detail is engross-
ing. but the thing as a whole re-
mains .dreary affair. One tires Of
The New York herald., 1922-07-30

it before the show is over. though it
is undeniably an expert demonstra-
ton.
1t states the case of a young wom-
an who began life under peculiarly
unfortunate circumstances, with a
nonentity for father, a mother who
died at the baby's birth and sim
gularly egotistical, cynical old grand
father, who made it his business to
develop the child along the lines of
his own self-centered philosophy.
Not that she needed any stimulus:
she was born that way. preternatur-
ally incapable of ever getting outside
herself or of establishing any nor
NAL human contact with another
soul. Her isolation is something
beyond the natural and inevitable
isolation Of every being; it amounts
to an insulation against any current
of outside origin.
Her real attention" Gas her as
tute grandfather sees her) was in
her self-absorption. He could imag-
inc no more complete exemplifica-
ton of individualism. 1t seemed =.
that the cult of the personal, so ap-
parent in the women of her nation,
had fiowered in her restless intelli-
gence. She had what he termed to
her thoroughly trained possessive-
ness. To see thing and understand
it was to own it; and, to own was
her point. whether the acquisition
were mental or material"
Yet, as she grows up. marries, and
even has a child, she comes to want
to get outside herself; to expert
ence," in the language of old ro-
nance. to love something or some
one. But she remains frustrate, and
finally dies unchanged, undeveloped
except in intelligenc. In short, she
is the embodiment of the cult of the
PERSONAL to the point that she be-
comes a monstrosity. And that is
the trouble with her and with the
book: she is a mounted specimen in
a literary cabinet.
The story follows her experiment
tation in marriage, in religious ad-
venture. which leads her to join the
Catholic Church under the personal
influence Of certain unusual priest
who comes nearer to understanding
her than any one else. There are
episodes wherein she comes close to
experimentation in extra marital af-
fairs; one. in Paris, a delicately sub
tie attempt: the other a crude, bru-
talized business: but each time she
draws back, realizing that the emo
ton or life" she seeks is not thus
to be found. There is really nothing
left for her to do but die.
The other characters are very well
done. though they are always so ac-
centuated as to be rather abstract
types than vivified human beings.
One gets no very strong feeling Of
flesh and blood about them: they.
too. are rather psychological speci-
mems, nicely dried and accurately
prepared. The style Of the book is
excellent in texture.
The New York herald., 1922-07-30
THE JUDGMENT OF CHARTS. B
Mrs. Bailiie Reynolds. George I
Doran Company.

Doran Company.
M RS. BAILLIE REYNOLDS
V can always be counted
upon for a good story.
with plenty of event. originality Of
invention and some unusual twist to
the plot. She generally makes use
Of more or less tested and tried
material but always makes it salts
factorily her own. 1t is literary ar
tizanship of excellent quality. This
time the story combines a masque-
rade motif with an eccentric re-
turned Canadian millionaire, and a
satisfying love story. The ingre-
dents are well stirred together to an
appetizing result One mustn't ask
too much Of such a bill of fare, but
it is very good of it's kind.
Charts falls down stairs into the
story. not quite into the arms of the
waiting Canadian magnate, as she
hits the bottom hard enough to hurt
her wrist. But he is on hand to
pick her up and take care of her.
She is. for the time being, a typist,
and he happens to want a secretary.
so the tumble is useful to each. But
he also wants a sort of super sleuth
as his secretary. to size up his Eng
lish relatives and give him an honest,
unbiased opinion as to whether he
ought really to leave his millions to
them. After some demur she un-
dertakes the double job. She is also
moved by her desire to study the life
of the great middle classes, as she
wants to write a novel. And, il is
now time to whisper. in reality she
is the runaway daughter of real
earl. and of course has hitherto been
debarred from bourgeois Summing.
She ran away ''to live her own life,"
and to escape the marriage that was
being thrust upon her.
The millionaire George Strachan
carries her, with the whole family
of cousins, the Cranstoun-B Browns.
away with him on an automobile
trip. But as might be expected. the
son of the family. Gilbert. has TO fall
in love with her, thinking her. of
course, merely humble typist NIL
The New York herald., 1922-07-30

THE PROMISED LAND. By Laurids
Brun. Translated by David PTitch-
ard. Alfred A. Knopf.
n EFoRE entering the book it.
n self it is necessary to COM
pliment the artist who made
the jacket of this volume. 1t is not
only strikingly good as an adver-
tisement to catch attention, but 1t
shows a sense Of humor and, even
more extraordinary. it Is appropriate.
real Illustration. The artist has
actually read the book!
This is the second Of the Van
Zanten stories. following closely
upon ivan zanten's Happy Days"
which appeared last spring. 1t is a
very welcome addition to our ac-
Quaintance with the extraordinarily
good work Of this Danish author.
Possibly the most remarkable thing
is that such books as these had to
wait more than a dozen years for an
English version. This story shows
Bruun in a mood different to that
Of the earlier book, but wholly in
keeping with what one might expect
Of him. 1t is a fantastic. gently
ironical whimsy-also a tale with a
moral. In part it satirizes the poetic
conception OF the mystic South Seas.
the glamour OF the tropics. the lure
Of the slim brown women, who. Van
Zanten assured us, sre both phys
ically and morally superior to the
civilized European woman" But
then, as Bruun explains Of his sup
posititious Van Zanten (here the al
legged author Of the story. it is "as
II the smile grows strained, as If the
irony were about to strike back" He
is not altogether laughing at himself,
his people, or his reader. 1t is q
subtle performance, OF unusual in
terest.
The moral of the story is obvious
and somewhat familiar. 1t is that
modern man cannot go back to
nature" or seek solitude without TAX
ing along with him all his present.
social characteristics. You can't get
away from yourself by running
away from everything else. As one
of the experimenters sums it up
You drag the same old self round
the whole time, even il you go
naked. And all this with
society and mine and thine and
police and property rights and shall
and must which Daniel says
is evil is nevertheless some
thing which has surrounded you
and grown into you since child
hood.
There is also a subsidiary moral,
which is precisely that of THE Ad-
mirable Crichton." in the fact that
the only one of this strange quartet
of adventurers who shows any eff
ficiency is the one who had been a
servant. The idealists, dreamers and
theoretically superior men are fail
ures as men. and would have been
in bad way without sturdy Peters
common sense and ability to do
things.
The machinery of it, like that of
Van Zanfen ia vary alohorata
Bruun takes occasion to insist in a
preface that Van Zanten is not
identical with Laurids Bruun," and
adds, Would that he were." But
he has given a fine solidity to his
aesthetic. experimental Dutchman
that almost makes you believe he
may have existed in the eeshs AT
?, =. sAe,. II .ss,.ss5 :
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New novels by three well known
American authors appear on Mac.
millan's list for autumn publication.
Alice Browns new book, "Old Crow,n
is q story of how John Raven, at
odds with the universe after his re-
turn from Red Cross work in France.
finds a faith and an object in life
Ernest Poole's new novel, Millions"
has for its theme the possibilities and
vistas that sudden wealth may open
to the heirs of a great fortune Sup.
port" is the title given by Margaret
Ashmun to her new book, which
makes a distinct contribution to the
present day discussion of divorce and
its relation to a woman's develop
ment.
o. Henry's tale of Martin Burney
and other stories from "Sixes and
Sevens." have been translated into
French by Maurice Beerblock. who
offers still another reason for Will
lam Sidney Porter's assumption Of
the enigmatic pen name. 'It is
without doubt an exaggerated mod
esty that led o. Henry to go down
to posterity under a borrowed name"
he believes The aspect of o. Henry
that most interested the Frenchman
IS his philosophy. He is a gay
story teller" says Mr. Beerblock.
'but who cannot be gay. One must
have philosophy. 1t is because he
is true philosopher beneath the hu-
morist that the gayety of o. Henry
sometimes provokes a strange un-
easiness akin to pity. One thinks Of
a Pierrot who makes others laugh
TO his his own sorrow rose