The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-22
MIR. WILL IRWIN

among other things, MT. Fay says in the dedication" are these:
 will you permit me, gentlemen of the press, to take the liberty of dedi- eating to you these considerations of retired looker-on upon certainly one of the most interesting, perhaps one of the most vital, factors in Amer ican industry and politics, in the hope that your attention may be at tracted at least to the dedication it. self, and thence to the substance of the book.
 "This book is therefore frankly defense of capital against the or ganized attack of labor; first, be- cause of my convictions as to social justice. but last, and all the time, be- cause labor does not in practice ac- cumulate or use capital. Yet accu- mutation and use of capital Is the vi tai thing, far more important to so- ciety, especially to labor, than its dis tribution.
 Please do not, therefore, gentle men. class me as a reactionary, or as more 'reactionary than the multipli- cation table, to borrow Governor Coolidge's felicitous phrase; but rather call me pragmatist, if l un- derstand the use of William James famous expression. believer in men and methods that stand the test of time, and actually help the world"
 THE NEW GUINEA 'sPAY-BACI<" From "Payeye." by Merlin Moore
 Taylor, in Asia Magazine.
 Long years ago. one Payeye's an I cestors had committed murder. Murder in New Guinea is not crime. On the contrary, a man is not con sdered a man until he has shed hu- man blood. He must kill somebody, be it a strong man or a decrepit old woman or little, helpless child, be- 1 fore he obtains the right to wear the feather headdress; and until he has l that mark of manhood, he may not marry.
 Well, Payeye's ancestor, who lived in a village perched on a mountain 1 peak, had ambushed a citizen of a village on neighboring peak and | dispatched him with club. That i night there were a great feast in Payeye's village. And while the body l of the victim was being skinned and the roasting-stones were being made hot strong lunged men shouted the achievement of Payeye's ancestor from the tiptop of their peak. The relatives of the dead man, stung by the taunts, plotted revenge. The murder was a stain upon their l pride-not because 1t was a murder, but because, as they knew. the dead mans bones would be thrown to the mongrel dogs that infested the vll- lage. That stain could be wiped out only by the shedding of more blood. The victims relatives did not know i Just who had committed the crime, but there could be no doubt about the 1 village he hailed from. so they di rected their 'pay-back" against the village.
 That was all very many years ago For generations, the enmity had per | sisted. until by the time Payeye was To there was only a handful left in his village. Since they were no longer able to withstand their ene- mics. the villagers catered to neigh boring, friendly villages, leaving their own thatched huts and bamboo barricades to rot and fall to pieces The explorer in New Guinea comes upon traces of countless villages tha have been wiped out. like Payeye's village, by long and relentless feuds Of his own immediate family. Pay
 eye was the sole survivor. He had n :,
 father or older brother to counsel him and to initiate him into the 1 duties of manhood. So far as he
 knew. he had only one blood-relatior in the world--his mothers brother
 Fornier, the village constable al
 Rarai in far-off Mckee. Thither he made his way and there we found him.