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The Washington herald., 1922-09-30
REX BEACH SHOWS
SAME OLD PUNCH
IN FLOWING GOLD
Rafting G ood Story
About a New Frontier.
Texas Oil Fields.

Flowing Gold. by Rex Beach. CHar-
per. so
Alaska or Texas or Mars-it's all
the same to Rex Beach. so long as
it's a frontier where the lid blows
of every once in SO often and the
woods are full of he-men spelling
for a fight. No exception is Flow
ing Gold" to the Beach rule. Here
he has taken the new Texas OIL
fields for his background. 1t Is
the newest Klondike, with the gold
flowing up out of the ground IN
black gaseous streams instead Of
glittering yellow. 1t is the land
where the poverty-stricken "nester"
of yesterday is today's noveau richie.
whose offspring shall presently
storm the Ritz and Plaza. Their
women are apt to wear huge dia-
mond solitaires with calico wrap
pers.
In thrills, in frontier color. in
sustained interest this Flowing
Gold" ranks high among Rex Beach's
novels. 1t starts of engagingly with
the adventures of debonairly
charming. but apparently piratical
gentleman who breezes into a big
Dallas hotel with about six bits" IN
his pockets, takes the most expen-
sive suite, gently kids the most
him a person Of Importance and the
prominent bankers into thinking
leading newspaper into publishing
- a..
calls on the mayor. who. highly i'm
pressed with his prominent visitor,
takes him to lunch at the City Club.
All this between the hours of IN
the morning and 2 in the afternoon.
This Is a fair sample of the pace at
which the book travels. There's
something stirring on every pago.
There are fst fights in hotel suites,
gun plays In Greek restaurants, i'm
polite hold-ups on lonely roads and
polite business holdu-ps in the back
rooms of banks and. generally
spe aking, shindigs all over the place.
Moreover, you'll never in the wide
world guess the plot. The estimahie
Mr.. Beach keeps you fooled until
YOU turn over the very last page.
Trying to guess ahead and figure
what is going to happen to who
will be as futile as for a coun-
tryman to locate the elusive pea m
an old-fashioned shell game"
Beyond the fact that 1t Is a rat
ting good story. the greatest charm
of FLOWING Gold" lies in the fidelity
with which the life of the oil felis
is depicted You meet the high
hackers" who frisk lonely travellers;
you tramp up and down the miry
chaos of primitive streets and look
into the garish dance halls and fly
filled restaurants; you hear sne
ceaseless rhythmic clank Of pumps,
the hiss of gas and steam that marks
the lowing of a new gold that makes
II possible for a million motors 10
run. It's the newest Klondike, the
latest frontier that Mr.. Beach mas
selected for his locale. and 1t Is just
as fascinating as all the other
frontiers that were and have passed
away. M. v. H.
The Washington herald., 1922-09-30

THE temporary Inconvenience caused District
motorists who use Connecticut avenue by the
repairs now in progress between Newark and
Porter streets is than compensated for by
the prospect of decent thoroughfare in the near
future. The sight OF the repsirmen at work gives
one OF those thrills that come once in lifetime
for this stretch of road has been during the past
few months, of the worst in the city. 1t has
been bad that many have detoured anyway, in
order to avoid it. For some time past it has been
dangerous in the extrehe-with the constant men,
of broken wheels caused by the car tracks
sticking high out OF the asphalt 1t has been par
ticularly bad because no other stretch of road is
used more often, both for business and pleasure.
The start of work in this place inspires the hope
that other and equally annoying stretches of road
way about the city will be given some attention in
the near future. We realize that everything can
sot be done in a few days and that we will be
fortunate if much noticeable improvement Is effected
before next year. We realize also that extensive
repairs cost money and that the District treasury
is in lamentably depleted condition. But ex-
cellent start has been made at least.
In connection with the Connecticut re-
pairs, however, there is point which should
be called to the attention of the public Both the
police and street departments have been unusually
courteous Realizing the importance of direct
route along this street, they have not insisted that
every car make detour. Automooiles are allowed
to use the tracks and thus save time
But it is essential that the public cooperate by
detouring whenever it is extremely inconvenient
If eJery which passes along this route imposes
upon the courtesy of the police by using the car
tracks, conditions will become so congested that
work will be delayed The police department should
be given to understand that their generosity in not
closing the street is appreciated. 1t means that
three four must be detailed at all times to
prevent accidents. 1t a constant watchful-
the part of both police and workmen. And
it would be easy, if the department wished to be
autocratc, to close the street entirely.
These little courtesies bring the police and the
public much closer together. They reveal the blue
human beings interested in the welfare
and convenience of other human beings-not as
autocrais who always take the easiest way regard
less OF the comfort Of their felow-man
The Washington herald., 1922-09-30
How About Coal?

H1STRICT OF COLUMBIA people have al
most a quarter of million tons less coal
this year than last year. 1t is not promis-
ing outlook. The best hope is that the good Lord
will fit to temper the winds to the shorn
lamb-that we will not have another such winter
last year. But misfortunes never march in single
file. Dismal prophets already foreboding cold,
cold time with plenty of snowstorms and good
deal of zero weather. Already we are getting the
first touches-frosty mornings and uncomfortably
chilly nights. Everything possible has been done
to get enough hard coal for Washington people.
Fuel experts have studied the situation traffic men
have worked night and day, coal dealers have used
up every resource, and the pastors have prayed.
The result cannot be changed. No local agency can
be held at fault. There is little enough District
people do-except to study their furnaces to
learn how to soft coal in great quantities
possible. The fact that the supply of soft coal
will not be badly depleted is for relief
and thanksgiving. No misfortune is so bad
that it might not be
Washington is far from city in winter
time. 1t is true that the average day is more COM
Portable for the man the street here than it is
in Boston in Montreal. There is more sunshine
and winds are balmier. Winter comes later and
spring comes earlier. But when it is cold in Wash
ington it is uncomfortable as anywhere under
the SUM- Visitors from the North who come with
light underwear depart with heavy fannels. This
is particularly true inside houses. District houses,
for 'le most part, constructed to suit the Dis
trict climate without taking an unforeseen coal
shortage into consideration. They built excel
lently for the most part, but builder here would
not the precautions as, let US say, a
builder in Calais, Maine in Quebec, Canada.
He could not be expected to do so, and if he did
would make the buildings uncomfortable except on
unusual winter days.
The problem is placed squarely before the aver
age householder. 1t will be indictment of the
native ingenuity of District people if they are not
able to devise some means to keep warm in spite
of depleted coal bins. But it is problem that will
demand thought-and man may not be able
to answer the question in way which will suit
the requirements of his neghbor. The time to start
thinking is now-not when the winter is upon us
and the streets blocked with snowdrifts
The Washington herald., 1922-09-30
BOOK REVIEWS
Volume of Poems
Is Well Selected
Song. Of Challenge by John Fro

SONG. OF Challenge by John Fro
thinsham. (Houghton Mifflin &
Co.. $3.50
In this thin little volume. Mr..
rockingham has gathered together
a notable collection of verse deal
ing with mans last great adventure
his faring forth into the unknown
deeps that lie beyond mortality.
He has shown a Catholic taste IN
his selections, and almost anyone
will find some poems to his taste in
the book. There are poems by
somebodies and nobodies. geniuses
and bromidists. The subject OF
death has fascinated the great OF
literature and likewise enthralled
the pigmies. So We fittingly find
the verse Of Stevenson. Clinton
Scollard, villon, Helen Hunt Jack
son. Don Marquis. Omar. Edwin Ar
lington Robinson and Sir Waiter
Raleigh all jumbled grandly in this
pot-pourri of the reaper. Not to
mention another fellow known as
anonymous"
But If many of the poems selected
by Mr.. rockingham show the bog
Cling turn of talent rather than the
fire of genius, there are still enough
Of the latter variety to make the
book quite worth while. Among the
finer things in the anthology are
"Villon's Regrets" nobly translated
by John Swain, So that all Its faint
laughter and sighs echo clearly
down the centuries. Before Action" ."
a song of the late war by Lieut. "
n. Hodgson: Sir walter Ralcis rs
THE Lie;" with the Tide" a
splendid effort of Edith wharton's
written on the day after Theodore
Roosevelt's death; also, Louise I'M
ogen Guiney's Die, Driven Against
the Wall" fine. unconquerable, and.
all too little known"
For some reason or other. Mr..
rockingham has omitted from his
anthology a few poems one would
think could not be left out of such
a collection. You will not find A Ian
Seeger's Il Have a Rendezvous with
Death" nor Swinburne's Garden OF
Prosperine," nor Henley's Il Am the
Captain of My Soul" nor any part of
W!lde's pantheistic poems. The
room they might have taken up is
filled, in part. by mere sentimental
blattering. Still. the Regrets" of
that immortal blackguard, Fran
co.'s Villon. are worth the purchase
price Of the book.
The Washington herald., 1922-09-30
GREAT NATURALIST
Seen AS VIVID TYPE
BY CLEVER PENMAN
Insight Into Life of John
Burroughs Written by
Clifton Johnson.

John Burroughs Talks, by ClIf,o,
Johnson. (Houghton Nifnin Co.
The halo that surrounds most
great men Is OF too bright a
glamour to permit clear vision RI
them as human beings. But ali the
nero worship of the followers of
John Burroughs has failed to nre-
sent him in any other light than
that OF a simple. kindly old savant
in his own line of endeavor, bur.
outside of ii, bit addicted to alb
sent-mlndedness and crisp dog
matte statements, altogether a Bit
of the terrible patriarch and a bit
OF the wool-gathering professor su-
perimposed on background of un-
deniable genius. Johnson's records
Of his talks with Burroughs add
further high light to the already
piquant picture of the great na:-
uralist.
If ever there was a person of dew
astating frankness it would ap-
pear to have been good John Bur
roughs. Neither place. power,
friendship nor love prevented nIrn
from speaking his mind when the
spirit moved. Consequently John
son has been enabled to present a
series of very meaty Burroughisms
in which Roosevelt. Edison and
Henry Ford, all great friends Of
BurrouChs, are handled without
fear or favor. Even Mrs. Bur-
roughs comes in for her share Of
criticism.
As token of his friendship for
Burroughs, Henry Ford gave him
several Of his well-known cars.
But Burroughs friendship never
fa!tered, although it is recorded
that he remarked peevishly, Ford
has big heart but his head is not
so big except in his own line"
Later. when. Ford sent Burroughs q
''well-brober" burro which proved
to be versed in the art of kicking.
we learn that the sage's temper
gave way and he condemned Henry
and Henry's secretary in "racy Ian
guage."
John Burroughs Talks" is a
book to browse through leisurely as
one would talk with a friend. It
Is beautifully gotten up and illus
trated with many fine pictures OF
the sage of Slabsides. Compared
with the average new book it is
worth more than the quite substan-
thai price asked for IL.
The Washington herald., 1922-09-30
VIVIANI TO REPLY
TO KAISER'S BOOK

Frances war premier. Viviani. in
his book. "The Mistakes of the Kali
SER" which the Harpers will pub
lish, will reply to wilhelm's Mem
oirs. Foreign dispatches state that
M. viviani has already begun writ
ing his book. and will later drop all
business and private affairs and go
to Algeria to complete the work.
Clinton T. Brainard, president Of
Harper and Brothers and of the
Mcclure Syndicate, acquired the
world rights for the largest fgure
ever paid to a French author. Sc
rial publication will begin through
out the world one week after the
last instalment of the KaiseT'sIbook.
The young author Of Sea wrack,.
the Century Company's new novel
of the Lincolnshire fens which has
had a success,in England and is Just
beginning It's career here Ut was
published August 1s) was born in
Devonshire, being the youngest Of
i've children
The Washington herald., 1922-09-30
And Still Il Grows.

THE District Of Columbia Department of the
i American Legion has increased its member
ship during the past year, Commander Miller
reports II is not surprising to learn, at the same
tme that number Of departments throughout the
United States have lost members.
The great veterans organization now has started
upon a period of steady growth-healthy instead
of sporadic Three years ago great drives for men,
bership were in order 1t was the object to get
every ex-service man into the ranks, whether he
good bad or Indifferent The result was of course,
that many dropped their names from the rosters
after the first year passed Some were too in
different to pay their membership dues. Some were
so disgusted with all things military that they de-
sired to disassociate themselves from everything
suggestive of the great war. Some were dissatis-
fed with policy another. The most persist
ent optmist hardly could have expected the initial
membership to last Yet in this city 1t actually in
creased. This certainly speaks we'll for the diplo-
macy and ability with which the local posts have
been conducted by their officers.
We confident those State departments which
have lost members will gain them all back again
in a few years. Perhaps most Of them will show
actual increase during the coming year. For the
District of Columbia organization. however, we can
hope much better things There a number Of
organizations composed of veterans of the great
in Washington. Each serves separate pur-
pose ana oisunct type OF men, But the Legion
combines the qualities Of them all. 1t is almost
the duty of every former soldier or sailor to place
himself in position to assist the unfortunate men
with whom he served Membership in the Legion
affords the best opportunity for this. The time has
not come when the greatest of veteran bodies can
afford to be purely social organization. 1t is
we'll enough to have a social program-but the
average worthwhile veteran has not yet reached the
stage where he can get any very keen enjoyment
out of spinning yarns about army camps and battles
mademoselles and frauleins. That will come
with maturer years. Just now the Legion has a
distinct duty in watching the of the disabled and
seeing to it that laws for the benefit of the veteran
administered with efforts at evasion. 1t must
be admitted that the Legion is functionng excel
lently in this respect.
There is, we presume, a distinct importance
attached to membership in any of the District of
Columbia posts. Here the veterans are banded to-
gether for mutual benefit in the very center Of
national activities They in a position to keep
constant guard and act upon a moments notice.
The District men are watchdogs for the national
organization-watchdogs for all former soldiers or
sailors, whether they belong to the organization
not.
The Washington herald., 1922-09-30

THE REAL .F. p. A..
To the Friend of Peopie
worlda Also give me his biography. KIN
Franklin Pierce Adams. He was in Chi
Scientific Academy and the university Of Mchigan.
MIS- Is ws 81 on the
csso JouTnsl from 1908 to 1904. ne New York Eve.
lsss M.%sss 4 rls lssers S1 Is i' cSs ' Hsshor
and Large" weights and Measures" and Some.
'Lo' in conjunction with oHenry. He is also a
eontributer to magazines He lives in New York
ROUTE TO FLORENCE, ALA.
To the Friend of the People:
Please give me the best automobile route from
Nashville. Tenn. to Florence Ala A G. F.
Hill to coiS%Sa to Mount to
Upper Green Hill Ala. to Greenhiii TO Florian, to
Florence.
DALLAS HOTELS AND GARAGES.
To Of People:
AsIam contemplating a trip to Dallas, Tex
there also several garages NJ. J. B.
The Adolphu., Jefferson. Oriental. Park south
aras sno srues are sm9ns me
APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE.
To the Friend Of the People:
Please give me the names of the members of
the Committee on AppropriatiOns Of the Senator
Curtis Hale. spencer. Ntip PRpps. Nswberry McKin-
ley, ove.man Owen Culberson. Harris. diass
Jones Of New Mexico and Lenroot
DATA ON WORCESTER, MASS.
To the Friend of People:
When was Worcester Mass, founded? What
is its population and area; CITIZEN
1t was founded in 1s4s; population 1874;
area. 3S41 square miles.
The Washington herald., 1922-09-30
BENET PORTRAYS
YALE COLLECIANS

Young Peoples Pride, by Stephen
Vincent Benet. Henry Holt and
Company
This latest effort of Benet is
quite enough to make both young
and old America a wee bit prideful
Of its younger writing generation.
II young Benet's vision is not very
wide. Il is very fine and his imagi-
nation bears occasional gorgeous
posies. Nor is he apparently great
ly concerned with being popular.
He seems to write principally to
please one rather fastidious Stephen
Vincent Benet. Through this Quirk
he attains a unity and a sustained
plane of high and honest endeavor
quite rare in current American
letters.
While Young Peoples Pride" is,
in the main, a stra' ghtforward re-
lation of the not extraordinary love
affairs of Oliver Grove and Ted
Billet, lately of dear old Yale, the
story gains distinction from its
fresh, unhackneyed phraseolosy and
the flashes of dreamlike vision that
stud it like semi-precious jewels.
Both oliver and Ted are of the
sort of impecunious, brilliant
young hopefuls that Mother Yale
dumps forth on the world each year
for all the world like half-hedged
robins. They are fr!ghtfully, se-
riously and enthusiastically in love
respectively, with Nancy and Eli
nor, in that idealistic manner which
is so peculiarly American. An in
teresting and dangerous element is
introduced in the form Of the beau
tiful Mrs. Severance with the sea-
blue, sea-changing eyes" A lazy
Of this type usually manages to
upset young love. And Mrs. Sever
ance is very true to form. But Oil
YER and Ted escape safely from
her nets, albeit by a lucky fiuke,
and while agreeing that she Is one
of the most remarkable individuals
they are ever like to meet. they
hope from the bottom Of their heart
never to see her intriguing face
again.
The Washington herald., 1922-09-30
The Balkan Debacle and Mrs. Leeds.

IF NEW world war develops in the Near East
i the single American actor in that complicated
drama OF national aspirations, dynasties and
thrones will be credited with an unwarranted share
OF the blame in the minds OF her countrymen and
countrywomen. Princess Anastasia of Greece
widow OF American millionaire, is picturesque
figure among the smoke clouds which are floating
across the Balkan hills these days She is cred
tied with furnishing no small portion of the money
with which her royal brother-in-aw succeeded in
restoring himself to the throne and launching the
invasion OF Asia Minor which has ended so dis
astrously.
Americans believe. have no very violent
sympathes for any OF the contendng nations who
now threaten to light the dynamite fuse that will
blow up Europe They have failed, thus far, to
respond enthusiastically to the slogan Christianity
against the Moslem. They concerned chiefly
that the great will not come again and they
seek eagerly for somebody on whom the blame
be shouldered. This American woman is
convenient victim because she already has offended
the national pride of democracy which obtains on
this side OF the Atlantic by spending good Yankee
dollars just to get in the spotlight of throne
But Mrs. Leeds, or Princess Anastasia, has
been just toy in the hands of the impsh fate
which seems to control the destiny of nations
Her motives in helping to fix a crown again on
the head of her brother-n-law doubtless were laud
able. She mas done no more than any other good
woman, placed in a similar position, would have
done. She cannot be blamed for her failure to see
ahead greater distance than the most distin-
guiShed statesmen Of Europe.
After all. the situation existed with or with
out Constantine. 1t is questionable whether any
Greek ruler. with the same resources at his COM
mand could have held the Turk at bay indeh-
ntely. True, the Greeks started the war. If they
had not it is probable that Mustapha Kemal would
have done They cannot be blamed for taking
the advantage which always comes from striking
the first blow. Their outstanding mistake lay in
committing crimes during their victorious advance
which laid them open to retaliation when the tide
of battle turned. They sowed the wind and are
reaping the whrlwind
1t rs hard to have much sympathy for the
Turks The Greeks seem more like one flesh and
blood with us. But we have not yet reached the
point where the erusading spirit latent in the
The Washington herald., 1922-09-30
Why France? How About -.
Smyrna?

To the Editor. The Washington Herald:
The bonus bill. though wounded IN
action, has merely been confined 10
quarters. Financial and business"
powers, no longer fearing for past
and prospective profits. are freely Civ
ing vent to bellicose merriment- But
heed the hollow note Of that careless
lsa1 ghter-these raucous yodeners are
still awfully 'fraid OF Bonus BiIl-he
packs a punch in either hand. he
careth not whereon he lands. That
much for. poeticaI license. Il is out
OF sympathy for the trembling op-
ponents OF Bonus Bill that I sugrest
a remedy which may permit them 20
lie at ease upon their beds Of cur
rency and themselves get ready 20
raid Congress. with consunmate ease
and by clever subterfuge. for that
which they accuse the soldier
through their old buddy, Bonu, Bill.
Of trying to grab OF.
Issue one-way passage TO France
TO Bonus Bnrs' old buddies, the for
mer A. E. F.-ers and, after IN.
exodus, MI the deficit by increased
import Of the sweet-scented, heavily
populated immigrants the big bus a
ness folks love so tenderly-thy
European war slackers, thIeye,
murderers, loafers. gutter scum, and.
natural born bootleggers. At least
these loving gentry won't hurt them
so much where they feel Il most
the check book. even though they
may. IN the warm gratitude Of their
emotional natures. blow EN- up oc-
casionally.
BERMI-nA ONION