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John Cave

n 1918 novel titled John Cave"
b was published by Duffield & Co.
h The author was W. B. Trites, an
American, and | understand,
former Philadelphia newspaper man.
Only III Great Britain did the novel
receive recognition. Thus "The Daily
Graphic" described Trites as an author
of genius. The Glasgow News" com
mentod: Though it may sound ex
travagant praise to say that John
Cave reads like the work of one of
the French masters, it is judgment
which every chapter of this remarkable
tirst novel confirms" Other apprecia
tive reviews appeared in "The London
Daily Mail Outlook" GLOBE" and
Daily News"
The novel tells the story of weak
willed newspaper man. He is in
troduced just after he has been fired
from one of the Chicago newspapers
Tor drunkenness. He has certain
facile ability and periodically climbs a
'-"'N NiS1ahSe up Vhe journal
istic ladder. But his inherent weak
ness greases the rungs and down he
comes again, inevitably He ends in
the mud-"that soul too timjd ever to
destroy itself and too weak ever to
upiift from the morass its weight of
flesh in sustained flight"
After Cave the most prominent char
acter is Prudence, q gallant, very low
able girl with the courtesans tempera
ment Her hectic career is cut short
by consumption. All this was no doubt
strong meat to the American public in
1918, which had not then had Anderson.
Lewis & Go. thrust down it's reluctant
throat. Trites anticipated these men
and stood practically alone.
here was man with courage enough
to draw Peanut Street before Sinclair
Lewis drew Main Street And-mira-
bile dictu-he had style. That stvle.
as one of the British journals in
dicated, was founded on the style of
fhe French masters, of Flaubert and
Gautier And Titles had absorbed it,,
had made it his own He followed his
first novel with Barbara Gwynne," not
so good, to my mind, as John Cave"
but still infinitely above the average
Then he seemed to disappear from the
scene. and his countrymen to-day know
him not. REX HUNTER
"a Macdouga1 Street, New York Civ
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she pops up and falls in love with
Maurice when she has no right to-
forgetting that there are no ethics
about falling in love. Two girls de-
clared: Edith is q perfect peach, and
Of course Maurice should have mar
ried her!' A midde-aged man told me:
'Maurice's first responsibility is to
Jacky. He should have married Lily,
or else she could go off if she pleased,
and marry a swillman and take Jacky
with her
"As for my own opinion" she con-
cluded thoughtfully, Il don't feel sure
that Maurice should have married
Edith-but he did,"
Then why did you have him do it ?'
l asked.
q didn't do it," she answered "He
did It himself. But, after all, Maurice
and LILY had no language in common.
Had they married Maurce's talk would
have bored Lily and her language would
have. irritated him. The language
which they might have had in common,
the language of sense, would have be-
come nuisance to Lily and shame to
Maurice"
While Mrs. Deland's novels are never
"preachy," she always takes for her
theme some fundamental moral issue.
AS she explains it: she begins with
spiritual perception and reasons down
to the things which illustrate l.. She
went to the Song of Solomon. VIII, 6,
for her theme for The Vehement
Flame"-the selfshness of jealousy.
She talked it over with her hus band
several years ago, before he died, and
explains in her beautiful dedication ad-
dressed to him: "1hat it has been
written, in these darkened years, has
been because your happy interest has
helped me-"
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one of the least known az those who
were mentioned in practically every
list Of "the twelve greatest American
women This is largely due, OF
course, TO the fact that she has con
sistentiy avoided newspaper inter
views and publicity, Consequently,
when ! learned that through the inter
Ivention Of friend she had consented
to receive me ! was az excited as If
my job in life were not ono con
tinuous interview with celebrities,
found myself drawing n mental
picture of her as | waited for her to
appear between the portieres in the
library of the friend she was visiting
in New York City. Ill of the photo
graphs which had seen in the papers
were of such ancient date that the
editors must have amputatcd the bal
loon sleeves then in vogue, and painted
out her bangs and the plumes on her
/ hat.
1t is characteristic of Mrs. Deland
that she did not Keep me waiting
long, 50 that my curiosity was soon
satisfied. | saw before me q middle
aged woman Of what is generally
known as the motherly type, a com
ortablc-looking person, with her hair
drawn up into a knot on the ton of
her head, and with no distinguished
or artistic" eRrmarks about her. But
her eyes. blue or gray they were. kept
twinkhng humorously-s -shrewd-
ly twinkling.
Mrs. Deland takes the business of
writing not only seriously but rev
erently. For instance, the conversa-
ton turned at once to her new novel,
THE Vehement Flame" and in this
Nns.+,1 L., a
deliberately, and sometimes reluctant
ly the restraint which many critics
have found so admirable in the highly
dramatic The Vehement Flame" This
came out clearly In her comment on the
chapter in which the heroine, Eleanor,
denied d child of her own, visits the
home of Lily, who has borne Eleanor's
husband SON In the days when
Eleanor still had hopes of motherhood
she always had planned to cover the
nursery walls with picture paper, and
finally did disturb her husbands as-
thetic senses by papering a room with
"a lot of pink lambs and green chick
ems cavorting around" Lily,
too, has selected a picture paper COW
cred with rabbits for her little house
In Maple Street. Eleanor did not go
inside the house.
ut was temptation to let Eleanor
see that paper. Oh, how l did want
her to see It'll" Mrs Deland said.
But didn't let her go in and see it;
it would have beeu too apt"
Speaking of the controversy which
has sprung up in regard TO the ending
Of 'The Vehement Flame" Mrs Deland
said:
AT first, when began to write this
book | never dreamed that tbera would
be any question about the way it
should end Of course, Maurice will
marry Edith. Of coursel Then, when
began to get other points of view
especially that of Edith's mother, /
was petrifed.
AN old lady said: Maurice should
have married Lily A young man said:
Maurice should have married neither
Edith nor Lily. / don't like Edith
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Masters for the cynic brutality of
spoon River" Sandburg for the
hearts thought on common lips, Vachel
Lindsay for his humping folk rhythms,
Robert Frost and Edwin Arlington
Robinson for dryer, higher visioning.
Sara Teasdale for the earliest hunger,
Elinor Wylie and Edna st. Vincent
Millay for the latest phrasing of it
these earn the established rankings.
But the poetry in such singers as Mrs.
Dargan is as authentic, although
quieter, slighter; and it is an integral
part of the important hour when what
is best among US has found at last a
voice.
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the Imagists, and of those poets who
withdraw above reality to sound life in
haunting melodies free of intellectual
content. 1t is distinctly untrue of
Mrs. Dargan. Her daily life on the
slopes OF her mountain farm in North
Carolina calls for frequent passage
between the lutte and the furrow: and
as her hoe may break the sod in spon-
dees and anapests, so does her lutte
ring with the ever youthful miracles
and magics of the dusty mother of us
ALL The opening stanza of the title
poem brcathes d thin music as cx-
qulslte as the beloved lines from
Christabel, or that Keatsian treasure.
and where the dead leaf fell, there
did it rest:
The winter has grown SO still
can stand at the foot of the hill
Nhere the stream beneath The bridge
- CRY as a heart after grief
ma M near ar the top OF the ridge
lhe wind as 1t lifts A leaf
Out Of this astringent winter mood.
with leisure for the wiping of dust
from our stars" comes the thrilIino
nlOUS
me poet must leave "the voice blown
low from the wood" and turn TO the
labor that has been mans since Eden
gate changed to. But there are breath
ing spells, in which she may see and
say;
The halsam buds arc bluer
from leaning tins sky
The homely tang of the soil breatbes
throughout such forceful narrative
poems as Sails Gap" in formal meter.
and the polyrhythmic 'Evvie's Mother, ,,
ITS song hovers As an overtone to the
whole book.
That she has not lost the old marie
IS evidenced by formal lyrics Ike
dob 81: I" and "In an Almsbouse
Garden which we quote:
Here gnarled cid rnen. as stopped = trees
louti wounded, not 10 die,
QusVer the Old phi3oeophtes
AND drift around the slsy
Or glad, SO glad. since work is done.
and no man knows his grave
They sit = little in the sun
And watch the warm grass wave
new note is creeping into her
work--a critical note, which refuses IN
accept the things that are as the ideal
Arcadia, and questions if there be not
something rotten nearer than Denmark.
/ axe the 1orthrlght Tigor of Home:
He came. her hero crowned.
Neat IS lily trim,
She put her arms around
The hen of nilu.
The horror with no name
Tie iooked or night and dsv,
heugh II met her like a fame.
Her loFe would stay.
Tier aof' hands They should cling
t1er Kisses they should wean
Elm from the strange, dark Thing
Ihat he lad seen.
And when his days grew mild.
ana he said You let me 90.
but forgive You. child
GU did Hot know"
she Yet knew NOT her logs
HIS soul its shore would lfee,,
nha ~ no world wouid crogs
o hers asieep.
,;sls5 Sertain American poets have estab-
llsnea their sure places in tbe can.
sseiiaSlen Of public esteem by tbejr
ut.er originality, coupled with . nnil
NefsatlSy OF appeal that makes 4bayo
s. spsaAlag tongues to hundreds who who
miss the lighter, softer wb;gnsrs sno
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BOOKS BOUGHT

rFIoAIs & ERoN. inc. A CORPORATION
dealing "a old and rare books, auto
graphs, etc. are the largest buyers and
distributors old books in this country.
We are in the market TO buy for spot
cash books in large or small quantities
and entire private libraries. We especially
want limited sets. de luxe editions and
late encyclopedias, Autographs also
bought Free packing and removal Tha
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c RITICIS M often levelled
against American poetry in
that it is out of touch with
life. This may be true Of
the suDer-rn+inad ace+oe of
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Revue
MIR. GUSTAvE SIMON, in the Revue
w de Paris" has drawn from the bag
of contemporary criticism some rather
entertaining materials for an article
on Victor Hugo and his reviewers The
articles OF the time. he says, were not
appreciations but executions Hugo s
worl, was condemned without appeal.
He was given several days of life, or,
by one indulgent gentleman, several
weeks in the ~Sight. with the grave an
nouncement that he would soon fall
back into the obscurity from which he
should never have emerged. Mr.. Simon
cites a devastating article on Her
nani' which was Signed Balzac
This wiole question is one OF great
interest. You recall Faeuet on Baude-
laire. Rascoe used 10 maintain and
probably does yeti the attractive and
plausible theory thai only moraIizing
and platitudinous books survive their
generation. that to put it differently
the whole corpus Of literature is, IL
essential, huge reference library con
tanning q single class Of books which
might be labeled Guides for the Con
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| aris News Letter
BY Lewis GaIantiere

K N It's series Of Little known Mas
n terpieces" the firm of Boissrd
has published Saint Evremond's
"Critique Litt6raire,' a eollec-
tiou Of short -ssays and letters brought
together under the editorship of NJ
Maurice Wilmotte, director Of the re-
Gently crested Belgian Academy.
Saint -Evremond was grand seig
neur. Born in 1913. he was mar6chal
de camp in 1852 He passed three
months in the Bastilie for speaking
sharply to Cardinal Mazarin. = docu
mcnt having been found In which he
criticized indiscreetly the Peace Of the
Pyrenecs, he was forced to siy to Hot-
land, taking refuge in 1851 at the Eng
lisA court, where he became 81 favorste
of Charles H. lie died st the age Of
ninetytwo and received the funeral
honors of Westminster.
In the happy era OF Louis XIV the
professional critic Of literature was
unknown. Saint Evremoud's friends
knew him for the Cultured and sensi-
tive reader he was ard they drew
from him the critical letters which
make up the greater part of this little
volume. 1t is agreeable to imagine
Hortense de Mancini Or Ninon de Len
clos in receipt of letter from NJ.
dc Saint Evremond. The heavy seais
are unbrokeu, the fine Holland paper
crackles in gemmed, white fingers, and
in the elegance Of the seventeenth cen
tury salon the Auted voice of the great
lady reads aloud to the lace-cuffed en-
tcurage this precious communication.
Voices rise, rar6sy assume to dispute
Saint-Evremond, bat rather TO praise
his clarity, his business and the cadence
OF his sentences. and thus, in an
other age, was the critical spirit dis
seminated.
Saint-Evrem ond was g skeptie whose
first maxim was to be content with
little and not to let that be known. Ee
acknowledged himself q hedonist. say
ing he was pleasure-loving rather than
passionate. He appreciated the Greek
tradition, loved Latin literature best
and placed Corneiile before all drama-
tists. He knew the Elizabethans, men
tions Jonson favarably and is silent
about Shakespeare. He liked the
realism Of Petronius, as he did the
strangely ornamented verify of Lucian.
and he preferred the human Hector to
the proud and brutal Achilles. Of the
classical authors he said: ~ want
them to teach US to think well, but l
don't like to employ their thoughts
myself"
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The AutI,or of ssThe Vehement Flame
By Ruth Raphael

THOUGH Margaret Deland
ms an npthor has for years
been loved and revered by
the public. Margaret Dcland
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OXFORD BOOK sHoP-Goon bso, -. !
First editions Books BY and aDsss s..-, ~
Whitman. - Lexington Are.
The Sparrow
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IN dealing with u large roncsrp aa1 S..
sq6us. THoMs & ERoS. gNez .,.sd
clay ST.. New YORK. Tel sos5 eos's-
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A Song of the Sod
By Clement Wood

Lutte AND FURRow. BY Olive Tilford
9argan New York. Charles Scribner's
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Called at the sVanity Fair Office for
Edmund Wilson jr. and saw Frank
Crowninshield, who had Just re-
turned from Europe, greatly refreshed
by the trip, ruddier and heavier by
several pounds. He told me capital
story about q tiff between Joseph
Hergesheimer and Charles Hansen
Towne wherein Charles insisted that.
though he may be a funny man, on
this occasion he was serious Egmont
Arens showed me some new wood
cuts by Massereel and numerous
drawings and art books Mr. Crownin-
shield had brought back. After lunch
" Wllson and ! walked up Fifth Avenue
talking about the Boston culture dur
ing the last century, rs revealed in the
letters Of Henry James, 1.-The Letters
and Journals OF Thomas Wentworth
HiggInson," the documents concerning
Margaret Fuller, the Adamses, Haw-
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n 1915 novel titled John Cave"
b was published by Dufeld & Co.
B The author was ". B. Trites, an
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-04-05
U. S. MERCHANT MARINE

Continued from page 80
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had to get foreign ships to supply our
battle fleet on its trip around the
world.
All government officials must, when
travelling at the expense of the gov
ernment, travel on our ships when
available. and goernment supplies of
all kinds must be carried on American
ships.
Coordination Of Rail and Water Lines
Provision is made for bringing
about close cooperation and co-ordi-
nation of rail and water lines in for
eign trade. Instead of having Ameri-
can railroads tied up with and work.
ing for foreign ships, we want them
tied up to and working with Ameri-
can ships.
These are all indirect aids which
we hope will encourage American
ships. They do not, however, cover
the difference in the actual cost of op-
Grating the ships growing out of high
er wages. better subsistence and
larger crews required for running Am
erican ships. This has been worked
out very carefully and to cover it as
nearly as may be a certain sum is
paid to the ship owner based on the
tonnage, speed and distance travelled.
To insure that the seamen shall get
the benefit of this authority is given
the Shipping Board to diminish the
amount to be paid If the difference in
wages is not maintained and to make
sure that the operators do not make a
big profit and still get the govern
ment aid 1t is provided that If their
profits exceed 10 per cent they must
pay half the excess to the United
States up to the amount paid them.
Will Put Shipping on Season
This Is n brief outline of the plan
proposed. I have tried to state it in
a concise bnt not conclusive way.
Those who urge it believe that, with
the enforcement of the provision of
the Act of 1920, 1t will put our ships
on the high seas in private hands and
maintain 1t there; that what it costs
us in actual outlay from the Treasury
will be more than repaid in the great
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-04-05

If we would have it in the face OF
the competition of fleets long estab-
lished, with agencies and business
connections all over the world and
aided and favored in many ways by
their own governments. we must give
the help necessary to put our people
upon parity with their competitors.
II we will do this their energy, apti-
tude, determination and skill will do
the rest and after while and when
they are firmly established they will
hold their own on the sea as well as
on the land.
If there is better and cheaper way
to get Merchant Marine let us have
it, but let everyone who wants an
American Merchant Marine and can
not suggest a better way get behind
and boost this plan. In my Judgment.
II this plan is not put through our
hopes for merchant marine die.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-04-05
Liberty Bonds In
Keen Demand on Market

NEW YORK, April 5.-(A. P.)-
New high resords for liberty issues
featured another broad and strong
bond market yesterday. The entire
group of United States war flotations
closed at SUBSTANTIAL gains. Dealings
in the 1-3s were in enormous vol
nme. especially the seconds and
fourths.
British offerings responded to the
increased firmness of sterling ex-
change and dominion OF Canada issues
were In fair demand.
Mexicans fell sharply from yester-
days advance, which seemed to nntici-
pate the forthcoming meeting Of Mexi-
can officials with that country's for
eign creditors. F
Buying of domestic rails again en-
braced favorites Of the western and
southern groups. Missouri, Kansas g.
Texas and Seaboard Air line being
especially conspicuous and strong.
Total sales, par value, aggregated
s1S.957, 900.
Business on the stock exchange was
on the largest. IL not the most COM
prehensixe scale Of any session since
December 20. 1920, total sales
amounting to 1,375,O0O shares.
The greater part of this activity
was at the expense of quoted values.
however, number of favorites in the
industrial and miscellaneous groups
reacting one to three points, while a
few specialties displayed greater
heaviness.
In the earlier movement, when the
price tendencies among leaders were
again upward, btween 80 and 40 is
sues. including United States Steel,
Studebaker and some of the oils were
at new high records for q year or
more.
Much of the forenoon's demand
was ascribed to pools, but the con-
timed activity of commission or
wire" houses gave color to the be-
lief that public participation was TAX
Ing on greater proportions.
One Of the directing features of the
day was the reaction of Ia points
~ hhu-udN ny OtuutpdkeT, L0e recent
outstanding issue. Studebaker made
partial recovery, closing at net loss
of Ia points.
majority of the steels, equipments
rubbers and oils finished at losses of
fractions to / Ia points but ship
pings. sugar and chemicals, notably
Dawson, were firm to strong. Rails
We're apathetic throughout, many of
the investment division holding within
fractional bounds.
Neither money nor foreign exchange
figured to any extent IN the days ope-
rations. Call loans opened and held
at 1"2 per cent until the final half
hour, when rate OF 6 per cent was
posted. Time money remained at Az
TO Az per cent, according to the
length of maturity, but offerings were
light.
Dealings in International remit
tances expanded from yesterdays
nominal operations and firmness was
shown by practically all bills, except
ing German and Spanish rates. Sterl-
Ing rose to within fraction of $4.4O,
allied quotations were slightly higher
and Dutch and Scandinavian bills add
cd to yesterdays gains.
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er returns We will get from the sale of
the ships; that our people will have
lower transportation charges; that
they will be insured against such ex-
orbitant charges as they had to pay
In 1914, and that the nation will be
guaranteed fleet that will aid in its
defense in time of need without the
expenditure of billions of dollars.
No great merchant fleet in the his
tory of the world has been built up
without government aid. Our ship.
ping Is entitled to the indirect aids
proposed as matter Of right and the
direct aid given is small price to pay
for the preparedness 1t will be in case
of danger.
Carry Half of Commerce
We believe that the United States
Should have merchant fleet large
enough to carry at least half of it's
foreign commerce.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-04-05
Winnipeg Wheat Futures
Grain At San Francisco

WINNIPEG, April 4.--Wheat, May.
Sl.SSk. July, $l31 Ia.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-04-05
DAILY MARKET NEWS, LOCAL AND GENERAL
Including PendleOu Prices and Associated Press Reports

midwest stuff was sent elsewhere in
the hope Of easing the decline here. :
General hog market range:
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~fTE
After a housewife on an allowance
discovers tnat the roof wort fall in
even If her accounts don't balcnce,
she gets along just as well as a regu-
lar business man.
Didja ever notice that the man who
hates himself makes it unanimous by
so doing?
Hang the Grammer
When money talks we don't care
whether 1t says "You and T. or "You
and me- All we want is the partner
ship.
Aw, LeggO
The young lady next door wants to
know if when a bootlcgger dies he
leaves bootlegacy.
Nothing succeeds like the efforts of
q woman to be disagreeable.
A man is known by the liquor he
keeps.
What has bccome Of the old fash.
ioned man who used to hold his
sleeves up with pink elastic sleeve
holders?
When I Was u Kid | Thought
That invisible hairpms. couldn't be
seen.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-04-05
FROM STAGE TO CELL

LONDON, April 5.-(u. PA star
comedian at West-end theatre went
through his PAGES at the matinee
while two policemen waited to take
him to Jail for non-payment of in
come-tax. The performance over. the
comedian went to his dressing room
with tho policemen and then went to
jail The policemen arrived at the
theatre Just as the comedian was go-
ing on, They were persuaded To wait
until the performance was over.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-04-05
Hogs slip Down
Again Al Portland

Again At Portland
(From The Oregon Journal.)
Only a very scant supply Of live
stock came to North Portland for the
Tuesday morning trade. but consider
able leftover stiff was in sight to keep
buyers and sellers busy. Hogs were
down again and cattle showed a loss.
Sheep were unchanged.
In the hog alleys there was only a
small supply OF new stock available
Tuesday morning. but some held over
stuff was in sight. Open general
quotations in the hog alleys show a
loss of soc in additional TO the decline
OF a similar amount Monday. The
real loss is about double this as the
big packers secured the bulk Of their
tops around s11, after the smaller
buyers had paid the extreme price.
It now develops that the bunch OF
Kansas hogs. which went through to
the North. were consigned to the To-
cal market. Because Of the fact that
the buyers appeared to be waiting
with loaded guns for the shippers, the