The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-25

WE suspected there was a catch in LIE Moo s
sympathetic poem. even before We reached the
last line. Sympathy some cynical wag dis
covered long ago, is found most frequently in
the dictionary.
Problem of Conduct for Mr.. Mencken.
burton Rascoe, in The Literary Review.l
One recalls with sardonic smile that
only short time ago Mencken was performing
premature obsequies for the late James
Huneker because Hunekers work in Punch,
toned acquiescence in current valuation. He
praises such one-day masterpieces McFees
Casuals of the Sea-; he is polite to the kept
idealists of the New Republic; he gags a bit
at Wright's Modern Painting he actually
makes a gingery curtsey to Frank Jewett
Mather. Princeton professor" For Mencken s
"acquiescence" is even more complete. He
praises such youthful masterpieces as THE
Beginning of Wisdom; he has been the sub
ject of critical appreciation by of the
kept-idealists of the New Republic; he gags
bit at ID. H. Lawrence; he actually makes a
gingery curtsey to his ancient enemy, Stuart
P. Sherman an Urbana professor. His mental
fontanelle is closing up; he is acquiring years;
he is in the unhappy position of born dis
putant who finds no one to disagree with him.
A LINE contrib refers to Hutchinson's book
as When Winter Comes, and F. Scott F1tz-
geralds novel The Beautiful and the
Damned. The reason for Hutchnson's choice
of IF Winter Comes" is Obvious and doubtless
Fitzgerald had his reasons for Gliding the sec
OHu 81 tiCAc III the udme VI LIS DOCK.
Send 1t to Us-Wen Print 1t.
[From the Augustana Observer
We had fine joke on George Wick
strom to put in this space but at the
last minute We decided not to publish it.
GOV BEN oLCOTT of Oregon, following
the example set by the mayor of Portland
kissed Mary Garden when she alighted from
train. If any lady other than Our Mary" were
involved we should remind the governor of
oregon OF what happened to the osculatirg
governor of Mississippi.
CLUB Woman Is to Have Legal Visitors
day."-Chicago Post
S nice.
ONE can't blame H. W. Nevison, Manchester
Guardian correspondent, whose Farewell to
America" is reprinted in the Trib, for writing
"Goodby to the land of a new language in
growth, Of split infnitives and cross-bred
words, but when he says he is going to a
land or ancient speech, where we still say
record and concord for 'recud' and 'concud' p
we want to state that he didn't come within a
thousand miles Of "out where the west begins.
Let's See: Bat Masterson Wrote That. Didn't
He?
discovered in The Argus by j. MI
The author of Spoon River Mythol-
ogy mas Deen sued for divorce on the
grounds of desertion and non-support
Thus is another poetic idol shattered
OUR idea of nothing to listen to is the
speeches. OF two Kansas City mayoralty can
didates which wer. broadcast nv radio las,
night Some of these days the inhabitants
of the spirit world going to protest he
cause the air Is all cluttered up with radio
phone music and singing"
WOMAN Dies As She Quotes From Bihle ="
The HExaminer
That settles it. Well never taka
again land perhaps we'd best Law off SHAKE
speare after what happened yesterday
THE bodice of the new evening eour -
literally hanging by a thread" SAYS a Paris
fashion dispatch.
JULIA, I am far from urudish br+
9nsh! let's hope it's strong linen thread.
B. E. MIG