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NOTICE

Tho Annual Meeting o. bennington
Council Knights of Columbus Home
Building Association will he held NJ
the rooms Of said association on
Thursday evening March 16, 1922 At
eight O'Clock. All members are re-
quested to be present.
WILLIAM j. MEAGHER, Pres.
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Pceitvely DEVASTATING.

Trying ms it is for girl to dis.
cover that her idol has feet of clay,
II is worse for her to find that'he has
n head Of 5one,-Bostor Transcript.
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75c Ingram Stair Car c. M
pet, 2 yards for -. ~ IoOU
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LAND OF THE BOLSHEVISTS- NEW FICTION
WHAT THEY ARE LIKE
Intimate Portraits Of a Group OF
Noted Britishers

Hesketh Pearson has treated q. group
Of British men of letters and men
OF the stage with as much uncon-
ventionality as the anonymous author
Of mirrors Of Downing Street" treated
the Statesmen. Mr.. Pearson ia kin to
an English bishop and he was an un-
derstudy to Sir George Alexander. In
addition. he has proved that he can
men who make Of writing a profession.
In his book, Modern Men and Mum.
mers' (Harcourt. Brace & CO.. he
has much to say about George Bernard
Shaw, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree. Sir
George Alexander. Frank Harris:
stephen Phillips, Lytton Strachey and
several other distinguished men,. In the
second part OF the volume he has In.
cluded group of brief comments on
Wells, Gosse, Mrs. Asquith. Hall Caine.
Winston Churchill, Joseph Conrad and
q lot more.
His essay on Shaw. with which the
volume begins. is an enthusiastic ap-
probation OF the man whom he de-
ecribes as the greatest English drama :
tist since Shakespeare and one OF the
most brilliant thinkers in all British
history. OF course, he knows that Shaw
is an Irishman, but he does not think
1t necessary to stress that point. The
picture Of Phillips deals with the last
period of the man, when he was in
financial straits and was indulging In
his cups. He calls Phillips minor poet
with moments Of inspiration. Tree ap-
pears under his pen as man of erratic
disposition and uncertain temper, con.
stantly making an attempt to be witty
and epigrammatic after the manner of
Oscar Wilde. OF Churchill he remarks
that nothing but death can prevent him
from becoming Prime Minister of the
country for which he has so nobly sac {.
rificed all his principles. and that "the
man who can survive the Antwerp and
Gallipoli hazards Of the late war will
survive everything except national edu .
cation" These quotations give a taste
Of his style. The book will delight all
those who like informed comment about
men and women who have moved con
spicuously on the stage Of life.
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BLAME FAULTY IRONWORK
FOR FATAL THEATRE CRASH
coroner's Inquest on knicksrbocker
Disaster Opens

Washington. Feb. 7.--(By A. P.)-
Iron construction intended 10 support
the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre.
the collapse of which cost the lives of
ninety eight persons, was weak in Ger
tain points. and was below the require =
ments of the plans submitted for the
construction of the theatre. Robert
Henry Davis, engineer in the District
Of Columbia Building Inspectors Of
Aes, today testified at the opening OF
the Coroner's inquest into the catas-
trophc.
Mr.. Davis expressed the opinion, IN
reply to questions. that the ''insuf.
ficiency Of the construction should
have been discovered by proper inspec-
tion.
J. g. Donaldson. an ironworker. de
clared be had reported to those il
charge OF construction that two of the
beams being placed in the building wer,
shorter than would seem to be required
These beams went over the stage, h,
eald, and Tapped over their supports onl.
one or two inches. The building super
5ntendent laughed at him, the witness
4 aid, when he announced that he neve
4 INpAuld witness performance In tn,
IA Hiding because Of the danger.
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ANIMALS STUDY MEN
Mills Says They Are az Inter.
ested in Us as We Are in Them

II we may believe Enos A. Mills,
the mountain lion of Northwestern
America is less likely to attack human
beings than Is the common bull of the
barnyard.. Mr.. Mills in Watched by
Wild Animals" doubleday, Page /
Co.. says that he has never known Of
an authentic instance Of an attack on
a human being by a mountain lion.
The animal, like all other wild animale,
is intensely curious about man. and
VIII watch him from cover, and even
follow him for hours TO see what he IL
about. Mr.. Mills says that on one oc
casion.. while he was following a snow
covered trail over the mountains. he
discovered on his return by the same
route that lion had accompanied him
a little way In the rear, and that when
he had stopped to rest the lion had
stopped also and remained hidden only
few feet away from him. Neither
will the wolf attack human beings, ac-
cording to Mr.. Mills. He is wary Of
tho scent Of man. Hunters have shot
deer and left it out all night and
found it untouched in the morning be.
cause they had rubbed their hands all
over the carcass.
The coyote, which is a small wolf,
Is the practical joker among auimals.
Two nights in succession coyote stole
a chicken from rnnchman near whose
house Mr.. Mills was camping. and each
time he ate the fowl near the camp.
leaving the feathers on the ground. The
evidence was 80 damning against Mr..
Mills that the ranchman told him he
would better pitch his camp farther
from the hen roost.
Mr.. Mills has been observing animals
t,, h.& "a
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-02-07
AFTER WARS ALARMS
The Lonely Warrior Attempts
to Interpret Discomfort

The war aftermath is giving novel.
ists-new aud old--g chance to pound
their typewritcrs with reckless abandon
in an attempt to interpret by Freud
causes of worldwide discomfort or
merely to act as chroniclers Of this
mental condition. In "The Lonely
Warrior" (Harcourt, Brace & Co. }
Claude Washburn steers clear OF Of
ferng any panacea for the present ad.
mittcdly disturbed state of affairs pollt.
ical, and contents himself by resorting
to the eon-old panncea Of true love
rewarded" as n finale.
Stacey Carroll, back from the war
with D. s. c., a captaincy and a
perfectly full grown crouch. tries to
find himself lie is disgusted with
war-mainly, such brutal blunders as
would sacrifice thousands OF lives on
Armistice Day--intolerant Of bolshe.
vlstic ideals, but admitting grounds for
complaints. In turn he rams into labor
strikes, the race riots OF Omaha--which
by the way, are described vividly and
tensely-and radicals of the curbstone
and parlor variety.
His ante war sweetheart no Longer
appeals TO him, except in a physica
way, and she marries another. who
turns out to be a boundcr. His bes,
man friend dies. Through it all h,
wanders. getting into the fray now anc
then, but usually acting merely as 1
discontented bystander.
That he gradually sees the futility O
mere mutterings at things as they
ought not to- be and decides on hare
work as the best way of getting things
as they ought to-be is the clima,
brought about suddenly to the accom-
paniment of quick romance with tn,
widow OF his chum.
1.-THE Lonely Warrior" is more of ,
chronicle than a preachmcnt. It ha
moments of rare vividness and powcr il
It's analysis OF the discontented and o
some who really strive to reach funda
mentals.
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SHERMAN ON WHITMAN
IN STUDENTS LIBRARY

Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass
has just been issued in Charles Serb
ner's Sons excellent series of classics
known as the Modern Students Lii
b,ary. 1t has an introduction by Stuart
p. Sherman, professor Of English in
thc University of Illinois, in which the
greatness and the littlencss Of the poet
arc most discriminatory set forth. Those
who think it sacrilcge to regard Whit
man as anything smaller than demigod
will not be pleased with what Professor
sherman has to say. Neither will those
who think that Whitman never wrote
any poetry. But the increasing number
who regard Whitman as one of the most
original and individual poets this coun-
try has produced will welcome this
| little volume because Of Professor Sher-
mans essay as well as because it puts
Leaves Of Grass" in convenient form
for fireside reading or for carrying about
! in the pocket.
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unusual stories in the volume, each with
its own interest of motive and Charac-
terization.
When an author prefaces his novel by
warning the reading public that all his
characters are fictitious, although most
Of the incidents arc
based upon fact, then
SwaRRer the old truism of "fact
but Sordid being stranger than
fiction" rides high in
the literary heavens.
Such warning pretaccs Wilfred
Ewart's Way of Revelation" (Putnam)
and indicates that some of the strong
meat Of the book might prove too much
for some readers unless given this brief
nlibi.
The mental shake.ups incident to the
war have provided present day novel.
lists with much to null over. and "Way
of Revelation takes full advantage Of
the offerings. Laid in England, it is
the story of the love affairs of con-
ventional quartet of the English swag.
ger set. Two budding romances are
nipped as the war storm breaks aud the
two men chums start off for the front,
mid Victorian type. and remains quietly
loyal, while her companion soon is en-.
meshed in the fast" set that cropped
up during the topsy -turvy days of the
battling abroad.
All war heroes-so it secms--must
become embittered, and Sir Adrian tone
of the heroes and the fiance Of the
giddy one) does. what with being Tilted,
wounded and then Tilted again. His
final blow comes after wild Victory
ball scene with tragic denoupmont
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M. and
Mys. Rice
CoUoboyats
AS ROGUES DISAGREE
Honest Men Recover Their
Faith in Providence

There Is something about the sea
that stirs the imagination OF thinking
men and impels them to write about IL,
There are Cooper, and Melville ana
Clarke Russell. and Jack London, ana
Joseph Conrad and William McFee
and David Bone to mention only rev
of them. One of the latest seamen 70
become articulate and to put his imas-
iniprs on paper is $. b. II. Hurst, who
served long as seaman in the Far
East. in "Coomcr Ali" (Harper and
Rrotbcrs, he has told story OF Coomer
Ali Mohammedan boatman on the
river at Calcutta. who lost MS poat ana
his wife and child when the great pore
rushed up the river and wrecked every :
thing in its path. In his griet ne ds'
cided that there was no goo anu III. Ie
decided to 60 to Mecca ana snout nas
discoyery aloud In the market place
Hc Gets a lob as storekeeper on ship
whose captain was a scoundrel, and
Vas Manning to seize the ship Tor his
own benefit, The captain sets forth
bis n,an 70 a crooked native who man =
ages m such affairs and then gets into
re tolls OF a half caste. The body
~ ~ the story deals with the plots OF on'
eat ~ scoi,ndrels against another set
in in which the fatal defects of the Grim
;m,i instinct are exhibited and the story
ends with the return of Coomer All t
Coicutta % % ond his discovery that his wif'
a nd child had not been drowned in the
bore and with his triumphant exrIamn
ton ton There is but one God, and Mo
hammed is his prophet y .,
The theme OF the struggle of faiti
against disaster and the conflict ot on
criminal with another ana the undoin'
them all ads y onf th %nen most nFnn umnatn, %t,
skiiI' saHs "SH Mr.. Hurst is not the equal O
Conrad But he has some gimmering
of The Conrad spirit. and has made
moving story OF adventure that will
interest those to whom the sea and il
| l,,,arIu anupaI.
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1EET|NG CALLED
OD|SCUSS PROS
Sofessionalism and Recruiting
OF School Stars Menace to
Sports, Says Stagg
TUTORS MAKE SUGGESTIONS
Summary Of Suggestions
to Fight Professionalism,

Following are various methods
tuesested by coaches of Western
football teams to overcome the
temptations thrust before collegiate
athletes to play on professional
teams:
I First. Enforce present rules in
letter and spirit.
Second. Professional organiza-
tions should lesislate against col.
lege men.
Third. Create SO strong SEN
timent among the players and the
Z public that it would be impossible
to induce college man to turn
pro.
Fourth. Make athletes believe
they are being nonored when they
make a team instead Of permitting
them to believe they are bonorirg
college.
Fifth. Abolish professional foot
ball.
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The Soyiets themselves exercise only
such power as plcases those higher up.
II a Soviet asserts itself II Is dissolved.
The committee system Of managing pub.
lie service corporations and industry
has been abandoned, and In Its place
there is a system Of one man con-
troll The Commissioner OF Trans
portatior. for example, frankly ad.
mitted that he puts single man In
charge of a railroad and holds him re.
sponsible for results.
Dr. Guest reports also that the army
is thoroughly organized and is In evi.
dence everywhere to such an extent as
TO produce the impression that the
Government rests on military power.
The political power is concentrated In
the workmen Of the towns and cities.
which contains about one. tenth OF the
population. The peasants Of the coun-
try districts are compelled to submit
to the dictation of the workmen of the
cities. and only such concessions are
made to them as the peasants By their
control Of food supplies are able to force
from their rulers.
Thus Russia today is a military
dufocracy Of the to,on Communists
riiing on the backs Of the indtcid-
udlistic pedsants.
A LTHOUGH Frank A. Vanderlip has
"A not been in Russia, he spent three
months in Europe last summer studying
economic conditions, and in "'What
Next in Europe?" (Harcourt, Brace &
Co. be has reported the result of his
observations and Of his conversations
with Russian spokesmen whom he met
They we're the spokesmen of the Bolshe.
visit Government, and Of course they de
Tended it. Mr.. Vanderlir, however
draws his own conclusions. and one oi
them is that until the rest Of the world
is convinced of the stability of the So
called Soviet Government there can be
| little economic recovery In Russia. The
collapse Of Russia would have beer
enough without the war to have
brought economic chaos in Europe. The
world is vitally interested in the re.
covery OF Russia, but as long rs the
Russian Government pursucs its present
policy Mr.. Nandcrlip does not see how
anything can be done to help the coun'
try. Discussion of the Russian situa
ton occupies but small part Of Mr.
| Vanderlip's book. He devotes himsel
chiefly to considering what must be dom
to relieve the existing crisis. His poin
Of view is that of banker.
Nothing that any banker says uill
get respectful hearing in Russia
at the present time.
IXIHILE Albert Rhys Williams wen
w to Russia in 1917 to see the revolu
ton in progress and to write his persona
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The hero of "Wandering Fires"
(John Lane Company Is Eddie
Thornc. "a race horse of a man who
follows wandering
n:..-: fires" Mary Trefusis,
D.1e'S.ns the heroine, is a
Paths Come feminist: that is. a
Together modernist OF woman
kind. but mo more a
goddess of wisdom than
her grandmother. She insisted on open.
ing the jack in the-box to see the
bogey jump out and when he came she
was half inclined TO run and shrek" /"
With these two Dolf Wyllarde has
written u brilliant society novel. cast
after.war period. Dolf Wyllardt
knows the ins and outs Of society--its
toibles and fads and fascinatione, and
in the sparkling pages of "Wanderina
Fires" she sets her knowledge forth
ripely and convincingly. Her charac
terization is clear cut. yet deft-not
merely Photographic. but artistic.
Thorne's experience with his moody
introspective, pensive Russian wife
half barbarian in famboyant Slavic
way--and Mary's career as movie
actress. her ideaIistic affair" with Il
thespian, her caprices and her essential
soundncss, all work toward the de-
nouement, in which the paths Of tht
two. divergent for long. make the same
turning and run together.
In Turn About Tales! Century
Company n unique enterprise in short.
story collaboration is successfully car
ricd out through th'
joint effort of two
M. and authors. we'll knowr
M. Rice in the fields Of the
CoUcLorot. novel and Of poetry.
Gale Young Ric'
has published many
books of poems. In addition to "Shad'
owy Thresholds" and Alice Hogan Rice
his wife. Is the well-loved author o
Mrs. Wigs of the Cabbage Patch,
"Quin," etc. In Turn About Tales
Mr.. and Mrs. Rice alternate as stor!
tellers. each writing with individua
personality, vet both giving a suggestion
of unity Of purpose. There are tel
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Appreciated at Home

a. 8. NJ. Hutchinson's "If Winter
Comes" Is now reported to be the best
selling novel in England as we'll as in
the United States and Canada. Over
u quarter of n million copies have beer
sold in this country in five months
time. a pocket edition of Mr.. Hutchin
sons four novels. "Once Aboard tn,
Lugger." 1.-THE Happy Warrior" 9TH,
Clean Heart" and "If Winter Comes,
will be published by Little. Brown &
Co., February 25.
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NEW BOOKS
Fiction

Fiction
THE WHITE DESERT, By Courtney Ryley
cI3psE B01tSn M''s K. spGwR s.s whss GS
stretches atop the continental divide.
York: George IT, Doran Company.
A tale Of adventure and mystery.
BRAZILIAN TALES; TIansIated from
leading writer's q tIo sitter ,republo 10 Sc
charm OF their own.
THE MYSTERY GIRL BY Carolyn Wells.
Philadelphia: j. B. Lippincott Com
A new Fleming James mystery and detec-
tive story.
COUNTRIES. Boston: -Four Seas Com
Tales that have won lrets for their. writer's,
Bsbs%Isn: Armsnisn. HansarianS. Finnish
General
TRIUMPHANT DEMOCRACY. By n. r.
Pettigrew. New York: The Academy
tic. G% e s.s sy Pqs Hs o%st s as sns s
from South Dakota.
. pswey' New York: r. r. Dutton i
D'teusses the need of e. new type Of educa,
tion and describes a plan that has beer
tried out 10 remedy many OF the Ills Of ths
older methods. i"
WHY LINCOLN LAUGHED. BY Russel
II. Conwell. New York; Harper a
Bros.
The distinguished pastor OF the Bapti.
Temple ond president OF Temple University
himself soldier during the Civil War. snt
studies tho humor of the martyr Presi
dsrt. Sympathetic and readable.
| WORKING WITH THE WORKING
WOMAN, BY Cornelia Stratton- Pa rker
New York: Harper Bros.
| Tn. story OF actual experience undergone
| by writer who did such jobs as filling choc
| ing family washing, etc.
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Traprock Lectures

The famous explorer and author DR..
Walter II. Traprock, whose "Cruise Of
the Kawa' has been the outstanding
book Of its kind. is leaving New York
for an extended lecture tour under the
mana cement of one of the vel. known
lecture bureaus. His subject naturally
is How ] Found the T1lbWtsN
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the country 10
G o m 9 out with
knowledge Of more
than one phase OF
it's many sided and
complicated life. It
emerged from the
civilization Of the
Middle Ages a
century later than
the rest Of Europe,
and 1t moved more
slowly than the
neighboring ma
tions. So the Rus
sia of 1914 was
m ore like the
France Of 1850
than like the Eng.
6-n
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experiences of an intelligent. alert
American woman of great audacity
with the thing that goes by the name
Of government in Russia. She was III
the country eighteen months, ten Of
which she spent in prison because she
disobeyed the orders intended to prevent
her from finding out the truth. The
government of the Cars was never
more intolerant and tyrannical than
she found the Russia of the Soviets.
In concluding chapter she gives
her impressions of what the present
tendencies are. Communism has broken
down in practice. The next step, in
her opinion, will be toward a system of
what she calls state capitalism. by
which she apparently means that the
capitalistic system will be restored.
but will be under the direct control of
the Government.
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experiences. Mrs.
Marguerite E.Har-
rison went there in
1920 to see what
had happened since
1917 and to report
what she saw. not
from the point OF
view Of a partisan,
but from that OF
an impartial oh.
server. The result
is n book - Ma :
rooned in Moscow
George II. Doran
G o m pa n " - OF
ere ater historical
value than that OF
Mr.. Williams. 1t
ia a record of the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-02-07

the s"hoc.s Gelebrate'"
Mcrce, l. N.--"Stores OF American In
mS thiews, r, K.;--"soy Scouts Book Of
Camp Fire stories.
MoTgsu, A. --,'Boys' Homo Book OF Sci.
once and Construction
SI,1Sysn MS,s,, N, j. sd'-"rreasury of Plays for
s@sh. =, O.. sd.-"Hsro,nss OF History
SSnosss. Clare. sl.-'YwsdIsh ysiry Bssk.s
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BRAKEMAN is HURT

George j. Powell, Of PottStown, 4
|Innnsylvania Railroad brakeman, wa,
y Ntt seriOusly today when his heac
n0k q telegraph pole rs he leaned
" freight carat the North Phila
~ lRqight station. Physicians al
!papitai say bis skull
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"oauId harum" stu Sells

The fact that the novel Of rural life
has not lost its popular appeal IL EVIL
denced BY the printing OF the ninety .
dfth edition Of that classic. Edward
Il. Westcott's "Dsyid Harum" (Applss
kfoala s..IlI IS. . - 4 a,t \ N "
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THESE four books treating Russian
i affairs from four different points OF
view still leave the mystery of Russia
unexplained. There are broad fields
which, they do not touch about which
the curiosity Of the world remains to
be satisfied. G. w. u.
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Goinu Up

The first edition OF John Drink.
waters Abraham LINCOLN: A Play
tp the original wrappers u listed at
tAo y 9 current English catalogue OF
osneA4 Roekos
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New attempts to Explain
The Mystery That Is Russia

d DUSSIA ID so vast and belongs to a
~ period 70 remote from our own
that 1t is impossible for any visitor to
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AT THE FREE LIBRARY
Miscellaneous

Books added 10 the Free Library. Thir.
teenth and Locust streets. during the week
hiding February .;
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peutsch. Babette Modern Russian
Poetry" ,,,, "
MsroLlis Don" Poems and Portraits"
Stills. n. A.T"WatGh;ed .; by Wild " Animals 1AnimaIss'"
Wells, II. G --'WashingtoN and the Riddle
af paa
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Fiction
ChIldren's Books

Diver. Maui. Par 10 Seek"
tiorky. Msxim--'Three OF Them"
Hepburn. u. N.--"Wings Of Time.
MacGrath. Harold--"Ragged Edge,
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They hare overlooked the tact that
neither the Bolsherists nor any
other human porer could move the
hands of the Russian political CLOCK
for1card hundred yed's IN t.neniy.
tour hours.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-02-07

NIHILE Albert Rhys Williams went
w to Russia in 1917 to see the revolu-
tion in progress and to write his personal
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-02-07

To crpcct Justice and equity from
the narped soul is as futile a. to
expect to gather figs from thisties.
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Some New NoueLs and Short Stories

unusual stories in the volume, each with
its own interest of motive and charac-
terization.