Evening Star Newspaper, April 27, 1926, Page 7

WRITERSINRUSSIA | SUFFER HANDICAP Publishing Houses Find . It More Profitable to Pirate Foreign Books. BY JUNIUS B. WOOD. Correspondence of The Star and the Chicago | Daily News. MOSCOW, U. § R.. March 10. ‘oreign writers on serious subjects riovelists whose plots harmoni the Communist program fur- most of the new literature of Sovlet Russia. Their works are pop- ular with the reading public, but more than that, they are popular with the government, which controls the printing office. American writers appreciate their Russian popularity as long as voyvalties in the United States per-' Wit them to live in_comfort. They may not need pay from Russia fo their ideas. However, Russian writ- ers are barely existing. chiefly be- cause 1t is more profitable for pub- | lishing houses here to use foreign novels than to pay for Russian pro- ductions. | A government publishing house | buys a single copy of an s. or with wish THE EVENIN TABER EXONERATES | 777 | WIFEANDCHAPLAN Inquiry Into Capt. Clampitt’s Conduct “Routine,” After Husband Explains. Heads Medical Body By the Asscciated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., April 2 —The Army, through Brig. Gen. Henry D. Todd, commanding the 9th Corps Areu, yesterday ordered an investigation of an incident in a nta Cruz hotel Sunday morning in- olving Capt. Orville Clampitt, Army and Mrs. Helen Taber of rancisco Hotel emploves and police | gation said Clampitt had lat the hotel under an assumed name | shortly after & woman, to huve been M wer, had reg la_ s name, but with They were assigned separate rooms. Later a man, said |to have Deen Joseph Taber. Mrs. | Taber’s husban ved at the hotel with another womin in search of M ‘Taber and Clampitt. Mr. Taber lute vesterday exonerated both his wife and Capt.” Clampitt of any wrongdoing. Taber said his wife investi different to surgeon of international reputation, | was elected president of the American Medical Association at the recent con- vention held in Dallas, Tex. while Clampitt was visiting relatives | there, and that their presence at the {hotel ‘under assumed names was merely to avoid publicity. MILLER WANTS PROBE American | novel. pays a translator $130 or so 10 turn out a Russian copy of it | 20d runs off as many editio s the | public will buv. ! Lack The Rus: No Encouragement. H an author, on the other | m: iake a two-vear ov five- | contract with a publis se. which assures him a vovalty. | e contract can be renewed in fiaitely. Recently «u decree was | sing the rizhts ble. Consequently Rus- | authors ar the | vernment and not_encouraged. At the last meeting of the Central suncil of Writers it was announced | 0 books published in | s heri published to October nslations. makes a Books o ience, travel and adventure Among the latter Upton Sin-| s writings are the most popular. { London is next. All hix works | heen translated. big demand art, mechani < well as een y comblete Labbitt,” Sincla Street wdlines’ . “Bunk ottery”: erson, “Horses and Men Winsber; i ellow, & omplete works: Teaves of G No Literature of Bolshevisi The new arrival in Russ dbelieve from a cursory glanc many book stores with stri dow displays of paper-backed umes that the reading public was | lirge. that there was a_great de-! mwand for books and that the develop- | saent of a new school of authors in svmpathy with the age was bein encouraged. Illiteracy has greatly decreased and the thirst for some- thing to read has increased. but a iiterature that will perpetuate the ! | Allan Whit- might at the g win- vol- soul of the new Rus: movement | has not blossomed. The reason obvious. “The bad material condition writers compels them to work in offices or other establishments in- | stead of devoting their time to writ- | ing,’ said Comrade Inkulov at a| meeting of the writers union. “An | muthor must pay the same taxes and | lodging rates as are fixed for the| free professions. Frequently these | charges are 43 per cent of an| @uthor’s earnings. the average author is $50 a month. o! | which $28.50 is available for living | necessities.” The government publishing houses rontend that better p: for author: would increase the price of ¥ven the magazine field is growing mmaller. This vear only 33 survive out of 74 that existed last year. Their aggregate circulation has in- ereased, however, so that those that yemain are on @ more stable basis. Newspapers have increased in num- ber and circulation. Political Limitations Imposed. The imagination and style of the ‘Russian writer today are cramped hy the requirement that all literature be of a prescribed political type. Drama. opera, movies, novels and even statuary and paintings, have. heen produced on this schedule. but they lack spontaneity. One class of society must furnish all the heroes—- mentally and physically all-powerful creatures with all the Soviet virtues, while other classes of society typify everything that is base. demic political or economic theories. not human emotions. must be ‘the motif of the story. It does not meet a wniversal demand now and will be Jess popular after the fisht is over. Thus financial and artistic limita- tions have put a damper on liter ary production in present-day Rus- sia. The only exceptions are the political treatises that can represent only a small corner of a school. Into them enthusiastic writers have put their best thought, and those by Lenin, Bukharin, Trotsky and o few others are worth while and will survive. is of ! | proximately { adminis | plant Clampitt recently was acquitted at an Army court-martial here of im proper relations with a Lawrence, Kar Gen. Todd suid his inves | tiza is purely routine” and has 0 on o a ossib Would Welcome Inquiry Into Acts martial. "o 188 CONRt as Alien Property Custodian, it dant oy He Declares Here me influences responsible ent court-martial. OF ADMINISTRATION whole the my the by for Clampitt_declared his adminisiration \ien property cus: lcomed by ‘Thomas " Miller, former incumbent. he said vesterday. Col. Miller is under, tment in’ New York with others $15,000,000 MERGER o OF 15 FLOUR PLANTS the e of sequestered assets or | Kansas City and St. Louis Plants the American Metal Co. . . %1 Would welcome an investigation.” | Combined With Headquarters of said Col. Miller, “of any and all mat- . . .. fers pertaining to amy. trusts in the | Corporation in Kansas City. alien property custodian oftice during L my incumbenc 1€21 to 192, no mat- | ter by what agency such an investiga- | tion might be mwade Asserting that the annum for the administration of ap Investization of of the office of todian will be w By the Associated Press KANSAS CITY, April 27.—The Flour total cost per | Mills of America, Inc.. a $15.000,000 corporation. was launched yesterday 45.000 trusts while he | in the merger of the Kansas Flour et ometentn | Mills Co. of Kansas City and the otal waluation | Valier & Spies Milling Co. of St. Louis. s eout | The new organization controls the e e ey feos, but | 12 milling plants of the Kansas Flout e e o e Washington of. | Mills Co.”and the three mills of the e Paid I artes Intident to | Valier & Sples Co., in addition to 150 . i grain elevators fn Kansas and Okla- d : | homa. with approximately 7,000,000 In 1921 the total valuation of the |} neig of grain storage space property was approximately $344.- 1 VoL 0 oL papers were filed yes. el reduced by claims | erday in Baltimore, Md. The new con: m"*_'“"k _flm "»,"“‘w“ 000 by 19¢ jcern_has 50,000 res of preferred e e and 525,000 shares of common stock of said, adding that the busine no par value. The incorporators were ministered by his office “could not | §o, N Ve h G TP Seovell Martin have been operated and administered. | 1q Robert M. Johnson, all of 40 Wall whether by governmental or private | (ilaar, New York agency, at a lower cost than one:|” Fendquarters will be in Kansas tenth of 1 per cent of their valuation.” | ¢ity. Thad L. Hoffmann. president of e | the Kansas Flour Mills Co.. is presi- custodian v cent of of the property. he s 1 per th dent, and Charles Valier, St. Louis. JUNK PLANT PERMIT: | vice wresiaent | the largest in the world milling hard ! Winter whe: flour. 1ts mills have a . | four. Arlington County Residents Win | = Point in Fight to Protect | APPROPE‘“ON PASSED. i of Series to Get Senate 0. K. Special Dispatch to The Star CLARENDO! va.. April 27.—A The last of the regular apptopria- Valier said the new corporation is 's DENIED lN GOU daily capa v of 000 barrels of Approach to Capital. ! Legislative Agencies' Fund Is Last tendency on the part of the people of | tion biils, that providing for the ex e of | ok ~ - cee] 3 . ) The income of | yrjington County to keep the aD- | enceq of the legislative branch of the | when citizens appeared | ate late vesterday and sent to confer- fore Judge Samuel rent in the Cir- { ence. The measure totals $16,433,917. nit Court to lodge protests against the | The Senate added a number of establishment of a junk shop on the | amendments adjusting salaries of em- Lee highway in Rosslyn, within a | ployes of the legislative agencies of stone’s throw of the Ke and | the' Government. were upheld by the court. This action resulted from a petition | presented by Jacob R. Selis of V ington for license to locate a shop on ground he had purchased from 1. H. Greathouse. Protestants pointed out that the establishment of such a plant would be a detriment to adjoining property and not in keeping with the plan for the beautification of the shores of the Potomac and the bridge to the National Capital. whi backing of a greater majority of the people. Judge J. K. M. Norton, attorney for Selis, quoted from the law, which pro- | vides that a license shall be issued if the character of the applicant is | proved to be good, Judge Brent in refusing the license stated: “While the law provides that a license shall be issued wheh the character of the applicant is proven good, which has been donme in this case, it does not say T shall grant a license for construction of a junk any point, and in view of the fact that the citizens of Arlington County are opposed to this site, the | license is refused.” Judge Norton noted an appeal from th isio; 77 BURNISHINE D 3 TheBest oilin Cream of Pennsylvania Petroleum. High fire test, great body and small carbon content. 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Monarch’ Hard: 2118 P 8t. N.W. sory Co. . M 18th and S Wm. R. Wall's 739 8th St. 3 B. K. Kruger 2010 18th St. any other good de DISTRIBUTORS Globe Wholesale & Distributing Co., Inc. 423 K Street N.W. ettt & istered | |had gone to Sunta Cruz for a rest STAR, WASHING COURT GRANTS RULE. Corporation Must Answer an Apph- cation for Injunction. Justice Siddons of the District Su- | preme Court today issued a rule on | }the corporation known as 1707 Lanier | Place Northwest to show cause, May | 7, why an injunction snould not be is- | sued to prevent injury to premises | 1705 Lanier place, owned by David | Tarshes, sald to be caused by large | coul trucks while delivering coal to | the apartment house. Tarshes com- plains that the compuny has built a | runway to the basement of the apartment and invites and directs coal dealers to back their trucks down the | incline, so that coul may be deposited by a chute instead of dumping the al on the sidewall and having it | wheeled into the busement. As thes s back down the incline, Tarshes tells the court, they invariably strike the wall of his house, causing cracks in the wall and disturbing him and his | family with the noise of the collisions. | Attorneys Peyser, Edelin & Peyser ap- pear for the plaintiff. G PROMOTER IN JAIL, READY FOR SENTENCE J. W. De Camp, Despite Plea He! Could Not Conspire Alone, Faces 18 Months. unes W, De Camp of Oklahoma, | omoter of the stal Glass | Co., is in the District Jail today paratory to beginning the service of 1S months’ Imprisonment for using the mails to defraud in connectic with the sale of stock of the company. The place of Imprisonment has not | Leen determined. but it is expected he will go to Lorton, \ | De Camp_ was indicted Mavch 6 4 ns, on i of the 15 and tried with cauitted others the remaining i(wo { De Camp. One of th and the jury disugreed in reference (o the other. De Camp was the only | one convicted and, when he appealed to the Court of Appeals. claimed th only one person could not be guil of conspiracy ate court, however, found that was evi dence to connect him with the men who were not_tried and refused him u new trial. None of the others has been placed on trial. De Camp was sentenced May o7, 1924, and has been on bail of $5.000 until today, when his surety sur-| vendered h AMERICAN ARRESTED | AFTER FIGHT IN ROME By the Associated Press. ¥ April 27.—John bott, aged 24, son of Mrs. Grafton St Loe Abbott of Boston, Ma was arrested today on a charge of assault ing Salvatore Astrologo. a Roman guide, and insulting Premier Musso lini. Abbott and Astrologo engaged in argument after the guide is said to have usurped the American's place in a line of tourists awaiting entrance to the Vatican gardens. The quarrel was renewed in the halls of one of the Vatican buildings and again ai Abbott's hotel, to which he invited the guide in order to settle the affair. The pair ed in a fist fight in front of the hotel, the American land ing with such effect that Astrologo | was taken to the hospital. The guide accused Abbott of having uttered in sulting remarks about Mussolini and Fascism % Adams Ab- | | at a democratic price. TON would help, if it could be made loI work. The World Court will help, but | no court formed by weak humanity | can be stronger than the men w)|01 | cent, deluded tools of dangerous radi- | chists, | with a view to suppressing them. | this afternoon will be devoted chiefly | will i TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1926. make it up and the ideals they hold. The Daughters of 1812 loudly ap-| plauded references to the need for alert, patriotic men and women stand- | ng ready to defend their country. ASNATION'S FOES Gen. Helmick Cites Activity| of Red Propagandists Before Daughters of 1812. Cites Anti-American Schemes. Gen. Heimick then read from a pre- pared statement the names of those | he said were engaged in anti-Ameri- | can schemes. The names of prom-’ inent and respected institutions de- | liberately ~ ennumerated by the speaker caused 4 sensation amon the delegutes. At the mention of some there was 4 concerted murmur- ing and not a few gasps. There was no applause, though the Daughters later evidenced their appreciation of the need of stifling “red” propaganda and plots. “I am sorry to have to speak of such solemn matters,” Gen. Hel- mick said, “but this danger lies ver close to my heart. There is havdly «chool or college in the United States that is free from this subversive en- terprise. Look well where vou send vour daughters to school. Not Merely a Vision. this propaganda merely There is a military or- uid out throughout this by the radicals. Actual de- tailed plans of how they are to take the country have been imade.” The arm of the Soviet has reached into Vassar and Bryn Mawr colleges, Columbia_ University, New York City | University and the University of Wis son, the general cried. | Mrs. Samuel Preston Davis, national | president, praised Gen. his “feariess attack” on the ‘red: and said that the Daughters of 1 Calling by name the peace organi- ions, pacifists and labor agitators, which he said either were the inno- s or actual agents of forces plot- ting to overthrow the Government of the United States, Maj. Gen. Eli A. Helmick, i general of the Army, picture of the activities of communists and anar- | in_ addres the Daug in se the W of 1812, Hote Gen. Helmick strong for adequate military forces and urged | the Daughters of 1812 to form watch councils throughout the Nation to| guard against radical propagandists | F made plea | Reports of Officers Submitted. | This morning's by reports of the national officers and session was occupied to patriotic Daughter ceremonies. Tonight the will hold a reception and banguet, at which the honor guests clude Maj. Gen. Lejeune, ma- commandant, and Mrs. Lejeune John Alexander Parsons, first™ vice resident of the Louisiana Tlistorical Society, and Parsons; Senator Mrs, W. 0. Hart, treasurer of the Louisiana Historical Society, and Lieut. Col. Thomas J Dickson Election o morrow. Gen. Helmick’s Warning. I believe in reducing our arms to the lowest possible 't do away with peace resolutions or appropriations for arma- | 18, ( Helmick declared. “How futile it even sounds! 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