Evening Star Newspaper, September 2, 1928, Page 16

Sherwood Anderson, Famous Novelist, Has Been Captivated by Virginia Hills—His Newspapers Unlike All Otl\er Country Journals. BY ROSE MALLORY. ARION, Va.—When the report reached Our Town some time ago that Sherwood Anderson had set up his laves and tes in the mountains near Troutdale. Va. we were intrigued by the news, but not altogether sur- prised. To those of us who possess so- called “literary” minds and who find solitude and peaceful surroundings nec- essary to the accomplishment of any form of creative work dependent upon mental concentration and endeavor such & procedure on the part of & dis- tinguished novelist seems entirely natural. Even though many of us here sre not personally acquainied with Troutdel® and its environs. in spite of our prox- fmity, we are fuily alive to the hidden beauty of our section of the country Bo it was not difficult for us to piciure the secluded retreat where the euthor of “Wineburg. Ohio.” “Dark Laughter and other classic writings had shut himself away from the world and was busily turning out mountain cheracter sketches which would delight the modern intelligensis and amaze the late Victorians ) We did not even question {he expedi- ener of the author's action in locating his sylvan sbode on & rural byway-—or at the end of ons—whi~h a_motar 0 * enuld negotiate only with d'fficulty. He was A writer end 8 gUeat onn. We understood his desire to ronder himsel{ e inaccessible as possible. or we thought we did, just as we understood his-friendship for the mountains and their vast and lovely silences Emerges From Reireat. v and by, howsver. the distinguished lu?)wr manifested signs of em!r}\n: from his retreat and meking friends with his neighbors. Reports came from e that Sherwood I\Rdgrmn‘c; os| 4 ve” at all. but had s s h‘eji‘:(g ays picking folks up in fioar end giving them a lift" Pretty soon he took & notion fo SPY out - jand on our side of th® mountains. and became a fraquent yisitor to Our Tfllh' He s00n bocame & familiar figure in our . our b our postoffice. our way station: e n§|n the beginning. when we heavd ): erv, “Sherwood Anderson it in rown!” o ‘camms s-running just as we did axay, pack yonder in prehistoric times when the first 2utomol buzzed in f.mmfirh-: East snd a little U he first lane hummed across sky autemobile and the sirpiane soon 1o be novelts hovered !:k]: ¥ \derson has never ?n ity. . Howsver, we 500N T rneath this $iamo that Und et fotks like ours tinusd to go out L him a gresiing or just merely look at him, w° no longsr ri- garded him as a cuios News Flashes Over Countrr. vood Anderson bouzht out M on B shing Co. and pscame the the Smyth County s and the Marion Democrat '\':r'! astonjshed with a great aston sh: i ment. The news of this amazing pur- | chase flashed like & flame throughout | Our Town and Our County and those | adjacent o Later it flashed 1k~ a flame all over the country from border | %o border. fram ceast to coast. m%:;ny where perple: ) vate ‘Moreover, Our ‘was wonder. - surprise, both public Town. foldad m&gl\‘,; s very heeri of the mountan ::“.%-l’én‘%m Vieginia and hitherto n, was put on the map as dafi- nitely &5 Dayton. Tann We were in| the limelight. We had our place in the sun. And all in the twinkling of : here in these parts the | " Anderson’s businss: unbelievable. It Such things didn’t . it was some other . not Sher- small | h. Wrong. gotiing them 3 other Anmderson. It ::d. Yes, it raally was Sherwood! Why Did He Do " Man: have not recoversd from e um. seeking v{: ‘modern, ressive, attra ang lovable, we find ourselves continu- ring why Sherwood Anderson. jant writings have Ca res o sit up and fake among his inti- isSeur of an artist and the ¢ u genius, and who cap com: any price for his f-r'xulx'.om th’::l‘d himzelf at an-edi- ton !I'Ab“fl;ma“ town printing ows of which I:MK allev shadowed by 2 busze building rapidly e {ront windows | B giass entrance Coors not only are| flank garage but disclose (3 u:m:yvt.rw c!’x sinister county | red-painted struc- | e town parapher- the side wind poet and the , manages 1o nv:‘rloo‘bzhz.é“«:- 'at times and 1o be momen- urfla-?nd‘lzv‘erud by the daffodils and m; Jips in 2 neighbor's yar th- flash o 2 cardinal acros the sunshine, & ,- {ng: robin in a nearby maple, an 2ppl o8 "ih bioom. Fortunately, lso Our, Shoun 48 & progressive town. 8o in tm e unsightl g:;e will be eliminated and #hop env onment mads mors Reformer 7nd Crusader Sherwood Anderson hil s role of reformer ar ::Zy;(:n‘nhlux spared peither time nor argument in his efforts tn ha ';\h' toumshed vankhed from his n"\i or - nood Bs persistent have been in’ an- peals that the oty fathers have & . Vielged to -his fmportumitics am‘l. ar Tovirg the ofending buiiding beyond the range of flis vision. He volunteerst 1 plant trecs end shrubs and ctherwise bezutlly presumably, of thoee seking yokas: from the sorrows of hom= and resp! from their wives and hus v isiced a1 the prospoct of be- eyesore. ond % We ar ing relleved of 2 GVi° need a park. be it ever Bherwood A".u.-l“nl; I‘;’,h ; ot populer resort ?,‘...‘,'Sf wili be X;Ll)'cc upon tils spot. 80 he says. What sort of games he has nou yet divulged. But the (nmr»nf games prooably will be pitching horse- shoes, 8 popular pastime among Town bachelors and ben which is enthusiastically spos Bherwood Anderson himself offered prizes for a suitable n ®his spot. where he and his will gather svenings end in ughts. Are Unusual Newspapers Directly across the highway fmm“n ropocsd park is the printshop whei an’;’;"’mdphl%flw' is rapidiy building up two weekly newspapers which prom 1se 1o be great newspapers some d which already Are Unique newspap @ clase hy themselves Above same huilding 15 the pretty little apart- Puent where he and his wife keep house nnd are »t home in their frisnds From e speriment windows snd from the msored by H me for the purple Autumn twi- | ized by cleanness and simpiicity. park But arow ]Dl‘inlsl\op Sherwood Anderson’s | looks hopeless now and desolated | trees and shrubs, grass and flawers {lke magic in our countiy. Some {and it will not be sa very lonz, ¢ this dismal spat will blessym liks rose, will develop into @ bit af b restful and ng to thy weaary edi- torial vision of Sherwood Anisrsn snd to the tired business men or woman Sherwood And=rson's sctivitiss es & crusader end reformer ars not restrict- ed by sny mesns to the field of his own privets desives. Whevever he soes sed. cither civic of psrsonal, or whenever his attention is clled to such a need, h» immediately bucklcs on his armor and stars out on ths warpath Everybody who reads his papars knows ebout his appeals for more sanita prison _accommodations. the K invit wants Band Boys, for Beu'ah, the little | crippled mountain maid who wanted to be “learnt”: his campaign for pure-bred tock in our country, his championship of the colored people In our town in their efforts to secure & modern school | huilding, the estabiishment by him and his wiie of a higa-ciass library waich ix open to the public AL a m>rely nomi- nal expansc n3 desoted to the purchise of new vol- % ior itx shelves. Uierybody k lurther thet interest has been aroused #t home 2nd abroad in th2 ciuses he has sponsored. and thal matanial ani gensrous gifts have come from some of th: most famous men in America, his porsonal friends The library mentioned above is lo- cated right in the printshop. Many of its volumes were brought from Sherword Andierson’s private library at Troutcs. . and new ones. {resh from the presses. trequentiy added to the collection. Consoris With Bahbitts. It did not take long to discover tha: reports from Troulial> were correct, and thet Sherwood Anderson, althouga he may be & highbrow novelist, is by no a decidedly gregarious animal, consol ing not only with the Babbitts. but ap- perently finding himsel? all types of humanity. snd poor, good and bad, young and old. gra g3y, male and iemaie. black # and colored. He is a humanitarian £t hesrt and an cxceed mgiy adapiable one. His sympathy is wide and deep. embracing not only th: joys and sorrows of his teliows, but their pursuits and their professions. their aims and sspirations. He is responsive to every typs and every class, Thore is no alooiness. His sympatky for criminals is an open sacret, yet he never allows his concern for these unfortunates o interiere with the course of justice or the welfare of civilization and society. Shcrwood Anderson's books, although they have made him famous, are not as popular in Our Town althoust they have their admir Before cam> &nd dwelt among us there was a certain amount of prejudice against hi because of them—a prejudice, however, which did not take him long to over- come. People were inclined to judge him by the® frankness of his books This judgment, of courss, was absurdly erroneous. Popular Speculaiion. Of course, when he bought out our publishing company, lock, stock and overrel, everyboay wondered jusl what his intentions were concerning us and what sart of paper hz would give us to take the place of the old famuiar sheets. It wes supposad by many that his paper would be like his books, and that we would blush to our fingartips when the mail carriers handed them in at our doors, and would read them in secret with all the shutters closed and th> blinds pulled down. Furthermore, they probably would be fuil to the limit oi highbrow stulf adapted to th: intelligantsia, but not 10 ordinary laymen. Contrary to expec tationz, Sherwood Anderson has given s two weekly newspapers character- They are readsble from “kiver to kiver” and are different from anything that nzs ever before come off of anyoody's printing press. ‘There is nothing heavy or buraensome about them, nothing re- volting, Being strictly local, they nave novel personal touch, a quziity which city papers necassarily lack. They are spontaneous, not studied. They abound n a light and lively humor, a whimsi- cal humor, which has spacial charm. Sherwood Anderson has created for his papers some original and diverting characters, such as Buck Fever, Han- neh Stoots, Miss Spring Fever, the firm of Pever & Aguz. Bessy Wish of Roa- noke, ths Black Cat of Chilhowie. He keeps us in a state of excited anticipa- tion wondering what they will do next, end what is happening down in Coon Hollow, th- Fevers have their habitat—Coon Hollow, which seems to us a real locality, not an imaginary one. Recently Sherwood Anderson has in- | troquced his readers to the ingenuous Mys, Colonel Homing-Pigeon,. who is enthusiastic on the subject of the con- templated park and whose intriguing letters to the. editor anent this enter- prisz doubtless have influenced our mayor and councilmen to favor the movement. That Washingten Articie. However, Buck Fever and his associate characters are mere incidentals. The successtul development of Lhe County News and the Marion Demo- crat under Sherwood Anderson’s guid- ance 15 not altogether depsndent upon Buck and his merry crew. For those who prefer 8 better type of journalism, y issue of each paper contains s . one hign-class ar.ele aiter the Sharwooa Anderson manner. Take Washingon ardcle, for example, iehy purported to be a political inter- w with Hoover, but which, looked at from another angle, ssemed more of & isit to the Frecr Arc Gallery. This amazing production from Sherwood An derson’s facile pen was in reality two or raiher twn essays, each /iy separate and distinct, yei 50 related and interdependent that ¥ was complete without the other hen, at the close, the two were lightly meigea into one, an exquis biending, st would scem thai there sild be no possible relationship hetween an inwrview with Hoover regarding the teniial nomination ana & visit to ¢ Freer Art Gallery——yet there was! A remarkable piece of work, that Wash- gion sridcle—a bit of ‘genuine magic yet unreal, prosaic yel poelic, ma.e- 1.}, subsiantial, yet ctheral and dream- ltke We are in conatant terror here in our town lest Bherwood Anderson. mccord- {ing to his custom, should weary of us suddenly, fold his tents like the Arabs jand stlently steal away. When he returns to Our Town from a leas. be: as OUr | gy or three days' visit to New York, | nedicts, and o0 | (ngy giluring city which he admits was | i nis first love, and hands us oul an arti- | cle savoring strongly of heimweh for the | bright lights of Broadway, when he con- Lon the printed page Today 1 am & newspaper man morrow 1 may be a tramp. we fairly shiver In our hoots Author Is Needed, For we need Sherwood Anderson, We wonder how we ever got along before e came to Our Tawn tn live. Wa have become accustomed o him. We are proud of the prestige which his presence give us Everybody here is his triend To- We feel that he 15 one of us, & part of | served, records hpvi our civie strueture, We like him. We | like his wife, Smyth | We hope that he and THE SUNDAY STAR. | his wite lke us. We want them to stay. | Snerwood Anderson's wife, Mrs. Eliza- | | beth P. Anderson, being business mana- 2t of the Marion Publishing Co., spends the m:for portion of her time in the print s1ap, her duties seeming to be varird. €he is indispensable, a genuine belpniete. an important factor in Sher- | v00d Anderson’s veeiurs | Th* work ab/sl’l‘ » small town print hop is heavy, the interruptions endless. | Th* smail town editor, unlike the,city | cdiver, is sbsolutely unprotected. He mu i be affable, hall fellow well met | with everybody. all things to all men, | He needs a wife like Sherwood Ander- | son's_wife—a trained business women. | an eficient and tactiful business partner capable of teking charge of office affairs in his absence. Sherwood Anderson is no politician and apparently has few political views. | Perhaps it is safer and more expedient for the owner and edlior of both a Democratic and a Republican paper, is- | sued every week Irom the selfsame | office, to maintain a neutral attitude. All political editorials and articles are | contributed by partisan leaders of the two opposing parties Opposed 1o Obiluaries. Sherwood Anderson is shy on obitu- aries. He is move than shr. He is aciively anc openly averss to them | unless they are brief. 1t was a knock- out blow to some of us when he an- | nounced right out in print that n- wa< ' interested in news of the living and not of the dead and that lonz-diswn-out eulogistic obltuaries would have io be pigeonholed until he could get around to them. He has no inteniion of al- lowing them to crowd out of his col- umns mccounts of timely occurrences which seem to him of livelir im- portance. Now, we simply dote on obituaries | here in Our Town and in Our County. | And the more space they take up .r.| the paper the more we dote. And the mesner the dead people wers when they were living the more we euoglize them Yes. it was a knockout blow. | a shame. 10 deprive us thus arrogant- Iy of our dear obituaries, allowing us only space cnough for a few prosy stu- tistics concerning the departed. A knockout blow! Once I was a writer of obituaries I wrote one obituary which cavered the whole front page of the News and of the Democrat and overfloved onio | the back pages. And everybody jus' loved it, and all the people in our town wanted me to write their obitu- | much in demand as || laries. T was a the undertaker. Since Sherwood An-| derson issued hiz manifesto, I frel -1 actly like Othello. My occupation s gone Averse to Poetry. Sherwood Anderson is also averse to | poetry—at lesst, the southwesiern Vir-| ginia variety. From the beginning of | his incumbency he has made i1 per- feetly plain _that his printshop i newspaper office, not a clearing L for rural rhymesters. Sherwood Anderson mainiains no ed- itorial staff, no force of irained repor- torial writers. Except for an occasion- al contributed article and political com- | munications, he seems to b> the whole thing so far as editorial and reportoral work is concerned. Of course, h* has his news gatherars who take care of {th> “Personals,” but even thsse fre- | quently show signs of the distinctive | Anderson touch. The smount of work h» gats through | with onishing. H> atiends all the bis speakings. big public celcbations |and school exhibiifons, all trials both in the Circuit Court and the Mayor's office, all Kiwanis and Rotary meetings ‘and banouets. He browses around in |our clerk’s office. our treasurer's office, | | our factories. He visits our Govern-| | ment Hospital for World War Veterans and our State Hospital for the Insane. He motors around all over Our County | attending cattle and poultry shows, agricultural exhibits and other big country meets, making friends with the | penole, securing copy for his paper and | incidently enjoying 8 share of our illm"d Virginia ham and fried chicken | He goes to Troutdale for week cnds | and every now and then slips away to | Washingfon or New York. And no metter where he goes he makes a story of it, an excellent story. He is a many-sided characte of romposite of Sherwood An | Buek Fever, Hannah Stoots, Bessv | of Roanoke: the Black Cat of Chilhowis | and Mrs, Colonel Homing-Pigeon. Not Like a Reporter. Sherwood Anderson has nothing of | the air or the manner or the method | of the professional reporter. His note- book is little in evidence, if at all. He |is n spectator among spectatars, an | | anditor among Aauditors, an observer | | among observers and a remarkably keen observer, too. | He is great on accounts of fights and arrests and disturbances with moon- | shinars and bootleggers. He displays an especial deftness in presenting such af- | fairs, giving to his stories a humorous | twist which fis distinctly fascinating | Yet underneath this lightness there is a vague compassion—that human sym- | pa‘hy for the criminal Sherwood Anderson is an expert in |the art of mingling humor and pathos | | —a rare gift. Who does not remember | laughing and erying at one and the | same time over his story of Nelly, the | printship cat? Poor lttle Nelly, ‘gray | and inrocent and loving, shut out by | accident from her warm printshop | home on Christmes Eve! Located at last by those who loved her and sought | her hundreds of vards away from home. I cared for tenderly. but too late. by new i found friends! Poor Nelly, dying so { pitifully of double pnenmonia! ~We | laughed over Nelly. we cried over Nellv surh was Sherwood Anderson’s art in telling about her, | Has Boyish Loyalty. | A pot'nt facior in cementing the ! hond between Sh-rwood Anderson snd { Our Town Is his almost childish loyaity | |10 us. He is more loyal to us than we Are to ourselves. He does not hesitate to call attention to our civic shortcom- Ings and defects, and to suggest rem- edies, but if any unfairness i& shown us by an outsider, either an individual. an organization. 8 newspaper, another town or another ssction, he Is quick to take up the eudge's in our defens | Sherwood Anderson s as sincere and honest as 1t is possible to be in an | Insincere #nd dishonest world, Thare j¢ no pretenss abou! him. H+ has i arztitude and sppreciation, thoss rare | snd unusua) qualities. He never fails to express pleasure in the smallest gift | or favor bastowed upon him, Moreover, he scems Ineapable of moral cowardive | He is at all times considerate of the | rights of others and the feelings of | others, (Excepl obituery writers and poets! And, Yes! After-dinner | speakers!) Sherwood Anderson Is generous both a material and a moral sense. spends freely and enjoys such expend- | iture, Yet the bank account of another | | means nothing to him. His friendships | rson. | | in He . | Village Once Woman-Ruled. | | Bogl a n about the mod- | |ern policewom: s that is appearing in | | thet ‘and other European countries has | dizclosed the fact that 1928 he cen- itenary of the real state of “petticoat | ) government” in the village of Minshull | | Varnon, England. There the supervisor, | {or surveyor of highways, the averseer | ,n.v the poor and the constable were all women. As the centenary Is heing oh- | * heen found show- ing that policewomen wera ncoepted as ll matter of eourse at that time, ¥ | the e new friends | rpsses to his wanderiust, when he makes | 4re not based on bank accounts, | n i on Spring and Summer | terrifying statements like this, right out | WASHINGTON. GREAT NOVELIST A COUNTRY EDITOR SHERWOOD (Continued from Third Page.) to av-ng» the murder of “Chines>” Gor- don at Khartum: and 38 when he re- turnzd from the South African War, a > end the stories of most British jans who adopt the Army as a ca- They retire with a colonelcy, a pension of £4500 &nd a_paternal or vuncular inheritancs or allowarnce (or n rich wife) and live happily ever after in a good hunting country. Bui Byng was sel upon A career. He d done fine work. He had youth, en- 2mbition, purpose, and little be yond his pay. He came home, broke away {rom the rogiment dead end by way of the com- mand of & cavalry school, and at 43 got his brignde and his first siep in the world of general officers. Also ac- quired & brilliant wifz Lady Byag Tnfluential, Lady Byo Byng piciui influsnce upon cannot be left out of the She has had a marked his outlook at several points of his career. Byng's Egyptian and Canadian phascs would nol have been so successful if he had not had by his side that tall, dark, good-looking womzan (she comes through her mother of Greek stock), with her wit, culture and social flair Julian Bynz met her just after the South Afriean War. She was one oi th> most popular girls in society and had a fooudnz in Army circles through intimate fricndship bstwe-n her un and Kitchenor Thanks largely to that link with Kitchener, Byng In 1912 got the com- mand in Egypt where Kitchensr was England’s viceroy: and it was in the commander-in-chief's big, cool house in | Cairo, two years later. that he heard the first rumbling echoes of the war. H* was too good & man to be left in the Egyptlan theat Kitchener sum- moneda him home: and, in command of a cavalry division, he was a tower of strength to that first little British Army | that retreated from Mons, stood on the Ypres lin, and after tremendous fight- ing held the old cloth town. Byng was “blooded” as an infantry genersl in the Gellipoli campaign of '15. It was wild and desperate work, clinging to the toes of “that damned peninsuia,” a5 the West>rners, who hated Winsion Churehiil's Dardanelles strategy, called it. But Byng did well and presently re- turned to the Flanders nt with a new order (Knight Commander of th: Wish | Bath) and a jump In rank to licutenant | general. In the late 8pring of '16 came his big chance. The Cenadians needed a com- mander of a special type. A formal man was no good. A spit-and-polish general would break their hearts, They required a leader who was at once physically impressive, able, strong, a firm disciplinarian and yet a man who could capiure their hearts and imagina- tions A general, besides. who would not ‘get the goat" of the citizen officers BTh" war chiefs took council and chose yne. Admired by Canadians. Byng was a success. The Canadians admired his robust ique and the “no damn nonsense’ air about him. ‘They liked his blue glance, like a sword thrust, his calm deliberation in a crisis and the broad smile into which his blunt, stern Nordic face so easily crumpled. Also they liked his knacl of leading them to victory after victory For his part Byng, a cavalryman, un- derstood these Canadians, a wilde crowd than the British troops he had always been accustomed to, less amen- able to discipline, men with more dash but. less dour obstinacy-—magnificent storm troops, at their best-in the asseult He never made A mistake with them And he earned them the admiration of the entire allied forces by the operation | which resulted in the storming of Vim | | Ridge, which Byng takes his title name, the | the tremendous bastion from most. glorfous of all the Canadians exploits in France The feat won Byng, hitherto a corps commander, command of the 3d British Army, incorporating the Cana- dian Corps. In his first big operation with his new mass of 300,000 men Byng swung | the first concentration of mechanieal cavalry to be used in modern war—the tanks, But there were not enough of them. The seeret had been prematurely revealed Faces Terrific Onslaught The attack petered out, the German ranks clos»d. up and in March, '18 Byng found himself repulsing a terrific onslaught upon his center at Arras while sonth of his a'my line the Sth British Army under Gough was being into_action shattered and rolled back by a series | of terrific blows which Ludendorfl planned to be decisive, but which tur- ned out not to be quite of that character. It was a dark hour was coming. Foch was made yon- ralissime in the Foch battle r! shed the war by suecessive co-ordinated attacks by the French British and the fresh American forces Byng swung hix armv st the northern end of the Hindenburg line in the aenersl offensive which began In August His men But the end and moved forward clearing the Germans oul of the seamed and torn ground of the old Somme battlefields—"the bloodbath,” In waves the Germans had grimly called those | hatiles On September 1 and 2 they broke through the outer section of the Hin- denburg line, and at the end of that month, resuming the attack, they burst Holding the London Front inteili- | n. €. BEPTEMBER | | ANDERSON, | line— | through the main Hindenburg them- | ¢he Canadians disuinguishing | tor the Sudsn War with the force bound | seives in a series of ferocfous encoun- | ters with picked Germen troops in ths | captnre of Cambrai—and reached open country. Farther south th> American forces were smashing through the German flank, Everywhere the Germans wers on the retreat. Consternation reigned al German headquarters. It was the end Then honors and rewards for the war | 1saders in the field. In the share-out Sir Jullan Byng received the thanks of | | peerags as Baron Byng of Vimy and Thorpe le Soken. His Work in Canada. His career seemed ended. Canada, the Duke of Devonshire's term us governor gencral was up. A new man was required who had something besides the social qualities and a great name. For the Canada of 1921 was not the Canada of 1914, The Dominion's war contribution had released new forces and stimulated Canadian na- tionalism. The Canadians were even demanding their own minister at Wash- ington. The whole question of the rel | tions of the great self governing colon- | tes with the mother island was in the melting pot. The statesmen in London perceived that the tie between Canada and Eng- land. if not stramed to the breaking point. at least badly needed new human strands woven in. The Prince of Wales acquired a ranch | in Canada and reawakened the interest | of Canadtans in the personal side of the common crown, And there, by a happy chance, was Bynz. idol of the Canadian troops, yet | an Englishman to the marrow, a sound man, virile, not yet 60, & good mixer, « patrician besides. i 80 out went the Canadians’ war leader to Government House, and was a great success. He went abaut his job with an informzlity and unconventionality most unusual in Canada's experience with governors general, No high airs about him. He went on long_motor trek: without an aide and ! climbed back fences to chat with farm- ers in their barns. He sat down to eatl with them in their shacks. And he' talked to them as man to man in their own language, for_he has the land in his blood. | He very nearly made a complete con- uest of Canada. But right at the last e perpetvated & faux pas. He fell afoul of the politicans. | i How It Came About. In England a defeated premier goes | to the King and hands his resigna- tion (whereupon In practice the King. on the politiclan's advice, summons the opposition leader or another to form a ministry), or else he asks for a dissolu- tion, which the King may grant or re- fuse (again in practice the monarch takes the advice of the politician). A similar process appiies to a dominion, where a governor general functions in the King's stead. Now Byng. in his role of viceroy. re- fused: to Mackenzle King what he had {on a previous occaslon granted to | Meighen. He had his good reasons. but | the fact remained that he appeared to show partiality (the unpardonable thing, | the erown standing above politics), and. | what was worse, to favor the Tory im- serialist, Meighen, as against the radi- | cal National King. The aggrieved party made the result- ant issue one of whether Canada should be ruled by its own politicians in Par- | Hament or from Whitehall via a des- | potic viceroy. Byng's personal popularity. however, remained so firmly rooted that it was bad politics to attack him personally in | the election campaign, and even the| Justly incensed Mackenzie King was at | oalns to praise the man and curse the system So Baron Byng came home with a! private opinfon about politics and politi- | clans that would searcely bear repeat- But in | ing. He went into retirement at Thorpe | +le Soken and proceeded to show his in- | dependence by refusing to pay to the | crown office and fhe home office the | ususl fees. amounting to some $4,000, [ In connectign with his elevation from a barony to @ wiscountcy. the reward for | | his services In Canada_ The reason | he gave was that he ought not to have [to pay @ an honor that a politictan | veceives for nothing ! He won Aftar 15 mopths' delay the | | fees were remitted and the viscountey | aazettod Eyebrows Were Raised. | Byng again caused the conventional | [to raise their evebrows by turning up in clvillon attive at the state banquet | for President Doumergue of France at Buckingham Palace last yvear i The red-coated sentries In the outer courtyard stared as they saluted; so did the policemen. Also the footmen in the | entrance hall »nd corridors. Finallv | at the outer reception room a tactful { major-domo stopped the erring visconnt “Beg pardon, my lord: this is a full- dress affalr. Didn't your lordship my lord didn't know. Had he | better risk it, or retire? RBefter retive. | The French guests might feel stighted. | 5o while the King, the President. the admira's. generals, ambassadors, diplo- | | mats and grandees were eating off the [ qold plate of state In the banaueting hall of the palace, Lord Byng con- umed A& modest chop and a whisky and sodn at the Travelers' Club. | These trifles apari, Nfe had lost its complications for Byng. At last, In the | vigoroun Autumn of his life, he was en- | joving & lelsure in which he was com- pletely his own master | He would stil] be leading the psaceful and pleasant stmple life, wood-cutting, 2, 1928 PART {and a gift Parliement, a grant of $150,000 and 2 | | Australia, China, Belgium, | COLUMBIA HIST REVIEWS OF SUMMER BOOKS |Will Irwin's Biography of Herbert Hooyer — Records of the Columbia Historical Society—A Story of Trap- pers, and Several Novels. IDA GILBERT MYERS. HERBERT HOOV!E:" Al r:mlnlac‘en! biography. By Will Irwin. us- l.r-ud.p New York: The Century Co. HE AMERICAN tradition of in- dividual success is pretty erally and definitely established upon the foundation of priva- tion, pluck, the gift of prevision and the power to plug through each | succeeding job on the road to personal fulfillment, and public service. Lincoln | is the classic example of such progress. | There were few before him. There have been hundreds since. Not of the | Lincoln stature, to be ‘sure, nor of the Lincoln stripe. Yet these hundreds are as truly the product of their times as| are any of the outstanding men of the | past. Here are character, grit and pet- | sonality in partnership with a period | rich in opportunity. And here are thousands of young and youngish men, meeting and proving the surpassing promises of the modern world. Among them is Herbert Hoover, whose stocy is here told by Mr Hoover's old friend and schoo.maie Wil Irwin the novalist. Just at the present momeni it mi be gooa wiiGom, just phin good s (o iy to soit-peuai the stocy of Her- beri Hoover. As mailer of laci, how- | ever, it can't be dome. Whather onz follows the restyained and comseivi./c | stugy of mr, Hoover by Willlam Hara, | or gives himszlf over to reminiscences of friendship by Will Irwim, the efiect {s one and the same. The story ia either case is simply spectacalar, of would be, if there were not at th# center of it & man whose gospel and practices are those of hard wors. One grinding task finished, why, just take on another and a harder one. Only a little boy at first like all the others ¢ that clan—but_one does not like to linger here. Lonesome, shut up in himself, that boy, and & trifle 5\\\: Let's move on to the time when he geis his teeth into a job, not much ol & job to stert with. But like the Doy himself. his jobs are afficted with grow- ing pains, they spread and deepen and take on importance. All the time you are reading you will have an eye out for the muracle—for miracles must be headed upon this youngsier to_bring about such amewing results, Not a one—except lhe miracle of hard wors for economy of effort with ft for rounding up & job to of all of its easential parts g of any scrap of aterial or eifort on. & power | another gi the inclusion and the discardin: waste and 1rrelevlnlu:? . They call this organiza ; lhnelyML Hoover has proved Lo have h:. his possession, in several parts of the world, and in t-m:umsll'ncri ,,?;,, r\(:;l:: e s ce and 5 e S Cniu. Russia. each Hercules of t get into shape. n with the Mississinpi 10 be looked after. ‘Then the imunense B siness organization of the Depar ment of Commerce —but why say over hat everybody knows! The only to make here is that Wil Irwin deep Iriendship and with such frankness as friends practice upon one another nas told the story of H!rb.hr\ Hoover from its beginning up to the resent time. gloe:h‘d over such a theme. have and yet never once has writer let himself go beyond e strictest recording coupled with suci aise as the occasion required. A re able_career is here portraved. A finely human man—kind. friendl. rightsthinking toward the rest of the world—comes into the open here The best part of this story is that it is -.r‘m only true, but that it is a story for l.! boys to reach out after in their owh lives. Indeed, that is the true gist of the life story of Herbert Hoover. Pead this book. Read William Hard's Wl\ft.\ Hoover?” You boys read this one—and then move out into things. D ORICAL SOCIETY C. FEdited by John Published by with something for & modern pattern hen home agal must this ‘Washington. D. Larner. Washingion: the society. OUND about the middle of August R there was at West Branch, Towa, & home-coming rally for Herbert Hoover The great majority of those listening in that night must have been impressed by the naturalness and sincerity of that instinctive homing before setting out for wider fields. Not 7 new move for this man either, since years before on his way to Australia Mr. Hoover did the same thing, wen! t to West Branch to feel again the touches of boyhood and the friendsh} ps of that earlier time. The point is that th is feeling for the old home is a universal one. It is shared by all of us. understood by all of us as among the deepest of preposses- slons. To everybody there is one spot | dearer to the memory than all others.| masy to realize this when the oid and beloved place s some little faraway town, some hamlet, even some stretch | of a well remembered countryside. Not so easy to realize, however, that every big ofty. too, has within its borders points here and there which long years | bafore constituted the old home town of certain of its residents. New York, New Orleans, Chicago, Washington and all the others cherish within their pres- ent spread and activity the features of that old and dear home town. And all over the country there are men and women grouped together for the pur- pase of keeping fresh these points of recollection, these centers of patriotic fealty. Such a group is the Columbia Historical Soclety of Washington, D. C., which here presents its thirtieth volume of record and reminiscence on the land- marks of an older and simpler Wash- ington than the one we now know. As @ whole these volumes of annual ac counting provide an invaluable refer- | ence library for the historical student | ol the eity. They offer besides an ex- clusive source of information less com- prehensive than history, one devoted rather to the revival of old pheres without which any modern city loses an appreciable part of its charm and effect. By way of these records one s minded ean touch this busy and bustling mart with the magic of dis- | tinguished personalities of an earlier day, with interests of other form and purpose, with many a beautiful re- minder, in home or parkland or pie- turesque road, of the days when the Capital was growing to its present ! stature and importance, The volume | in hand. the thirtleth one of the soclety’'s annual output, contains a ! sketch of Mayor Seaton, by Allen C.| Clark. A most interesting account of | the old dueling days in Washington is | given by Myra K. Paulding. Real savors | issue from Mr. Parris' story of the | founding of the old market in Geol atmos- ' | town. In a sketeh of later date Lieut. Col U. 8§ Grant, 3d, gives a summary of “America’s Part in the Supreme War, 1| Council During the World War." Pre- | THE SEVEN LOVERS. sented by the editor, Mr, John Larner, is a reminiscent story of earlior Wash- inglon by way of one of its residents of importance, Mrs. John M. Binckley. Ar appendix gives such points of definite Information as belong to the time cov. ' i walking, reading, administering his little estale, seelng his friends, visiting, but for “the Savidge case." In one way it looks like demoting Byng, to eall on him che refused until he got an offiolal “stern eall to duty™) to command the 20,000 police of the metropolis, after he has triumphantly commanded 300,000 men in the feld And vet, If one thinks about It, it is probably the highest of the many com ))}In‘}rlllh‘ that have been paid to Byng | o { i | | ular trend and color and climax. How a novelist must have | the | current lfe—but good stories, all of them, in the knowing and practiced way of this well known writer. BOOKS RECEIVED THE MASTER OF REVELS. By Rich- ard Howells Watkins. New York: The Crime Club, Inc. Doubleday, Doran & Co. WILL-O-THE-WISP. By Patricia Wont- worth. Philadelphia: J. B. Lipp n- eott Co. THE STRANGE CASE OF “WILLIAM" COOK. By Richard Kevern-, author of “Carteret's Cure”” New York: Harper & Brothers. THE FORTUNATE WAYFARER. By E. ered by this volume, such as complete and round out the substance of a full’ and useful account. * % K ox THE FUR BRIGADE: A story of the trappers of the early West. By Hal G. Evarts, author of “The Moccasin Telegraph,” ete. Boston: - Little, Brown & Co. I.lAl. EVARTS never disappoints the reader of his novels of adventure. “Fur Brigade,” in purpose and quality, stands for all of them. With this writer an adventure lives up to the generally | accepted specifications for such action. A story is with him a story, setting out from some place, moving toward it, | reaching it and gathering in the results and effects of the action .as § whole.| Enillips Oppenheim. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 4 | Now this starting point may be physical | SHADOW OF THE LONG KNIVES: & or spiritual, but in either case the| novel, By Thomas Boyd. New York: course of procedure is orderly, progres-| Charles Scribner's Sons. sive, suspended, plausible and exciting. 'LONG LANCE. By Chief Buffalo Child Here it is, thé story of the early West! Long Lance.' Foreword by Irvin 8. when Indians and fur-bearing animals Cobp. New York: Cosmopolitan we&e the p:r_}l: r:(dlne first_and st‘c—; Book Corporation. ond paris, e advent of the white o 3 trapper gives the adventure fts pal;lllc-’ ndggssnjylg},,l::‘g'Bal,:“;m‘::“"r?:; Ve 3 arre t r C 1 i Wisconsin Bar. Illustrated. New iur companics threaten the extinction » " o1 fur animals and the dealings of these | York: The Avondale Press companies with the Indians threaten | THE QUARTZ EYE: a Mystery in Ultra the naives with extinction or complete | Violet. By Henry Kitchell Webster, author of “The Real Adventure” demoralization. The high point of the | | ete. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Mer- rill Co. | story is the picture that it gives of | | thai vast region, forests, plains. dry | | arens, watered tracts. where Indians and | £ ; S KTae wild antprat Heo peevent. & virgts | Ohsonmovel. Ry O Sieils Douls | ctintey. of Shatsing spreng and prim)- | o DwPess New Tork: Duffeld & Go. | tive circumstance, To see such an ex- 'MIRROR OF YOUTH: an Anthology | panse was the first task of the author.| Of Youth and the Out-of-Doors. By "'ro capture it for the printed page was Marian King. New York: Long- en even greater piece of artistry. Hers| mans. Green & Co. ‘ | is imagination working at one of its | THIS ADVERTISING BUSINESS. By highest points with an effect that is S. Durs author f “Making | iar beyond the most of such work, or| Advertisements—and Making Them such attempts by writers of this class. New Yt f | Within this setting runs the story of | b i Indian and trader in an authentic and v . its way with the general movement. a | romance that years after served the| Jome Arthur Edgerton. Boston | purposes of legend for the Western ‘The Christopher Publishing House. Indians, the immemorial legend of all THE GOLEM. By Gustav Meyrink. ‘penplu concerning a great deliverer, Translated bv Madge Pemberton. ‘ne»'a\mr of (;I:nr m::s. Here is ad- Boston: Houghton Mifftin Co. | venture, soundly based. competently de- THE SPI [ veloped. and abundantly worch the whils | of John Paul donee Bv sahn Her: |of the reader of robust romance. | ries McCulloch. author of “The Men wl ki | of Kildonan,” New Yerk: Coward- WAR AMONG THE LADIES. By McCann, Inc Eleanor Scott. Bosion: Little, Brown MYSTERY REEF. By Harold Bindinss. & Co. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co. S a rule the novelist picks his theme. THE RESCUE SERIES—GUY LIV- Sometimes the theme moves in to| INGSTONE. By George Lawrence. possession of the novelist, as it has | Yein o introduction and biographi- with “War Among the Ladies.” Ar | . g ot e York: Prederick A. Stokes Co. | English school and its teachers provide RE" ' | e RE'S LUCK: Being the ve, P! foundation for this serfous and even o Amerae: : of Three Hard-Boiled Lumbermen. | passionate study of a situation not so | By Hugh Wiley. New York: J. H. uncommon as to exclude a very general | S0 & €0 |concern over 1t. The focus of the work | THg, SILK FPURSE. = Bv Elsabeth |1s upon a group of schoolmistresses Sanxay Holding. author of “The | from which estends into the school it- Shoals of Honor" ete. New York: self the effects of a general .incom. | _ - F- Dutton & Co. | petency. ‘The purpose of the institu- 'U3T AMONG FRIENDS. By George tion, its organization, Its condust, its re- Matthew Adams. author of “You sults, are all on & level with the inef- | Can.” ete. With an introduction by ficlency of thess leaders themselves| ~ Willam Allen White. New York: Sensing their own professional unreadi- | William Morrow & Co. ness, these women are posse: ) consiant fear, fear for rhelrfieudm?:& e i Bl et certain’ poverty, fenr of dismissal, fsar| v YOrk: Boni & Liveright. of a thousand things ristng out of their 3CARLET HEELS. Bv Edith M. Stern. own unfitness for their work. The back-| New York: Horacs Liverizht. ground against which this dominating | |emotion takes effect s the classes of | AU g ALOARD: Saga of the Romantie |voung girls and the futlle gestures of | oor. BY, Irvin S. Cobb. author of educating these. Its most active and | CONVAIRY” ete. New York: Cosme- vkl,olenz t);‘prrushm are, however, among | PO!ltan Book Corporation. ihe teachers themselves, fight | P VEN v v another in an efort t hide thes o | N oie. et of "The B of the shortcomings. While people everywhere | Afamo.” ote | New Sore:™ The have much to say about education. its | Writers' Guid. blessings and the degree to which this | s | place or that one has advanced its plans | |and purposes, stiil education does not | provide a generally attractive theme for | Within the past few years | THE PUBLIC LIBRARY 1lhfhnove|, it has, nevertheless, striven for i {nnllc:‘ through any number . of mfl‘fi [about schools of various sorts. Th | 1ave been read. In the main, by ad |of studious intent seeking. critically, place of these stories in th> scheme of {current fiction. Even this big and se- | rious book s not xoing to be read as {Pastime for those who enjoy the navel. Rather will it take its place as & ssrious |study of a sysiem ihat needs nothing| Emotional | 2lse 50 much as complete extermination, | | W 137-B87 and of a group of women obsessed with | Furst. H. E. A, fear of the futurs and under this urge | o, WPY-F98 g, like all animals, the battle of | GIASS F. J. Drawing. Design and Craft- self-preservation. A big nove! of many |,/ Vork. WL-G481d Dages and » fist novel. which shaws) MOTan. A R Elements of At and tout Stractyral akill and a. deep omivie | g ecgration. WE-Ma2 theme e, Teally tragic content.of the| ™01 Mraborran. U cal Suds. | van Dyke. ) h'rfil Rembrandt Draw- 4 ings and Ftchings. W10-R283va. TH&L]GHT SHINES THROUGH, By | Wilde. Oscar Art and Decoration Octavus Roy Cohen. author of| 1920. W-Wé4 Bigg=r_and Blacker,” ete, Boston: Ccri | rime. Little, Brown & Co. ¥ Mr. Cohen's new novel melodrama | ASBury. Hetbert. The Gangs of New IC851-AS 1 has pursued. and overtaken, ol itsell, This 1t of el it | 0°0¥a. George. Cain H often does in real life, of Crime. TIC-G349¢ however, 5o there can be no legitimate | Howard, H. J. Ten Weeks With Chi- count on such score against the author. nese Bandits. 1926. IC66-H83. Melodrama may rejoice the writer of | Niles, Mrs. Blair. Condemned to Devil's certain stripe, but it plagues the reader Island: the Biography of an Un- by piling together fatal incongruities known Conviet. IFT-N39 that prevent free and happy acceptance | SChIapp. M. G.. and Smith. E H. The of the business presented. It does that| NeW Criminology. IC-Sch3s here. For instance, & man, no matter | ml’l‘l' r:x,nh;mmnl,v good he is. does not | Biography. will his fortune of a million or more | v. ' 1 “I, the young woman whom he loves. ;B"vlt‘;;‘" ‘t\;hfim.sm%‘_fi-‘m’,’:mm - all:;ot‘k:v':;oal?:;;ydlmn:a:t love him and Dean, E L. Dolly Madison: the Na- er man. Then.| tion's ss. E-M265d having done this unlikely thing. he | Geer Wa ]l‘[i::!c\;upflc.\plx and Hie' Pumk- doesn’t g0 away, thoughtfully, to get! iy | Pa0A42 ; (lost at sea in & wreck from which not | Kelloc! o secapes p'm Lhe suuation set here | Story. ~E-H813k rl accepts the herit: weeping. | Villard, O. G. Prophets True a s while her spouse-to-be accepis It quité | B oVt i: s | apenly grinning. From this questionable | Winkler, J. K. W. R. Hearst, an Amer- i !):‘!“I:Tlln:nlhl:r“:(:;{ spreads to include | _ ican Phenomenon. ~E-H3S7iw s vable situations whose ultimate point is to show the complete <o ot R A e Recent accessions Tibrary and lists of r ing will appear in Sunday. at the Publ ommendsd re column ea Art. Bergin. W. A, Art ¢ | Bt | Bulliet, C. J. W3- Apples i Madounnas; _B'(presflnn in Modern Art. Portrait Pamnting. ko o or the Puture G2Tn Houdini. His Life- 1927, E-M3660w ! rascality of that new husband and to England bring about, finally, the return of the dead man. With a mystery tacked on | Rlatfe Liphting. for good measure and free movement. | American Welding Society Educa- the matter progresses in a manner to| tional Committee. Arc Welding and show that the villain in the play i Cutting. THF-Am3s the only really competent and intel- | Arendt. Morton. Storage ligent performer in it. The good man | Ar36s. 18 too good to be either true or in-| Benton. J. R teresting, The lovely woman who a book _ of cepts the fortune and weds the rival | TDZ-Bd48i is lovely only by the author's word of | Dudley, A M. Induction Motor Prace mouth.” The mystery is thin. The out- | tice. TEK-D385( come is plus sensational. However, you | Kurtz. K B. The Linemans cannot tell nowadays. The whole to-do | . B0k TGG-K8 | may have been drawn straight from the = Whitton, Mrs. M. O. The New daily life of this dizzy world. Yet Mr ant: Electrieity in the Cohen is much more believable and | ., TOU-W6L Wicox. . A, Electrie Heating. THP- Ratteries. An Introductory Text- Electrical Engineering. Hand- Serve Home. much more interesting in ihe field from which he for the moment strayed away to follow a poor trail. LR | 1 ERglish Language. 1 | Baker, Mrs. J. T. Correct English. By Murlel| XG-B17. New York: D. Appleton & | Hunt, J. N. Progressive Word Studies. XS-H917) . by uv:fi Arnold. T(:«mmerrnl English, GOODSPEED’S BOOK SHOP IS A NATIONAL INSTITUTION SLock ot Rare a; Autosraphs s by 3 Hine, Co. Hmu & book of short stories uriel Hine takes its name from the leading one, which is & long short| story, the most ambitious and interest- ing of them all. Set ‘within the Island of Capri, the romance progresses through ! the intricate maze of action indicated | by its title, and carrying with the ad- | venture itself the amazing beauty of | the locallty in which it develops, Bril- ‘Tre ant effects of sunshine and landscape | ] Dland with ' piob. of Talan satiee: '8 e b ve sacis 58 ity and color. The whole is admirably | biles (e ate Baaxt 8 N calculated 1o entertain the reader by | Brini Cataiogs A b monthis Bulicrs way of the author's competent and ar- | of Priat lmF'“M-- fron, Yo n_in_Hoston Browse in tistie workmanship. The other stories, GOODSPEED'S C- Hiles, No. six of them, Are of less romantic cast, sometimes humorous, sometimes plain reflections of this or that ep in