The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 10, 1922, Page 4

SS EDWIN W. FIELD “I'm convinced if I had taken Tan two years ago, when my troubles began, I would have been saved Hworkd of suffering,” said Ba W. 538 Jefferson st, Milwaukee, “My case proved that when a ‘s stomach goes wrong, every goes wrong with him. The first I noticed out of the way was mas how sparingly I ate, I was to have an attack of indiges got wo I couldn't walk of blocks without having to érea oy is everywhere. — Advertise- Shoes tast longer, repatred at Lib- ty, 4622 First ave.—Advertisement. After it is applied ’ wonder what became of the or lurffbago pain. ' Rub old, honest, St. Jacobs On For Colds and Coughs it ** in Your Wor @ man ie Sine oo ac tion stores poisons that you have sciatica, neural rheumtaism or sprains, as it ly harmless, and doesn’t fy the skin.— Advertisement. ry of appetite and next, that no/ Being the Report cussion by a L of a Literary Dis- ittle Group of Serious Thinkers ROLL CALL “Writers of Three Cen- turies—1789-1914," by Claude C. H. Williamson. George W. Jacobs & Co,, Philadelphia. “The Ragged Edge,” by Harold McGrath. Double- day, Page & Co., New York. $1.75. Tangled Trails,” by Wil- liam MacLeod Raine. Hough- ton, Mifflin & Co., New York and Boston. $1.75. “The Dragon in Shallow Waters,” by V. Sackville- West. G, P. Putnam's Sons, New York. $2.* “General Robert E. Lee After Appomattor,’ Franklin K, Riley. The Mac- Millan Co., New York, $2.50. “The Morality of _ the Strike,” by Rev. Donald A. McLean. P. J. Kennedy & Sons, New York. $1.75. By George Pedantry first, morality second and strikes (gemeral and particu: lar) third. The Star Book club made no effort at appraisal of relative importance. Tt merely discussed them in the or der named. Homer Brew opened the meeting, presuming to act as chairman, partly of his own volition and partly by con- scription, Flu and Northwest susiness meet. ings had made demands upon our members and only four were present at the sound of the gavel. “I want livelier aturr in this pa- per,” sald Homer Brew, enjoying the mwivel of the boss's chair, “The re- porters are all right, but the desk men, from the editor up, are warped on figures and unresponsive to the great human urges of the people.” CALLS THIS FORMAL AFFAIR “Well! gents.” mid Henry, recag- nizing’ the remark as “old stuff.” “this js @ formal affair and I shall speak formally, “The gosh darn book I had would take a year and a half to read. It is called ‘Writers of Three Con turies’ and was written by ———~* “Walt tll I relieve the match famine,” interrupted Bob, reaching into the boss's deak and achieving his design. “Written by.” continued Henry, looking «lanteyed at the disturber, Claude C. H. Williamson. “Writers of Three Centuries’ ts a volume of extuys, covering the period between the time of the French revolution and the great war. - “Each essay is a brief study of « Uterary problem, or part of one, in which the author considers writers as personalities under the action of spiritual forces, or aa so many forces themselves. by| Jcovers him and gives her blessing, | they live happily ever after. SOUNDS LIKE w Tir | “The beok is entertaining, light | reading-—no more.” | “Sounds like a Harold McGrath | book to a tee,” Bob remarked. THE SEATT Lord Atholstan, proprietor | “You said it was imaginary? ques | of the Montreal Star, has of- | toned Homer, “I'm sure it would make fine reading for a l4-year-old." } in, breathless, said in unison, “Speaking of McGrath,” Henry re- sumed. “I have read ‘Druma@ of Jeopardy’ and it was pretty good.” | “It has aotion Mashed, “but as ten.” “What ever became of George ; Barr McCutcheon?" Homer inquired, “Guess he made money and quit.” “Chambers and McGrath should re- tire,” said Henry, laaily ! “Chambers has a family and a wife in New York soclety, so he can’t quit,” Homer remarked. “The moral standard of some of these works——~" Ernie started to | say. | But Homer broke tn. “Moral stand. ard of a cream puff.” he snapped, “It's so low some movie actresses might enjoy it.” Here Homer and Henry ewapped love-letter phrases .comparing the ef. | fectivencas of various terms pf en- dearnment. The rest of the party took notes, BOR DOES THE HEROICS i Silence then reigned. Bob came to the rescue, { | “I have read two books,” he be wan. | | “Tangled Trails’ is a detective | story that te decidedly different. In- stead of the conventional amateur | detective who has won the respect | and confidence of the police thry his | fomarkable services in the solution of countess mysteries, we have as our central figure a ‘naive cowboy, who protably wouldn't know @ microscope if he qaw one, but who somehow blunders thru and untangle a mur | der mystery In the intricate skeins | ef which he biroself was enmeshed. ~ | |. “Needless to my it's light rend ing-—but it's fresh and clever, and, for a ‘Western detective story,’ un- der which title it is advertised, tt is | @ thoroly commendable effort, | “I hear no comment.” Bob coe | tinued without pausing, “so I pase on to the second book I read. i “The Dragon in Shallow Waterw | is at once one of the most interest }ing ahd one of the most depreasing |Deoks of the year. It ts vaguely | | Feminiscent of one of Poe's tragedies —altho mfinitety mere than anything that Poe ever attempted. | “From @ strictly iterary viewpoint it i» & work of more than ordinary merit. The characters are painted in with broad strokes that a |e graphic as they are brutal” | “But in a broader sense it is rather horribia. It is difficult to conceive the motive that would cause a writer | | to turn out @ work #0 absolutely de | Structive in ite philosophy, no mat tor haw artistic the result. | “The work deals with the house, “Rousseau is the first to be is | hoxi of two brothers, one blind, the cussed and Rupert Brooke is the last. other deaf and dumb, both «ince in & postacript, and in between the) birth. Their minds have become as two are those names which are Te | warped ag thelr bodies and they feel nowned in the history of literature. |that they are both mentally and “At random the names of Words | physically imprisoned. This leads to worth, Lamb, Keats, Shelley, Balzac, Poe, Tennyson, Flaubert, Ibsen, Nie- tasche, G. B. Shaw, Anatole France, Lionel Johnson and John Masefield are seen. “The book le not one to be read between dinner and bedtime, but for those who enjoy sharpening their memory of master authors it vol- ume that can be read with pleasure and gain thru many & winter eve- ning. It is a worth while possession, both for the student and the man who prides himself on having eome- thing of mibstance in bis library.” GEORGE PULLS A BONER ‘ “I take it you didn’t enjoy the book,” George commented. “Oh, yes, I did,” Henry defended. “Just ian't a jetly moderd story, that’s alt.” “No dimpled female knees and that | sort of thing,” put in Homer. “Yeah, you «truck it,” Henry agreed. “No Freudism, no psycho- analysis, you know.” “L had a romance,” sald George “And being @ romance, it's easy to tell about, if you know what I mean “|The book is Harold McGrath's latest Pan. . ans for rheumatism lumbago soe neura poleiads weak backs stiff joints, KE ofl Arogyias, Se, 70e. $1.40 and ig entitled, “The Ragged Edg “It's @ tale of two young persons whose ideag aré made of dreamstuff, who meet and marry in a more or leas imaginary mental world and lve out their lives in touch with more or leas artificial characters. “The setting for the story Is as unique as the author could mage it @ chain of cirow \able horror. } “A bundred words or so are uned owe the very last, In an effort to bring about the conventional ‘happy end ih mestances of unspeak- ‘ but It de hardly necessary to that this falls to remove the de. | Pressing effect of the thousands of | unhappy words which precede it. i Il, the book is certainly worth s. It's far from being @ Polly janna novel, but ft will hold the in- jterest of the reader. |4U8ST THAT SORT OF THING “I believe it falls in that category of which Lincoln was thinking when he said: ‘For a person who likes that jsort of thing, it's just the sort of thing she'd like!” Just as Bob hammered out his last word, a reluctant voice thru the keyhole called George trom the room. On his return no one would disclose what hed been maid. This part of |the proceedings {# therefore lost to| | posterity, ‘ / | “I'm in a hurry,” Homer shouted. | “lave an engagement to go out and cut up, #9 I'll tell you briefly about |‘General Robert KE. Lee After Ap-| pomatox,’ by Franklin K. Riley. | “Personally I'm an admirer of Lae. | |T compare him with Lineotn. He's | undoubtedly one of Amerita’s great: | eat men. ‘ i “This book tetla about him during the obwcure period of hin life when | he was a college president. ‘Phe au: The meeting and mating is in China| thor is sincere and enthusiastic and and the honeymoon and a few extra| reveals in the general a personality moons are spent in the South Seal with which it would be well for all islands, “The young hushand makes an et. fort to live out platonic marriage, but when the crime from which he| is fleeing is finally revenled and after he has become a hero by rescuing his wife from the attacks of a drunken islander, and when also his aunt who haa tracked him from America dis: GIRLS! LEMONS WHITEN HANDS ¢ juice of two lemons into a bottle containing three ounces of Orchard White, which any drug store will eupply for a few cents. Shake well, and you have a quarter-pint of § | harmless and delightful Jemon-bleach lofion to soften and whiten, red, rough or chapped hands, This home made lemon lotion is far superior tu glycerine and rose water to smooth the skin. Famous stage beauties use it to bleach and bring that soft, clear, rosy-white complexion, because it doesn't irritate-—Advertisement, || attention. | America to get acquainted, HE DREADED IT 80 MUCH | Now I muat be off. Pardon me. | |Gosh, how I dread to go.” | | And as his eager footateps echoed | down. the stairs, Henry's plaintive | voice trailed after him: “Please, let me be your valet!” But the request was unanswered. Whereupon Ernie apoke up. “ "The Morality of the Strike,’ he began impressively, “has been absorbing my It was written by Rev. id A. McLean, ne nuthor draws a médral tine, telling when it is right and not right to strike, He is against the general strike, because its proportions are #0 big and affect society so deeply that | the thing becomes un-moral, Dons | “He thinks there are some condl- tions under which a man hae a right | to strike, but the man should decide | the issue himself and not have lead- jers do it for him. “He believes in collective bargain- ing and also in peaceful picketing.” “Thereby disagreeing with the su- preme court,” Bob commented “What I wapt to know in," sald Bam hotly, “What good is the book? fered $100,000 to an; At this point Ernie and Sam came Sity student who wi vure for cancer, We've been watching a fire,” they jig | bite: univer- find a Another of 3 is a soup fon nthro; en newspaper in building, where 2,000 are fed novel it is rot; whom hag it helped? ‘What light has it thrawn on the etrike problem ?* “The whole thing ts fallacious any- bootlegger yesterday and he told pa lr» na hl cotta Earn io mtn LE STAR Bluebeard Landru Is Denied Pardon PATUS, Feb, 10. |dru, murderer of hin nweetheart, dnd jalleged slayer of many others, may lowe his head on the guillotine next week, it became known today, when the pardon commin announced Its fiat refusal of Landru's plea for |meroy ° | President Millerand, Bluebeard’ lant hope, is expected to do likewise and the date for the execution may | fixed for next Thursday. way,” Bob answered. “It tried to ap ply moral reasoning to @n economic | duestion, and it can't be done to any j advantage.” “To convinces the average worker of the stuff in that book,” sald a late arrival, who came in just in ume to hear Ernie's review,” you've got to print it in 14 languages and give Mt away free, after rewriting the | whole thing from an entirely differ ent point of view.” “What I want to hear,” eaid George, 1s something about the moral obligations of employ | | 7¥ou can read lots of It” Inter. | posed Bob, “in Chamber of Commeros literature, ‘There's plenty of propa. | ganda, pro and con, but It mixes morals and economics and is there fore futile.” “Insteag of the ‘pro and con,’ fam supplemented, “it should be) called the “bull and con.’ ” “On another subject, entirely tr. relevant,” Bob broke in, “I want to/ may that the prohibition amendment has no chante of being repealed. “I was talking with a successful me Bluebeard Lan. | Commissioners Cold | Toward Bridge Plan While the matter of obtaining 15 shipping board hulls upon which to construct a pontoon bridge a Lake Washington in schpdul en up by the county eomfnission rm on Monday, it was practicaily am sured Friday that the project is |@lated fow “a lona farewell” so far as King The comminsioners been anked by citizens behind the propo. nition to purchase the hulls on the government's offer for $1,50g, the purchane price being put up by the applicants Interpreting an opinion given by Prosecuting Attorney Malcolm Doug las to mean that the county might be involved in @ financial way later, the county commissioners — uno! ficialy have stated their opposition to going thru with the aeal nunty in concerned. have Positively that the rum runners Hwould line up solidly with the moral advocates to keep the prohibition amendment on the books. Bootleg “ers are making wonderful money now.” “But about this strike thing,” Sam interrupted. “I've been where I wanted to strike and couldn't They abot two. “Well, I'll tell you the whole strike philosophy,” Henry youchsaf: V'U) kill George if he publishes it Whereupon Henry told. And since the minutes of the meeting end here, George will remain alive, Bank notes mid to have been used in China noarly 6,000 years ago. “|remiasion or extension of FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1922. 'PINCHOT URGES Brick Makers Win Fight in Council | | By unanimous vote, the city coum [eit Thurnday adopted a recommenda | ton by its public safety committee |Timbering Being More and | More Destructive that the new building code permit the mame thickness for brick walls ag for reinforced concrete, Represents | tives for the local brick industry - | have been waging a fight for this | DRTERPIELD |amendment for several weeks. | WASHI? , Feb, 10,—~"As| ; our Umber resources grow lena, tim-| bering becomes more and more| dentructive,” Gifford Pinchot wuld to-) iden Company Bankrupt 4 RACINE, Wis. Feb, 10—The Ra “Bome of the states realin } . . |, Some of the star alo this 10) cing Auto Tire company, normaily part. Pennsylvania, for example, | sercioving 1800 man, yesterday #Hak has purchased 1,126,000 acrew of pri | voluntary petition in bankruptey ately owned over land for an | 4p, a nkruptey in eireuit court ¢ of $2.28 an nere, and some | wmall attempts at private re-forestra- | tion have been made, encouraged by hostile to the people of the country time of |#nd framed in the Interests of the payment of taxes, by free seeds, nur. lumbermen. In fact, I do not expect wry stock, ete, But after :6 years | to ree any forestry legislation passed | of ‘this effort, lean than 20,000 acres Utils senston, But I do expect to see have been replanted. We gave away |the work of education go on. = three million young trees this year|. “For example, how many of us and within five years expect to in- know that one-half the sawea lumber crease the number to 20 million. Yet |i the world is made ana consumed all this ts but @ drop in the bucket. |in the United States? That our con “In addition to a nation-wide sumption is 300 board feet per aD lmandatory law requiring lurnbermen | ita, while Burope’s is less by half? to cut timber with due regard for | That the only lumber. exporting coun reforestration, I faver the acquisition |tries in the world besides our own of national forest lands in various are Russia, Norway and Swelen, and parts of the country, along water-|pomibly, Finland? That even Can- wheds and at river sources. There |adh's total supply would not last us, |whould be many such forests where |20 years if she cut every stick? That |the transportation problems will be | when our own supply is gone, we will | reduced. have ‘nowhere to turn? 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