THE SUNDAY OEEGOXIAN, PORTLAND, FEBRUARY 27, 1921
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Zy CastrPH Macoueen.
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Author and I, hy C. Lwi Hftid.
J.&o Co., New Tork city.
Mr. Hind is distinctly in luck for
a literary man, one who has himself
written 0 books on quite a variety
Z subjects. Good fortune placed him
In positions In London, Kngland, and
elsewhere, where he met and became
acquainted with literary folc and
other men who are recognized celeb
rities, Mr. Hind has a good memory and
the instinct of a trained reporter, as
his lively book shows. It is a mirror
vC people worth knowing about and
ume of them appear as if taken by
Furprlse.
Here is a clofte view cf James M. :
Barrie, the novelist and playwright:
I saw II r. Barrl ffrst many years ago
when ha took th call, with his col
laborator Harriot Watt on, at the end of
the performance of "Richard Savage," hii
olitary failure, and 1 tlieve the oirty
tme that he lias bowed bis acknofvledg
ments before the curtain. It waa not a good
play there waa little of the real Barrie
In It. and little of the rral Marriot Watson,
I iiave forgotten all about "Richard ajjv
aire' but I remember the author dis
tinctly. Marriott Watson is an Austra
han. tall and burly, with a fuzzy-wuzzy
hock of hair, who looks as if he could,
like MUo the Creionlan, slay- an ox with
his Tist and eat it at one meal: Barrie ):
a 4UU man. fchy-looklnj and dark, with
black hair, a dome-like forehead, pale as
Ivory, and eyes that look as If they
always want to escape from what he is
coins. He reached to Marriot V atson's
ahouider; they held hands and he tried
to bow; they looked miserable; then the
eurtain mercifully released them.
Barrie is a man elusive. You hardly
mow when he la In a room; you aiwaya
knew when Richard Harding- Davis was in
a room. Once I met Barrie at a tea party,
That amused me because he is not usually
amenable to parlor festivities, tor
short time he crept about the purlieus of
the company; soon he seated himself on a
stool behind the door waiting- till somebody
should open it; then he supped out.
A surprising pen-picture of Gilbert
Chesterton, novelist, lecturer and
poet:
Editors regard Mr. Chesterton as a popu
lar teacher and director, hut Is he? Those
who read him do so for his ChestertonismA
tor his fun, for bis chunks of common
sense and they try to forgive him for
belief that If you say a rood thing
ace. It becomes twice as good if you eay
it twice. But they do not read hiin for
his message. What Is his message? Does
anybody get anything from bis book on
divorce, except that In the recesses of
his alert hide-and-seek brain, he has beau
tjfui mystical thoughts about marriage?
Jleaily I do not think It matters mucb
what Mr. Chesterton s subject is. btar
dust, lobsters, brtc-a-brac Ireland the
stu-bject is merely a .peg- to hang Chester
toman daydreams on. His method is sim
ple. He might begin an essay thus: "You
may think that In the jungle a tiger acts
like a tiger. It does not; it acts like
geranium. The reasons are obvious. . .
Some prophets are not liked In their
own immediate circle. A view of
Thomas Hardy, the reali3i and author
of Tesd:"
Once I found myself in Dorchester, and
I thought, being- younger thp-n. and bolder,
that .1 would end a note to Thomas Hardy
by messenger (we had been having, during
the past year, an interesting correspon
dence asking if he would allow me to be
his companion on his afternoon walk.
Ftfghtly I thought that a tramp through
Wesfiex with Thomas Hardy would be
nmethin? to toil my grandchildren. He
replied that he would be glad to me
at 3 P. M. On my way to M ax Gate I
called at a book ehop in Dorchester and
inquired of an elderiy, prim and rather
tart female It' ehe had a copy of Hardy's
"Jude the Obscure," which had lately
been published, and which had been re
ceived by what is known in Kngland as
the "rectory public somewhat super
ciliously. I think it shocked them. In
respond to my inquiry the prim irmaie
raid that she had not a copy of "Jude
the Obscure" In stock. "What!" I cried,
in his native Dorchester yoo have not
a copy of the latest boo-k by the greatest
living Knglish novelist?" Phe eyed me
with hauttur, and, tossing her head, said:
"Perhaps we have not the sam opinion
of Mr. Hardy in Dorchester as you have
.aew here."
Here is an Impression of George
Bernard Shaw, playwright and critic:
I can see Mr. Shaw now walking rapidly
about the platform, the tall, lanky, spring
tng figure, the mustardy-gray su.t that he
always w ore, the wide, heavy, bealth
boots. the scraggly reddib-brown beard
and hair (now turning white), the high
brow and the clear, grey-blue eyes that
can bo amused, alert, penetrating, but
never angry. He aiwaya looked the same
I believe since he married he does some-
femes wear a dress suit), walking furiously
tn the street, or coming to a public dinner
where ha had been announced to speak,
ridiculously late, alrrmlng In with the
sweets so as to avoid the odor,
horrible, of the 1oint course.
He has a ready smile. He suffers fools
gladty because, 1 suppose, nothing human
Is alien to h:s sympathy. Once tAe ready
mile, once only in all my knowledge of
him, did not lighten his pallor. It was at
an exhibition of caricatures by Wax Beer-
bohTu: one of them ehowed a cartoon of
U. 3. S. standing on his head on the larg
est rug In a drawing-room, his long legs
nearly touching the ceiling. underneath
was this; "When I left London nearly
two years ago the dear roan was stand
ins on his head. On my return I find
bim in the oame position." I drew Mr.
FhaWe attention to this with the words.
"Look! Wax ha. got you this time."
G. B. S. examined the cartoon carelully
and passed on without smiling.
Some of these literary recollections
tf Mr. Hind have appeared in a Boston
Denominational newspaper.
t V " J
A. Saffronl Mlddleton, author f
-Srtrina, a novel of tae
Soatk Seaa.
virile poem. "Out 'Where the West
Begins," and It safely mar be as
sumed that any more of the Chapman
verse is decidedly worth while.
There .are 71 new poems In this
collection and principally they re
flect activities of western citizens
who live in Cactus Center. The place
is a cow-community, and choice elans
appears now and then in recital.
There are such poems as The Legend
of the Sagebrush," "Journalism In
Cactus Center." "Cactus Center's
Marshal." "Cactus Center's Telephone
Girl." "Cactus Centers Slogan," etc.
Several of these poems have appeared
In publications in New York City,
where they attracted wide and de
served attention.
It gives the thoughtful reader con
fidence in the future of sturdy, sane
American verse creation to read such
a delightful collection as this is.
Vjfn and Tetters, t J. C. Squfrr. George
J(. Dona Co.. New York. city.
Mr. Squire is well known In Eng
land as a literary critic. His essays
on social subjects have won atten
tion by their clever, entertaining
qualities.
For some time Mr. Squire has
written under the name of Solomon
Kagle. Not yet 30 years old. he has
met many celebrated people and now
mirrors literary memories of uncom
mon Interest.
A few of the chapter headings of
this book of critical and discursive
essays are: "Natural Writing." "Side
lights on the Victorians" "The In
finiUves That 'Were Split." "Walt
Whitman." "Four Papers on Shake
spare." "Fame After Death." and
many others of equal promise.
J. C. Squire was at Cambridge
university with Rupert Brooke. He
has also been connected with the
publishing house of Stephen Swift.
Mr. Squire wrote for the New Age
and with the establishment of the
New Statesman he became editor. He
has latterly been editor of Land and
Water and the London Mercury. His
other books are "Books in General."
"Tricks of the Trade." "The Birds
and Other i'oems," Tocms, First
Series," etc .
The Price of Milk, by Clyde t. Kin. The
John C. Winston Company, Philadel
phia, Fa.
Another admirable and Instructive
book in the interest of the campaign
to obtain pure, wholesome milk as the
best food of our nation at large. The
central argument of our author is
that milk is the essential element in
the diet of all civilized peoples and
that there is no substitute for milk.
Dr. King is professor of political
science of the University of Pennsyl
vania and milk price arbitrator for
the state of Pennsylvania, and for
merly was chairman of the governors'
ri-state milk commission (Pennsyl
vania. Maryland and Delaware), fed
eral milk commissioner for the east-
rn states, member of the milk com
mittee of the national food adminis
tration and member of the correlating
committee in the national food ad
ministration.
Experts of national celebrity com
mend this book, among them Herbert
Hoover.
The contents of the book are:
The Public Interest in the Price of Milk.
Phrt I Price to the Producers: The Forces
That Fix the Price of Milk; Manufactured
Milk Products in Their Relation to Price;
The Price Interdependence of Local. Pri
mary and International Markets; The Coat
of Production; should Dairymen Organize
for Collective Bargaining? Policies of
Dairymen's Organizations In Their Rela
tion to Price. Part II Cost of Milk Dis
tribution: The Cost of Milk Distribution:
Sanitary Requirements in Their Relation
to Price (Legal Standards for Dairy Prod
ucts. George B. Taylor and Harry N.
Thomas, milk specialists. United States
department of agriculture; How shall
Milk Be Distributed? Can Milk Distribu
tion Costs Be Lowered? The Public In
terest in Milk Distribution. Part III Fair
price Policies: The Food Value of Whole
some Milk; Co-operation and Price; Fair
Price Policies.
Much of Dr. King's message relates
to milk conditions and statistics in
states of the east.
Itigator wherever found). He draws
la salary of $4000 a year and has noth
ing to do but sit and think. All
through the war they lee- him think,
too, even though he wouldn't sign the
manifesto of the German men of sci-
l ence denying charges against Ger
many, and in spite of his signing an
appeal after the armistice in favor
of the revolution.
"I have come to see this country,"
said Gilbert K. Chesterton to an in-
Paris. they meet with Oliver Haddo. terviewer, "and to talk, to give in-
a etudent of occult sciences. Both adequate after-dinner speeches known
Arthur and Margaret dislike him ex- ag iectUres. I do not know what I
tremely and there is a. quarrel be- shall Bay until the tirae comes. t am
tween Arthur and Haddo. To retaliate. a journalist and so am vastly lgnor-
Haddo gets complete possession- of ant ot many things, but because I am
Margaret, by so-called hypnotism. He a journalist I write and talk about
marries her, and, partly to tormem them all."
Arthur, and partly to further the Reports from some of the eastern
object of his one passion, the creat- papers seem, to indicate that Mr.
ing of monstrous forms of. life, he Chesterton's audiences rather resent
uses her regardless of the danger that the "inadequacy" of his after-dinner
Dotn ner soul ana Doay win De eacri- speeches and that they had expected
ficed.
The novel is a brilliant and fearless
excursion into the mystery of the os-
cult, but should only be read by
adults.
him to take a little thought before
hand as to what he was going to say.
The Bridgeport (Conn.) Times says
that a little back from the platform
they could rot even hear the speaker,
and that he spoke In an "abominable
Most We Fight Japan? by Professor Wal- I and inaudible guttural." The extern
ter B. Pitkin. Tb century Co., jew i poraneous quality of the talk wnicn
Tork city. r'began nowhere and ended nowhere"
Our author Is associate professor I was rendered conspicuous by the "in-
of journalism in Columb.a university. I articulate moaning and groanings of
In order to obtain, dependable ma- ahs and 'aws, with which the
terial on the Japanese question in I spaces between words were liberally
this country, our author went to the filled. The fact that Mr. Chesterton
Pacific coast, intending to proceed ti was such a big man seemed to make
Hawaii and Japan, but found in Cali- his unsatisfactoriness as a speaker
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HAS MUCH IN COMMON
WITH OTHER CHURCHES, SAYS SPEAKER
Ezra H. Palmer of Denver, Col, Addressing Audience at Second Church of Christ, Scientist, Declares His
Denomination Accepts Bible and Its Teachings Regarding God.
Darling, which he said he had walked
miles through the woods to find for
the purpose of making a tea which
he said he used for a cough.
"You are discharged," said Judge
Harris to Darling.
Gill, apparently displeased with the
! decision, asked:
"Oh, you're stung." replied the
judge. "Yoy must cough up tea and
costs."
(A lecture. on Christian Science delivered
Monday and Tuesday evenings at Second
Church of Christ. Scientist, by Ezra W
Palmer, C S. B.. of Denver, Colo., mem
ber of the board of lectureship of th
mother church, the First Church of
Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass. )
r
all the more trying.
"To hear so small a voice proceed
ing from so great a man was upset
ting." And later 'Adipose tends to
intellectual carelessness, to inferior
preparation, to the subordination of
Ah, well, nobody loves a fat
fornia and the other coast states.
end in Mexico, materia', which de
termined him to stop there for a con
siderable period. H exara'ned reports,
records, documents; interviewed of
ficials, farmers, educators. Japanese,
men of all kinds of opinion on the effort.'
subject: saw the problems of farm I man.
lands, schools, segregation, etc., with I
his own eyea There was, a fu'i (and! Here are a few phrases for the busy
a surprising!) book rigtt there) and 1 man or woman who hasn't time to
one which he felt should be gotten I read books but wishes to talk about
before the public at the earliest mo- I them intelligently and discriminat
ment consistent with sound work. He I Ingly. The collection was made by
plans to go to Japan next summer to I Edwin Carty Ranck for Don Marquis
ursue the subject there and may have "Sun Dial." Help yourself at neea:
another book to write. I Ho never perpetrates a false or un
Japan's pressure of population and dramatic idea. There is big human
her need for more room in which til emotion in his work
find breathing space for surplus mil- I He handles his effects in a big,
lions, are considered. It is shown I smashing way that holds his reader
that in the United States. Japanese I spellbound.
and Americans two difi'erent races Here is a real-life drama of vivid
cannot live in harmony and that the I color, psychological insight and com-
nternation&l cleavage is deep. I pelling power.
The proposition is advanced that I It is a strong, virile book, rainy
to relieve the menace of overcrowdine: pulsing with red blood and life.
of population, all nations soon will Has that indefinable quality which.
be compelled to preach and practice I for want of a better name, we desig
birth-control and that this doctrine I nate as charm.
ought to be a governmental measure. It is pulsating, heroic drama of ex-
Professor Pitkin thinks that the traordinary v'rility and intensity.
time is ripe to remove all misunder- I His work is a genuine addition to
standings between Japan and the American literature,
United States and that there is n
sense in proposing the attempt a
east to let us reason together.
Better that plan than a.-med conflict,
is the opinion firmly stated.
The advice is given to put .p barj
ow against the flocking of Japanese
into this country and to abo:ish all
co-called "gentlemen's agreements.
So that suspicion should not make the
Japanese nervous as tu America's
rule over the Philippines, rur author
advises that Americans should give
independence to the Filio'nos without
further delay on condition that the
new nation shall join the league of
nations at once (p 3S2).
America also should dispel the be
l'ef current in Asia and a good part
of Europe and South America tha.
"we are eecretly and hypocritically
committed to economic Imperialism.
We are also urged to enter into a
la bound to be one of the most-
talked-of books of the year.
Something for Religious Book
week. A new definition of eternity:
'Eternity Is when your Encyclopaedia
Britannlca is finally paid up." P. W.
One of the good stories told at the
National Association of Book Publish
ers' banquet was of a printer's error
in a small city paper. The antis will
love this one! In a report of the visit
to the town of a great suffrage leader
the announcement read: "Mrs. Catt
has mangy friends in this vicinity.
What is a printer's life worth, any
Roger W. Babson, statistician, says
business is suffering for lack of re
ligion. If you want to observe Re
ligious Book week, March 13 to 20
drastic drmament agreemen ' 'with 7 7 tr thUbok
Japan and Great Britain. Japan is tlmf om business, try this book,
advised to send her wouli-be colonists It's called "Fundamentals of Pres
to various parts of Siberia, Mexico
and other portions of South America.
We should "discourage all immigra
tion," not only from Japan but from
Europe.
Sestrtaa. by A. Safronl-Mlddleton. George
A South Seas novel of long para
graphs and with a plot that is lively
end often sensational. The terrors
of Voodoo worship are laid bare and
the recital visions a typnoon. i. ship
wreck, life on a desert island, a
love story, etc. In this novel there
never is one dull moment the action
fairly sizzles overtime.
The Msjricisn, by TV. Somerset Maogham
George H. Do ran company. New York
City.
Almost unbelievable adventures and
statements concerning black magic
and hypnotism are recorded in this
English novel. It is entertaining,
witty and powerful. At the same
time it haunts the reader like a bad
nightmare like eome of Edgar Allen
Poe's tales. It depicts a secret labora
tory, where seemingly unspeakable
and monstrous forms of life have been
created.
Margaret Furdon is the ward of
Dr. Arthur Burdon, celebrated sur
geon, although she is only a few
years younger than he. They fall in
love and before they are married, In
The American Empire, by Scott Neartng.
The Rand School of Social Science, New
Tork city.
In paper covers, Mr. Nearing dis
cusses the economic causes flowing
out of the recent world war. He
warns the American people against
pursuing the fallacy and glitter of
imperialism. He argues against
capitalism.
perity.'
Heywood Broun says that news-
oaper book-reviewing neeas to oe
different from any other kind of criti
cism. Its privilege and even its duty
is to be overemphatic. "The news
paper critic's function," he Bald, "is
like that of Paul Revere. Revere was
announcing what he felt to be great
events that were happening, but, hav-
Ing been over that country many
times before, he knew very well that
many of the people he was passing
were heavy sleepers, and ho made his
story as empUatic as possible.
There Is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away.
Nor any coursers like a page
Of prancing poetry.
Emll Dickinson.
Sons of the Sea. by Raymond McFarland.
G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York City.
Thirty-three chapters of sea stories,
depleting virile adventures of sea
going folk living on the coast of
Maine. Boats, seafoam rescues, love
and other incidents go to make up the
intorst of this strong contribution to
American sea life.
Chest of Gold Hunted on
Kansas Farm.
Army Paymaster Buried 40,000
Just Before Comanche Indians
Murdered Hts) Whole Party.
N addressing an audience made up,
In part, of persons who know
littl of the teachings of Chris
tian Science, it is well to consider
what Christian Science has in com
mon with other religious organiza
ttons which accept the Bible, and the
Bible teachings regarding God. Has
Christian Science anything in com
mon with other denominations that
accept the Bible? Upon examination
it will be seen that there is much in
common. All Christian people accept
the Bible. They understand that God
Is omnipotent, omniscient, omnipres
ent; meaning by this that God has
all power, is ever-present, and is the
creator and source of all knowledge.
These immortal verities of Diety have
been accepted by all Cnri3tlans be
cause on Jio other basis can we con
ceive of God as Infinite and eupreme,
a God of love who sends only good
gifts to his children. Thus if you
should ask a man who accepts the
Bible if he believes that God is omsl
present he would undoubtedly answer
you in the affirmative. If you also
ask him if be believes that God is
omniscient and omnipotent he would
likewise answer you in the affirma
tive. But if you press the matter
further, and ask him if he would rely
upon the omnipotent goodness of God
to heal him should he be taken sud
denly ill at the midnight hour, he
would probably hesitate and perhaps
tell you that such reliance was too
vague and transcendental for him',
that he preferred to pin his faith to
some favorite drug or other material
means. His answers to the above
questions would probably be the an
swerg of many people who accept the
Bible and believe in the power, good
ness and love of God. But does not
their refusal actually to rely upon
God in a time of sickness indicate a
fatal weakness, a distrust of God that
accounts for the failure of modern re
ligions to satisfy that hunger for
righteousness which is characteristic
of all men as sons and daughters of
God?
Because modern religions showed
this wide discrepancy between reality
and practice, a restatement of the
eternal truths of the Bible became
necessary if the race was to be saved
from the myriad Ills that beset It.
For this purpose Christian Science
came to the world. No matter what
hostile critics may say to the con
trary. Christian Science came to the
world In response to the quenchless
yearning of the human heart to
know its God, a yearning that hu
man wisdom can never supply. No
matter what .the testimony of the
material senses may be as to the
seeming reality of matter and evil.
Christian Science holds firmly, log
ically, and consistently, to the eternal
fact of the omnipotence of God. which
overrules and destroys all the as
serted power of sickness, disease, sin
and death.
Christian Science Primitive
Christianity.
By teaching reliance on the omni
potent goodness of God, Christian
Science has reinstated primitive
Christianity. What is primitive
Christianity? In the past Christianity
was too much considered to mean
customs. traditions, dogmas and
creeds of the early days of the Chris
tian church. But if you will recall j
the words and deeds of the great i
Bible characters from Genesis to
stitute for the drugging system or
other material methods. Christian
Science -heals the sick; there is no
doubt about that. He would be
brave critic indeed who at the pres
ent time would arise and deny that
Christian Science does heal the sick.
The living witnesses of its healing
power are numbered by the tens of
thousands. But the healing of phys
ical ills Is not the ultimate of Chris
tian Science. Christian Science goes
to the bottom of the human men
tality, uncovers the latent errors of
the- human mind and destroys them
and arouses men to claim their di
vine heritage to be sons of God,
Christian Science arouses men to see
that man lives because God lives,.for
man's life is derived from God. A
man does not live merely to keep
himself In repair or to satisfy hi
human desires. A Christian Scientist
sees that a man's real business in
life is .to know and to glorify God.
The: Westminster Catechism says,
'Man's chief end Is to glorify God
and to enjoy him - forever. If you
buy an automobile you expect the
machine to carry its occupants, not to
undergo repairs. Repairs must be
made, of course. If the machine does
not run. So, likewise, when a man
is sick or sinful, be must be healed
before he is prepared to realize his
sonshlp with God. But the healing
of sin and sickness la only the pre
liminary step by which a man comes
to see that his real duty, his ideal, is
to understand God, and to live ac
cording to his eternal laws. The
writer of Eccleslastes summed tle
matter up wben he said, "Fear God
and keep his commandments; for this
is the whole duty of man. And so
man's regeneration has merely
commenced when he Is healed of
physical ills by Christian Science,
Dimly at first perhaps, but neverthe
less surely, he begins to see a vision
vision of a. God who is spirit.
life, love and man and the universe
spiritual and eternal. He begins to
see a perfect model of manhood
based upon man's eternal sonship
with God. He notes bow lamentably
inadequate were his former habits
and Ideals, and he finds that a trans
formation of thought must take
place if he is ever to attain ths
ideal. And so he begins to undergo
that change of thought which is de
scribed in the Bible by various
terms: "Conversion," "regeneration,"
"renewing of the mnd," "born of the
spirit,' "reconciliation with God." He
begins to measure himself by the
model of a perfect God and a per
fect man and to grow to that per
fection of thought which the Psalm
ist saw when he said, ."I shall be
satisfied when I awake in. thy likeness."
The Vision Supernal.
This vision of the fatherhood of
God and all men and women as sons
and daughters of God satisfies, as
othing else can, the Infinite aspira
tions of man. The effect on the great
Bible characters of seeing the divine
ature of Uod was far-reaching and
profound. So great was the change,
so fundamental its meaning, that
ven their very names were changed.
You remember that when Abram
rose in thought above the human be-
lef of polytheism, many gods, and
grasped the sublime conception of
monotheism, one God, his name was
changed to Abraham. Jacob saw
this eternal neality. and his name
as changed to Israel. Prior to this
he had been a erafty trader, preying
on the weakness and follies of his
fellow-men. At the present time he
ould perhaps be called a "prof
iteer." When, however, he saw the
ruth about God and man, he was o
transformed that he became a prince i
who, as the Scripture declares, had
D....i.inn ,- tn tr.A thar their, power witn ood and with man
r.Hinn snmethine vital a liv- Moses saw it on Mount Sinai and he
ing reality. They made no mere
professions of trust In God; they had
an understanding of God, and they
nMA.ra ,t.ai. 11 n rl O r 1 u Tl H ( 11 O hv lle-
troying sin, by neanng aiseases, Dy y j
was charged to do all things after
the "pattern which was showed thee
on the mount." Christ Jesus, on the
mountain of transfiguration, saw
The Passionate Spectator, hy Jane But,
Thomas Seltser, New York city.
This' novel gives an incorrect view
cf marriage and too many of its char
acters have bad morals.
THE LITERARY PBPJSCOPfr I
HERE
pre,
Co.,
The A B C of Kvolntion, by Joseph Jlt
Cabe. C. P. Putnam's Sons. New York
city.
What has long been wanted in the
rading world is a clearly expressed
elementary and not too long textbook
on evolution and here we have it in
Mr. McCabe's fascinating book of 124
pages. It is especially valuable to
young readers, and free from hard-to-
understand scientific terms; yet it
states scientific facts.
It discusses Einstein, the bronto
'saur. the stars, life on the primitive
ocean, when what we know as land
including Oregon was all under wa
ter. For instance, the opinion Is
expressed that man is at least 1.000,
009 years old although Our science
as we know it today is only about 200
years old.
Cart oa Center, by Arthur Chapman.
. Houzhtoo. Mifflin Co., Boston. t
Take the west out of this collection
cf poems and it would be like elimi
nating the character of Hamlet from
the play. "Hamlet." Why? Because,
the text of all these splendid poems
la the west.
Mr. Chapman is the author of that
BY ETHEL R. SAWYER.
Director of Training Class, Library Asso
ciation of Portland.
ERBERT S. HOUSTON", vice-
resident of Doubleday, Page &
spoke the following words
in a dinner address at the National
Arts club:
"Well, if books are Indeed inter
pretations of life, what should be the
controlling purpose of those who
write them and of those who make
them in a time of flux and stress such
as this? It should be, I venture to
suggest, the spread of understanding
among ourselves and, in particular,
the spread of understanding among
the peoples of all nations in regard
to each other. We . should strive
mightily to make this country under
stand, and all the world understand,
that the human race is one and in
divisible and that it must prosper or
perish as such."
H. G. Wells, in his book on "Russia
in the Shadows," points out that
Maxim Gorky's position in Russia
"is a quite extraordinary and per
sonal one. He is no more of a com
munist than I am. . . . But he has
gained the confidence and respect of
most of the bolsbevist leaders, and
he has become by a kind of necessity
the seml-offical salvage man under
the new regime. He Is possessed by
a passionate sense of the value of
western science and culture and by
the necessity of preserving the in
tellectual continuity of Russian life
through these dark days of famine
and war and social stress with the
general intellectual life of the world."
Isaac Newton is supposed to have
been led to his theory of gravitation
by observing a falling apple. Albert
Einstein was led to extend his earlier
special relativity theory to the theory
of general relativity by investigating
the fall of a man from the roof of a
building in Berlin.
Fortunately, the man fell Into a
pile of soft rubbish and was scarcely
hurt at all. Dr. Einstein interrogated
him immediately as to bis sensations
while falling. Ths report that he had
felt no sensation of downward pull
started speculation In Dr. 'Einstein's
mind and the relativity theory is the
result. Don't ask me to explain the
theory. Read Slosson's "Easy Lessons
in Einstein," and then if you don't
understand it be comforted by the
knowledge of the excellent company
you are in.
And while we are on the subject,
you remember that story about the
man falling from a high office build
ing, whose friend poked his head out
of the second-story window as he
passed and shouted, "Are you all
right, Tom?" "All right so far," an
swered the optimist. Instead of re
garding that as a humorous story
we'll likely soon be citing it as a
proof of the Eincttln theory.
e
Mr. Ondeck. the tactful salesman in
the "Adventures of a Bookseller."
which "Ketch" is running in the Pub
lishers' Weekly, met a difficult prob
lem and solved it in a masterly way
the other day. Miss Cheevous, who
didn't want to read anything she
ought and had read everything she
oughtn't, who scorned Instruction and
craved amusement, demanded to be
sold a book. Let Ketch tell the rest:
"Then." eald he (Ondeck), "I have
the very book you want."
He left her and went to the rear
of the store, where he sought out a
certain volume and, returning, placed
it before her. 'It was W. L. Georges
The Intelligence of Women.
Miss Cheevous looked at it a mo
ment, then said:
"But I want something entertain
ing! Something funny!"
"Yes, ma'am, said Mr. Ondeck. "That
is one of the funniest books I ever
read."
"But." said she, "Mr. George Is not
a humorist."
"No, ma'am," he answered. "That Is
what makes It funny."
Maybe it would make good dinner
conversation for that affair you
"have to go to" next week.
e
By the way. that must be a cush
iony berth that the doctor has at the
Kaiser Wilhelm, Academy for Re
search at Berlin -(an Institution said
to be like our Carnegie foundation
for scientific research in its object
to encourage the exceptional inves-! they never put on.
KING MAN, Kan., Feb. 26. The
farm of John Ford in the south
ern part of this county is the site of
a buried treasure mystery which is
nr-riodlcallv revived by persons who
go there seeking a chest containing
$40,000 In gold.
The story is still fresh in the minds
of the older settlers here, many of
whom say they believe the chest oc
cupies the cache where it was secret
ed 60 years ago by an army pay
master when he and his detail were
attacked by Commanche Indians and
later killed. The paymaster and nis
men were en route to an army post
to pay the soldiers. - -
They are supposed to have been
camped near two big springs on the
Ford farm when the attack was made.
Both springs were well-known stop
ping places in the day of the prairie
schooner and cattle trail, and It is
to them the present-day treasure
seekers go in their quest of fortune.
The information of all eeems to agree
on one point that the gold was bur
ied near the springs, but each person
has a. different report as to the exact
location.
Years ago many Indians went there
to search, inspired by the tare of an
o'ld Oklahoma Commanche. who
claimed to have been In the band that
massacred the army men. But with
his death the Indians stopped coming.
However, the lure continues to at
tract the white man and scarcely a
summer passethat some prospector
fails to spend a few days delving here
and poking there in the earth about
the old springs.
VETERANS NOT CRIMINALS
Slackers Said to Invoke Uniform
to Escape Penalty of Crime.
WASHINGTON. D. C, Feb. 23.--
(Special.) Ex-service men are not re
sponsible for the crime wave which
has swept over various large cities in
recent months, according to Colonel
Edward Munson, chief of the morale
branch- of the general staff of the
United States army, who has just fin
ished an investigation of alleged
crime among veterans.
While ex-service men and women
comprise one-twentieth of the entire
population of the country, records of
police and criminal court dockets
show that they have caused only one-
fortieth of the troubles that have
been aired ia court during the last
six months. A more or less general
opinion that veterans are active in
crime is caused by the fact that thou
sands of criminals, who were not in
the world war, have falsely asserted
they were ex-service men, Colonel
Munson said.
The war department, he declared,
has urged the American Legion to
cc-operate in an effort to damp out
all fakers who get Into trouble and
try to hide behind a uniform which
breaking droughts, by controlling the
economic laws of supply and demand,
and by overcoming the last enemy,
even death itself. They made no
empty pretenses of faith in God, and
then followed after the latest adver
tised drug. No, they would have re
pudiated that procedure as contrary
to the first commandant. "Thou Shalt
have no other gods before me."
The Bible Message Simple.
Now, the message of the Bible Is
simple, logical, scientific. Little chil
dren love the Bible. They love It be
cause Us message is pure, inspiring,
regenerating. But the pity of it is
that our family Bibles have for years
been lying on the shelf covered with
dust safety depositories for lost
spectacles and forgottenj)hotographs.
Why? Because we have allowed doc
trines, precedents and traditions to
pervert our vision so that we refuse
to accept' the plain teachings of
Christ Jesus, the disciples, and the
prophetsi We havo been taught to
search the Scriptures for texts in
support of some futile doctrine rather
than to ponder the meaning of the
Bible text and thereby grow in that
Understanding of God and man which
heals the eick and casts out sin.
Christ Jesus commanded his follow
ers to "Heal the sick." and yet when
that imperative command is brought
to the attention of many relig!onits
who deem themselves loyal Chris
tians, they may sometimes resort to
various aophistries in the vain effort
to prove that they should not obey
it Christian Science is -based on the
Bible. Like the Bible, it is simple,
natural, logical and scientific. There
is nothing mysterious about Christian
Science or its practice. It follows the
plain teachings of Christ Jesus and
as a result Christian Scientists live
differently, and think differently
than they did before they became In
terested in Christian Science. The
beginner In Christian Science notices
at once that Christian Scientists do
not use drugs. They have no occa
sion to do so, for the simple reason
that they have found in Christian
Science a vastly better system of
healing sickness and disease than is
afforded by the drugging system.
They do not gossip about disease, do
not tell about the disease they had In
the past, the diseases they have now,
nor those they expect to have in the
future. They do not fear disease, be
cause they know that God never sent
it. and that a right understanding of
him completely destroys it. They see
clearly that all there is of disease is
human fears and false mental pic
tures. The fact of the matter is.
Christian Scientists have discovered
that there is a vast amount of un
necessary knowledge floating around
of God, and man his perfect expres
sion, and we are told that "his face
did shine as the sun, and his raiment
was white as light." Christ Jesus
radiated light, because he had spir
itual consciousness. He thought
God's thoughts. These thoughts, these
messages, these angels of his pres
ence, came to him clothed with
omniscience and omnipotence: and be
cause Christ Jesus entertained them
he was endowed with power which
enabled him to destroy . pain, sin,
death and the grave.
So profoundly Impressed were men
by his wonderful teachings and un
paralleled victory over the physical
senses that they have dated the cal
endar from his nativity. His career
thus stands out In history as a bea
con light, immeasurably transcending
all other human events.
Mrs. Eddy, the discoverer and
founder of Christian Science, like
wise, more than 18 centuries later,
saw this same perfect pattern, this
model, which enabled her to heal the
sick and sinning, and enabled her to
inspire unnumbered multitudes to
forsake human opinions, dogmas, tra
ditions and drugs in order to follow
the light of demonstrable truth. Now
it might properly be asked, how do
we know that Mrs. Eddy saw this
same model of God and man that the
great Bible Characters saw? In an
swer to that query let us suppose
that some five thousand years ago
a great writer and thinker climbed
a lofty mountain a mountain -"Though
round Its base the roll
ing clouds are spread.
Eternal sunshine settles on -its
head"
and this writer wrote an account of
his experiences in climbing that
mountain and pictured the marvelous
panorama that unfolded to his en
raptured vision as he tolled his way
to loftier heights. And as time went
on, other writers and thinkers made
the ame journey and recorded their
experiences for the guidance of fu
ture generations who would make
the same ascent. Now, is It not rea
sonable that their exnerlences woulH
be elmllar, and that they would see
tne same panorama, and that their
records of the ascent would corrobo
rate each other? So, likewise, have
been the experiences of all who have
climbed the mountain of holiness,
and risen above the cloud of ma
terialism that has darkened the vi
sion of all peoples. Mrs. KHrtv
climbed this same mountain of holi
ness that all spiritual thinkers have
climbed throughout the centuries.
She saw the same vision. Her writ
ings coincide with the spiritual sense
of the Scriptures: they srive the samA
spiritual illumination as do the Bible
texts when spiritually understood;'
God is not the author or evil. If God
were the author of evil, then God
would be a God of hate instead of
love, a God of death instead of life.
Evil is contrary to good, and there
is nothing In all the infinitude of
God's universe out of which evil could
be created. Darkness Is not farther
removed from light than evil is from
good. Light does not produce dark
ness. Life does not produce death.
Confronted by these facts,- false the
ology shifts Its ground and argues
that God permitted evil to be self
created. That is mere sophistry, be
cause God, having all power, would
be just as responsible if he permitted
evil to be self-created as if he cre
ated it direct. Some theologians, In
theorizing about evil, assume that be
cause God created all that was made
he must have created evil since evil
has apparent substance to the physi
cal senses. These theologians have
utterly failed to see that the physical
senses cannot interpret God, that evil
is without foundation, has no reality
and is merely a phenomenon of the
human mind.
Christian Science clears up all mys
ticism about evil, and shows that evil
under whatsoever forms It masquer
ades, is a false claim, operating
through the five physical senses.
When we flee even faintly the omni
potent goodness of God we can never
fear evil as we did before. Why? Be
cause we have dethroned It. Before
the omnipotence of God, evil shrinks
to its native nothingness. We see it
for what It is a lie and a liar, "a
murderer from the beginning," as the
master declared, a false projection of
mortal belief nothing more. Does
not the Scripture declare: "There
shall no evil befall thee, neither shall
any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
For he shall give his angels charge
over thee, to keep thee in all thy
ways." Sometime3, in the face of
the seeming activity of evil, men may
become fearful and despairing. Ac
ceptlng the scholastic lie about evi
being God-created, and therefore in
vincible, they may throw up their
hands and become Its unresisting vie
Urns. But the genuine Christian
Scientist waxes strong when battling
with evil. He refuses to concede to
It one iota of power, or reality. He
refuses to allow a singlo suggestion
of Its presence or power to enter his
consciousness. He knows that man
has control of his own mentality
through understanding the Christ
and that when we stand at the door
of thought, refusing admittance to
every whispering of evil and admit
ting only the ideas of holiness and
health, we are approachnig that per
fection of thought which Jesus knew
when he said. "The kingdom of God
within you.
Every man can begin now to gain
spirituality. We can begin now to
think God's thoughts and refuse to
think evil thoughts. The problem of
our salvation is worked out in the
realm of our own consciousness. No
man is so darkened mentally: no
man is in an environment so unfavor
able but what he can make a begin
nlng In right thinking, and refuse
wrong thinking. God has given to
every man power to control his own
mentality. We must arouse ourselves
to exercise this control. Spiritual
freedom, the freedom which comes
through proving the ever-prcsence of
divine love. Is for all men. and all
men can and will realize their con
sciousness of this freedom. If your
burden seems heavy and the condi
tions about you forbidding, take
courage. Remember that the great
master came to this earth, not to re
lieve us of our responsibilities, or do
our work for us; but to show us that
through the power of God man can
rise superior to all the Ills of mor
tality. He overcame them. You and
I can do likewise. Only bo not fear
ful. Divine love, all-knowing, all
loving, all-powerful, is forever ready
to heal you and to receive you
"clothed with the wedding garment
of righteousness," Into the father's
house of many mansions.
Hornets' .t Cau.sc of Fight.
RALEIGH. N. C Elmo Gill and
James Darling of this city have been
tried in city court for engaging in a
fight that followed an argument over
the ownership of a hornet's nest.
Evidence brought out at the hear
ing showed beyond a reasonable doubt
that the nest was the property of
BRITISH WAGES ADVANCE
Xcw Year, Nevertheless, See Itls-
Ing Tide of Unemployment.
LONDON. British labor has gain
ed a great advance in wage as well
as a further shortening of working
hours during 1920, but the new year
begins with a rising tide of unemployment-Increases
In wages during 192A
have amounted to nearly 5,000,000
and affected 7,547.000 workers.
A labor correspondent of the Liv
erpool Post says, however, that "It
Is probably a modest estimate to sty
that the whole of these wage in
creases have been swept away by
unemployment and underemploy
ment. . For example, the textile work
ers to the number of 1.053.000 receiv
ed, in the earlier months of the year,
advances In wages totaling fSSO.WO
a week. The greater number of mills
are now running only three days a
week and It is well within the mark
to put the loss from underemploy
ment at 1,000.000 a week.
"In the engineering and shipbuild
ing industries 1,202,000 workers re
ceived advances to the 'amount of
429,600 a week, but here again the
wage advance has been more than
lost by unemployment and under
employment. Dock workers have had
the same sorry experience, and the
lesson which it carries Is that In
competitive trades the wage-earning
power can only be maintained on an
output of corresponding value.
During the year 653.700 workers
huve obtained an aggregate reduc
tion of 2,071,200 hours a week.
Although there have been more
fndustrial disputes than In 1919, the
number of working days lost by
strikes shows a diminution. There
were 1.663 disputes during the year
1920, involving 1.952.000 workers and
26.567.000 days were lost, the latter
being swelled by the coal strike In
October and November.
LAVA POT BOILS OVER
Kllauea Again Inhibiting Tremen
dous Volcanic l'orcc.
HILO, Island of Hawaii. T. H.
(Correspondence of the Associated
Press.) Kilauea, the great active
volcano 32 miles from this clty.whlch
for the past two years has been ex
hibiting tremendous volcanic force,
recently overflowed the rim of Its
active throat and burst forth la fresh
activity and brilliance.
Following weeks of steady rising
of the lava in the pit of Halemaumau,
the "lloufe of Fire," the molten col
umn reached the rim and poured over
it towards the southeast side of the
great crater, while simultaneously an
other lava stream burst through the
crater floor some distance from the
first.
Hundreds of fire fountains began
playing on the numerous iava lakes
and sheets of flame gushed Intermit
tently from beneath the orust surface.
Along the main line of the old rift,
which the new flow Is following, sev
eral lava cones, or small craters, have
formed and these add to the weird
scene with their thundering blasts of
steam and fire.
NEW INDUSTRY STARTED
Bis Soupslone Mine Opened by
I.os Aiicks Corporation.
("LOVIS. t'al. A new industry is
now in progress in tne vicinity or
Kriant. 16 miles north of Clovls. T. H.
Mutton of the Tale Products company
of I.os Angeles has opened up a mine
of soapstone and the first big ship
ment was mado when 65 tons were
shipped directly to the Los Angeles
headquarters.
This particular brand of soapstone
is used in the making of a patent
roofing and an extremely largo de
posit has been located Just across the
San Joaquin river about 1 miles
from Friant. The stone found at this
place Is valued at about t-0 per ton
at the mine. The Talc Products com
pany have a mine in Death valley and
another at Palm Dale.
In the atmosphere of human thought, ! nd her followers are healing the
knowledge based entirely on the evi
dences of the physical senses, which,
if accepted, cannot fail to be produc
tive of pain, suffering, fear and
alienation from God. "Unnecessary
knowledge," eays Mrs. Eddy in
Science and Health with Key to
the Scriptures, on page 274. "gained
from the five senses is only temporal
the conception of mortal mind, the
offspring of sense, not of soul, spirit
and symbolizes all that is evil and
perishable.'" Christian Scientists have
a race to run and they do not pur
pose to run in vain because encum
bered with a lot of'useless impedi
menta. Then again, the beginner in Chris
tian Science may receive Jthe impres
sion that Christian Science heals
merely physical ills and ia only a sub-
sick and freeing the sinning, as did
the disciples of old when they finaHy
understood the spiritual import of
the words and works of the blessed
master.
Christian Science Destroys Evil.
When we come in contact with the
material world about us we are con
fronted with the phenomena of eviL
We note Its destructive character. It
manifests itself in myriad forms of
fear, pain, droughts, wars, storms and
death. Where did this unholy thing
come from? Is It of God or Is it not?
A false theology has attempted
throughout the centuries to lead men
into the belief that God created evil;
that In some mysterious way evil is
good in the making, a crude form of
good, as it were. But the fact is that
The Atlantic-Pacific Highways and Electrical Expo
sition will take place in Portland in 1925. It will be
the greatest event ever held in the Pacific Northwest
and will undoubtedly rank among the great expositions
of the world. Just as Portland delighted thousands of
visitors with the famous Lewis and Clark Exposition
in 1905 and again with the Shrine Convention of 1920,
so in 1925 will she delight many, many more thousands
with this, the greatest triumph of the West.
It is particularly desirable that the people of Oregon
know their states her history, her people, her natural
beauties and that they apply this knowledge to a
whole-hearted campaign of advertising that will reach
all corners of the nation. It is only through such a
far-reaching campaign that the contemplated exposition
can prove a success, and this campaign should start now
for it will consume four years of hard work.
The secrets of Oregon's great story lie between
the covers of books and Oregon has a literature of
which all Oregonians may be justly proud. A few
selected titles that will prove extremely entertaining
as well as instructive in the great task of advertising
an 'exposition to the world are as follows:
The Guardians of the Columbia John H. Williams
The Columbia River Highway Samuel C. Lancaster
The Bridge of the Gods F. V. Balch
Oregon; Her History, Her Great Men, Her Liter-
ature... John B. Horner
Lewis and Clark Journals
"Buy a Book a Week"
The J. K. Gill Co.
Third and Alder Streets