Obak’s Kollege Krier
OBAK Wallace, Publisher W. B. L., Editor
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Volume 4 _SATURDAY, A. M. NUMBER 13
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Edited by Glen F. Burch
OSSENDOWSKI ’S LATEST
WORK, PAEAN OF HATE
Ferdinand A. Ossendowski is a
Pole. Since 1772 the greater part
of Poland has been at the mercy
of the Russians and has received
her share of the bad treatment
handed out by the old regime to its
subject peoples. In his youth Os
sendowski was in an atmosphere of
hatred of Russia and of all things
Russian. When the revolution and
the Peace of Paris gave Poland her
freedom, it also gave Ossendowski
his chance. His first book, "Beasts,
Men and Gods,” was very critical
but seemed to be the writing of a
fair, serious critie. Now comes
“The Shadow of the Gloomy East.”
Ossendowski throws aside all re
straint, all good feeling. He pours
out the pent up hatred of the Pole
for the Russian in 200 pages of the
most destructive criticism. 'He
spares no part of the Russian so
ciety. He curses equally the old
regime^ and the new. The upper
classes are as bitterly assailed as
the most' ignorant, he would say
the most savage, peasant.
The book treats at great length
the freak religious sects such as
those who worship the devil and
those who flog themselves as a
means of worship and gives the im
pression that all Russia is a strict
adherent to all the different types.
He exposes witches, wizards, der
vishes, corrupt clergy and religious
imposters like Rasputin. No men
tion is made of the beauty*of the
Russian Orthodox worship de
scribed by the more thorough ob
servers.
Ossendowski sees, creeping out
of what he considers the* foul mess
known as Russia, a monster born
in the East which will be “the first
harbinger of the approaching doom
of mankind.” Words almost fail
him when he tries to describe what
he sees for Russia in the future. He
predicts that Russia will continue
until all that is wreckable is wreck
ed until she' is exhausted by her
orgy of horror, until the whole land
is incapable of supporting life an
other instant, then she will throw
herself on the mercy of the rest of
the world and cry for mercy and
you can almost hear Ossendowski’s
foot strike her face as he kicks her
back into chaos.
The apparent purpose of the book
is to blacken Russia from her earl
iest times to the present, to paint
her people as a race of demons and
one feels when reading it that he
has succeeded only in writing a
rather good horror tale and that
the black from his pen has splat
tered him as badly as it has his
subject.
T. G.
THE TATOOED COUNTESS
A PICTURE OF THE
“DAME GALLANTE”
She was fat. Not much has ever
been said in favor of the fat wo
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: man. Perhaps it is better so. But
the disadvantage of being a fat
woman is somewhat ameliorated by
: being a fat Countess. Being a fat
Countess is a whole lot different
from being a fat woman. The dis
tinction in this matter is very
broad, even wide. 1 (Ah, unhappy
pun.) And yet it might have been
only her double chin that brought
upon her the appearance of being
fat.
Well, the Count dies. And the
fat Countess goes back to live in
the middle west, in the old home
town, (Orchestra plays “Swanee
Biver” here), in the village where
she had lived in the years ago be
fore she had gone to Italy, as little
Ella Poore, and married the Count.
She bids a colorful farewell to Tony
etc. etc.
In the old home town a little
girl, speaking in relative terms
only, loves a little boy. But the
Countess—she is so continental. She
knows lots and lots of Italian
words. And smokes a distinguished
cigarette. The home town tea par
ties actually give her a head ache.
For diversion, she turns to the lit
tle boy. And the little boy sings
love’s sweet lullaby (Ta-ta, Little
Girl!) And the little girl, who is
really a sincere old maid, regrets
the loss of the little boy who has
reached the mature a&e of seven
teen. But that isn’t the big point
in the story. The big point is the
fat Countess.
“The Tattooed Countess” by Carl
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] Van Vechten, has already reached a
, sixth printing. So far it has taken
a new printing every two weeks.
; It is a critical book in the career
of Van Vechten as a novelist. Af
' ter Alfred A. Knopf had read the
manuscript of the novel he wrote:
“This book is as amusing as any
thing that has come from his pen,
it shows him as much more than the
amused and perhaps cynical on
jlooker of, say, ‘The Blind Bow
jBoy’” (Indulging in a slatternly
I thrust Kenelm Bigby has just
|called the latter book “The Blind
| Booby”)
But Knopf didn’t know what the
j critics would say. Van Vechten
is supreme as the “amused and per
! hajis cynical on-looker” (a pretty
dodo, by the way), but as the inter
preter of the American provincial
life of a generation ago he is not
a grand master. And again: beside
a paragraph of clever thinking,
careful writing, his exuberance
gives away to a flatulent cloud’ of
gaseous words. Van Vechten has a
particular genius. fie has "made
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gallante.” But he has somewhere
cheated himself and his audience
with “The Tattooed Countess."
In her estimate of the book Ger
trude Atherton, looking through a
horizon of her own which is cloud
ed with harmones, Brown-Sequard,
endocrines and Steinach, places too
much importance upon Gareth, the
little boy. Van Vechten has cor
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What Is in the Student's Mind?
At last the investigators are on
the trail of the poor hard working
student. The chief topic of their
research now is the occupation of
finding out just what the average
student thinks about. To aid in
this great work a machine has been
invented to give the exact content
of the mind. Startling results have
already been obtained.
A report of the work done thus
far has been given out and a few
of the tabulated results are given
herewith. The report includes the
name and the thoughts which have
been found to occupy the thinking
regions of the person named.
Fred Wilcox: Fords, girls, Fords,
girls, girls, Fords, Girls.
Bill Dills: (Censored).
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More results are expocted to be
reported in the near future. Watch
for them in Obak’s Column.
OBAK extends a hearty welcome
to the new candidates. Already has
Obak entertained some of the newly
elected candidates. As a special
concession to the newly elected
president, Walter Malcolm, Obak
stayed open one hour longer than
was customary Wednesday ^ight.
As a result of that extra sixty min
utes Malcolm won his game of jack
straws.
We’re not hinting, but just being
suggestive. Isn’t it customary to
reward the defeated candidates?
Obak has a new brass rail, that fits
the uncertain foot right smartly.
And incomparable malt milks and.
the same mellow smokes.
There's one thing in this bleary
eyed old world. Just look at Frank
Loggan. You can’t keep a good
man down. And it seems to us,
though our data is uncertain, that
the new manager got his start by
hanging around Obak talking us
out of smokes.
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One of the co-eds, the one with
the bob cut, was heard to remark
that now that women were enter
ing the ambassadorial profession we
could expect an end of secret di
plomacy.
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Say, you sworn voters of Jalmar
Johnson, look into this matter of
free stogies. Maybe they’re from
Obak’s. (See page 2, Friday’s
Emerald.)
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Well, it’s hot. And nothing clever
stirs the brain of the mighty editor.
We’d better quit. Anyway we
don’t get paid for this. We wish
we were addicted to poetry, and
we could rave on about the birds,
and trees, and everything, and no
body would know the difference.
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Didja notice the incense at “Has
san” last night? And Ed Bohlman
leaning in ecstacy over the bronze
bowl You can’t fool, Ed. He knew
the aroma of Obak’s specials.
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