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THE SUNDAY OltEGONIAN, TOIITXAND, AT7GTTST 21, 1921
LADY SURMA IS LfKELY TO BE PRESIDENT
OF PEOPLE WHOSE LIBERTY SHE SECURED
Woman Who Persuaded British to Grant Independence to Assyrians in Line for Office of Chief Executive.
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THE first woman president of the
world is expected to be Iady
Surma, who Is In line for the
presidency of Assyria. Great Britain
recently assigned a territory contain
ing 80,000 square miles in the moun
tains of Kurdistan to the Assyrian
people. Lady Surma obtained this
concession from the British, govern
ment when she acted as ambassador
to London. She Is an accomplished
linguist and has been thoroughly ed
ucated under the guidance of British
tutors. Her brother. Mar Chinon. pa
trician of, the Assyrians, .was mur
dered. Mrs. C. C. Calhoun, prominent so
ciety woman of Washington, D. C, is
head of the $1,000,000 project for a
national woman's foundation to be
In Washington. The historic old Dean
estate has been selected as the home
of the foundation and there Mrs. Cal
houn was hostess at a garden party
recently. One of the distinguished
guests at the affair was Mrs. Calvin
Coolidge, wife of the vice-president.
Among the beautiful women who
are prominent In diplomatic circles
in the national capital is Madam Vir
ginia Ferand, the sister of-he wife
of the Guatemalan minister to the
United States. Madam Ferand spent
the past winter and spring In the cap
ital, and her visit there has been so
pleasant that she has decided to re
main indefinitely with her sister at
the legation.
Mrs. John W. Harreld is one o
the new additions to congressional
circles In Washington. Her husband
Is a new senator from Oklahoma. Al
though Mrs. Harreld has spent a com
paratively short time in the capital,
she is already known as a charming
hostess and has many friends.
PASTOR DRAWS MORAL FROM LIFE OF BEE
AND CONDEMNS SUPER-EFFICIENCY AS AIM
Blind Devotion to Hive Declared Bad if Set Up For Emulation of Human Beings Honey-Maker De
clared to Show Evil of Material Attainment as Chief End.
do likewise, that you may be a bit
surprised if I say that the wonder
fully fascinating life of the bee
should be on the whole not an ex
ample for humanity to copy, but an
everlasting warning of what human
ity should avoid, and a convincing
evidence of what humanity has thus
far fortunately escaped to a great
extent.
Except among angels, social equi
librium means spiritual death. How
it may be even among the angels is a
speculative theory. How it is among
human beings is an attested fact.
Conflict Held Inspirational.
One clew to the long and slow
process of human history, as we are
able to trace it through words and
customs and actions that have, left
their traces from periods antedating
by thousands and thousands of years
any conscious written history, is
found in the fact so often repeated as
to indicate a recognizable law, that
man's inborn capacity for thinking,
for ideas, for comparison of one
thing with another, for admiration
and emulation, for creative inven
tion, for political and other social
organization, and so for all real
progress, have been called Into ef
fective, action by such experiences as
led one group out from its own local
ity and community into conflict with
others, to conquer or to be conquered.
The fundamental realities of hun
ger, of over-supply or under-supply
of food, of increasing or surplus
population; congestion and conflict at
those mountain passes wnere escap
ing tribes met and fought; those
highways of competitive trade where
differences of custom and thought
could be observed; those defensive
organizations and royal leaderships
that first attached property rights to
the Boil and conceived of a political
unit in terms of territorial bound
aries; the conflicts of nascent na
tions; and as time went on the dom
ination of one people over another;
all those incidents and episodes and
epics of early history which made
war and all violent competitions by
no means unmixed evils these have
all been factors that have called out
the creative thought and effort of
such human beings as had the ca
pacity for such reaction, and have
enabled humanity at rare Intervals
to break through the social equillb
rlum. to escape from the fixed and
interminable sameness through cycle
after cycle of birth and death in
seemingly meaningless round, due to
selfish and passionately effective
mania for the earthly perpetuity of a
Belf-centered and world-hostile hive,
Supreme Task Outlined.
The very progress of mankind in
cident to the response of his native
genius to these factors of change
and conflict has led to the achieve
ments of applied science and co-op
eratlve activity that have finally
made war cost more than It Is worth.
But even so. that the world may not
stagnate, that it may not degenerate
into social equilibrium upon an ani
mal level, It will be better to continue
to have wars until we can put into
practice a really effective spiritual
substitute for war.
That is the supreme task of the
coming, years! so to organize the
world, so to Inform and educate tne
human mind, that all the good that
has hitherto been rightly attributed
to the forces that broke up group
solations and the self-centered social
equilibrium of c u s t o m - hardened
groups, shall be got through rrienaiy
intercommunication, through legiti
mate commerce, through education,
especially through spiritual educa
tion, the world over.
War's Worth Told.
xne great war, or lr necessary any
greater future war, if such future
war shall not destroy civilization al
together, will have been worth the
price If it shall print its. lesson so
clearly and declare its meaning so
persistently and convincingly that as
if by one increasing impulse the
world's center of gravity shall shift
from selfishness to good will, from
isolated envies and suspicions to gen
eral trustworthiness.
If you and I in our personal lives
desire to be our best (and who in his
best moments does not so desire?) is
It not true that we also must seek a
life of spiritual growth In freedom?
Ought we to submit to the tyranny
of any low-level social equilibrium?
Shall our toil and sacrifice issue from
the blind momentum of mere creature
instinct unconscious of any possibil
ity beyond the physical cycle of the
earth-bound and isolated hive? On
the other hand, shall It be the false
freedom of the robber bee? No free
dom is so fatal, so treacherous, so
cruelly enslaving, as any freedom
which through insanity of -spirit and
delusps of the moral consciousness
assumes that our own personal af
finities, our own eager desires, should
be set uppermost in the hierarchy of
our motives, or be permitted to out
rage the sacred fidelities and plight
ed loyalties and divine covenants of
life.
Spiritual Growth Ktnl.
But spiritual growth and true free
dom that Is what we must seek if
we wish to be our best. We must
live lives obedient to the "beloved
community," wherein no soul is
stranger or foreigner, but fellow
citizen with the innumerable com
pany of the righteous from all na-
Local Government In the I'nited States,
by Herman Q. James. D. Appleton &
Co., New York City.
Herman G. James, Ph. D., professor
of government in the University of
Texas, is the author of this painstak
ing, excellent and informing study of
our local American government, a
study extending to 482 pages and pre
sented in optimistic fashion.
The general message is national in
character and breathes confidence in
the present and future of local gov
ernment all over the United States.
At the same time the book is criti
cal and meant primarily for the citi
zen who, however interetsd he may
be in the development of the city of
his nativity or choice, is handicapped
by a lack of knowledge as to the
standards of governme-it by which a
city government may be measured.
The point is made Hain that each 'n-
dividual as a voter :a resroiipib'n for
lions who serve God day and night the government of his city an-1 that
In his temple. . I he owes a duty to himself to vote In-
It Is not the mechanical- routine Intelligently and to cnoose public offi-
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the fixed cycle of the hive 'which
every man should copy, mysterious
end wonderful as It is, nor on the
ether hand the reckless and disor
dered tyranny and treachery of
moral anarchy, but the- spiritual lib
erty of children of God and fellow
citizens consciously and voluntarily
working In a spiritual society and
striving for an unattalned but wholly
possible spiritual idea, which Words
worth had In mind when he sang of
the 'Character of the Happy War
rior." The bee can contribute its uncon
scious part to the music of a summer
day, but cannot draw from the violin
the notes that answer to the hopes
and fears of humanity and the pathos
of, the human heart. The bee can
work with a continuity and precision
that would satiate an efficiency ex
pert, but cannot write an Odyssey or
preach a Sermon on the Mount. The
bee can take Its. blind turn at death
with all other creatures, but cannot
say, "Father, forgive them." The
bee can perpetuate the almost me
chanical law of the hive, but cannot
create a new social order on higher
levels learned from conflict and de
feat. The bee can die for its country.
tut cannot share the larger vision of
Edith Cavell, who knew that Pa
triotism is not enough"; nor write of
her:
Room 'mid the martyrs for a deathlesi
name!
Till yesterday. In her how fe-w could know
Black wir'i white angel, auccorins friend
and foe
Whose pure heart harbored neither hate
nor blame
When need or pity made its sovereign
claim.
Today h is the world's! Its poignant
woe.
We thought had been outwept. again
- doth flow
In tenderest tears that multiply her fame.
Oh. somethinic there Is In us yet, more
brirht
Than Rouen's hungry flames that could
consume
Jeanne's slender limbs but not her spirit's
might.
Fate still has noble colors In her loom.
One lonely woman'a courage in the night
Has sealed .the savage Hohenzollern'a
doom.
Higher Alma Oat lined.
The bee can hum and seek honey
in the clover, and work and die but
it cannot lie under an apple tree on
a June . day and meditate upon the
problems of life and the ways of the
Divine Spirit, and consciously and
devoutly and with tender humility
and solemn resolve bow the soul De-
fore the great sacrament of life, of
conscience, of faithful friendship, of
truth and sacrifice, of home and
heaven.
THE LITERARY PERISCOPE
clals wisely.
The book has theie special divisions:
The growth of municipal functions;
public safety: public health; public
education; public morals: social wel
fare; city planning; public wo-ks;
public utilities; municipal ownership;
municipal finance revenues; munici
pal finance lndebteinf ss, budjet and
accounting.
The earlier portl3ns of tnt book In
clude brief studies of the local gov
ernment systems cf iingland and
France, th(; sources for our own and
for non-Anglo-Saxon countries re
spectively. Local, institutions In this
country are traced from colonial
times down and succeeding chapters
discuss In detail the government of
cities, counties and minor civil divis
ions. Finally, striking developments
of the present day, the problems now
pressing for solution and tendencies
foreshadowing the future are dis
cussed.
The initiative and referendum are
described, but at no great length, and
the system in Oregon is not specified
particularly.
Under the head of Oregon, early
local government Is presented, with
a half page devoted to mention of the
Oregon provisional government In
1841. the early dual government of
Great Britain and the United States
and the establishment of territorial
government In 1849
Here are valuable paragraphs worth
special notice:
Popular control of tne elective officials.
assisted by the application of tbe short
ballot principle, and eucb Instruments of
control as the Initiative, referendum, re
call and non-partisan ballots: scientific
accounting, purchase and budget proced
ure: and an adequate measure of state
administrative control, may serve to bring
such counties as are populous enough to
carry on the necessary governmental op
erations, up to the level of the best of
our city administrations. The less pop.
ulous counties, especially those where the
population per square mile Is small,
would seem clearly to be suited rather
for districts of state administration than
for organization as local government cor
porations. There would seem to be no justification
for smaller areas of local government than
the county except for the urban commun
ities. These should be entrjsted with .the
satisfaction of their own community needs
and In tbe care of the more sizeable ones
at least, say those from 10,000 to 15,000
up, be wholly distinct from Che Jurisdic
tion of the county.
Much of this advice is applicable to
conditions of dual local government
existing In Multnomah County, Oregon.
fi -
Mary Roberts Rlnehart, aatbor
of "Sight Unseen" and -The
Confession stories of the occult.
BY MISS JEN.VETTB KENNEDY,
Assistant in the Circulation Department
Library Association of Portland.
D
BY W. G. EfLIOT JR.,
Text: "Now therefore ye are no more
strangers and foreigners, but fellow citl
sens with the saints, and of the household
ef God; and are built upon the foundation
of the apostles and prophets. Jesus Christ
himself being the chief cornerstone; in
-whom all tbe buildings fitly framed, to
gether groweth. unto a holy temple In the
Lord. In whom ye also are toullded to
gether for a habitation of God through
the spirit."
THIS tent has all my sermon. ln It,
but for the moment It will seezn
remote enough from any Immedi
ate application. For my subject is
"Bee and Man Compared) and Con
trasted."
I do not know how it may be with
others, but for myself, nothing In, all
animate, nature so fills my mind with
wonder as the life of the boney bee.
Nor am I thinking necessarily ot tine
lesa familiarly known facts. The
thlnga most familiarly known hold
their own. for mysteTy with the most
recent results of scientific research.
Have you ever found yourself on
earn still warm day in June lying in
pensive mood in the shade of an ap
ple tree, resting in the sweet sounds
of brooks and birds "and the murmur
ing of innumerable bees?" Then it is
in the moment when perhaps your
vagrant meditations have been, win-
re ring farthest from the immediate
environment of sight and sound tihat
your attention will be suddenly ar
rested and commanded by the arrival
before your very eyes of one of these
"Innumerable bees" springing out of
the vague and drowsy hum into a very
wide awake and individual reality.
Nectar Is Sought.
The little worker has come to seek
the nectar from a. flower only a few
feet from your face. She has alighted
on a clover blossom near enough to
be seen clearly. With eager restless
ness she plunges Into one after other
of the separate flowers of the clover
heads. She does not lose & moment In
her task. There is nothing but- the
swiftest efficiency. If you know her
story, you know that she is literally
working herself to death. As she
passes from your sight back into the
murmur that faintly fills the air
around, her wings move so fast as to
be Invisible. But this swift and
pausetess motion of the wings will
carry her. when her body is duly
laden with her desired freight, in,
straight line through perhaps a mile
or more of wood) and meadow, by or
chard and tilled fields, back to her
own hive.
Her hive may be on of 100 others In
Lr the apiary ; but she will fly in a direct
line and unerringly to its narrow en
trance. She will crowd her way-past
the guardian bees who would not per
mlt her to en'ter were she a stranger,
past the ventilation bees fajthXully
fanning their wings at the hive's en
trance, and move rapidly into the far
recesses of the little house.
Duty Known Clearly.
She knows precisely where to go In
spite of the darkness and the sur
rounding throng perhaps to carry
food to. the future queen, perhaps to
feed the nymphs with bee-bread per
haps to deposit tbe last drop of honey
In a boney cell and sting it before
sealing it. At home one moment in
the air and sun and open spaces of
the great world, with wings and
bodies glinting as if partners of the
sun beams, and wiUh such motion
from hive to flower and back again
as makes her a fit companion, to the
ind; and then in the next moment
equally at home in the total darkness
of the close, warm, crowded interior
of the hive.
But if these things are wonderful.
how much more wonderful is the
perennial miracle of the hive's cycle
of life! The mysterious silence and
consuming Industry of the period
when hanging in beautiful festoons
the bees secrete the wax and build
the comb; the unceasing diligence of
the solitary and adulated queen as she
passes from cell to cell of the brood
comb laying the myriad eggs and al
ways accompanied by her ever jealous
and watchful body guard; the nuptial
flight of the new queen pursued from
the dark hive into the as yet un
vislted altitudes a rod unexperienced
brilliance of the sky and back again
never again to fare foroh until she
leads her swarm of 20.000 or 80,000,
the fruit of her ceaselessly, fertile
body, and sets up a new household
to begin again for the one hundred
thousandth, or mayhap the millionth
time the ancestral cycle of life, the
same alternating of light and dark
ness, loneliness and crowd, sky-flight
and brooding and unceasing boil.
Sane . Law followed.
Always the same cycle, always the
same law:
So work the honey bees.
Creatures that by a rule of nature teach
The act of order to a peopled kingdom. '
In every hive, in every part of the
world, whether the most modern Im
provement of the Langstroth hive of
the commercial bee keeper, or In the
hollow tree trunk of wildest jungle;
whether today or in Virglls fields, or
on the slopes Hymettus,' or in the
carcass of the lion that Samson, slew
always tbe same in the essential Law
and spirit of the hive.
The very symmetry and sameness
of the waxen cell and of the bee's
body Is part of the continuous same
ness. . If one bee in a "hive varied
from others the social equilibrium of
the hive would be impaired. One wing
of a bee must be precisely like the
other, or straight and. unerring flight
, would become impossible.
The spirit and law of the hive, the
co-operation and efficiency raised to
the point of perfection, the climax of
social harmony and equilibrium, the
equality of bee and bee among the
workers, the consenting subordina
tion of all to the queen, the impartial
massacre of the drones, the invariable
death of the flying king all is a
ceaseless circling and elrcllng within
tbe close circumference of an almost
invariable uniformity, wherein all
the countless microscopic intricacies
of the bee's body and all the toil and
sacrifice of the bee's swift-fleeting
hours, subordinate themselves with a
passion like the moth's for the candle
to nothing but the perpetuation of
the same cycie, tne same rounds of
birth and work, swarm and massacre,
efficiency and sacrifice, and that
sameness of rigidly ordered life which
made one poet exclaim: "But Where's
the state beneath the firmament, that
doth excel the bees for government?"
And not least noteworthy of all
the samenesses that characterize the
bee is her patriotism. Her hive is her
country and she will defend it with
her life.
PatrlotlMtu Is Selfish.
According to some moralists she
is all the more patriotic in that she
has no interest whatever In any other
hive in the world, far or near at hand,
unless perchance she has an oppor
tunity to rob it. If one hive is in
vaded, by a foreign foe, no other hive
will help to repeal the invader. No
league of nations amontr bees! No
alliances entangling or otherwise! No
alliances to rescue a Belgian or to
repel robber kings or kaisers! If
foreigner entersp the hive by accident
(and she is not likely to do so by any
oiner cnancej she is quickly des
patched. No -immigration laws and
no deportation, for it is death to all
comers!
ror their own hive and no other
they live and die; and if you capture
a pee, no tenderness of care, no
abundance of proper food and nur
ture, will keep it long alive: for an
exile from her country, she dies of
loneliness. Not naturalization in a
new hive, but death away from her
own, is the pathetic sameness for
every exiled bee.
Wonder Is Inspired.
teureiy your thoughts have been
stirred to wonder and amaze when.
as we have been imagining, they were
suddenly arrested' and commanded bv
the little creature that lighted on the
clover blossoms when you lay In
revery in tne orchard!
And now perhaps you will be
pleasantly disappointed if you are ex
pecting me to enter upon a dreary
turn oi stupid moralizing.
How doth the little buy bee
Improve each shining hour.
And gather boney all the day
From every opening flowerl
It is so customary to look unon
against Vlctorlanlsm.
a man."
And yet he is
ISGRACE! We cannot en
dure this scandal!" shouted
a furiously angry Bulgarian
during a performance In Vienna, at
the Schohbrunn theater, of George
Bernard Shaw's "Arms and the Man,"
under the title "Heroes." The furore
arose during the first act, when the
disturber of the scene began a violent
protest to the audience.
The services of the police were re- ,
quired to remove several angry Bul
garians and Interruptions continued
through the second act. as well as
encounters betwene the Viennese, who
Ike Mr. Shaw's play, and the Bulga
rians, who resented this one. Who
would have' thought that "The Choc
olate Soldier," for the text Is based
on "Arms and the Man." could- ever
have created any feeling but merriment?
This story of an "imported ghost"
is told by the London Morning Post,
aays the Living Age:
An American visitor was giving
the other day some examples of the
extraordinary speed and complete
ness with which the process of Amer
icanization is carried out, even In the
case of extreme alien types. Perhaps
the most extraordinary instances oc
curred in the newly erected mansion,
built in the style of an E-shaped
Elizabethan manor, of a Chicago
multl-milllonalre. He decided to , Im
port a ghost to heighten the illusion
of antiquity, and, after a prolonged
search and the expenditure of a con
siderable sura of money, a satisfac
tory specimen was picked up in De
vonshire and shipped to Chicago in
cold storage. It walked by daylight
and had every appearance, both as
regards garb and figure, of having
just missed the sailing of the May
flower. The millionaire and his
friends, some of the best people of
Chicago, were delighted with Its old
world looks and solemn deportment
On the third day, unfortunately, it
was seen eating a doughnut.
Does the following sketch of Wil
Ham Marlon Reedy, made by Francis
Hackett in his collection of essays,
"The Invisible Censor," not suggest
as much as any one may illustrate, a
fairly general conception of a "typ
ical, broad-minded American?" Mr.
Beedy is the sort of human being
who can combine Edgar Lee Masters
and Vachell Lindsay, single tax and
spiritualism, Woodrow Wilson and
Theodore RooBevelt. He knows brew
ers and minor poets and automobile
salesmen and building contractors
and traffic cops, and publishers, and
he Is genuinely himself with all of
them. He finds the common denom
inator in machine politicians and hy
peracid reformers, and without turn
lng a hair he moves from tropical to
arctic In conversation. He is at home
with Celtic fairies and the atomic
theory, with frenzied finance and St,
Francis. If he had a Pantheon, and
I believe he has, it must be a good
deal like a Union depot, with gods
coming in and departing on every
train, and he himself holding a glo
rlous reception at the information
booth. I am sure he can still see the
silver lining to W. J. Bryan and the
presidential timber in Leonard Wood.
He does not make fun of Chautauqua
He can drink Bevo. He has a good
the bee and tell mankind to go and (word for Freude. He has nothing
. A Kathlemet myth supplies' mate
rial for one of the eleven narrative
poems In Amy Lowell's new collec
tion, "Legends." The poem is enti
tled "Many Swans From North Amer
ica," and the legend is that Many
Swans begged a great shining disk
as a gift from The-One-Who-Walks-All-Over-the-Sky.
The disk by burst
ing into flames slew every human
being that Many Swans encountered;
he was ready to end his own life
through grief, but at last the Sun
Mother in pity took back her gift.
An epitaph to John Reed and other
members of the organization produc
ing the Provincetown plays who have
died since its beginning is contained
in the introduction by Hutchins Hap-
good to a new collection of the most
successful Provincetown plays.
Two stories which illustrate the
human side of the late Cecil Rhodes
are told by his biographer. Basil Wil
liams: "One night his friend Grev.
sleeping soundly after a hard day's
ride, awoke with a start to find
Rhodes, clad only In a flannel shirt,
leaning over him and shaking him.
waite up, urey, wake up! 'Eh.
what's the matter? Is the tent on
fire?" sleepily murmured Grey. "No,
no; but I just wanted to ask you.
have you ever thought how lucky
you are to have been born an Eng
lishman, when there are so many
millions who were not born Englishmen?"
After the raid he could not for
give the desertion of his old friends.
What is the good of friends to me
when I am right?" he said. "I want
them when I am wrong."
"There was a lot of everything the
word shortage is not American, says
W. L. George In His "Hail, Columbia.'
Other epigrammatic observations are
America is definitely a woman'a
country but only two or three times
have I seen a man give up his seat
to a woman." "The true America is
in the middle west, and Columbus dis
covered nothing at all except an
other Europe."
"Think of a stock broker sitting
down of an evening to the love tale
of a . stock broker," scoffs Alice
Brown in an attempt to prove that
people prefer books about life vastly
different from their own, and there
fore the stock broker would nat
urally choose "rural fields and pas
tures green" and a dialect which he
cannot, possibly understand. But do
people always want contrast? A re
porter, casting about for a new phase
of the pugilist. Jack Dempsey,- wrote
his impressions of his literary taste
under the title Dempsey s Five-Foot
Shelf." One of the books included
was "The Spoilers." by Rex Beach.
Is not that the one which contains
the "big fight?" The most persist
ent readers of sea stories are men
who go to sea. No, It is not impos
sible to imagine a stock broker lik
ing a stock broker story!
"Hall to thee, blythe grocer," is the
parody on Shelley's "Skylark," found
in "Parodies for Housekeepers," by
Constance and Burgess Johnson. One
verse reads:
A pale purple grouch of
Rage will dim my sight.
When I read your voucher
For the check I write
Thou art unseen, but yet I hear
Thy shrill delight.
Jlt Huntin. by Ozark Ripley. Illustrated.
Stewart & Kldd Co., Cincinnati, O.
Mr. Ripley Is recognized as an ex
pert on fishing and guns, for the
"Adventure" magazine; Is contribut
ing editor of "Sporting Goods Jour
nal" and feature writer for "Ameri
can Field" and other outdoor publi
cations. ' Mr. Ripley has passed a quarter of
a century in the big out of doors, and
a friend thus writes of him: "Ozark
loves dogs, he knows more about
hunting dogs and their training than
any other man I know, and every dog
have ever known loved Ozark. A
man who loves dogs and is loved . by
dogs always rings true. He Is a
friend always, and one that you can
count on to the last shot."
In this book of stories, consisting
of 192 pages, the human, lovable
quality of the man-author strikes the
observant reader. That quality
shines in all of these 21 different
stories of forest, field and stream,
and the breath of the open and love
of domestic animals are ever vls-
oned. Dixie CarroIL a hunting au
thority, writes an excellent introduc
tion.
The chapter heads are: In the
days of my youth; setter against
pointer; a day with the longhills; in
the chicken country; hunting squir
rels with Mizzowra; my ducking
pond in the hills; after Canadian
bonkers; in the lair of the email
mouths; "Just "possums:" with White
River elk;. my pet. the woodcock; no
feud; southern bear hunting; the
giant gobbler of Gun Bluff: hunting
ducks on a swift waterway; hunting
whitetails with Josh; the hillbilly's
guest; the white wolf; vacant col
lars; Raoul and my New Brunswick
moose; and Strongfang of the
swamps.
Two of the more remarkable
stories are "The White Wolf" and
"Strongfang." In the former, the
hunter hears of a strange white wolf
that enters farm yards and kill
calves, chickens, etc.. and escapes
unscathed. It was supposed that the
home of this white wolf was In the
near-by swamps, and one night the
hunter, accompanied by his Irish
setter Chlo. started in pursuit. Usu
ally Chlo was a dor of courage and
liked fight, but the hunter noted on
this ' occasion that Chlo was scared,
and that she uttered a low, whining
note.
Wolves began to run around hunt
er and dog. and suddenly in the
moonlight the hunter saw. for the
first time In his search, a white wolf.
It sat and uttered three ear-splitting,
blood-curdling howls. The hunter
aimed at the wolfs breast and fired.
The white wolf leaped, snapped twice
at vacancy and died. Investigation
showed that the wolf really was not
white, but had been subject to mange,
and from head to tail was destitute
of hair.
The hero of the story "Strong
fang" is the black wolf of that name,
a fierce, blood-thirsty animal. He is
at first pictured In all his vigor and
splendid strength, and his disregard
for all enemies except man. He finds
a female mate, and he- and she trot
together. Strongfang is boss of the
swamp, for had he not killed "all
rivals? His mate licks him with
fond pride.
Suddenly, as ' Strongfang walked
across a carpet of sodden cane, his
right paw stepped Into a big iron
trap. He was a prisoner. When the
female saw his peril, she drew away
irom mm, emitted a whine of dismav
and fled to safety to seek another
mate.
All day long Strongfang tuprsred at
the gripping terror, but in vain. The
vise-like jaws held him fast. As
night approached he saw that he must
act as his own surgeon and his teeth
began. Hopping away on three legs,
he sought rest in a thicket and next
afternoon he saw Peter La Fonge. a
pallid little trapper, carrying a few
rusty traps. He walked toward the
trap where Strongfang had been
caught and with his ax knocked loose
the fastening of the trap. Then he
became aware of a wolf's paw impris
oned there. The paw fell out and in
disgust the trapper flung away the
severed member.
The trapper's act filled Strongfang
with rage. So here was the human
being who was responsible for the
loss of the paw. Oho revenge!
Strongfang went back to his tribe.
but was coldly received. His late
mate had a new lover and the two
mocked him. Was not Strongfang
now a weakling? He now lived on
squirrels, decaying fish and turtles.
etc.
Pete began to be aware that on dif
ferent occasions a' wolf was tracking
him and thought it queer. One win
ter's day, as the snow was falling,
Pete walked toward his traps and he
carried a short ax. Strongfang saw
that he did not carry a gun. Now
was his chance. The trapper hap
pened to slip in the mud and just
then the wolf leaped. The ax fell
from Pete's grip and the wolf's teeth
began. The fetid breath of the wolf
sickened Pete. He yelled for assist
ance but none came. He drew his
clasp knife and. pressing the spring,
the long blade flew open. The wolf
proudly surveyed his work. He gave
a cry of victory.
.With his last strength Pete plunged
the blade into the wolf's heart. Man
and beast died together and their
bodies lay side by side.
in the University of Wisconsin and
he was on a tour of Russia when,
from March. 1917. to January. 1918,
the Russian revolution was accom
plished. The provisional government
of Kerensky was then destroyed and
the soviet republic came into being.
Professor Ross was therefore in a
position to note recent Russian events
'as they passed before them and he
now recounts these startling, history
making experiences in this book of
S02 pages. He writes with clarity and
dramatic force. He describes men
and women, good and otherwise.
Will Power and Work, by Julea Payatt.
Ph. D. Funk & Wagnalla Co., New
York City.
Our author is president of a great
French university and has reached
eminence outside his university duties
in educational, intellectual pursuits.
The translator of Dr. Payott's mes
sage. Richard Duffy, writes a preface
of 14 pages.
This boot of 422 pages covers the
whole subject of the theory and prac
tice of self-culture In a manner
that will make a strong appeal to
those who would Increase their men
tal efficiency and power of accom
plishment. Our author shows that we
have within ourselves a two-fold in
strument, will power and work, the
intellectual magic wand with which
those humble, persevering toilers we
know as "great men" were able to
conjure up the marvels of achieve
ment that assured them a full and
rounded life and. Incidentally, the
fame that marks them for our re
spect and emulation.
Here one learns how to read sys
tematically and intelligently, how to
build up a dependable memory, how
to obtain control of that strangely
uncertain instrument, the will, and
how to supplement the lack or
rightly assimilate the surplus of
education that fate has decreed for
us. As a clear, sympathetic and
authoritative guide to true wisdom
and strength of character this book
will be a boon to all interested.
Creative Revolution, by Eden and Cedar
Paul. Tnomaa Seltxer. few Tork city.
It is a part of one's education, in
order to distinguish good from evil in
social affairs of the mass and also
to find arguments how to refute an
opponent, if one reads such a book as
this.
It is a study in what is called "com
munist ergatocracy" and discusses the
two schools of action: two labor
movements and two social movements.
Chapter heads are: Communist Er
gatocracy, Socialism Through Social
Solidarity. Socialism Through the
Class Struggles. The Shop Stewards'
Movement. Historical Significance of
the Great W'ar. The Russian Revolu
tion. The Third International. The
Dictatorship of the Proletariat. The
Iron. Law of Oligarchy. Socialism
Through Parliament or Soviet, Cre
ative Revolution, Freedom.
Clerambault. by Romaln Rolland. Henry
Holt & Co., New York City.
A translation from the French by
Katherine Miller, this book, dated
Paris, May, 1920, is the poem story
of a protest against "that butchery
called war."
The principal hero is Sergeant
Clerambault, of the French army. In
July and August, 1914, members of
the Clerembault family are warm pa
triots for France and spoke of young
Clerembault as a hero when he en
listed. Then when news came that
he is missing or killed in battle, his
father becomes an extreme pacifist,
and talks against all war as some
thing which, should not be allowed,
Our author is a French pacifist,
who has suffered much for his opin
ions.
Japanese rerit, by Sidney
The MacMlllan Co.. New York
The Nen
Osborne.
City.
Mr. Osborne Is remembered for the
clarity of his views expressed in
previous Jooks on the political aspect
of the Japanese question.
This new book, on the same subject,
views Japan as a competitor of Amer
ica and advises that America ought to
be ready for eventualities.
The Russian Revolution, by Edward Als
worlh Hos, I.I.. I). Illustrated. The
Century Co., New York City.
Our author is professor of sooioloery
The Two Worlds of Attraction, by Anne
Abbott. The Christopher Pub'.lahing
House, Boston.
Our author 6tates that she began
in November. 1919, to receive from
the other world automatic writing
from her mother who had died years
previously. This book, of 183 pages,
relates what these messages are. The
teaching is metaphysical and reverent.
A Flower of Monterey, by Katherine B.
Hamill. The Paga Co.. Boston.
With pretty Illustrations In full
color by Jessie Gillespie and Edmund
H. Garret, this novel of old days
when Spain ruled in California has
much romance and tender sentiment
to commend iU
Originality and Other Eksaya. by Wtiltam
H. McMasterti. The Four Seas Co.,
Boston.
Twenty well-written essays on
quite a variety of subjects of current
interest. Some titles are: "On Go
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"On Why Not Worry?"
Sight I'nseen and Confession, by M irv
Roberts Rlnehart. George H. Doran 4
Co.. New York City.
These two stories of the occult
were reviewed in The Oregonian of
August T.
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