THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, MARCH 13, 1922
ABILITY TO LIVE AS "JUST FOLKS" IS HELD A GREAT ACHIEVEMENT
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Learning: to Nurture Art of Living Simply and Commonly Declared Worthy of Greatest Sacrifice Barriers Set Up by Wealthy or Educated Handicap.
BY DR. DAVID H. PENCE.
Pastor of Westminster Presbyterian
Church.
"I am Iad of the coming of Stephanus
am rortunatus and Achaicus; for that
which mi lacking on your part they
have supplied."
"For they have refreshed my spirit and
juurs. i Corinthians. xvi:18.
IT IS O.Ve of the richly human
touches in which a great man re
veals hi genius for remaining:
tenderly human. Accused by those to
whom his logic is a burden, of being
a sort of mental comptometer, Paul
refuses ever to be anything but just
a sheer human being. He had the
character to base an art of human ap
preciation. A master of every syllogis
tic apparatus by which immensity of
thought could be ground out, yet
Paul's chief passion was for what
Edgar Guest calls "just folks." That
was what those three persons men
tioned as "refreshing of spirit," were
to Paul three souls quite forgotten
to and unidentified by history, but
who fueled and stoked the fires with
in the person of a man to whom his
tory looks as one of its greatest
sources. Neither Stephanus. Fortun
natus nor Achaicus would quarrel
with the h'storian for having left
them on his pages as no more than
merely three names. It was not what
the historian was to do with them,
but what God did for them in per
mitting them to discharge the virus
of a needed cheer into the spiritual
veins of one, whose spirits lagged
.from weariness, and over-burdening
one back to whom all time would
ceaselessly look as one of the human
race's greatest benefactors.
Boswell played fool and the clown
to Samuel Johnson, whorm Macaulay
avers to have been king of England
in truth far more than the dolt who
wore the crown; but we have won
dered if, beneath all that we suspect
to be pretense on Boswell's part, as
to all that he wished to seem to have
been to Johnson's happiness there
was not a vast amount of truth
Johnson was deliciously . scandalous
in the way he made his veritable and
adoring slave the butt of his broad
wit but it is to be surmised that, as
without the biographer Boswell we
should now have no incomparable
classic of literature, so, without the
companion Boswell, theje might have
been less of a Johnson of whom to
write, a life.
Debts Owed Carpenters.
Few, if any, men have risen sheer
to lofty heights, or much above the
level of mediocrity, without feeding
oft at the fountains of human refresh
ment. "Just folks" are needful to
scaffold up a something inside. They
may be jnst folks, but in that fact
their genius. A walk down the
street will show one a lot of work
men putting together , what seem to
be long, elim boxes straight up into
the air, made of the roughest kind of
timbers. But concrete is to be poured
into those boxes, and, becoming hard
by "setting" may remain there, grow
ing more enduring with the passage
of time. Just plain, ordinary Italian
carpenters built that scaffolding for
Michael Angelo in the Sistlne chapel
at Rome, and the great man, lying
there on his back, painted the great
cartoons on the ceiling. The scaffold
ing went; the paintings remain. The
carpenters are forgotten; Angelo lives
immortally. Without the carpenters,
or someone working at the carpen
ter's task, we would have no paint
ings on the ceiling in. the Sistine
cnapei.
It would be a worthy task for some
competent human "appreciator," to
survey the whole field of biography,
just to reveal, if not the names, at
any rate, the fact of the world's debts
to the carpenters scaffolders, that
the world might have its Angeloes.
Tes, to hunt out the Stephanuaes, the
Fortunatuses, the Achaicusee, who
shored up to heights where he could
keep at his task, the genius of the
world's Pauls. "For they have re
freshed my spirit and yours."
I am arguing thus, in order that
we may recover the greatest thing
about Paul, the man himself. . I say,
"the greatest thing," for it is more
and more accepted as a truth, that of
the two things, namely, what a man
does with his convictions, and, what
a man's convictions do with him
the latter is the more enduring. In
other words, truth as it emerges in
personality and character, is truth
emerging in its highest expression.
Enthusiasm Is Oatponred.
We shall eee in the wav Paul re
acted to the orowd which he faced and
to the individuals who fnr.n
close as "just folks," how Paul had re
acted to the spirit and example of his
master, it was an Immense rebound
for a man shut up within himself as
the smug, supercilious young Pharisee
found himself to be, to divert all the
centripetal, self-centering passions of
a mighty nature, hotly furnaced in
self-love, out into the centrifugal
outpoured enthusiasms which were to
enrich the world, his own and coming
ages.
There is no finer piece of human
study in any other biography than
that of the joy in this autocratic, aris
tocratic nature, despising the common
herd as he did the avid joy in discov
ering in the crowd, once viewed and
dealt with as "just folks," that those
of the "common herd" were the most
thrillingly fascinating things in all
the world. And that he learned from
Jesus. In the business of living there
is no greater art. Jesus was the great
commoner; an apt and eager pupil
having vastly much to learn was
Saul of Tarsus. .
So much of the cluttering things of
this frustrating life which we live
these days accumulate to hide the ele
mental sentiments which make us all,
at heart, just hungrily "folks." Con
ventionalities, business, a lot ;of arti
ficial things tend to denature us, de
humanize the essential thing we all
are innerly, down at heart. . .
We were sitting in a well-filled
street car. All aboard were apparently
strangers to each other; we appeared
mutually suspicious of each other;
each passenger seemed drawn within
himself or herself. A young mother
came aboard carrying " a baby. A
friendly, sociable little rascal, laugh
ing and cooing-; witmn nan a minuxe
he had thawed that immobile, eelf
contained crowd into a bunch, of 'just
folks." I heard a man who had sat
with a sour face sunken down into
his folded arms remark to his neigh-l
bor that ne naa a cute utile grana-
son at home about the same age as
that baby over there. I keenly re
gretted that the neighbor became so
animated that he turned away from
me toward the doting old grandfather,
and I lost what he said. But that baby
had stripped that crowd of the things
which segregated them and made
yjem gregariously just folks all
melted into the community of ele
mentary passions.
Living as Folks Fine Art.
It is life's biggest, finest art that
of living "refreshingly" with folks.
To some it is a gift; to others it is an
attainment.
It is worthy of our utmost zeal, our
greatest sacrifice, to, nurture the art
on into a grace of character. ,
Paul, as we have noted, had his
Supreme example' in liis Master. By
common consent Jesus will be placed
at the fore and front, of all common
ers the one who gave democracy of
motive and act its most Illustrious
precedent.
' He- passed by every conventional
test and gathered about him , 12 men,
not one of whom had advanced be
yond the simplest crudities of personal
discipline. But the quality common to
them all was this one simple thing:
They were "just folks," and we shall
boldly coin a word in saying that
"folkhood" is the one human strain in
the incomparable Jesus himself sub
limated on to the nth degree. "The
common people heard him gladly.'"
Just "common people." Folks, stripped
of a thin veneer, uncloaked of an af
fected and- often ungracefully-worn
garment of conventional mannerism
that's just what all of us are
"common people some of us very
much so.
The unfolkly things about us are
mostly man-made and conceived un
der the theory that if you can put
something different on the outside of
a man you make the man different.
Let us "not forget that it was Paul,
the great philosopher, who lists for us
the qualities which God wants to be
stow on us, and note that they are
the human traits which emerge in us
essentially as "just folks." "The
fruits of the spoil are love, joy, peace,
long suffering, gentleness, goodness,
faith, meekness, self-control." . That
list is a mental group portraiture of
the good old-fashioned simplicities
which most of us can recall out of
days not far off, but days sensibly
different from our times days char
acterized by the poet "high thinking
and simple living."
Simplicity Is Keynote.
I beg to plead that we deartificialize
things somewhat; that we pursue the
conversations which evoke thef oiky,"
the elemental and simple and genu
inely good qualities, on lives of which
our creator plainly intended we should
live our lives most resourcefully, and
in the play and action of which we
should find our best happiness. '
As "just folks" we rise to our high
est and1 go to our deepest and spread
to our broadest In terms of friendli
ness of spirit u as such, we have our
contact with he" widest stratum of
human beings.
There are some lonely souls who
crave all of this and. know not how
to have it; souls who love, but have
no facility in showing that love to
just humans. They are to be pitied
for that unsatisfied yearn, but the
one who deliberately uses the con
ventional and artificial advantages of
wealth, social prestige or education
to barrier oneself in and to shut
"mere folks" out, is a pitiable victim
of delusion the delusion that there
is any substitute in life for the human
contacts which "refresh the spirit."
Perhaps it is the counsel of a
withering selfishness, the fear that
that sheer' human contact shall levy
the costs of loving, for loving is
costly, albeit, it is the tax the lower
always pays to the higher.
The smug young Pharisee would
have shrunk from the supreme sacri
fice had he known that the day would
come when, contemplating what at
that noon-hour at Damascus would
have seemed the off-scouring of earth
namely, those Corinthian slaves, he
would have come in a quarter of a
century to view them "Just folks,"
and deliberately write to them "I will
very gladly spend and be spent for
you, though the more abundantly I
love you, the less I be loved."
But Stephanus, Fortunatus and
Achaicus were content- with the sta
tion, dignities, perquisites and ajipur
tenancles of "just folks." In that of
fice they did their great service to
humanity; In their mastery of the art
of being that, they served the race.
To some of us may fall the privilege
of rising to some achievement of note,
and mayhap,' to be remembered be
yond our little day, but it is a trifle
disturbing to our vanities to hear the
great Lord of life portray the final
judgment, and to know that it was in
our capacity as "Just folks." and in
doing and being the things failing to
that station, and advantage that our
eternal destiny had taken on its goal.
Matt xxv:34-46.
Then shall the kins My unto them on
his rlg-nt hand: Come, ye blessed of my
Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for
you from the foundation of the world:
For I was an hungrsd, and ye ;v ma
drink; I was a stranger, and ye took ma
in; naked, and you clothed me; I wu airk,
and ye visited me; I was in prison, and
ye came unto me.
Then shall the righteous answer him,
saying: Ixrd, when saw wa thee an
hundred, and fed thee or thirsty, and cave
three drink 7
When saw we thee a stranger, and took
thee in. or naked and clothed thee 7
Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison
and came unto thee?
And the king shall answer and say unto
them: Verily I any unto you, inasmuch as
ye have done it unto one of the least of
these my brethren, ye have done 11 unto
me.
Then shall he say also unto them on
the left hand: Iepart from me. ye cursed,
into everlasting fire, prepared lor the devil
and his angels.
For I was an hungred, and ya gave ma
no meat; 1 was (hirty, and ye gave ma
no drink; I was a stranger, and ya took
me not In; naked, and ye clothed me not;
sick, and in prison, and ye visited ma not.
Xhen shall they also answer him. -ing,
Lord, when saw we thee an hungred.
or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or
sick, or In prison, and dd not minister
unto thee T "
Then shall ha answer them, saving;
Verily, I say unto you. inasmuch as . ya
did it not to one of the least of these,
ye did it not to me.
And these shall go away into everlast
ing punishment, but the righteous into
life eternal.
I Have Only Myself to Blame, by Prin
cess A. Bibesco (Elizabeth Asqutth)
CJeorge A. Doran Co., New. York city.
It had better be explained at the
outset that the author of this book
of English society people is Princess
Bibesco, a daughter of Margot As
quith, and the wife of the Rumanian
minister now resident in "Washington,
D. C. Margot Asquith is wife of a
former premier of 3reat Britain.
The book is a collection, apparent
ly, of short stories, and its general
text is love and passion. The lan
guage used is brilliant, clever, yet
extravagant and now and then weari
some. The author evidently has tried
to excel her mother in audacity of
utterance. Her types chosen for por-
v trayal in this volume of 172 pages
are generally those of erotic, hot-
house plants of married people who
live unhappily with each other, and
who are possessed of guilty love for
other people of both sexes. In "writ
ing about these unhappy, so-called
romantic types, the author tries to
be as daring in her language as pos
sible. Her book, no doubt, will be
one of the talked-about books of the
season. Her created types of fiction
are English society people who never
seem to do anyting for a living, and
who seem smart enough to get other
people to work for them.
There are 15 chapters in the book,
and the title of the first one is: "I
Have Only Myself to Blame." The
heroine is a young married woman
whose name is Catherine, and she
fills the position as wife of Horace
Little, a member of the British par
liament or congress. "She was the
first person he had ever loved, and
he had trembled when he touched
her. His spasms of passion had been
like spasms of pain, . . . and then
there had followed intervals of
wretched shyness. When he had
thought of possessing her he had be
come a saint waiting for a divine
manifestation. It was this transform
ing of an ordinary physiological fact
into a miracle that won her. She
could see inevitability in desire, in
triumph, 'in failure. Hers was the
man's attitude. He lifted her into
the region of the ridiculous and the
sublime.
" "Your privacy is sacred, he said.
Everything that you give me is dl
vine. But it is a gift. I have no
riehts.' She coula not resist the
thought of being married to a monk.
He had made no vows concerning her
Etiirit. her mind, her habits. These
b was ' free to violate. Here he
must insist on asserting himself. Now
she was wating for him in her cnarm
ing boudoir. He had come in late
from the house (of parliament) and
was dressing for dinner he always
dressed for dinner.
Her husband came up to her, and
was guilty of a rare fit of tender
ness, he "took her hand and kissed
it." At dinner he said: "A very
erood wine, my Catherine." He en-
ioved the dinner and his own con
versation. By including her in his
complacency he did his duty to his
wife.
Catherine begins to find fault with
a Mrs. Donald, wife of a personal
friend of her husband. "Catherine,"
his voice was firm, "there are certain
things that I have the right to exact
from my wife; one is that she should
keep her bitter tongua off my
friends." .
Mr. Donald is announced, and the
two men drink wine and smoke and
talk. It seems that Uncle George
(Lord Wrotham), whose wife is an
inmate of a lunatic asylum, lives with
a Mrs. Gardiner, and his nephew,
Horace Little, says of this affinity af
fair: "Every one knows why
shouldn't he, poor man."
Catherine: "Really, Horace, con
sidering that you don't believe in
God, you really have taken on all
the intolerance of all the churches in
the world." Mr. Donald goes home.
Husband and wife have a spat, and
husband says in a tone of finality:
"You will please realize that I am
master in my own house." Catherine
"pushed the arm chair nearer the
fire, and got on his knee. With the
curling capacity of a cat, she fitted
herself into his (her husband's) arms.
Suddenly she began to cry. 'Horace,"
sho said, 'I am so lonely, so terribly
lonely." He kissed her and soothed
her and mesmerized her." And so on.
Titles of the other short stories
are: "Tomorrow," "The Web," "An
Ordinary Man," "The Gesture." "Cy
clamen," "The Dream." "The Fare
well." "Tout Comprendre." "Three
Love Letters," "The Successor." "As
It Was in the Beginning," "The Old
Story," "The Pilgrimage," "The Ball"
and "Fragment of a Correspondence."
of the recent world war, on the staff
of the London Globe. He was a fre
quent contributor to the Pall Mall
Gazette, the Outlook, the Academy,
the Spectator and the New Statesman.
When war was declared, he Joined the
Royal Sussex regiment, and served
with his battalion until 1917, when
he was appointed to the staff, serving
in the military intelligence director
ate. His other books are "The Street
of Faces" and "England in France.'!
The Cornish Penny, by Coulson Cade. Fred
erick A. Stokes Co.. New York City.
Opening towards the close of the)
ISth century, when the "good old
Georgian days" occupied men's minds,
this delightful story, of Cornwall,
London and other places will linger
long in the memories of appreciative
readers and once the story Is known,
there will be many such readers. Ro
manec, love, a well-developed piot
and fine character studies are present.
Wayfarers in Aready, by Charles Vlnce.
O. P. Putnam's Hons, New York City.
Twenty-seven sketches, written with
cultured taste, describing peaceful
Knglish scenes in valleys and quiet
homes, and also war-scenes in France.
Charles Vince, born in Middlesex
in 1SS7, was, previous to the outbreak
The Rich Little Poor Boy, by Eleanor
Gates. X. Appleton & Co., New York
City.
,Elearior Gates' "The Poor Little
Rich Girl" is a famous story that was
accepted by the reading world as a
treasure.
Much of the same author's magic
is found in "The Rich Little Poor
Boy," a delightful story of boyville.
It depicts the adventures of Johnnie
Smith, an 11-year-old boy, who lives
in the New York slums on a street
down which the elevated railroad runs
like a dragon on stilts. Johnnie is
busy stringing a saucersful of beads
for a customer, and about him are the
people he knows as family his foster-
father, Big Tim" Barber, a stevedore;
Barber's old father, grandpa, who
spends his days In a wheeled chair,
and 16-year-old "Sis, Barber's step
daughter, who pastes paper boxes in
factory from morning till night.
Johnnie Smith is poor. , He never
has seen "the country," nor run in its i
woods, nor fished in its brooks, nor !
done any of the things he would like
to do. Yet he is a "Rich Little Poor
Boy," for he can even up things by
the magic of his own mind. With
the power of his imagination he is
able to forget the drabness of his sur
roundings and be off on adventures
that never stale nor disappoint. John
nie becomes a Boy Scout; also a plain
every-day hero.
ror Whistler and his creations and
are excellent and artistic In quality.
The pages are 339, including index.
Since the day Whistler, arranged
with the two Pennells that they
should write his "Life," they have
Kept a personal record of the Whis
tler they knew a record of what he
said and when with them, of what
he told them he had done during his
life. He also told them much of his
contemporaries, artists, authors, men
and women well known in London
for Whistler knew every one worth
Knowing or his generation. The Pen
nells have, for the first time and at
first hand, recorded his real sayings
ana doings. In the Whistler journal,
ana not previously published, are in
timate revelations of Whistler, his
friends, his views on art and artists,
notes of his talk, much of it witty,
for Whistler was a great wit, much of
it serious, for he was more serious
than most of his contemporaries; and
much that is pathetic and sad, for
though he triumphed his triumph was
the outcome of great tribulations.
As for the illustrations, many are
sketches and studies which are in the
possession of the authors and their
friends, or in the Pennell collection
in the library of congress, and are
now reproduced for the first time.
The Stock Market, by S. S. Huebner, Ph. D.
Appleton & Co., New York City.
Dr. Huebner is professor of in
surance and commerce, Wharton
school of finance and commerce, Uni-
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E. O. Hoppe.
Princess Bibesco, author of "I
Have Only Myself to Blame."
versity of Pennsylvania, and the
author of several admirable books on
financial subjects. "
within the scope of 496 pages, our
atithor presents well-arranged facts
concerning the services of the stock
market to the investor, together with
its organization and operation, the
factors determining the prices of
securities, and the legal principles
and usages governing the stock and
bond market. .
The language used is non-technical.
and is easily understood, so that the
reader is provided with a working
understanding as far as printed
words go of, the field of his invest
ment activities.
The discussion is under these heads:
Services rendered by the organized
stock market; organization and op
eration of the market; factors af
fecting security prices and values, and
legal principles governing the stock
exchange business.
The Blue Dragoon Ballads, by Alfred
James Fritchey. 623 San Julian street,
Los Angeles, Cai.
Twenty-two ballads, tender and
beautiful in literary structure. Sev
eral of the poems especially will
please children old enough to read.
The City in the Clonda, by C. Ranger Gull.
Harcourt, ilrace at Co., New York City.
An astonishing, impossible, weird
novel of adventure and love in a
palace supposed to be located 2000
feet above London, England.
The Whistler Journal, by Elisabeth R.
and Joseph Pennell. Illustrated. J. B.
Ltpplncutt Co.. Philadelphia.
A valuable appreciation of a great
artist, ono of the greatest of our
generation. . It has an intimate,
friendly tone. The illustrations mir-
Workingr With the Working Woman, by
Cornelia stratton Parker. Harper
Brothers, Ne,w York city.
Cheerful and filled with a love for
fellow-employes, this book is a
thoughtful, chatty story of "Connie"
Parker, an educated young woman,
who went out to work as a working
woman because she wanted to por
tray the daily life of the women fac
tory worker as nearly as possible,
as seen through the average worker's
own eyes.
Our author did not go out as an
investigator, eager to work up an
expose, or to experience sensations.
She wanted working impressions, and
got them. She worked for pay, gen
erally around $14 per week, in a
chocolate cream factory, a brass
shop, a laundry, a dress factory, a
pillow-case shop, and as pantry - girl
in a hotel. Frank and blunt records
of conversations which took place
among help are presented, with ex
amples of profanity, etc. One of the
favorite words used by the help ap
parently was h 1, with one other
swear word added. All the girls met
with spoke freely about "fellahs'" and
the chances a girl had to get married.
Some girls said they were afraid of
marriage. ' v
One conviction met with in the
book is that the worker must come
to have a word in the management in
determining the conditions under
which he labors five and a half to
seven days per week.
i .
The Body in the Blue Room, by Sidney
"Williams. The Penn Publishing company,
Philadelphia.
Various people society andv-other-wise
meet at the country house of
the Carrington's. and two of the
notable guests are Richard Marston,
lawyer, and Carlotta Hamlin, who are
sweethearts.
Mrs. Fanny Cutshaw, a pretty
woman with a past, .is another guest.
and on page 56 she is depicted as
being found murdered by a stab or
blow .at the base of her skull. A
letter is found near her body, a note
addressed to "Dear Jim," and stating
that she must have S5000. Hunting
for the murderer ensues. An aero
plane is observed to be in the neigh
borhood. Different people in the
recital are abducted, and bad Indians
are near.
The murder of Mrs. Cutshaw is
shrouded in mystery. The interest
is well sustained and the plot is a
The Marriage of ratricia Pefferday, by
Grace Wilier White. Little, Brown &
Co., Boston
Patricia is a girl heroine who will
be loved by readers lucky enough to
make her acquaintence in this inter
esting American novel. Associated
with her in her theater work and
social activities are: Martin Brewer,
the big-hearted dramatist, and his
idolized, crippled son, Benny; Milly
and Billy Foster, true exponents of a
certain type of vaudevillists; O'Kel
leron, the forceful district attorney,
whose paths cross Patricia's in strange
fashion; Fane a mentally unde
veloped girl whom Patricia befriends,
and a host of other people, some
lovable and some quite the opposite,
such as occur in any group from real
life.
The Disobedient Kids, by Bozena Nemcova.
Harper Brothers, New York city.
Illustrated in charming colors, these
agreeable and well-told Czecho-Slovak
fairy tales are Interpreted from that
language by William H. Tolman,
Ph. D., and Professor V. Smetanka,
from stories selected by Professor V.
Tille. The illustrations are by Artus
Scheiner, academican.
There are ten of these fairy stories
and they are of an unusual, interest
ing nature. Several of them, natural
ly, reflect the doings of children and
animals, and also the beauties or na
ture. The book measures nine and a
half inches by 12 inches.
ducing aluminum articles were burned
to death when fine aluminum dust
from their buffing machines exploded
in their faces with, a concussion heard
two miles distant.
Starch exploding in another factory
resulted in 43 deaths and damages
estimated at 13,000,000.
While handling cotton seed meal a
Wisconsin plant was damaged! by an
explosion in that product and three
workmen were killed.
Other Dusts Cause Explosions.
Any number of explosions of light
wood dust in wood-working plants
have been reported to the department.
Leather dust, formed in process of
manufacture, has also caused explo
sions; dust from various processes' in
paper and cotton mills, rice meal dust,
feed dust and other grain dusts have
all caused terrific explosions resulting
m loss of life and property. Explo
sion of coal dust in mines has long
been the bane of engineers and op
eratorsv The government's study of dust ex
plosions has resulted in the formula
tion of a series of safety rules. These
include recommendations that the
dust be prevented so far as possible
and be quickly removed; machinery
producing frictions be kept in repair
and lubricated; machines generat
ing static electricity be grounded, to
be drained of electricity, and open
flames such as matches, lights and
fires be eliminated.
Enterprise Postmaster Holds
Job Under 5 Presidents.
Ben Weathers Again Appointed
and Confirmed by Senate.
The Tragedy at the Beach Club, by Wil
liam Johnston. i-ittle, srowa 6c o.,
Boston. "
A mystery story around Long
Island, N. Y., featuring the murder
of a physician and the search for the
guilty party. Well told, and keeps
the reader guessing.
The Life of Florence L. Barclay, by one
of her daughters. G. P. Putnam s bona,
New York city. . . ...
The late Mrs. Barclay is sincerely
remembered as an esteemed "English
novelist whose books have the at
mosphere of true service and religion.
She died in March, lassi, ana is re
membered as the author of about a
dozen stories, among them- 'The
Rosary." It is calculated that about
1,000,000 copies of the latter novel
have been sold. . .
This present batch which contains
intimate viewpoints of Mrs. Barclay's
life, mirrors her manys, activities
mother, singer, lecturer, mission
worker and author. The entire mes
sage is an inspiration, and good to
hear about.
DUST FROM MANY PRODUCTS
CAUSES DESTRUCTIVE BLASTS
Raw Foodstuffs Possess All Potentialities of TNT, WY'Je Many Other
- Materials Cause Fatal and Costly Explr ,ions.
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ASHINGTON, D. C, March 11.
That loaf of bread you cut last
night for your dinner at one
time in its career possessed all the
dangerous characteristics of TNT.
The spices in the apple dumpling you
ate for dessert once boasted an equally
strong claim to dangerous propensi
ties. The sugar you yut on it to add
to its tastiness had, and still 'has, the
potentialities of dynamite.
Ex.perts of the bureau of chenvstry
of the United States department of
agriculture are authorities for these
strong statements. But they say they
might go further and add that the
rice in your pudding was just as
"flighty"; that the napkin you use, if
of cotton, the shirt on your back, if
also made of cotton, -the shoes on your
feet and the rubbers over them, and
finally, the coal with which you cook
your meal, were all at one time in
their processes of manufacture or
preparation for your use, equally
death dealing.
Dut Secret of Destrnctlvenesa.
However, there's no need now to
back away from any of them they're
tamed, the agriculture department
chemists assert. The secret of their
destructiveness is dust the dust
which is produced in their manufac
ture.
For a number of years department
experts have been studying the ex-
plosibility of carbonaceous dusts.
mostly for the education of manufac
turers ana workers in materials which
produce such conditions, and surpris
ing disclosures of general Interest
have been made. .
It is just about a. year since the
largest grain elevator in the world,
the North Western, at South Chicago,
111., was destroyed by the explosion
of grain dust in work rooms and stor
age bins. Six workmen lost their lives
in the disaster, which wrought prop
erty damage estimated at $3,000,000.
While there have been many other
that brought ihe subject most strong
ly to public attention, the depart
ment says.
Friction Creates Deadly Dust.
When wheat grains or other cereals
are handled in bulk, friction produces
quantities of fine dust, and when
train and carloads are handled daily,
the amount of this dust that accumu
lates about the plant, on floors and
projections, is enormous. Dust clouds
long hang in the air. It has beende
termined by the experts that this dust
produces with the air a mixture as
fickle and explosive as that formed in
the carburetor of an automobile. It
can generate gas explosions as pow
erful as those in rifle and gun bar
rels. All that is needed to start the
destructive work is a spark. The
spark on flame may start a slow fire,
the flash traveling from dust grain to
dust grain. It may travel through
dVust conveyors, corridors or blowers
to distant parts of the plant, where,
if sufficient pressure is built up, the
explosion occurs.
Dust explosions) government rec
ords show, have wrecked well-built
plants, thrown bodily loaded freight
cars, turned into twisted skeins of
scrap strongly built steel structures,
moved heavy bins from their founda
tions, and in the case of the North
western, blown out concrete bin walls
seven inches thick.
Many Explosions Are Listed.
A long list of similar disasters is in
the hands of the government investi
gators and not all are from cereal
dust explosions.
An explosion of ordinary powdered
table spices in a spice factory wrecked
the factory, recently, exacted toll of
six lives, injury to twice as many oth
ers and high property loss.
An explosion of powdered or con
fectioners' sugar, in an eastern re
finery, wrought damage estimated at
11,000,000 and cost four lives.
tireaKrast cocoa precipitated in a
cial.) A record without a. paral
lel in Oregon has be1i made, it is be
lieved, by Ben Weathers, postmaster
of Enterprise. He has just been re
appointed by the president and con
firmed by the senate. The office is
now under civil service rules, so that
he will retain it as long as his serv
ices are satisfactory.
Mr. Weathers was appointed post
master October 15, 1908, by President
Roosevelt. He has held the office, by
reappointment, under President Taft,
President Wilson and now under Pres.
ident Harding. Thus he has been
postmaster under five administra
tions. Even more notable is the fact that
last fall when announcement was
made that the civil service commis
sion would hold an examination for
the office' of postmaster in Enter
prise, as in other cities all over the
land, .only one applicant asked to take
the test. That was Mr. Weathers. He
had the civil service examination all
to himself and he passed with flying
colors.
Mr. Weathers was appointed first
by a republican. After he had served
out the remainder of the Roosevelt
administration and all of the Taft
regime, and a democratic president
had come into office, aspirants of that
party began to eye the post, but the
postmaster's friends persuaded them
he was a good enough democrat to be
left on the job. When Wilson was
elected to his second term there was
talk again of replacing Weathers, but
Sam F. Pace, democratic county chair
man and for years a close friend of
Mr. Weathers, sent word to Washing
ton that he himself did not care for
the office and the old postmaster
might as well be retained.
Then Harding was elected and the
republicans who wa-nted Jobs cast en
vious eyes at the postoffice, arguing
that since Mr. Weathers had held
through eight years of democratic
rule, he was entitled to no considera
tion from the republicans. ,
When the last day for making ap
plication to take the civil service ex
amination for" the office passed with
out any opposition In sight, Mr.
Weathers had scored again. He had
the place cinched.
The postmaster took office in En
terprise before the railroad was fin
ished into the county, and for a
month received the mail from stage
drivers. When the railroad wag fin
ished and the first train arrived, the
department had made no arrange
ments for carrying the mail from the
depot to the postoffice. Mr. Weath
ers was authorized to give the job
temporarily to L. W. Riley, who then
was running a dray line, and he car
ried the first mail from the railroad
to the office.
THE UTBMjf reraSCOP&J
RESCUE HOME TO OPEN
Salvation Army Building in Spo
kane Near Completion.
SPOKANE, Wash., March 11. "Put
the down-and-outer In an atmosphere
which will make him ashamed to stay
down and out," is to be the motto of
the Salvation Army's new 1120,000
social and industrial home, which is
to be finished and opened here some
time this month.
It will not be a spoken motto, but
it will "be a psychological condition.
The -building represents the latest
ideas in social work of this type.
When thrown open it will become the
men's center of the Salvation Army
in Spokane, and in an emergency a
thousand or more people can be cared
for in it.
The big fresh-air basement will
house a number of dormitories, show
ers and a reading and writing room.
Then there will be a gymnasium, a
snun kitchen for emergencies, an em-
' BY JEANNETTE KENNEDY, ,
Assistant in the Circulation Department,
Public Library.
APROPOS of Max Eastman's recent
work on "The Sense of Humor,"
George Bernard Shaw is reported
to have advised that he go to a sani
tarium when Mr. Eastman told him
he was writing this book- "There is,
he added, "no more dangerous literary
symptom than a temptation to write
about wit and humor. It indicates the
total loss of both."
People who have read Mr. East
man's analysis are not worried by
such a suggestion, however.
Frederick O'Brien, whose "White
Shadows in the South Seas" has been
one of the most widely read books in
this country ever since its publication,
has lived a varied life, according to a
recent magazine article. He is re
ported to have been educated in a
Jesuit school, to have shipped before
the mast at 18, to have wandered over
Brazil, Venezuela and Trinidad. Also
it is' recorded that ne reaa a lime law
in his father's Baltimore office; that
he roamed about England . and the
continent in the performance or
very minor tasks; that he was
once a reporter on the Marion
Star. President Harding's Ohio paper.
He was, too, a writer on the Japanese-
Russian war and as a beacncomDer in
the Society, Marcfuesan and other isles
of the Pacific he gathered material
for his first book, "White Shadows in
the South Seas."
Richard Washburn Child is just
publishing a new novel dealing with
the occult, entitled "he Hands of Nara."
It is said to be the "most powerful and
significant of 'all the fiction that has
come from Mr. Child's pen."
"Life and Some Letters" of Mrs.
Patrick Camipbell is promised for
early publication, and doubtless will
contain many matters of interest to
the admirers of her artistic inter
pretations of characters on the stage.
In an attempt to gain a consensus
of opinion from many American
leaders in different walks of life as
to who was the "greatest American,
Arthur Hendriek Vandenburg re
cently wrote letters asking for nomi
nations. Lincoln was chosen first,
Washington second, and Franklin,
Jefferson. Webster. Roosevelt, Hamil
ton and Wilson "also ran." But Mr.
Vandenburg himself voted for Alex
ander Hamilton, and following his
convictions, has published a very
eulogistic biography of "The Great
est American: Alexander Hamilton."
The Hamilton biography by J. C.
Oliver is considered a far better one,
and indeed one of the best American
oolltieal biographies.
A story of the stone age in Great
Britain in "Drifa's Curse," by Blue
Wolf. The action takes place at a
period when the earlier Neolithic
rpeople were coming in contact with
the slightly more civilized ioik or
the later stone. age who were pro-
viHed with crude weapons. The
book is illustrated appropriately for
the text. '
a
"Justice," Mr. Galsworthy's note
worthy play which has long been
read with interest in America, is now
being produced on the London stage
at the Court theatre.
A comment in the Spectator con
tains a bit of information which
should have as wide circulation as the
drama itself, viz.: "Mr. Galsworthy's
dramatic tract retains our interest In
spite of the fact that what is probably
the cause of its existence, a certain
evil in our prison system, has been
largely removed. It is a singularly
depressing play, but those who are
unfamiliar with it will not regret a
visit to the Court theater."
- e
A fresh biography of Lenine by a
Russian socialist, M. A. Landau Al
danov, predicts the ultimate downfall
of the Lenine rule. He says, "nothing
permanent can be built on hatred
alone," and "sooner or later Lenine
will become the victim of the Frank
enstein whose parts he assembled
in order to master Russia."
midgets and the normal-sised. She
ponders over the question of what
the world would be like if reduced
to. her scale. When she relates that
she stumbled and fell over a " hair
brush on her father's dressing table
when startled by a robin who
'"picked" at her through the window,
one appreciates some of the disad
vantages of being the size of a
marionette. The work is full of a
suspensive interest which holds one
enthralled to the last page, for every
incident is an event.
In Mr. Richard Henry Dana's diary
of his visit to England and Europe
in 1875-6, called "Hospitable England
in the Seventies," he tells of his im
pressions of many famous men and
women of the day, for he was well
provided with introductions and gra
ciously received.
In Edinburgh he visited Lord
Young, famous for his wit, and cites
an example of his repartee. Alfred
Austin had modestly remarked that
he was writing a few verses to keep
the wolf from the door. "Do you
read them to the wolf?" was Lord
Young's retort.
A volume of literary criticism soon
to appear under the title, "Friday
Nights," is by the English author,
Edward Garnett, and is to he pub
lished in New York by A. A. Knopf.
At a discreet distance -Australia-James
James wrote a "Guide Book to
Women," which has been described
as a book "of a million masculine
chuckles," and the Boston Herald
describes the author as an "irre
pressible and irresponsible gentle
man" who now has put out a new
book in a similar vein of humor. It
is called "Honeymoon Dialogues,"
and it is recommended for the "tired
business man," but not for the se
rious-minded.
When the great meet, the by
standers are often disappointed. John
Luther Long, who was responsible
for the beautiful story and play which
gave "Madam Butterfly" to the world,
had long wished to meet' Puccini, the
composer of the opera, says the
Etude. The meeting took place in
Philadelphia after hundreds of per
formances of the opera had been
given In all parts of the world. Puc
cini does not speak English and Long
does not speak Italian. Puccini, how
ever, boasted one word in English And
this was "Fiffer," which being a little
better Anglicized means "fever." Con
versing by means of an interpreter is
about as interesting as talking to our
friends through a wet blanket. Con
sequently this historic meeting was
reduced to a dialogue like this: Puc
cini (much excited and exceedingly
warm, gesticulating with both hands
to indicate his temperature) "Fir
fer!" Long, (confused) "FifferT Oh
you mean fever, . heat very hot.
Puccini "SI, fiffer." That's all.
the early part of May. Committees
are already working on arrangements
for the convention, and preparing to
house the visitors by opening the
homes of the city to the delegates
and their families.
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Oddfellows to Meet In May.
EUGENE Or., March 11. Three
thousand viwitors are expected In Eu
gene during the meetings here ef
the grand lodcre of Oddfellows during
A most intriguing novel written by
Walter De la Mare, the poet,, is
"Memoirs of a Midget." This deals
with the exciting adventures in the
life of an elfin-like little creature
who tries to solve the mystery of
what makes the differences between
thick cloud from burning bins in
fantnrv elr. ATntnAoil. nHritno- t"h I . Khpahii onH hntpl rnnmn for
similar explosions in elevators, flour i wreckage of the plant and to the loss I those able to" pay. The auditorium
mills and plants producing a variety J of lives and money.. land officers' quarters complete the
of articles, that one was the, factor. Six girls working ia a factory pro-' building. -
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