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THE BEE: OMAHA, SUNDAY, JULY. 10, 1921.
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The Bee's Platform
1. New Union Paaaengar Station.
2. Continued improvement of the Ne
braaka Highway, including the pave,
ment of Main Thoroughfare leading
into Omaha with a Brick Surface.
3. A short, low-rate Waterway from the
Corn Belt to the Atlantic Ocean.
4. Home Rule Charter for Omaha, with
. City Manager form of Government.
Through "The Good Old Summertime."
: Already the days are noticeably shorter, and
the sun is drawing a little further towards the
. south both with the rising and the' going down
thereof. Those happy dwellers, whose lot is cast
along some one of the city's bosky avenues, note
as they take the air in the evening from the front
porch or the lawn that the tree toad's melody is
punctuated now and then with the harsher note
tf the cicada, while the first of the crickets swell
the chorus, and the listener looks ahead to the
time when the katydid will lift her contradictory
contribution through the early evening hours,
ttic pioneer eagerly awaited as denoting frost but
six weeks ahead. ,
; - Daylight , hours are stirring with the noise
and bustle of commtinal traffic, which needs must
go pn, regardless of season, but the evening and
the morning are boons of rarest blessing. ,With
the sun gone down in a blaze of gorgeous. splen
dor, dyejng the heavens; from horizon to zenith
with an opulence of color possible only to the
Great Painter, the hotfr of the' afterglow, while
the. soft light fades from the sky and the stars
conic out one by one in the vault of deepest blue,
gives to the weary toiler of the day such respite
and inspiration as should lift him from his cares
and make him glad to be alive to feel the softness
of the summer night. When morning comes, the
birds, who so noisily sought their shelter in the
long evening, as volubly welcome the false dawn,
and the slowly advancing flood of light that
bathes the world again. He that can also give
himself the joy of this new birth of day finds
in it something that is felt rather than expressed.
1 Nature is big with business just now. The
'fruits of early summer are ripened arti past,
tut the sturdier are yet to be matured, and to
these the gracious dame is giving her undivided
attention. With fervent sun and tempered wind,
and timely rains she nurtures those fair growths
whose ripened riches are for man's consoling
when the earth is wrinkled with cold and the
frost king holds sway. While the season puts
a temperate check on the activity of man, pro
cesses f which he has but little understanding
are going on unceasingly and with such energy
as will in time, bring the golden triumph of au
tumn not so very far ahead.
Midsummer, ? madness? Nonsense. A som
nolence, perhaps, because the air itself is drowsy
$tnfl provocative of dreaming, but the prospect
has a perspective stretching on so far that the
eye does "not catch the end, while the senses,
charmed by all outdoors sway with the gentle
stimulus of the whispering e.phyr that touches
so lightly and vanishes, almost'as it comes.' It
is "the good old summerttrne.tc'fervid without
fury, and full of the grace of a kindly mother.
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The University of Good Books.
.Worse than illiterates are half-taught people,
declared Sherman Williams, chief of the library
division at Albany, in a speech before the Na
tional Educational association. "One is not neces
sarily better off or a better citizen on account of
being able to read," he reminded his audience.
"He may be worse for it That depends upon the
kjncV of" reading he does. This must not be
left to chance. The public school, through its
library, and the public library as well, must see
to it that children learn to read that which is
..most worth while. This is a teaching process, and
in most cases will be done at school or not at all"
" To this advice was added the criticism of a
high school librarian, who expressed the opinion
that the average high school teacher did not
read, and that accordingly the pupils are not
encouraged to avail themselves of the treasures
in Books.
In the neglect of good reading may be seen
the thanklessness of human nature. Just as men
fought for the right to vote in past ages and
their descendants ndw having inherited the right,
often fail to exercise it, so do those recipients of
the hard-won right to education fail to value their
opportunities as they should. Half-educated is
doubly ignorant, and the person who knows
many things, but has failed to learn to think
clearly and reason well is far more dangerous
to democracy than an illiterate. For those who
have had to leave school too early to have been
seasoned, reading offers a way to fuller knowl
edge, and the public library is a very fountain of
good citizenship.
Rise of Community Churches.
In an era of consolidation there is nothing
Vcmarkable in the fact that a well defined move
.ment for the bringing together of divers religious
ects should Rain force. For many years the
-main. effort.. has been expended on plans for a
union of this, and that sect , on a national scale,
Indies move slowlv and not a great
deal has actually been accomplished. Now, how
ever, the idea has been seized on by localized
unit and in manv small towns union services are
held, one church supplying the place of several.
' There is, then, nothing startlingly new in the
elimination of church rivalry at Moorefield, Neb.,
by the decision of those of various Christian
faiths to unite in support of a single church
This is a process that is going on all over the
nation, in some places working well and in
others not so well. Moorefield is said to have
fniind the co-ooeration of effort an advantage.
Many villages have found the duplication of
expense "and the scattering of effort that results
from numerous comrreeations to be wasteful. In
-ome-inUue iour or fiv churches struggle
along, each with an underpaid pastor, when by
uniting they might make themselves a greater
force in the community and prosper in many
ways. Changes such as are going on cast a
new light on the frequent assertion that there
are not enough ministers to fill the pulpits can
it be that the matter is rather that there are too
many churches? ' '
By Bus Through Pickwick Land.
There is now no "stout old gentleman in a
blue coat and bright buttons, corduroy breeches
and . top boots" to welcome guests to, Manor
farm, Dingley Dell, and if Joe, Mr. Wardle's
fat boy, who loved to make people's flesh creep,
is now alive, he is well over 100 years of age..
Yet tourists and admirers of Dickens may now
retrace the journey made by the Pickwick club
through the towns and rural districts near Lon
don. The same roads that were traversed by
Samuel Pickwick and his associates on their re-,
search tour, Tracy Tupman, Augustus Snod
grass and Nathaniel Winkle, in the horse-drawn
omnibus of 1831, are now the scene of motor
coach excursions on which guides point out the
scenes of various literary adventures.
According to word in the London papers, a
route of about 90 miles has been laid out right
into the heart of the Pickwick country. Starting
from London the tour climbs up the main ridge
of the North Downs with a halt at Rochester,
where luncheon is served at . the Bull hotel,
made famous by Charles Dickens, as the base
of operations of Mr. Pickwick. Such was the
first journey of the immortal Pickwick, who
strode into this old inn accompanied by Alfred
Jingle, .the . impudent and impecunious strolling
player, who had rescued him from a cabman.
It is as if these characters really lived, and the
landlord will show you room No. 17 as the one
which was occupied by the amiable leader of the
Pickwick, club. From this place, Tupman and
Jingle sallied 'forth to the ball, where the auda
cious rascal, attired in Winkle's clothes, gets
their owner challenged to a duel, which is finally
averted.
No doubt from the motor coach will be
pointed out the drill ground where the party
attended a military review, and so narrowly
escaped being caught in the cross-firing. They
lived, however, to meet Mr. Wardle, the squire
of Dingley Dell, to say nothing of his two daugh
ters, his sister, who afterward eloped with the
fortune-hunting Jingle, and of the fat boy whose
ability to sleep . even while knocking at doors
has been so amusingly chronicled.
What i memories will be evoked if Manor
farm can be identified, where the Pickwickians
displayed ' more enthusiasm than skill in their
devotion to sport, where Winkle winged Tup
man instead of shooting the birds, and the scene
of the famous skating party. Over this road
sped the indignant Pickwick and Mr. Wardle to
apprehend and buy off Jingle from his determin
ation to marry the squire's ancient sister, a trip.
on which Sam Weller was engaged, and there
after to remain ever faithful to his master.
The journey of the motor coach is not
through London, but memory will arise, never
theless, of the awkward effort of Mr. Pickwick
to explain to his landlady that he has hired a
servant, a conversation which led her to scent
a proposal of marriage and to the famous breach
of promise suit of Bardell versus Pickwick.
Even while rolling comfortably along the yew-,
lined country lanes, lovers of Dickens may think
of the honest refusal of their hero to pay dam
ages and of his incarceration in Fleet prison,
accompanied still by the faithful Sam. He found
Jingle there and later Mrs. Bardell herself, im
prisoned for failure to pay her lawyers, a debt
which was gallantly settled by Pickwick. Thus
was freedom and a happy ending assured.
Almost as pleasant as the first reading of the
"Pickwick Papers" must be this all-day journey
through Kent, appropriately closing with a sight
of Gad's Hill Place, where Dickens lived and
died. Ninety years have passed since Pickwick
went this way, but for all that he lives still in the
imagination of readers all over the world, and
the route covered by the Pickwick club, al
though .fittjtious, assumes all the reality of his
tory.
Despotism of the Majority.
The plea of Rear Admiral Sims for free
speech ought not to be confused with his out
break on the Irish question, since what he is
now urging is fuller liberty for men in' the mili
tary and naval service to speak and write on
problems of defense and offense. He has no
ticed, as have many others, that those whose
opinions differ from those of the majority not
only lose popularity but suffer from criticism
that amounts to disapproval of free speech. It
must be confessed that the American public has
allowed itself to get into a frame of mind where
it actually approves of suppression of free speech,
and that the laws limiting this right are not as
severe as a great many would have them.
Many years ago John Stuart Mill declared
that in no country was there less independence
of thought' than in America. When public opin
ion considers a question settled, he observed,
no further discussion takes place. No one dared
say anything disrespectful of the public or
derogatory to its opinions, this British critic
claimed, adding that in the United States the
only recognized authority is that of numbers.
"Faith in public opinion becomes in such coun
tries a species of religion and the majority its
prophet," he wrote.
There may be merit in the pleading of Rear
Admiral Sims, but a plea for more open dis
cussion of preparedness problems would come
with more force from one who has not in the
past shown his emotions to outrun his good
sense.
When Jazz is Not "Jazz."
Homer Rodeheaver was tearing into "jazz"
before a group of Christian Endeavor delegates,
when somebody mentioned ' "Brighten the
Corner" to him. He came up smiling, however,
and insisted that that air is not jazz. To be sure,
it isn't, but a lot of Omahans will smile as Ahey
recall how "Rode" used to make it do tricks,
using his trombone as a baton. So with a lot of
other airs. A score of years ago a pianist was
making himself quite an attraction on the vaude
ville circuit by giving an exhibition of syncopa
tion on the piano. One of his stunts was to play
a hymn tune as it should be, and then syncopate
it That's -all there is to most of the so-called
jazz. A basic melody is selected, syncopated,
and then "jazzed" up, the rhythm retained the
double beat and the cow-bell inserted, any sem
blance to a tune knocked out of it, and the re
sult is jazz. But even Rodeheaver can not make
it fit for purposes of worship,
The Husking Bee
It's Your Day
Siari It WithaLauSh
THE MILK AND ICE FUND.
Breathes there a man who does not feel
These sultry summer days
His heart go forth to this appeal
For help, this fund to raise?
- That cool, sweet milk, when days are hot,
Be plentiful and free,
And little children suffer not
Unjust mortality.
Let pity dwell in every breast,
Nor let the call come twice
That children by the heat oppressed
May have sweet milk and ice; .
"V We need these babes as much as they
Need us so do not .wait,
To put it off another day
Maybe a day too late.
..
PHILO-SOPHY.
The best time to start tomorrow's task is
today. -
.
"How To Invest $10,000," heads a trust com
pany ad.
The method involved in investing $10,000, we
take it, is somewhat similar to that given in the
w. k.. recipe for making a rabbit pie.
First catch your rabbit
'
Money is close, 'tis said, oh gee, and that's
the way we love it, but it isn't close enough so
we can reach a great deal of it.
I'LL GO, CAPTAIN.
"Intoxicating Gas May Be War Weapon"
Headline. But when they see it coming won't
the soldiers throw away their gas masks?
The proud father of a bright and precocious
son is usually a firm believer in heredity.
NO PROHIBITION JOKES.
It would be a hard blow to the humorists and
cartooners if the country should go wet
You can't believe everything you see in print
nowdays especially on labels. a
Bad eggs may, in a way, be responsible for
tough chickens.
TRA LA LA, HEIGH HO.
The mosquito is a cheerful bird
That in the shadows lurk,
He always does or so I've heard,
Go singing to his work.
The gas a dentist gives you when he extracts
your teeth doesn't deaden the pain that comes
when he extracts your hard-earned money.
"Never allow yourself to hurry," sagely ad
vises a philosopher of the modern school of think
ers, in an effort to combat an evil of present day
life.
Still this advice, sound as it may seem, cannot
be followed to the letter under all, divers and
sundry occasions and circumstances.
F'rinstance, supposing a goop gets caught out
in a large and treeless pasture whose only, other
living occupant is an infuriated, fiery and
acrimonious bull it looks to a guy on the side
lines that Old Man Hurry would be one's best
ally. For the nonce, at least, as the saying has it.
You tell 'em, wrist-watch. You're near at hand.
Some men will swear to give up profanity
and then keep right on swearing.
BOUND TO ATTRACT HER.
Maud Muller on a summer day
. Raked the meadow aweet with hav
With modern methods quite a factor
The hay rake was bound to a tractor.
THE CAMELS ARE COMING.
Well, kids, with the glorious Fourth flopped
into the discard, the next event on the prospectus
is circus day a great day for the father and
the other youngsters, but a day when mortality
among our poor, overworked grandmothers is
expected to run high.
Lucky is the lad who, although he must work
for a living, is endowed by nature with a flock
of grandmothers one of whom can be relied upon
conveniently to pass away whenever there 'is a
ball game on or other doings necessitating the
boy's absence from the scene of duty.
Tomorrow the fathers of these youngsters
also will attend the obsequies and drown their
sorrows in glasses of sparkling, crimson-hued
lemonade and show their respect for the ele
phants by "saying it with peanuts."
Of course father doesn't care anything about
the circus personally of course not He just
goes because the children expect it.
Dad's a happy lad, yea bo!
Yet there'll be naught but sorrow
If father finds he cannot go
To the circus grounds tomorrow.
. "His work bears the mark of originality."
"How is that?"
"He hasn't used the word 'normalcy. "
SEE NEBRASKA FIRST.
Our well-known torrid summer
Makes warm Nebraskans swear,
So it's ho, for Colorado 1 '
And it's ho, for anywhere!
But hitch up your old gas buggy,
Go breathe the rain-swept air,
From the bluffs on Platte or broad Missouri
See visions far and fair.
- Let the spaces of Nebraska
Quite charm away your care,
No worry over board bills
Nor over railroad fare.
So it's ho, for the open road!
And it's ho, for the road to Blair I
Or maybe the road to Bellevue
- With some other friendly pair.
D. M.
"The flavor of the well-known doughnut
holes," D. M. succintly rises to remark, "is only
equaled by their nutrition."
But what we want to know is are you folks
going to let the versatile D. M. cop all the prizes?
Who's going to try for the genuine hand-painted
wind-shield wiper?
As the Gov. of North Carolina is said to have
remarked to the Gov. of South Carolina "It's a
long time between Sundays."
We don't get half as excited over the an
nouncement that $1,000 has been sliced off the
price of motor cars as we would over the glad
tidings of great joy that a sq. meal had dropped
to prewar level and the tax had been taken off
the succulent ice cream cone.
YOU RAP AND THEN WINK.
Sign on a building that is being renovated:
"Still open for business in the rear."
Men's suits not so tight this summer, chirps
a fashion note. Our's is just as tight as it was
last summer.
MOTHER GOOSE AT THE HOUSGOW.
Sing a song o' sixpence
Listen to 'em wail,
Six or seven coppers
Perched upon a rail
At the police station.
When along comes Cap Vanous and
Kicks those rail-birds off!
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AFTER-THOUGHT X you wish a thing
well done order it rar PHILXX
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How to Keep Well
By DR. W. A. EVANS
Quaatioas concarninf hygiene, eanitatlon and prevention ot aWaee, aubraltted
to Dr. Evana by readera of The Boa, will be aniwered pereonally, aubject to
proper limitation, where a etamped addreeeed envelop ia ancloeed. Dr Evana
will not make dlagnoeia or prescribe (or individual dutaaea. . Addreaa lettera
ia car of The Be.
Copyright, 1921, by Dr. W. A. Evana ; " '
HER SOCIAL EXPERIMENT.
"What can be done with a child
with the following history?" Mrs.
M. E. asks, describing him thus:
Boy S years old. Taken from an
orphanage when 19 months' old. No
information as to Intelligence or
character, nersonnlltv nr hnhovin.
of either parent. Child, did not eat
solid food until he was 5. Potatoes
were mashed and fed through bot
tle. Because nausea tpri m-hon h.
solid food in his mouth. Sucked his
mumD and sometimes his Angers.
Wet the bed. He is not extremely
norvuua. Elites to piny, but soon
tires of one srame and ftianm. n
another. Is well developed physi
cally. Belches frequently.
"Now as to his care. He Is well
cared for physically. Is given every
thing he asks for. a
shows nearly every night. Stays up
until 11. Memorizes poems or songs
ensiiy; can carry a message well.
Observes well. When If tnmoa
school work he will not try. Goes
to school one hour a day. Will
not study or try to learn. Has
learned the alnhnhsr hut fnro-ora i.
some days. Reads a little. .Recognizes-
a fair number . of words.
oays mat reading tires him. 'His
sight may be bad. If it is found all
right, what can I do?"
That the hnv haa a'
and nervous balance Is evident His
aversion to solid food, nervousness,
thumb sucking, bed wetting, all to
gether indicate that he was- "born
that way." People who adopt un
known bablea wlfhnut It
inheritable diseases and the lnher-
uaDie mental and behavior qualities
of their parents run considerable
risk.
A bad -inh AritnnrA rma fiAan mon
worse by bad social training or lack
of training. First see if the child is
all risrht ntiVKlrnllv ponoMnllv tn
vision, tonsils, , and adenoids. Next
mane a mental test, cnarts for this
purpose are obtainable from pub
lishers. : . .
Aaavimlns- that Via la all vls-Vi n
both Darticulnrs. vnnr nrnVilam la
the training of an 8-year-old con
stitutionally inferior child that so
far has been without training.
i ou must nave tne support of the
family to begin with. Tour prob
lem will he to nnnlv VHoplnltno In
such a way as to prove effective and
stiii not excite an lily poised child.
The inflnenrn nt wltomont: m,,st
be withdrawn. The plays employed
snouia oe noncompetitive. Since he
has a liking for pictures he can see
educA.tfnnn.1 nWiirpn wlttt ftdvontai,.
A home projective apparatus could
De usea witn advantage in his edu
cation. His . environment should
make for calm and poise.
, Build Vp Your Strength.
Mrss. J. A. W. writes: "I am the
mother of two children and am ex
pecting a third baby in a few
months. I am interested in the care
of babies and especially In breast
feeding. I have been unable to
breast-feed my two babies and
would like to know if anything could
be done to bring In the milk. I
have had an 'awful experience with
bottle feeding. I have had my
youngest baby under a doctor's care
since he was 6 weeks old and am
still taking him every- four to six
weeks. He will be a- year old the
14th of this month."
RKPLT.
Two Investigators working with
cows found out a few things which
Prohibition's Onward
Sweep
(From the Deseret Newa)
Those who have imagined that be
cause of the opposition to prohibi
tion in certain, of the larger centers
in the country the 18th amendment
to the United States constituion is
not destined to stand, will do well to
look further than our' own bound
aries to see how the movement is
spreading over the earth. The merest
glance should suffice to show how
futile are the efforts of opponents
of this great reform to nullify it.
Instead of indications of a backward
step anywhere, all signs are that
the good cause is Increasing in
strength in every direction.
From South America come reports
that prohibition is taking hold In a
way that suggests in some respects
the progress of an avalanche. If
people in this country wonder what
could have started a movement bo
unexpected and so widespread down
there, they can find an explanation
in the prosperous and peaceable con
dition of the canal zone due to the
absence of Intoxicants. Undoubtedly
this has been a factor in impressing
upon the Latin-American mind the
desirability of establishing on a
wider scale conditions that may be
hoped to produce a similar enviable
state of things. As a result there Is
hardly a nation over the whole of
the continent where the liquor ques
tion is not actively to the fore. In
Chile, the new president whose vine
yards were considered the finest in
South America, has torn up his vines
and planted the area in grain, and
laws are proposed which will an
nually reduce Chilian wine produ
tlon 20 per cent for the next five
years. A somewhat similar measure
is before the Argentina national leg
islature, with prospects of favorable
treatment. In Uruguay, the presi
dent's invitation to the world con
gress on alcohol has been accepted;
and Paraguay is seriously consider
ing a statute similar to our Volstead
act. Brazil with her mixture of
three races is not yet leading out
consplouously in dry law enactment,
but there is an Influential sentiment,
gradually growing stronger, against
the unrestricted sale of "hard li
quor," and the same tendencies are
reported from Peru, Ecuador, Co
lombia, Boliva and Venezuela. Lead
ers of thought in all these countries
realize that intoxicants have held
and are holding their people back
when they should and could be
forging ahead. Before their eyes
they have a vivid example and ob
ject lesson in the situation at the
canal zone; and most significant of
all labor itself at a recent conven
tion in Santiago passed a resolution
advocating, rigid legislation against
alcohol.
may help you. First, build up well
during the last month before your
baby Is born. Eat plenty of whole
wheat bread and milk during this
period. After the. baby comes eat
plenty, of milk and milk prepara
tions, whole wheat bread, bran,
patmeal and other Cereals, nuts and
eggs. These are foods that are rich
in lime and .phosphorus- In addition,
-discuss with your physician the tak
ing of a ' very small dose of phos
phate of soda three times a day. Do,
not take enough to nauseate or to
produce loose bowels. In addition,
do not worry, get plenty of sleep,
nurse your baby at stated intervals
and at no other time. Empty each
breast completely at least one a
day. Do not gorge with food. Breast
feeding is less troublesome for the
mother. As the baby gets older you
might give one bottle feeding a day
and in that way get away from the
children daily for a several hours'
rest through change. Breastfed ba
bies are less subject to diarrhoea
and infectious-diseases.
Depends on Her Strength.
Mrs. .G. .writes: "1. Please advise
about a lady friend of mine who is
77 years old who has had eczema on
her-face for. years. It finally has
settled In one place on the side of
her hose. It is a rather bad looking
sore, at times. Could a skin special
ist treat her face so aS to retard the
sore or is there any hope of perma
nent cure? We are afraid not, but
we hope the place can be treated
and kept from growing worse. She
ia very feeble and poorly most of
the time. She cannot live long. 2.
Is she too old to have cataract re
moved? 3. Wilt you please tell me
about dressing the sore? Is it best
to keep it covered? It annoys her
by itching at times." .
REPLY.
1. My guess is that this is an
epithelioma of the skin. Skin can
cers are cured by operation, radium,
X-rays and pastes. Of these meth
ods the paste method is least ef
fective and most painful. Whether
any curative treatment is justified
the family physician can judge best.
2. No. Does her strength permit
and does her outlook for life make'
it worth while? - '
3. Keep it clean. Use any sim
ple antiseptic ointment. One con
taining carbolic will lessen the irri
The Feminine Nuisance
From the Hoe ton Tranaerlpi.
In the Tale Review, Mr. Joseph
Hergesheimer, whose remarkable
contributions to American letters
are "Java Head" and "The Three
Black Pennys," publishes, under the
title "The Feminine Nuisance in Our
I Literature," a lament on the de
l plorable effect of the feminine in
fluence on American fiction. His
complaint, if it Is here read aright.
U rather with the feminine reader
than with the feminine author.
Nether Mr. Hergesheimer nor any
one else could Bafely contend that
"virile" novels have not been written
by American women. Several of
Miss Mary Johnston's, Mrs. Wilklns
Freeman's, Miss Alice Brown's, and
Miss Ellen Glasgow's novels might
well be Included in the "virile" list;
I and neither Mrs. Atherton nor Mrs.
Wharton is justly chargeable with
a single . namby-pamby or over
romanticized story. If anything
more truly or vividly real, or, for
that matter, more "masculine" than
"Ethan Frome" has been produced
py a living American author, it
would be hard to name It. In spite
of the raw vigor of "The Three
Black Penriys," Mr. Hergeshelmer's
masterpiece, or of "Main Street," by
Sinclair Lewis, the latest achieve
ment in realism, It is probable that
neither one of these authors could
produce a manlier figure than that
of Hamilton, in "The Conqueror,"
by Mrs. Atherton. Nor is it probable
that either Lewis or Hergesheimer
is capable of matching the panora
ma of war's heroisms presented in
Miss Johnston's "Long Roll." If in
fiction production these women were
matched with an equal number of
the best and strongest of living male
authors, what critic could claim
that, in the matter of vigor, their
output would suffer In any degree
In the comparison?
But if we read the criticism aright,
the "feminine nuisance,", as Mr.
Hergesheimer complains of it, is not
authorship, but the result upon the
work of men of the ordinary femi
nine reader's demand for false and
mawkishly melodramatic flavor in
fiction. It is assumed that there are
more women readers of fiction than
men. Where the shop-girl reads a
novel on the car, her male relatives
Where Legislation
Falls Down
From the Springfield Union.
One of the seeming paradoxes of
life Is that the more strenuous and
comprehensive the efforts of profes
sional reformers, the more pessimis
tic they become over developing con
ditions. Dr. Wilbur F. Crafts has
been in the reforming and uplift
business for years. He has a reg
ular organization that taps various
worthy sources for financial aid. He
is constantly at work against vicious
conditions as he finds them, and he
has had considerable success In his
main line of business, which is oper
ating upon congress.'
But after all his efforts, he is be
coming more and more of a pessi
mist apparently. He now finds wom
en dropping to the low moral stand
ard of men and he says that the
wave of vice and crime that is
sweeping the country "must be
checked by the breakwall of legisla
tion and the oil of religion and edu
cation." But the trouble with the
Crafts method is that too much at
tention is paid to the breakwall and
too little to the oil. The effort is to
make people m'oral by law when
religion and education is the real
means of success. Emphasize moral
ity by legislation and the life is
taken out of religion and education
affecting .society,, through the In
dividual. If. religion and education
function as they should, there would
be no excuse for morality by prohi
bitory law. When dependence Is
upon legislation, religion and educa
tion are weakened as saving moral
forces in soeiety.'
Dr. Crafts is bound to become
more and more of a pessimist if he
devotes himself to morality by the
breakwall of legislation. He can
not lobby a higher Btate of morality
into this country through congress;
he can only make matters worse by
such a course. The. future, however,
contains a great hope. The time
will cbrrte when morality by legisla
tion will reveal itself as a complete
failure and a vicious effort and then
religion and education will again
have a chance as the only, means of
progressive regeneration in human
society. .
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and friends read only the sporting
page. The result ot this condition
Is that multitudes of men are writ
ing books for women to rend, and.
either advisedly or not, they ay
cultivating the woman's man rather
than tne man s man. xne result y
that the hero of current and popuj
lar nction JS a tuaii wuu uuca wini
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i- i. la tvararhnlmnd and nronerU
1 1 1 S ,i, an v.v. "
Tn tha midst of this mas
querade of false and over-draped
masculinity this parade of herolo
fioor-walkership the simple and
solid man, possibly erring but hu
man, is quite los.t sight of. And from
one example of this kind of suh
servience to a milk-and-water sen
timent to another, the cause of
American fiction is being lost
Is the case really so bad as that?
We should have to admit that thero
Is an appalling mass of facile and
foolish stuff being produced, chiefly
by male flctlonlsts writing not espe
cially for a female audience but for
a "tired business man" audience,
whose sentimental tone is about the
same thing as that attributed by Mr.
Hergesheimer to the wemen. This
constituency demands a certain
amount of sensationalism, but a sen
sationalism sweetened with barley
sugar and flavored with vanilla. Tho
nuisance exists, but It is epicene. In
trying to put the blame all on the
women, Mr. Hergesheimer is shal
low. He betrays, throughout the
quality of a superficial critic. If the
average feminine reader devotes
herself to rattletrap fiction and noth
ing else on the elevated train, there
are, nevertheless, some millions of
women readers who are demanding
good literature perhaps of a still
better and manlier order than wo
shall find in "The Three Black
Pennys" or "Main Street." and con
taining much more of manly vigor
than we shall find in "Jurgen."
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