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Student of Money Problem Says
Depreciation of Dollar Causes
f 60 Per Cent of Rise
PROFITEERS TEN PER CENT
Lay the blame for 00 per cent of
the high cot of living to the fact that
there's too much mone circulating
about in the United States!
And 20 per cent to the willful waste,
by both mental and physical workers,
of time and commodities.
Ten rer fit ,0 nc abnormal de
mand of foreign countries for American
products.
And ten per cent to profiteers and
speculators.
This is the opinion of Wharton
BarVer, journalist and lawyer, and Is
the result, he says, of many jcars of
study of money and credit problems.
Mr. Barker says:
"When there is a great volume of
money, money is cheap, and the prices
for commodities consequently lise.
"When prices are stable the pur
chasing power of money is unchanged
"When prices fall money is dealer.
'the debtor despoiled for the creditor's
benefit".
"When prices rise money is cheaper,
has departed from the level of honesty,
iwith the result of benefiting debtor at
expense of creditor.
Must Regulate Money Supply
"So when the prices fall the volume
wf money must be increased, when they
rise the volume must be diminished."
Mr. Barker's statement follows.
"The high cost of living that now
brings distress to many citizens and dis
comfort to almost all citizens is due, I
believe, to four causes :
"First. The great increase in the vol
ume of money and credit made during
the last four years. In 1914 the per
capita money of the United States was
$34 and a fraction; in 11110 it was $.j4
and a fraction This increase of the
money of the United States has, of
course, cheapened the valuo of the dol
lar, so that, I believe, not less than CO
per cent of the advance of the cost of
commodities is due solely to this depre
ciation Of the dollar to this inflation of
the currency of the country. To illus
trate: If wheat in 1914 was $1 per
bushel, 60 per cent depreciation of the
value of the dollar referred to would
vmakc wheat now $1.G0 and so on down
the line for all commodities.
"Second. To the wilful waste of all
workers., both mental and physical, of
both time and of commodities produced,
I believe, 20 per cent of the increased
cost of living is due.
"Third. To abnormal demand from
foreign countries of American products
""Tbelieto 10 per cent is due.
"Fourth. To speculators and profi
teers the remaining 10 per cent is due.
X do not think more than 10 per cent.
Can't Consider Contraction
"Of course, any conti action of this
'money of the country to get rid of the
CO per cent advance of the cost of com
modities and living would wreck the
debtor class of the people and be of no
advantage to the credit class, and so a
contraction of the currency and credits,
no matter how unwise the inflation and
expansion of the currency was, cannot
now be considered.
"A second cause ascribed for one
fifth 20 per cent of the increased cost
of living attributable to the waste of the
people can onlv be got rid of by their
own volition The third cause for the
increased cost of living, to wit, 10 per
cent brought about by the abnormal de
mands by foreign nations of American
products, will end only when American
capitalists refuse t lend monev to for
eign buyers of American products : the
last 10 per cent of the increased cost of
living the speculators and profiteeis'
profits can of course in a Iirge measure
be eliminated by action of Congress.
"The reason I have thought it wise
to make this statement is because the
public should appreciate, and few of
the people do appreciate now, that the
major portion of the rise in the cost of
living is due to the depreciation of the
dollar." '
OUTDOOR FESTIVAL TONIGHT
Many Features Planned by Plaza
Park Community Service
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""""" i"ur. game, a commumo
ttriv And lantlnn n11 !-. -, Af Via
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Oregon avenue asd Johnson street The
entertainment will be given under the
direction of the Plaza Tark Communit..
Sendee Association.
The community sing will be led by
Raymond E. Taylor, assisted by an
, orchestra and Thomas B. Hobson, cor
netist. The boys' games will be super
vised by the Boy Scouts, while Miss
Loretta Gowen will hae charge of tho
girls' games. The war camp commu-
' nity service will arrange the games for
adults. Fred A. Moore, of the com
munity service of Philadelphia, will
Xspeak. There will be songs by a quar-
et, and several reels of motion pictures
The entertainment will conclude with
ill njilniv
BUI
Officer of the Plaza Park Community
'J" Servic Association are : James M. Mil
ler, president; John McCaughan, vice
president; Robert C Boyd, financial
Mcretary; O. Louis Ehmann, com
munity secretary, and E. F. Stutzke,
treasurer.
Fire
Robs Four Bathers of Clothes
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Four boys, Henry Alcott. Thomas
Sebroldt, .Howard E Long and Earl
Coulter, found themselves in a bad
J iKgbt yesterday when, clad only in
r Mthlnff suits, they saw the boathouse
is which tbeir clothes were stored go
. tip in flames. The boathouse is on the
.Sihuylklll river, near Ldfayette. Fire-
anoti from Ardmore put out -the fire, but
It wea Mint time before sufficient gar-
i oculd be requisitioned from neigh-
iMMmses by (he louc jrouths to
to drew (ess scantily and
Jiomttf p.,vir.r.
SOMERSET MAUGHAM'S UNUSUAL NOVEL : HAMMOCK FICTION
SOMERSET MAUGHAM'S
GREAT ALLEGORY
"The Moon and Sixpence" Ex
hibits Crude Elemental
Forces as Men Walking
W. Somerset Maugham has written
in "The Moon and Sixpence" a novel
so unlike the usual run of fiction that
it must fctnnd in a class bv itself. In
form it is the story of the life of a
man of genius. In fact it is an alle
gory in which one sees crude, elemental
forces ns men walking.
Mr Maugham has constructed his
tale with great skill. 15v footnotes
referring to iniaginan books he creTes
the impiesslon that Chides Strickland
the hero, is a real person, instead if
merelj the personification of a prent
desire and a ruthless passion The
storj is told in the first person In a
writer who knew Strickland when ho
was a respectable stockbioker in I .on
don. and nnw in contact with him at
later periods in his career.
It opens in London in the socletv of
wnteis and nitists. with whom the wife
of StiirMand associates Strickland
him-lt is introduced at a dinner at
his own house, where he appears dull
and shghtlj awkward in evening
clothes, tolerant of his wife's guests i
Then we are told that he has suddenh I
cut loose fiom all his ties his business
partner, his wife and children and
gone to Paris to paint. He had been
a kind and affectionate husband. But !
when he is found in Paris he is brutal
in his remarks about his famib He
reiuns to asunie any respousimiin
for them, lie is interested only in
himself and in his desire to paint what
he sees. He is described as a large,
red-haired man with a sensual face
The women of the town are attracted
to him because of his manifest sensual
ity, but he spurns them for the mo
ment. Yet when he wants to gratifv
his passion he does it as remorselessly
as he abandoned his family.
Dirk Stroetc, a Dutch artist, is in
troduced by way of contrast. Stroevc
has rescued an unfortunate English
gin nnu nas marriett ner. lie is a ,
type oi perieci unsemsn love that will
sniTiiicp liseii lor tue lovcn object, lie
befriends Strickland, takes him to his
house and nurses him through a seiious
illness, and btnekland rewards him by
exercising upon his wife his sex fas
cination and taking her from h-m.
The poor woman is caught in a mael
strom of passion in which she is finally
wrecked, but Stuckland is no more
disturbed by it than a tidal wave is
disturbed by the ruin which it strews
upon the beach He Ins set out to do
certain things and he will use vthatoicr
he needs for his purposes icgardless of
any one else. The man finds his way
to Tahiti, where he lnes with a natnc
girl and continues to paint, indifferent
to all the world. He must put on
canvas what he sees, and cares not
wnemer any one ever sees the can
vases or not. On the wav to Tnhit.
he passes-thiough Marseilles, wheie the i
reader is taken to the sailors' brothels,
reeking with obscene passion. And in
Tahiti unbridled passion is exhibited
in the person of the landlady of an inn,
and the impression is given that this
is a fitting place for Strickland to
live, a place where the bestial forces in
restraint in more civilized places have
full sway.
And Strickland, the type of un
bridled, irresponsible selfishness, tots
to deith fiom a tropical disease, and
Stroeve. the type of unselfish loe, has
his life ruined through the tiampling
of unbridled selfishness upon that which
be held sacred. And Stroeve's wife
dies as the result of her surrender to
the beastly charm of the brute.
When the narrator tells the famil
of Strickland of his death, the son, lep
resented as a shallow-thinking clergy
man, lemarks that the mills of the gods
grind slow, but they grind exceedingly
small, and one feels that Maugham has
put this trite saing in the mouth of
such a man because ho wishes the
reader to feel that it is the most super
ficial and uncomprehending remark that
could be made about the whole gruesome
allegory. The book is an exhibition of
tne Deast in man, done with buch per- gangs of outlaws. .ilie teat wnicn of the sort.
feet art that it is beyond praise. It ' showed the most brain-force was the Readers interested in theories of lit
is full of subtleties of perception far I "capture of a "prospector," known ns craturc and in discussion of those quali
beyond the oidinary run of novelists Notorious Bishop, for whom the whole ties which make literature vital will
the moon and SIXPENCE By w som' ! P,llce oree was archinK- Uo hvl a fin(1 Mr- Cabell's discussion both sug-
rrsti Mjucham
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Did Gobs Like These?
"Off Dut is a collection of stones
selected b Wilhelmina Harper, for-
men!.- n lili..... ; x , .
!..... a uuiuiiuii in .ew iorK and
during the war assistant librarian at
tria PJhn m U... l j. . ..
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H.-iroer'! evni ..-.n n( ,.
uch that any selection she made ought
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to be per se. of interest to thos for
whom it is designed And yet. looking
oer her selection, one wonders. Pos
siblv professional predilection whien
in most of us foreshortens tho pcispec
tive has impelled the compiler to select
stories that her audience "ouzht
to like " One can hardly fancv a huskv
10 imp une can nanny tancy a huikv
gob casting much time over the ,l
ticallv adroit "The Nightingale and
the Rose." from Oscar Wilde', "Fairy
e. ...i i. .it. . J
Stories '
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dulli'
On the evidence of this book the W
and navy was verv partial to fairy
mor es; one of Seuinas McManus's pah
that mentioned by his fellow celt, (ftar
v,nn.i rk'Tnioh.f vn.i. r. t.
St art White. 7ane r., ,, Tt"
rey and Ham
lin Garland are the red-blooded con
... r . . u.i. WUU1'
tributors to the list O. Henry and
Edna Ferber are weakly represented.
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FAIRY TALE FOR
HAMMOCK READING
Nothing but Magic Can Ex-
plain George Weston's Novel
"You Never Saw Such n Girl,"
George Weston calls his new novel.
Well, you never did, outside of Grimm,
Anderson and Laboulaye, nor did nnv
bodv else N'or such a noiel, outside
of George Weston.
"Once upon a time the Princess Marty
lived with her uncle and aunt in a little
cottage on the top of n mountain. Her
real name was Martha, but no one eer
tailed her that " Thus the tiaditional
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"Martv Mackenzie lived with her
Uncle Lbau (whose name rhymed with
Iau) in a little stone house on Green
Mountain Her real name was Martha,
but no one ever called her that." Thus
Mr. Weston's modernization of his plot,
in names, allusions and otlier externals.
But the spnit is distiuctlj and de
lightfully of fairy lore.
Mart is a resourceful, capable, vi
vacious and, of course, beautiful girl.
Her odyssev from her mountain top to
.Newport, of all places in the world, in '
a motor van with a prim school teacher '
ns companion, to find her naught and
opulent grandmother and the charming i
oung khakied officer whom she finds I
there and the romance of it, with mis- i
understandings and tribulations to be
sure, will make any hammock even
more agreeable these warm summer
J,l3"s-
There is even a fairy godmother
hovering piotectivelv aboe Maitv's
destin, in the genial person of Mr.
Weston. One waie of his magic fouu-
tain pen or a few taps on his enchanted
tpewnter. and presto, all ti;als are
obviated and all difficulties are as
naught.
"And they lived happilv ever after
waid." The last page does not say
so but it says: "He held out his arms
and she found her place within them,
knowing full well her search was over,
that here at last, even where the quest
had started, she had entered the King-
dom of Heart's Desire."
YOtT NEVER SAW SUCH A OIRL. Bv
George Weston New York D-dd, Mead
i. Co i 35
Connie Morgan's Exploits
Interesting from beginning to end
nnd at times thiilling, is the stor of
"Connie Morgan With the Mounted,"
bv James B. Hendryx. The hero i a
boy of sixteen or seventeen, who from which they lose veracity; and he tells
his skill and bravery in tescuing an olh- Us that "the creative artist must re
cer from a floating ice-cake was made member that his book is structurally
special constable of the Royal North- different from life in that, were there
west Mounted Police Force of Canada, nothing else, his book begins and ends
In this service, on the Alaskan frontier. I at a definite point, whereas the canons
he did remarkable work in tracking and 0f heredity and religion forbid us to
capturing poachers, rum-smuggleis andbelice that life can ever do anything
habit of whistling "xanKce uooaie,
and Connie hearing him in the forest
. , .1 jlH.nH li.m li.ftll-llt
recognized mm auu juiuui m"' -I
him to headquarters without betraing
that he knew him. "Supeiintendent,"
1 ?aid the boy, standing very straight and
Uery alert, 'I want to introduce No
torious Bishop.' " 'iae wnoic story .
.told in a ery simple wav and largely
i g.--
! of life in that region.
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case nf l)r Rimer T. Clarfc in his
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lection of papers written, as he notes,
for the dim and religious press. The
I result between covers will certninlv
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,nnd fmalh lead him to amazement and
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important war topics He so often runs
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pi earlier (on the presumption that he
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Our soldiers who have returned from
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He seems to have the mania of the
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numerousness of testimony Is against
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page ICt, (the American soldier "does
not indulge in sexual immorality to any
large degree") gives the fib to most of
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population I sav one may
well believe that the pope and the
1 southern Irish have some such plan in
. consideration." And what must one
I think of a man w ho aims to dictate
I a settlement of the Irish question yet
I regularly refers to England as "the
1 motherland" of Ireland! Even the
I Carsonites in Ulster and the members of
' the ascendancy patty in Dublin do not
'do tint. Thoughtful anu inrormeu
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The distinguished authors who nro
writing Introductions to the series of
novels by Leonard Merrick now being
published in this country continue to
apologize for the man they admire. Bar
rie began It with t'Conrad in Quest of
His Youth." Hotvells continued 'it with
"The Actor-Manager." And Hewlett
carries on with what ho has to say
about "Cynthia." Hewlett tells us that'
Merrick started to write a story about
a novelist nnd changed his mind in the
process and pr.oduccd a talc about n
woman. But for all their apologies
based, doubtless, upon their conviction
that they would have written the talcs
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remarked that Locke seemed crude in
comparison. .
There is doubtless much autobiog
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it, who is the husband of Cjnthia, had
an experience similar to that through
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could not sell his books and had to write
for cheap magazines. The story showN
the contrast between a weak man and a
strong woman. The man sent his wife
Into tho country and stayed in London
to write, nnd drifted into an affair with
a writing woman. The scene in which
he confesses to his wife is ono of the
most perfect of its kind In the English
language. It is tragedy, restrained and
heartbreaking, whero the wife goes up
to London to congratulate her husband
on a belated success and discovers what
he has been doing. Cynthia Is an un
usual woman. She loves her husband,
and she seems to bave an understand
ing broad enough to encompass forgive
ness, for the book ends with a reconcil
iation which makes one hope that the
man will prove worthy thereafter of the
lovo of tho wife who has borne him
a son and loves him enough to pardon
him for tho misdeeds of which he has
repented.
CYNTHIA By Leonard Merrlek. TVlth an
Introduction by Mnurlee Hewlett. New
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