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Member of the Associated Press tiiu ASSorr.rr:n nwss i? rnUi- ttvcli entitled 10 llic use fnr rcpuhVi nilnn of all news dlipatrhri rinliterl to it or vol otherwise rieihlnl nt 1l'i prprr, anil nlso the local nrn i ptthlhht-1 tlieirtu All rlphtl of if pt'hlirnlinii of avert"' t'lt patches herein ntr iJvi i nerved I'liiUilrlpliU. lnd. Orlnbrr 10, W PAT COMES BACK IP THE sympathy of Philadelphia was rlnfinifnlv nn nnv .ilo ill tlm vni Ill's series, it was with the crown from Cin cinnati, which Pat Mourn lehabilit-ited and stecicd to glory aftei h was lost i to us and to the Phillies by the wrong- headedness of Mr. Baker. Mr. Kid I Gleason, who figured largo and brilliantly i 4n the series, is another wizard who once ' contributed his talents to the Phils. In the light of the last few days it appears i that Mr. Baker won one pennant and ; seemed thereafter determined never to win it again. Pat did not only come back. Ho brought the great game with him. It was being said a few months ago that the war had killed baseball. But the old ecstatic frenzy seized the country again when the series began and since the first game only exceptional persons have thought seriously about strikes, the league of na tions, Fiume or the storms brewing in China. The national mind has had an opportunity to relax. We needed it. Baseball i one of the things that the country cannot spare. "PUBLIC SENTIMENT- -BIFF!" of "Public TN Camden it was a t sentiment biff!" The abandonment by the trolley com pany of its struggles to introduce the zone-fare system sharply defines the 'limitations to which the managements ,; f public utilities are necessarily hub . iect Thousands of citizens of New Jersey preferred walking or some other means ,of locomotion to traveling in the trolley ill c&rsf conducted on what thev regarded j as an unjust plan. Upon no financial inground couui the rubiic service cor- poruuun ueieuu iui tuiiKi even in imuu, a new system which brought it less monetary return than the old scheme. Mr. McCarter, the president, express ing "bitter disappointment" at the result, declares that "there was a psychological feature to the zone system that made it a failure at this time." That may be so, but somehow, what he added seems more significant. "The people are not riding," said he. The simple truth is that his company submitted for sale the sort of article jvhich the people did not wish to buy. The public refrained from purchasing and something which moie pleased its ijiCancy was restored to the market. ' There is ngt a throne, a government or a business en earth so immutable as the elemental laws of economics. BORES AT THE CAPITOL "RATIONS in relays, serial addresses, v-' pompous protracted disquisitions con i stitute the Senate's response to public ' sentiment concerning tho peace treaty. The nation is utterly weary of the ' epidemic of words on this topic. And so t the, upper house dispenses verbiage until ' even a government printing office must tremble at the cost of white paper for the Congressional Record. Senator France has a 33,000-word tale to unfold. Senator Nelson is to follow , hlnL, .Senator Walsh has an jnervating Broadside in preparation. In nonpolitical circles discussion of the Jeague of nations has become as tiresome is asking how old Ann is or if Bacon r wrote Shakespeare or if free verse is art. The public is united in this. It wants action upon the treaty, for or - against it, with or without modifications. HAZING AT ANNAPOLIS TTiWVfl CM1. o.i Vint. t,onn rwnnlnA i. j --Various times at West Point and An- rrapolls is stupid, silly and cruel. t Apropos of the mysterious poisoning i at the Naval Academy of Henry G. "Wetherstine, of Germantown, Secretary Danlejs promises that, if necessary, ho will take drastic action to exterminate a iJifefltiferous, brutal practice. The secre- ,4ary takes the right attitude and yet it J ,,ught not to be needful for him to inter- l -fAra TVift nrpKorvnt.inn nf disrinlinn nf (rf T'Anriapplis is the direct function of the l t'maHKement. ",, A superintendent who is unable to ' eomtiat hazing that conflicts with the f ' Vifegulations of the institution is unfit for V '3$is post. A confession of incompetence 4ffsIways implied when the subject i3 ncarrfcd t0 a n'Kner jurisdiction. 'jfi-i.r Theprcsent situation is somewhat; ob- Retire. Une mmay is reponea 10 nave abashed his chest with a knife, another had, a "msrvous breakdown," another has l.wJt' twitnnm If hazinir is reannn ; ft$rw&, hectic cinhierice yijfor- tW $, d tn'iUt fqrcMi should at the academy, the students of which ex hibit so much mental unhcnlth. A rigid investigation would clear the air. It should be made so thorough that hereafter the Nnval Academy may be trusted to take care of itself and to main tain discipline sanely and forcefully just as any well-conducted institution should. Schoolboy pranks need no npologist. They are certain to occijr the world over ant) they may bo safely welcomed as an index of vivacity and healthful, youthful spirits. Hut for hazing that Is injurious both to body and mind there is no de fense. The Naval Academy has a biil liant ircoul in tinning out the highest types of manhood. Morbid tendencies aio, lamentably "out of the picture." THE CROSS-COUNTRY AIR RACE IS A QUEST AFTER KNOWLEDGE The Army Is Following the Navy's Ex ample In Extensive Experiments With Aerial Navigation TTNLESS aviatois go hunting each other they aie seldom killed above the giound. The air is pietty kind to its i conquerors. So long as their wings sus I tain them they aie safe. It is almost ns easy to get away from the land as it Is to leave home oi a good job or a state of happiness and about as difficult to lc turn. And it is in getting back to the indispensable earth that fliers are killed ' or bioken up. i i British an men made a toast while the I war was on which revealed as clearly as anything could this chief concern of their kind. It was olnmnly pioimuncod in honor of any guest who happened in i fiom tho skies and il was spoken as a soit of brisk benediction in farewells to the men who went out looking for sub marines in the North sea or aloft to awful duels a mile or two oer the lines. These two woids, like a ivid fragment of a sonnet, were all that the (lying men needed to express their conception of tho full sum of human happiness, the lewaul nf virfnn .mid nil that is desirable in this Pnfe: 'Happy landings!" Certainly the wnole country should have wished happy landings for the fifty nine pilots and their assistants who par ticipated in the transcontinental endur ance test that began Wednesday under the auspices of the aimy. It is alieady too late to visit for a few of them. The gieat a'r race was not a sporting event, though as a demonstration of skill, cour age and endurance it was the most superb spectacle ever planned in the United States. If the woild's teiics game at Chicago monopolized general attention, even when the race was at its height, it was because the event in the air was too big and the factors involved too mysterious to be comprehended at a glance or even in the detailed repoit of miracles perfoimed by the devil-may-care fliers who hurtled across tho coun try in the wake of a two-mile-a-minute parson of whom all Baptists ought to be proud; a parson who, assessed from any angle, seems to be the most admirable of all sky pilots. ( The lace wasn't arranged for any-' body's glory or anybody's piofit. It was scientifically conducted for a scientific purpose. The army was repeating ex periments of the sort made by the navy in tho first transocean flight. Men and ma chines, instruments and equipment were put to a racking trial in older that ex perts might know a little more about engines, structural design, motor endur ance and the dependability of instru ments and codes devised for aerial navi gation. The flight has carried the science of aviation a little further for ward in America. That is what it was for. Motors arc pretty wcli understood. It is interesting to know that Lieutenant Maynard, who was the pacemaker from this side of the country, rode behind a Liberty motor which made a hop 840 miles long from Mineola to happy landings at Chicago "without a complaint." Es sentially, however, the flight was a test of navigation methods. Airmen in war time often have had to fly.for hours with out a sight of land or a glimpse of tho sun. What is being sought now is the lefinemcnt of methods and instruments by which, in the future, they may travel indefinitely in fog or darkness and yet know their location at every mile. Ships may slow down in fog or wait for clear weather to get their bearings. Air machines can't. They must keep moving or ri.sk the sort of landing? that are any thing but happy. The means of air navigation are still crude, yet airmen already are cleverer at finding their way about than navigators who travel the seas. Hawker, for example, was not actually the hero of the first flight across the Atlantic. It was Lieutenant Commander MacKenzie Grieve, the Sopwith's navi gator, who bore the heaviest responsi bilities of the spectacular flight and in the end saved Hawker and himself from death. Hawker merely handled the con trols. Grieve plotted tho course of the airplane by the stars when he could sec any and by his instruments when he couldn't and was able, when the engine failed, to find the sea lanes and drop neatly alongside a steamship. Alcock and Brown crossed the ocean and hit at a point in Ireland only forty miles from the place for which they had to steer over the whole width of the Atlantic by mathematical calculation alone. Upon the navigator in this fn stance the fate of the airplane hung, and he performed even, more brilliantly than tho pilot the difficult job, though he got but a minimum of the applause. When aerial navigation has been de veloped to lirnits n6w sought by the army and the navy air machines will be able to come and go at will, despite fog and dark ness. They will not ne'ed landmarks. Much of the goin yesterday was done by readings of instruments like those used for navigation at sea. Still we are at the beginning of avia- tion. If rumors from (Washington arp sand horsepower. We may need that sort of thing and all the knowledge that can be obtained through flights like that of yestetday if there is ever another great war. LudendorIT in his book suys nothing of the plans to fire Washington, Philadel phia and New Yoik. Hut infoimation in tho possession of the authorities at Washington indicates that tho Germans had some such plan and that an air assault on Atlantic coast cities was to have been tho last gieat gesture prece dent to n German triumph. The scheme was abandoned, but no one seems to bo sine whether this was because the Ger mans lost heart or because they were J made awaio of lrprisals that were in I preparation for them. ' A new poison gas was developed in j this country nnd it was so tumble that the Allies ref mined from using it either j in Franco or Helgium. That gas killed everything. It killed even the soil and left it barren forever. It is said by those who knew much about the allied plans that lierman eities would have heen del uged with it after the first attempt to start (ires In allied cities. Airplanes or i Zeppelins weie the means that tho Gcr. mans seemingly intended to use in the last try for a victory nnd. of course, it was gas-laden airplanes that they teamed to fiar. Kien the rumor of suih methods of waifare is adequate to suggest the pur pose of the vast game that was played all over the sky yesterday while the dis tracted country was applauding tho comeback of Pat Moian. "ARBITRATION" GUIDE POST QUGGESTION'S-for compiomisc were al the bottom of the four plans for in dustrial peace laid befoie the conference in Washington yesterdax. The word used was "arbitration," but arbitration means compromise or an agreement to adjust diffoicnccs by mutual concessions. Two of tho proposition's called for per manent boards to adjust differences be tween employers and employes and two dealt with the present emergency. Mr. Baruch propo.-ed nn immediate indus trial truce, to continue foi three months, and Mr. Gompurs proposed tho arbitra tion of the demands of the striking steel woikers with immediate lesumption of work. The plan of the DepaUment of Labor piovidcs for joint arbitration boards in each industry with a geneial board to hear, appeals, and the plan suggested by Gavin McNab, of Chicago, provides for a single arbitration boaid chosen by the President and Congress, to contain in addition "all living former Presidents." Judge Gary, of the Steel Corporation, who has insisted that there is nothing to arbitiate in the steel strike, is one of the radicals who will have to modify his iews if he consents to these propo sitions. But the radicals among the conservatives are no more likely to have their will than the cxtiemists among the radicals. Tho common sense of the nation is on the side of nibitiation of industtial dis putes as well as arbitration of disputes among nations. There is no other way by which peace can be maintained. The gieat conference in Paris devoted itself for months to devising some plan which would make it unnecessary for the na tions to transform themselves into armed camps picpaicd to resist invasion. I Some way must be found to turn capital and labor from the road along which they are marching. Tho solidarity of capital is forcing labor to attempt to bring about a similar solidarity among the wage earners in pieparation for what the labor organizers are wont to call a war to a finish. Lord Roberts warned Euiope of what was going on in Germany years before the fatal 1st of August, but he was unheeded. Hundreds of men are warning the United States of the great conflict for which tho workers are preparing. It can be avoided only by facing the issue and bringing to bear upon it the sound wisdom of calm-thinking men, who will force upon both sides a realization of the importance of coming to an amicable understanding. Tho appearnnaco ot aibitration as the first subject to be considered by the in dustrial confeience is promising. As tho conference is a voluntary body it has no power to enforce any decision which it may reach, but if its conclusions commend themselves to public opinion, it will be a rash man who disregards them in his dealings with his employes or with his employers. , The stale welfare Crime I'lispeclflcil i uinmiision srckiiiB tent pinlitrrr has dis colored IfiOO or more vacant liousrs tlmt are beliiK held for sale. Tlir man who keeps a house mimciiniiMl so that lie inny sell it tin -hampered by it lease may he Rtiilty of miiiic offeiiM' njjaiiist the moral Inn . hut his offense is assuredly not that of prutiterrinf;. Tho rity market eom miosioii is planning it food store on the Old II. ('. of I.. .Still (itlimlns 6 mfrteria plan, Vilth KinerRPiicy Aid workeis as unpaid clerks. It will reduce prices, of course to the extent of clerk hire and the profit the government is willing to forgo. Hut it will solve no probleniH. Among the matters to Nor Old Tom he discussed nt the world cotton confer- enco which opens in Now Orleans next 5lon- day is the improvement of ginning. We have it on competent utithoiity, however, that it is u matter in which the celebrated Colonel Ilickej is not nt nil interested. Nature 1ms n wny of making n limn find time for a vncatfon, but It isn't a way in which he finds 'much enjoyment. Admiral (irnyson lias heard a few remarks on the subject during the last few days. C'hineso wonieu are said to be becom ing a power in politics in their country. Now that they no longer bind their feet they feel that there is nothing to prevent them from running for office. Congressmen 'appear to have but a flick. erlng lutcrekt in the pleas of the raovlnff- picture men to have th war tax. repealed, FOSTER AND COMPERS Thoughtful Analysis of the Personali ties and Viewpoints of Two Anti thetical Labor Leader Types Hy CLINTON V. GII.UKKT StnfT Correspondent o! the Ktenln Pulille l.rdcer Wit-blngton, Oct. 1(1. T7tVI3N our great loader, Mr. (lumpers. ' -'-'whose services during the wnr'woro so splendid, has been lambasted for his part in this strike." It wns William ',. Foster speaking be fore Senator Kcnjon's committee on edu- cation mill labor, which was Investigating the steel strike. He turned deferentially to Mr. Onmpers. (he chief of the American Federation of Labor, who sat three seats nwny aiming the senators, like .a sonntor himself. It was the radicalism of the American labor move ment shelteilng itself behind the mighty person of Mr. Cnnipers. It proved what has been perfcctlj obvious since the steel strike promised to m il Hint Mr. (ininpei-s is just ns Indispensable to radicalism in labor ns he is to intisprvatlsm wherever located. Ib is the moderator. Labor must wear the (lonipers front no matter what elements nie hi its ranks. And business generally, nt least business as represented bj the Inst four ndinlnlstin tions. hns lealied that it can make its best Imiguln with Mr. (Jnnipers even though it does scold him when he is forced to talk nullcallj to satisfy his radical followers or to appear to giie approial of some of their Impatient notions. TT WAS a triumphant - (iompois when .Mr. Fos: moment for Mr. peis when Mr. roster sheltered h ni- self behind him. 'I lie nmbitlous joiing men who weie tiled of Mr. (lomper.s's slow wais weie confessing that (hey must build anew. "If the piesent strike fails," said Mr. Foster, "we shall start again and con struct it bigger luiiieineiit and have n bigger stiike. one that cannot fall." All that takes time, nnd time is the es seme of the (Jompers polie.i, us ot nil politi cal policies. You might hnve expected to see a smile of satisfaction on .Mr. Compere's face. Hut Mr. (ininpers's face does not record his einotions. The face of (iompors regarded Foster fixedlj as Foster paid this tiibute, and with a changeless expression. The face of Foster was nn utter contrast Foster is jouiig. He hns not jet learned to compromise. He is taking his first lessons in compromise since this strike began. He took another one befoie the Senate com mittee, and found it difficult. He compio mises as a uuttirallv truthful person lie-' with pain written all oier his countenance. The Foster face masks nothing. If its owner eier rises to the place of Mr. (Jompers in the indefinite future, just postponed, he will baie to develop his mask. His face is intellectual. It is passionate. Primal Hy Foster is interested in ideas. Primarily Comport is interested in prne tice. You can have enthusiasm over ideas, in .louth especially. You cannot over prac tice. Ideas come forth to the surface and mark the visage. Practice does not, if it is effective practice. Tyrlt. COMPKKS has learned to tn --'-1 that do not menu anything, a (nlk words irift thnl goosniongwiuia tacc that means nothing or everything or whatever its owner wishes it to mean. Words are still snered to XIr. Foster. They rose nut of his past and smote him and he suffered, wriggling nnd twist ing to save his old words, although they stood in the way of his new activities. Words are so much water over the dam to Compers, as to any good politician. Words are children to Foster ; he is young and he quivered as he wns asked to slny them. But slay them he did, after ap proaching the knife to the thront many times nnd drawing back in repulsion. And when the act wns done he made one step on the road toward being what Oompers is. one step upward or downward it de pends on whether joti are idealist or prac tician from being a jnting agitator toward being an old leader.' Ho loft tho witno--stand more careful, that is, more conserva tive. That mny be set down perhaps as the one positive achievement of the 'Senate investigation. TTK TRIHD tn sine his words by saying " that they made no difference; that his personality did not count. Hut his opinions did count. The nation, through Senator Konyon, was interrogating radicalism, in the person of its rising hope, ns it ex presses itself within the orthodox American labor movement. Young radicalism hnd said: "We are tired of bargaining with tho politicians. It is too slow. Lot us not go to Washington. Lot us settle this thing by force right here in Pittsburgh, " 'Shake sour chain off like the dew Which In eleep hnth fallen on you You are many: they are few.' " vCashington likes labor moderately, when it comes to Washington. It approves Compers, with reservations. Hut it thor oughly disapproves n labor movement that declares itself independent of politics and of the politicians. People say that Foster represents this independent Inbor movement, to borrow n title from England, where the movement derives its inspiration, more ably than nny other: that he is, in short, tho "brains" of radicalism in labor. Foster modestly disclaims his importance, lie is only secretary of the strike com mittee. Hut, then, it is said, probably with truth, thnt he is the intelligence of the committee, and every one knows what that means. Such being the case, his opinions are important, ' TO OCT at the actual present state of those opinions wns difficult. Hut tn present it fairly I should sny that he was once, onlv n few short years ago, an I. W. W. ; that is, thnt he borrowed his inspiration from the French syndicalists ;s thnt ho became con vinced of the futility of the I. W. W. moie ment nnd went over to tho American Fed eration of Labor, attaching himself necos taril.v to the more radical groups there. This was his first compromise. Ho has dropped the word revolution from his vo cabulary, though he still has perhaps a secret relish for its flaior. He favors "direct notion," which is syndicalist, but which places him rather in harmony with tho British than the French or the American labor movement. In a word, the British labor movement Is today the strongest nnd most promising, from its standpoint, in the world. It has imiHjsed itself on former extreme radicals like Foster, making them more conservative, nnd upon former conservatives like Stone! making them more radical. Mr. Foster Is probably where the stronger British IcodcrH ore now, which Is radical enough for America, but still a long way short of syndicalism. The British movement will continue to dominate the more radical American move ment, Its successes and failures being re flected in the strensth or weakness of Mr. Gomperu's position. Tho importance Pi rosier n views is luttire r. ... . . -.. .til. .-I.. . . rather than prewnt, 1 Ymiw'V '" vaso- m politics. "SEE FOR YOURSELFSKI, WE'VE CONVINCED AMERICA!" J . ""iSTXr?ie'- ' .-.-T.TJ.'IS.'--.. .-- ,,;.. nf'f.''',J "sVitin""' Tr"'- ' , MfJ, -;,-;-.(.- H-rLi33iSismmiKsr'vri',rzr "--. . '-. v. . .Tii;r - . .. . . "it.; ' KSHcr7rrrrB.ii - - . .-- .!. -- v mi - - a W.wLc-' tj -if-jtif",-i'wiT-5terT - -igJygSr255 ----if---"f?L-.V." "W fcsu Jr--.. t-jfv-j-r i ii'tz vr: ' - " yj-. fUry-rj . -'-V-T. - V-r---ST. "''- -SCirrJ, cwftjui -1 ,J THE CHAFFING DISH The Lady's Thumbs Are Down Dear Hnorftte: Do take a vacation you need it after that siege of hay fever. Truly our Dish Is sad of late, rather "pepless." Doesn't that "ilivino olce" you heard back In 410 B. C. and there abouts eer tell you now what to do? Yesterday, for instance, just to Illustrate your vapid state, you ask If It Isn't time that a ceitnln Texas politician were made n General. Oh, Socrates, how could you? When the aforesaid gentleman so successfully made himself one (nuisance) some time ago. Pos sibly ho may be demoted (they are doing that this season, you know) and If ho could be reduced to a Second l.oot It would be splendid, they arc bo exclusive and then maybe bo'd go back Into that "Innocuous desuetude" from which he emerged. Something else I have the honor of being very closely related to a Mountlo (Royal Northwest Mounted Police) and I could sat isfy that private ambition of yours, but being a lady I will refrain, However, should my kinsman visit this city ho would take plcasuie In telling you what they think ot Tiger Itose, Corp. Cameron, etc. These things usually reach them by pioxy, as jou can well Imagine. You could hardly picture a real fed-blooded U. S. soldier (preferably a buck private) enjoying that old play. "Class mates," or any of the dozens that have been produced in more recent years, could you? xanthipih:. Lament CICAHKTTK, My Lady wills 'You ns the cause of all my ills From chicken-pox to colds and chills And, so, farewell. No more will all my clothes nnd room ' He laden with thy rich perfume She fays that you will be my doom AVho served so well. It. I. P. then, faithful friend, No more thy incense will I send( Into the evening nir to blend A dim 'blue cloud. Alt, Kipling was thy friend, indeed, "My soul," said he, "goes wild and freed.' "Depart my Love. I choose the weed." I'm not allowed. No more my errnnt fancy weaves My dreams 'amid thy burning loaves. Go now! My heart In parting grieves Over thy loss. I would be btrong. but I am weak; Some other solace I must heek ; Heaven, they sny, rewards the meek, And She is Boss. No need that thou remindest me That we fought for Democracy. Thy banishment is Her decree, And I am through. Perhaps upon the Jordan's shore Rome strong-willed saint will have a store And there In peace we'll meet once more Just me and you. K. S. Interview With a Publisher THH DISH spares no pains to present to its clients the news that really matters, and when one of our outposts informed us that Mr. Itussell Doubleday, the New York publisher, was in town, it was the matter of a moment to assign one of our bright young men to the task of finding and inter viewing him. . When a New York publisher pries himself loose from the mahogany desks and Circas sian walnut filing cases "of the Gothnm lit erary mill and takes tt)c long trek to Phila delphia,' something must be btirring in the local book world. "llTR. DOUni.EDAY was discovered' ora-iVi- bulatiug hopefully aloug Walnut stieet, looking for a small by-way near Twelfth where, he had been told, X'hiladelphla au thors gather nbout the lunch hour. A re porter u-eognized him by his air of charm ing pntTcnce (those who deal with authors acquire this) and, pretending to bo. a writer, induced him to talk. All down the quiet little street resounded the merry clash of crockery, as Philadelphia's well-fed artists and authors floundered among their soups and roasts T" LKASK don't ask me whether I have X read Mr. Newton's 'Amenities of Hook Collecting,' " said Mr. Doubleday nervously. "Kverybody in Philadelphia asks me that. In the old days it used ttv.be 'Have you taxtecl scrapple?' One of the sad featurcjjl of a fcubUsher'H Jiff jjCtlurt, he is kept aajj busy WW' mamiseMiUi.ipttjW.-j iiw nin feL 'mem H. jet, .ii iWi rtTffiltTlpC TTtOTflffig?iflfWffjfflFT.3lHj: niii - ., z!0Yj ""jrjrSV Ve.1- ' JBWE1T---... ifJ&rUimimm.iiA .iLff .fav m ' - t.-.t ..ji..?'B-. WlUA.PHrW'irjL . sA--?f?!M''rsac.ii-. cw3):tr: "s ITit."l,I -..' IS . TCT,... . "In your travels rouud among nuthors," said the reporter, "you must come across many amusiug things. Do you find people who write agreeable to deal with?" The publisher's eyes twinkled. He opened his mouth ns though to speak ; then i nution appeared on his lineaments and he said nbthing. "About those manuscripts," said the rc poiter. "Do publishers have to go out looking for btuff or do their greatest finds come to them unexpectedly and unsolicited?" Again Mr. Doubleday looked round appre hensively, half as though he expected to see windows thrown up and unpublished manu scripts fluttering nt him nil down the vista ot the little street. Through an open case ment came the aggrieved voice of nn author complaining thnt his novel hnd not been sufficiently advertised. The visitor began to look mote at home. AKR there any particular authors in Philadelphia that the publishers are specially interested in?" "I think eicry one is watching Mr. Hcr goshcimcr's career with much interest," said Mr. Doubleday. "And one wonders whether .Mr. On en Wistcr is writing any more novels. A new novel from his hand is something the book world would look for ward to with keen anticipation." "A great many young Hnglish writers arc visiting this country tho'se days. Do you think they arc superior to our own youuger novelists?" "Candidly, I do," said Mr. Doubleday. "They have a certain richness of appeal, they seem to have thought over their material moie carefully and show a greater subtlety iu their ptesentatlon of tho story. Perhaps it is due to the fact thnt there is n more established leisure class in Kngland. But jou mustn't forget our own novelists of serious nrtistic purpose. Tarkington, for instance. After William Dean Howells, isn't lie the greatest American novelist to day? One interesting thing to be noticed is the great number of women who hold high places in our literacy ranks. In my deal ings with writers I think I Bee more women thnu men. rniHS is a very prosperous season in x the hook business. Prohibition may prove to be a stimulus to the book trade. People will get l,hc habit of staying at home in the evening. Kven the printers strike, though I hope it is ouly ephemeral, may help the sale of books. If there is n shortage of magazines for nny. length of time people will turn to books for amusement. People nre reading many more serious books than they did. Particularly there is a very great in terest in psychical matters. Recently wc hud three books on psychical topics offered to us in one week. The movies, which were once said to be going to take the place of books, seem to have helped the business. Now- that many theatres hnvc rnised their prices, some people remember that for the price of a theatre sent one can buy two or three books. The other evening I wanted' to go to 'The Follies.' When I was told that two seats would cost mo ?8.80 I deter mined to buy some books instend. I went out nnd bought a book on psychical experi ences, a book on the Arizona .desert, a vol ume of Bernard Shaw's plays and May Sinclair's new novel. All I need now is about a year's vacation to read some of the books I've bought. And if you ask me what I think is one of the most hopeful signs iu the literary world, it is the growing popu larity of Joseph Conrad. fTTNFORTUNATELY," saidMr. Dou u bleday, "I don't know Philadelphia as well as I would like to. I used to come hero j ears ago, wheaI was working for a certain, mngazinc which has since become.'n very great magazine indeed, but then hnd a very small circulation. In fact, we none of us knew just what the circulation was, and in (he three years I worked for it I wns never nble to fiud out. My mission over here was partly to collect bills and partly to solicit advertising, nnd the, hard-headed Philadelphia advertisers seemed to think they ought to know what the circulation of our magazine was before buying space. So I used (to pound the Philadelphia pavements and got an impression that your city was rather hard-hearted. I am very happy to have a chance to come here again and revise, the impression." By this time the rumor that a publisher was nearbV had 'gone down the street nf authors, sniUaHlt,r and tiie. .bright, oyoa of I th iwhik(.: iuicittvtHWa nuHif , wiHlBf ljHijB :w3v&'wmf m -. m. The Race A HUNDRED shining sails put out to sea! " One wide bnlloonlng snil leaps free, And like a card that slips from out the pack, Alone, it veers along the splashing track. A hundred shining sails put out to sea ! One settles to the course unswervingly ; The rest are caught, colliding, nt the gun; Bright squares of white, a-shuffle in the sun. Long sullen gusts crawl darkly on the blue! One straining, close-reefed sail holds true; The rest, like dying gulls with, broken wing, Droop to the water, limp autl quivering. A hundred shining sails put out to sea! One graying sail fulfills its destiny; Far off there sounds a sea bell's guiding drone, As, through the dusk, one sail rides on, alone. Mildred Plew Mcrrymnn, in the New York Times. . The ratification of the peace treaty by the king of Italy wns, it would now oppear, merely n gesture. The punch will come when the Italian Parliament gets after it iu De cember. " Blood is selling at ?50 the half pint at the I'niversity of Pennsylvania. Another illustration of the law of supply and demand. Anemic patients need the fluid and th'e stu dents need the kale. It is the boast of the Amalgamated Association of Iron nnd Steel Workers that it has never broken a contract. It is a record that any trades union should be proud to hold. Tho fact that the price has been cut to twenty-five cents a pound is indication that the City Market Commission has.no desire to save its bacon. "Come seven !" cries the Public Service Railway Corporation of New Jersey. But nobuddy kin tell how dem bones is a-gwine f roll. Three more Delaware river bridges hay been freed from tolls. The toll house and the saloon arc going into limbo together. Before 'we had the bare figures. The election court has clothed them with au thority. Participants in the industrial confer ence's battle royal arc still sparring for wind. What Do -You Know? QUIZ 1. On what date docs Halloween fall? 2. What overt act of war does Ocrmany falsely accuse France of having com mitted in order to justify the Berlin Government's 1 declaration of war against France in 101-J? 3. Whnt is a medicaster? 4. What is a simile? 5. Which one of the seceded states was the first to be readmitted to the Union after the Civil War? 0. What is sisal? 7. Which was Mark Twain's native state? 8. Who first popularized the classification of people as "bromides" and "sul phites'1? 0. Which is the 'higher diplomatic rank, minister or ambassador? 10. When w&b the Democratic party also called Republican.? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. General Allenby commanded the victo rious British forces in Palestine in the war. 2. The abbreviation for 'hundredweight ii cwt. 3. The metaphorical name for tho London Times is "The Thunderer." 4. John Brown, of Ossavvatomle, was exe cuted on the charge of "treason, con snlrinc nnd advising with slaves and others to rebel, and of murder in thel first degree." 5, Poetaster; paltry poet. 0. Tho real name of Mcreator, the Flemish cartograpner, is ucrnura nrcmer. 7. Cairo is the capital of Egypt, i 8. Hans Memling was a celebrated palnUf ot wruges. lie qiea in ivi. 0. ffhd principal commanders, on the jb we AjMrtcau uwi ..gMi!W rWBBW PCsHd. !' m J t. if 'WMII zin; WW.. 'i ftakHH wenniPH srVVtiMSmPt. .AWHHWm ,, - " 1ST I ' J.f, r(l- I'M !" i.' 9p - Jfe - . -. . AtiaaiHHl.JMMf'n .,,!', -L . " " 'V d "g rirriinmwBMMHm WW WlfllT," - . i i tnurr;"" '", m " ay i i pi
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