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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.
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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
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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
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"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
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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
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