South Bend News-Times, Volume 37, Number 326, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 21 November 1920 — Page 26

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Tin; u.sti:i i.siiM)." )ly I3m.ir O'lMifiy. ThS !a a strong story f f l'tt dav Treland. Tr- r a :'v r

.!! it graphic page r.d ;l saour! cf bitterness thr. i-.ghf ul it nil.! Above everything It i-- a book v. r;t-; tan for the few who .'ipprT'.Tie ihr history and ajplrati-,r.te of the f with whom It d-a!s. ',y sj' n t can bo rpul, enjoy-'! und U-r-d upon a. a dltincjne novi. It Is tho tory of a your.? Irnh boy who is r'ared in IrIaind in an Engllih atmosphere amid th m' -t respectable environments (sjh! th-y art very rpe-otahle In tliat country.) U dr.ifl tho le-'acy of his country's history. Then he i iwnt U an r.rcü.'h hoI whrsr.obbry pr-vr.,is ana narrow. of mind flour. sao.- and wh-re the Empirical concept M iTpart! to untutor4 minds. IWrmM fails utterly to ajprooiatj the Idea of Kmplr'j and npon his return to hin native land, becomes aware of his Hn-i of his nationality. He larni the truth tor hinvoif that he 1 Irish and not English and with this tiding nter the revolutionär' ranks and becomes one of the leader?. The author nure.ly knows the people of hlH blood. He paints Dublin with a true touch the city of gentlemen's bounes and slums. He know the mind of tho "Intellectuals"; wid cxpovfl the shallowness of the academics and the AngloIrish who art looking- through the windowa of IXiblln castle. He hajs a knowledge of the different typv of Irish character. He gives tho strong reserved Step-hen, the i-raTurgering and outspoken McCiurk. the anaemic myrtle Austin Mallow, tho cynical and trenclvant Moore, and th untractablo L-.vyer. Then we have the two brothers, the gentle Btryene and tho disavowing JJernard. who are very different even for childron of the same family. Bernard Is an xtrtmely likeable character. The story of Cuchulainn of Mulrtheme moves him deeply. The wngB of Osstan are in hi? m;nd and the love of Caolte In his heart. On would have liked to wee him live Instead of eormlng to that terrible nd "distorted and pawing the air with a boot." Such an ending aa this book has wens te bo the "sin qua non" of all the recent books of Ireland. Of conrso. it la true to lif. The ß trans e fatuity ox Irish hlntory Ls revealed in the untimely deaths of her sons. Euren, tho juiot gentle lad. fall In death on the fields of Francs; Sandy corrve-s home froma Gallipoli hrokan in body and spirit for he was in the Iiblin raisiHem; while Mc(liirk .'Inks in hl3 blood and dies like a slant Crusader upon the bodies f hfc victims cn the streets of Dublin. And through it all runs the bitter thought which Bernard epr-s-

e.s In his muslr.es to himsolf and J.ii

invn r!ruiry enwnl'. "Great

The waited, waste.1 effort! W

might rot we have done for the !

world hai this heavy hand ! n lifted from us!" And creeps into his bod and dreams of fertile valles and fragrant, waving meadow?? and yt;.ndlnrr in thorn !trong healthy men and fair women and over evi i' thlnr the spirit of freedom and

;ea :e. That was the warm vision iif h;id in his heart of things to be. Indeed it is a story of strong! youth bre-akin through the mist f 1

painful daya; a tale of inrepi-l .-erkera in an ago-old dream. To lead it Is to admire and love tli" people whoso words and deeds have inspired its patfi. T. F. H.

itmi-riis i;n;i;.Mi: in lij Aunt's Cart-y. Beautiful Qun-n of France, and lu't fiuepii of Franc" was lu'jiiie. .wa- was forced to ll-e for h r little i;f! after the storming of the Tuller-

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until the time off months ago. She ! the last Napoleon. J in history was to She lost her son, j

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toin-tte. Agnes Carey lived with the emIP i. In Htarland as companion for i. any months. Th lirt thing that thf fmprt-.-n wanted to know about her new ronupanion was whether or not she was squint-eyed. The empr.s had a peculiar dislike for any defection of the eye-s. .Mis.s Carey reorded her many converatlone with the empresa. and tells )f her life with a natural touch that in ;utte pleftKing. Speaking of tlie storming of the Tulleries. the mpresH wild: "Nothing in nature, neither ftorms nor the anery e!ementM can give one tho faintest Idea of a poplo In violent anger. Without exptrienclrg it, no one can imagine what it means to have a whole populace howling against you it is horrible!" Miss Carey has caught the personal magnitude, and Imperial Htrength of the little Emprew Ivagnle in her remlnlfcencea. The book is one for every library', and is beautifully Illustrated.

vi Id backgrounds lor the hlh spots j of American progTeso. What he has to say about the actual attitude of

the Colonists toward tho Btamp aot, the f.rnt workings of universal manhood suffrage under the constitution of 1787, democracy and the immigration lawy, and the relation between liberty and froe land, will come as a surprise to anyone not steeped in the remoter facts, of American history. Incidentally, his comment on "the melting pot," which he refuses to acclaim with the customary genial sentimentality, is worth thinking over. "America has been called 'the melting pot' a continuously bubbling sociological kettle into which we have grown accustomed to thinking you could throw no matter what number or variety of foreign elements without materially m-odlfyin the resulting product; th3 end of the melting was supposed always to be tho pure gold of Americanism But the happy results have been due to tho dispersion of the immigrants among the mass of the people, to the relative excellence of the Immigrant population, and to the opportunity of tho Immigrant to live the life and enjoy the rewards of the ordinary American. Generally apeaklng, thes favorable conditions prevailed up to a period which may be roughly placed in the decade from IS SO to 18S(XM The United States: An Experiment In Democracy, is a book calculated to make any American think, whether he be a democrat by conviction or forca of habit

NATION' AI IItOBIiirviS. Is IeroocTacy Suorsful? It is a stimulating quecsticn that Carl Becker propounds in his scholarly appraisal of the American spirit a evolved In one hundred and 4 4 years of crowded history' The, United State: An Experiment in Democracy. Beluccd to its lowest terrr.s, the question Is has America's great trial of democracy proven ltvVf a success? In selecting the salient facts to tell their own story and ann.vcr the question, Prof. Becker affords an unusually vivid panorama of American hl5t ry and .bring us back to fundamentals with something of a start. We who have always taken the word democracy as part of the very air we breathed are apt to bo shocked when it is brought beforo the court of political analysis and made to answer for itself, like anv new theory of yesterday's upbringing. But the intellectual journey is one well worth making If oniy because it affords us the realization of why wo believe as wc do. Prof. Beaker, approaching bis problem with the spirit of i;a'e rs'onal Inquiry that has marked his work in tho chair of modern European history at Cornell university, has succeeded in etching in some

S; TELLS HOW MANY

VILLAGES AIDED BY CHURCH WORK

Secretary of Lutheran Council Gives Vivid Picture of Europe.

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44 IN" criAXCERW By John Galsworthy. "The possessive instinct never stands still saya Gal.TWorthy. "Not even in the Forsyte family." This -tory deals with the younger generation of a fair-ou- old tTngilli family, a family that va.s growing decrepit with monotony. But all this didn't "prevent a rally" at tho i-ineral of old Roer Forsyte in l ! 9. "It had been a glorious summer, .ir.d after holidays Abroad and at ih ?ea they were practically all

Pack in London, when Kotfer witn a

touch of his old originality

denly breathed his last." And with equal force fulness came i lie nws to the old family that Winifred's husband. Dartie, had Kiven her pearls to a ballot dancer, iml left with her quite unceremoniously for Buenos Airs. This sot Soames. Winifred's brother, on the idea of divorce for her, and incidentally for hirr-self. He was a typical bachelor of tho uncertain age. tho ago which seems

want an heir, without exaotlvitil order

knowing whether to risk matrimony t Europe

rr not. But Soames was a different bachelor, he was a marrb'd one. Irene, his wife, had o&riy found that she could not aldd with him. ami they lived art for a great many cars. Divorces fo vital am! lntersting to the Enr!!sh w hile in this

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S-" it is the ch.ir.icteri.Mtlor.s book that n-Jik" it werth

.'ames, oKI and totteric. wrapp rurelv in shawls, and nl-va'-s

satisfied tecauv as he mivs, "They never tell m anything," i" the real creation of th" bo.k It U excellently written. G il vorthy is ablto glow over snch a plot He p-v-s to tak a state of mind

fis th.' possessive instinct anI

it out in ;i rro:i-,. Gimmes pos-es-el an heir. Jar.ies

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NF.W YORK. Nov. 2 0. "IIow

vlllages were saved In Poland by tho timely loan of 21.000,000 Tolish marks to war refugees is one of the conspicuous results of the church's friendly work In central Europe."

I said Dr. Laurin Iarsen, secretary of ithe national Lutheran council. Just i returned from a three months' visit J to countries In Europe where the ; council Is giving systematic nss'.sttance to churches jind iheir Institui tlon.s. I "When the thousands of people

driven from their homes during tho v. ar began to trickle back, our commissioners, Dr. John A. Morehead and Prof. ML. J. Stolee, were there

i to assist them. These farmers and

had bud-J x l'l'iers preferred loans to gifts land tho funds we let them have

;wore so careruiiy appiiea that at bast f 0-0 villages and a vast farm acreaee w ere convalescing when the recent campaigns In Poland brought 'a set back," continued Dr. Larsen. ! "This Indicates how the philanthropy of America is neutralized by

adverse political conditions. I saw this nealn and again." Itusda Disturbing Element. "The Russian situation nlone, un-

comes about, would keep

from settling if there were

no other disturbing factors. I only saw Russia from tho outside but that country' is extremely unhappy. That the present conditions can continue much longer eeems Impossible to me! "What about the stocks of food, clothing and medicines." Dr. Larm was asked in view of occasional i-.-perts that all Is well or nearly ho n central Birope. Ills reply was spirited. "Anyone who makes such t a( rver.ts has not moved far from the b. t hotels and ha.s had lots of Arv.t rleftn money. To be sure, I wa on-.fet table and had all I wanted at the Hotel Adlon in Berlin, but it Is difficult to bMiovo that the poor families I visited In congested section.''

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of Forsytes worked out tl;. ir re.-pe.-- ' visited tive fialvatlors. And like a plar:t, :h si. the Forwte family ld.-n-.s again. A usus:

city can outlive the winter upon t; -m. Even In Vienna enough cat at best hotels.

promlnei

had had a bit ' cf two finders

fer the fl

pastor whom I

of meat about on the 16th of

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Song NtitnU-r in tin Eappiost of All Muhal Tnatj "Mj Golden (Ilrl Vlctr Herb-rt- lat--t -ticccx-, which will l at the OlUcr for Matine aod 'lght ThankKgltinf.

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SOME NI7VV IVOOK .U1E: "Laughing House," by Meado Minnlerode. ' Tab-. out of Court," by Frederick Trevor Hill. 'The Pilgrim and tho Book," a drama, by Percy MacKaye. "Letters of a Javanese Princess," by Baden Adjeng Kartini. "Anthology of Magazine Versx:," by William Stanley Braithwaite. i He had bought no shoes for six years and did not know when he might have money to buy a pair. "As always, the children suffer most. It is an endless story of pallid, underfed, undersized, deformed ' h'.ldren. What is most discouraging Is that no end Is In sight. The situation in general is very little better than U.st winter. The coming months will again be an open season for general unrest, riots and probably i evolutions." Want I Let urn of Order. When asked whether there seemed to be an organized effort to make capital of this unrest. Dr. Larscn said: "There aro extremists at both the radical and conservative e;:ds, but there Is an increasing number of people who want quiet and order. If mis sentiment were reinforced by the steady employment laborers and a more lively commerce, Germany at least would

recover rapidly. This, of

a story so wed known that it

most forgotten. Eolshevlsm is discredited in almost ai' circles in Germany. The reports brought back by commissions jtarted it, and the failure to take Warsaw put a probable coalition between Russian bolshevism and extreme radicalism In Germany out of the question. "But returning to matters lying

nearer to the purpose of my visit, let me say that the ministers of central Europe generally are severe suff'-rers. They suffer physically. They suffer even more keenly from the lack of opportunity for study and general culture. There is not sufficient money to print books and articles that might be written. Pastors have not even money to buy the necessary literature any minister mu.-.t have. Often I was asked whether it might not be possible to foster from American funds the publishing of essential books, pamphlets, and church papers." Show Remarkable Patience. "However, on the whole there remarkable patience and determination on the part of church leaders in facing their tremendous reconstruction problems. In Budapest I found a colony of .10 students and professors who came from Hungarian territory ceded to other nations. They were making courageous endeavors to pursue their theological studies. Frequently I met pastors and church people who even with a smile related how they had turned their coats until they had reached the turning limit." Asked about the relief brought to institutions by the American Lutheran church, Dr. Larsen stated: -"I believe that future church annals will record how a long list of hospitals, orphanages, and deaconess homes and training schools have been conserved. The amount needed was often not very large, but their domestic resources had been exhausted that foreign assistance was absolutely necessary. This is also true in parish relief work. The pastor of a large congregation when first asked a year ago whether he wanted supplies of clothing for needy parlshoners said that he hardly thought so; but in a recent interview he remarked that last winter the supplies coming from America were a godsend. He himself had not realized how needy his people were until he began to make a systematic canvass." Starts Itcfugcc Relief. Dr. Larsen was eater to epeak about the repatriation of prisoners of war. "I earnestly hope," he said, "upon the reconvening of our conpress In December something will be done by way of transportation and otherwise to help the bringing home of these prisoners of war who are dying by tho scores every day. It is one of the darkest blots on our very much promised civilization. I

had a long conference with Pridjof Nansen who was so deeply impressed with th need of the prisoners In Siberia and who could hardly be brouRht to their homes before next spring, that he started the 'Nansen relief and is receiving funds for these prisoners. No one know?, but

probably 200,000 war prisoners still languishing in camps or

stranded In foreign countries." The national Lutheran council of which Dr. Larsen is secretary, has pent deputations to Europe sin-e the armistice and has established permanent headquarters in Copenhagen, with the Rev. Dr. John A. Morehead, former president of Roanoke col!e?o. Virginia, in charge. An extended organization has been effected in all countries where the need is grea:?st. In Poland the council has worked closely with the American Red Cross and American relief organizations. The president of the council Is Rev. H. G. Stub. D. D.. of Minneapolis. It Is a federation of 10 Lutheran bi dies for practical church activities at home and abroad. Its next annual meeting will be held on Dec. 7 In Chicago.

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