St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 22, 1923
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os; DAY, 2 16, 19238. ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH ' § The Daily POST-DISPATCH alone has 45,000 MORE City Ci rculation than BOTH other evening newspapers COMBINED ord “wagon: his action empn ment deepening division betw ; ch-| with big incomes and ¢ they small incomes.” r now ~ : ene all | Author, 79, Takes Thirg By the Associated Pregs | NEW YORK, Dec, 21 'W. Cable, 79 years old, é ' writer Burke. by the Hoyer Press for the William Har- Co. Inc.) is a strikingly handsome artistic book, entirel¥ St. made, which was issued week for the Christmas trade. rpress consists of selec- from that learned, acute and column, “The Day's which Mr. Burke has ; during the last year for the sig Times. Many of the —— | actions to various loca ie a incidents, to which Mr. , eg recent arrival in St. Louis, fresh and curious oe estingly illustrate y Se ceeila Burlingame of this ‘one of the most intriguing and of American wood-cut ar- The publisher, not without describes this as “the fin- om bit of printing and book-mak- tng yet produced in St. Louis.” @eme of the chapter subjecta@ are and the Courthouse c “Nocturne in Black and » “Shaw, the Man and His / DAY’S JOURNEY,” Rosecrans of Creole Stories is on his third hone learned today Mrs. Hanna Hall Cow! Ampton, Mass., Jaet Sa home of his daughter fred Chard. Montcla : AC was the bride's second 4. le On their return from the ; the winter thew pet pa South was 6 ng at turday + ; Mra, ir, N. » : ii Le] aa E. Cor. 11th) Day Sun .to6 P. M.) who are, unable to shop during the be delivered in time for ¥—GET GOOD SERVICE ) DAYS’ FREE YOUR OWN Ho day “The Law of Reedy’s “Matin Song in Forest e edition is limited to of which 25 deluxe “were numbered and signed suthor, with every wood- by Mrs. Burlingame. ‘ z= Jae.” Park.” NG AND OTHER ” by Donn Byrne. (The Do.) is the name.-of Donn ‘in modern romance. And sh year bring another bock yas the prayer of those who | “Messer Marco Polo” he Wind Bloweth.” -" baker's dozen of short Mm @hich fill the 400-odd pages ‘Satest, he continues as a ating beautiful prose. In : hioned phrase, nn 4s a natural-born storytel- Mie has, moreover, a deep In- into human nature, a delicate of humér and a gorgeous i One of the haunting stories She néw volume is ‘“‘The Parlia- mt at Thebes.” ier to lay before the Angel of "Leré—who speaks with an ; ‘accent!—their complaints ; man. They accuse him of oe head of drunkenness, of his dark-skinned brothers, Pf wlaying God's creatures for " Only the horse nudges angel's shoulder, and the dog | Butea cold nose into his hand. : ~- xe & ee * ie > 4 4 t-PIANO Xmas Gift! With Each Player All of These Ve ‘4 Perry rarely beautiful of the Land of she set a standard of which, one could not Tearing, she would have diffi- Perry. (Stokes. ) in maintaining, and en- ed an expectancy which was 5 Mulated further to test her abil- p's ? owe. . W.to repeat. ly, perhaps, ancy, and the _ inevitable rison with the earlier and pretentious story, “Come ome,” suffers somewhat as puld not suffer if Sone. If, say, it had come first nd “Palmetto” had come after. it ght have been better for both. A spicion forces itself that it was itten first and did not find its y until “Palmetto” had made a @ path for it. But that miy a suspicion. hie, ‘like the other, is a ro- nce of the Louisiana rice lands. name, the girl of this story, Berenicia, but they called her ) } ' or, more descriptively. WEE Minne of the Birds. As ne, she had that kind of hair temperament, and as for the they were the egrets that in the swamps and were Mepecial care and protection. o v d rck Grand, Upright a and STREET or. 11th St.) - iw Stan eee ee , ‘ ~ ene oniy St. Louls evening ad Press news service. ce ¢ rds and her home were her | She fought for them im- ly. And ae she fought Them she won a happiness had not before been great- except as she found it In for birds and home. are the Louisiana charac- Sometimes weak, but always that Mrs. Perry knows so and draws with such fine sin- . Chances. & : a ADE” an Autobiography. Evelyn Scott. (Thomas Selt- MARRIED man, a professor of biology, elopes with a young woman and to escape Plan of a vengeful wife to him to justice under the | act, he flees to South Amer- With his new flame. There he t© take any kind of work he Set because fe has no reserve and cannot find employment @S Profession of teaching. Both = Gentle folk, reared in luxury, Sow they are subjected to the of the very poor ina me land. To make ft worse, ba and he is serving the ea ™BChine agent, and opens th of having passports i Ser == 8 gulf before them to to America after funds. depositor is given for twice the par ‘i> physical safety of de- this big bank; it is a safety which comes strength of its direc- ++++.$10,000,000 2,000,000 s++++ 3,000,000 ects . 10,000,000 -- +. $25,000,000 ever lost a cent in a ntee. time to come in 1F COMMERCE Broadway, : Olive to Pine — A Peeecee Willing to go back and take medicine, . whatever it may _ The writer, who professes to Written Gown her own obser- Sn experiences while % Prisoner in Brazil under : nces, presents on in the form of impressions : state of the elop- Gay to day over a period years. It is what may be ed “a human document,” ®& most vividly, excellently narrative, but is pervaded and tragedy from be- to end. All the details of mn while they are | | | tion, the hero of this newest work, | _ence between 1850 and this year of | | §race, and the children of today are in too much ofa hurry to read | ”" “waiting for the Robert | All the animals. adopted is | for the | “COME HOME,” by Stella G. S. gave us| | In forth, including those of the of her child and a complete de- scription of the limited toilet faci- lities in the various places where she was compelled to live. She suffers veritable martyrdom, but somehow it never commands quite the sympathy she bejieves it en- titled to because the Treader is ever aware that it is all the fruit of her own folly. All the characters in- troduced are unpleasant. The title, “Escapade,” is fronic, of cowvrse, for it is really tragedy. The writer calls her work “crea- tive autobiography.” -—_—----—— ‘“SIR JOHN DERING,” by Jeffery Farnol (Little, Brown & Co.) T scarcely seems necessary to Say much about this novel of English life two centuries ago, when gentlemen wore periwigs and fought duels on slight prova- cation—novels of that period by Mr. Farnol.have earned him a reputation which is sufficient in- dorsement. By way of explana- Sir John Dering, is a young man of high mettle, whose love of life earned him the sobriquet of “the wicked Dering,”’ chiefly because of | his proclivity to uphold his honor | with his sword. He is a pretty g00d fellow at heart. lady of quality, smugglers, sex country provide the circles in which he moves to a pleasing cli- max in the last chapter. One cannot refrain from admira- tion of Mr. Farnol'’s ability to handle varying dialects and to color his scenes with a casua! word. Altogether, his diction is most foreeful. “A DIOTIONARY OF PHRASE AND FABLE,” by the Rev. FP. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. (Lippin- | cott.) T expression. Wherever words and expressions, begun later taken Into to colloquial and written English because of their color or emphasis, have been has been revised and brought You also find here mythology, super- legend and arch- aeology treated crisply so that you can find you would a word in the diction- ary. NEW YEAR CALENDARS. (Sully .& Co.) ’ A haughty | titled | villains and lusty folk of the Sus- | sere, HIS invaluable reference book | birth , teaches confidence in the future, _helpfulness toward all the around, love of beauty and joy of health. The book is one of the “Stories All Children Lowe” series. The translation is by Elizabeth P. Stork. The eight illustrations in color are by Maria L. Kirk. FRANCONIA STORIES, by Jacob Abbott. (Putnam.) ACOB ABBOTT, who understood children and sympathized with their point of view as few writ- | ers have done, wrote the Franconia Stories in 1850, and three genera- tions of boys and girls have laughed over the adventures of Phonny and Malleville and mar- veled at the wit and wisdom of Beechnut. When he wrote the wiseacres of his generation thought him far ahead of his day. And so he was. And that is why three generations have iaughed with him and why a rourth genera- | tion will laugh with him. But, after all, there is a differ- his long preachments and longer descriptions, so Margaret Arm- vety carefully cut out the moral reflections without cutting out the and Jacob Adbott, if he were living now, would have to ad- mit that the condensed stories are better. The illustrations, by Helen Maitland Armstrong, are very at- tractive, “GROWING VEGETABLES,” by Ralph lL. Watts. (Harper & Bros.) (that the American voter simply wili not go to the primaries. This \gives the professional politiciaus their opportunity and we are here shown the way they use it. The affairs of the precinct, ward, city, State and nation are all managed in the same way and there is no prospect of change. It is a rare thing for a political success to be achieved against the |machines, and in any, event | success is temporary. fhe reader |of these pages, written by one who knows the game. from A io Z learns how the boss gets his money and how it is used, how the machines handle the woman vote with perfect success, why for President, and in”general he gets behind the sciences. The “sub-cellar stuff” is here exposed to light. We see how presidents are made, usually a year and a half ahead of the convention. The delegates to national conventions are described as “twenty-minutes | trolled, | the eges,”” the delegations in genera] being thoroughly bossed and con- unemotional and un- swayed, by the enthusiasm and frantic clamor of the galleries. ; |The Wood and Lowden campaicn strong, who edited this edition, has | of 1920 are described and aah hae son for their failures Staternent made that the con- vention® ratified Harding decided on at 3 a. m. in George Harvey's room at the Blackstone Hotel. The tremendous pressure on a candidate to evade, to be insin- cere, to be guilty of humbug, is set forth with great clearness. seems that at Washington there are 145 separate and distinct headquarters, representing special given, and S dean of the School of Agri- culture and Director of the Experiment Station, Pennsyl- vania State University, the author has found out how to get the high- est possible yield in vegetable | growing, and in this book he gives to date, w | a ith new forms of | growers. in slang, but! into red-blooded speech, | | you will find them here. | will | stition, history, oo. | equated. it easily and simply as | the information to all vegetable The book is in the Har- | pers Handbooks series, which is| edited by W. C. O'Kane. | “THE TURNING POINT,” by) -Louis Tracy. (Clode). | HIS author years ago wrote a | - Story, “The Wings of the Morning,”’ has seldom been He also ranks high as a writer of detective and mystery | stories; and this story. a present- _day romance, is admirably handled |—all of which may be taken as an | indication of his versatility. LL these are self-explanatory | and are illustrated in con- formity with their subjects. this collection areTindividual calendars with the following sub- because of this | | “Birthright.” it | OOR many persons get it stood quite | Henry, Dinner, Pope, andthe Bible, all are handsomely illustrated. FOMBOMBO, by T. S. Stribling. (Century Go.) = CTION is the keynote of this | Somh American tale, by the author of the notable negro story. order that an American salesman may marry the Spanish bride Dictator Fombombo—but there are of | regions in which life is cheap and ' revolutions are | frequent. The American is no ideal hero, and his lady-love is a rather un- real person, who is represented as wearing a nun’s garb, for the pur- pose of keeping her satyric band at a distance. The American does improve, for toward he quits quoting business poetry of the go-getter sort. The pretensions of Latin-American politicians are satirized, and the reader may be thankful to live in a ithe politicians, except for a few of the gang-leader type, do not re- quire their followers to go out and get shot for their personal glory. “LITTLE DAVID.” by Robert Stu- art Christic. (Seltzer.) * Stemmons and adventure and colorful comedy are for little people, as this Robert Stuart Chris- tie story of “Little David" shows. For Little David had no end of ro- mance and adventures and colorful eomedy in If he had Dickens’ day lived in creat author and given among the little people he put into his books. It is not permitted to tell just who Little David was, because fhat | 4 Spirits are broken and they | | of happiness’ 'went to Gally life are set and other is a thing the reader must find out for himself,after a period of sus- pense which is not the least de- lightful part of the story. book is dedicated to “all in search and that is pretty much everybody. —_- —_«_~ a. | hu lof the It does seem that a | flied ing correspondingly | i tle, the end | | St ¢ oli : jects: Blue Bird, Mark Twain. O.) quest of solitude Richard Alymer, who-has had a bad crash in his plane in France, is toid by his physician that he mry lese hrS ecanity at any moment. He wanders into rural England in' and quiet ist, a sort of “Beloved Vagapb.ond,” exert pressure | terribly. |about it all? which, for gripping | *2°™> he merely explains the sit- | and | ‘yneets up with a wandering violin- Longfellow | interests, whose business it is to on Senators and Representatives. Some of the agents of these interests receive as | hi¢n as $75,000 a year. Sixty of the most efficient form the Mon- day Lunch Club, and their names! From the time one be- | are given. comes @ candidate till he retires he is subject to tremendous press- ure, under which-an-honest and high-minded man must suffer What is to be done The author does no* rT) ai uation. Perhaps, as he says, ‘‘it is part of the price we pay for nni- versal suffrage.” —_—_—_—_—_— “FRENCH LITERATURE prr- ING THE LAST HALF CEN. TURY,” by J. W. Cunliffe and P. de Bacourt. (MaeMillan. ) UST about what the average J thoughtful man interested French literature wants to know and this put in an interest- | ing way—thus seems the natura) | thing to say in attempting to char- | acterize thgs book. Two Columbia who is a wonderful musician. alzo meets Rosalind, with wom he feils in love, but with insanity tvst arcund tre corner, he knows that leve is not for him, so he wai l2rs canund cemes te the town of Mont fcrt. which boasts of a beaatiftul rutmmed castie | The twist in his brain seems to | have given him the uncanny power of reading the past history of this old castle and its people and around | this peculfar gift of his the theme of the story is built. In the other life hundrtds of years ago he had entree to the cas- And the people of the town. Earl, Lady Betty, his daughter. the and his enemy, Lord Grosmont, of | tn people ; @i were also nearby the present day, castle and country, in the olden dave. The fair Rosalind, of course, ap- |’ | pears again and all ends well. land where | | Johannes the streets of London. | “HORSES AND MEN,” by Sher- |” wood Anderson. (B. Heubsch. ) ] 4 it weren't taking Sherwood Anderson and his stories too se- riausly, one might reflect, after reading ‘‘Horses und Men.” upon! the description of love written by in Knut Hamsun’'s Vic toria. Johannes savs it’s some- thing that ‘“‘turns the heart into a garden where immodest toadstools grow,”’ and that it makes the King lay his head in the dust and mut- ter obscene words and stick his} tangue out. In other Ww. words, Anderson's | stories, while candidly written, fol- | there is no reason to doubt that he | would have been found by that | a place} of the The | | stories. | : 7 | | many, I failed to find him. “YINZI.” by Johanna Spyri. (Lip- | pincott. ) INZI was a child of the Swiss V ais. As a herder he was a quite complete failure. ple to let his sister Strefeli drive back the cows that,strayed from the browsing herd, while he lLs- tened to the music of the wind in the treetops. His father thought it would be better, perhaps, if he his uncle and farming with his vigorous, boyish cousins. But Vinzi was no better It must | he did not scru- | | be admitted that he | book takes its name from the fact | low the line of least resistance; | they seek to express, for the most part, the spiritual experiences of many men and an occasional wom- an when they first pay serious at- tention to the sex Impulse. Most principal characters are young men whose mental processes | the author describes with a frank- ness that leaves the reader with a feeling that Mr. Anderson has se- lected some particularly unintelli- | gent and nasty people for his | While certain episodés are brought out in great detail, the | stories as a whole are vaguely told, ‘and despite the fact that in some of them the author has announced | that as his purpose, one feels dis- satisfied with the results. The that most of the stories concern | people who work about the Ohio race tracks. learned | farmer than he had been herder. | He @as content to let his cousins | pipes from willow branches made melodies for the mountsins to echo. And so Vinzi, in some par- ticulars, was a failure. But fortunately his father was not only a herder. He had a soul that was not insensate to the lad's music. So Vinzi had his chance. hildren in the | There are other c : sentiklly sinister, but that they are story and through them ail! ’ ; ' : ; | ; these ——— “THE GREAT GAME OF POLI- TICs.” by (Doubleday Page). |: ALL the _ citizens country were compelled to be read. We praise democracy, Hie | 'recent writers ' enthusiasm ' “ To ivy Len a to do this by 7 ‘vy ee > . ae Such Vague and inaccurate. In this attractive book the story of Poland’s past, successes, her mistakes, of her imperishable soul, her revival, of her post- war difficulties and her economic and political problems The out- look is serious. Says the author: “If there is a Pole who does not anticipate a future war with Ger- 2 . > is told of her her dis- of The future peace of Europe, and probably of the world, depends largely upon theultimate solution of the Poligh question.” What a tangled and difficult thing that question is will be realized by the readers of this book. “WEEDS,” by Ethel Kelley. (Harcourt. Brace & Co.) THEL SUMMERS wen* looking for weeds. found what she was looking for. Such weeds and such a lot of them! It is probably - true enough that most of the tenant to- bacco growers of Scott County, Ky., are just about as she de- scribes them, addicted to habits and worse speech, but it is just possible that if one were to go der the mistaken idea that we are governing ourselves. This shows. what we often suspect, that we are governed by political ma- chines. But it also shows political machines that they are not are necessary, es- Madame Spyri, who wrote “Heidi,” bud in proportion to our neglect childhood stories, of them. The importent fact its book | that among them hunting for flowers, as untiringly as this author has hunted for weeds, a few might be found. That search, though, will have to be made by another, since the taste of this one is so strong for weeds that she would hardly recognize flowers. The weed that might have been a flower, who is the sole excuse for the | the selection of | It | City, | in| of this) is remarkable how | who)! when the) Summers | KELLEY | She | bad | -. NEY7S OF NEW BOOKS .-. _ |BUSINESSHEADS — ANYIOUS TO BRING DEMOCRATS HERE ‘Conventions Bureau Presi- dent Shys Remainder of Be Raised Without Diffi- culty. Ohio produces so many candidates | | “Raising money for the Demo- ‘cratic National Convention fund is jthe easiest thing in the world,” ‘Henry W. Geller, president of the 'St. Louis Conventions and Publicity | Bureau, said yesterday, following '& meeting of the campaign execu- | tive committee at which plans for obtaining the balantre of the desired $100,000 fund were discussed. “I walked along Fourth street for several blocks on my way to lunch today and stopped for a word or two with four friends. Each of ‘them contributed $100. All I had to do was mention the. matter. They were anxious to help. “Everybody wants this big con- $100,000 Fund Should) } ' ; : ’ ; vention in St. Louis and I feel cer- | tain that the raising of the balance of the desired fund will be merely ‘a matter of approaching a suf- ficlent number of persons and en- abling them to sign pledge cards. « Women Coming, Too. “One phase of the question, how- ever, which seems to have escaped notice of retail merchants, is that a large number of women will be here for the convention. Condi- tions have changed since the last National Convention here in 1916. “Women are now accorded equal] representation and voice in man- agement of the Democratic Nation- al Committee and it has recom- mended that \State delegations be equally divided between men and women. In addition I belleve more ‘delegates and visitors will be ac- companied by their dives than has been the custom in past conven- tions.” As was told yesterday, pledges ageregating $48,175 were signed Thursday afternoon at the first public meeting to consider the Campaign. The total was augment- ,ed by several thousands of dollars yesterday, Geller said. Announce- ment of revised totals will be made during the coming week. To Name New Committee. The Executive Committee yes- terday commissioned certain of its members, and others active in the campaign, to confer with heads of several commercia] | during the next few days relative | to pledges. , An active Finance Committee will be named at another meeting | 6f the Executive Committee, set ; Delhi Fuel organizations | for next Thursday afternoon. This | Finance Committee will be | charged with the task of following | up such the campaign Thursday. The committee workers feel cer- tain that the $100,000 quota will have been reached time for departure of the St. Louls | delegation to Washington, where the invitation of St. Louis will be formally presented to the Nationa; | Committee on Jan. 15. officers before ‘Chicago Ready “To Go Out and Get” Convention. Ry the Acsoriated Presa. CHICAGO, Dec. 22.—Mayor WIil- liam E. Dever was eiected at a conference yesterday to present Chicago’s convention city claims to the Democratic National Commit- tee in Washington next month. The conference attended by Fred W. Upham, treasurer of the Re- publican National Committee, and George E. Brennan, Democratic leader in Illinois. Upham an- nounced that practically all the funds that were to have been used for the Republican National Convention which went to Cleve- land will be available to land the Democratic convention for Chica- go. Thereupon Brennan announced himself as prepared to “go out and get” the Democratic convention. “T feel confident that we wid land the convention,” Brennan said. “It means a fight of course and a hard ‘one, particularly providing for all | leads as are reported to | long before | : i | expenses, but I believe we will be | successful.”’ Acquitted of Slaying Husband. | | WATERLOO, N. Y Dec. 22.— | Mrs. Nettie Case Taylor was ac- | quitted of the murder of her hus- | band, Frank Taylor, by a jury early 'toda?. Mrs. Taylor confessed that she = Contributions to the Post-Dispatch Christmas Festival Fund : H. W. 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Administration, 1903 Rail. crushed her husband's skull | |with an ax July 14 last, and made | ‘a plea of self-defense. —_—— the Kelley wilderness of weeds, is ‘Judith Pippinger, daughter of a |tobacco grower, superior in a way | to all the other tobacco growers and their sons and daughters, en- dowed with a latent appreciation of the beautiful and a_i certain strength of character, but pre- vented by early marriage and fre- environment 'thing of herself, and remaining a weed to the last. | There is nothing in the way of ' plot. sequence of commonplace | broadening to caricature at times. 'The author has a talent for de- | picting life in its most unlovely as- ‘pects, with a superabundance of | repellant detalis. In her avid quest for “realism” she has missed the balance between the good and ithe bad. the comely and the ugly, ‘which makes up life, even, without | doubt, among the tenant tobacco \ growers of Scott County, Ky. quent child-bearing and @ choking | from making any- | Rather it is a loosely jointed | inci- | | dents, in the main well told but) | | | ALAA AAAR ARES Seeeeeeeee & way Exchange. D. Sandidge 50 | 0 Lucas Ave. Steutermana oe? ee : A Helfrich . Daniel Hard MH ch od Ruth Lee ... hHiennesasey we 7 245 eCaseSisurisewsesecg Sha UtiS oor S 'c. O'Conner O Mr. Rarcher. ) Kanne S ia a Dr. 0. F. Weiderer, 3016A S. Grand. . I SAYS LOWERED BIRTH RATE IS ONLY REMEDY FOR EUROPE Harvard Professor Asserts sion Again Is Pre-Batile Cry- on Continemst, * © Ata time when France and many : i oth ations are bending efforts Continental Life Ins. Ce. Second The World Coler Print Ce. TO! ts ie to Increase in numbers, 1 Harvard ‘professor makes the assertion that the only remedy for European con- ditions is a lowered voirth rate. At a time when praise of the in- dustrial age and its lalor-saving and efficiency devices is general, this same professor comes forward with the prediction that the old- time hand-farmer will supersede the machine-farmer,,and says that the industrial age has been keeping our confidence by “the common old fraud of paying interest out of capital.” Moreover, the world will be hav- ing a not-at-all-merry battle with starvation in a hundred years if the population race of increase is not lowered, says this professor, who is Edward M. East, of the Bussey Institution for Research in Applied Biology at Harvard. Prof. East, who was acting chief of the Bureau of Statistics of the Coal Co.. 923 Beatmen’s Bk. Bids. Cash oO0v. 00 A. Ra. Co. ten Avenue. H. Henderson John Howe .. ee wn AIS L. Sch B. Stack ... Blanch Rollins Misa Kahn .. Cath. 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Pendleton . 25 Halfen United States Food Administration (in 1918, makes these statements and brings evidence to thelr sup- 0! port in an article in the January ‘number of Scridner’s Magasine. | Prof. East is not optimistic about .; the future of Europe or her taking 1.00 $3.00 _Harris-Polk Hat Ce., 1227 Washing- 00 50 °. 1.00 2 50 rt } Oe 232 Ocm . age 599)919'009)0092 95") St SOM aAnA Aas bees wo hh “ech ea nat nahin eh it es AP SESESED OAs DO409) SSH Pollmann Tt", wring “iver .. Martin Walsh 7 J. &. Moore . _—_—_—_—_ 9|the Gadarene swine. “Expansion ois again the pre-battle ery of Bu- 33D PD AD AQ DD VO MAAAMA OS D4NDABRAO this means of salvation. “That Eu- rope will exhibit signs of civiliza- ‘tion in this respect, however, is to be doubted.” he says “Fore- thought and discretion on a grand scale and among scores of races are rather unthinkable.” “ Those who cry for large num- bers as tk protection against ag- gression, Dr. East compares with rope. blicists are as united in their course as were the Gadarene ‘swine, and to the same destructivé ‘end. Théey close their eyes to the futility of expecting over-popula- tion to save small countries in a trial by force; they fail to grasp the economic significance of a low birth-rate and they raise the cry of decadence to encourage the pro- |miscuous production of morg peo- | ple in their already over-buriened lands. It seems a pity.” Former Police Sergeant Falls Dead. William J. 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