ALEXANDER'S
BOOK REVIEWS
Blackburn. The Graphic Tub
Ushers, Ottawa, pp. 274 $2.00.
Handicapped as it is by a wrapper claiming for it touching values
as a human document of mother-lov- e,
"The Man Child" turns out
to be much better than might be
expected. A certain "wordcyncss"
of style and frequent seemingly unnecessary references to the Christian
Dlcty add further to the obstacles of
the reader, but with the exercise of
due patience and forbearance there
comes a time toward the end of
the volume when the net effect is
almost pleasing.
Despite the fact that the scene
is laid in Ontario, there is nothing
distinctively Canadian in the book.
If the hard winters were changed
to rainy seasons and the pines to
rubber trees the whole action could
be removed to Singapore without
serious loss to whatever artistic
values the story may possess.
"Emma Hart and her only son
Jack" says the wrapper, "live and
laugh and weep as mothers and
sons have done since the days of
Eden."
Now, while mother-lov- e
is all
right in a way and highly com

mendable as an exercise of private
virtue, the theme begins to lose
something of its original appeal af
ter the first few thousand
Briefly, Emma Hart marries Jack
Winchester who Is drowned before
the birth of his first son. The son
Is brought up in modest circumstances, although not In poverty,
medicine and makes numerous lit
His mother insists on a career in
tic sacrifices in order to send him
to college. Just as he is about to
graduate the late European disturbance breaks out and young Jack
Winchester Joins the colors to meet
his death withlnthe year "somewhere In France."
Such is the story. It is simply
to'd, except for a slightly florid
style and two or three irrelevant
theological
between
discussions
medical students who propound
their views on God and Jesus Christ
In a manner quite foreign to the
natures of many of the medical
students of our acquaintance.
"The Man Child" is a fair enough
book to read for a few evenings
Just before switching out the lights,
but it hardly ranks as a classic.
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Into a
narrative
Is heightened
shriek, but generally It goes along
in a sustained, entertaining and roYOUR
mantic tone.
At one point Mr. Gibbons Is quot
IS
ed on the subject of newspapers vs.
the radio as follows:
While on his recent visit to the
get the Idea that radio will
Don't
AT
ever displace the newspaper. Tele- Wisconsin College of Agriculture,
graphy hasn't put the post office Georgc Russell (AE), Irish poet,
out of business, has It? Radio will statesman
and agricultural econoalways be a most powerful and interesting adjunct to the press. But mist, expressed deep concern upon
WALTON NEAR MAIN
radio's appeal, though essentially the exodus of the American rural
dramatic, Is as ephemeral as speech. population to our cities which he
We must always have the printed
feels have sprung up so magically
record.
Mr. Gilbert tells of the romantic, in half a century.
"At present," said Mr. Russell, inlllllflftinilIlllllllllC3lnlllllfH
g
Gibbons. But the
record is made more complete by "your cities are teeming with vitalvs.
ity because they are fed from the
Mr. Rascoe's Introduction which
by
tells of Mr. Gibbons In his early yet unexhausted countryside and old
the jturriy peasantries of the
cub reporter days on the Chicago
world. But what," he asked, "is to
Tribune. He starts;
happen to you if in
Back In 1912 when I was attend- generations more thesetwo or three
great cities
Over Direct Wire by Jimmic Kerr from Durham, N. C.
ing the University of Chicago and of yours must perpetuate themworking on the reporting staff of
AND
selves from their own inhrrcnt vithe Chicago Tribune, a hulking tality?
It is not only in the counyoung fellow came Into the office try
HAROLD LLOYD
engineer and scientist
thnt the
one day and applied for a Job. His enable fewer people to produce
IN
name was Gibbons, Floyd Gibbons, more. It is happening In the cities
and he had been on his uppers for of the old and new world.
some time. He hadn't shaved for
"By mergers, by nationalization,
a day or two and he looked like a
by more efficient machinery, and
bum. His clothes were a fright
organization, fewer people are needunpressed and greasy as anything..
TOMORROW
produce what is required. Will
Gibbons asked for a salary advance ed to go
sec in
this
on?
which wasnt much and went your country I think so. I gatherand in Europe
out to get himself cleaned up and ing
multitudes of workers for whom
to buy himself a suit. .. .Gibbons
very
emerged from this ordeal with the there is no employment. The
system
suit I ever saw on a perfecting of the industrial not your
is bringing
about. Will
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human being outside of a burlesque unemployed this
gather In dark slums
house.... His suit was a gray one and in one room as they do In IHMMMIIMHCllMIIIMMIICmillllllltllllllllllllltllllllllllllltllllllllllllltlllllllllllHnillllllHI
with checks. They were the largest Europe, so that life will fester into
checks you can imagine. They were rottenness."
about the size of window panes.
On his tour of America "AE" Is
How he got the trousers on has striving to get "foreseers" to
think
always been a mystery to me.. Nev- of building up a rural civilization,
ertheless he wore this preposterous something which the world has
suit with an air.
never yet seen. He realizes that it
Gibbons has an air.
will need the highest political gene
news- ius to so organize the rural comThe excitement of
paper reporting Is in these pages, munity that something of the culand its contrast with the radio ture and prosperity of so great a
Jake Perry, interrupted at a lust- broadcasting routine immeasurably state will be reflected in the men
ful moment by his father, beats un heightens Its color and appeal J. in the villages and fields.
the old man and runs awav from W. P.
It is his opinion that America
home and becomes a bum. He has
needs at least 20 of its people to
a knack' for drawine: and so aulte
naturally lands a Job on a news
- Then,
naper in "Corinth" down south newspaper story, leaving out all un- all the
required,
"The Murder
himself necessary description, Harrlette
somewhere where he shows
us try to intersperse grlculture with
k,
to be a pliable artist, and what is of Cecily Thame," by mystery thril- supplying raw materials ior the ur
is
of
much more important to this stnrv lers In the latest
newspapers figure. rural industries, with production
a good hearty drinker and a dex- The New which Graphic Is the pa- ban Industries, and organize our
York
cooperatively on the
terous Drocurer of women for him- per
in this Instance, and It plays small farmers
self and the touehest of the police an Important part In the develop- land, so that we will gradully create
ut
wht he calls a social order which
reDorters. He Is a aueer and
youne man and eventually ment of the plot.
will affect character.
Miss Ashbrook, whose name apHe saw this happen in his own
marries one of the citv belles. He
turns to advertising then, and as a pears simply as "H. Ashbrook," on country. "Before we began to or
the title pace because "no one buys ganize the farmer, hundreds of
nnrtner in an aeencv. achlfvps
;iiccp:s In business and In his "law a mystery tale written by a woman," thousands or small men ran their
He eoes to began her newspaper career as a business fearfully among a crowd
adulteries" as well.
war. and on returning settle Hnwn reporter on the Lincoln Nebraska of dealers and Jobbers who preyed
with hi" wife In Grepnwich Village State Journal, and held positionsn. on them becoming petty egomanl
where his drnll and rather astound successively on the Caleary Alber-ta- acs." he declared!
Boston Telegram. Denver ExWhile in this country he will
ing amours furnish material to sat
seek support for this program from
isfy even The most blase of the nur press, Lawrence (Kan.)
and Brooklyn Dally Eagle. She the poets and literary men, "those
vevnrs of bizarre and startllncr loe
for two years In New who are or should be concerned
makings. He ends as a ereat. comic
nrtlst. Tmnellert with a delre to York Times. Tribune. World and for the spiritual side of your civil
several other newspapers. She Is ization, that they might bring their
he "different" from other human
helnos. he is Inhuman, ruthless In now press asrent for the firm pub- imagination to bear upon this work
of building up a rural civilization
the treatment of his friends, a hit lishing her book. is
Coward-McCan- n
the publisher. with an appropriate culture."
rlieiistlnir If vnu can take him ser
D. K. W.
He is not anticipating that it
louslv, and a blustering ass in any
will be "too difficult to get fine
event.
William Day Streetor, artist, a poets like Robert Frost, Vaduel
of
Ward Greene, executive editor
There's New
King Features Syndicate, is the au- partner of O. J. Gude in 1889, who Lindsay or Carl Sandburg to be
agri
In this idea. In
thor of the novel. Its name is "Ride has spent 41 years in the service interested organization in the own
my
Stocking Shade
cultural
Gotham
Cape & Smith of the O. J Gude .Company and country
the Nightmare."
there were no less than
General Outdoor Advertising Com
published it. It is an
pany, has published a book entitled four poets who took part in the
Everything!
To
but tiresome book, tiresome, that
Lettering"
It is work, for they felt that what was
is, unless you never get tired of dir "Constructive
planned as a guide for the beginner deepest and most profound in the
ty stories. J. W. P.
and for those who feel the need of culture of a nation was born not
in the cities but in the silence of
on set rules in making and drawing tne news."
articles
Douglas Gilbert's
Floyd Gibbons: Knight of the Air" letters by a simple and practical
which appeared originally in the method.
Investigation at the University of
Bridgeman
It is
New York Telegram have been Publishers.published byN. Y,
tjfae Washington have discovered that
your Stoetins Should
tf your Costumt'u
published in book form by Robert price is $5. Pelham.
ooe uouckc spends aooui 94 f per
M. McBride & Co. There is a foreyear for the maintenance of that
Dark Brown
word by Mr. Gibbons himself, and
.
.
well B1UUU1CU 1WIW nuuvc MIC lui- Brownltaf
Dark Greta
an Introduction by Burton Rascoe KentUCKy
lar. By far the great majority of
who edited Mr. Gilbert's articles.
snave themselves ana tnus save
Black
Oy atOrefrom $25 to $75 in barber s fees. But
IS
The book sells for $1.
Win RtJ
Nishtinsalt
For one type of feature writing,
ithis is far from the clear profit.
Navy
Gilbert article sserve as a
Oscar Hambleton of Henderson, Although varying a great deal, ac- these
model. Staccato, terse, business Kentucky and former student at the cording to the toughness of the
Grtn (witk yclow cat!)
like, thev link up the present radio university, has been made vice-preboard, the average college man
ftomcnad
Red
popularity of Gibbons with his roident of James A. Heam and Son. a tlmps
vpa consnminir a'35 cent
mantic, glamorous newspaper days,
Brown (with red cast)
Rcndcz-Vou- s
and the transition In each case is leading New York City department tube of shaving cream every five
Lighter-than-Nanatural and unstrained. The form- store, where he had previously been ' weeks, or $3.50 worth a year.
Riut
ula is simple, divided usually in
in art and publicity work. zor blades amount to $5, except for
"
Afttrnoon
three staces: (1) the broadcasting While attending school at the uni- - the straight edge artists, who diBlack
station with the attendants mak versity, Hambleton was an out- - minlsh this total. On top of that.
ing ready for the Great Gibbons, standing player in Lexington';? thea- - .the collegians spend $3.50 for after
"No run thtJt jtftrtf 6ov
ran dam the Gold Stftt"
his bustling in, his casual greetings, trlcal organization, then known as shaving lotions and $2.00 for tal-th- e
Romany Players, and was prom- - cum. He, furthermore, spends $15
and then the microphone.... "Hello
Everybody 1" (2) after the broad- lnent In
activity.
a year for haircuts and occasional
cast, the cigarette, and the talk
shampoos.
At Princeton it is a special nrlvl- with the interviewer on the subject
of radio until a chance word re ledge to play marbles. The game
Teachers from the New York Unicalls memories; (3) the memories of ts a privlledge granted to the Jun- - versity are to commute by airplane
SALE!
! to
Tlmbuctoo, the desert, the World iors. The Seniors resort themselves
other cities this winter in order
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