Show t - : - - jr In the' Field of Modern Writers ' --- I aL - q Tvz - circle in close reistion with the foreign department of the central police organization He has studied the language chology and history from the Orientalpoint of view A W Curtis for 35 years editor and proprietor of the Kobe aid pays high tribute to the author for The his accuracy and thoroughness League of Nations used parts of the book in manuscript as a guide in determining policy in respect to Japan Japan Professor O'Conroy points out is a land of corruption vice and cruelty whose policy has become a menace to the world Fifteen men are able to guide the thoughta of the masses He know' Russia and has something to say in its savor China he regards in kindly vein and fore its again becoming a great nation—if Japan does not prevent He gives a fragment of Japan's history end treats of its religious educational political and social life Tightly packed into nearly 300 pages engagingly writ-th- e ten it the material which every alert American should have to enable him to understand why Japan is today as much a menace to world peace as was Ger-many under the kaiser The author has managed to make this g exhaustive IVArk 00 that the reader:Is neverconscious that he is studying as hi pore over its vital facts One is led on by a growing eagerness to finish the book interest held fast by his revelations conscious all the time of the realities summed up in the title "The Menace of Japan" Recommended by the club this work is a fascinating contribution to contemporary as the moat adroit- history' as fascinating el Toy Publishers H C Kinsey and Com pany Inc New York Inn Japanese II peculiarly fortuitous moid Her-wo- I race and as to the fact may be traced the desire of the empire to- be overlord of I - - the Far East : Political students would hold the west- ern world as not entirely blameless for trend of present thought in Nippon— for her imperialistic aims grew out of an ambition to achieve a place in the Suri comparable with that enjoyed by other leading powers Her students edu- cited in foreign universities returningto their native land revealed the proomeg and metthods which brought the envied nations their wealth and power Japan then launched her great enter- prise of forging to the front and looking her own borders laid her far ' plansbeyond for enlarged dominions and be came the great imitator of western ways in order to realize them - As she 'steadily- - advanced with the world looking on curiously and per- Vously perhaps the first Occasion the ' concern world had tor turned Up in the Manchurian "Incident" -7-- of 103L Then Manchoukuo was set up The impotent League of Nations sought to forestall Japanese Sattelt01 on the-- is'Mien mainland The - sues have been followed by tension There wire the'American naval maneuvers of last year Off Honolulu followed only recently by the with drawal of our Pacific fleet to the Atli our naval construction tie and later - program underbylutes of a mmployment project for recovery We have loaned vast sums to China for the purchase of American cotton and American planes - have been sold to the Chinue end loan pilots have instructed Chinese milltary flying men German army officers of former high command advise the CMt' nese army Britain persists in the ex mist of her vigorously defended rights I ' f : ly In China Restive in all these circumstance still bound by two and two nine treaty bind power treaties a ing the four principal Pacitio powers to respect one anothees territory and the agreement between China and Japan as recommended at the Washington confer Japan's militaristic government broke all restraints on April 18 of this year when a spokesman of its foreign a office announced boldly tomll the world that they wets to keep their hands off China Then the United States and Bri tam n called the bluff Explanations considered satisfactory if we are to take at Thee value the announcements from London and Washington have been offered by Japan and the status quo ante is re five-pow- four-pow- t14 - of boas and the APeaysmine plethora Overabundance of articles in the review magazines the average American is at a loss to fathom the deeper meanings Of ' all that is taking place and incapable of deducing what !nay be the eventual outcome Will there be a war? What na- tions ma) become involved? When may we expect it? In this day of puzzlement cornea orb& Menace of Japan" by the eminent former professor of Keit) university of Tokyo to make it all exceedingly plain The alp thenticity of his book is vouched for by ' the jacket reference to his career: lie has been 15 years in Japan married into in arlitocriilnninaa family and It ing in so almost exclusively Japanese ' ' - f' 0' t I cif ti ft: i tiv f1 '142 4 4 i- ‘ "1 ')50P II i 7 t eaIt iAli orop A i I at ! 1 - Is I t34 visii41-Tt- e 1' i 411 r I A :406-10P- g :? A 44 ilV 2'1441 s eso:"444k4: 0- Ea& i 1 i 'r 45 4 - 4 5 4 1 1 ' '' I i'''' f 4 ' :' ' ' 'x 41::'- s::: 1 1 :' te 4‘-' ' Paul - :ii V! 1 '''! 14': ' 00- '- "The Lezy s - i ill Street' - l by-pau- Smi th 4 1 - Psi) - ''' dence 'tit the ifinc ie) that it is hard to tell that he cannot see the path is well as A few days ago I heard him the piano trying to find the right keys to play a selection 'rho next day I cut a nick In middle C and later In the evening while I was playing for hint as I frequently do I complained that I lied hurt my finger on that little nick in 'middle C He plays almost every making day 'now I think splendid progress It is amazing how quickly he can memorize a selection after I have shown him where It Ls was beginning 'to be afraid I could not find an excuse to stay on here much loner but this is what I needed Yes it is true just I wantr to stay here as long as I can I have never been so happy for a long time as in these last ' Sew months Come out soon or even sooner it hell - - Vt t All my love - :s - Mondabell April 21 f - ' ?c : JOAN - Dearest Uncle Doctor: It Is raining today and it is so dark and dismal that I have had a lire built In the fireplace Even that doesn't make the room very cheerful I hate the country and will be delighted to get back to the city again I think that I shall be coming In about Monday the 25th I ant sure that I am no longer needed here and Mr Douglu will get along splendidly without me flow - Right now be is In high' spirits and 11 playing all the lively cheerful tuna he can think of and in 'venting some of his own when those are exhausted If you want to know-th- e reason1 will tell you 7141! afternoon's ma11 Proughtszt LI 1 is more- I ‘ - 11e0 400 -: By SISTER M — MADLIEVA your home to which you are returning Because yoll have so hungered for the place Shall we not stop to say the simple grace That you have spent a passionate lifetime learning? Upon the hearth a brave new fire is burning The flowers you hoped would greet you in the vase You wished are here: here that grave tender face You tell me Is the sum of all your yearning - Is The threshold's peace impatient to possess you More lovely than homesick you clamored tor Music at once to shatter and caress you The voice you dream the hinds that you adore All all we here to welcome and to bless you Come to my waiting heart! What will you more? —From The Commonweal Fiction in tighter Nein Richard ME WATCH cuRns By Hoffman Publisher Tartar and Rine hart New York - Novelty g)f material gives antly told tale of romance along the transcontinental highways an added in terest Richard Hoffman who is the author of 6Ths Prodigal Duke" writes with cheerful humor and a zestfulness that is infectious and you will find his gay comedy a good evening's entertain men with some rather interesting char atter study to give it weight "share-eA New THE NUDES GENDER By Joseph Hilton Smyth Publishers Robert M McBride apd Company New York No It is not the kind of a book you ' think viewing the jacket design it Is nonsensical tale— merely a at Wiles a bit more dizzy than somewhat aa the hero feels at momenta411 about useless young man who a kisses thewrong girl by mistake in the dark of the Yacht club veranda and finds out immediately that she's the right girl Then making an intensive search of the beach and elsewhere for sherry-coloreeyes and two tiny moles on the left scapula—the only mune be has of identifying the girl—and not finding them the young man grows morose and de cides he might as well go get a job Which leads to the escapade at the Narcissus --Nature club—otherwise a nudist colony—where be and a friend find themselves purely by actident and where the rotund Tubby is forced to take off a few pounds by living on birdseed and imitating a lamb gamboling on the green while the hero of course discow era the girl of the sherry-coloreeyes But having found her there are real complications interfering with the long future acquaintance he desires just becauseher aunt happens to be bogsPaven- - 04 WRITERS OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN WEST x an odd assortment of characters By Margaret - - ' - By-- strained and white It wu a silly thing to do that walking out In the rain But to tell you the truth I did not realize that it was raining until that wind started to blow and I discovered that I was soaked to the skin and trembling with cold Then I hurried home as fast ea I could but it seemed like my legs were so stiff they would hard- ly carry me David says I Confessed all My sins while I was delirious Tell me Dr Kent did I tell about burning Letitia's letter? I Can't remember but David says she came into My Mondabell room that first tight to try to a IL me understand that she did make Uncia-brMy Darling not really care for him nor he for I am feeling fine now but I can't her That she had only come to make this overbearing nurse or return his ring and to say good7 David believe It However they bye before leaving for Europe on ' have carried me down to the 1I her honeymoon What a lot of brary today and David hail just - trouble and suffering I could have finished giving me the sweetest it I had only - spared everyone surprise of my life waited to hear what he had to While I have been ill he' has cont say that day But then David would a song- - Words and music) : not have had his song so maybe posed ' which he said were inspired that It is right as it is' night that I neArly died He has David is here beside me and he called it "Then I Dreamed Heaven refuses to let me write any more 0ained an Angel for I Lost You"' so I close with 11 my love and I do not set myself up as a judge thanks for your constant attention but It seems to me unusually beauand kindness during i my illness ' tiful 'Perhaps his mule may yet David sends his love too take the place of Ma painting - Do ' you know Doctor that we PO you' still have those are to be married on my birthday? snapshots that we took of Oypsy You are to give the bride away - on the lawn up at the farm David youknovt It seems a long time to says that is one squirrel that he: ' waft and yet why 'should I mind would be proud to meet when I am so happy now? IOAN Happily yours Their tell m1t that I lost three Editorial Ilimsen is to be Ilays It seems queer that I have congratulated on finding the right point no impressiom at all betweefitat- ofview' from which to tell this story urday when Letitia can walking The angle through letters In and I walked out ln the rain is the ottly way in which such sac- and Tuesday when I wokeup and charinely sentimental tale es this could found David sitting by my side have been told and get across as thin 1101414 SO aid 'yen at pat411rs :or0 a temptation Pulge PA114 announcement of the ': intended visit of Miss Letitia Dayon She Is to arrive next Tuesday the 25th Somehow had ceased to think of her es a menace Her -lettets have -really only been notes- and so fewTandl tar petween Of course I an very glad she can make him so happy From her picture she Is very beautiful They will make a lovely couple because maybe you haven't noticed It but David Doug' a'habdaome Is snarl lu At any rate I shall see you Sun- day or Monday at the -latest JOAN Ever your devoted - - I - S--- Do : Note--Mi- sa first-person- - 461r - -- largely this ' water 'color show' one of the vets newcanvas the stunning oils being few arwooci it vibrant Pórtrayal orfThe Harbor of Nice" with a cluster ' of bright winged water craft on the sparlding blue waters of the Mediter- I zaneen Carlon Anderson haa a few new Utah atudies in which he has been experi menting with a more simplified' direct Method of painting' In: the "Hills of Evening" a broad rhythmic pattern of the hills back of the capitol deeply shadowed in the late afternoon light and en "Abandoned Farmhouse" he has been most successful They are handled in 'I manner that is personal there Is spontaneity and an underlying realism Among the other water colorists are Veda Birrell who is showing anew and engaging landscape study f and Bessie Alice Bancroft whose "taster Offetinr utilizes the stiff calla lilies in a formal- - V — '"!' s s: 1 ' 4 ized design ' - ::1N: 0:::5w:- NA - ta :: :f t s 4 t 4 t $Ell ' 4' 4 ' e:: f z i: ‘ :0 t 1 !'i? I 1 t'4:': ' Salt Lake City t ''''::'' '''':' AO 5 - '1 1 i ts-- I L — ' 41 Is scenes: c Tisdale Hobart's "Oil for the ALamps of China" (Bobbs-Merrila story of American penetration of the Orient that has beeri widely approved was the English Book club's April selec tion and promises to duplicate its Amer success in )Englanct - (Free Lalice)' 4urs 'P l) ‘ ' '' I I A ZELLA HANSEN AA one-ma- - MVA ' ko I i' Mr Smith returned 1 t Innocuous not Ility1111: risque even though circumstances do force Tad to spend half night under warw 11001 for In Nona's bed and wiritibe ITZIFSTLWIFLV7 rpm: hour's amusement which after all is its sole purpose Alt-- coits Studint Exhibits Work 04"0 InmIt ' Its all very 111!A:AWA -------- A Mn Arthur IA Beeley will give e lecture as the Wednesdsy program at the Art Barn at 2:30 p m Her subject will be "Art in the Home and as a Hobby" Hostesses for the afternOon will he front the Business and Professional Wco men's club the County Medial auxiliary and the Postalice auxiliary Keith Winters who la working on a riovel to succeed 'The Rats of Norway" (Doubleday Doran)'may have his play The Shining' Hour" produced by the new organization Under the name John C Wilson of which ether members are Noel Coward Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fon tonne The Winters play "Ringmaster hes beet acquired by the company- - d wood-boun- 46) t - - - - d : - --- - 'ART AS A HOBBY '' ' ART BARN TOPIC -— d - g - - i good-nature- d la '' leries Most of the seven or so pictures at the Newhouse are Florid aubject4i all in water color Showing that Mr Smith has 'worked (Alt' a broader tech-- : nique They are loose in treatment' some no more than sketches and retain the poetic feeling that basbeen chars° teristic of the artist with the same AMPS 4 I - sense of volor harmony live oaks of the soutIC The moss-hun' have been motif fôr several a specially interesting-ongiving a skeleton tree as! central feature in a wet landscape with1 The Negro ther--- - storm Mout gathering eters an old mammy bending over her washtub in the shade of an umbrella camphor tree or "A Lazy Street" in the along the quarters with a darky batingare among yellow roadvily these engaging themes There is 'also An autumn scene of a litw Jersey WM bows and corn in shocks NIL Smith is preparing for a show later On and one will be interested in seeing his new treatment of home I Elizabeth Truelson student it West high school has just received announce silent that she was among the writers given honorable mention in the tenth annual Contest conducted by Scholastic the national high school weekly which was held at Pittsburgh Pa the latter of April the competition including - part literature crafts and the visual arts Awards for creative work in literature were divided between stories one-aarti plays poetry essays current-even- t cies' historical articles and book reviews Miss Trtielson was' given honorable men tion in the feature story contest She is a daughter ot Mr and Mn D T 'rruel 11011 and is a member of the Quill and Scroll the high school literary society - light-hearte- d pens" automobile trip brings together the strangest on such a tour probably being son of a wealthy Hal Ireland playboy banker traveling as a odefi" to his irri are: The others the severe tated father Mn Pulaipher of Iowa with a never satisfied taste for oranges and her well controlled butband a sweet-face- d tient nun going to the bedside of a dying brother a portly Mark Twainish newspaper man who collects experiences a tidy little chap with a hint of sly chief in his eyes and seeming ability to read one's mind! and BarrvTrafford a trim young beauiy of hostile mien Holly- with her fox terrier Dr caugsr Romance Is an invisible passenger from the start with adventure that be gms with the uncovering of the sleepy in scheming pilot Miller t which &S:::aresults Hal taking over his place before many reeled under hundreds of miles have the car and that premonition of some evil riding with them which has hatmtlid Hal has its culmination in a small aouthem Utah town The situation created is untangled in Los Angeles when Kerrigan adds a final item to his col- - s the itMrfurtherstudrhiat pietures were !exhibited at the Yana gal-- - ' This - - Academy 4- - TtJRW put winter Alm VAT Lek - 1 - The I 1 IviiieV1172011iiaCe") more----------- ' 1 '- go 4 'l' : :4t4'J' "44'6' 611 ?medial aquarelle :11'w ot i - ' who ha x recently returned I -- ::!::t:::: - 0411p4414o "Pot-Pourri- " RAp s "1 "-- 4vtAly -5 :" ' '''''' k - - -- - FA! otb be among the exhibitors In a ten' erai show the Newhouse hotel seven' of his newest water colors hiving been hung during the week When Mr Smith left the city he spent some weeks at the n etw York de cNiatyti onanaldA went southward s tt down for several months In Florida painting 'around Winter Park and Or lando finding an abundance of interest and colorful life in this aection ef the country TheNegro quarters inylorida towns gives an artist particularly- Inter- esting material Springtime in Florida he found gives Most brilliant effects with the lush folio age the miles acid miles of oleander in bloom the vivid flame vine and other native 'bsenlossoms "There is something in thi s beauty lating" Mr Smith says "to the painter also it makes one realize better But the s trength of our own landscape it gives one a new vision makes one than ever conscious of the rugged gran- deur of our mountains" Be Is eager to get back to painting ki Utah once wilt- I "'' pbts 41‘:i I 1 it00 I“ A: ' i et '166i ii!! !!7:k4- "t o'— vt 7' 3 k - ' 1!: 14 i' :::::i '1 K A: ' f- : - -- 11'''"" i'3 4 ':r'' 4-4-"' fie so' i ' " — in Utair Artists' Colcny 7"1 - 1:Y4 ' " 11 it rmitii ''( 11 1 ti ' Philadelphia 'This second collection of verse by the author of "Horizon Smoke" reveals a wide range of interests and a thoughtful observation of life there is a wise intelligence expressed and richly colorful of pictures painted as the :New Orleans Miss Lawit ear is keen for the "earth music" and "the sounds of silence" a responsive spirit and a reflec tive mature bp sensed throughout ber book Yet one misses in it any high exaltation or outpouring of emotion: it is restrained utterance sometimes didactic One likes her character sketches as that of the "Scandal Monger" or the soul "Fast Locked" who "runs the elevator of himself Up and down" and "is forever inclosed -Ili a dark metallic shaft I ' Always unaware of beils ---by those who long lection of experiences To enter and ride with him— - 41 Iipli' 4 1 141Y I ' ti 'Pe 1114:48410 (1 I 4 I'li " Lathrop Law Publishers 'Poetry Pub 11""' - ' I s - i " It has a supreme 'ROM GOLD TO GREEN 44 ‘'4' t":6'71'') 1 TEDDLERS PACK By Mary Owen Lewis Publisher David McKay Corn pany Philadelphia Here is a Virginia sinter whose poems bear the impress of a mind that hu met end taken harvest from art abundant experience She has a sensitive swerenem of life noting all its varied aspects and records her observationg and reactions with sincerity There in a technical diversity and understanding in her poems which are both introspective and objective imaginative expression Many of ma verses collected from various of the poetry journals in "Poddler's Pack " are of slight significance ' though sound frt ' workmanship but among them one comes upon several That give fine crystallized expression of a personal experience or aympathetic understanding of humankind Her nature sketches are flashing vivid touches "'Peddler's Pack" is her third book - 't 1 iii' -- I': Two 'Voices Among The Poets' Chorus Itusso-Japane- se 4 ':' 4 1 'Activities Newliouse Exhibit Thlis WS toiiljaie" r 'fi1 It ' ' at 111 - Sino-Japane- k fashionfid-nov- I- 'it t' I: value peculiar to the time when new world relations are being created Out of political and economic- chaos' —Z 1 3 d ti ' 'AN ' f'1 f '1 el I in- ''''tlw-w:-14:l- t rk swift-Movin- - deep-seate- ' 0?: P 1' Yiii 4A i t ti' pay-Fe- te Attends the publication of this erudite by Professor T O'Conroy The western world long before the outbreak ' of the 'world war was distrustful of Japan She was scarcely welcome in thealliance of powers which crushed GerMany European chanoelleries knew of course much about her ambitions as her new policies were ahaping too much in Sack to permit to become widely known among their peoples Since the war perhaps lack of a Renee of proportion may be blamed for inflating the ego of the ' ' '''t'I'' f le - Items C ' ' - OP - a - 193C MAY 8 Liter ture Air t Ab:'d JAPANESE SITUATION ABLY AND EXACTLY SET FORTH BY AMERICAN IN TOKYO Tkrt MENACE OF JAPAN By T0Con- SALT LAkE TRIBUNZ SUNDAY MORNING ft 4s41) to reject it for it is yet oversweet §am' Richards-1:'Wood Sculptures uel Richardson was the first to recognize the value of this point of view for the An Interesting group of sigma' sculp- ing 'the aspen wood—and Succeeds in purpose used when he wrote his "Pacreating realistic reproductIOns Some wood which is a part of the in tures mela" This all brings up the fact that times he makes sketches from photo-hotel at Newhouse the gallery our young aspirants cannot be too caredisplay graphs and makes figures of the beast - woik ful in selecting the manner in which of tyoungSunday represents-thof the wilds the giraffe bippopoteMus their stories are to be told dor often an horn sheep and elephant All of student okart Howard Richards who big of a otherwise hopeless tale is by means these are included in the group shown finished at the Jordan high school last wastegood point otview saved from the with the hideous crocodile a noble Bar year He has been working about two basket under Herbert Bartlett art super- year bary sheep the horse squirrel and oth The big thing that this story teaches I er familiar creatures visor and shows a marked aptitude for (by its error in this cue) is the great The youthful artist who is but 10 lifelike carving of animals and birds need of verisimilitude that is truth to has received much encouragement front Using the familiar domeatie animals life and the facti The author errs in as modebi or studying the inmates of professional artists who have seen big handling her case Of pneumonia she the zoo he carves with en ordinary carvings and he hopes to be able to doeS not at all know the cotuie of the continue Ilia atudlis at the univeraityror pOcket knife from the wood of the sugar diseue We have just read another story at an art school pine—or when this is unobtainable us-(rejected) in which the writer does not know just how much a man shot through The chest bleeds Be hu the wounded man spouting blood through mouth and nose We wonder at his partiality Why ' did he not also include the ears and eyes How our young authors seeking morbid effects do delight in blood! blood! NEVt YORK April 28—The "Aryan" Mal human sympathy la in this famous' blood rich juicy red blood! poem associated not with the German' to is the thim Merely prod" superiority Verisimilitude means as our Latin Duhero but with the Romanized Hun Attila uct of an inferiority complex says Paul pils will see seeming truth to life Many tEtzell and the Romanized Goth a time the real factual truth will not of anthropology at the dorie (Dietrich Von Bern) )'or anything Haft professor seem true It is often necessary either University of California in a book encomparable with these orgies of blood ' to enlarge or to minimize the fact in or- titled The Racial Myth" published by and frenzied murder lust we have to der to make a thing seem true as has Whittlesey House New'York Dr Raclin go to the ritualized cruelty of the Iro- advancee been noticed another of our notes the theory that the Northern quois Indians in their treatment of their ' races which unfortunately were among But when one deals with things con- enemies LS described in the JeSitit Bev teming which the facts are generallY ' 'the Jut to become civilized invented a lations in America" known as in the Matter of pneumonia tradition of greatness to compensate pr Radin exposes the exaggerated there is a rigid necessity of investigation them for their shortcomings The book claims of such German writers as Herr it an attack upon the idea that any one e Wollmann-wh- o regarding actual facts and a strkt ad- says that Dante berence to them when found rice la fundamentally superior to any Voltaire it 41 were Velasquez Another fault that may well be point- other race and the author presents the of German origin—and shows how all ad out in this story is the Choice of the '' detailed evidence upon which be buts races and peoples have contributedlo ' : confidant to whom the young lady his conclusions the building of modern culture dwelling writes We question whether she would According to Dr Bodin 'a conquering apecifically upon the Italian Wrench Enso open her heart to a friendly doctor people when it settles down is apt to glish Germanic and Jewish contribitWe note that several times she addresses look back upon its past with a certain tions to that culture hint as "Uncle' but the fact of a close In Dr Raclin's opinion "racial" char degree of inquietude lied it always been and intimate relationship should lave so great and if not how wu thig to be ' acteristics are not German or Wrench ' ' been Well established or English' etc but simply the inevitable explainedr That is what happened the If our many writerarde not learn to - author declares by the Germany of the soda ot a certain economic order of spell with greater respect for the la- nineteenth century But he points out certain political and social crises "What these Grerroans (in Charlemagne's glish language we tsar that we shall "Where that order exists they exist have to start a spelling class and ask time for example) were like we know' when that order returns they return" some of than to submit to training be- from a number of epic poenui they have He suggests that because of certain hLe fore submitting further stories Writers ' left us If the Nibelungenlied is a torical and geographical reasons the should realize that every grou error leaders of the revolt in thet coming strugpicture of the German character we can best sum it up in Oa phrase—the elarif they make tends to prejudice the sub- gle for power will be the Russians the corzeious mind of any editor no matter cation of intemperanct-intemperancAmerkans and the Jewit how mtich and how earnestly be at love In action and in thought Air Raclin goea on to say that the sup 4 4 Lai be 1 to of jempts girtgle12114 SIVeness and Oar ACentlause is Pphottne Psoltel'j" :: ''' e t -- Aryan - Claims' Produced 4 4 li':':Iifei'60t:y'--cötylplé:- t ! 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