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Dividends and Cleanliness

This from the GreensboroNews: “Not wishing any hardluck to those persons seeking$29,000,000 from the SouthernRailway, but we hope they don’tget it until we get our passen-ger station.” And we hope theydon’t get it until the Southernhas provided its stations inGreensboro and elsewhere withdecent sanitary facilities.

But the legitimate kick isnot so much against the pay-ment of preferred dividends asagainst the Southern’s recent-ly inaugurated payments ofdividends upon the company’s$120,000,000 common

v stock.When the Southern was organi-zed some 30 years ago it wasbonded for many millions, pre-ferred stock was issued, andthen to the capitalization wasadded a huge block of commonstock that represented hopes—-what financiers cadi “potentialearning power.” In many yearsno dividends upon the preferredshares were paid, and the non-payment of these helped thecompany so to husband its re-sources that it has reached itspresent state of prosperity; and,whatever the legal technicali-ties may turn out to be, wesympathize with these preferredshareholders in their feeling

that they ought to be recouped

for those lean years out of thepresent high earnings; if not re-couped all at once, then gradu-ally.

The same issue of the Newsfrom which we have just quot-ed shows the common stock ofthe Southern to be selling a-roun<i SB2 a share. Dividendsare on a five per cent, basis—-which means that the companypays out $6,000,000 a year individends upon the commonstock.

For our part we don’t objectto seeing the railways earn alot of money. Nor do we feelthat the Southern was in anyway to blame for issuing stockto represent “good will,” “poten-

tial earning capacity,” or what-ever one chooses to call it. Butwhat We do object to is that theSouthern should use its moneyfor paying these handsomedividends while, for economy’ssake, it keeps its station facili-ties in a condition disgracefullyfilthy.

Notes of the School

The music club, undei*‘ MissAiken, has been rehearsing ac-tively for the state choral sing-ing contest in Greensboro A-pril 23.

The dramatic club is still inthe running in the state dramatournament. It appears in“The Wonder Hat,” the play

which it presented here a fewdays ago. •

Edward K. Graham, as sin-gles champion, and WilliamMerritt and Sam Paulsen, asdoubles champions of the school,will represent Chapel Hill in thestate high school tennis tour-nament here next week.

Club Officers Not ChosenBecause of lack of a quorum

the election of officers for thenext year was not held at themeeting of the Community Clublast Friday. Reports were sub-mitted by the chairmen of theVarious departmental commit-jtees, and there was a discussionof the plan to send delegates tothe state convention of women’sdubcf at Pinehurst May 4 to jMay 6.

Notes on “Arrowsmith”

The most sensible wordsspoken in Sinclair Lewis’s newbut already famous novel, “Ar-rowsmith,” were, it seems to me,

those that issued from the Brit-ish governor of the island of St.Hubert, Colonel Sir RobertFairlamb.'

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Here is what led up to it: Dr.Arrowsmith, scientist, came toSt. Hubert with a serum withwhich he was to treat victimsof the bubonic plague. Hisscientist chums in New Yorkhad urged him, and he himselfhad determined, not to endanger

the value of the experiment bygiving the serum to all victimsof the plague, but to leave alarge number untreated in orderthat they might serve as “con-trols.” That is, only by givingthe supposed cure to some andnot to others could he have agenuine basis of comparisonwhich would enable him to dis-cover, with absolute accuracy,

the value of the serum. Hun-dreds or thousands might diefrom this partial withholding,

but the cause of science wouldbe advanced.

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Naturally there developed op-

position to this scheme, sincewhat the St. Hubert peoplewanted was to have their lives

saved and not to serve for ex-

perimentation. Dr. Arrowsmithwent to Government House“where lived in bulky torpor”

His Excellency Sir Robert. Thedoctor-scientist explained just

what he wanted to do; “the

Governor listened so agreeablythat Martin thought he under-stood,” but at the end he said:“Young man, if I were com-manding a division at the front,

with a dud show, an awful show,going ort, and a War Officeclerk asked me to risk the wholething to try out some preciouslittle invention of his own, canyou imagine what I’d answer.There isn’t much I can do now—-these doctor Johnnies havetaken everything out of my

hands—but as far as possibleT shall certainly prevent youYankee vivisectionists fromcoming in and using us as a lotof sanguinary corpses. Goodnight, sir.”

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I call “Arrowsmith” an inter-esting book. Some critics say

it is repetitious, complaining

that much of it is “Main Street”or “Babbitt” over again. Thisdoes not seem to me to be aserious fault. Not many of us

remember the lines in one bookclearly enough to know it when

we see them rehashed in an-

other one, and if the original

stuff was good there’s no great

harm done by having it servedmore than once if with a littledifferent sauce. Countless per-

sons go to church and hear andsay the same prayers week afterweek, and it is better to say oldgood prayers than bad new ones.A lot of congregations would be

better pleased and more edifiedif their pastors more often sub-stituted for their own dis-

courses the oft-repeated ser-

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I am rather friendly to thenowadays much derided Victor-ians, perhaps because I amsomething of a sentimentalist.Which in itself explains why,although he seems to me keenand entertaining, I do not ex-travagantly admire the novelsof Sinclair Lewis.

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I enjoy seeing unworthy peo-ple and unworthy tendenciessatirized. But Sinclair Lewisgives me the impression not

that he wishes there were morehonest and generous men andwomen in the world, but thathe wishes there were still moremean ones to serve as targets

for his shafts of scorn. It isto me as if he were saying:

“The world is my oyster, I haveopened it, and, praise God I’vefound it rotten!”

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It so happened that on thesame day that I was reading“Arrowsmith” Ire-dipped a littleinto Thackeray. What a con-trast is here! Certainly therewas never a keener satirist thanThackeray, yet there runthrough his writing an urbanity,

a good-humor, a sympatheticunderstanding, which lifthim toa plane of excellence that hasnot been attained and I believecannot be attained by thescorpion-tongued seer of thenineteen-twenties.

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Martin Arrowsmith’s wife,Leora, is a person for whom Ifeel grateful to Mr. Lewis. Incontemplating this woman heseems not only to tolerate butactually to approve the exis-tence of unselfishness and loy-alty.

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Pickerbaugh, the notoriety-seeking health-crusader of thecity of Nautilus, is a crudesketch if there ever was one.Not exaggeration, but super-ex-aggeration, is the word that fitsthis case. No satire here, butburlesque unrestrained. Thestage counterpart of Picker-baugh is the vatidevillian whosechoicest bit of humor consistsin mashing in his partner’s silkhat with a barrel stave; and inthe world of drawing his count-erpart is a cartoon of Mutt, andJeff.

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(Confidential note: Criti-cism is a contemptible occupa-tion. It has been easy enoughto make these objections to Mr.Lewis’s novel—but where is thecritic, amateur or professional,who would not delight to beable to write as good a book?)

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ment.* * •

In a newspaper article aboutNorth Carolina’s fruit crops oc-curs this phrase: “Whortleber-ries, commonly known as huckle-berries.” The dictionary givesrespectability and describeshuckleberry as a “corruption.”But what a word—whortleber-ry ! A mollycoddle word—areg’lar cake-eater, lounge-lizardword. Imagine, now, how itwould be to pick up a new issueof Mark Twain’s story and findon the cover the title: “Whortle-1berry Finn.”

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A despatch from Washington j

tells of the arrest of three for-jmer government employees who jcollected fees from taxpayers onthe pretense that their “influ-ence” could bring about a re-duction in assessments. Thiscarries one’s thoughts back ayear or so. McAdoo, a formersecretary of the treasury, is re-tained by Doheny to do “legal”business for him in connectionwith oil properties in Mexico.Everybody knows that the realreason for Doheny’s choice ofMcAdoo as an attorney is McA-doo’s former connection withthe government in Washington.

McAdoo of course gets a huge

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