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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1947-02-07, Page 7r -•1 ,11 • (Contitde$r ":m fdait''Vl'ee1� ,' e `"e eiee .accepted the. Crust 7ahip, ' she :°►te' i"''ie Same spirit, "a rad af- telif tilivoyehikdEw tr w triflin 4dii'tbf' fat' fib; 4t 6eiriDeotioais,'ltthtiit re turned. the Manuscript aver into very trustworthy hands; where it is ?now being rewritten. It needed ,that ,bad- ly .,. Both ayes and his sister .appar- ently Y' ,t the manuscript for the next t-• '.weeks. :Graves met Witte every ';ht at work as usual, but there v. ' no mention of the book. At the mit; 7,f twoweeks there came a letter :. " neo by a Mr. Alden, • . the nresidee of the Seemorr and Brothers ' publish:. ; Company: Witte was .in- fanned • that his book was accepted and was asked to come in at the first opportunity to • talk over certain changes that were desirable in . the Formai as Was the note •of accept- ance -which Mr. Alden had written, the :reception hp gave Witte was the VZy;ailthi iasis. "You- :have , haze a splendid book," said Alden. "It is refreshing. I was delighted to read it."; The blisher was a man past fif i uty, gray-haired,, shio"oth-shaven. He gave vne the impression that he wits part and parcel of an older 'generation. Witte learned in Aim next few mom- ents, however, that this man who spoke to .hiai in almost ,clerical man- ner, . as the 'parson in a small coni- nnunity speaks to one of his parish; loners, was very up-todate •;hit. ••'hie knowle 1 e of, eonditions, far more up- to-date, ' i'n 'fact, than many a :brisk and 'brittle`yotiiiger"man. .•_.. ' ' "I 'have 'been wishing for some time fors such" a book," Alde' i contin- ued 'The technique .of the thing is weak in places, but that will be pulled .. „ . LEGAL •„ .- McCONNELL & HAYS _._—_ Barristers, Solicitors, Etc. , , Patrick D: Meet:MI ell • -' H..Qlenn Hays SEAFORTH, ONT.• ' Telepihone 174 A. W. SILLERY Barrister; Solicitor, Etc. 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A C11p imp dei er7i�tih'g" Thi maul til iing' is' the . subject • nnattevf the • atmoftI) ►ere: That,' is' there i'n inint'ftt'aibte magne �< +"i `l abked over tli manuscript 'again=aitee te•t •yahf'a h, ',`went on after .a ,t}i ii `; ""a d''It°alid irtel.inedi• to make no changesvi • the stogy. I believe" I shall let the s1tu'atione stand filet the, way you have •them..Your judgment and feeling • fin the.book • Is right. You have a work here — a work--" He broke Off, •apparently not. sure how to phrase his criticism or praise of the book. He .continued: "Am 1 making myself: clear? You have . a : story here that is different from anything that has been written in years. There is heart in it. There is something else in this book of Yours • Som' thi g forh'cii ha e n w t we ve no words•• in Einglish, • but which ' the Germans call 'uberlebtes'-4things one has lived through, sufferings one has experienced in •,fine's own'•'saui—" Aiden searched With hits gray eyes the face'of the 'young mangy /$afore him with a look•of genuine sympathy and said: • • , "You must have gone throiigh a lot —you must'have suffered.a'let to be able to write such' a '•book: Such a work as yours is not merely . thought out—it is lived. There is a note of •sincerity in it . that is too often a, stranger to American literature. ••It is the book' of life. It is epic in its, depth of ,grandeur. • It is a distinct contribution to American• letters." • Mr. Alden made Witte sketch his •life for hitt,' At the mention of Man- Ihr Beifalfselbst macht meinem Her- ning, ' the publisher pricked up his zen bang. ' . " ears: He had known Mannin g years ago ,in Boston. Witte described: to :Those who could, recall 'his strug him`just what Manning's purpose'Was gle and understand his triumphs were' in hiring. him, on the 'Chicago Star, rib longer among the living. Those the sort of writing he wanted' of 'him. who would applaud hint "were not Ten days later Witte received an- those'whose applause he'' craved-' Other note from the publisher to come What was achievement, what Was and see him. shame, when those , you have worked "I' want you. to, gd to work for us,". for, 'Striven. for, are no"' longer ' with in ;ou;,', 'You -hive nrri' � iii!” 4, U RAT ,14 EXPOSITOR ` FRES DENT x'4,5,,' �G•„> ho t4iei your Witte 'w+gadered;" "Hilt 050,rdiiuer, lode of the readers„ icor , egim.64esx ,telephoned 'rpy, sister.. •ISite and Barbara are ehunns•. , It was 'to ;Miss; t}ardiner, yoi know, that she took your hook: in the first place, and it *as'on her, recommendation that Alden read it. "I see,". said Witte. 'An office boy'' came running atter Graves. He was wonted in the man: aging, .editor's office. The executive heads were .going into cotfucil. to de- cide on the next day's paper. He left Witte hurriedly. At midnight Witte sat down to write his resignation. But Van Bev- er," the managing editor, himself Walk- ed Up to the desk. He had:'already beard from ,Graves }bout Witte's lean. dng- Te •came up? • to • ctfngratulate, him.+ "When Witte aftbri k lk i era s wa n the night air, ,reached• his room, his exaltation left bin;. In its place came beset',the A'pnt'erican•republic inaalto- a sadness and a vacant 'feeling. To Whom should he tell' the 'story of his gether too sinister aa light. Others, on success? His mother, whose supportthe eorifrary;"prsised the Book as ''a timely warning,.and as performing •a in his old age he had hoped. to be,, was dead. She had passed away with-. great service to the country. out seeing him safely anchored. And � One of the pY•ftics struck a personal note. lie madA i. mention .of the fact Helen—He felt.as if bis heart was that this "fiindatnentally American bathingy,•1n its, own- blood •at the volume" was written by a Man who thought of his dead'wife. had come to thea United States as an The lines from Goethe's • Dedication immigrant. The in "Faust" `came. to hint: question of 'restricting immigration was then lie - "'Mein Leid ertont der, unbekannten I would ,be folly," ;the writer had digres- Menge ` R. A."$TEWART' A Lanark'County dairy farmer, • R. •A. St'ewaft, Almonte, has been elected President, of. the Ontario' Federation of AgricuiWre for 1947. Mr; St$ art for some time represented- the -Canadian Federa- tion oy Agriculture in the office of 'War Assets Corporation at Montreal. • author of the "The. Fate Of' DemoCrer cies" was taking the, difficulties that' ,ing agitated in ..certain quarters. It Alden said bluntly.. He thea-proeeed you.–to_share_yeee fame; whhn' - the ed 'to explain. ' . • • days of youth and'happiness are but • The Seymour' and. Brothers• publish- a' memory• and linger `like" a 'faintly ing 'house, as • Witte • knew, was -pub quivering dream? ;What Is .success or lishing not only books but a number fame 'to a heart that harbors the of magazines, among' 'them the Age,• graves of love and happiness? . a well-known weeldy, He raised the window to. let the "I think," said Alden, "that we can cool night air rest;' his overwrought do considerable for you and that you nerves•. 'But the air chilled without can do considerable for the Age. We resting him. He pulled down the have teen looking around for a' likely. •.made and. turned en the light• On Man to' take` on • our staff for .sere. the • table lay.. a:worn-out' , of tune. I think • you are the wan` we "Faust,"• the copy 'he had used as a want. •student. He opened it. and began to "We want you .to write editorials read. . . fOr. the Age. • We want you to tell' us •, of America's newest problems. I agree 'CHAPTER XXIII perfectly with the sentiments of your • OLD SORROWS AND A NEW book, that; -sifted down to .fundateen- LIFE • . leis, the greatest ,.problem for •this Three years had passed. Exceptfo outitty ,to solve is the bread and • con- an added sharpness abbut his temple 6entment—accent •the 'contentment'— and the intensified pallor of his fe problem„ and that Goldsmith's septi- tures•, . Emil Witte had changed' littl went to the 'effect that ill fares the outwardly. Within' him, however,•th Land where wealth accumulates and change which had been ushered I Bien. decay is,.noi sentimentality, but twenty-five "years back on that firs truth, •practical"statesmanship. In your morning of his in the new world, whe tory you have brought out the :dig'-. his .father dressed him in American city, the poetry and the despair of clothes ,from , head to foot — tlfa he job. But you have brought them- change was now reaehing'the higher r a - e e n t n t gut only: as an artist—which was consummation. ight considering the tact that .you Witte' had become pecu]iariy;Amer were writing fiction. We want you to ican. He had drunk deep not only. o ring' out'these questions as a public- 'American ideals; but of American cul st, -editorially, emphatically, in the tune and American,traditions: His, art ge every week. i agree fully with icies and editorials in the Age attract our sentimeu•t that there is no reas- ed attention particularly by thei an why men who want work- should Em'ers urian flavor. The'ctiltara1 back lot .find it. There is no reason, why ground of Witte's writing was that o ,t-,ork should'• be made ,hateful by� mis- New England.. Not one in a thousand management, by improper surround- readers of these unsigned editorial nes, by indifferent. ,or. brutal treat- on American life 'and problems an Hent of the w arker, I agree with you. ideals. would have suspected t'h'at the hat there. is no reason why• culture were written' by any one not of Ameri ind refinement should - be the heritage f the few. It belongs to all the'-peo- te. Thet•e should" be no room ,for este and class lines in 'a democracy, n A'meriee." Witte, overwhelmed by the offer, 'stetted in silence. �He had never hought of himself .in the light•:,,of an' editot'ial writer. He. had always as- sociated 'elderly men with work of hat sort, .He admitted it frankly .to Mr. Alden. The latter.laughed. "That is the accepted view," sats he'.pelilisher. "But - it Is a •mistake view. It is the young, not necessar- y in years but .in mind, • in spirit, N shape the course of civilization, and the young should be allowed to ay just what the. course should be. The young writer has a distinct view-• point which the older, man often los- es. •• He bas enthusiasm. We should; not wait until he has lost these quell les to let, him write editorials. , "The editorial,'' Aiden Went on af- r' Some moments, '"Is' the poem oP o -day. In a previous century ' the best political awl •social writing was one in poetry. To -flay it is done in ditoriais. We must have mote men, f force and of vision—and of youth speaking through ,our editorial col - f r s d r tan birth. 'Many, indeed, would have placed the writer of such, articles as none other than a scion 6f one of the oldest American families, Still In the privacy of his Inhale— .he now occupied a modest apartment in Greenwich .Village Emil would take his pen once a week 'or ten days and'.'would write a letter in Yiddish to his father. To write to: his father was one of his great pleasures. The true reporter's instinct for seeing life at firsthand had not left --him: he still would make his- pilgrimages to the people in search of ideals as well as -"color." In these.' ramblings through the city he would come upon a Synagogue or into "Jewish ..streets" on the ,East Side occasionally, and then memories', of his. past would be revived. And, as is characteristic of such memories, he would dwell fond- ly. upon them. , . • Witte's place 'among the younger writers 'and etijturs was definitely • es- tablished by his second book, "The Fate of •Democracles," whicfi had .been• pelt, on the market a few mbriths be- fore; and reviews of which *ere be- ginning to appear in the papers and make:WO : It was a cool Auguht Morning, and Witte, who had been unable•.to fasten bin:weir dost t to his desk in earnest for,, some weeks, deterieitted to matte the •ar• ritieles itt his mind waiting to lie ..transferred to paper, He decided to put thin ".probiem't out of his' head a , • a teat, andgetown to bltilitese:s Ale :Walked into Iris of- fice d:eterminedly., ` hii4 first wag t iht greeted his *Os , in the Mail before hint was an (MVO o'. o e u .s --r t* lyll g a e'ws. of his ptiiyti,' mns:°' Witte hurried ,to the office of. the telex. • On hid, desk lay a number r clippings. with instructions, frau( most of tt. There were several e city editor,, as to what length they hould be.r'e'written, ' fie was in ''tile thlst of one -44,Hies'. stories Whett raves rushed up to him radiant With 'for 'the d y t l t tl ' elig�ht:a 1 He already knew "Witte a *as going Werk for Alden, He;, shook ;hie handl arnil'. . Great luck! cried" Grave . C p of 1i 3 i Ia 00 a natf07ia1 "t1 ..t LIT e, of i*bu ilii, e, began laoktng thefia over. aina Iden thinkti he •ha Made ar editorial- izing in,store. leat •on beatanthe• old rev ewers, thought; that. the wear? piil+,liosea elaboratetofoodsJawsearlycan'tyouteeth. 7. • and these *he suffer even brief-: ani apparently. Minor eye afflction's• are urged to consult' their family doctors" about, such ail; tents. • What is bother ing the eyes Maty be readily' remedied, but' serious trouble can result if these early warnin. e.pglectetL Periodic exigsuniarn+atioen is a . MIFST these days, particularly' .'before' `ice portant eventslike marriage and par: enthood. Canada's records prove that such eilaminations reveal "a consider- able number of unsuspected'cases of syphilis,.„which can be transmitted to Children. A blood -test in time; •it: is stressed, may save family unhappiness and a lifetime• of regret. Treatment makes syphilis Ton -contagious in a.matter• of Ne,eks: y Slimming, is not the fad= it., once was. But, say physicians, too many people, even today, think `themselves qualified to decide •just what they ai oWd not eiit e� lug tie blet 'itetfo�” s haver •'held, apportunt tion xt a sessttea of dtafs, Teo 1a darigering'tlaeirrhe'�th b,gcd�i 'l+t'ormal•. people "need -an% ane411. Tiiless tlxe family phyi given" utrery Just •11tctions, Can s1 f•4 a should eat all 'the.wholesome foods Keep busy if' you want to.'iicep alive. *People wha,have retired don't' hesitate to . admit that tyhey miss Vin- ing„ as much in their,•,ii es, struggle for the daily ,bread, ,a Scientists say ;than it's ,:all tied up. with 'the. • peed Agri .+at aim In 40 some ;obJeetives i to. re'ac'h; . a fevr,tbills'' to meet, a, goal to ehie:ve,' comer titre, > to attain. •Cabadiatie. arta;'advia t,0 tlititk - 6r t'h'at w hen 'theti 'feel;"';hat ! working is a gritd,.end aa.tbey da eons of tie tune . when they • won't anything 'to do. ' , LD.DiSABD :Q Untie NORsES • tdG$• sti W . A VLS Proetptly and Efficiently Removed Siimiihr Phi Coitect "IYfI'i`'('#E,'L STRATirORD 215 INGERSOLL - 21. r.• QST WiLLitp.M STONE SO INGERSOLL, ONTARIO 17E END OF `A ROAD •i:;lir:::::'r'i:�;::'.;fwgi.. i•. H.M.T. Aqu4taniiee endeared to the .hearts of more Canadians than any other troop ship afloai, turned over ,another page sin her gallant history when she diseMbarked the final, organized draft of servicemen 'and dependents at H'ajifan on 190 January. In her 33 years on the high seas, she hake carried. men to and from two great wars. The last of tlte. four stackers' to -ply the Forth • A.tlantie is pictured,, above. In photo N'o. 2, 'de- pendents are shown Waiting in the pay parade for Money echange. In the ,hoto is Mrs, Vera era 1Vtiskithins and babsgetting her r ., uKeel1 Canadian currency fratn Major C. Wilson-aitd k s./set. A. E. Baker,: of th.eEn ba :tio n -Pay Staff. Des1t.edf>h»-aebolrle nTermite)Mrs. Vtas sikong the Ianhigatiike draft of iferVi e"lpea hte htteig+-lit to Cai1Ma by army movement officials. Her comment about • the "new" currency: "Gracious; what pretty eel - ors i" Il} commemora ioa . +h er'strvire a, - a . , troopship, 14.M. . A uitaniarid her crew *ere presented with a bronze plat) a 1i1+•thti $ei.�bf the three armed;. •services viten she, doekedi it Halifax. Shown in 'ph'oto l tf: is tot, ,t ,,'D �.- Show. ship's c'aptaTn receiving they Idaque ilia, °" .Major-General 'H, 'W. •Fottei`, «$ E,, 'D,-S,O.4.Ifa- .manding Eastern Ariey CatYtmafi4k ,,ettpt•. "thiONV expressed • the personal appreciationOf hiletteli and the crew tor, the. award:'witt:4 ,toet4i d,•Pre• sent.ed toi•H.M.'Ii, Aq,'iiitnnlit fcii:lz'eir deYrlkiiieSs next- ; Tiered• lit two great waro''bv'' affiltrafzke� �o4','tite °ttakt a;- : ,dian 4 fined ,rhes."' 't;1614 p let aDiee go. ,o f gt't tittitle, on .beh eta tie "fideter of National Defence and th1e .li Orli . lidar Wti