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38 THE SUNDAY - STAR, - WASHINGTON, D. C, MAY 18 1924—PART 1. Reviews of SWHERE ARE WE GOING? By David Idoyd George, O. M., P. C., M. P., British prime minister, 1916-1922. New York: George H. Doran Com- pany. OT toward peace, certainly— not even toward the promise of peace held by the years immediately following the great war. Such, in broad and gen- <eral- conclusion, is the answer of Ljoyd George to his own question. No one s in a more commanding posi- tion for a general survey of the field wherein lies the answer to this ques- tion than is the former prime minis- ter. And here, in a spirit quite open ®nd free, he takes redaecs into this field, and over it, pointing definitely here, and positively there, fo out- standing barriers agalnst any con- elusive peace, against any return to the progressive pursuits of peace. There s no beating about the bush in this disclosure. There are no minis- terial concealments. Those days have gone. On the contfary, there is di- rect assertion, and painstaking expla- nation, both bearing upon points that have not hitherto come into any gen- eral possession by readers. In a spirit of frank disclosure, an overdue Qisclosure one gathers from the writer, Loldy George points squarely upon France as the prime, obstacle to peace, as the prime agent in the clear taorning away from any further prog- ress toward peace. This is, through- out, a highly informing discussion. Whether the writer is holding up to consideration France, or the “league” or the “treaty” or reparations, or the interallied debt, or what not, he is at every moment highly intelligent and keenly alert. Never negligible in thought or speech. Americans will Be interested, if not always pleased, at what he has to say about America 4n some of its latter-day pronounce- ments and conclusions. BONGS OF THE SEA AND SAILORS' CHANTEYS; An Anthology Select- ed and Arranged by Robert Fro- thingham, Boston: Houghton Mif- flin Company. Voyaging through this book of sea songs you will just naturally veer first toward those near-by folks who have, time and time again, had some- 1bing special to say to you about the ways of the sea and its moods—Bill Adams and Masefleld and McFee; Kip- ling and Swinburne; Harry Kemp and . Fox Smith (a woman, by the way Dick Hovey and Christopher Morley. From these you will go forward— when you do not turn backward for Browning and Byron and Shakes- Poare—to others less well known, in order that they also may serve your moods with their deeper knowledge, with their better understanding of this monstrous and mysterious thing of which there can be no real com- prehension. nd what is the sea? asked “The sea!’ cried the miller. ‘Lord help us all; it is the greatest thing God made!'™ A sing- ing heart and a waywise hand se- Jected the songs of the sea that have come to harbor within this volume. MES. PHELPS’ HUSBAND. By Ar- riana Spadoni, author “The Noise of the World,” etc. Indian- apolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Com- pany. The foundation of this story Is made of the school teacher's wooing of the man—when his back was turn- od, so to speak. The story projects the domestic life accruing from this man capture. Under the efficient management of teacher this is a model of perfect gearing and smooth agtion. The modern business method applied to_matrimony. It works like a olock. That is, it works from the manager's point of view. Here is a Tovel intelligent, capable, aimable wom What more could a man want! This one doesn't want more. He wants less. Rather, he'd like Toom for a little more 'of himself. But what could a man do by way of effective protest when he had al- ready allowed himself to appear com- placent under wooing, engagement and wedding? Less trouble to sit stll at his desk, like a good pupil than to try any futile tricks of truancy. This is a happy family to Jook at. And it is. The wife is radiantly happy. Think of it. So ‘beautifully married at toward forty, st when she had begun to fear—. exemplary family. Oh. yes, the man really falls in love, later. He was bound to. No, nothing like that, Nothing happens. 'This is a story of admirable construction. It has a sound foundation. Its development is throughout, as sincere and com- petent as it {5 of an absorbing in- terest. ‘'WASTE. By Robert Herrick, author of “Together,” etc. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co. A story of the middle west in the period lying between the Spanish- American war and the present The early part of this period covers, roughly, the unchecked orgy of in- dustry that expanded business so enormously in every direction: that made immense combinations, working havoc with innumerable small enter- prises; that organized and re-organ- ized upon a more and more gigantic scale in an effect more and more mo- nopolistic. Within this period is the high tide of industrial selfishness and greed—a period that is passing, how- ever, under publicity and regulation on the ‘one hand, under an awakening sense of fair play on the other. It is inst this background of business rivalries and unholy ambitions that Mr. Herrick sets the character and defines the career of Jarvis Thornton. Not a show in the world for Jarvis Thorn- ton. Might as well expect a lamb to thrive among the wolves A quiet, thoughtful fellow, educa , and with & profession. An'artist, though. And this turns him into a pilgrim following up such dreams as artists have. Ap- parently without ambition, he is not much at business. Chivalrous—so he i8 eaten up by a lot of worthless women. His mother and sister—just leeches. A lover, much older than he— another leech. Then another one, and &0 on. You see. he is thinking of something else the most of the time, 50 it seems easier to be eaten-than to resist. It is a true story. No doubt about that. 1t is, of course, a serious and purposeful story Maybe it under- takes too much when it seeks to cover a big and turbulent and important period and, at the same time, to set out the soul of a man as the soul of Jarvis Thornton is uncovered here. The book Jooks heavy. It is heavy in effect also. Too much material, to0 spreading a purpose—too much real excellence for & single story to handle—even for a Robert Herrick story to handle. HIGH FIRES. By Marjorie Barkley é(cClure. Boston: Little, Brown & 0. of Another story of the middle west. Serious in purpose, sincere in pursuit, dramatic in projection, this first novel @ngages itself with the contrasts be- tween the worldly and unworldly forces of the present, and with the triumphs and defeats that mark, now ne and now the other, of these con- ending forces. This sounds tremen- sly serious, not to say solemn. he story itseif, however, makes no #iich impression. On the contrary, it & picture of life that has much of @iyety and laughter about it It uld have, for beyond its begin- gs it is taken in hand by the young s of the two families chiefly con- gerned, so it is bound to be to that ztent of the buoyancy of youth. On e one hand there is the prosperous ily of the present, given over to successes of business and to the od things of life. On the other nd is the family of Angus Steven- , Christian of the Puritan stripe d parson of the older type. Many mless things seem wrong to this d man. He is wholly sincere, how- r, and—we may as ‘well say it ht here—the one really fine charac- in the story. That is the way he fine—and the author Has been able, bring his beautiful qualities out romance has to do with the ung folks of these two kinds of ople. And it goes along in spite of differences, as romances have ays done. A fair picture of local- §¥y-mnd society, an interesting ro- b a triumph in the projection of -Angus Stevenson. New Books HALF GODS. By Lynn Montross, co- author of “Town and Gown.” New York: George H. Doran Company. Another story of the middle west. And such-a tumult of living as is set down here. Everybody goes to bed at night, and we are in at the undress- ing. Everybody gets up in the morn- ing, we still in attendance. At break- fast we are delighted, or grieved, ac- cording as to whether one eats his egg with neatness or smears It im- partially upon his frontispiece. Then everybody to work, we going along. These excitements are exchanged weekly for church dissipations—sup- pers, Sunday school ontertainments— or for occasional secular lapses into social extravagances. Of course, there are courtings and marrying and gos- sipings—and all the other hullabaloo of living. The assumption resting in this title is that these folks are, in reality, questing the great gods of life, but, not finding them, they take up with the half gods of small affairs and dreary routine. Nothing like that. They are small and average, to start with—so their gods have to be of that kidney. Oh, very realistic. Just as natural as life. That “Main Street’ man has a deal to answer for. DONNA LISA: An Italian Idyll. By Wilfranc Hubbard. New York: The Macmillan Company. Refreshing to be able to set aside, for the time being, the gray stuff of midwestern realism and = the photo- graphic squalor of an east side under- world. This, something quite apart from the quality of that which at the moment offers us refreshment. Here we are taken out and away over to Italy, where, with a companionable group of compatriots and natives, we come and go about the streets of Rome as if it were not a sacred city steeped in the implications of a long and glori- ous past. Much of this atmosphere sur- rounds us, appreciably, as it is intended to do, by way of the artistic and com- municable spirit of the author himself. Mr. Hubbard takes us outside of Rome itself, out from the social to-do that he has set up within the old city, into the surrounding country. Here we have contacts with the country folks round- about And hgge We come upon pic- tures of great auty thatigive to us a vivid conception of the lovely and impressive setting of the Eternal City itself, There is an art of words mani- fested in this “Italian idyll” that em- bodies beauty and delivers it over to the reader in a simple perfection that gives one great satisfaction and joy. MOLESKIN JOE. By Patrick MacGill, author of “The Rat-Pit,” etc. New York: Harper & Brothers. A story that grows close to the ground, as the romances of Patpick MacGill have a way of doing. Rough men fill this adventure—hard-work- ing, hard-drinking, fighting, swear- ing, lawless men. The story gets ahead by way of the particular ad- ventures of Moleskin Joe himself, who, at the moment, is a victim of injustice at the hands of the law. Im- prisoned, but guiltless this once at least, Joe makes his escape and takes refuge in a remote camp of laborers who are as lawless and reckless as himself. The romance, made up of daily risks and daring, opens up in this camp. And every day is filled with exciting action. Finally a wom- an and a little boy make their a) pearance. And Joe turns out to be a hero of the knight-errant type, with- out the trimmings of the latter. Lots of people can be heroes, and are, when self-interest spurs them to he- roism. But to step down and out from the chief desire of the heart for the sake of a beloved woman—that's quite another story. That's what Moleskin Joe did. But the reader has hopes, because Patrick MacGill leaves a ray of hope for Joe—just as he should have done. Good, rough, hard, fine stuff—worth a good deal. EASY. By Nina Wilcox Putnam. New York: Harper & Brothers. The forelgn invasion of the United States stands here not only as back- ground for this romance, but as its inspiring source as well. The theme, stripped, is the menace of the im- migrant. The action is set in a New England village, with a side line running to New York—both places vividly and startlingly illustrative of the encroachments of the alien. In its flavors the adventure is as old as buccaneering, as new as bootlegging. A young foreigner, whose blood was a brew of intrigue several hundred years before he was born, leads the action _into strange and devious ways. He himself functions not only as captain of a quite desperate gang on the New England shore, but, when he is in New York, as gallant and successful _wooer of the young woman of the story. A Yankee girl, this, studying art in the big city. She and “Easy,” a young federal of- ficer and her lifelong friend, prove finally to be about all there is to the other side of this narrative of the overflowing foreigner in that section of the Atlantic coast. But the two, once combined in action, turn out to be enough for the discomfiture of the marauders. A forthright romance of clear Yankee grit and straight speaking. A robust and interesting invention based on one of the real significances of this country at the present time. RECOMPENSE. By Robert Keable, author of “Simon Called Peter,” in New York: G. P. Putnam's ons. “Recompense” is, so its anthor an- nounces, a sequel to “Simon Called Peter.” Now Mr. Keable had had no notion of writing a sequel to. that much-discussed romance. Nor did he wish later to do this. But people were shocked at the earlier story. That is, some people were shocked. They saw’ no reason why even the foreshorten- ing effects of the war should place a cleric in the position of the one figur- ing in “Simon.” And there was so much to-do over the matter that Mr. Keable here devotes his talent for story telling to the business of giv- ing the young priest a character, or, better, to remaking his old one over to a more generally accepted pattern. So this is_the story of Peter Graham back in South Africa. The war is over and the young priest, with awards for gallantry and recollec- tions of Julie—but with little else— is back again to make his way in the bigness and loneliness of a remote place in this region. What the coun- try itself does to him in the wayv of new work and new health and new vision and a new determination—this is the business of the story in hand. A wonderful unfolding of this coun- try in its vastness, in its loneliness, in its magic—such is the prime in- terest of the story. For here at least the author is free, and it is in_this revelation that the story in hand takes on its character of a genuine and impressive beauty. BORN RICH. By Hughes Cornell. Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs Company. As the title implies, this is a story of those unfortunate folks who are born into a situation that not only does not exact effort but that, on the contrary, shuts off any probability of effort. Just a group of rich young folks, married and single, that may be found in any sizable city, whose chief business in life is to pass the time, as it is called. Disconcerting cross currents of affection, tamper- ing with the family bond, an inordi- nate amount of mere diversion—these are the means by which this well concelved and well projected social drama makes its way. Set in the city of San Francisco, it partakes, in an interesting and lifelike degree of the charm and special lure of this particular locality. A good story of its kind, and a good kind, since it shows a true picture of one out- standing phase of modern life. AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF THE KU KLUX KLAN. By Susan Lawrence Davis. New York:«American Li- This is the story of the K K K. from its rise in the south to the end of its first dozen years of existence. On the day before Christmas in 1365 half a dozen young soldiers of the Confederacy whose homes were in Pulaski, Tenn., invented the Klan for no more serious purpose than to try to relieve somewhat the gloom and despair- of the neighborhood round- ' about. The deep secrecy of the plans, the elaborate ceremonials, the spec- tacular effects of its appearance soon turned the Klan intosa definite and powerful instrument of summary ac- tion and punishment. This book tells the story of the growth of the organisation throughout the states of the south. It is written, naturally, from the standpoint of this locality. The author appears to have made effort to reach a full and accurate account of the rise and growth and work of these various branches of the original organization. It is not within the writer's purpose to_deal with the recrudescence of the Kian, but to give, instead, a full account of its first period of activity in the reconstruction days of the south. i BOOKS RECEIVED. THE YOUNG FOLKS’ BOOK OF MIRTH. Selected by Mary Roe- nah Thomas. Boston: Lothrop, -Lee & Shepard Company. FUNDAMENTALS OF BASE BALL. By Charles Digby Wardlaw, A. B. Illustrated. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERIES— COMMUNITY HEALTH; How to Obtain and Preserve It. ald B. Armstrong, M. Edited by the National Council. New York: Funk & ‘Wagnalls Company. THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERIES— MAN AND THE MICROBE; How Communicable Diseases Are Con- trolled. By Charles Edward Amory Winslow, doctor of public health. Edited by the Natlonal Health Council. New York: Funk & ‘Wagnalls Company. THE PUBLIC LIBRARY Recent accessions at ‘the Public Library and lists of recommended reading will appear in this column each Sunday. Literature. Allen, L. B. Literary haunts in Lon- don. Y-Al54L Anderton, Basil. Sketches from a li- brary window. Y-An28s. Austen, Jane. The Watsons. Y-Au 779w, L. H. The seven stars. Y- B1b2s. Barbellion, W. N. P, psend. A last diary. 19 Y-B2323L. Barrington, , pseud. The ladies Y-B2751. Beerbohm, Max. Works. Y-B393w. Boynton, P. H. Milestones in Ameri- can literature. Y-B718m. Broadus, E. K. and E. H, comps. A book of Canadian prose and verse. Y-9B782bo. Bridges, H. J. As I was saying. Y- B7622- Chancellor, E. B. The London of Thackeray. ¥-C362L Chesterton, G. K. Fancies versus fads. Y-C423f. , S. M. The cheerful giver. The crow’s nest. . 1921. Dayton, Katharine. D331 Dickens, Charles. Mr. Dickens goes to the play. Y-D55md. Dickinson, G. L. The magic flute. 1921, 566ma. Donnelly, F. P. _Art principles in lit- erature. Y-D715. Eaton, W. P. Penguin_persons and peppermints. 1922, Y-Ea86p. Ellis, Havelock. The dance of life Y-El1547d. Farrar, J. C., ed. The Bookman am thology of essays. Y-F242. Freeman, R. M. The new Boswell Y-F873n. Graham, Abbie. Ceremonials of com- mon_da; Y-GT58c. ° viscountess. Shep- Y-G869s. Grey, P. W. G., Masters and men. Loose leaves. Y- herd's crowns. Guedalla, Philip. Y-G933m. Gundelfinger, G. F. Y-G956e. Harrison, Frederic. H245d. Hazlitt, Willlam. litt.” Y-H3359b. Holliday, R. C. In the neighborhood of Murray Hill. Y-H729i. Huxley, A. L. On the margin. Y- 1922, H9850. As I was saying. Essays of Elihu. v The best of Haz- De senectute. Jackson, Holbrook. Occasions. Y-J1270. Johnson, Burges. Y-J626. fca. Alie. Hunting a hair " H., ed. Modern essays and stories. Y-SL4im. . B. College days. Y-Ld66c. s Over the footlights. Y-L4660. Lee, Yernon, pseud. The handling of words. _Y-L512h. Lubbock, Percy. Roman plctures. Y- 60T, L A preface to life. Y- Mayer, E. J. M456p. Morley, C. D. Inward ho! Y-M82241. Paine, Thomas. _Selections from the writings. Y-P163al. Peacock, W. English prose. . 5. Y-9P312. Phelps, W. L. As I lfke it Y-PSIS. Pritchard, ¥. H. Essays of today. Y-9P938e. Rhodes, H. G. A gift book for my mother. 1922. Y-R46g. Roberteon, J. M. Explorations. Y- R546e. Roe, F. W., ed. Nineteenth century English prose. ~Y-9R62n. Rosebery, A. P. P., 5th earl of. Mis- cellanies, literary and historical 2 v. 1921, Y-R722m. Saintsbury, G. E. A scrap book. Y- Sa27s. Schreiner, Oltve. Stories, dreams and allegories. Y-Sch74s. Sharp, William. The hilis of Ruel and other stories. 1921. Y-Sh254h. Sherman, S. P. The genius of Amer- ica. Y-Sh57g. Symons, Arthur. Dramatis personae. Y-Sy6sd Tassin, Algernon. The oral study of literature. Y-1T18. Tomlinson, H. M. Waiting for day- light. ¥-T595w. Twain, Mark, pseud. Europe and else- where. Y-T913e. Upshaw, W. D. Clarion calls from Capitol Hill. Y-Up78c. Warner, F. L. Groups and couples. Y-W244E. OFFICIAL EXONERATED IN FISH AND GAME PROBE By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va., May 17.—A ma- jority report exonerating Commissioner McDonald Lee of the Virginia game and inland fisheries department of charges that he wasted state funds and that state boats were used for illezgal and jmmoral purposes, was filed today with Gov. E. Lee Trinkle by the special legislative committes Wwhich recently completed an investigation of the de- partment. Simultaneously Senator Stubbs of Middlesex, prosecuting member of the committes and Delegate -Bragg of Brunswick announced that later in the day they will file a minority report, finding the commissioner guilty of the charges, with the recommendation that he be removed from office by the gov- ernor. We Carry a Complete Line of FLORENCE OIL STOVES Challenge Refrigerators Armstrong Linoleum Sellers Kitchen Cabinets Kroehler Davenports Thompson Bros. 1220-26 Good Hope Road Anacostia, D. C. Phome Lincoln 536 THE CIVILIAN ARMY Organized Reserves—National Guard. BY LIEUT. STEPHEN F. TILLMAN. When the work of organizing the citizens’ military training camps for the 3rd Corps Area was started this year, Gen. Muir, commanding general of the corps area, selected Col. Oli- ver Dockery, U. 8. A, infantry, who has installed bus- iness methods in the project. He is assisted by Maj. Alfred Ercks, also of the infantry. At one of the recent Washing- ton C. Club Col. Dockery made an address. The quartermas- Col. Oliver Dockery. ter reserve offi- cers will meet ‘Tuesday night in the Graham build- ing, and 2nd Battalion, 320th Infan- try, Thursday night. The assistance of all reserve officers has been asked by Col. Leroy Herron and Lieut. Col John Scott in the final drive for can- didates for the C. M. T. C. camp. There will be eight reserve infantry and one engineer reserve officer of the 80th Division allotted to the C. M. T. C. training camp this year, accord- ing to word just received from Rich- mond. Combat officers of experience not higher than the rank of captain, Junior officers especially preferred, Will be selected for this duty. The officers selected by the corps area commander will be ordered to Camp Meade, to attend the refresher course, In_preparation for their du- ties as C. M. T. C. instructors during the period of June 16 to 30, and will enter upon their duties as instructors on July 1, for the period ending July 30. For each officer selected as prin- cipal there will be three officers se- lected or recommended as alternates. A recently constructed large swim- ming pool has been provided at Camp Meade for the boys going to the camp this year. This will be one of the attractive features of the encamp- ment. Lieut. W. F. Breldster, U. S. A., 3rd Corps Area athletic officer, will be in charge of the swimming ac- tivities. Steps are being taken by Col Le- roy Herron, 313th Field Artillery; Col. Glendie B. Young, 320th Infantry, and Lieut Col. John Scott, executive officer, for the drive on Enlisted Re- serve ' Corps membership. In_an-. nouncing the campaign Col Scott said: “The Organized Reserves is not a ‘paper army,’ but that which prevents the national defense act from be- coming a ‘scrap of paper. Today, under the act, there are more than 85.000 citizens of the country who are members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps and who are actively engaged in making this act the great insur- ance policy of the nation. “It has often been said that the non-commissioned officer is the back- bone of the Army. That this is to a great extent true is borne out by the fact that in assembling the skeleton of the Organized Reserves the War department considered it necessary to enlist the non-commissioned offi- cers and specialists, that the anatom- ical structure of the organization might be complete. “The regulations governing the Enlisted Reserve Corps contain pro- visions very attractive to the men of the country who realize that upon them falls the responsibility of the nation’s security. The enlisted men of the world war are not asked to come into the Reserve Corps at the bottom. but may start where they left off by enlisting in the highest grade honorably held by them during the war. Indeed, only men qualified to enlist as non-commissioned officers or specialists may be enlisted at this time. Men whose clvilian occupations fit them for certain grades and ratings may be enlisted and promoted thereto. 0 those who are not in the re- serve corps it is well to say that when you are approached by a re- serve officer, who will be none other than a fellow citizen of your home town, remember that that officer is looking for a good non-com or first sergeant, technical or staff sergeant or some other high-rated man. The reservist may be called to active duty for only fifteen days per year for train- ing;_however, it is not the policy of the War Department to call any man for summer training if he certifies that this would interfere with his civilian pursuits. Maj. Gen. Charles S. Farnsworth, chief of infantry. has obtained the approval of the War Department for the issue of machine gun parts to be used by infantry regiments as com- munication carts. Each brigade headquarters company will receive two carts for carrying radio equip- ment and one cart for carrying tele- phone equipment. Each regiment will be issued one cart for regimental headquarters company to carry tele- phone equipment and one cart to carry radio equipment. Each battalion will receive one cart to transport telephone equipment. Definite arrangements have been made for the annual national conven- tion of the Reserve Officers’ Associa- tion of the United States, according to an_announcement just received from the national headquarters. The convention will be held at Cleveland, Ohio, October 24, 25 and 26. In & com- munication from Lieut. Col. Fred B. Ryons, engineer reserve, the national secretary, attention has been called that state departments should hold their annual conventions not less than thirty days before the national con- vention. Gen. John F. ®ershing, chief of staff, has accepted an invi- tation to address the Cleveland con- vention. Brig. Gen. John Ross Dela- field, president of the Reserve Offi- cers’ Association of the United States, will preside at the convention. William_Knowles Cooper, secretary of the Y. M. C. A, addressed the last meeting of the Washington C. M. T. C. Club, in the Graham building. He spoke on the need of religion and mentioned the fact that the best military leaders of the country were those who read the Bible. Capt. Clay- ton Emig, a reserve officer of the Quartermaster Corps, opened the meet- 8. Brig. Gen. Charles Martin, on duty with the general staff, told of the working plans for the Cltizens’ Mili- !‘A:y' 'l‘urll‘linlhl glllllhll this year. ens’ tary Tral Camps Candi- date John Nesbitt, ‘o Eted th meeting. Nesbitt is a captain of one of tl ern. entitled “Practical Mill by to the cadet enrolling the highest number of applicants. The commanding officer of the 80th Division Alr Service, has been called upon to submit to the headquarters of the 80th Division the names of one or two reserve officers of the air service of the TA group of any grade whom he may recommend for attend- ance at Langley Kield, Va, for one year or six months’ active duty serv- ice with the bombardment group at that post. The desire or consent/of the officer to serve will be obtained as a prerequisite to this recommenda- tion, which will be submitted by May 23, 1924, ! At the last meeting of the reserve quartermaster officers Gen. George A. L. Dumont, French military attache, ad- Citi- conducted the he high school companies at West- . It was stated that a set of books Training,” Moss and Lang, would be awarded | dressed the meeting on “Supply and Transportation,” specially pertinent to quartermaster winter Plattsburg problems. Maj. Gen. Willlam H. Hart, quartermaster general, and his assist- ants, Brig. Gens. Knight, Dalton and Bellenger, also were present. The supply tactical problem for the quar- termasters was outlined by Lieut. Col. John Scott, - executive officer of the local units 'of the organized re- scrves. The foilowing reserve offi- cers were appointed by Capt. Clayton Emig: Lieut. Cols. Walter V. Shipiey as Army quartermaster; Henry B. Robinson and George Wills as corps quartermasters. The problem will be continued at the next meeting. Coples of the problem have been sent to the officers concerned. IO e Ninety per cent of the women in Turkey are illiterate. POST-WAR WORK FINISHED American Protestant Churches in France Spent $2,000,000. Completion of the general recon- :flruct)l’o':twork undertaken by Amer- can estant churches i o Was announced yesterday by the com. ’!’!‘:l-:: on rmhtlans with France and m of the Cl’fll‘ruham e Federal Council of © program included or reconstruction of - twenty four churches and a number of parson- ages and parish houses destroyed or amaged during the war. About $2,000,000 was expended, of which more than $1,500,000 was handled through the commission. How much of your time is spent in the kitchen? GE'ITING meals may be slow drudgery or it may be done quickly and in com- fort. It all depends on your stove. If you want to know just how easy cook- ing can be, go into a store and see how the Florence Oil Range works. This is the way of it Touch a match to the Asbestos Kindler and in a few moments you have an intensely bot blue flame. It is easily regulated to any degree of heat. The flame is closeupunderthe cookingand does not heat up the metal of the stove or spread out into the room. This means much when the weather is warm. And you can cook every dish for the biggest dinner on this modern range. The vapor from kerosene (a cheap fuel) is what burns. The flame is a gas flame— FLORENCE STOVE COMPANY. Garbwen, the Florence does not have a wick flame, such as you see in the ordinary oil lamp. You know what it would mean to you to have no shaking to do, no coal to carry, no ashes or soot. But until you see the Florence you may not realize quite how good-looking a stove can be, with satiny enamel, against a jet black frame. Special features Ask the man in the store to show you the construction of the portable oven, with the ““baker’s arch™ and patented heat-distributor to assure even baking. With the Flor- ence Leveler, by the turn of a screw you can set the stove level on an uneven floor. See the Florence Oil Range at a department, furniture, or hardware store and you will realize that there is a place waiting for it in your kitchen. 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