Evening Star Newspaper, June 29, 1924, Page 33

- THE PUBLIC LIBRARY r Summer Hours. The Public Library, including the Southeastern and Takoma Park branches, will continue closing on Wednesday at 3 p. m. and will also close Saturdays at 1 p. m. and re- main closed on Sundays during the months of July, August and Septem- ber. The libraty will not be open on July 4 or on Labor day. The re- @uced hours of service are due to inadequate congressional appropria- tions for Sunday, holiday and half- holiday service. Vacation Privilege. The vacation privilege extends to October 1 and permits readers to borrow as many as ten books and re- tain them during their absence from the city. The library has excellent lists to aid in the selection of books for summer reading, or members of the staff will be glad to give per- - sonal assistance Travel Books and Folders. The Public Library names below Bome of its recent accessions of travel books supplementing those listed in last Sunday’s Star. It reminds read- ers that it supplements its large col- lection with railway and steamship folders collected annually for the con- Venience of readers. One copy of each + folder is kept in the reference room and duplicates are available for dis- tribution in the lobby of the central building. RECENT TRAVEL BOOKS. Africa. In Brightest Africa. Andrews, Old Morocco and the Forbidden Atlas. G796-An24o v. Gordon. Algeria Today. Soeial Life in An- GT1-P446s Thoughts on South G742-SchT. Mexico and South America. Mexico. (95-B368. Mexico. G95-C226. Where the Twain Beals, Carleton. Carpenter, F. G. Gaunt, M. F. B, GIT4-G23w. Meet. 1922, @Graham, R. G. B. C. Cartagena and the Banks of the Sinu. 1920. G982-G7T6. Graham. Stephen 621 rado. G96. May, Mrs B. Men, Maidens and G96-M449m Mantillas. United States. Bailey, G. E. California, a Geological Wonderland. G941-B153. Dreiser, Theodore. The color of a « . Great City. GS5IN,DSl4c Emery, 1. C. “The Washington Monu- ment. GS59W-Em37. Frederick, J. G. _Adventuring in New York.' G85IN-F873. ! Freeman, L. R. The Colorado River. G338-F37 Griggs. R. F. The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. 1322 G945- James, G.'W. James' River Historic G G863-J238. Miner, F. R. Outdoor Southland of California. ~G941-M6630. Minnegerode, Meade. The Fabulous Forties. ' G83-M866L. National Geographic Society, Wash- ington, D. C._ The Capital of Our ___Country. G859W-N2l4c. Nevins, Allan, ed. American Social History as Recorded by British Travelers. G83-N41 Paint Manufacturers' Association of the United States. Photographic Study of Frame Dwellings of Co- lonial Times. 1915. G84-P167p. Plan of New York and Its Environs Physical Survey. Maps and Dia- GS51N-P69. Beautiful In quest of El Do- Utah. 1922. G935-J23. arden Club. Richmond rdens of Virginia. Ref. America. R. The Out Trail. Sun Hunting. E . U A. H. The Crooked and Nar- Streets of Boston. 1920, GE44B-T428 Torrey. R. H. and others. New York Walk Book. G851-T637, United States. Office of Public Build- ings and Grounds. Annual Re- port, 192 G859-Un32. Townshend. R. B. A Tenderfoot in Colorado, G934-T6S. Waldron, Webb. We Explore the Great Lakes. G90-Wi43w. Wayland, J. W. Scenic and Historical Guide o the Shenadoah Valley. G863-W36. 1922, LONG-HAIRED GERMAN WOMAN NICE BANDIT Overpowers Victims and Takes Valuables, But Otherwise She Is Gentle—Weak Man Her Aide. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, June 28.—A long-haired strong armed woman bandit, who preys upon men in Berlin suburban trains, has nine victims to her credit within a few days and is still at large, despite the strenunus efforts of the police. She is aided by a man, but it ap- pears that he is the weaker of the two. The woman uses her hair ef- fectively as part of her disguise, the detectives say. and every time she roby an individual and her descrip- tions is reported, it secems that her hair is done up differently. s ha made it difficult for the authbrities to get a definite idea of her appehr- ance. The woman and her companion have been working nights, making it a_practice to attack lone occupants of car compartments. The woman herself overpowers the victim and is then assisted by her confederate, who \ administers drugs. After going through his pockets they leave their victim reclining upon the cushioned seat, to be found by other passengers. In no Instance, the police say, has the woman abused her victim; in'fact, she has always been most consid- erate, except for taking all his Jewelry and other valuables and even his cigars and cigarettes, which are exceedingly expensive in Germany at present. FRENCH OF AMERICANS IS GREEK TO FRENCH By the Associated Press. PARIS, June 28.—All the Champagne countryside which has been reverberat- ing the weak tongue to the firing of Olympic rifiemen at Rheins and Chalons ranges, i3 laughing over the predica- ment of the American-trained Haltian rifle team and thelr United States Marine Corps officers, Lieut. Col. Douglas K. MacDougal, who is the major general commandant of the Haitian gendarmerie, and Maj. Smith, who is a brigadier general in the same force. The officers arrived confident of thelr ability to speak fluent French, due to nearly four years' duty in the Haitian republic, but they soon dis- covered that no Champagolse peasant could understand their mixture of creole French and old Louis XIV jdloms. Therefore, while Col. NLU!- ugal can converse freely with & ect historian of Frances eighteenth eentury, he cannot for the life of him gotiate food, drink - or shelter thout considerable effort. The three Haitlan gendarme officers and five non-commissioned men are in a far worse plight. Their use of the highly familiar second person singular to the straight-laced officers and the dignified priests of the Chalons camp came near wreck- ing the discipline of the French pofxu- overhearing them. / 7 The two undaunted “leatherneck” officers are determined to learn lat- ter-day French as she is spoken before returning to Hi in order to let the nativas benefit from their ex= . THE Reviews of New Books MODERN DFMOCRACIES. By James Bryce, author of ‘“The American Commonwealth,” etc. New York: The MacMillan Company. §)EMOCRACY really means noth- ing more nor less than the rule | of the whole people expressing their sovereign will by their votes.” This is the foundation upon which Vis- count Bryce bases “Modern Democ- racles.” The study itself consists of 2 measurement of democracies, both modern and more remote, by this standard of government. The method of this study is in large part a per- sonal and objective study, the author himself investigating by Immediate encounter the degree of democracy existent and operative in the conspic- uous governments of the world. In a general preliminary consideration the author compares the evolution of democracy with its theoretical foun- dations. = He defines liberty and equality, In essence and in practice. He projects the true democracy in its education, religion, and the freedom of the press. Upon this groundwork he defines the actual facts of certain democracies, in origin and growth and ultimate achievement. Among these are the old republics of Athens and certain ones of Spanish America. A consideration of later free gov- ernment includes France, Switzer- land, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United States. To Americans the| studies of the western hemisphere are of special point and interest. All of them, however, are necessary to complete the picture of free peoples, to establish facts of prog- Tess, to point upon lines of develop- ment, to indicate drifts of menace and imperilment, to set standards for future ~attainment. “Modern Democracies” is important for the me reasons that make “The Ameri- can Commonwealth” important. Its theme is, today, of supreme political importance. 1t embodies exact knowl- edge of wide scope, gathered at first hand. The broad relations of the subject are cleverly drawn and set in an invincible logic. Its minor facts are sound, pertinent, illuminat- ing. To this substantial basis the author is able to add the art of writing in a_ manner that not only drives the subject to its destination, but in a manner also that holds the lure of the story. Indeed, there is much of the story in this carefully con- sidered discussion of free govern- ments. ROOSEVELT PROPHET OF UN TY. By Hermann Hagedorn New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. “Strive for unity. We must be united. 1f we are not united we shall slip into the gulf of measureless dis- aster.”” Theodore Roosevelt talking. And this book, drawn off from Mr Hagedorn's more general studies of the life of Roosevelt, is given in evi- dence that the fundamental service of the great American was that of pro- moting unity of poliitcal outlook and policy on the part of the American People. Holding national unity as the foundation of democratic 'gO ernment, Roosevelt's clear challenge {0 himself and to his countrymen was to fight for such unity. From this standpoint, this central and vital standpoint, Mr. Hogedorn studies the character and servi of Roosevelt. A bafling personalit whose ma sided gifts and achievements lead more than once to an obscuration of the basic principle of his political career: indeed, sometimes to a con- tradiction of this. Out from the brilliant overtones and the spectacu- lar surface currents this author leads one back and_under into the deep sources of Theodore Roosevelt's Americanism, into the true quality of his statesmanship. Orderly and logical and convincing is M. Hage- dorn’s_work. And it is more than that. This author Is rich in the lore of Roosevelt. He is a believer, with- out being that most of ex- positors. a blind believer. A rich store of material, a logical mind, ex- pert in orderly statement. a_sympa- thetic fronting upon his theme, a reasoned admiration, a picturesque and forceful writer—these are the materials out of which Mr. Hage- dorn has produced a little book that ought to prove, and will prove to be, 2 mource of pride and inspiration to all Americans. THE MISTY VALLEY. Cannan. New" York: Doran Company 1f a young writer desires to achieve originality it must be clear to even the most hopeful of these that this ef- fect must spring from something apart from the story theme itself. Those are all old. The more impor- tant and vital they are the older. Everything has been written about from_ every possible angle, in every possible combination. Discouraging and dampening situation. One won- ders at the courage that lets a writ- er start out on the over-worn road. Yet, here is Joanna Cannan, with just a little bit of a story in her hand—an old, old story of youth, and love, and marriage, and the mistake that the marriage seemed to be. And she has turned the trick of freshness and zest and originality. _Within two pages vou wake up. Within two chapters you are ready to deny that youth has charm to vouth alone, that love is stale, that marriage is not worth try- ing, even if it should later go wrong. And somehow, following this dewy morning trall, youycome to believe that this is, after 411, the true story. That all the love is not folly, that all the marriages are not failures. Rath- er “these get into print, where the great majority, on the other hand, do work out into a larger and finer ‘ex- perience than we have hitherto thought. Tt is just Joanna Cannan that is leading us astray with her ef- fect of clear seeing and trustful thinking, with her humor and her est, with her courage to picture life as a pretty good thing after all, its people clean and decent and wanting futile By Joanna George H. the story, we'd like to make a mis- taken marriage, merely to show that we could prove it no mistake as Claire and Rov do hers. A trinmnh worth while that! Good Joanna Can- nan! SHANK'S MARE. By Charles Cole- man Stoddard. New York: George H. Doran Company. Many a vagabond at heart is held at home by that perverse modern devil, Getting - Ready - to - Go - Away. Discouraged by the appalling business of an endless impedimenta of departure, the potential vagabond snuffs out his vagrant impulse, gives it up, stays at home. Then along comes Mr. Stoddard to simplify the matter, and, consequently, to revive hope in the heart of the would-be tramp. It turns out, after consulting with Stoddard. that all the luggage one needs, or has any possible use for, is a dog. Just you and the dog. Not even a map. Out you go some morn- ing, you two, the dog more likely to set the trail than you. To be sure, you strike for the country. That is the one essential, and the dog looks out for that. You tramp along brisk- Iy, but not so briskly as to shut off hundred pauses here, there and every- where for the call of this tree, or that pool. or the stir in the fleld over there. You stop for the lift of the hill and the panorama that it spreads. Indeed, you go forward. and stand still, at ‘the behest of the beautiful wide warld itself. Mr. Stoddard tells about his vagabonding—his and Duke's—with so much of direction and detail, then with so much of poetry and picture, with so much of quickened heartbeat and mind's ease, that his story contains not only thé contagion of the whole adventure, but it provides, generally, the ways of its achievement, Reading, you will feel the real vagabond in you coming to life. Then you will whistle your best friend—and off the two of vou will go a-hunting the friendly world. MASTER LIGHTS. By Mrs. William Lowell Putnam. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. A companionable book, as that of the good essayist in its frankly per- sonal approach is bound to be. Read- ing here, one has the impression of listening in_ while the author talks freely to herself about the things in which everybody has a live and ac- tive interest. Mrs. Putnam solilo- quizes about living and dying, about loving and marrying—these the su- per-points of human concern. She touches upon being young, and upon growing old. She wanders into the field of friendship and over into that of old memories. All manner of sub- jects, grave and gay, that enter min- ute by minute into the lives of all, are brought out here with many a touch of humor, with an unfailing good sense, and with a turn of thought and expression that is clear- ly individual and fresh THE SAINT'S THEATER. By Horace Fish, author of “Terassa of Spain,” ete. New York: B. W. Huebsch Within the shadow of the Pyrene lies the little village of Terassa which not so long ago Mr. Fish r built for readers vut of words that set vividly up in one’s mind the nar- row streets, the curious building: excompassing atmosphere of and the Pyren In this story uses again the village of Te its ful Spanish implication. Now, however, it is the setting for Teresita, the beautiful girl who here in th: little corner of the world lives her quiet life with so sweet and con- vincing a simplicity as to place her in the minds of those arourd her upon that lifted level where live the saints, upon whom the pious Span- iards lean for succor in their many besetments. Adventure a-plenty e croaches upon this naturally staid and uneventful spot. Yet the body of the action rests with the thoushts and feelings and influence of Ter sita. Now and then the story moves out to touch other parts of Spain— Barcelona, for. instance. where the au- thoryagain through his intimate ac- quaihtance and sympathetic artigtry re-creates these places vividly and MOTHER: Fletcher’s Castoria is especially prepared to impressively. One has warm admira- tion for the painstaking quality of work that serves to embody within this_slight compass the whole spirit of Spain itself and of the Spanish people. DEEP IN THE HEARTS OF MEN. By Mary E. Waller, author of “The Wood-Carver of ‘'Lympus”, etec. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. The literal action of this story, the coming and going day by day, takes place in connection with the business of coal mining. Its actual geography stretches from the New England mountains to those of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. It is a peaceful Industry, unharried by overdone labor disputes, this one in which romance itseif takes root and grows to fulfill- ment. Donald McQuade, miner, is the hero, crowded closely in this role by another and younger man, who in the minds of many readers will stand on a level of importance and interest with Donald himself. The friendship that develops between these two men will, according to many, constitute one of the fresh and captivating fea- tures of this story. There is, be. sides, the man-and-woman romance, two of them, but this is worn stuff compared with the clean and heart- ening, and unusual, devotion of two strong men for each other. This is what s called a wholesome story. A shade sentimental, a slight leaning toward the teachings and precepts of ‘piety—not over-much strained by these, perhaps. Yet, the story would have been a stronger one had the author left it more to the characters themselves, had she resisted the urge to interject herself among them for moral and spiritual admonition and influenc THE MYSTERY OF THE THIRD PARROT. By Marvin Dana, author of “The Lake Mystery.” Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co. The owner of the three parrots had taught each of them a little lingo which, when combined, revealed the hiding place of the jewels he had res- cued from thieves who iiad robbed the beloved family that he all his life had ~erved in Russia. Himself put out of the way, he would still have left a clue to this hiding place. He was put out of the way, found murdered in his room. Morcover, the third parrot, the one wiose words gave the exact spot of concezlment, had been de- prived, clearly by the owner, of his power'to speak at all. Such is the situation into which a noted psychol- ogist is cast for the solution of the double mystery. Under a great activ- of coming and going, under a tremendous exercise of psychological acumen, the probing of the mystery moves excitingly forward. It comes to the surface, however. in no very great while, that the able sclentist is depending for his surest leads, not on the guidance of honorable and recog- nized psychology, but on those va- grant “hunches” instead that come from no one knows where. And these work, invariably reminding one that William James himself said “psychol- 0By is a nasty little subject” and that all one cares to know lles outside This urgent adventure is plain proof that James is right, for the learned sleuth here relies, and wisely, for his |leading upon something that lies | wholly apart from any known science whatever. And it works, as this tale so full of mystifications will serve to prove —_— . Crowder Is on Way Home. HAVANA, Cuba, June 28.—American Ambassador Crowder sailed for New | York today en route to Washington, | where, after a_conference with S retary’ Hughes, he expects to visit rel- atives in Denver, Colo, Gen. Crowder appeared to be fecling well, despite a fall from an elevator yesterday. Cu- ban officials and American friends bade him good-bye at the dock. UTOGRAPH LETTERS OF ALL CE- lebrities of the past four hundred years bought and sold. 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The scarcity of liquid capital is quite as acute In the shoe industry as it is In any branch of German trade. A novel way was sought out of the dilemma. Instead of paying the men off in marks, they gave them each a pair of shoes as part payment of their wages. An hour later virtually the whole shoe working population had been transformed into & sales aggregation. From store to store wandered heads of families, trying to dispose of their pair of shoes in return for things to eat. In Ireland, where the people have a very exclusive taste in tea, few shopkeepers will buy tea which has been blended by machinery. SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., JUNE 29, 1924—PART 1. STRIKE LEADERS HELD. | Two Union Officials Accused of Plotting Car Wreck. ATLANTIC CITY, June 28.—Tilgh- man Mathis, president of the Atlantic City local of the Trolleymen's Union, and Michael Magnes, secretary of the union, were arrested today charged with attempting to wréck a car of the Atlantic City and Shore Railroad Company, whose employes are on strike to enforce wage demands. They were arrested by Chief Joseph Margerum of the Somers Poin‘ police, after his suspicions were aroused by the acdons of a group of eight mer on the trolley tracks. Chief Marge- rum charged that the men were plac- ing ties on the rails to wreck one of the fast line cars. At his approach six of the men fled. Britain Hearty Ice Cream Eater. LONDON, June 28.—Great Britain eats us much ice cream every year as all the people of New York state plus two-thirds of those in Pennsyl- vania, according to those who manu- facture it over here. Last year his majesty’'s subjects consumed 20,000,- 000" gallons of this frozen product. e It is estimated that the labor of 200,000 men for twenty years was re- quired to build the Great Pyramid at Gizeh. FINDING OF PEARLS ENDS ~ TAHITIANS’ POOR YEARS Rise in Price of Vanilla and Val- ue of Franc Also Help to Revive Prosperity. By the Associated Press. PAPEETE, Tahiti, June 25.— The economic situation here has been im- proved by the recovery of the franc, | a rise in the price of vanilla, success of the diving seasons” in the pearl islands and a steady market for Tahitian produce. Direct steamer service with France has been another clement in trade revival, as many necessities from that country are available at prices much less' than for similar goods from America and the British colonies. Merchandise from France escapes the heavy foreign duties. 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