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Reviews o SEIRACY”; A Romantic Chronicle of These Days. By Michael Arlen, thor of “The Green K,” etc New York: George H. Doran Co. NDER the new alias of Ivor Marlay, Michael Arlen here| again ' goes a-gallivantin’ within the purlieus of Lon- don polite society. And as| one follows along—discreetly to rear- | ward of the meetings and lofterings | and partings that mark the three so- clal foravs covering the whole of | this adventure—he s to pondering the content of that word, ‘“piracy.” Dr. Johnson in hi% immortal romance of ‘words depicts piracy as open vio- lence on the open seas with intent to take over gold nd goods belonging to others. Transferred to solid earth, the act becomes plain hbery stodgy business, a plucked fowl, side the winging flight, the free | spaces, the marauding swoop of its| kindred of the seas. Clearly “piracy” | supplies to Arlen the keynote of poe- try and adventure that quite justifies this transfer of usage. To be sure, the open-work character of piracy, so insisted upon by Dr. Johnson, has | to give way in this particular out- | faring. But that is a minor matter. | The point of question arises, 1 adventur hand, is, after all wher the pirac in this ca Is Ivor M rate, taking over the of other en one espo ful be- | | B | self the beaut!- female per- Though, the | arranged ' and falls on the side | better read this| For, along the way engaging and astute Young man who sets down an as- tonishing frankness many things that | stand as the accepted reticencies of | all maraudings. Incldentaliy, too, in| the reading of Arlen vou will learn a lot about women—not he knows the be- in a s accepts | facts a themselves lie so innoc 1 at the hands of ccaneers of the on? Hard to say all a1l , the balanc urselves. will find pany of a most ore abo talks more th mplacently men and so gorge THE GOLDEN JOURNEY OF WMR.| PARADYNE. By William J. Locke suthor of “The Beloved Vagabond, et strations by Marcia Lane | I“oster. ew York: Dodd. Mead & | Co. A drear the usual 1 likely of the Y elther case, a pleasant departure fron the humdrum road of making a liv- ing out of life gladly you accept it &s that reality which you are always hoping around the mext corner. Now what in this wh world—I ask you could be mor utiful than to wak up some morning to find the pesky load of daily gone—vamoosed, evanished! And, than that, to find yourself out in a most delectable countryside, shelter a venerable van, Your sole companion a s ber- minded and understanding of vears and experience. This actually happens to Mr. Paradyne—or it see here ¢ to have happened mor i more, comes to pas of this beautiful beginni As the horse and van get under way, you catch what you are glad to an fnvitation from Mr. P waving hand. With a running you make a back-door enfranc this moving domic And there are, with pots and pans and household stuff, chattering der the jollity of the For, in the beginning s to be in a gooC “What's the rush?’ One backward look 1s eloquent all to escape—the house, the Paradyne, uh _huh, even A wondarful journey | w be one wherein the | ide, and the plain folks, and and the breezes and the flowers all contribute to the joy of Mr. Paradyne’'s fl And in the| tree-lined roads of France you realize that the “Beloved too, has Joined this fugitive band that is run- ning away from things and things And when do you get back? That is & point of slight anxiety, for, when every reason in the world would have turned Mr. Paradyne back to the office and the house and the missu: he keeps right stralght ahead “with the shining eyes of one awakened to life’s promise, jog southward Beautiful! You, too, come on with us. THE HEAVENLY LADDER. By Compton Mackenzie, author of The ete. New York Th more | In st var half-awake asleep vourself m ust more take as Jump | to you sketchy gayly rocking van. | Mr. Paradyne 1 of af ven- the he un deal you from ving country the sun agabo Altar Steps, H. Doran o, the Mark Lid- derdal thr marking the sta his pr from the average man's everyday life into the paths of piety and ultimate consecra- tion. It is therefore a pilgrim’s prog- ress, the story of a heart and a con- science, rather than a chronicle of outer events. The story of a soul's growth is bound to be a story for the few readers. Its psychological and mpiritual content are of tremendous importance to the writer—no doubt by reason of a certain autoblographic flavor—and to those interested in self study. To these the story of Mark Lidderdale gathered up in “The Al- tar Steps, “The Parson's Progress,” and the “Heavenly Ladder, prove a mome us and absorbing record of the triumph of the spiritual life over about every sort of worldly appeal on the one hand and worldly besetment on the other. The dynastic nove! der the support of Gals arshall, McKenna, Johnston, ie and others, appears to sult ish litesary taste. It is likely that over here, In the multitudinous rush of things, these drawnout vol- umes of family and personal life will} be less carefully savored, less fully appreciated. THE LAW By Flor: third book of OF THE THRESHOLD. Annie Steel, author of On the Face of the Waters.” New York: The MacMillan Company. conscientious and manifestly ca- rt has gone into this por- India as it stands today, a age, across which native pass in an ominous confu- misunderstanding and unrest hand, of short sight and methods on the other. An elab- velopment, this, remarkable of outline and effect that multiplicity of detalls be a wellnigh impos- ment. But this story is the sake of producing even so fine a picture Rather it made to rkings e of th SWEDENBORG On Four Vital Subjects The Lord The Holy Scripture Life . Faith Book of 634 pages, clear print, &ood paper, substantially bound in stiff paper covers. Endow- ment enables us to send this book to any address without further cost or obligation on receipt of only FIVE CENTS The American Swedenborg Printing and Publishing Society Room 357, 16.E. 41st St New York | Amusing and clever—always, | nign | ed agencies that, In India and from the outside as well, are \working definite- Iy to increase the confusion, to pro- mote the unrest, to foment rebeilion even among the milllons of natives. Every sort of cult and propaganda calculated to appeal to the supers: tion of the common people thrives here, with leaders from Kurope and America to misdirect and mislead the | people. At any rate, such is the com- | manding idea that stahds forth out of this admirably projected picture of modern India under the secret urg- ings of agitators and false prophets. THE SHIRT. By Peter E. Wright New York: George H. Doran Co. Sounds like a sale or a laundry ticket. No. neither. Instead, the title of this tale is of noble lineaxe. It goes away back to that classic quest of the shirt of a happy man, in order that the finder might himself achieve happiness. Beyond this itle, rather in pursuance of its content, the story unfolds a satirist's outlook upon modern life. The satirist's outlook is bound to be one-eved or cross- cyed. No other way to sccure the pecullar effects of his pecullar craft in pro- to the edge of this turn of Before reading a satire, how- oue has to discount so much he enters upon it in an abated Here Is the story of Carla, & country that becomes the greatest in the world—and the dullest. This is the keynote of the whole. Because there is work and prospserity and s, there is, forsooth, venality a vulgarity, stupidity, crime in high places, political corruption and 50 on and so on. Beauty languishes, the arts decline, high living ousts thinking. You know the line. So, one reads along here in the com- pany of a familiar of some college cult, or some secrotism of super- knowledge, In whose presence the plain world shrivels Into dung and dust. Oh, yes, clever of course Really clever. How encouraging it would be, however, if sor between Pollyanna and M eles—would, in a capability adequate expression, write of the thousands of superb things that are being done in this wonderful day of ours—things that will bring to hand the shirt of happiness much more promptly than can the most polish- of gibes most - brilliant - of ironic fables portion mind that ardor. one: phistoph- FOURSCORE. By Small, author Thundergate.” Bobbs-Merrill The poetry adventure prose of the ordinary chronicle together here in a story of Ing of Americans of stock. Two young the other Welsh Sidney Herschel of “The Lord of Indianapolis: The Co and the it immigrant one Ger met by chance— Toss the ocean in company, and, ar- rived in the United States, pursue fortune together. From New York they move out into the West, with mining experiment to enliven the rse of ordinary gettler. In second generation divergent in- te them for a time. Mercantile business with Japan for a temporary background serves both the intercsts of businessand romance. In the third generation the families are reunited under the potent influ- ence of romance and marriage. The story closes with the death of German grandmother, a woman who throughout is lovable and influential with her children in the only mothers can be influential with them. A finely colored chronicle, which, while not giving up its effect of believable record, does at the same time produce the stir and expecta tion of adventure. th 1 terests sepa AT By THE LIGHTHOUSE OF THE WORLD. author of “The My ules Verne, ious Island, WILLYS-OVERLAND | the larger life. | & most unlovely | & and ot | it} tow: come ! the mak- | the| New way | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JANUARY 11, s _ etc.* Frontisplece by H. C. Murphy. Anniversary. With an Introduc- ing the World War with the Cans-| B|G GROWTH IN AUTO f New Books New York: G. Howard Watt. On an Island at the very tip end of South America stood this light- Louse. in the care of three keepers. Over on the other side of the Island it appears that a band of pirates had been setting up false lights to lure ships upon thé rocks, where their bones were picked at the leisure of these buccaneers. By and by they capture the lighthouse itself, and but for the Ingenuity and courage of = shipwrecked American who, with his | wits against those of the pirates, goodnese knows how many more ships would have been wrecked and robbed by these lawless men. A orking story, busy every minute in some actfon that carries you racing along with it, terribly excited over the outcome. Here Jules Verne is the pure adventurer and romancer. We already know him as a good deal of a prophet—writing storles about salling the alr above and the deep sea below vears and years before these feats became a part of every- day business of life. We used to | 1augh over the “impossible inven- | tions” of Jules Verne. en though | they swept us along joyously in their unbelievable course. But® here is a book without a prophecy in ft— chock full of adventure instead. A HANDMAID OF THE LORD. By Margaret Culkin Banning, author of “Half Loaves,” etc. New York: George H. Doran Co. Coming to the end of this story one wakes to the fact that he has not once caught sight of the “handmald of the Lord” promised in its title. As- suming that renunciation and submis- sfon be among the chief traits of this person of piety, one looks vainly for { these qualities to appear in Veronica, th of interest here. If giv- € up what one never had any rea- sonable hope of achieving he renun- clatfon, if a stolid settling to a situa- tion be submission — then Veronica may squeeze through in the role cast fo Even %o, the claim of “hand- maid” may meet with challeng for [ Veronfca’s level is that of material supplies—the desire for more things | and more things in the name of that overworn aspiration for “beauty and The story starts in household — father mother and three children, out rd the West somewhere The mother a slattern, a vixen and a fool. The father a kindly man of self-pro- tective coloring. The two girls and a boy In the pattern of the average | American child. As soon as it is pos- sible the. children. leave home, &s American children are likely "to do, with subsequent romances and mar- ges coming along in natural se- nee. The story as whole |Is akly motivated, so it shuffles along toward an inconsequential ending by of a loose and unworkmanlike ure BOOKS RECEIVED. By Will & center struc | | THE ILLITERATE DIGEST. Rogers, New York Albert Charles Bont THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG. By Gordon Meade. Ambler, Published by the author. VOICE OF THE SEVEN| THUNDERS; And Other Poems. By i \ Earl Hill. Boston: The| Seas Co. | LABOR PROGRE! By Roger W. Babson, author of “Fundamentals of Prosperit Introduction by Ethelbert Stew commissioner of labor statistics York: Fi ng H. Revell Co. RSIMMON JIM; e "Possum. B:‘ Joseph Wharton Lippincott, author | | of “Red Ben etc. Illustrated by | the author Philadelphia: The | | Penn Publishing Co SARA SHRINER'S SELECTIONS, Ar- nged by Sara Venore Shriner. riladelphia: The Penn Publish- ing Co. 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Great care has been exercised in the selection of these reserve officers, and though the total force is emall, as compared with the other branches of the Army, it is felt by Gen. Fries that an excellent technical force has been gathered to- gether which can be relied upon in an emergency. The greater proportion of these of- ficers are assigned to the 2d Corps Area, there being 117 there. The local corps area, the 3d, is second with 105 reserve officers of the Chemical Warfare Berv- ice. There are 5 colonels, 20 lieutenant colonels, 70 majors, 151 captains, 136 first Tleutenants and 201 second lieu- tenants of this branch of the service. Of this number 24 officers are unassigned to any corps area. Lieut. Col. William E. Persons, Infan- try, on duty in the training section of the office of the chief of infantry, has returned from a slx-week inspcction trip of Infantry R. O. T. C. units in the West, Northwest and several in the South. Gen. Snow, chief of the Fleld Artillery, has recommended that con- sideration and study of methods to fmprove the standard of National Guard Fleld Artillery officers and to |require greater technical efficlency rom them. The selection of best National Guard divisions with a view concentrating time and money them with a view to increasing value as combat troops. our new air service units of the Natlonal Guard were Federally recog- nized during the past year, and the chief of the Militia Bureau has adopt- {ed the policy that only the air serv- units pertaining to the 18 Na- tional Guard dlvisions will be organ- ized. Eleven of the 18 have already been Federally recognized. The t count of the Air Service states that there are 6,709 officers commissioned in the Air Service Of- ficers Reserve Corp of which number 4,529 hold flying ratings, 4,330 as heavier-than-air pilots or observers, |and 199 as balloon and airship pilots or observers. The increased training | facilities, it is sald, have aroused the {interest of the reserve officers of this branch of the service, and airdomes |have recently been established at va- | rious points. Walter Holmes, who served during the World War in the Hospital Corps of the Army with an excellent rec- ord, has made application for appoint- ment in the Medical Administrative Corps as a lieutenant. It is believed that Holmes possesses the makings of an extraordinary fine officer for that particular branch of the servioe. E. L. Bailey, an official of the adjust- ed compensation branch of the United States Veterans' Bureau, has made application for appointment in the Adjutant General's Reserve Corps. In his present official position, Mr. Bailey is called upon to display excep- tional executive and administrative ability. It is belleved that he will prove a valuable asset to the Reserve partment.. H. J. Honecker, who is chief of the veterans' section of the same division, and who served dur- U NI V ¥ Corps of the adjuntant general's de-! dian forces overseas, is filing an ap- plication for appointment in the Re- serve Corps this week Prior to his World War service, he served on the Mexican border with the National Guard. Much credit is due Maj. Omer W. Clark, Infantry reserve, that these men, all veterans of the World War, are making application for commissions as reserve officers Maj. Clark is much interested in the Reserve Corps and is constantly on the outlook for material for officer personnel. He has done much to arouse the interest of the employes of the Veterans' Bureau who are reserve officers. keep allve the proper spirit In the Reserve Corps, more ap- propriations must be made in order that at least one-third of the corps may receive training every year. At the present only about one-sixth of the corps can receive yearly training An Increase is absolutely necessary over that now available for reserve officers to maintain popular interest and maintain efficlency In the reserve component of the Army of the United States. If the reserve system is to be kept in fit condition and the vet- erans to be replaced as they become 100 01d, 5,659 reserve officers must be produced each year from the Reserve Officers’ Training Camp graduates for the combat arms of the service alone. In order to provide for the other arms, an additicnal 1,322 graduates are re- quired, or a total production of more than 7,000 reserve officers yearly from the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. This requires an increase in support, apportioned where most needed and distributed over a terms of years. Provisions to meet the requirements of such Increases will continue the work done in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. It is also very fm- portant that the growth of the Citi- zen's Military Training Camp be en- couraged. Sufficlent funds to meet the public demand for attendance should be available. The interest in this part of national defense Is in- creasing yearly. It is one of the best means at the disposal of the War Department to “sell” the Army to the public. which is constantly being sup- plied with a lot of “anti-Army” bunk from the pacifists and whatnots. In order to It is understood that the War De- partment has decided upon an im- portant change relative to the at- tendance of reserve officers at train- ing camps next Summer, and that all Corps Area commanders and depart- ment commanders will shortly be no- tifled to carry out the changes de- clded upon. In the future it will bs obligatory for all reserve officers to attend Sum- mer training camps with their organ- izations cn the prescribed date deter- mined upon. Many officers in the past have been given the option of going to camp with units other than those to which they are assigned perma- nently, and on dates to suit their own convenience. This is said not to be productive of the best results, and the time has now come, in the opinion of the War Department, when the training of the unit is more necessary than the training of individuals, and to this end reserve officers will be re- quired to train with their units. new policy, it is expected, will be a distinct advance In efficiency, and the large majority of reserve officers are in favor of ft. Hindus Boost Trade Unions. With the industrialism of India i creasing, Hindu labor has toward the labor union, with the result that there are more than 1,600,000 members of the various fons in that country. This is an increase of a million since 1920 During this same period membership in the trade unions of Great Britain, Russia, Germany, France and the United States, it is said, showed de- creases. R § A California | | thougnt The | turned | s INDUSTRY SHOWN AT OPENING IN NEW YORK (Continued from Sixth Page.) trought about & more simplified cus- toms agreement between the United States and Canada with regard to the passage of tourists across the in- ternational ,boundary and many be- eve that this will be followed shortly by deoisions on the part of adfacent cities and States to cut their motor vehicle laws and traffic regulations from the same pattern The reciprocal relations now exlst- Ing between the District of Columbia and the State of Maryland, whereby motorists in these localities are not required to carry two sets of license plates, while a local matter, is nevertheless of national importance. for it marks the end of bitter differ. ences between motor vehicle depart ments. Another matter of great importance to the motorist was the consolidation of the American Automobile Associa- tion and the National Motorists’ As- soclation Into the gréatest car owner organization in the world. Many of the big plans for 1925 revolve around the new American Automobile Asso- clation and its 600 motor clubs in every part of the country. Showing in Ganoline Tax. While the gasoline tax is operative in 35 States, exacting from 1 to cents from the cAr owner on svery gallon of gasoline he buys, there is still a strong feeling against this method of obtaining funds for road building &nd maintenance owing to the fact that entirely too much of the funds so raised are used for gen- eral State expenses. Ohio motorists are leading the fight against the tax although the Detroit Automobile Club is putting forth equally sound reasons why Michigan should not follow the example set by other States, which now have what many motorists re- gard as a nuisance tax. It has been pointed out by tax ex- perts time and time again that the methods of taxing automobiles are absolutely unsound and that the gas tax does not solve the problem even the cases of California and Mary- and, where efforts have been made to reduce the amount of registration fees. This is said to be because the gus does not take into account the variation in gas mileage of dif- ferent makes of cars. Added to this objection Is the growing realization on the part of every one that the motor vehicle is the most overtaxed form of property in the United States today. Perhaps the most vance of the year ment by the State independent moto ment, with a large trained motor v 1 whose duty it is to help the motorist drive carefully and obey the laws rather than to spy on him. New York has taken up the most advanced in law enforcement just where Connecticut left several years ago, when the substitution of a State police system made motor vehi- cle law enforcement but a mere side line. All in all, the significant ad- the develop- £ New York of an vehicle depart- corps of well tors. inventory shows otordom to be in stronger posi- tion than ever before. There is less constderation for the quantity of cars, car owners, drivers, etc, and more regard for their quality is the first time that motordom really known where it stood (Copyright, 1925.) has Woman Federal Hay Inspector. Women have entered i to almost every phase of modern 1 but Miss Dorris Lattimer of Reedy, W. Va., has the distinction of being the first hay expert to er Federal service. She is a hay inspector for the United States Department of Agriculture. C AR The most practical personal car Jorwinter driving The Ford Coupe is equally satisfactory for business or social needs in cold weather. Driving this convenient enclosed car, you will never hesitate to venture forth no matter how raw or blustery the day. Light, yet affording all the power you will ever need, it will serve you faithfully every day. When heavy snow falls impede traffic, a Ford will carry you where heavier cars might fail *S2 Fordor Sedan ;‘\dnr Seé:n ‘ouring Car Runabout - On open cars demountable Coupe - 3660 580 290 260 rims and starter are $85 extra All prices 1. 0. b. Detreit Detroit The seatis generously broad and comfortable. Unusual luggage capacityis provided in the rear compartment. Its low price and low cost of operation are factors that should influence your decision to buy at once. Goret,