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'Reviewio_f New Books THE STORY OF THE FISH Edited by’John Oliver La Gore: Washington: The Natlonal Geo- graphic Soclety OU may think you have no interest tn the under world. But i promise you that after no more than a half dozen vages of this book—looking pictures, poring over the print—your mind will turn completely away from this mistaken notion of indifference. For this is, truly, a wonder book whose facts have been fished out of the sea and spread here in a thou-| sand forms of marine animal life. A world in itself, this, its people sepa- ated into races and tribes and fam- lies, just as we are. All bent, too, just as we are, upon the tremen- dous preoccupation of food and pro creation and self-preservation. An iridescent world colored from the rainbow and all the bright hues of flowers, and from fiery-hearted jew- els Your interest caught as it is sure almost immediately to be caught, You are at once offered the chance to look into this newly-discovered world Trom the standpoint of your own bent nd choice Are you keen to this yject from the angle of our own ood supply? Here, then, is a story the food fishes teiling where these to be found, telling of the great industries that have grown up around these fishing fiel of the wealth ac- cruing from them and of the wide rela ons established by the distribu- of thig particular kind of (nmlv‘ in a word, you will find that this humble denizen of the under world has stirred up international quarrels and set the bounds of cer- tain international policies. Do you have a turn toward processes to- ward the ways by which raw mate- rial is converted to common human uses’ That story is here, too. Again, are you stirred over the amazing workmanship of nature—shaping adapting, conforming, co-operating encouraging the will-to-live through A thousand accommodations that sum, | fi to the triumph of that will on | hand, to its defeat on the To many this last story will to be the greatest one. Nature is, after all, the surpassing story teller of the world “The Stery of the Fishes” is the work of different men This one out of his special knowledge has given one. Another out of his particular equipment has | wffered another “Cer n 1‘\[\1"‘1!"»(‘t the Warm “Curious Inhabitants | of the Stream Devil-Fishing in the Gult m,” “Salmon: Amer- jea's Most luable h” are titles| point ipon the character and qual- | 1ty o these stories as a whole. word for the simplicity of these di: cussions. The scientist is no longer | a cryptic abstraction. He is now a man—the best of n is—telling wit directne; and drama and en- thu sm the discoveries that he Is making. He is at his best here. A hundred pictures support and illumi- ate the text of these stories. Many f them are color plates by Hashime Muravama made from life Itself. A genuine wonder book. 1 should think a boy would eat this book up. \He will if he has a chance. JOHN WILLIAM STRUTT: Third Baron Rayleigh, 0. M. F. R. S. By his son, Robert John Strutt, Fourth Baron Rayleigh, F. R. S. Tllustrated. New York: lnnsman'/!r Green & Co. Lord Rayleigh, the distinguished soientist, has received homage from fellow scientists and high honors from those whose privilege it is to reward intellectual achievement. The purpose of this volume on the part of Lo Rayleigh's son is, therefore. | to tell the story of the man, his father. in the midst of his family, among lils friends, and in collective life ar d him In so far as this is possible the design is to leave [ha‘ record of science to its own proper | cha of publication. It is not pos- | sit wever, to dissociate wholly a man from his life work. So, happily, this absorbing record | natural, and Inevitable, ivate life and public serv- v and communicable book ning to end. One whose 1nass r manner gathers in the home and the family and the interests roundabout And when the story goes further afield for encounters with this and that one of distinction in some scientific research, both in urope and America, there is still the me simplicity of movement, the same freedom from an oppressive learning, the same direct contact. A most impressive figure—one was ®oing to in spite of his great ts. Rather let us say ingly picturesque figure be- cause of the fundamental gifts of the man turned to the service of #cience in a specially dramatic man- ner. A book packed with information of a general sort but save from any diffusion of effect through the unify ing and harmonizing influence of the personal story of the man himself. IND. By lan Hay First Hundred Thousand,” Tllustrations by Lewis Baumer. Boston: Houghton, MiMin Company. Of happy mood, as they set out to be—these essays on topics skimmed off the top of things by Ian Hay. The top of things, nowadays, is a foamy, iridescent, floaty mess. Laughter and song and dance. Strapped feet and stion Indeed THE SHALLOW author of THE CONSTITUTION UNITED STATES By JAMES M. BECK 'Solicitor-General of the United States From President Coolid preface: “Mr. Beck has had that intimate contact with our laws which is the best foundation for a sound under- standing of their spirit, their truth and their wisdom.” At All Booksellers, $2.50 THINGS I SHOULDNT TELL By the Author of UNCENSORED RECOLLECTIONS “Racy, gossipy and amusing pages.” ~-Chicago Post The episodes are related with the same flair for anecdote that made the former Book of Gos- #ip an international sensation. Tllustrated with reproductions of famous cartoons from Lon- don Vanity Fair and rare con- temporary prints. - $4.50 At All Book Stores J. B. LIPPINCOTT CO. | nevertheless, | 1iberal Dbare-looking legs, catskin coats and absurd little down-drawn bonnets out from which young squaws paint cast questing eves. Movies and motors and crashing music are the accompaniments of youth from Picca- dilly to Broadway, nowadays. And Ian Hay skins from both of these twirkling thoroughfares. And he appears to be having the time of his life also among these lightweights of modernity. A gay and laughing loiterer, this, who, in spite of himself or because of himself, dips a bit deep here and there in a quite captivating tenderness of insight and sympathy. On the whole, however, thase vaga- bondings under the white ligh made for laughter, genuine laughter of the sort that wells up from away down Inside of you and demands a icaring. One almost never, nowa- days. laughs over a book. For books, by the sheer weight of numbers, have come to be the solemnest things on earth. However, one laughs over this one. For it is such a genial outlook on the tremendous fuss of living the lighter moments of the day and night. CELEBRITIES OF OUR TIME. By Herman Bernstein. New York: Joseph Lawren. A varied and extended Jjournalism lies back of the inter- views that make up this volume. A sreat traveler in_his journalistic ca- pacity, Herman Bernstein. A man who has met many men, that, from one standpoint or another, haveé gain- ed celebrity. Here are writers and artists, statesmen and politicians, philosophers and scientists. Here is an Interview with Tolstoy. Here are interviews with Pope Benedict XV, with Kerensky and Trotsky and Kro- potkin and Kovalevsky. An interview with Roosevelt and one with Wilson, getting nearer home. “The inter- views Included in this book are per- haps the most characteristic among the hundreds of talks that I have had with celebrities in various lands. [ have made no attempt at fine writ- ing, but have endeavored to secure from the celebrities their views on problems which interested them and me, and on which with authofity.” This seems to be fair statement of the matter as any survey of this book will show. A mere list of the names here—30 or more—will suggest the wide scope of opinions on certain vital that are set down here as something like a common basis for these widely separated interviews. The book is dedicated to “Edward M. House, the American statesman, who is intimately familiar with American and foreign affairs and deeply inter- ested in their betterment.” ROME. By Edward Hutton. Tilus- trated by Maxwell Armfleld. New York: The MacMillan Company. Take this book with you when you g0 to Rome. Have it in hand when you face upon the Forum, the Colos- seum, the Catacombs, the churches, the palaces, and all the other emblems or relics of the great Roman past. For here the author has gathered around each of these the history and the literature, the story and the legend that serve to re-embody it in the living facts of its individual ex- istence and of its contribution to the common life of its time and place. Pictures, both in color and halt-tone, illuminate the text, and a map. se: curely and properly placed, join here in completing the usefulness of the book to the traveler in Rome. On the other hand, If you belong to the great majority that must take journeys by way of print, you will find this book as alive and pointed to your purpose as if vou were an actual traveler upon an actual road itself career in JIM DAVIS. By John Masefield. 11- lustrated by Stephen Reid. Phila- delphia: David McKay. John Masefield sets this boy story on the coast of Devon away back at the beginning of the last century. At that time smuggling was one of the English outdoor sports, as at the present moment it is in America. The story grows by way of a series of ac- cidents that involve Jim Davis, a lad of a dozen years, in some of the ad- ventures of these outlaws. Like any other live boy Jim was perpetually nosing around, like a young puppy. in all sorts-of odd corners. It was this that almost made a smuggler out of Jim in spite of himself. While he did escape from the active business itself he was forced, by the things he had found out, into many a tight corner that made him feel now and then most awfully like a real criminal. A plain story—that is as plain as straight telling can make a story that is by nature a very crooked one. Certainly a story to thrill a youngster with the makings of an adventurer in him—every youngster, that means. THE BELLAMY CASE. By James Hay. jr, author of “The Melwood Mystery,” etc. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. A plausible incident in a quite mod- ern political fight grounds the mys- tery of this story and allows an- other chance for the talent of the clever detective, Jefferson Hastings. The South gives setting to the tale A contest for senatorial honors lies between two old friends, Joan Bell- amy and Wayne Gilmore. It is only with the advent of Gilmore's new manager, Stokes Jackson, that a sin- ister element enters the contest. The instrument of this political manager Is to be the defamation of character. A familiar weapon. Here it is direct- ed against the woman candldate, Joan Bellamy. Only a short time after his appearance the violent death of Jackson secures the situation wherein Jefferson Hastings leads one upon one skillfully constructed trail after an- other in pursuit of the murderer. It Is the business of the mystery story to set up as many likely looking clues as the matter will stand, and this Mr. Hay does in the manner of a man who has tried a practised hand at this game more than once already. A good story of its kind. A kind, too, that seems to have a strong hold on readers ¥enerally. BOOKS RECEIVED. THE HILLS OF DESIRE. By Richard Aumerle Maher, author of “The Shepherd of the North.” etc. New York: The MacMillan Company. BIBLE READI FOR SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES. Edited by John M. Thomas. president of the Penn- sylvania State College, and A. Howry Espenshade, professor of rhetoric in the Pennsylvania State College. New York: The Mac- Millan Company. TWO ORDEALS OF DEMOCRACY: An Address on the Testing of Democracy in the Fires of Con- flict as Exemplified by the Civil War and the Great War. By John guchln. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin 0. THE ADVERTISING YEAR BOOK, 1924. Edited by John Clyde Os- wald. 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Price, Lucien. Prophets Unawares. IX83A-P93p. William T. Harris. Roberts, J. S. IK-R54w. Sharp, R. A. Teaching English High Schools IP-Sh27t. Small, W. S. Educational Hygiene. IRP-Sm16e. Spain, C. L. The Platoon - School. TPO-8Splp. Strayer, G. D., and Norsworthy, Naomi. How.to Teach. IP-St83sh, Turner, B. H. Lip Reading Made Easy. 1ZD-T857. . rner, E. M, and Betts, G. H. Lal of Training ‘Washington, istel 1924, Unstable in Army and Navy News By M. H. ARMY. With the adjournment. of Cougre: the first important question to considered by the Secretary of War will be the selection of five brigadier generals to fill as many vacancles in the grade of major general. The re- tiring major generals with, the dates of their separation from the active rolls of the Army, are as follows: Omar Bundy, commander of the Sth Corps Area, Fort Hayes, Ohio, June 17; Harry C. Hale, commanding the 6th Corps Area, Chicago, 1il, July 10; Samuel G. Sturgis, commander of the 3d Corps Area, Baltimore, Md., Au- gust 1; George B. Duncan, command- er of ‘the Tth Corps Area, Omaha, Nebr., October 10, and W. H. John- son, October 19. Friends of Brig. Gen. William 8. Graves, it is pointed out, will make considerable trouble in the event that he is passed over in filling these five vacancies. It Is current gossip in Army circles that the reason why he has not been promoted is due to ob- jections raised by the State Depart- ment. It is a well known fact that a certain amount of friction developed batween the general and the State Department when he was in command of the American forces in Siberia. but those well acquainted with all of the facts in the case have frequently ex- pressed their high opinion of Gen. Graves in his conduct of the very delicate situation when he was in command of the American forces in Sibert. In the face of almost insur- imountable difficulties he maintained a neutral attitude with the Russian forces on one side, opposed by the British and Japanese on the other. In certain Army quarters the opin- fon has been expressed that in select- ing the five new major generals some of the brigadier generals with long service to thelr credit, but who are down on the list, should be awarded with the new appointments, but it is not known how this wiil appeal to the Secretary in making his promo- tions. In commemoration of the landing of the first American troops at St Nazalire, France, June 26, 1317, plans have been announced by Capt. Arthur M. Dubois, treasurer of the St Nazaire Memorial Fund, Inc., to raise $100,000 for the erection of a fitting memorial to the first contingent of American soldiers to arrive at this port. A nation-wida drive for funds will be conducted by the executive committee, which, in addition to the civillans, is composed of the follow- ing service members: Maj. Gen. W. H. Hart, quartermaster general; Brig. Gen. Samuel D. Rockenbach, com- mander of the District of Washing- Cols. Alba N. Johnson, jr.; George E. Kemp, K. G. Martin and Charles C. Perrin of Paris, John H. Schouten, John Stephen Sewell, Gen. R. D. Walsh and Capt. Arthur M. Dubols. The honorary committee, which has been appointed. consists of the fol- lowing: Maj. Gen. James G. Harbord, ! chairman; Newton D. Baker, former Secretary of War; Col. Franklin Q. Brown, Psul D. Cravath, John W Davis, Brig. Gen. Charles G. Dawes, Robert Underwood Johnson, Otto H. Kahn, Frank D. Pave: Elihu Root, Herbert L. Satterien, Right Rev. Her- bert Shipman and George W. Wicker- sham. Announcement was made this week by the chief of Infantry that Lieut. Col. Kirwin T. Smith, Infantry, now on duty with the Division of Or- ganized Reserves at Syracuse, N. Y., has been signated as captain of {the 1925 Infantry rifle team, which will compete in the national rifle matches be held at Camp Perry, Ohio, in September. The recruiting service during the fiscal year 1924, according to figures complled by the War Department, en- listed or re-enlisted 77,695 men, ex- clusive of 1,242 for the Philippine Scouts. Of this total number 71,222, or 81.67 per cent, were native-born Americans, while the remainder, 6474, or 8.33 per cent, were forelgn born. Out of the total number of 17,696 men who were enlisted or re-enlisted 45,709 were original enlistments, 17,565 were re-enlistments and 14,432 of the enlistments were from men with former service. Army Air Service officers and civil- ians engaged in alrcratt industry are evincing great interest In the 1923 aerial classics, the first of which will be held on May 1 and which will be concluded October 3. At present the competitions which ‘have been an- nounced are the national elimination balloon race, the Jacques Schnelder race and the international Pulitser aphy race. T he Litohfield trophy will be awarded to the winner of the national elimination balloon race, which will be held at St. Joseph, Mo., on May 1. As a result of this elimination contest the three entries who will represent the United States in the second Gordon Hennett cup race will be selected. This contest will be held at Brussels, Belgium, June 7. In winning this international belloon race last year Belgium was given the permanent pos- session of the first Gordon Bennétt cup. Baltimore, Md., will be the ecene of the 1925 Jacques Schneider race, which { will be held between October 24 and 31. The 1924 regulations will govern the 1925 race, and no entries will be accept- ed after April 1. 1t has been decided to hold this years Pulitzer race between September 17 and October 3. the location of which will be announced in the near future. Permis- sion has been given to the foreign con- testants to test their wing models in an approved typnel in their respective coun- tries, instead of forwarding these models to the United States to be tested, as was required last year. The 1924 rules and regulations will govern the 1825 com- petition with this one exception. Entries for this race close en April 1. The Pulitser race being an interna- tional epeed contest, both Army and Navy officers are evincing great interest in this, the 1925 aerial speed classic. In view of the fact that a French pilot now holds the world high-speed record for airplanes, having taken this record from America, French reports reaching this country indicate that nothing will be left undone by the French airmen to en- ter their fastest aircraft in this competi- tion in order to retain the world’s great- est aerial speed mark. Feverish activity marks the preparations of both England and America in their efforts to win this most coveted of air records, and the 1925 Pulitzer meeting promises to bring together the greatest international ar- mada of high-powered airplanes which has ever met for the high-speed suprem- acy of the air. The question has been raised by a fleld ordnance officer as to whether the model 1917 tripod for the Browning caliber .30 machine gun, model 1917, should be is- sued with or ‘without traversing gear. A little more than haif of the model 1917 tripods manufactured had mechanical traversing gear attached, and the bal- ance were 5o designed that the travers- ing gear could be added later if desira- ble. In actual practice this device is sel- dom used, and for this reason it has been decided by the Ordnance Depart- ment that in making future issue of this tripod it will be furnished without re- gard to whether or not it has the oratory Studies in Edueational Psychology. IKI-T8541 Uhl, W. Lc The Materials of Reading. IP-Uhém. United States. Bureau of Education. Physical Education Series. IRS- Unlp. S Waples, Douglas. Procedure in High School Teaching. IP-W16p. Wood, T. D. The Child School. IRP-W3b. Mclntyre. traversing gear attached. A new tripod for Infantry and Cavalry use ls now being designed, and in this due. attention is being given to the question of provid- ing a satisfactory traversing gear. Recommendation has been mad the Ordnance Department th: Browning machine gun, caliber model 1921, water-cooled (without tripod or mount), be adopted as the standard anti-aircraft machine gun for manufscture and {ssue to the Army. This gun has undergone ex- tensive tests and od satisfactory weapon for antl-aircraft defense. Work on a satisfactory anti- aircraft sight for this weapon has been under way for several months, as will be recalled from report pub- lished in these columns some time ago. The first ciass ot West Point Ca- dets, 247 strong, under the command of Maj. Earl McFarland, U. 8. A, will leave West Point on April 26 .for & four-day visit at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.; Edgewood Arsenal, Ma.; Fort Hoyle, Md., and Frankford Ar- senal at Philadelphi NAVY. According to rellable sources, upon completion of the maneuvers in Ha- wailan waters this Spring, the com- manding officers of 7 out of the 12 Dbattieships of the battle fleet will be relleved. Speculation has been rife for some time among Navy offi- cers, not only as to who will be named as the new rellefs in the battle fleet, but also as to who will succeed Admiral Robert E. Coontz, com- mander-in-chief of the United States fleet, when it returns from the cruise to Australla. Other Important changes in naval assignments will be the expiring four-year terms of the chiefs of four Navy Department bureaus, as follows: Rear Admiral David Potter, paymaster general of the Navy and chiet of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, and Rear Ad- miral Jullan L. Latimer, judge ad- vocate general of the Navy, both of whose terms will expire April 8; Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, chiet of the Bureau of Asronautics, July 26, and Rear Admiral John K. Robison, engineer-in-chief of the Navy and chief of the Bureau of Engineering, September 30. The following changes, it is ex- pected, will be made in the com manding officers of the seven battl ships of the battle fleet: Capt. J. T. Tompkins to relieve Capt. G. C. Da in command of the submarine divi- sions of the Pacific fleet; Capt. F. D. Karns to relisve Capt. R. R. Belknap, in command of the U. S. S. Colorado. Capt. T. J. Senn, now in command of the U. S. S. West Virginia, will be relieved by Capt. A. J. Hepburn, while Capt. T. T. Craven is slated to relieve Capt. Frank H. Clark, in command of the U. S. S. Maryland; Capt. T. C. Hart to relleve Capt. W. D. Brother- ton, in command of the U. 8. 8. Ml sissippi, and Capt. H. P. Perrill to re- lleve Capt. W. S. Crosley, in command of the U, S. S. Idaho. Capt P. > Olmsted, now in command of the U. S. S. Arizona, Is slated to be re- lleved by Capt. A. St. Clair Smith, while it is bellsved that Capt. W. Me- Dowell will relieve Capt. W. P. Scott as commander of the U. S. S. Okla- homa. In all probability Capt. A. J. Hep- burn, who is now chisf of staff to the commander of the battleship divi- slons, will continue in this capaeity on his assumption of the command of the West Virginia. These changes, it is expected, will become effective about June 1, when the fleet is an- chored off Honolulu. Doubt has been expressed in cer- tain naval quarters as to whether any of the above mentioned chiefs of the Navy Department bureaus will be appointed upon the expiration of their four-year details to another term. It Is not believed that this will have much welght when the sub- ject of reappointments is considered, as both Maj. Gen. John .i. Lejeune, commandant of the United States Marine Corps, and Rear Admiral Ed- rd R. Stitt, surgeon general of the y and ‘chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, were just re- cently reappainted for their second four-year terms. In addition to Capt. Ridley McLean, former judge advocate general of the Navy, whose name was mentioned in these columns a few weeks ago as a probable suce to Admiral Lati- mer, have been added the mames of Capt. Edward H. Campbell, now as- sistant chief of the Bureau of Navi- gation, and Comdr. Robert Hender- n, who is now undergoing instruc- tion at the Army War College. Secrotary of the Navy, it is un- derstood, it considering a number of names for the paymaster general and the Bureau of Aeronautics posts, but Navy Department bureau chiet makers are silent as to the probadle selections of the Secretary. Eighteen Marine Corps officers and a similar number of Army officer representing the various arms, sembled at Edgewood Arsenal, Md March 2 to undergo the line and staft officers’ course, which will con- clude May 9. This is the largest number of officers and the largest class which has ever been conducted at Edgewood. Every branch of the War Department is represented in the class, with the exception of the Finance Department, Quartermaster Corps and the Corps of Engineer: The following Marine Corps officers are attending the course: Maj. Fred Erskine, Capts. Jesse L. Per- . Beattie. J. P. McCann, G. F. Bloedel, W. W. Alken, L. G. Wayt, R. T. Anthony, O. A. Dow and J. P.'Smith; First Lieuts. Lee F. S. Horan, Francis Kane, Ervin R. Whit- man, R. O. Sanderson, W. P. Leutse, W. L. Harding, C. W. Le Gette and R. Skinner. The Army officers undergo- ing this instruction, with their arms of the service indicated, are as fol- lows: Lieut. Col. H. G. Shaw, Marine Corps; Mgj. Frederick R. Garcin, Chemical Warfare Service; Capts. J. W. Falconer, Field Artillery; Richard B. Willls, Fleld Artillery; James de B. Welbach, Coast Artillery Corps: Lloyd G. Becker, Chemical Warfare Reserves; John G. McCoy, Chemical Warfare Service: First Lieuts. Car- lisle B. Wilson, Infantry; George O. Daugherty, Infantry; Charles R. Chase, Cavilry; William E. Griffin, Coast Artillery Corps, and Second Lieuts. Willlam P. Campbell, Cavalry; Uzel G. Ent, Air Service; Leroy S. Mann, District of Columbia National Guard; George W. Bott, jr, Ordnance D partment; Isidore Sass, Signal Corp. Allen N. Cox, Chemical Warfare Re- serves, and Walter J. Ungethuen, Chemical Warfare Service. Capt. Charles Conrad, Supply Corps, United States Navy, will be detached from duty in the Bureau of the Bud- get March 31 and will assume his new duties as supply officer of the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., April 1. He will relieve Capt. B. P. Du Bois, Supply Corps, whose new as- signment has not been announced by the department. The frelght-routing section estab- lished in the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, i8 now in full operation. Such matters are handled in close co-operation with the Federal Traffic Board, the chairman of which is an ofticer of the Supply Corps. She Kept Her Word. Trom the Philadeiphia Bulletin, “8o0 you're married after all! You told me you wouldn't marry the best man on earth.” “Well, T didn'y" Willlam P. Irving, commander of Col. James S. Pettit Camp, was born March 23, 1873, at Newton, Kans. He enlisted June 15, 1853, at the Wask- ington Navy Yard and served three years in the Navy, being discharged at Norfolk, Va. He again enlisted in the Navy, March 23, 1398, at the me piace and served another period of three years, again be- ing discharged at ‘W. P. mving, Norfolk. His first aflia- tion with the Spanish War Vet. erans was with Admiral George Dewey Naval Camp, where he served adjutant and quartermaster at various times. Later he transferred to the Fourth Immunes, which after. ward changed its name to Col. James S, Pettit Camp. Comdr. Irving has had the honor of occupying all the offices in Pettit Camp, this being his second term as commander. Gen. Nelson A. Miles Camp, was visited at its last meeting by De- partment Inspector J. A. G. Shuster his' official capacity. Thomas Fleet and Edward Mulligan were mustered into the camp, A discussion as to the advisabllity of increasing the dues was held and the commander was authorized to ap- point a committee to report back at the next meeting. Department Comdr. Arthur H. League Indorsed the ac- tion of the camp and stated that for the benefits received the dues were the lowest of any organization in the District, and in order to carry on the work It was imperative that the dues be increased. Quartermaster Thomas A. Hudlow, of Richard J. Harden Camp, stated that the matter should be taken up by the commanders of all the camps in the District and brought before the council of admin- istration s0 that a uniform increase could be agreed upon by the various camps in the department. Refresh- ments were served. Chauncey W. Herrick, commander- in-chief of the United Spanish War Veterans, returned Monday from Cleveland, Ohio, where he attended a banguet given in honor of Col. Carmi A. Thomson, chairman of the national legislative committee, and himself, by Garrettson Camp of that city, Feb- ruary 28. M. F. Kelley, assistant ins general, and George H. Berry ‘mander of Franklin Camp of New Jersey, were callers on Commander- in-Chief Herrick and Adjt. Gen Murphy at national headquarters in this city last week. Department Comdr. Arthur H League paid a visit to the John Jacob | stor Camp at its meeting last Mon- day night. In his talk to the camp Commander League stressed the ne- cessity of increasing the membership of the organization. The following officers were Installed by Comdr League for the ensuing year: Dennis F. Cooney, officer of the day, and John Schaefer, quartermaster. A new member was added to the rolis by muster in of Robert F. Tierney formerly of New York City. Past President General M. R. Len- hart of Philadelphia represented president general of the National Auxiliary of the United Spanish War Veterans at the convention of the National Council of Women recently held in this city The meetings of the camps and auxiliaries for the week ara as fol- lows: Gen. Nelson A. Miles. Camp No. 1, Thursday night, Grand Army Hall. 1412 Pennsylvania avenue northwest; Col. James S. Pettit Camp, No. 3, Tuesday night, 921 Pennsylvania ave- 5% = | BROTHERHOOD OF AMERICAN YEOMEN. Homestead, No. 6515, will meet Wednesday at 7:45 p.m. in Northeast Masonic Temple. Homestead, No. 6409, will meet Saturday at 7:45 p.m. in 0dd Fellows' Temple. Following the meetings 500 parties will be given for members and their friends. T RS G Gold Exports Go by Mail. Banks have worked out a methed of of using the United States mall for exporting gold that means a great saving to them. On a shipment of $1,000,000 in gold, which is not un- usual for some of ‘the bigger banks. a saving of $2,000 is possible over the old way of sending it from country to country. This saving is 4 to 5 cents an ounce, but to do it the banks have to mail the gold in 50-ounce bars and register it. In the old way large bars were sent by freight in cumbersome kegs or boxes Temple, Eighth and ¥ streets north- east; Col. James S. Pettit Auxiliary, Thursday night. Potomac Bank bullding, Georgetown; Col. John Jacob Astor Auxiliary, Wednesday night, 921 Pennsylvania avenue southeast. His Name for Baby. the Louisville Courier-Journal, “Yee, sir,”” said Tony, hen my leetie gal arrive I want to name her some- thing that remind me of my old home in Napoli.” “Yes." ‘At the same time I want something that remind me of her mother.” “Well 7 “I combine both nicely, sir. the child Vesuviu I name Your baby,too,can laugh and coo and crow in the best of health. 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