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THOS. R. MARSHALL PLEA MAY BE RALLYING POINT Late Vice President Left Behind Many|A Golden Words for His Party’s Guidance. BY ROBERT T. SMALL. ROUND the ever-green memory of Thomas Riley Marshall, the great Hoosier son of Democ- racy, the Democrats of the countr may find a national rallying place. The late Vice Presi- dent left behind him many golden words of guidance for those of his own political belief, and if the Democracy is to forget some of its schisms and be welded together again as a force in presidential elections, the tenets of hall may well be adopted in declaration of principles. s in February of 1920 that Mr. Marshall made his last formal politi- cal declaration. He told then just where he stood when the Hoosier Democra selected him as a delegate to the ational convention at Francisco. And he stood four- with that declaration until the day his death last week in Washington. Mr. Marshall's Creed. Mr. Marshall's statement might well be written into a brief party platform. Old-fashioned in a way, it yet seems designed to meet every problem. “I have watched in other countrie sald the then Vice President fects of so-called unbridled d and 1 pave seen its menace country, until I am quite convinced that the peace, prosperity and per: petuity of the American republic must rest finally upon a few ancient and time-honored Democratic doctrines. No one save God can remove the individual as the unit of good gov- ernment. Legislative efforts to pro- duce justice and good order in society by listening and acceding to the de mands of persons and classes will, in the hour of peace, produce failure. The only sure foundation for a stable republic must rest upon the Jeffer sontan right to life, to liberty and to the pursuit of happiness. “The Democratic parts for this and pled American political structure along this Mtne by clearly dividing its citizens into the law-abiding and law-breaking; making its laws rest equally upon all men; permitting the individual citizen who is honest to succeed by honest methods; giving to no citizen legisla- tive advantage; speedily punishing an: one who unjustly attains success b crooked and dishonest means; recog- nizing that this is still a federation of States; demanding that the States dis- charge the duties of self-government; resisting the usurpations of the gen. eral Government; removing corrupt and biased judges by standing always for obedience to the decrees of court and to constituted authority; insisting that the legislative branch of the Gov- ernment shall be responsible for the discharge of its duty and serving no- tice upon it that it cannot sulk behind an alleged interference upon the part of the executive branch; electing an Executive pledged to administer pub. lic affairs along economic lines even hould stand Hungary Sings But Political BY MAXMILLIAN HARDE; Central Europe's Foremost Publicist. AMSTERDAM—Glasses are spark- Ung today with wine; to the rhythm of Gypsy fiddles, types of extraordinary beauty are dancing wild dances; intoxicated senses create an atmos- phere warm and sweet with the aroma of the East; at every pause in the dancing, liberty is glorified by rhetorically cultivated speakers as the most sacred of national aspirations. Thus Hungary appears to the for- eign guest. He will enthuse at home of the women’s beauty, of the men's chivalrous behavior, of the liberty hospitall delightful eloquence and dancing madness of the beautiful Hungarian land. He will never know, or if he knows he will know much too late, that one eastern boundary of central Europe—an Asiatic mirage, a permanent ‘Fata Morgana’—de- ceived him. Wherever a brown, feline-like Hun- garian gypsy, with fiddle, fire and shameless glances, tenderly ap- proaches a dainty, cigarette-smoking lady, wherever many ‘‘born orators’ of Hungary—even though it be Graf Albert Apponye himself—sing patri- otic songs of Hungary's speedy re- covery, part of Asia comes to life. Long Under Tartar Rule. ‘Hungary formerly was under Tar- tar rule and for centuries lay like a pompous coffindid on Russia’s gigantic body. From the depths of the same human pit light the Magyars, who be Te- mained Hungary's rule In Europe they are only related to the Bulga- rians and the Turks. In 1453, when the Turkish hordes took Conmstan tinople from the Christians, a Magy: of the most anclent nobility rode next to the Sultan, against whom he had often fought. Their horrible cruelty is Tartarian, as is their wild, insati- able love of enjoyment. From the Tartars they inherited also their hatred of the Slav which in the great war was their greatest attraction. The Magyar: wanted to block the way to the se and the international cattle market to the Serbs, their rivals in agrarian ex ports. Therefore they pressed the Hapsburg monarchy into politics Jeaving the brave, industrious Serbs thefr choice between suicide from des- peration or courageous defense. How Bulgaria Dealt With Housing Cri: In common with other towns Sofia, capital of Bulgaria, suffered from a housing crisis after the World War. During the hostilities building was virtually at a standstill. The flood of refugees that poured into the country after the armistice gravitated to the towns. To deal with this situation the adnilnistration had recourse to drastic measures and passed a law which allowed house owners to retain only one room for every member of their families. The other rooms were placed at the disposition of the house- less. At the same time there was passed another law which relieved newly built houses from taxation for ten years. In addition, the owner of a new house was allowed to retain all the rooms for his own use. The sit- uation has now become easier and the original law has been amended, but those houseowners having persons billeted on them very often find it next to impossible to turn them out. > Navy Has Aerial Cook. Due to the fact that the giant diri- gible the Shenandoah is a Navy craft, the United States Navy has the dis- tinction of having an aerial Navy cook. He is John J. Hahn, who has been in the Navy for 14 years. He was assigned to the dirigible on its cross-country trip. itself to rebuild the | races, | to the point of the veto of every bill appropriations, but appro- priations for the benefit of a few | citizens rather than for the common | ood; regulating strictly every public utility and punishing all those seeking to profiteer either personally or through aggregated combinations of men or money; in short, the presenta- tion to the people for their suffrages of a man upon an old-time Democratic platform, under the principles of which the Republic for so many years was contented, prosperous and invin- cible.” Clash With Mr. Wilson. At the time of this declaration there was a clash of opinion between Mr. Marshall and President Wilson. The |latter had no patience with “the old- time Democracy.” To a gathering of New Jersey Democrats Presidefit Wil- son wrote: “The old party slogans have lost their significance and will mean noth- ing to the voter of the future.” Mr. Wilson urged the Democrats to search their hearts through and through and “to make ready for the birth of a new day.” However, they may have clashed in their minds, there never was an open clash between Mr. Wilson and Mr. Marshall. The latter was too punc- tilious for anything of that sort. He always deferred to his chief, so far as the public ever knew. Nothing could have indused him to do other- wise. Mr. Marshall's old-time Democratic declarations were so well thought of by his colleagues in the Senate, nevertheless, that they were inserted in the Congressional Record and is- sued as a public document. The re- quest for printing was made by Sen- ator Thomas of Colorado, who avowed: “This statement is so sensible, so statesmanlike, so completely in ac- cord with the anclent traditions of | Democracy as I understand them, and is in other respects so different from many of the programs outlined for the Democratic that 1 ask unanimous consent t it be inserted in_the record.” Vice President Marshall was him- self in the chair. There was a pause, and then Mr. Thomas asked: “Is my request granted, Mr. President?" “It is very embarrassing to the chair,” replied the Vice President. “Then,” replied Mr. Thomas, smil- ing, “from the embarrassment of the chair, I shall assume that the request is _granted “The chair is not much in favor of filling_ up the Congressional Record with his letters,” muttered the Vice President, but, there being no objec- the statement was ordered pr! in for further consideration at future gatherings of the leaders, or the near- leaders, of the untamed Democracy. (Copyright, 1925.) and Dances, Conditions Boil Hungary has atoned for the few aristocratic families who, behind a curtain, continually promised liberty and behaved with all the tyranny of an oligarchy. Poltical Conditions Worse. With the Slavs, Rumanians and Germans, whom she had so long sub- jugated, she lost her fertile land and many of her prosperous towns. But the people did not find the necessary strength to overthrow tyranny, and the tyrants refused to consider the necessities of changed times. After the liberty attempt of the radical Dem- ocrat Graf Michael Karolyi was poiled by the blindness of a French army leader, and the bloody episode of Budapest communism, political condi- ditions in little Hungary have been much worse than they were previ- ously. The state leader, Admiral von Horthy, is among all the post-war parvenus the least attractive. He neither gained war fame nor has he any kind of productive ideas. He doesn’t even have an amiable disposi- tion to recommend him. at- mosphere, a heartless cruelty and a love of power proceed from a little man. Under the pretext of saving the throne of the apostolic kings for the Hapsburgs, he took up his residence in the palgce and twice bolted the door to the poor Kaiser, King Karl, who staggered back helplessly to misery and death. Now Horthy wants to make himselt a palatinus, a King's representative, thus insuring him lifelong rule. Whether this plan will be frustrated is not certain. Former Minister von Benicky publicly accuses the ruler of instigation to murder, of favoring the murder of a political opponent of his system and of not punishing the mur- derer. It was obvious that Horthy would boldly deny evervthing and would im- mediately ~throw his accuser into prison, which he did. Yet Hungary's champagne consump- tion in 1925 will again reach the rec- ord figure of last vear, and perhaps exceed it; and those who see wine | flowing, society dancing and a revenge army parading, and those who hear { liberalism rivaling with gypsy fiddles and inhale the aroma of grape blos- soms, Oriental perfumes and paprika, will, in Horthy's Hungary, still im- agine themseives in a legendary island of blis (Copyright, 1925.) $40,000,000 Increase InU. S. Coffee Bill An increase of $40,000,000 in the coffee Dbill of the United States in 1924 is shown in the shipping rec- ords of Santos, Brazil. The fig- ures indicate additional profits of nearly 5% cents a pound. to the coffee planters in a single shipping season. American housewives can compare the 5% cents more a pound in Santos with the higher prices they have been paying for coffee at their retail groceries. In 1923 $99,542,505 was paid in the United States for the 5,773,085 sacks of coffee shipped from this port, as compared with $139,007.- 766 paid for 5,681,018 sacks last year. In 1924 the average declared value per sack in Santos was $24.47, or 18.4 cents | a pound, while in 1923 the average de- |clared value per sack was $17.24, or 13 cents per pound. ==t Argentina’s Windmills Outnumber Holland’s Think of Holland as a country of windmills? Surely, but probably never Argentina. However, Argentina prob- ably has more windmills than Holland and Belgium pyt together. American manufacturers who make these old- fashioned power devices find this South American country their best customer. THE SUNDAY "STAR WASHINGTON, D. ¢ JUNE 17, 1925—PART 2 Reviews of the Season’s Newest Books IDA GILBERT MYERS. N YAT SEN AND THE CHINESE REPUBLIC, By Paul Linebarger. Nlustrated. New York: The Cen- tury Co. IOGRAPHY, history and auto- biography are combined here in a projection of the Chinese republic and its creator. An odd chance led Mr. Linebar- ger to a study of the life of Sun Yat Sen. This study brought about an acquaintance between the author and his subject. An examination into the life of Dr. Sun fronted the investi- gator promptly upon the political sit- uation in China, wherein republican aspirations sought the overthrow of the empire. Then as acquaintance grew into a very real friendship the native reticence of the Orlental gave way and Sun Yat Sen not only yielded the author many of the facts of his private life, but set down the less eas- ily understood features of Chinese pri- vate life himself, thus giving the au- tobiographic stamp of authority to cer- tain vital parts of this story of China in its turn toward republicanism. This is, at first, the story of the town of Blue Valley, “with the purple mountains of the Plowshare for its background; the hamlet in the Vale of Blue. Just another of the tens of thousands of Chinese Sleepy Hollows, a few flecks and broken lines in white and gray in the tropical green of a valley whose mountains are blue.” Here in 1886 Sun Yat Sen was born. From this point the story spreads with the boyhood of this child, no different from other children, till in one of those ways of mystery his growth turned him toward the state of his country in a desire to bring freedom to immemo. rial vears of tradition and bondage. Partly by his own individual efforts, but in greater part by the sympathy and understanding of Sun Yat, Mr. Linebarger pursued the career of the man and the vicissitudes of the coun- try in its reach toward a more liberal government. Step by step the aspects of the rebellion are rec here—its triumphs, its defeat present status. Step by step also is the adventurous career of Sun Yat Sen depicted. A true adventurer, this quiet, mild-mannered man. A real drama stands in these pages—the drama of a man and the drama of a people. Used to the ways of the Oriental from many vears of official and private life in the East, Mr. Line. barger is ready with the Oriental point of view with its mode of expression. Because of this familiarity he is able to seize the spirit of the East and to transmute it to Western understand- ing without loss of either its truth or its savor. A’ comprehensive record of a remarkable man and a notable na- tional movement. Five years ago this story was commenced. The recent death of Sun Yat Sen makes the book specially useful and Interesting, though it was planned and completed while Dr. Sun was yet engaged in the political regeneration of China. THE DAY OF CONCORD AND LEX- INGTON. The Nineteenth of April, 1775. By Allen French. Illustrated. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. This study is, in effect, a continua- tion of the celebration of April 19, in commemoration of the 150th anni- versary of an event that opened a new era in American history. General history must in the interest of the whole give to single events, even the most importance, a relatively scant al- lowance of time and space. Therefore, because of its many-sided significance Mr. French here lifts the battle of Lexington from its general historic content and gives to it the color and particularity of local history. Vividly he sketches the literal background as it a century and a half ago supported the growing disagreements of colonial and royalist. He pictures the Boston of that day and the country connect- ing it with Concord and Lexington. In lifelike detail he sets down inci- dents one and another to show the growing animosity between these two elements. The battle itself here be- comes a story, its forerunner the gal- lant Paul Revere and his less known associate, William Dawes. From this dramatic episode, since made the sub- ject of poem and tale and staid report, he moves out into a consideration of the military aspects of that battle, comparing _and _contrasting it in strategy and tactics and equipment with the more modern example of military action. The aim here is to emphasize the drama of this event, to bring out the romance of it, to em- body it with great and gallant figures fighting in a great cause. It is by this mode of treatment, so the author be- lieves, that a high point in the history of America will take hold of the minds and stir the hearts of the succeeding generations of Americans who must need hold this particular April day in lasting remembrance. The author has, for this purpose, deliberately ignored the social and economic roots of his- tory that are, latterly, crowding out the dramatic and personal and episo- dic character of historic research. Aside from its epecial purpose to re- animate a great day in its original Substance, the study is also an effort to strike a middle ground of historic treatment, a ground between the ex- clusive attention to wars and con- Quests on the one hand and to an ab- sorption on the other hand in the economic causes and effects of aggres- sion and military operations. A bril- iant and useful study that brings a single vital day of American history into the present for one’s apprecia- tion of its color and action in support usual acceptance of Lexing- merely one of the battle of in- dependence. MARTHA. By Percy Marks, author of “The Plastic Age.” New York: The Century Co. 5 A tragedy from first to last. The tragedy of a child of mixed blood. The white man's blood and that of the woman of another race—African, Asl- atic, American Indian. However dilute this Caucasian strain may be, it serves as the leaven of discontent in off- spring, of rebellion against immemo- rial customs of race, of protest against discrimination and neglect and con- tempt. One of the most poignant chapters, this, in the story of human life. Such is the story that Mr. Marks builds around the person of the beau- tiful Martha, who cannot escape her long heritage of race at the hands of a dominant people. Martha is the daughter of 2 squaw and a white man. The man, of course, ran away. Chance took Martha out of her natural sur- roundings and placed her amons the white people for rearing and educa- tion. A beautiful girl And what hap- pened to her? You know what hap- pened to her without being told. But you do not know the finely wrought story that Percy Marks has contrived out of this motive of “east is east and west is west.” It opens in a moment of intense and foreboding drama—an Indian rite of solemn and impressive portent. Beyond this initial point the romance progresses in the footsteps of a plain realism in the Far West of the mid-century settlements. It is in this mood and after this manner that it runs its course to a really tre- mendous climax, a climax of human hopelessness. Then, all over, the cur- tain lifts again on the same poignant scene—a generation later, though—as the one with which the story opens. “The Plastic Age” brought out an unusual amount of discriminating praise. “Martha” is in every respect’a and Some of the Latest Novels. bigger story—bigger in theme, finer in treatment, infinitely more impressive in its depth of appeal. GEORGE WASHINGTON: COUNTRY GENTLEMAN. By Paul Leland Haworth, author of “The Path of Glory,” etc. Illustrated. Indlanap- olis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co. The new methods of research and investigation are doing as much for history as for subjects accepted as departments of science. Indeed, these are creating a science of history out of original documents, and new front- ings upon life and the new conclusions and forecasts made possible by this modern attitude. One of the out- standing facts growing from this fresh approach to the subject is that many things which we look upon as wholly a part of the new day of in- vention and progress are not new things at all. The book in hand is a case in point. George Washington as a lover of the soll, as a country gentleman, as the builder of a great estate, reads much like a man who has graduated from one of the mod- ern colleges of agriculture. Evidence here that he studied this problem of the land much as it is being studied today. He was clearly a conservato: of the soil, he was informed as to the crops which should succeed one an- other in order to take advantage of the land without exhausting it. He studied and experimented and made records of these exveriments. He was a good landscape gardener and an intuitive horticulturist. Intensive farming, It turns out, may be a new phrase, but it is not a new practice, for Wash- ington was keen to this aspect cf farming. This surprisingly up-to-date {land tillage, however, did not absorb this country gentleman entirely, for, in addition, one comes here upon a most interesting account of George Washington's play days, days wherein he was the good host and the versatile entertainer. A picture of him, too, among his slaves and their white over- seers. A sketch of this gentlemans wife, also, and of the general year- around at Mount Vernon. A pleasing story of easy flow through uneventful seasons wherein work and a fina hos- pitality recreate the time of Washing- ton as a man in private life. We have had so much of the great Wash- ington In his clear greatness that it Is both pleasing and profitable to ha within easy reach this admirable ac- count of him as “the country gentle- man.” A KING IN THE MAKING. By Genevieve Parkhurst. Illustrated. New York: G. P. Putnam'’s Sons. Lucky the writer who chooses a subject compact from center to cir- cumferance with an interest in which all the world shares with a zeal that has no flaw. A dangerous situation for the writer, it is true, since little more is required than to present the subject and let it do the rest. How- ever, in this case no such suspicion can rest against the author, as her book bears evidence a-plenty of a good pursuit and a fair choice of material, of an orderly and pleasing course and, most of all, of a very sensible attitude toward a subject that is likely to prove ruinous to restraint. Edward, seven- teenth Prince of Wales, is her theme. From a baby, when he is cajoling his | TUMBLEBERRY AND CHICK, austere great-grandmother out of her habituated severity, to the present of a rather lonely young man circling the globe on an embassy of good-will, we go along with him here in the hard labor to which the honors of his birth have condemned him. This is the tory in a word—Iloneliness. Oh, to be sure, a gay and laughing and friendly young man, this Edward Albert Chris- tian George Andrew Patrick David— Prince of Wales. But to be just the one of his kind in all the world—there is an unspeakable isolation about it That is the effect of the story—an ef- fect for which the author did not strive, one which no doubt the young man himself would regret. But there New Books at the Public Library Recent accessions at the Public Library and lists of recommended reading will appear in this column each Sunday. Literary History and Criticism. Adams, O. F., ed. Chapters From Jane Austen. 1889. ZYA-AuT3a. Aldington, Richard. Literary Studles. ZY-Al24. Birrell, Augustine. More Obiter Dicta. ZY-B53Tm. Brewster, Dorothy and Burrell, Angus. Dead Reckonings in Fiction. ZY¥- B758d. Bruner, J. D. Studles in Victor Hugo's Dramatic Characters, 1908. ZY39A- HS7b. Buchan, John, ed. A History of Eng- lish' Literature. 1923. ZY-B852. Bullett, G. W. The Innocence of G. K. Chesterton. 1923. ZYA-C428b. S.C. Byron in England. ZYA- BI9Tc. Chudoba, Frantisek. A Short Survey of Czech Literature. ZY58-.C47. Clark, B. H. A Study of the Modern Drama. ZYD-C548s. Conant, M. P. The Oriental Tale in England in the Eighteenth Cen- tury. 1908. ZY-C7460. Crow, C. S. Evaluation of English Literature in the High School. ZY-C8865. Drinkwater, John. ZYP-DS36v. Firkins, O. W. Willlam Dean How- ells. ZYA-HS833t. Gaines, F. P. The Southern Planta- tion. ZY83-G124s. Hamilton, C. M. _Conversations on Contemporary Drama. ZYD-HiSec. Hayward A. L. The Dickens Ency- clopaedia. Ref. ZYA-D55h. Lalou, Rene. Contemporary French Literature. ZY39-L156.E, Lambert, S. W. When Mr. Plckwick Went Fishing. ZYA-L55la. Long, W. J. Outlines of American Literature. ZY83-L850. Marr, G. S. The Periodical Essayists of the Eighteenth Century. ZY- M348p. Morgan, A. E. Tendencies of Modern English Drama. ZYD-M822t, Overton, G. M. Authors of the Day. ZY-Ov27au. Overton, G. M. ZY-Ov27c. Phelps, R. S. Victorian Poetry. Cargoes for Crusoes. Italian Silhouettes. ZY35-P51. Reed, A. L. The Background of Gray's Elegy. ZYP-R253. Schwarz, H. 8. An Outline History of French Literature. Zy39-Sch97o. Seligmann, H. J. D. H. Lawrence. ZYA-LA3Ts. Speare, M. E. The ZY-Sps3p. Squire, J. C. Essays on Poetry. ZYP- 8q57e. Wiener, Leo. The Contemporary Dramp. of Russia. ZY54D-W63. ‘Writing. Baugh, A. C., and others. Writing by Types. ZB-B328w. 3 Brownell W. C. The Genius of Style. ZB-B817g. Canby, H. S. Definitions. Political Novel. (Second Series). ZY-C162da. Carpenter, M. F., and others. Mini- mum Essentials of Correct Writ- ing. ZB-C225m. Clippinger, E. E. Written and Spoken “ " English. ZB-C6l6w. it is. Among the many incidents of the life of this youth those including him gnd his grandfather, Edward VII, are the dearest. “Oh, come on in. Nobody here—but grandpa,” sald he in eager desire for a playfellow that came his way. Just a charming point that repeats itself many times when these two friends—Edward VII and the Prince of Wales—came together. Prince and prospective King—no mat- ter. Here is the friendliest fellow in alll the world—and that is his best pos- sible title. A flock of pictures here will delight any one who sees them, espectally the one when 4 years old the Prince has clearly captivated Queen Victorla, his great-grand- mother. SPANISH SUNLIGHT. By Anthon Pryde, author of “Clair de Lun etc. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. You will go over to Minorca for this romance. There, in the sunlight and color of its gay capital of Palma, you will come upon the family of Faneaux—the brothers St. Mildred and Roden, the sister Emilia—proud of their English blood, less boastful of thelr Spanish strain. And there will come other English folks to Palma, where many spend their play days in the sunshine of the Mediter- ranean and in the chances of the gambling houses. The romance turns here upon the advent of an English- man of high degree and with his subsequent acquaintance in' the house of the Faneaux. Its undercurrent is that of the problem of class—for the half-Spanish and illegitimate Emilia is no wife for an English gentleman. And the boy, Roden, is a lovable scamp besides. And St. Mildred s an honest workman clumping around un- mindful of his ways. So much for | the problem put up to the English- man. A fine fellow, that man, whom it would be a pity to let down. All of them live. people upon whom An- thony Pryde has expended of his best. As to the outcome—well, some of you will agree that it is quite all right The rest of you will say, “Never in the world.” By | villlam John Hopkins, author of “The Clammer," etc. Illustrations | by Arthur G. Dove. Boston:| Houghton Mifflin Company. For a fresh New England romance Mr. Hopkins makes use of the fa- millar Damon and Pythias motive. Tumbleberry and Chick stand here as the Yankee embodiment of that friend- ship of man to man, which some claim as the only true friendship and which all accept as among the deepest of human relationships. The physical contrast between these two is much like that between the famous Mutt and Jeff. An equal unlikeness sets | off the industrious Chick from the lazy Tumbleberry, Who is as willing to receive as his partner is to give, and who in various ways lights up the sobriety and industry of his friend b; his own vagrant and carefree wa: A coast village serves as the stagi upon which these two disport them- selves a bit heavily in the usual fash- ion of the Yankee comic. A vernacu- lar of astonishing resistance to out- side modes of speech sets up a barrier between the story itself and the reader, but patience and a real de- sire to follow the two around the little town overcome this distinct dif- ficulty and finally set the whole mat- ter out in a fair clearness and interest. The true source of interest here is the devotion of two men in a plain and unromantic time and place, in sur- roundings that do not contribute to sentiment of any sort. THE effect of this book is likely to be—as it is no doubt intended to be—an antidote against the excess of physical and mental energy at pres- ent being expended upon the pursuit of health and general well-being. It is, in effect, a protest against the orgy of athletics, exercises, games— Cochrane, C. H. Punctuation and Cap!- talization, ZFP-C64. Cooper, Lane. Theories of Style. 1907. ZB.CT86t. Davis, H. W. Self-Improvement in English. ZB-D294. Doty, D. Z. Technique of the Short Story. ZCF-D747 Esenweln, J. B. Writing Good Eng- lish. ZB-Es24w. Frederick, J. T. Handbook of Short Story Writing. ZCF-F873h. Garesche, E. F. The Training of Writers. ZA-G17t. Hooker, Richard. The Story of an In- dependent Newspaper; ZCJ-H764s. Nichol, John. English Composition. 1879. ZB-N513. Palmer, Frederick. Author's Fiction Manual. ZCF-P183. Pitman, Sir Isaac. English and Short- hand Dictionary. 1917. ZF-5P69. Strickland, Earle. Representative Short Storfes Analyzed. ZCF-St84. Thurber, Samuel, ed. Precis Writ- ing. ZCU-T43. Webb, W. T. How to Write an Essay. 1920. ZCE-W38. Wise, Marjorie. On the Technique of Manuscript Writing. ZG-W753. Bibliographies and Selections of Books. Andrews, W. L. Gossip About Book Collecting. 1900.) ZM-An27g. Columbia University. Outline of Read- ings in Important Books. Ref. ZX-C728. Dickinson, A. D., comp. One Thou- sand Best Books. Ref. ZX-D566. Doherty, Margaret, and MacLatchy, Josephine, comps. Bibliography of Educational and Psychological Tests and Measurements. ZWIKI- D68. Schneider, Georg. Bibliographie. ZU-Sch56. Toronto Public Library. The Cana- dian Catalogue of Books Published in Canada’ During 1921-23. ZWY82- T§. ‘Windes, E. E., comp. Government Publications Useful to Teachers. 2Z83-W172. Printing and Binding. Finley, H. S. Short Course in Touch and Speed Typewriting. ZHW- F495s. Ginsbach, J. A. Print Shop Arithme- tic. ZH-G437p. Phillips, F. N., Inc., N. Y. Printers. Type Faces. ZHE-P544t. Pleger, J. J. Bookbinding. ZK-P714b. Shepard, The Henry O., Cd., Printers, Chicago. Typefaces. ZHE-Sh46. Swank, A. G., and Means, Raymond. Linotype Mechanism. ZHL-Sw21. United Typothetae of America. De- partment of Education. Handbuch der Apprenticeship Lessons for Print- ers. 2v. ZHN-Uns. Public Libraries. Drury, Mrs. G. M. G., ed. The Library .and Its Organization. ZP-D849l. Hadley, Chalmers. Library Buildings. ZQF-H113. Keep, A. B. The Library in Colonial New York. 1909. ZP85IN-K2. Lewis, J. F. History of the Appren- | pursuits. Standard | O, .Word or Two About Sun Yat Sen and the Chinesc Republic—A Review of Con- cord and Lexington Events;—George Washington asa Country Gentleman, agalnst the whole whatnot of perpet- ual stress and strain to mind and body that is now rampant in the name of health. Since the age itself is in every di- rection keyed to overactlvity, the basic idea laid down here is that of lowering this key to a more whole- some tranquillity of mind and a greater composure of body. In a plain, face-to-face talk, therefore, these authors dwell upon the nature of rest, upon its different expressions, upon its uses and its effects. They tell us that muscles may be bullt by rest, where we had thought that this result depends upon strenuous exer- cise alone. They tell us of the rest of sleep and that of recreation,” with their relations to each other. Beside this familiar and commonplace treat- ment of the important subject of rest we are given a “‘gland’ course of such simple account as to convey an idea of the nature and work of these im- portant organs, with reservations till more is known about them, and with warnings against an uninformed ac- ceptance of “gland miracles.” The whole book is a plain effort to put plain facts before people for their guldance in an everyday line of be- havior that is calculated to promote health and, in part, to stem the tide of an excessive and harmful activity of body and mind. * K ¥ ¥ THE LANE. By Helen Sherman Griffith. Frontisplece by Elizabeth Pilsbry. Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Co. A STORY of adjustment. that proc- ess that is forever going on in every stage of life and in all of its Here it is the task set for a ed to the quiet and young girl un |rather strict ways of the small com- | munity A shocking girl, at first. It is by way of her mistakes and short sight and final facing about that she | becomes a happy element in the place that had been so sore a trial to her— as she herself had been to the place. An engaging story for girls to whom romance wears all sorts of iridescent hues, clouded over by none of the “problems” that 80 beset more sophisticate years. U. S. Laws Countless But Grist Continues (Continued from First Page.) Of all the State Legislatures meet- ing this year, that of North Carolina led in total number of laws passed, with 1,173, and that of Washington has established thus far a low rec- ord, with 34. Many of North Caro- lina’s new laws are private rellef measures, and Washington's low total is due to Gov. Hartley's request that the Legislature split its session, con- sidering only major and pressing bills at the outset. The Washington Legislature will re- convene in November and consider other measures. When it adjourns the low record for the year probably will g0 to the Delaware Legislature, with | a total of 53 enactments. Lawmakers of this little State had a session of continueus wrangling. In 15 State Legislatures this year more than 1,000 bills were introduced. State Takes Control of Ice. Oklahoma, for instance, declared the manufacture, sale and distribution of ice to be a public business and placed it unler the supervision of the State Corpotation Commission. Kan- sas taxed the use—not the sale—of gasoline. Towa forbade the sale of “canned heat” on the theory that it contained alcohol that might be di- verted to beverage use. A Pennsyl. vania lawmaker called for a referen. dum on the legality of Sunday fishing. Florida and Connecticut rejected bachelor tax proposals. Iilinois con- sidered a bill requiring corporations to flle proof of their ability to pay wages. Missour! passed a law requir- ing butcher shops selling both Kosher and non-Kosher meats to make this clear by advertising and window signs. Ohio lawmakers spent hours wran- gling over a bfll which would require the daily reading, without comment, of 10 verses of the Bible in public schools. As an Instance of “freak” legisla- tion somewhat typical of that intro- duced in many Legislatures Oregon may be cited. Among proposals in her lfegl_sla.lure were a bill requiring the posting of the Lord's Praver in all places of business and amusement, a bill to prohibit poster advertising of clgarettes, a bill to create a State board of automoblle mechanics, com. posed entirely of union representa- tives, and a bill to prohibit the use of paint-spraying machin e g es in the Tax Measures Predominate, Tax measures, hundreds of them, providing for increased burdens, pre- dominated. In Illinofs, bills were in- troduced calling for appropriations totaling about $1,000,000,000—a ruin- ous burden, if shouldered, as it was not, on the tax paver. Indiana adopt- ed the budget system. Gasoline taxes were initiated or increased in Con- necticut, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Nebraska, Ohio, Rhode Island and_Tennessee. Wisconsin considered 17 tax bills, mostly increases, and passed an in- come tax law characterized as con- fiscatory by business interest oppos- ing it. Oklahoma passed a substitute law taxing money in the bank 1 per cent. How the States Stand. The extent of that flood is shown in the following statement of the number of bills introduced and laws assed i E rn 152 3n State legislatures thus far State, Bills Introduced. Paced Passed. California Colorado foion g pu Rt I N D Massachu; Michigan . Minnesota . Missourt (AR sscacarstaracss e A LIBR I DI New York North Carol North Dakota Ohio . ... Oklahoma " [ D R RO BAIE OB Lok He R DS DB S T S EBRBBAST RS HOD IR IS 7 AR 5558, EE3E I 2833 In several instances above figures have not been checked, but in almost every case they are absolutely accu- tices’ Library of Philadelphia. ZP854P;L58. Trelease, S. F., and Yule, E. S. - Prep- aration of Scientific and Technical Papers. ZP-T715p. rate and in other cases are substan- tially correct. What the dous tide . thepeopie of e “niied “States w pS he Edito Dt Snundh.i. rial Section of The MOST NATIONS LEAD U. S. IN GETTING OUT VOTERS Record Once Held by America Goes to New Zealand and Queensland. Britain in BY SIMON MICHELET, Analyst of Statistics of Elections. HAT nation holds the world | voting record? In a statistical round-up | of the nations at the polls | we find the answer—and the distinction is no longer held by the United States. Forty years ago, when 80 per cent of American voters went to the polls and voted, this country was in the first column in the point of voting ef- ficien But in 1920 and 1924, when only 50 per cent of American voters took interest enough to vote for | President, the United States dropped well down to the tail of the voting nations. Great Britain, from whom we re- belled in 1776 to establish a govern- ment based on the American vote, ap- pears to be making a much better rec- ord at the polls today than America. At the 1924 election of the House of Commons, 76 per cent of the British electorate voted, and in the preceding election 82 per cent of the electors of England and Wales went to the polls. So the British are in the running for the world voting record, and this country has fallen back among the “also rans. The new Irish Free State does not vet poll a full vote because of fac- | tional conditions, and yet in the last | election polled the vote of 60 per cent of all Irish adult men and women, which is better than half the Amer ican States can show. Germany Competitor. Germany stands a close competitor | of Great Britain in getting out the popular vote. In the first election of the Reichstag under the constitution of the German republic 75 per cent of all Germans 20 years of age and | over voted. In the 1924 election the | vote increased by 4,000,000 and | reached 80 per cent of the electorate, | while in the recent presidential elec: | ton, April, 1925, the German per. centage reached $2. The six Australian states and New | Zealand present a 20-year record where | efficient voting by women is an excep- | tional feature. In the United States, | Canada, and most European countries having equal suffrage for men and women, there is usually 10 to 20 per cent lighter vote for women than for men. But in Queensland, Australia and in New Zealand women cast as large & vote as men. In some elections as high as $4 per cent to 90 per cent of adult women go to the p This is notably the case in Queensland after the passage of the 1915 compulsory voting act, when 80 per cent of the women delivered their votes. A 20-year average for the Australia states would show approximately per_cent of the electorate voting. and in New Zealand 80 per cent. In the 1916 referedum on military conscrip- tion, the men cast 86 per cent of their qualified vote. In recent 1923-4 elections, land and Queensland have shown a {record close to 84 per cent, and so would seem to be leading claimants to the world voting record, with Germany | and Great Britain close rivals Belgium, Holland and Denmark are not far behind. By voting districts | these three countries on the North Sea range from 60 per cent to 90 per | ent in their efficiency in delivering | | the ballot at the polls.” Their average | is around 75 per cent, or one-half bet. | fter than our pre: meri; l i Position by (Continued from First Page.) rlode. why, the more terrific the ex- plosion the greater the danger to Britain. Then, again, the German gives the Briton a good deal of trouble, too, | because just at the moment when France was at least half willing to listen to German proposals in the matter of security, Germany went off and elected Hindenburg president to the tune of “Deutschland uber Alles.” Whereupon the Frenchman took alarm. Herriot, who might have traded, went out, and Briand, who has different ideas, came into power as foreign minister. All of that, however, is by the way. What is essential to perceive is that British policy has tabled on the idea that to keep peace in Europe the treaty of Versailles must be revised in Germany's favor as to the terri- tcrial clauses, but that any attempt at revision by force in the west would menace Britain; therefore the revi- sion must be confined to the east and south. Such revision, however, weuld lead to the same thing if France guaranteed the frontiers of Poland and Czechoslovakia and for- bade the union of Austria with the Reich. France Wants Polish Allies. The British are perfectly willing that a million of Poles in the east should be put back under German rule, which was notoriously harsh that Poland be denied all access to the sea, if this concession will con- tribute to persuading Germany to keep the peace in the west of Europe. The French are perfectly willing that two millions of Germans in East Prussia should be cut off from con- tact with sixty millions in the Reich, provided this severance gives France a strong Polish ally against Germany. The Englishman talks much of the irjustice done to Germany by this scission, the Frenchman talks equal- ly about the justice done to Poland by restoring what was hers originally and giving her contact with the open sea. Both propagandas are alluring, and both are equally without funda- mental sincerity. But what is of ut- most interest and importance now is, which of the two conceptions will prevail? Will Britain persuade France or will France drag Britain after her? To persuade the French the British have three resources. First, to im- prove and strengthen their own guar- antee of French security; this is the most_important. Second, to deal with the French with extreme generosity in the matter of the French debt. Third, to persuade the Germans to make further concessions, chiefly in the matter of the economic treaty now being negotiated between France and Germany, the most important de- tail in which must be the obtaining of a German market for the French iron produced in Alsace-Lorraine. Had Marx beaten Hindenburg, my guess is that the British would have persuaded the French to deal with the Germans in thhe matter of the guarantee, for the mass of the French people are passionately ‘eager for and for some visible under- standing with Germany. Even now there is still a fair chance, although the work will be more difficult and British promises will have to be stronger. Moreover, if the bargain is made, I believe the British are right in saying that we shall have 30 years of peace in the west of Europe; that is, among the great powers, Russia excepted. Whether the French are right as to the increased dangers at the end of 30 years is another question. But if lhe\m fail, if Franoe | the Running. France votes fully 70 per cent of ita electorate on the average, and in some districts makes a higher rating. Nor- way and Sweden rank well up with Belgium and Denmark. In the Nor- way election of 1920, 76 per cent of the men and 60 per cent of the women voted, with a total average of about 71 per cent. 1In the prohibition refer- endum of Swedish women in Stockholm, the capital per cent of the city vote, thereby showing that the vote of women depends upon the issue. In the recent parliamentary election in Italy about 64 per cent of the total adult population, n and women, So Italy beats a majority of 1d Middle Atlantic percentage, not- iferacy Switzerland voted 76 per cent of its electorate in the 1922 elec a referendum propo: authorities w down politica 1 and general strikes, the ached 85 per cent of the total ng electorate, defeating the proposition by a narrow margin The Canadian Pro a far higher pre: polls than r the bound cluding On New Brunswick and has a_million le New England, bu million to a quarter votes. The C: seems to approximate cent of the voting popul erican 50 per cent America is _the on on nces are making rio, Quebe br popu about Latin | of the globe where U at present to be a lighter ave than the Ameri American states have t Indian and n 80 per cent. Ev uban _election, recent Mexican el to 50 per cent of th 1ble ze vote | population. Cuban Showing Good Cuba make ing at the pol the American and Mexico election _deliv than twice as total adult for our Gul outhern § 1 15 to 20 per cent but Mexico has t per cer twice as good a sho ide of the ( in i t ates have a cc S ) | Buenos Aire: the vote of guay, 65 per cent Uncle Sam ge from pointing s comparisons. i hools and s s the place to loc stay-at-home voter cc One American recor | Michelet finds unbeat the days of B: cent of the vote were canvassed in That record, howe: a model. Finally to know if Amer 80 per cent pve 1880 down to r, cited as Mr. Michelet wants an vol ge at ‘Britain Is Placed in Awkward Security Treaty |stands by Poland and | tente and in accept British position comfortable, grows stronger, as is will challenge the Fr the stronger Germany less safe it will be | permit Germany challenge defeat Belg Frante to the C Moreover, you must see now are pre and death for Europe as well as territor: Given | may win clear of {ble “problems. But for | ing half of that peri i3 safe, anyway; if she prolongs left bank of the Rhine f ter to Holland. It is not the n 30 years, but the 30 v thereafter that France is worrying about Thirty vears from now the British Empire - will either be so much tronger that it will not have to fear any Germany, or it will have shrunk so that it cannot, even with Fra make any effective resistance to many; but the most important fac- jtor will be the granting or denial of 30 vears of peace. But 30 years from now Fi be weaker than GermAny, much weak- er than she is nov ermany remains wit rs while if Germa n will be t inev. h veto, France and and northern of in years, peace in her own she ation of the m the Lau pands the s much worse. If t Erows stro 30 years hence i | care what Germany does ance, as it did not in 1870. If Poland and the succession states of the little en- tente should develop in these three { decades, however, they might restore the balance, if still allied with France, while if they are partitioned and weakened, that guarantee disappears. | At all events, these are the main | elements in the problem. | (Copyright, 1 by the McClure MAY FAIR » Michael Arlen His latest and best book. Relating further misadven- tures, follies and galanteries of ““These Charming People.”’ GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY