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A Volume Which Takes Up _the Legal Aspects of the League of Nations—James Stephens, the Irish Author, Brings Out a New Novel Abouta Charwoman's Daughter—Other Tales. DA GI RT MYERS. THI CONSTITUTION AT THE CROSSROADS. By Edward A. urer on international hington Law George H. an exami. spects of ions, the of HIS volume projec wtion into the legal Internations It mds the two questions that the present t acutely before Amierican people. The first of the: fs. “What are the legal consequences of memberskip in these new organiz- tions The second is, “Are these consequences desirable tor the people of the United States?” Setting aside the second question belonging to m of izconclusive debate, the devotes pis time and effort to nite and conclusive leg of membership in_these « itions by the United State taininz that an understanding of the law in matter is the foundation for any intellizent action In respect to i1, the author tukes up the subject 1r and _constitutional » method emploved by ~ that of a comparison and contr veen these relatively new izations and the Constitu- tion of the United Not, there. fore. a study of intern: aw, but a study constitutic ¢ inst is made this exposition cussion. means to the desired end, the perfectly derinite analysis of tions. He - 2 each and conditions, to the international out of wh prang. the membership of each, giv e and the qualifications He explains the canizations. the Lership. the individual » under sthe law. He de oking duties ions that exist inherently amorz the thiee organizations. carefully has this anal both in respect to it and alsc in the elminations that have cleared it from a conflicting il elements that one can of a more rewarding study’ for the intelligent and patriotic man and woran than this very oppor tune book offers made such the matte tion of prime importance. the legal consequences of member- ship in these orzanizations?’ And here Mr. Harriman brings the matter to the judgment bar of the Constitu- tion itself. “In forming the Consti- tlon of the United States the 13 orig- fnal States abandoned their right to settle dispues among themselves by war and created a Supreme Cour with jurisdiction over all contre versies between the States Union. It is the belef of many that nations in zeneral should abandon their right to make war upon each other, and should submit thelr con- troversies to judicial settlement.” It 1s this b ted the organi- zations under discussions here. How far the Constitution of the United States may be affected by a member- ship in either “league’ ‘or “court” is “one of the vital questions of the da he Constitution is at the ssroads While the re! = volved are international in character, the questions involved are constitu- tlonal in nature. And here follows a very instructive examination of some of iching of thes from the standpoint of their and their legal effect. A very important in 1o the situation, content of fact alysi the au- he ques- What are study that by serious general consideration. In this very matter there a prodigious amount of feeling whose origin hearsay, or personal predisposition. sponsible guides > orzanized the study fuct o of this The Macmillan Company ure of this little story in the Irishy of its projection. but an Irishman—maybe, no- body but James Stephens himself— could accept the full content of a charwoman’s life and at the same Nobody time make the daughter of this estate | 4 heroine of romance. Abating none of the poverty—indeed, embracing the whole of 1t—Mr. Stephens makes this not only the setting of a lovely story but embodies within it as well the es sence of the Irish charact s the charwoman hersell who here. Mary, the daughter, tiful something to look & E lovely but a more or less inarticulate vision. Mary, we are sure, is going to have her day. We gather’ this from a half promise at the end of the story. And Mary will be something 1o expect from this writer. In the meantime, there fs Mary’s mother— the warm-hearted, generous, captious, warring charwoman whose attacks are speedily followed by outbreaks of warmth and friedliness that are truly f the fine Irish blood. A laugh goes 1 the way here—no bolsterous mirth, mind you, but smiles lurking in every corner here, sometimes over the pure fun peeping out from some little cover, more often, however, over some tender turn of word or gesture that brings the smile that is not made of Jaughter at all. A charming, charm- : experience—that of spending an hour in the zarret of the charwoman with Mary and her mother. 5o ey THE Achmed Thief of Bagdad Brentano's. JT is not altogether as the critics in one way or another keep saying, that Achmed Abdullah knows his Orient. Not altogether, as they re- iterate, that he breathes out its at- mosphere from generations of blood affinity with the East. Not entirely because he is able to choose new and trange places—some remote corner of Persia, a secret retreat of Turkey, a stretch of Africa’s Mediterranean shore at its most picturesque points of historic implication. Not alone because, having chosen, he at once be- comes not so much an interpretation of the scene as an element of it, re- flecting Its physical features, its colors, its essence. He is not so much the mere teller of a tale, the critics say. Rather is he a partaker of the retion itself, embodying in his own nature the feelings and impulses of the group carrying on in this incident or in that event. This is, in sum, about what the critics say. And nobody wishes to gainsay them. It seems, however, SWINGING CARAVAN. By Abdullah, author of ‘“The *ete. New York: that the crowning point to this gen- | erally accepted view of the art of Achmed Abdullah is that. at the bot- tom of every action, there stirs a feeling, a motive, an impulse that is common to all human nature—not to the Oriental more than to the man of the West, not to one race or blood juore than te another. That's the wain point #m the artistry of this national | clutter | the ance | should | nd in- | man. In each of the stories grouped here there is this infallible foundation of human nature—of all human na- ture—that out of the fascination of its exotic setting homes the feelings and sciousness of every human ver he may be. East or West, les are equally at home despite their garments of either strange or familiar cut. X MY TOWER OF DESMOND. By S. R. Lysaght. New York: The Mac- millan Company PLAIN tale that carries with it little of, the whimsical turn of the Irish stoby teller. A picturesque story, nevertheless, whose center is the ruin of an Irish castle, the “tower of Desmond,” around which this chronicler weaves the playtime of his bovhood and from which he later ad- ventures forth into the serious busi- ness of an Irishman’s life—fighting against the English in rebbllions that were gloriously planned and usually ingloriously futile. Then, fighting in the Boer War, and in the Great War, and taking part in the Easter Rebel lion. When all other w fail, of course and to be sure. the Irish can fight one another. A fine and gallant race, nevertheles: obses d with its own ancient glory and with a passion for freedom. Not all fighting, story, nor in large part t In there are pictures, many and true the quiet life of the country and of the little villages roundabout the Des mond Tower. In telling his own story from boyhood on to a man’s work in |the world this author has given an unpretentiot count, a simple pic- ture of a historic corner of Ireland | both chronicle and picture of a con vincing and interesting quality. * ok %% RAHWEDIA: A True Romance of the | South Se: By C. Harold Smith. New York: D. Appleton & Co. "THE pure business of this drama is that of a boy sent out to New and to meet an uncle. Not long after, he became lost in the bush | where he went with some lumbermen. Finally finding his way t 1ori vil- age far inland, he remained there, learning the Maori speech and ways of Such is the foundation for a dramatic and beautiful story 1y tive people, whose superstitions, differ. | ent from our own, produced different | approaches from ours to the great of existence—family cus- | . laws of overn ment, rel i social dis tinctions moral pr s, The story takes a turn of romanc person of Rahwedia, a beauti | tive zirl, who became the friend 3 prote o of the alien. There is tr death in the story and the imperiled life of the white youth. and romance. coupled with a fund of | information about the Maoris of New | | Zealand, combine here under the art | | of good story telling to produce fresh and refreshing South Sea nove * * MYSTERY THE GOI By Wil N aile. | York: Doubleday, Page & Co. {'THIS week the mystery tale itself into hard knots over | dreams that so persistently linger | |uround the worked-out sold mine. | )1d is in real. | invariably, a v ¢ unready s y each adventurer bel that greater industry of search and a bet ter ingenuity of plan will vield to him that which has been so doggedly with | THE DA oF "0 New ties the | ve | more or les: Adventure | e {used to the sea, for those who know | | THE PUBLIC LIBRARY held from the less patlent, the less in- telligent, the less craft—the lesser man generally. Upon such general foundation this story of the wornout “Golconda” spreads itself against the Colorado background. In this small community, as elsewhere, the forces of good and evil line up against ench other. To the one belongs a fair, title o the mine, whatever its quality or 1o _quality may prove to be. To the other belongs nothing at all, save the outcome of unfair advantage, ingen ious intrigue and such other traits as o into tie makeup of the marauder and highwayman. The I more active than the forme lead here in ways that ar dark that murder is but an episode along the march to self-achievement and clear violation of the law but an incident of the day. An involved plot gives to this story a fervid ca: of advance, through which a love story makes ifs way in accordance with the surroundings in which it is set. The romance of love, however not so keen as the romance of cupidity—nor should it be. For, in substance, this is @ man story, wherein the rivalries of gain overto iny softer sentiment whatever. A rugged tale of the West when the search for gold was the sin- xle goal of all adventure A THE EDUCATION OF SALLIE MAY. Ry Fannie Kilbourne, author of “Dot and Will,” ete. ew York P. Put m’'s Sons FAIRY tale—Cinderella and the Prince. To be sure, Cinderella is as modern and well dressed as bare legs and bobbed hair and lipsticks can make And th rince 1s unious voung man of much bove ving his way the humble business of playing tutor to the gen- erally deep ignorance of youth. Di spite the denfal of these mere exter- nals the s is of the essence of that old 1l beloved story Sallie May, the stage ri of the mo. bove all else hrow, because of the from which her lover's looks down in_ disapproval the little actress. A pructical Sallie May promptly seeks out the young tutor and promptly hegins to to school to him-—so many aft- moons a_week. for s a lesson. That light, lauching ends just would ¢ o bit « learning to suce family upo: child, ittle » such M adventure t an adventu herself may erdone an_innocence prenatal state rather sophisti N way wise old still lie May is winsome alibi for the fapper re so clearly resembles. Inher- robable in plot, the little y sums, neverthele 1o an en- gaging to-do for a reade off half- hour With a writer of quick wit and easy speech. world connotes * % x TORMY PETREL wdall, author of Martin Connor pany. we land lub- . that too often the writer of sea tales falls into the notion tha he ¢ sea yarn out of plain seq and p—any sort of ship, going nowhere in particular on definite errand. Now that 1y be all right for readers who are By Oswald e Boston water nce what a trem ind stirring adventu puny ship up against gh y romantic s to put hro lous t exper FERGUSO ANOTHER V Governor, Probably Will S LIKELY TO DEMAND DICATION AT POLLS {Dan Moody, Attorney General, Urged to Run for is | Face Strong Opposition on the Part of Woman Executive. BY MARCELLUS E. FOSTER, Editor of the Houston Chro How en should an officeholder who 1 been assailed or whose in- tegrity has been questioned demand : vindication hy votes of the people? | | That is a question now agitating the | | people of Texas, due to the fact that | James E. Ferguson, husband of Gov. | Mirlam A. Ferguson, threatens either {to become a candidate himself or to another term of two y wife. Mrs. Ferguson was | the ~standard-bearer | Democrats in the Summer of 1924. | She was put forward by her husband | after the courts held that his name could not appear on tha ticket. He had been impeached while governor six yvears before and thrown out of | office. It was in the second Democr: primary that Mrs. Ferguson and hu {band Jim asked for a vindication. | They got it, alded greatly by the fact that the woman's opponent was known as a Klansman and was backed by the Klan. More than 330,000 Democrats rallied to her support. Men of State and national prominence t the stump in her beh: son herself made very few specches, but she gave forth many pre-election statements. In one of these she de- clared she wanted the office not only to help end the Klan or, intolerance but to restore the son name; that if the Democrats would put_her in office for two vears she would be satisfied and would not ask for a re-election. She was not only made governor in the most memorable campaign State's history but a Legi elected that passed drastic anti-K laws and that gave to James E. Fer- on a pardon, passing an amnesty bill that restored him to all his civil rights. We made a most unusual experi- ment in_government. We placed a woman in the State’s highest office. We chose for Governor the wife of a then discredited man, rather than of who represer tion thit erguson, a a_man ret organ this by givin, ind, James E. pardon. ' It was an asknowled; that either the previou act was wrong or that all his si been forgiven. verything went smoothly in State government under the woman's administration until Attorney General Moody began probing alleged fraudu- lent acts of the State’s Highway Com- mission. The cases filed brought forth the fact that James E. Ferguson, hus- band of the Governor, but holding no office himself, had sat with the High way Commission and frequently dic- tated its pol and its award of con- tracts, The attorney woman’s full ment general secured a verdict against one firm. which he claim ved some $600.000 for the State. Two members of the Highway Commission resigned, presumably on the demand governor’s husband < a State-wide demand attorney general become a candidate for governor. If he does, Gov. Ferguson or her husband, 'guson, threatens to run . They state they will demand another vindication; that they will go before the people and prove that the attorney general made his probe for political effect, and that, furthermore, the State has lost money rather than- saved it by the interference of the legal department. Tf this promise or threat comes true, it means that Texas again will be con- fronted with political turmoil. The only consolation is that the Klan has practically been eliminated. Both the Fergusons and the attorney general have fought that organization for the past four years, and It is no longer a factor in Texas politics. The attorney general following; Dan Moody Ferguson. tensive. has a great so have the Fergusons. a fighter; so is James E. Neither will take the de- (Copyright, 1926.) The streamline form, now univer- sally used by desigrers of submarines, racing automobiles and_airplanes, is not new, according to Prof. Edward W. Berry of Johns Hopkins Uni- versity. “The typical fish form, often called the streamiine form, does not imply that flowing water had anything to do with its origin,” says Prof. Ber: “As a dynamical problem of perfect- ing a shape which Would slip through | the water with least resistance and | without the production of eddies which are the chief factors in retard- ing progress, it is one that the fishes have solved even better than have the designers of torpedoes and submi- | rines.” ; Prof Berry takes issue with a widely accepted doctrine that fishes originated in fresh-water streams and had their bodies molded into shape Streamline Bodies of Fish Evolution Of Earliest Forms of Ocean Life by the water rushing over them, as they clung to rocks on the bottom. He points out that the same results would be obtained by moving fish in stationary water as by moving water flowing over stationary fish. He points out further that the older rocks of the earth's crusts which contain no fish remains, yield abundant fossils of earlier and more primitive animal families which unquestionably evolved in the sea and which had worked out the fishlike streamline form long be- fore there were any fishes. Full Blood Indian Priest. FFather Albert Negahnquet, an as- | sistant priest at St. Joseph's Roman Catholi¢ Cathedral in Oklahoma City, is the only full-blooded Indian priest in the world. to be a | Romance | of the governor or the| the might and majesty of the uncon- querable ocean. But, to the lands- man, there must be much more than this to satisfy him. “The Stormy Petrel” should have a clear and defi- nite job to de, a something that will take all of the Stormy Petrel and its crew, doing their uttermost, to achieve. ' And so it turns out. In a port on the northern shore of Russia there lies an American ship, illegally detained, to the financial detriment of its owners and to thelr resentful em- barrassment at such flagrant breach of sea-faring custom. It is the busi- ness of the Stormy Petrel and her crew to get that ship. They get it. The business of sea-going upon such an errand hecomes real to the reader, glving plausible pretext for every sort of conflict with Northern waters and the Northern climate, with crafty men hindering the enterprise, with the reso- lute heroism of the crew and the stanch conduct of the Petrel itself. A completely good story—dealing with human nature in the raw, with the sea in every mood, with the conquest of adverse circumstance and the tri- umph of the Petrel and her men. BOOKS RECEIVED RECOLLECTIONS OF A HAPPY LIFE. By Maurice Francis Egan. Introduction by Henry Van Dyke. Fifth Edition. New York: George 1. Doran Co. MATTER AND MIND. By W. F. F. Shearcroft. New York: The Mac- millan Co. 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Mr. Glover, president of the Cor- coran Gallery of Art, has purchased a water color by Benson B. Moore, entitled “Winter Morning,” and as Mr. Glover has in his private collec- tlon some very notable works of art. this purchase is a.substantial compli- ment to the painter. Also it may be noted, as {n similar veln, that Lona Miller Keplinger’s charming * Orange and Blue,” the principal fea- ture of which is a bowl of bright col- ored zinnlas, was purchased by Fred- erick H. Brooke, a local architect, who this year is himself an exhibitor. A visiting artist, who will later hold an exhibition in Washington, purchased John Taylor Arms’_exquisite etching, “From the Ponte Vecchio.” Among the other sales are Christopher Mur- phy, Jr’s, etching. ‘“Times Square, New York,” Alice S. Atche: Peasant Woman” and Chase's portrait study, “Mr. L. Some one, it fs understood, was on the verge of purchasing Tod Linden- muth’s “In Harbor,” when he discov- ered that it was a block print and not u water color, and so lost interest. The fuct is that a block print is essentially an original. The outline is cut by the artist, but the printing is his also, and for each print the block has to be re- colored; almost never are two the same. Mr. Brooke's charming Stream, Province of Quebe - nor M. Barnard's masterdy portrait studies are not for sale, therefore that they have not been purchased is understandable: but why Mr. Bourne's exquisite rendition of sunlight and shadow, “Oleanders”;, Eleanor Mot- ley's “Lillum Speciorum™ and a num- ber of other works shown, have not | found purchasers is a mystery in- deed. A new and welcome exhibitor this vear is Gabrielle Chandler (Mrs. Por- ter Chandler), who with her busband, took up residence in this city more | than a year ago. Her contributions | ~ a somewhat archaic rendering of | “The Crucifixion™ in the spirit of the | primitives, and a still life study show- | ing a green glass bottle and two drink- “Trout and ing glasses with a spray of green ivy against a yellow decorated back- ground. The transparency and glitter of the glass is well rendered. During the course of the exhibition ¢ inquiries are made of the mem- r of the club who is in charge of the sale of catalogues, Some are highly amusing. For, instance, a lady ser ously made induiry as to whether or not the frames, without the pictures, might be purchased, stating that she had many pictures at home and would like to buy some frames. A man this past week politely asked if any of the works on view were by modernists. | Being told that the exhibition was comparatively conservative, but that some of the exhibits were in the mod fle, he shook his head and all to him seemed perfect! sane; what he wanted to see was the work of cranks. He was evidently disappointed. A third visitor asked to be allowed to see the catalogue in order to find out where he was. From the number of pictures on view, he said, he took it for granted it was an | art gallery, but what art gallery he | was not Informed. It takes all kinds | to make a world. { The exhibition will remain on view through next Sunday, February 28. & e CLUDED in the centennial ex hibition of the National Academy | of Design was a portrait of Lincoln | by Douglas Volk, entitled *“With Malice Toward None.” This portrait was painted by N ter vear of study of s of Lincoln. of Lincoln's character, and of the bust which his father did of Lincoln. Tt has been declared by many one of the truest interpretations vet rendered, comparable with the Satint-Gaudens statues now in Chicago. This portrait will again be exhibited the Corcoran Gallery of Art th week, having been placed on view there yesterday as a loan from the | artist and the American Federation of Arts in order that it might be seen by the superintendents of schools throughout the country, who will be in convention here the first part of this week. This picture is to be cir- culated in cities throughout the coun- try by the American Federation of Arts because of its artistic merit and with patriotic intent. Tt will be espe- | cially brought to the attention of | school children. The story of the painting is as follows In 1860 Leonard W. Volk, sculptor, modeled 4 bust of Lincoln. Douglas Volk. being at that time a child of 4 in | when he bore on his shoulders and on years, has but hazy remembrances of Lincoln’s presence in his father's stu- dlo, but does recall an occasion when he sat on Lincoln’s knee during one of the poses. His memories of a later date, however, are most vivid, when, for instance, he marched in a proces! sion of school children to view the hody of the martyred President lying in state. Mr. Volk's father also made a lite mask of Lincoln, the life mask | which is now among the treasures of our Smithsonian Institution. He also niade a cast of Lincoln's hands. Of all of these Mr. Volk has made careful study. He has painted and repainted the portrait, until now it would seem to most nearly reach his ideal. An- other rendition of the same subject is | owned by the Albright Gallery, Buf-| falo. | It is a sad picture, but essentially spiritual. It shows Lincoln in pro- found contemplation; it shows him as essentially human, and yet apart, his heart a warring Nation, the great problems of civilization, thé problems of a_ struggling world. Some may say, How is it possible for a painter to produce a true portrait of one who is no longer living? It is undoubtedly most difficult, but it &hould be remem- bered that almost all of our great sculptural portraits were so pro- duced, and what is possible in sculp- ture should be even more possible in paint. Among Mr. Volk's other most nota- ble works are his portrait of Dr. Felix Adler, owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and his portraits of King Albert of Belgium, Lloyd George and Gen. Pershing, in the war portrait collection in the Natlonal Museum. * %o THE paintings by members of Taos school now on view at the Arts Club, 2017 T street, are for the most part small canvases, representative of the work of each painter, but far less impress than examples by these | same artists included in the Corcoran Gallery's biennial exhibitions i5. Martin Hennings' landscapes are particularly interesting. Several fea- ture especially the golden cotton- woods indigenous to Taos and the country thereabouts. One of these | paintings, entitled “Beslde the Can- | on Stream,” shows a group of the vellow trees thrown Into sharp relief aganist a dark background, the can- yon's wall. Two of Mr. Hennings paintings—and very charming ones | | VETERANS OPEN RUSH TO RENEW WAR RISK INSURANCE POLICIES| More Than Million Dollars’ Worth Written in Month | at Washington District Office as Deadline Rapidly Approaches. A marked rush veterans to renew their wartime in- surance is reported by local officers of the Veterans’ Bureau. The appli- cation and inquiries during the last few weeks are said to approach in numbers the mass of activity in the field in the days just after the close of the war, and re from veterans who want to take advantage of their insurance opportunit before the limiting date set by Congress. More than a million dollars’ worth of insurance was rewritten or convert- ed during January through the Wash. ington offic the bureau alone, and figures for February are expected to greatly exceed that amount. The reason for this activity lies in the faect that veterans have been notified that the present laws governing Federal wartime insurance require reinstate- ment and conversion from term to old line policies before Jul: and many veterans hurrying to protect privileges. “It is surprising and very pleas to note the amount of insurance bus ness that is flowing into this office daily,” said Col. M. B. MacMillan. manager of the Washington regional office. “Recent figures indicate that an verage of 50 or more letters a da have been received in this office alon from points all over the country, in addition to the amount of protection that has been written on persons who have come in personally, and in addi- tion to insurance being written by other offices. These letters come from men and women in all walks of life and the work of our insurance person- nel is back to proportions approxi- mating the activities immediately after the war.” Response to Broadcasting. A large number of inquiries from other parts of the country have come to the Washington office through the Navy and postal service, Postmaster General New having broadcast a notice on the early closing date of term insurance through the postal publicaitons and a similar notice having been sent out through the Navy Department. The letters com- ing from these services are from postmasters and -admirals, as well as mail clerks and gobs. This load is expected to increase be- tween now and July. Some effort has been made on the part of the bureau to broadcast information to former service men so as to protect them in their rights, and both the daily and magazine press of the country have made extensive effort to carry this information to the veterans concerned. One article broadcast by the American_Legion through the State of West Virginia called attention of members of that body to the advan- tages that would accrue to the com- munities in their State through the protection of otherwise dependent widows and orphans, in addition to the potential fortune that would be brought into the State from a com- mercial point of view, if all veterans would renew and continue their Gov- ernment insurance, Provisions for Renewals. Officials at the Veterans’ Bureau stated yesterday that the provisions covering the renewal of Federal in- surance that has lapsed are as fol- lows: The veteran must be in good health, according to the affidavits of private physicians or of a Veterans' Bureau examiner at the time of appli- cation, and he must pay the premium covering the month of grace allowed by the Government at the time the in- surance was lapsed, in addition to the premium for the month in which it is desired to renew the insurance. Vet- erans who have suffered a disability affecting their insurability since date of lapse are not eligible for reinstate- ment except in the case of those where the disabllity is the result of World War service and where the period of lapse has not exceeded two years. Such insurance may be re- newed by the payment of all inter- vening premiums with interest at 5 per cent per annum, compounded from the date the premiums were due. The present situation respecting in- surance renewals and conversions on the part of are apparent their insurance | private companies, ‘was explained by officials as being due to an act of Congress which extended the date for term insurance, such as carried by the soldiers during the o low | This insurar term rate may be 192 at the very arried until Jul . or a veteran avho has let his nce drop since the war may re- instate before the sume date. The purpose of Congress in granting this extended period was to allow time for | a number of men who had been in the service to re-establish themselves eco- nomically o that they could afford the more “ive types of insurance. The (Government’s term po origi nally was intended, as it is in most t + purely tempo- rary insurance protection. Policies After July. After July there will be no more term policies issued by the Govern- ment. The Veterans' Bureau will, however, offer to all men who carried insurance during the service the fol- lowing types of policies, providing the veteran has by that time reinstated or converted his term policy to. one of them: Twenty-payment life; y ment life; 20-vear endowment; endowment; endowment at the age of in- ximum insurance which an: ¥ take out is $10,000 and ever s limited to the amount of insur- | arried while he was in the | so that a man who carried only $5,000 during the war out of the $10,000 allowed at that time will now be allowed to take not to exceed $5.000 worth in spite of the total limitation of $10,000. Government insurance makes no re- striction as to residence, travel, age, occupation or military or naval serv- ice. Tt is exempt from all taxation and is not subject to the claims of creditors of the insured or of any beneficiary. It may be made payable to a husband, wife, child, grandchild, parent, one who has stood in the place of a parent, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, nephew, niece, brother-in-law or sister-in-law of the insured. Premiums are payvable annually, semi-annually, quarterly or monthly, and the proceeds of the policy may be paid to the beneficlary in a lump sum, in 36 equal installments or in_ 240 equal installments at the option of the insured. Insurance may be renewed or con- verted at any office of the United States Veterans' Bureau up to and in- cluding July 2, 1926, and rates and free medical examination will be fur- nished all applicants at such offices. A Spain Tries to Revive Its O1d Silk Industry Young Alfonso, prince of Asturias, has placed himself at the head of a movement to revive the old silk- weaving industry. which once was one of the artistic glories of Spain, but is now in parlous condition. Not only are noblemen who own large es- tates on which mulberry trees grow helping the prince by erecting fac- tories, but the industry is being re- organized as a home occupation for peasants on a co-operative system. Worm seed is distributed with in- structions how to obtain the cocoons, and laboratories for scientific work in connection with insect pests and for testing are being organized in the silk-worm growing districts. There is a ready market in Europe for the raw spun silk, but the prince aims far higher; at nothing else,, indeed, than the production of such rich tex- tures as once made Valencla and Talavera famous. Namé Changingr Fad. Sweeping the Unlon of Soviet Social- ist Republics is a fad for changing names of countries, cities, villages and individuals. After every political leader is named at least one commun- ity—those whose former names were Romanov. Now Moscow is changing the names of 80 streets which had the names of former ‘bourgeois citizens. In Leningrad an enthustast whose name was Tkonikov—compounded from the religious ikon—had it changed to Tovarish (Comrade) Rem, formed from the first letters of the Russian words meaning revolution, electricity and peace—the three steps in the communist program for Russia. |of 12 hours on one charge of fuel— |increase the cruising radfus |ers what the new Small, Perfect Plane. Sought by Air Service | For Needs of Future (Continued from Page.) so is an unsettled question. There | are those officers in the service who | like only one motor. The bi-motored | ship, unless embodving inherent qual- ities to enable it to fly on one motor. | is not popular. Three engines so ar- | ranged aerodynamically that the plane will fly on any two or any one also are popular since the Fokker DVII, of the type going to the polar regions on the Capt. George H. Wilkins e pedition, put in appearance. The Air Service, it may be stated authoritatively, is considering the use of the Fokker DVII as a “light” bomber. Also it is considering a big single-motored “job” built by Huff- Daland, which already is fiying under | Air Service co-cards. Further, it h before it a new homber by n L. | Martin, designer of the present two motored Martin bomber, which car- | ried 2.000-pound bombs that sunk battleships off the Capes in 1921 and 1923. The new Martin “job” will carry air-cooled motors, reducing the weight now carried in the two Liber- ties. Although the Huff-Daland bomber, fitted with a Packard 2.500A 830-horsepower motor, was designed originally for a 4.000-pound bomb, the Alr Service contemplates using a bomb half this weight and carryving the remaining 2,000 pounds in fuel to Time is_valuable, but so bomber. into production for two vea is authoritatively stated that once it does, it will be to the present bomb- pursult and ob- servation ships are to the war and post-war developments. . Judges in Russia. Of 2,600 judges on the bench in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1,416 are peasants and 882 are work- men, according to data furnished by the people's commissariat of justic Among 1,400 judges of instruction, 6: are peasants and 292 are workmen. Eighty-threo per cent are members of the Communist party, candidates for membership or members of the komsomol (proselytes for membership under 24 years of age). Presumably the other 791 judges are of the intel- ligenzia. Only 112 women are in re- sponsible positions —not _on the bench—in the judiclary establishment. Trensisted sute Eight Langmegses WILD GEESE By MARTHA OSTENSO £200ai beskutors. DODD, MEAD & CO. :—'.u—u— "1...,. BARTS torkd sy o ook Wt the Batle of [ e i toric falt. . . of the grestes Aissorical romences o f recemy yeass. Py = COKESBURY PRESS, Nashvills, Tonn. | by | Metropolttan Museum of associations or s they are, moreover—"On the Indian Reservation” and “Toward the Sun,” are priced at only $125, an excep- tional opportunity for a discriminating purchaser. Mr. Berninghaus is at his best, per haps, in “Indians Playing Base Ball- Taos,” a typical theme rendered ir his characteristic style. This is not to say, however, that his other con tributions are without interest, W. Herbert Dunt up patot ing for a time to out-of-doors and in the saddle. His picture of “The Deer Hunter's Camp” is reminiscer- of this experienc Miss Critcher of this who § member of the Tuos colony, the onl: woman memmbe: vo adinirable portrait sketches of ans. The Corcoran Galler Art, it will be remembered, purchased one of Miss Critcher’s Indiun portraits two year ago. oy ANNE GOLDWAITE'S etch n numter, hang in the library at_the club. They show variety in subject and evid something more than competency on the etcher's part genuine gift. In the room downstairs a collection of 39 small | ored chalk drawings. substa dered Mrs, Margaret Florida. to be seen ires, co! 1y rer Fish o * ko T the Kraushaar Galleries, York, 680 Fifth avenue, are no be seen portraits by Augustus Vin Tack of Duncan Phillips of this city Charles B. Rogers and the Honorable Elihu Root. Mr. Phillips’ a recent work. The portri Root is owned Ly the Phil morial Gallery and was generously to the American exhit Venice in 1924, under the American Fede) * % URING the vear 1325 more thar $16.000.000 was given to the cause of art, either as cash gifts or in build ings. works of art and other property. Among these was over $1,000,000 given John D. Rockfleeller, ir., to the f Art, in addt ion to the funds necessary to pur chase the Barnard Cloisters; a pre liminary gift of €3.000,009 from Mr. and Mrs. Simon Gug reim to endow 50 fellowships fc in the arts and prot in various bequest seum of Art by the ward D. Libbey his lifetime. given by th ation to other institut uction in the arts. This, of course, does not include the Munsey bequest of apy imately $40,000,000 to the Metropo! Museum, which was announced since 192 This statement is made in “The Year in Art.,” Volume XXII, of the An 1 can Art Annual, wh just pub lished. Testi to spread o interest in throughout book notes that eack the Union possesses seums or galleries of : except Nevada has one or more cieties. All the except Arizona, Wyoming and Nevada have each at least or 00l of art This is an amazing record when it is recalled that prior to 1825 the only pretense to art schools were those feeble beginn s in New York Philadelphia, and half & centur only two important schools exis * % ) THE Baitimore Water Color C opened its thirt 1 ext tion in the Baltimo the late I and during A $360.000 the {on February 16, to cor 21—an excellent si more Museum there o 10 be seer at this time a collection of 50 print of the year, circulated under the a pices of the Society of Graphic Ari of New York and representing the works of traditionalists and modern ists, the former selected by Ernest 1) Roth, the latter by Ralph M. Pearson On Exhibition Etchings and Water Colors B Frank W. Benson Gordon Dunthorne 1205 Connecticut Avenue w is 2 OF SPRING - By SYLUIA THOMPSON A moving and in- tensely dramatic story in which the loss of her fiancé in the War so hurts a young girl ;hat she is unable to ace things squarely. Her loveless mar- riage and its unfore- seen consequences make this a splendid story of human de- sires and defeats and victories. A. Hamilton Gibbs, author of SOUNDINGS, calls it “Big with feeling and and most written. The Four printings ore publication! $2.00 at All Booksellers LITTLE. BROWN & CO..Pablishers.Boston