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THE 'SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JUNE 13, 1926—PART 2 REVIEWS OF THE NEW BOOKS ’Rlchard Washburn Child Takes Up the Subject of Criminals'in America—A Travel Tale—Novels by Phillpotts, ' Johnson and Terhune. IDA GILBERT MYERS. BATTLING THE CRIMINAL. By Richard Washburn Child, auther of “Potential Russia New York: Doubleday, Page & Co. ({4 r to Italy, by virtue of this office came into close touch with the other countries of Europe. And, no doubt, this com- mon comment upon his country from European observers shocked the Am- bassador. It is a shock to us, too, re- minding us not fatteringly of our own bearing of regret and superiority toward the countries south of us at the rapid rise of “liberators,” the, swift_shifts of government, the la less disregard of life and property in those arters. That we, so proud and stable and law-minding, sheuld be classed with the more temperamen- t4l peoples of the Western Hem- isphere is certainly untrue and un- fair. Upon his return to America Child became a member of the tional Crime Commission. Stirred the foreign comment against us, he began a thorough investigation of our crime record. Appalling, even in cool statement. This discovery led the commissioner to study the causes of erime in thi and from this point to look into possible remedies for the deplorable situation. The book in hand gives the results of this investigation. The first out- standing fact is that Europe is right. The United States is the criminal's paradise. The causes for this are many. The supreme cause, the one standing at the head of the list, the one most general in application, is the practical*doing away with the home in so large a part of this coun- try. We are coming to be a race of nomads. Our roots have no soil. Set here today, ‘transplanted the tomol row. Prosperity with its easemen the automobile, labor-saving devices, the craze for pleasure. These are the undermining influences of the home, with its duties and obligations. There are other cau: For instance, our mixed population, with its old ideals, refusing to assimilate with the Amer- fcan purpose and plan. But all of these combined fail to balance the growing disregard of the home. Next to this in importance is the general attitude toward the lawbreaker. The attitude of the courts on the one hand, the attitude of sentimental cit- izens on the other. Mr. Child be- lieves in punishing the criminal. He believes in a sturdy pursuit of this program of punishment. It's the only way, according to him. to put the fear of God and man into the heart of the lawbreaker. You will find this a very robust treatment of the situatioh before all of us. Behind its concluston is a great body of signflicant investigation into crime and its causes. that takes effect in the individual and into crime that is organized and pro- moted as any other busihess is or- ganized. You will find here little dramas at whose center is this boy or that one, gone wrong with a zeal and an intelligence worthy of some fine career as an honest and useful citizen. The book has more than one of these concrete and objective points in a plain record of less dramatic appeal. Mr. Child knows and declares that the American pepole when wakened . to the sense of a great issue can be | depended upon to act. promptly, unitedly. efliciently. The time has come for them to see and to think and to get together in a matter from which no one of them has a warraht of security for his own family, his own property, for the family and property of his neighbor. for the soundness and health of his own country A book of clear statement, right feeling, sound advice, deep concern— 8 book, too, filled with the informa- tion that we heed to see at once in its rounded content, in its appalling sig nificance. 2 At THE BLIND GODDESS. By Arthur Tr author of “His Children’s etc. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. N the otherwise bare walls of the Criminal Court of New York City hangs the picture of a heroic female figure—Justice. The undisturbed dust and grime and smoke of man: have obscured it to a dim and slowly vanishing point of visability. This pic- ture stands as the symbol of justice in Arthur Train's latest dramatization of the ways of justice in the procedure of criminal trials. The hero of this modern story is an ardent young lawyer hent to the business of demon- strating that justice does exist and that his own profession is its oracle, A single case projects the lone fight wherein this quixotic young man ks to vindicate the integrity of the linded woman whose picture hangs ahove him and at the same time uncover the chic vy that di- vects %o much of legal tactic and clice. A romance goes along with the main body of this pursuit. Perhaps a touch of melodrama follows the love story. However, on the side of ex- position and exposure “The Blind Goddess” is indubi but one of a thousand actual cases coming under the eve of Arthur Train himself, but the ma odes that make against ice and fair s of this story is I doubt. Its hero is calculated to win the interest of those who on the one hand are out for fair dealing and on the other glory in the lone fight and the ulti- mate winning. * % % x GEORGE WESTOVER Phillpotts, author of nah,” etc. New Yo millan Company. AFTER 30 novels of clear painstak- ing expended in great part upon the body and soul of Cornwall, after many years of penetrating and punc- tilious interpretation of hand's. breadth of English soil. Kden Phill- potts is beginning to ease up to the mere telling of a story. Here we have the Victorian period and within it George Westover, its principal figure, quite capable at the age of 80 of sus- taining a full novel length of lusty activity and a still potent interest to readers of this old conservative. To Westover, Gludstone was a radical, if not an actual red. And the old Tory stormed in the full-blooded English way at the dangerous encroachments upon the integrity of the nation by this hot-head of the new d: ‘The story is engagingly useful at ‘this polnt in its humorous recognition of the change of times and the changed points of view. The radical today, the conservative of tomorrow—a polit- fcal fact as substantial at the moment 8s it ever has been in the past. s proceeds on its interest. ing way with the robust George West- over driving. Around him is a family wholly devoted to the father and ge- nially engaged in keeping him within the bounds of a fair economy and a reasonable generosity. Much absorbed in selecting proper husbands for his daughters—safe and sane voung men —Westover himself is stung by the matrimonial bee and at the tender age 2 80 takes to himself a fourth con- L By Hden Orphan D : The Mac- Into crime | sort. A hale and lusty young man whom it is good to know and upon whom Eden Phillpotts expends the vitalizing arts that he has been prac- | ticing in literature for many years now. * x k¥ THE LAND OF POCO TIEMPO. By Charles F. Lummis. ed. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. "THE geography names it New Mex- ico. The enthusiasm of this travel- er, however, refects the official chris- tening for “poco tiempo,” the home of “Pretty Soon.” Here “the opiate sun soothes to rest, the adobe is made to-lean against, the hush of day-long noon would not be broken. Let us not hasten—manana will do.” Such is the keynote of this region, whose “present is a husk—the past a ro- mance and a glory.” Wandering through this land of exotic natural teatures, peopled with the ghosts of native and cohqueror and royal adven- turer, strewn with the fragments of a civilization older than any of these represents, this writer in a mood of high exaltation and eager absorption makes pictures and sets down facts and substantiates old theories of this strange corner of our great Common- wealth. Keen enthusiasm, never flag- ging, is the spirit of this exploration, as it is also the spirit aroused in the reader by the warmth of its own flame. A travel book combining in rare measure the substance of sound in- formation with the beckoning lure of story and legend and faded custom. A beautiful travel book—story and picture and fact woven into an amaz- ing pattern of interest that is spread for us right within our own domain. * By Ade- Boston: LODGERS IN LONDON. laide Eden Phillpotts. Little, Brown & Co. XD why shouldn't Adelaide Eden Phillptots possess the gift of story. of poetry, of play-making? Her father has all of these, though we know him best by the Cornwall which in every appearance and mood he has re-created over and over again. This is & young college woman with a bent toward sociology and a gift for turn- ing problems of the people into storles that are more revealing than problems can ever hope to be. A young war worker; then, the war over, back to studying and writing just folks. This book is drawn from the Bloomsbury district in London, but it might have come from any other region of board- Ing houses the Anglo-Saxon world around. Here are the ones that we all know—those curiously assorted groups that gather into lodgings—a singer or a dancer, a student, a voung cleric, a painter of pictures, a clerk, this stolid woman, that vixenish one. They are all here, and to each this writer gi the intelligent and impassioned devo. { tion that her father gives to his liter- |ary work. Here, just as in all the | boarding houses of the world, little | romances flicker and fade, equally un- | der consummation or frustration. For these are bits of life, true and com- municable, that are recognizable everywhere—work that inspires re- spect and admiration for its sincerity and its vision. ; * k X * RELATIONS. By Sir Harry John thor_of “The Gay Dom- New York: Harper & Johnston's ro- mances are densely populated, This one s no exception. Crowds of people come and go in “Relations.” This author is, however, a master | hand at clean outline and exact defini- tion. Therefore, each of the many in- dividuals moving about here gives the effect of a distinct personality—ap- { pearance, temperament, interest and occupation all his own. The center of coherence is Rupert Cuthbertson, who in 1900 went from England to Aus- tralia, where the bulk of the action here involved takes place. To be sure, there is enough of the England which he left behind incorporated in the run of the romance to provide contrast be- | tween the political and social life of the old country and the new. Aus- tralia, nevertheless, is the main set- | ting, and with this the author shows in graphic and masterful manner the features of the rich young country in its effect upon the group surrounding the outstanding character. A of Englishmen appear to naturally toward Rupert Cuthbertson. He, growing prosperous and powerful in|the new land, becomes the trans- planted Englishman at his very ex- cellent best. An easy writer, Sir Hairy John- ston, with an amazing capital of ex- perience upon which to draw. Ex- plorer, naturalist, philosopher, artist and adventurer—he touches this story at one or ¢ points with all of these prepossessions and professions. Nat- urally, then, this should be a rich and an interesting one. It Is r Harry * ok ok ¥ TREASURE. By Albert Payson Ter- hune, author of “The Heart of a Dog.” etc. New York: Harper & Bros. NO other sort of story surpasses the good dog story. And no other writer on® this beautiful theme sur- ! passes Arthur Payson Terhune. Once or twice Mr. Terhune has fallen down on this job by killing off, unnecessa- a creature that never should meet ate in a story; bad enough to | it _happen in reality—inexcus- able in fiction, no matter how clearly the logic of the case may demand it. However, he has offended but once in this direction, or at the moststwice. A big, golden-red collie, Mars, here plays a subordinate but most efficient part in a treasure hunt up in northern New Jersey, where, so an old record from Revolutionary days declares, a huge pay chest of gold was seized from the British and_hidden till an oppor- tune time came for its refinding. That time did not come. In its stead cur- rent rumor passed slowly into legend and legend into myth. But around these parts there was, according to | Mr. Terhune, a strange racial blend i of Hessian and negro and Indian that, [ slowly receding before settlement, be- came the mountaineers of that region. Among them the treasure story hever grew dim. Its discovery became the sole interest of their workless days. Such is the foundation of the romance in which a fine young man of the low- lands and a nice girl of the neighbor- hood become the center of a plot whose object is the finding of the treasure and whose course is a highly exciting one. Within it there is a perfectly gorgeous fight—two fights, in fact, one between the hero and a mountain ruffian, the other between Mars and llhree black mongrels. The girl her- self is a good deal of a heroine, hold- ing up her end in courage and in- genuity and finesse. A swift and pic- | turesque romance that imparts to | work-a-day northern New Jersey old flavors that are most engaging. BOOKS RECEIVED DAVY “‘L‘VKLE IN CIRCUSLAND. By Edwin P. Norwood. INustrated by A. Conway Peyton. Boston: Redfield. Boston:: Houghton Mif- flin Co. y PRACTICAL SOGIAL SCIENCE; A Laboratory Texitbook. By Johu A. Lapp, LL.D., author of “Our Amer- ica,” etc. New York: Tthe Macmil- lan Company. THE ADVENTURKES OF DON QUI- XOTE. Translated and Abridged by Dominick Daly. Wih Fight Illustrations in_Color by Sfephen Baghot de la Bere. New York: The Macmillan Company. HIGH COUNTRY; The Rocljies Yes- terday and Today. By Courtney Ryley Cooper. Illustrated. Bos- ton: Little, Brown & Co. THE CHILD ON HIS KNEES. By Mary Dixon Thayer. New York: ‘The Macmillan Company. A CASUAL COMMENTARY. By Rose Macaulay. New York: Bont.& Live- right. DOWNEY OF THE MOUNTED. By James B. Hendryx, author of “The Promise,” ®tc. New York: G. P., Putnam’s Sons. SHERWOOD ANDERSON'S BOOK. right. THE PAINTED STALLION. G. Evarts. & Co. COUNT BRUGA. By Ben Hecht. New York: Boni & Liveright. PEMROSE LORRY, TORCHBBAR- ER. By Isabel Hornibrook. Illus. trated by Nava Bickford Rbollins. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. ADVERTISING; Its Problems and Methods. By John H. Cover. Wth a Chapter on Market Analysis by Percival White. Illustrated. New York: D. Appleton & Co. MARY CHRISTMAS." By Mary Ellan Chase. Frontispiece by Maurice Boston: Little, Brown & Co. SOME ROAD; Six Plays for the Negro Theater. By Paul Green. Introduction by Barrett H. Clark. New York: Robert M. McBride & Co. THE_DEVELOPMENT. AND THE PRESENT STATUS OF TION IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. By Rev. Vincent R. Catapang, M. A.. Ph. D., Ped. D. etc. Boston: The Stratford Co. A BRAZLIAN TENEMENT. By Alui- zio Azevedo. Translated from the Portuguese by Harry W. Brown. New York: Robert M. McBride & Co. THE T By Hyman Cohen. New York: Robert M. Mc- Bride & Co. THE NURSERY MAID OF HEAV- EN; And Other Plays. By Thomas Wood Stevens, Head of the Drama Department, The Art Institute of Chicago. New York: D. Appleton « NOTE- New York: Boni & Live- By Hal Boston: Little, Brown NTS OF JACOB. COPY, 1926; Stories, Plays. Poems and Selected by Blanche Col- lliams, Kenyon Licholson, Thomas Kennedy, Roger Loom! Shirley Long and Dorothy Sca znrnugh. New York: D. Appleton x Co. THE PUBLIC LIBRARY Recent accessions at the Public Li- brary and lists of recommended read- ing will appear in this column each Sunday. TRAVEL AND DESCRIPTION. Voyages and Travels. Amundsen, R. E. G. Our Polar Flight. Gl4-Am3io. Asquith, Mrs. M. T. Places and Per- sons. G12-As6. Canfield, Mrs. F. A. C. Around the ‘World at Eighty. G13-Cl64. Cornish, Vaughan. The Great Cap- itals. 1923. G-4CS1. Dixon, G. C. From Melbourne to Mos- cow. G12-Dé4f. Halliburton, Richard. Road to Romance. Huxley, A. L. H988, ren, Jack. My Crowded Solitude. 1-M223m. Monckton, . A. W. Guinea. 1922, The G12-HI5. Along tke Road. Royal G12- Taming New G20-M743t. North and South America. Aikman, Duncan, ed. The Taming of the Frontier. G89-Ald. The Automobile Club of America. The Assoclated Tours Guide, 1925. G83 Ausé. i Let's Go to Florida. . B. and Gummere, H. Byways and Boulevardg in and About Historle Philadelphia. G854 V. P-B73. Brown, L. M. A. R. Lady. Unkrown Tribes, Uncharted Seas. 1924. G961-BS1. Carpenter E. B. South County Studies of Some Eighteenth Century Per- sons. G845-C22. Dayton, H. 8. and Barratt, L. B. New York in Seven Days. G851N-D337. Elder, D. P., comp. Californta the Beautifal. 1911. G941-El2. Florida, Old and New. G812-GF6. Foster, H. L. A Tropical Tramp with the Tourlsts. G98-F814t. Freeman, L. R. On the Roof of the Rockles. G82-F874o. Gerould, Mrs, K. F. The Aristocratic West. G90-G31. Gillette. Edward. Locating the Iron Trail. G89.G4131. Inman, S. G. South America Today. G96-Inés. James, Will. The Drifting Cowboy. G89-J235d. McFee, William. Sunlight Granada. G982-Mi63s. Motor Trips, 1925. Ref. G83-M718. Quinn, Vernon. Beautiful Canada. G82-Q4. Rider, A. F. G941-R43. Roosevelt Memorial Association, Inc. Plan and Design for the Roosevell Memorial. Ref. tG859W-R678. Saltus, J. S. and Tisne, W. E. Statues of New York. 1923. G851N-Sa38. Stockbridge, F. P. and Perry, J. H. Florida fn the Making. G872-St6. Underwood, J. J. "Alaska. G945-Un32. Washington National Monument So- clety, Washington, D. C. Review of the Report of the Board of U. 8. Army Engineers. 1877. 1G859W- W213r. Wright, Mrs. M. O. My New York. G851 N-W93m. in New ed. California. Ref. Europe. Black, Adam and Charles, Pubs. Edin- burgh. Guide to Scotland. Ref. 1903. G43-B56. Brigham, G. R. Red Letter Days in Europe. G30-B764r. Clinton-Baddeley, V. G45De-C61. Fox, Ralph. People of the Steppes. G54-F83p. Frank, W. D. Virgin Spain. G40- F847v. Gul(l:m;{l&Hardy, G. M. Norway. G51- Graham, Stephen. The Dividing Line of Europe. G54-G763d. Holland, Clive. Flanders & Hainault. G468-HT716f. Huddleston, Sisley. France and the French. G39-H863f. C. Devon. Little, Brown & Co. DEPENDENT AMERICA; A Study of the Economic Bases of Our Inter- national Relations. By William Hutton, Edward. The Cities of Ro- magna and the Marches. G35- H978¢c. C.!Laughlin, C. E. So You're, Golng to P AROUND THE CITY BY NANNIE STREET car ride along the Avenue the other morning provided one brain-fagged wom- an with a pinny-show that was worth the token it cost. The program was opened by two frankly sere and yellow ladies across the aisle who voiced per- sonally intimate matters about like this: The one in black spotted voile broadcast the fact that she had packed away nand down' christening _robe, her first doll, her first party dress and her wedding gown. The one in all-black with eye glasses anchored to her gray knob by & gold chain and hairpin, paid tribute to the interesting heiriooms-to- be, and then confessed that she had been baptized in an embroidered slip that was made for a baby cousin, that she never remembered having a doll, never went to a real party and, of course, no old maid had use for a wedding gown—- “You poor old dear! anything, did you?" The poor old dear registered opti- mistic faith. “Well, no. But I have reasonable expectations of a shroud.” Out on the asphalt an anclent colored man was holding up a jam of automobiles while he picked up six lembns that had broken through a bag.' Age means rickety points and that means .slow and cumbersome stooping, but no man at any wheel displayed impatience. They just wait- ed until the crop was gathered. Add chauffeurs to the angel class! At’Seventh street an oldish man and woman who had been seated together, had to part. As the woman got up to join the shopping crowd that was filing out, she leaned over the man, put her hand on his shoulder and kipsed him in the mouth. The old man responded, and the two beamed at each other as she walted on the platform until the car moved on. There were apparently no pessimists or over-humorous passengers aboard, for the exchange of affection caught the very real attention and under. standing of those who looked on. They seemed to accept the incident a a_ natural manifestation of the lov of two people who had traveled the Great Road together for many years,- and hoped to keep step until the end. On the green that ripples up to the white glory of the District Building, there stood a white memorial cross with the red of popples at its base. There were many people passing along the street or curving around the asphalt paths that led to the build- ing's entrance, but for one woman, there might have been around her the tragic =ilence of “somewhere in France'—so devoutly did she kneel before the one symbol that is greater than country or flag. Her brown face was lowered In humble prayer and her brown hands were crossed on her breast. And all who saw her seemed to understand. You never had A woman held memorial flowers— a wreath of bronze leaves and fleld daisies. The man with her considered the design inappropriate. And told her so—and everybody else around who cared to listen: “What does Jim want with weeds on him? A boy who had graduated from an agricultural college so as to be a good farmer, if he hadn't been called on to be a good soldier, could give you a dozen plans for killing off daisies—You oughter have got t—every farmer There seems little kinship between the waving yellow of truly a harvest fleld and a gilded sheaf mounted on tinfoll, which is the funeral concep- tion of the bread of life, but—senti- ment is worth a whole heap. The woman must have accepted her lack of judgment for she said with nervous alertness: “I can go right back and change it if that's the way vou feel. The store won't mind.” But the man shook his head, ad- ministered a small dab of forgiveness on her near arm and—doubtless, *Jim" was entirely satisfled—if he knew about it. * ¥ ok ¥ JFEATURE stories about beggars who live in gilded apartments, and fake blind men whose chaffeurs whizz them home in limousines have taught us to. disregard. the average England! G45-L364s. Lock, H. O. Dorset. G45Do-L78. C E. V.. Introducing London. G45L-1.9621. . Maria, Queen of Roumania. The Country That I Love. G595-M33. Muirhead, Findlay. ed. Southern Italy. Ref. (G35-MB894: P Muirhead, Findlay. and Monmarche, Marcel, eds. Belgium. 1924. Ref. G468-M894. Muirhead, J. F. American Shrines on English Soll. G45-M895. Wilson, R. F. Paris on Parade. G39P- W696p. Asia. American Academy of Political and Socla] Science, Philadelphia. The Far East. G60-Am37. Ayscough, Mrs. Florence. A Chinese Mirror. G66-AyS. Buxton, L. H. D. The Eastern Road. 1924. G60-B98Se. Carpenter, F. G. Japan and Korea. G67-C22. Collins, Gilbert. Far Eastern Jaunts. 1924. G67-C696f. Couperus, Louis. 1 G684-C83.E. Doughty, C. M. Wanderings in Arabia. 2 v. G62-D74w. Enders, E. C. Temple Bells and Silver Sails. G66-En27t. Hedin, S. A. My Life as an Explorer. G60-H353.E. Hovelaque, E. L. China. 1923. G66- Eastward. 1924, HB2.E. Huntington, Ellsworth. West of the Pacific. G60-HI26w. Norton, E. F. The Fight for Eyerest. G6913-N82. - Ronaldshay, L. J. L. D. Earl of. The Heart of Aryavarta. G69-R665h: Tharaud, Jerome and Jean. Next Year in Jerusalem. G61J-T32.E. Thomas, L. J. Beyond Khyber Pass. G639-T36. Thompson, Mrs. G. Lady Saheb. G89-T376. . ‘Ward, F. K. The Mystery Rivers of Tibet. 1923. G664-W2lm. Africa. Brown, J. T. Among the Bantu No- mads. G742-B81. Forbes, Mrs. R. T. From Red Sea to Blue Nile. G726-F74. Perkins, Mrs. E. B. A Red Carpet on the Sahara. GT8-P41. Powell, E. A. The Map That Is Half Unrolled. G73-P873m. Trowbridge, W. R. H. In the Sun With a Passport. GT79-T7581. G. Yes, Geography. Branom, M. E. The Measurement of Achievement in Geography. G- B736m. Douglas, E. M. Boundaries, Areas, Geographic Centers and Altitudes of the United States. 1923. G83- D74. [ Holman,. L. A. Old Maps and Their LANCASTER. pencil peddler, who sprawls his erip- pled bones near churches or tolerant stores. Still, there are always ex- ceptions: It had been a day of snivelly rain and the dusk was so gray and dismal that at one point on Seventh street it was practically deserted, except for & man creature who was lumbering up from the bricks with the aid of & crutch. A woman who was scudding by to get a certain car line saw him fumble pencils into & pocket so that he could put on his hat and then look up the street as if waiting for some one. And the woman, mindful of feature stories, knew that the limousine was due. You may have noticed that things don't always turn out as expected— it is one of the tricks of fate. The arrival materialized in the shape of an old woman beating her way under an exasperating umbrella that wanted to 8o in a different direction. She was wearing one of those heartbreaking skirts that sop up the grime of the pavement and an atrocity that used to call itself a basque. As she reached the man in time to help him to his feet, he shook his head and then leaned it against her with the de- spondent droop that stands for bad luck. Then he handed her what must have been & sparse harvest of change and she crooned out something that only the man and God could hear, and the two began to half-stagger into the ralny gray that was leadening into night. The scudding woman, having loi- tered to witness this end of 4 not so perfect day, was hurrying on to make up for lost time, when—you know how things come to you without thinking? 1t flashed into the woman's mind that a rainy day is hard on even prosper- ous merchants, anli that what she most needed in this world was a pen- cil—as many pencils as she had change to buy—you know how you gobble up pencils in your work—so she turned, and sprinted back to the man on crutches and the woman who was helping his brick-numbed body along. They were easy to overtake. She excused herself for bothering the man after “the shop was closed,” but please, could he let her have a pencil? The deal was made—one nice green pencil pointed like a pin. And when the customer had dropped her little 50 cents into the man's hands and hurried off in the darkness to the car line, and after that to the warmth and brightness of two old-fashioned rooms, she laid the green pencil before a faded photograph in a shrine. She must have known exactly why she did 1t, but you can't tell every- thing vou know in this world. For one thing, people who couldn’t under- stand would make fun of you. Besides, have you ever known any- body who could use a peddler's pencil? * kX A WOMAN, with a maid, has just moved (nto a new apartment house. The other morning Mald Mary, in the kitchenette, was press- ing a tunic blouse—black lace. Mis- tress Mary was in the living room with the door open between. A visitor from across the hall had just called, and Mistress Mary was listening dis- creetly, hoping to catch on to the type of tenants she had leased in with. She was not disappointed. “As your nearest neighbor, I thought it only my duty to ask if you were kept awake by that baby’s cry- ing last night. It isn't their child, you know, but a foundiing left at the door of the Doc on the ground floor, and they begged so hard for it, having no child of their own, that he had it fixed up so they could adopt it. Of course, they seem to idolize it, but you can’t help having your thoughts when you hear that kid yell out and then stop all of a sudden—I can't say for certain, of course, but it looks to me as if they give it something they oughtn’t to. 1 may be mistaken, perhaps, and no one ever heard me putting wrong constructions on things people do, but 1 can't help seeing through things, I suppose, because 1'm so psychologic—oh, yes, I've got quite a little reputation along that line. Last week, for instance. I gave an instructive talk on “My Dreams, and What Comes of Them.” I may say it was great, because 1 had just re- ceived through a dream a sure key to succes It was wonderful. Some mystic power intrusts me with knowl- edge, even in such material cases as salary increases, which enables me to earn promotions in business for many men and women. And it is all so sim- ple, too. I merely tell them to take two apples; scoop out a bit of each and transfer it to the other and make your wish. My dreams are always true for whoever tries it. You must really Join my class—only 50 cents a lesson.” This statement had its interruption in the smell of scorched lace. Mald Mary had been listening too keenly keep her iron moving. Happily, was only a sleeve, and a sleeve can be shortened, but Mistress Mary knew that the apple experiment for a raise in salary was golng to be tried at her own expense. And why not an apple for luck? Look what apples did for Eve and for Venus and for Willlam Tell and for cider! * oK ok K SHE was closing her account and as the paying teller attended strict- ly to the business in hand she con- fided to him her reason for needing the money: “It hurts me dreadfully to have to do it, because I have always kept my last little savings here in case of sickness or death. 1 didn’t mind even drawing my last Victory bond—the one that really did hurt me to give, as the war saying went, my income having stopped on account of my dear husband’s death, still I wanted to help out Uncle Sam. But this really does hurt and even frighten me, being the last of everything, but—taxes have to be pald, you know. Seems as if Uncle Sam gobbles everything.” He must have been a kindly young man, for, having attended to matters, he responded nicely to the garrulous- ness of his client—a small and timid looking person, well on in years. “Well, a hundred-dollar tax shows for a comfortable little property.” “Yes, doesn't it? It belongs to my daughter and her husband, but their own money being invested, they thought it would be better to draw my little sum, as long as I just had it on hand—I make my home with them.” By that time the five yellow bills had been rolled into a tube and the little old lady crushed it tight in her hand instead of placing it into her purse. Then she sort of wavered her way to the entrance, and the teller sald to.a woman next in line whom he has known since he was in knee pants: “I bet daughter and husband are on the outside, waiting to grab the money. . And the little old dame called Uncle Sam a gobbler.” The woman knew it was prophecy, for when she got to the door she glimpsed the little old soul who had drawn her last cent. Also, a sharp- featured young man. Also, a puffy- figured young woman. The man was buttoning up his coat, and after that ‘was done, he patted it over the pocket. And though there was no one else in the party, so far as she could see, the watching woman felt—and be- lleved—that standing by, in invisible judgment, was that great Recorder we know about—the one who registers our deeds, good and bad, in the book of eternal life. But, anyhow, the young man was in such a hurry that he whizzed off 1n his car, and the two women had to walk to whereeverqgay: were going. P e ek CLUBWOMEN OF THE NATION Head of General Federation Invited to Address Unique Class at University of Maryland—Women Voters' and Pen Women's Summer Activities. » BY CORINNE FRAZIER. Mrs. John T. Sherman, president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, has been invited to addness the first graduating class of the Univer- sity of Mzryland short course in home economies for rural women, 56 members of which will receive cer- tificates next FKriday morning from Dr. Woods, president of the univer- sity. ‘The subject of Mrs. Sherman's address, should she be able to accept the invitation, will be “The American Home.” 1If she finds it impossible to accept, her message will be read to this group of ‘pioneer rural home ecortomists,” which bears the unique distinction of being the first group of women to recelve diplomas of this type in the country, apd perhaps in the world. They have attended this course each June for the past four years. Most of them have had no previous college training. Thirty-two of them are mothers of large families, and 12 of them are grandmothers. So completely in harmony with the American home program of the Gen- eral Federation is the @evelopment of this course at the University of Mary- land under the direction of Miss Venia M. Kellar, State home demonstration agent and chairman of the American home department of the Maryland State Federation, that Mrs. Sherman predicts the women's clubs all over the country will be following with in- terest the work of these first gradu- ates, studying the application of their new learning to actual domestic duties, in order to spread the news of the benefits to be gained by “scien- tific homernaking.” The course at College Park includes a study of food and nutrition, house- hold ‘management, house furnishings, home dairying, poultry, clothing (cos- tume planning, textile selection, etc.) and millinery, with specfal class work in health, parllamentary law and citizenship. The purpose of the course is two- fold—to give ald to the rural home makers of Maryland in the art of ‘home making, and to gain for the stu- dents an exchange of ideas and ex- perlences through rubbing elbows with women from every section of the State. Mrs. Sherman sald in an interview yesterday that she felt the successful development of this course in Mary- land would probably have a far-reach- ing effect. She expressed her delight in the unusual interest displayed by the rural women of this vicipity in the course. Referring to the interest in the General Federation in the work, Mrs. Sherman declared: “One of our chief projects today re- lates almost entirely to the home, its development and wellbeing. We are endeavoring to discover or to establish a standard of American home life that shall prove a beacon light to all the world, and we want the rural women, the farm women, with all the wealth of thelr experfence, to join with us in this great piece of work. No better way could be found for amalgamating our interests than through such a course as this.” Mrs. Sherman arrived in Washing- ton Thursday after attending a con- ference on motion pictures in New York City. She will remain here a few days, and then leave for her home, in Estes Park, Colo. * o Ko The names of several prominent lo- cal clubwomen were included in the Sun’s Age Now Set at 10 Billion Yéars, Its Temperature 70 Million Degrees The interlor of the sun must nave a temperature of 70,000,000 degrees Fahrenheit at the center, which grad- ually decreases until it is only about 10,000 degrees at the surface. That this is necessary to keep the sun at the size It is at present and to pre- vent the gravitating mass of the outer part from collapsing to the cen- ter is the opinion of Prof. A. S. Ed- dington, professor of astronomy at Cambridge University, stated in a serfes of lectures at King's College of the University of London. As a result of this conclusion, Prof. Eddington says ‘“‘no source of ener- gy is of any avail unless it liberates heat in the deep interior of a star.” ‘This, he believes, effectually disposes of an idea, suggested in the past, that the sun received its energy from me- teors which fell into it from outer space. “Clearly,” he states. ‘you cannot maintain a temperature gra- dient by supplying heat at the bot- tom end. If this vear the sun en- countered a swarm of meteors which bombarded it with enough energy to furnish a year's supply of radiation, that would not add a year or even a day to the life of the sun: fts inter- nal readjustments would go on un- affected. All that would happen would be that the sun would give us twice the normal amount of radia- tion this year." Contracting ldea Scouted. The theory once proposed that the sun is gradually contracting, and so releases the energy which forms the heat, is also untenable, says the as- tronomer, because with such a theory the sun cannot he more than 46,000, 000 vears old “Physical and ge- ological evidence seems to be conclu- sive,”” he says, “that the age of the earth—reckoned from a perfod which by no means goes back to its begin- nings as a planet—is much greater. The age of the older rocks found from their uranium-load ratlo is generally put at 1,200,000,000 yed Lower estimates have been urged by Prof. Joly, but none low enough to save the contraction hypothesis.” Astronomical facts also support these ideas of the age of the solar system, and so, says Prof. Eddington, “we seem to require a timescale which will allow at least 10,000,000.000 years for the age of the sun; certainly we cannot abate our demands below 1,000,000,000 years. “Since we cannot very well imagine an extraneous source of heat able to of a star picking up its energy as it goes along seems to be definitely ruled out. It follows that the star contains hidden within it the energy which has to last the rest of its life. But energy cannot be suc- cessfully hidden; it betrays itself be- cause it has (or because it is) mass. How much of the sum total of the energy of the sun is capable of being converted into radiation we do not Kknow: but if it is all avallable there is enough to maintain the sun's radia- tion at the present rate for 15.000.- 000,000,000 years. To put the argu- ment in another form, the heat emitted by the sun each year has a mass of 120,000,000,000,000 tons: and if this loss of mass continued there would be no mass left at the end of 15,000,000,000,000 years.” Gives New Theory. nce all the other alternatives are eliminated, Prof. Eddington sup- poses that the source of the energy must be in the protons and electrons, charges of positive and negative ele: tricity, of which the atoms are com- posed. “We have to suppose,” he says, “that a proton and electron run to- gether, their electric charges cancel and nothing is left but a splash in the ether, which spreads out as an electro- magnetic wave carrying off the energy."” He admits the difficulty of some of these ideas, for apparently at a tem- perature of 70,000,000 degrees the energy Is liberated so copiously that he asks, “Can we suppose that energy issues freely from matter at 70,000,000 degrees as steam issues from water I think that ph c cile such extraordinary behavior with any accepted principles, vet that is what the astronomical observations taken at face value seems to insist.” In reply to this suggestion, Prof. J H. Jeans, president of the Royal Astronomical Society, denfes that this can happen, for, he says, the trans- formation of matter to energy itself is a process which liberates more heat, and, “as soon as the center of a star reached 70,000,000 degrees the heat generated would raise the neigh- boring parts to 70,000,000 degrees. these would generate more heat, and s0 on, the high temperature spread- ing explosively throughout the star. The true analogy would be, not the issue of steam from water, but the explosi of a magazine of gun- release itself at the center of the star, | powder.” Measured by Psychiatric Standards, Mussolini Is Said to Have Hypobulia The mind of Italy’'s dictator, Mus- solini, was measured by psychiatric standards at the meeting of the Amer- ican Psychlatric Association and was summed up in one word—hypobulic. The mental analysis of Mussolini was made by Dr. Edward E. Mayer, well known psychiatrist of Pittsburgh, and was used in illustrating his remarks on_ hysteria. Mussolini is not acting by reason- ing will power, but by hypobulic will, he saild. This type of will was defined as a blind sort of will that is not pre- vailed upon by persuasion or logical ments. “This hypobulic will exists in well persons as an essential and primary constituent of the will, linked with the purposive will to make the nor- mal will,"” said Dr. Mayer. In hysteric individuals, he explain- ed, the two wills become separate and antagonistic factors in the per- Habit of Preaching Stirs Europe’s Dislike (Continued from First Page.) them merely a maneuver to provide more ammunition for a political cam- paign. It feels that it is being forced to agree to preposterous and impossi- ble terms, which ‘cannot be carried out, but which, although temporary. enormously complicata and embarrass its situation, simply to enable an ad- ministration “to point with pride” for a brief election period. It goes through the motions of making the settlements because it is the only way to raise the embargo on loans, but it sees in the whole performance new evidence of what it regards as the American method. But, in my judgment, Europe would forgive us our prosperity, endure the necessity of paying us money, accept our own odd and, to it, rather crude methods and astonishing ideas about international and European questions it we would only drop the tone and manner which it would, I think, de- scribe as “offensive morality,” or per- haps more exactly as “moral imperial- ism.” It may be that what we have and do would explain why Europe does not love us, but if it hates us, and I believe it does, the reason must be sought in what we say. (Covyrizht. 1926.) P sl b i A Albertine R. Wheelan, one of the {:yw ‘woman cartoonists in the coun- i it S e sonality. ' The hypobulic will attaches itself to an easily excitable group of ideas and is continually being brought by them into the foreground. When this false contact is loosened the two types of will unite again, and the hysteria is cured. Hysteria 'was described by Dr. Mayer as a turning away from ac- tualities. The rational mind, finding some situations in lifa unsatisfactory, shifts the burden of its inefficiency to lower mental mechanisms. “‘“Mussolini is hypobulic,” he said. “because he is playing like a hysteric with low-threshold stimuli, to which he responds with all his being, rather than to reasoning-motivated conduct. “Hypobulia exists as the predo: inant attribute of a strong person- ality, for it is not a weak will at any time. The fanatical prohibitionist is :;.}:l example of a hypobulic person- ty.” Intelligence Tests May Be Dangerous “There is too much of a tendency to reduce human intelligence, human behavior and human beings in gen- eral to mathematical quotients,” de- clared Dr. H. W. Potter, who address- ed the meeting of the American Psy- chiatric Association in New York. Dr. Potter deplored the tendency to brand troublesome _individuals as mentally deficlent merely because they grade low on formaliy adminis- tered mental tests. “Such diagnosis may easily result in gross injustice and real harm,” he Apparent mental deficiency or back- wardness may be due to many causes other than lack of intelligence, he pointed out. “It is not uncommon to find a child more or less retarded in school who is reacting with some anti-social be- havior because of emotional or tem- peramental instability, certain home situations that seem to perplex and worry him, troubles between his par- ents or illness. He may have a gland- ular disorder which could seriously affect his mental condition. Mental retardation may come as an after- math to sleeping sickness. “It is absolutely necessary to probe into all of these factors before the |(Gregory, additional appointments to division and committee chairmanships reported last week by the board of directors of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, following its post-convention session at Atlantic City. Mise Josephine Junkin was reap- painted as director of headquarters, and Mrs. Virginia White Speel, presi- , dent of the District of Columbia Fed- eration, was appointed chairman of the headquarters and house commit- tee, following Miss Florence Dibert of Johnatown, Pa. Mrs. E. O. Leatherwood, wife of Representative Leatherwood of Utah, was reappointed to. the chairmanship of the committee on Latin American scholarship. Dr. Louise Stanley, chief of the hu- reau of home economics in the De partment of Agriculture, will continue to serve as nutrition specialist of the division of home making. Miss Julla K. Jaffray of New York, who makes frequent visits to headquarters and is well known locally for her work in? connection with prison reforms and child delinquency problems, was re- appointed chalrman of the division of problems of delinquency under the department of public welfare. One other division chairmanship was announced. Mrs, John B. Roberts of Pennsylvanta will head the division of literature under the department o fine arts. Mrs. Roberts succeeds Mre L. A. Miller of Colorado Springs, ww was shifted to the chalrmanship of department of fine arts. . New standing committee appoint ments, in addition to Mrs. Speel’s are as follows: Revisions committee, Mrs. G. G. Hunter, St. John's, Mich.: war veterans’, Mrs. V. V. Sessions, Baton Rouge, La.. membership, Mrs. Fred- erick G. Smith, Somerville, Mass.; rules and procedure, Mrs. Oscar Lof- gren, Lindsborg, Kans.; finance, Mrs. John Sippel, Baltimore, Md.. head- quarters’ maintenance fund, Mrs. Watzek, Davenport, lowa, replacing Mrs. Grace Morrison Poole: resolu- i M V. Hubbard, Upper J.; biennial convention program, Mrs. H. S. Godfrey, Minne- apolis, Minn.; biennial council pro- gram, Mrs. Guy E. Speare, Plymouth, Mass.; federation pin, Mrs. Day Mtlls of Texas: medical scholarship loan, Mrs. L. §. Gllientine of Murfreesboro, Tenn.; Federal extension, Mrs. Felix McWherter, Indianapolis, Ind.: con- tinuation committee, Mrs. Louisa Pop- penheim, Charleston, S. €. Mrs. Phillp North Moore, St. Louis, Mo, and Mrs. Eugene Reilley, Charlotte, € Mrs. Florence Floore of Texas, retir- ing treasurer of the General tlon, and Mrs. Anna Shelton, also of Texas, ex-finance chairman, met at headquarters last week with Mrs. H. G. Reynolds of Kentuck: v elected treasurer, and Mrs. John F. Sippel, of Baltimora incoming chalir- man of finance, to wind up the finances of the past adminlstration and to turn over the books to the new officers. “Art by ownership” is one of the slogans of the Fine Arts Department of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, and demonstrating a desire to “practice what they preach.” the war presidents of the organization pre- sented headquarters with the beauti ful bronze head, “Pax,” by Malvina Hoffman. This bronze was on exhibi- tion at the convention and was the object of much admiring comment by visitors to the art department hooth arranged by Mrs. Rose V. S. Berry of New York. Miss Belle Sherwin, president of the National League of Women Vot- ers, who headed the official American delegation to the Tenth Congress of * the International Woman Suffrage liance in Paris the first week In June, is expected to arrive in New York about June 21. She will go direct to a meeting of the league's executive committee in Lyme, Conn., at the home of Miss Katharine Ludington, national treasurer. Miss Sherwin is not expected at the na- tlonal headquarters in Washington until June 28. ‘The executive committee meeting will be the first gathering of national officers since the St. Louis conven- tion in April. Mrs. James W. Mor- rison of Chicago. Miss Mollie Ray Carroll of Goucher College, vice president, and Mrs. Herbert Knox Smith of Farmington, Conn., secre- tary, will confer for the first time as members of the national com- mittee, The committee will outline plans for organization work in the next few months and will particularly consider the campaign being carried on by the National League for get- ting out the vote in the primary and general elections this year. Reports being received at national headquar- ters indicate State and local leagues throughtout the country are em- ploying ingenious devices to interest the electorate in going to the polis. Miss Elizabeth J. Hauser of Girarc Ohio, former secretary and now fourth vice president, will stop at na- tional headquarters for a few days on her way to Asheville, N. C., where she is to be a speaker at a regional conference and citizenship school from June 28 to July 2. It is the first school of citizenship ever ar- ranged in the South under the direc- # tion of the National League. Com- plete arrangements are being made by Mrs. Mary O. Cowper of Durham, N C., a national director, who is charged with development of league work in Alabama, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgla, Louisiana, Missis- sippl, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. National headquarters of the League of American Pen Women, formerly at the Shoreham Hotel, are now estab. lished in the Mayflower Hotel, suite 281-232. Mrs. Grace Thompson Seton, presi- dent, whose home is in New York City, pald her last visit to headquar- ters last week ‘until October 1, when she will take up her permanent resi- dence in Washington. Mrs. Seton has spent the first six weeks of her presi- dential term addressing various clubs and organizations on the work of the Pen Women. She has delivered 20 ad- dresses since her election. Mrs. Nelson Dingley, vice president of the league, gave a farewell party in honor of the president, at her home, 1715 Livingston strect, Chevy Chase, Thursday night. Mrs. Seton is leaving shortly for a trip abroad. All members of the official board were guests at the affalr. Ten Washington Pen Women have been appointed to chairmanships of standing committees in the league by the new "board of directors. Mrs. Blanche H. Ray is chairman of mem- bership, Mrs. Danfel C. Chace, of publicity; Mrs. Willlam Atherton Du Puy, authors’ copyright and film censorship; Mrs. Macpherson Crichton, ways and means; Dr. Mary Meek Atkeson, manuscript bureau; \rs. Burgess Collister, editor of the Bulletin; Mrs. Jesse . Nicholson. chairman of printing: Mrs. Luther E. music; Mrs. Willlam . diagnosis of mental defect can he|Gorgas, social committes, and Mrs. made with certainty. Once such difi- culties are cleared up the backward child may be found to be endowed with normal intelligence; indeed, pos- albly superier taligmeen,” | Gaius Brumbaugh, pacliamentarian ! and chairman of by-laws committee, M ird Clayes of Berkeley, i wiil have charge of tb~ e’ greup. ‘