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i A Volume on Air Navigation and Recent Discoveries—The Story of a Great Soldier—Great Moments in Science and a Book of Memories IDA GILBERT MYERS. ALROSTATI By Bdward P, \Warner, M.S. New York: The Ronald Press Co. IR navigation, like every other great discovery, has given rise to a new body of knowledge 4 and to a fresh applcation of sclentific principles and laws unfamiliar problems in mechanics. Avound this discovery new questions psit themselves. From it additions the common speech are made, and & special technic of expression, 1ocess and operation comes ‘into Loing. Schools are bullt about this discovery, as about every other one ¢ equal practical significance, to give i.» technical training required for ii5 successful issue. Teachers are pre- aved to carry on in these schools, suitable text books are written for +2m, and libraries surround them for 1 extension of the facilities of the s-hool themselves. Around the great subject of air navigation the Ronald vopautic Library has been pro- jected to extend substantial help in & subject that is rapldly spreading out nto the domain of common interest, to offer opportunity to the thousands young men who are ardent for wth the science and the art of this luring business of sailing the skies. t the head of the Ronald Aerongutic Library is C. deF. Chandler, “leu- wnant colonel, United States Army, etired, who has himself written upon one or another aspect of air naviga- on and who besides has engaged «ther writers of autheritative char- avcter to open the subject still further s Its substantial advancement re- uires. Not long ago Edward P. Warner, ormerly professor of aeronautical en- gineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was appointed Assist- ant Secretary of the Navy for Aero- 'autics. It is from such high source hat the book in hand, “‘Aeronautics,” comes to the reader and studenmt. Roughly stated, the book may be sald o be a study of the atmosphere from a new point of view, nathing less than that of a medium of transportation, us the sea Is such a medium, as the and is. This science, “aeronautics,” deals with the upholding of alrcraft by their own buoyancy, a buoyancy dependent upon air displacement by the craft itself. The foundation of this subject therefore is a knowledge of this sustaining medium, a knowl- ‘edge of the alr itself, in its composi- tion and its propertles and its be- haviors under the existence of many varying and diverse conditions, such as density and altitude and humidity and so on. This study begins with an examination of standard air and from this point passes to a considera- tion of the various modifications and effects that certain conditions impose upon the regular air norm. The ob- ject immediately to the fore in every phase of this examination is that of air navigation. Mathematical formu- lae and a few purely technical terms appear to the novice to lend a cryptic air to parts of the study, but as mat- ter of fact, this is a book that can be mastered by any intelligent reader, by any student of good general ability. It is designed, naturally, for the stu- dent of this great subject. But, nowadays, everypody has to be more or less of a student in order to keep himeelf safe and sound in a whirling world. And this uneasy ‘“everybody” can gather from this clear and con- clsa body of instruction a good gen- eral idea of the atmosphere as a medium for the flying ships that sooner or later he is destined to board for speeding away into space itself. * kK ok ¥ ALLENBY OF ARMAGEDDON. By Ramond Savage. Preface by David Lloyd George. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrilt Co. HERE is the story of an unques- tionably great soldier. We Americans know Field Marshal Vis- count Allenby through his rescue of Jerusalem in the Palestine campalgn, a spectacular campaign by virtue of the traditions and sentiments clinging to the city of Jesus. That story is told here in a finer detail than we have hitherto heard. And beside it are stories of the great soldier— storles that move out from the record of any single man, becoming instead & part of the history of countries and the world itself. Among these is that one telling of Lord Allenby's part in the victory in the Arras sector dur- ing the World War and more than one record of his gallantry and daring on other fronts in the great conflict. ‘The storv goes back to service in South Africa while the Boer War was in progress, a service that spread be- vond the war lines into the affairs of civilan well being. All of these rec- ords of service to his country me the history of Allenby with the larger history of England itself at ona or another crucial point in the affalrs of Great Britain. And there is another side to the man that will appeal to many as even greater than the warrior side. Here is a man who deeply loves certain things—animals and the great green world around him. A man who gave devoted care, and taught intelligent and skiliful care, of the mounts belonging to him and to his cavalry troops. Here is a man who, in hours of peace, planted and tended and pruned, who studied and extended his knowledge in re- spect to the plant life of any locality where his general service to his coun- try placed him. We like that—almost more than his pure soldiery. A de- seendent of Oliver Cromwell, perhaps he cannot always help his martial nature and trend. ‘We have here at the hands of a de- voted captain on the Allenby staff an -#nthuslastic account of the sterling mmilitary record of his chief, and the story besides of the personal qual- itles of this fine Englishman in the ‘ways of peace. i * % x GREAT MOMENTS IN SCIENCE. By Marion Florence Lansing, au- thor of “The Wonder of Life,” etc. + Tllustrated. New York: Double- day, Page & Co. JR VER since the beginning of things, or, certainly, ever since any sort of record was made, there have been these ‘great moments in science” marking the deflnite and substantial progress of the world. At the back of ‘ this book is a very striking diagram— a “timetable” of these great points in .selentific advance. At the head of this ehart or timetable, placed within the prehistoric beriod, stands the word “fire,” whose original means of pro- Quction belongs to that distant dfi 2nd whose vital concetn with progre! itself has continued en through the intervening ages. At the end of this chart is the record of 1924, “Round. the-World Flight by U. S. A, Officers.”” Between these two points of record lie, in order, the sclentific achieve- ments of recorded time. A new edl- tlon of this book put out tomorrow would add possibly another mark or two of further advance. The hook fit- self is concerned with brief descrip- tions of these many, dlacoveries and dnventions and applications of old laws to new productions. A useful and comprehensive view, whose value lies in great part in the manner of this ‘projection. Wholly free from puzaling teehnical nomenclature, the aeccount epen to all. Offered in the word ; ‘and manner of the storyteller, it comes | to thq reader #mvitingly, sitting 'beside him, so to speak, in a communi cable ease that is as entertaining as it is, in substance, the very crezm of useful knowledge about a theusand matters of prime moment. * ¥ ¥ ¥ THE LIGHT WHICH CANNOT FAIL. By Winifred Holt, author of *A Beacon for the Blind,” etc, New York: E. P. Dutten and Company. THE other night there’came to me over the radio from the Sylvan Theater at Washington the voice of a man, singing—"a blind seldier from Walter Reed Hospital.” It was good singing, too, with a curious quality in it now and then that set me to wondering §f that particular tone had been there when this men used to sing. Thinking of Charles MacDonald still carrying on despite the monstrous thing that the war had done to him, my mind went toward other people who, sightless, live in a world of amazing beauty. Are there many of these? No, not many, my compla- s Holt's book about the blind—about the great number of these {n the werld, about the authenticated statement that much of the blindgess commeonly known is preventable. = “Blindness i8 always the result of abnormal or un- Just conditions—disease, illness, dirt, accident, shock, crime, or that su- preme malady of disordered bodies and souls, war." From thia point the book goes on with innumerable stories of the blind—stories of blinded heroes on the varlous fronts in the World War, Polgnant storles of catastrophe, courage, endurance, rebuilding. And other stories, too, of the blind outside of war. And beside these there are accounts of the measures that have been taken, are being taken, to rescue these people from darkness through the medlum' of reconstructed live: and the birth of new hopes. The au- thor is hersclf dedicated to the work of restoration among these, is herself a crusader for the “light which can- not fail” through the creation of an aroused general zeal in behalf of those from whem, through no fault of their own, the actual light of the sun has been withheld. A book to read, and ponder. * k¥ ¥ MELODIES AND MEMORIES. By Nellie Melba. Illustrated. New York: George H. Doran Company. 8 desirable as it is inevitable that the great artist should ulti- mately gather up his experiences to the safe keeping of a written account. And these books of recorded artistic triumphs run along in a general same- ness of effect. The roles undertaken, the various parts of the werld in which these have been performed, the soclal contacts with the great and near-great—these constitute the for- mula of the artist's reminiscences. Such variety as comes into these rec- ords comes, in the main, from the individual character and personality of the writer. It is just this element that gives to Melba's story a decided turn of freshness and appeal. Be- hind this record of many triumphs all over the world stands a simple and whole-hearted woman. Here is the really high point of the whole. Rather, maybe, the peint which gives to all the rest a special significance of greatly deepened effect. Moving along the gilded path of general adulation and homage—a diverting path, likely to be a perverting one—Nellle Melba remained the spontaneous, kindly, simple girl that left Australia to con- quer the world with her singing. In this respect the story in hand is a fresh and beautiful one that is cal- culated to give both enjoyment and heart to the plain lay reader as it, without doubt, will give a apecial joy to artists in every fleld, to those, in particular, who belong to the operatic drama itself. * % ¥ CONFESSIONS OF AN ACTOR. By John Barrymore. Illustrated. In- dianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill €Com- pany. IN pleasant recollective mood, John Barrymoré here falls to talking about himself. A happy theme for any one. Clearly, it is a day off with the actor from any serious considera- tion either of the drama itself or of his own personal experiences with its borders. Rather does he engage him- self with the early days when he was certain that he could be an artist. But the many-tinted pigments dabbed upon the palette refused to blend themselves into pictures of any con- siderable merit. So this hopeful youth turned toward literature, convinced this time that he had found his voca- tion. And, maybe, he might have done so—certainly his easy-running book indicates as much. Persistence, however was not a highly noticeable ®| trait with this happy wayfarer and, doubtless, the blood of his tribe began to assert itself. At eny rate he, after these half-hearted attempts at both painting and writing, became the thing that he could not escape being. And we catch occasional glimpses here of his Hamlet and other roles for which he is well known. But not many of these, for the essence of these reminiscences is that of an exuberant youth touching high poin in life here and there in an unquenc! able galety of spirit. Many wel known people come and go here in swift moments of passing. The whole is a refreshment of wit and humor bearing upon the career of Barry- more. Confessions? Not at all, nat in the common acceptance of this term—just bright memories instead. * ok ok ok THE LIGHT IN THE VALL! By Mabel Wagnalls, auther of ‘ynra and Its Stars,” etc. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company. OTH a romance and a recollection is this story told by Mabel Wag- nalis. It is clear recollection from the fact that here the author tells the story of her mother. It is remance from the quality of that mather’s life. inted at first for the use of a few jends alone, the romance pushed it- self into the open by virtue of its kinship with so much of the common life of America. Here is the Midwest smail town. Within it is the woman of dauntless courage to whom poverty and “hardship act but as spurs for further effort, for greater endurance, for larger hopes and, finally, for an achlevement of such substantial sub- stance as to remove the heroine of this tale from the circumscribed limits of her own family and nelgh, borhood. This is the kind of woman to command a larger.hearing, the kind of woman to attract all striving women toward her. A big story which takes on, not extra value, but greater charm through the manner of its tell- ing. A practiced and guccessful writer here turns her art to the altogether noble and-useful work of setting out the life of & good and great mather. Tk ok ok ¥ DELIGHT. By Mazo de la Roche, author of ‘Possession.” etc New York: The Macmilian Company. N its essence this is a famillar story. Hardly a small town that has not at one time or another been torn from end to end with the al- together unholy beauty of some woman. It doesn’t take much of this to disrupt a.community—just enough to lure the eyes of the men toward it, gxd the battle s on. This, you see, a common) of fresh interest which it holds he innocent charm of this modern {ren—a servant girl, at that, in the Duke of York" hostelry just over the border in. Canada. But Judy O'Grady can stir up as much of hu- man bitterness within her own fleld as can any grand lady within her more pretentious domain. - The story gets along by way of the chase-—all the men pursuing ‘‘Delight"—the girl with the foollsh but wholly apt: name—all the women pursuing her, too. The former flerce. with love for her, the latter even more flerce with hatred, = After a tempestuous time, whereln one feels sorry for a really harmless girl, the war halts and finally ends, by way of matrimony, a situation thought to clip effectually the wings of beautiful high-flying human birds. Perhaps the lack of climatic effect here is due to the author's distrust of this ceremony as an effectual agent of peace. Perhaps it is due to some other cause. That there is such lack is undeniable. & BOOKS RECEIVED PEGASUS; Or Problems of Transpor- tation. By Col. J. F. C. Fuller. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. ALEXANDER; And Threa Small Plays. By Lord Dunsany. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. THE WORM OUROBOROS; A Ro- mance. By E. R. Eddison. IMus- trated by Keith Henderson. New York: Albert & Charles Boni. PROBLEMS IN ARTISTIC WOOD TURNING. By Earl W. Ensinger, B. 8., instructor in meechanical drawing, Arsenal Technical Schools, Indianapolis. Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Co. 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THE CONQUEST OF NEW ENG- LAND BY THE IMMIGRANT. By Daniel Chauncey Brewer, author of “Rights and Dutles of Neu- trals," eto. New York: G. P. Put- nam'’s Sons. HA:};INES? IN MAR'.R‘::G:. v?y rgaref s-nlgor, auf “Wo- man and the New Race,” eto, New York: Brentano’s. THE PUBLIC LIBRARY Recent accessions at the Public Li- brary and lists of recommended read- ing will appear in this column each Sunday. Art, Architecture and Decoration. The Ar&nltecmrd Forum. Artleles on Architecture of Apartment Hotels. 1924, WHV-Ar2. The Architectural Forum. Articles on Architecture of .Office Buildings. 1924, WIP-Ar2e. The Architectural Forum. Articleson Architecture of Shops and Stores. 1924. WIP-Ar2s. The Architectural Forum. Articlea on Church Architecture. 1924. WGK- Ar2d. Barnard, Hi Chats on Wedg- w& WQN.:"{VKT-E/’“. Beerbohm, Max. Things New and Old. 1923. . WMV-R396t. Blake, Vernop. The Way to Sketch. WPS-B583. Brandy, Joseph, and Landsman, Sam- ‘1‘3‘5‘6 Construction Drawing. WFD- e, Brl's C. A. 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In its center stood a forlorn woman creature in polka-dot- ted voile and a.limp hat of flabby gray that had been white to begin with. The policeman at the telephone booth—one of those black watch- boxes where an officer eis in touch with the force—had finish- ed his call, hung up, and closed the P little door. And < was walting for the patrol to take ,’r the woman, SR ] 'who had been S caught swiping a bag of somewhat tarnished gilt beads that had a violently red vel- vet rose fastened on its outer side to hide a bald spot made by spilled beads. It was a bag that neither the owner nor the erib- ber could have had use for, o far as value was concerned, though it suréd ‘was flamboyantly gay. The policeman held it and the cul- prit, entirely regardless of her situ- ation, fixed her eyes on that bag with the hopeless ndm‘:rnlon with w:‘ll(‘;li: haj just perhaps—you may P s To one of the impossible Most of us are like ) ) - longed for some things of life. that. This expression registered so ap- pealingly as to catch the sympathy of several of those around-—including the owner—regulation silk knees and 8 frock that would have put Joseph's coat in the shade. Even the officer was of an adamant that had its hu- man streak: _*“What made you take this woman's property for, huh? Didn't you know you would be jailed?” The forlorn one shook her head without taking her eyes from the bead bag: “No, sir, I wasn't thinkin' about nothin’ except what a purty red rose it was with all them gold 5. “Poor thing!” The ejaculation was voiced by a woman with two chins, ?mnqble I‘Omuh..wl&h no straight- nt foolishness to it, and a still more noble heart—also, a cord bag stuffed to the brim with greens and the hock end of g ham. “Letter go, Mr. Pleeceman. She won't ever do it again, will you, huh?" The officer waved a hand in protest. It he meant to order silence, it availed him not, for the owner of the bag put in & word of her own: “That's what I say—Lor', she can keep the old thing—that messy old rose and the way the beads were spill- ing. I got to have a new one, any- how. Just let me have my compact, and the quarter and two tokens, and she's welcome to the rest.” ‘The officer was a kindly man, who doubtless rode bables on his foot when home, but t| it was his job to enforce it—only, be- fore he could make his Rhadamanth- ian rvemark, the patrol was at the ourb. Nothing new to an incident like that, of course, except that, as the forlorn thing scrambled inside, her face brightened into a smile—the sort of smile you see in the face of a little child when it gets an unexpected pleasure. Bhe was going to have a ride! ‘To steal bead bags 1s a most de- grading occupation—any judge will tell you that—while on- earth. the time comes for him to join the great law-givers in that Kingdom we hear so much about and know so little, it will doubtless come to him that a ‘woman who grabs a bead bag because of its tinsel and red velvet is not necessarily in the thief class. Her reaching out for tawdry beauty may be a protest against the dullness of an existence that knows only polka dots and flabby grays—which ought to comfort us each and every one, be- loved folks, seeing that at the last— the very last—the Greatest of all Lawgivers 1s to be our own, individual Judge. * X k¥ EITHER of them believed in war, and they didn't care if every passenger in the car heard them say s0. Which they did. He sald that only men who incited war should ba made to fight. $he said that all men of blood should be cleaned from the ‘world to leave it pure for the ohildren of peage. And both sald that when this had come to pass the millen- nium would arrive. At least she said it, and he agreed. And a plain dub of a woman, whose husband is wearing khaki, sald to an- other plain dub, whose husband would ‘When | MOrTo! be wearing khaki, except that she hasn't any—both seated behind the human doves: “Wouldn't you hate a millennium, of slackers?"” By that time the car had stopped at Beventh, and the Avenue, and the dubs got out to wait for a transfer going southwest., The subject in hand must have kept , for the husband-woman, looking across the sunny asphalt to the grass and trees, said to the other: “I never pase here that my memory doesn't go beck to the first days of the war, when there was a recruit- ing station over in front of the market—looking like a Christmas card with its yule-green walls roof- edged with iclcles and its holly red curtains within. Those were big “Across the snow from everywhere came soldiers in the making; each of him -bearing a gift more royal than frankincense and myrrh — young wives waliting outside for nestling hus- bands, each thrilled to the great ad- venture that was to give their re- spective Jimmies and Johnnles a chance to show the Kaiser a thing or two. 1 was one of those exhilarated young matrons—so 1 know. “'I used to come every day to watch across from here, because I had no right to the glory that was going on— and having caught the inspiration of the thing, found myself asking par- don of humanity that I had no son to give to its cause." . The spinisterish dub added a grin to her confession to show that she knew for herself how ridiculous it was, but the other dub patted her on the arm, which made {t entirely right, All of which is just to suggest that, while the dove of peace is a beautiful symbol there is also the eagle. ‘When we have breasted the tropi- cal breakers of youth and drifted into the cool zone of maturity, it is easy enough to talk peace, and, if you are lucky, get it, but— ‘There is always youth. And youth will forever fight, as it forever loves and eats and plays, because it is its nature to. And it is this world-old youth that makes us know that man will never understand peace until he attains the peace that passeth under- standing. Youth and age. The eagle and the dove. 6 R N all-day rain had washed the air as clean as & baby's face—the kind of baby that has a clean face. The navy-blue sky was dabbed over with patches of clouds, and in, the middle of everything a shining moon cut wide swaths of light as it bur- rowed in and out of the cloud patches on its ride across the sky. It was :ih: perfect end of a far from perfect y. It was such an unusual sky that couples stood in bunches to look up- ward, and as that set others to cran- ing necks, there was an assemblage on one street out southeast way; everybody interested in the odd beauty of the heavens—except for one wifo-woman, whose husband had lost her umbrella—and who was de- termined that people around should know it. At one relleving moment, the man wedged in a plea: “Forget it, can't you? I'll get you another.” ““Where's the money to come from? Much as I can do to squeeze along, as it 18.” “Say, old girl, don't tell the whole town—just look at this sky—prettiest sight I've seen for a coon's age." “And I bet it will pour down to- “‘Oh, ring off. Somebody’s on the wire." He nudged her to call attention to a big fellow who was close enough to have heard the faintest marital whisper, but wasn't listening. He was looking up at the sky, while an- other man was saying to him: “Not what you could correctly call a mackerel sky, sir, since we seldom see one in its full splendor except in northern Europe. Still, this is worth studying. I judge those clouds are about 5 miles high."” “Well, T tell you right now, I'm going to church tomorrow, If it rains cats and dogs and ruins every stitch of my clothes. Throwing away um- brellas as if money grew on trees— you'd lose vour head if it wasn't fastened on.” It didn't occur to her that she had lost her own head along with her temper; still—{t might have been worse. She didn’t tell him that if some other woman had trusted him with an umbrella, he would have taken care of it—which was a hopeful sign that the matrimonial weather might clear—and that was all there was to that incident, except that— It was a most beautiful sky. Did you notice? ing Color Schemes Automatically. 1923. WSH-KT788. Lewis, J. 8. Old Glass and How to Collect It. WKR-Léfo. !nx(‘skv;ood, 8. M. Antiques. WW- 819. Lutz, E. G. Practical Pictorial Com- position. WPD-L97p. Modern Hospital. Architectural De- signs for a Small Hospital. 1923, WHW-MT72. O’Hagan, Thomas. The Genesis of Chrigtian Art. W14-Ohl. Phillips, Mrs. A. M. L. Hooked Rugs. WUV-P54h. Pichel, Irving. Modern Theaters. WIA-P58m. Profitable Photography. WR-P944. Smith, Sir H. L. The Economic Laws of Art Production. 1924. W-Smb58. Singer. Sewing Machine Co. Libre Argentino de Bordados. WUA« 81641, Taylor, A. D., and Cooper, G. D. The Complete Garden. WE-T216¢. Taylor, L. D. Your Home Beautiful. 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France Has Absorbed Many Strains of Blood France is called a Latin country, but little save the language and some customs are really Yeft over from Ro- man times. Raclally, there is no Eu- ropean people more mixed. Two-thirds of the dwellers in anclent Gaul were Celts, the rest were Teutonic Franks. This Celto-Teutonic admixture in the last 2,000 years has absorbed Ro- mans from all parts of that hetero- geneous empire; pure Celts, in Brit- tany; Scandinavian Normans, in the Seine Valley; Teutonic Flemings and Walloons, in the north; Teutons, in Lorraine and Alsace; Italians, in Nice and Bavoy; Greeks and Arabs, on the Mediterranean coast; Spgniards and ques, in the Pymm?%‘nllhl and coteh, in the southwest, which was held by English kings for more than a century. After the Napoleonic War came many Poles. Before 1914 Swiss, Ger- man and Belgian immigrants were be- ing quickly assimilated. Such facts augur well for the present undigested contingents of Italians, Russians, Czechs and Poles. There is talk, nev- ertheless, of establishing, in the near future, a quota system similar to that in force in the United States. Iugol.lévia Enlarges " Military Air Force ng its military vle, cousin Jugeslavia is en] air force under Prini to King Alexander. . Air bases have been opened in Zemun, at the junetion of the Danube and the Save Rivers, near Belgrade; at Novisad in the north, at Mostar in the south and at Skoplje in central old Serbia. Late werk has begun on the base of all at Borongai, net far Za- CLUBWOMEN OF THE NATION Business and Professional Women Hold Constructive Session. Chautauqua Woman's Club Conducts Institute Program. General Federation News—Other Club Notes. BY CORINNE FRAZIER. 'HREE things stand out as high lights of the convention of the National Federation of Business and Professional ‘Women's Clubs, which eon- cluded its four-day session at Des Moines, Iowa, on July 17. The first was the action taken post- poning the vote on the child labor amendment until the next convention, with the recommendation that State groups glve the matter further study in the interim. * Similar action was taken on the question of special legislation for ‘women, with the adoption of a resolu- tion recommending a careful study of the subject by State and local groups during the coming year. The third high spot in the conven- tion was the unanimous acceptance of the recommendation made by the na- tional legislative chairman, Mizs Mary Stewart of Washington, that the chair appoint a ecommittee of three to study the legislative policy of the organization with a view to sug- gesting a method of working that will be sounder and more effective than the present system. This com- mittee, which will be named shortly by the incoming president, Miss Lena Madison Phillips of New York, will be expected to submit a report at the next convention outlining a new legis- lative policy. In discussing the need for a change in the legislative policy, Miss Stewart told the delegates that she felt the method of indorsing bills was faulty because of inadequate information on the part of individual members. “It is a common fault of large women's organizations,” said Miss Stewart. “Ours is no less informed than the average, but, in my opinion, we should study questions much more carefully. before putting our stamp of approval or disapproval upon 1ssues of political or economic impor- tance. - “Many issues brought before the organiaztion by our legislative com- mittee are too involved to be passed upon in a summary manner by any convening body, in my estimation. ‘We should not attempt to pass judg- ment upon them until our member clubs have given real thought and consideration to their technicalities, as well as to thelr many angles and possible interpretations. We should not presume to pass opinion in a four- day session upon questions which re- quire the intensive study of the great- est brains of the day for a period of months or even years! Yet, under our present poliey, we can do just that.” * k% % 'HE resolution offered by the legis- lative committee, recommending a thorough study of the f{ssue concern- ing special legislation for women by State and local groups before any aetion should be taken by the federa- tion as a whole, was passed by the organization after the question had been discussed at considerable length at the legislative round-table session, as well as on the floor. The opinion of the body, as expressed in the pas- sage of the resolution, was that the question of special legislation is too important for slip-shod judgment. It affects all business and professional women vitally and should at least be studied from every angle and with an insight to its possibilities and pitfalls before the organization votes to com- mit itself to any form of blanket in dorsement either for or against it A resolution opposing all forms of special legislation for women and urg- ing support of all labor laws hased upon occupation rather than sex, in- troduced by Mrs. Florence Bayard Hilles, representing the National Woman's Party, was lost in view of the previous passage of the resolu- tion recommending postponement of action on the question. Mrs. Hilles' resolution was not introduced until after the legislative committee’s reso- lution had been adopted. “The child labor amendment aroused one of the most lively discussions of the entire convention and proved to be a subject in which the women were keenly interested and anxious for a clear understanding. It was the trend of the discussions which led to the substitute motion, made by Mrs. Ge-| line Bowman of Richmond, Va., advo- | cating special study before the mo- tion should be put to vote. According to Miss Stewart, the only real controversy which arose was over the motion to raise the annual dues from §1 per annum to §2. After much argument pro and con, the measure was passed. Those advocat- ing higher dues based their arguments upon the fact that the entire organi- zation, unlike others of its kind, is financed by dues, with no additional contributions from {individual mem- bers. The federation has increased so much in size and importance, it ‘was stated, that additional funds are neces- sary to carry on the enlarged work. In addition to the resolutions al- ready mentioned, the convening body signified its indorsement of the edu- cation bill now pending in Congress providing for a separate Department of Education under a cabinet head; indicated its approval of a statutory Federal Employment Service and of the Fess amendment to the Smith- Hughes act, all three of which have been indorsed by the federation at previous conventions. The education committee reported constructive work in providing schol- arships for young girls who need aid to fit themselves for business or pro- fessional work. Many of the clubs in the federation are active in this work, which is one of the most important projects undertaken by the organiza- tion. ‘Through the committee on person- nel research, the University of Michi- ‘an requested the ald of the federa- tlon in making a research study of the work opportunities for business and professional women. Ce-operation in gathering facts for this reséarch work was promised by the delegates in gen- eral session. . In discussing the election of officers, which was part of the routine busi- ness at the Des Moines conference, Miss Mary Stewart stated that she wished tg correct the impression that she had been a candidate for the office of president. Miss Stewart de- clared that she was in no sense a can- didate for the office. Her nomination, made from the floor by an individual’ delegate, was made without her knowledge and was withdrawn by her as soon as she was able to get in touch with the nominating committee. Miss Stewart asserted that Miss Lena Madison Phillips of New York was the only nominee regularly reported by the nominating committee and the only one considered when the vote was taken. There was nd" dissension whatever in the election, which was conducted entirely without contro- vergy, according to the legislative chairman, * % % ® EADS of a number of prominent ymen's national organizations spent the past week as guests of the Chautaugua Institution at.Chautau- Y., taking part in the pro- gram arranged in co-operation with the Chautauqua Weman's Club on “Women's Responsibility for Amer- club el oaesn bly of the institution were Dr. Vale. ria Parker of the National Council of Women; Mrs. Ella A. Boole, president of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union; Mre. A. H, Reeve, president National Congress of Par- ents and Teachers; Mrs. John Henry Hammond, president of the Woman's Roosevelt, Memorial Assoclation, and Mrs. Florence C. Floore, past treas- urer of the General Federation of Women's Clubs and a member of the board of trustees of that organization. Mrs. Floore spoke before the as- sembly on the duties of a treasurer. Addresses were given each day by varjous club heads who were in at- tendance. Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker of Texas, who has been president of the Chautauquas Woman's Club for a number of years, presided over the sesslons of the institution in which her organization participated. The Chautauqua Woman's Club, which is a member club of the Gen- eral Federation of Women's Clubs, is unique in that its membership con- sists not of women of any one local- ity, but of clubworkers gathered from the four corners of the Nation for the Summer months alone. When other clubs are “knocking off work" for the vacation period, this club is just be- ginning activities. Throughout the Summer, the members meet each day to discuss club problems and carry out a definite program. A spacious club- house is maintained which affords a delightful rendezvous for the 1,600 members. Mra. John D. Sherman, president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, was Invited to attend and ad- dress the Chautauqua gathering on “Making Full Use of Today,” but she was detained in Chicago on her way east from her home in Estes Park, Colo., and was unable to carry out her part of the program. Mrs. Sherman was in conference last week with her publicity chairman, Mrs. Frederick G. Weitz, in Des Moines, Iowa, laying plans for the American Homes Congréss, */hich is to be held in that city during the week of November 15, under the auspices of the general federation. Both Mrs. Sherman and Mrs. Weitz will return to Washington the latter part of Sep- tember to attend the first meeting of the executive committee, which will be held hers the last week of the month. * K % x 'ACH state group in the General Federation of Women’s Clubs is sending a doll to the Sesquicentennial exhibit on Old High street, dressed to represent a prominent figure in some episode of importance in the history of that State. Dolly Madison has been selected as the woman to be represented in the exhibit sent from the District of Co lumbia federation. A committee, com posed of Mrs. Edgar P. Meritt, chair man; Mrs. Jason Waterman, Mrs. Wal lace Streater, Mrs. George Gillingham, Mrs. G. L. Perking and Mrs. Douglas Horne, selected the tharacter to be represented and decided upon the cos tume she should wear, which is & replica of the one worn by “Dolly Madison” in the group of “First Ladies” which forms a part of an elaborate exhibit in the National Mu- seum. A Mrs. Horne dressed the doll, and it will be sent to New York the latter part of the week, following its “‘so- journ” in a downtown department store, where it is the central figure of a window display. Five members of the bosrd of gov- ernors of the Woman's National Dem- ocratle Party are vacationing abroad this Summer. Mrs. Stephen Bonsal i in Genéva; Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, former president of the organization, Mrs. Richard Burleson and Mrs. Ollis James are in Paris, while Mrs. Frank Hiram Snell is traveling in Russia. Mrs. A. A. Jones, president of the club, is at her home In New Mexico. Mrs. Emily Newell Blalr, secretary and also vice chairman of the Demo- cratie national committee, has gone to Colorado for the Summer. Mrs. John B. Kendrick, treasurer, is so- journing at her home, End o' Trall, ‘Wyoming. Mrs, James Meredith Helm, second viece president, is in Illinois, and Mrs. ‘Wilbur Hubbard, chairman of the ex- ecutive cemmittee, is occupying her country estate in Maryland ng Itself Up Into Hate (Continued from First Page) contribution to the victory is a sig- nificant straw. The Lendon press is full of protests at the prevalence of our films, our plays, of all sorts of American products, even, sub rosa a little, Americans themselves. Resent Our Court Palicy. Every member mation of the league ~resents bitterly our course in serving notice of the terms on which we would adhere to the World Court, as if the league, the court, the world had no better business than to take our orders and accept our cenditions, and as if our adher- ence was of such major importance that nothing else counted. Italy re- sents_our strictures upon Mussolini and Fascism, France our criticism of her atmy, all Europe criticizes our flight from the league. But it is money questions that supply Europe with the text. It is our course in the matter of the debts which is seized upon as a sound il- lustration of our purpose to control, or of our desire to destroy, or our ruthlessness and avarice. And ome has to remember that this state of mind has been created in advance of payments. Only Britain is so far paying us real money in any con- siderable quantity. Moreover, Ger- man reparations, which are to be the basis of all payments, are still rela- tively small, and, therefore, German emotion is not vet aroused. In the end, Europe will find a way to escape an obligation which it does not regard as resting on anything but accidental foundations. I have not in recent vears found any Eu- ropean who regarded the debt settle- ments, which have been made as any- thing but temporary concessions to popular emotions, a sort of com- promise to quiet passion, pending the time when real settlements could be made. What we get ultimately will be just what Europe regards as in its own interests to pay, no more and no less, when the period in which we can exercise pressure has passed. People Belleved Rebellious. In the last analysis, European gov- ernments will not pay because Eu- ropean peoples will not carry the load. European legislators will be just as fearful of their constituents as our legislators have been in the discussion of debt settlements. In my judgment, the day will come when Germany will repudiate her reparations duties and her repudla- tion will be the signal for a general repudiation of debts to us. One of the most astute diplomats in all of Europe, who had figured largely in debt negotiations, told me in London last Winter that the signal would one day come from Germany. The unfortunate circumstance is that we are faced with the prospect of being forced from position to po- sition, yielding nothing ourselves vel- untarily and always getting credit not for our ultimate concessions but our original obstinacy. We started with the bold assumption that every one would have to pay us every last red cent. We have cut the British debt a quarter, the French a half and the Itallan two-thirds. If we had done any of this with a gesture our situation might be different. We are now fighting the French over the question of giving them a safety clause which would enable them to ask for a readjustment if Germany defaulted. But it does not require any gigantic intellect or any pro found acquaintance with France to know that eny French government which undertook to pay debts after reparations had been repudiated would be swept out of power instantly. Our policy in debt settlement has been based, not upon the facts in the world but upon public opinion in this country. Our congressional leaders have steadily refused to ad- mit that politics of the same sort were in existence in other countries and have assumed that because of American opinton we could make no concessions, but that despite their own public opinions forelgn statesmen eould concede anything we demanded. As a consequence, we have, in the end made a few concessions, got pa- per contracts which no one in Europe and few experts in. Americh believe have any permanent value and mobi- lized the public opinion of a whole con- tinent against us. We have, in fact, destroyed the real equity in the debts which was the sense of obligation of the debtors and thus insured that payment will continue only while in- terest is served by paying. U. 8, Position in Eurape. Last of all, we have destroyed aur standing in Europe. 'We have re- placed the German as the object of iversal dislike. We have come to on something of the appearance German in the eyes of Euro- rl,n countries in the years between 905 and 1914, We ave feared, > > trusted and disliked, from London to Moscow, in varying degrees but with a surprising unanimity. Part of Eu- rope belleves we desire to dominate, another part belleves that we are at least willing that Europe should per- ish in the attempt to pay us our debts. Perhaps the worst of all this is the fact that in the end we are not going to get one cent more than we might have got by other methods. We are now just where the French were when they occupied the Ruhr. We are on the point of demonstrating that coer- cion cannot collect debts, whether the coerclon be military or political, but that it can produce a passion which can hardly be measured in money val ues. The French acted in the Ruhr with the belief that the justice of their case was a sufficient warrant for their policy. We have acted with the con- viction that the validity of our con- tracts gave us an unanswerable argu- ment. Like Germany in the Ruhr time, Europe cannot fight, but we are now entering the period of so-called pas- sive resistance. We are just begin- ning to encounter what might be called a pan-European state of mind. Public opinion in Europe is just start- ing to mobilize. So far from heing set- tled, the debt settlements are only en- tering a new phase. (Copyright. 1926,) Chinese Barbers Ux-lite And Increase Prices The elder generations of Chinese are wondering what is coming next to boost the cost of living, which has been soaring for the last year. Chi- nese barbers are the last to be af- fected and they have announced that they will have to increase their prices. One hundred and eighty of them met at Pootung, just across the river from Shanghai, and in solemn conclave admitted that something had to be done. It was no lénger possible to cut hair at the old rate of 12 Mexi- can cents—about 6 cents gold—and so they decided to put it up to 20 Mexican centss or, as an American would say if he patronized them, one dime. The price of a shave goes up from 6 cents Mexican to 10 cents Mexican, or & American cents. Nothing was said about shampoos. face massages, manicuring or even the Chinese barber’s specialty, ear- picking! While these prices may seem small, when it is remembered that thousands of Chinese earn from 30 cents to $3 a week the serious- ness of the situation fdr them may be grasped. Parasites Are Listed For Aid of Physicians An important step has been taken in routing the army of flukes, tape- worms and other animal parasites that are likely to prey on man's vitals. Y All of these orms’’ from every part of the world, though it is ehiefly 1n the tropics that such pests abound have been grouped, classified and de scribed by the United States Public Health Service in a very complete key catalogue. The publication is of extreme professional importance to health officers, physicians and medi- cal students, for it is so arranged that it enables them to recognize any such parasites with a minimum of effort and study. . Education of the Maya Indlans and poor whites of Yucatan to benefits of wearing shoes is causing an increase in the shoe-manufacturing business of that country. 21 Editions have been printed Gcmger.f Dorsey's amazing book Why We Behave Likie Hyman Beings