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THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., A Tale of Advent'ure and a Volumeé Concerned With Florida. Early Autumn Novels Make Their Appearax}ce on Shelves of the Booksellers. IDA GILBERT MYERS. BEAU SABREUR. By Percival Chris- tophér Wren, author of “Beau Geste,” etc. New York: Frederick “A. Stokes Co. T is an instinct with every sort of human hunger to return ta the | field that has already given it sustenance and support After the clear triumph of “Beau Geste” no wonder that its author again betakes himself to North Africa to. repeat his vietory. And “Beau Sabreur” steps out from this second ¢ llenge 1o i . as in “Beau venturing in a sor. Here we come upon Henri de Beau- | F h hussar. Since adven- eath of life to De Beau odsend that he is of the TFrench intelligence staff, going among | the uncertain tribes to discover all the things that a colonizing country must know about the natives. So, grounded in the language of the tribes, the Beau Sabreur. now camel driver or. water 3 as a blind leper or a s dates and melons, now this, Koes- out into the hidden placcs of desert. Restless natives, fierce agitators for ® holy war to extermjnate the infidel, Impassable routes, stretches of desert, sudden surprise of threatening tribes —these are the things that make the days and nights of De Beaujolais. No, not quite, for the sppreme thinz in the heart of him is duty to his coun- try and, after that, love for his friend. And if you want to meet a brave and beautiful vouth, entirvely human and yet beautiful, with the sabreur. If on want to feel tf rit of that tur bulent region, go along with him into | fts corners and cranmies, ride the des- ert for the sense of something un bearably terrible and beautiful. 1f You want to realize the cleansing joy of true friendship, tie up with De Beaujolais. If you long for a glimpse of love for country, sec him count his friends second to the commanding voice of that country. 1f you want adventure, night and day, its dangers and escapes and glorious thrills, keep close to the Benu Sabreur. You have no choice about keeping close to him, for having touched him once you will be no longer free. For he is a clear enchantment of romantic and beau- tiful youth. After all thix, if you feel like the most gorgeous of comedies— why, then, keep right on reading “Bean Sabreur” 1o its very end. Ro- mantic, picturesque, pectiliarly hu- | ean as the upper air, dramatic highest degree—now, here is a | | experiences in Afric to loaf alonz with his own opinfons book that is a hook. Don't n glamourous truth of this real adventure. $oxiEw WAYS OF ESCAPE. By Noel HE family, as such, has come dily and with seeming reluctance | into the field of curvent fiction. The | modern novelist in outlook and method { s blood relation to the scientist, both of them bent sedulousiy upon the pu suit of truth. The family, a safe and | tried institution, has nothing to do | with the relentiess aims of scienc Yet now and then <ome audacious young writer appears to believe th: it is a legitimate field of exploration. Here is one that does. Noel Forrest's first novel breaks into the family foid, & general acceptance of this sacro- may be. That it may be under the domination of personal selfishne That it may be controlled by the van- fty and conceit of its overlord. Ste. phen Heath is the head of this pa ticular household. An able man, horn seli-seeking and vain, he dominates | his wife and children, body and soul. | He controls the neighborhood to a marked degree. Fach child’s carecr 1s laid out platitude, “vour father knows best every case is decided. A little scru- tiny reveals that Stephen Heath, eve in the vital matter of his children’s future, is feeding his own self-love. A bitter story of tragic course and cli- max. The title of the novel describes its action. The ways by which these children escape the prison and the hard taskmaster are set down here. Not till Stephen Heath has heen |1 beaten to the ground does he acknowl edge the rights of his own family. This is a very important novel. It has courage and aim. It may be over- stressed. I think I thin! phen Heath is overplayed. He is too steadily condensed and exclusive in his own egotism to be quite plausible. All the same, this is, in its purpose and general development, a true stor that applies in some degree to ¢ family. The sooner this is admi the sooner the fami loded, the hetter will it be for t ife. A very promising first novel, by a clearly serious and competent writer. A novel that is provocative of denial and protest. And that is good, toc * ok x THE QUISITE PERDITA. By E.|murderer. Rarringten, cuthor of “The Chaste Diana,” et New k: Dodd, Mead & Co the heart of the human. The best of this author’s novels on a period to which she has laid a substantial claim. By Kenneth L. Roberts. New York: ABLES belong to the unrealities of | a dim past, or o0 we thought. But us that even the mos ntastic of these fables has probably its core of truth, to which succeeding After age added the juicy stuff of riumor npon rumor? Finally, around the whole grew the tough integument that held the fable intact. processes are o speeded up that the many old centuries may be into a_few hours, or weeks s we live right ables — core accumuiations ind of conclusion and final- e before the eve. is such a fable, it the most: | ity. ‘all are right he I The State of Flor not yet quite rounded into rind, it is true, but otherwise complete. e permitted to look upon this proc- ess of makigg a story more fabulous to us from pagan Greece and Rome. but we travel s yet in the mak- our guide in A good guide, through it while it Kenneth Robert special adventure who competently separ: stuff from of pure says wdventitious A sort of ma- s weil, adroitly snifting scenes rren sand pile turned into swamp metumorphosed in- goon and canal A ramshackle group of ¢ to marvels of Span- A business man be- ble to cipher and reckon al- s speedily as the Florida sftua- nd to comport himself or even the stock A sensible man, able to set steady future growth away from the hysteria of the modern real estate i And one of the best compan- ions all along the way— filled with Inughter and the quick turn of wit, statement, ready in sym- admiration for the 1f ‘one is going to Florida by the book route he will do well to go in the company of this sat- isfying man. to show ba and gondola. ish architecture quite like a bank VERDICT OF BRIDLEGOOSE. New York: S EWELYN a, here sits down buld and naked frankness holds wheth- rest. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. | €] . i . 2 out the United States. writers to be perfectly free One expects the country the Powys elicits no surprise. however, he strips himself to the skin tere you come upon strength — that {to be proved. overtures to this geattering tradition and pretense and | one perfect flow of intimate disclosure sanct institutlon to such four winds | which includes not only himself, but of revelation as he is able lawfully to | set in motion. lere it turns out that | a family may be a tyranny. So it | how they look, their shortcominzs and fatuitles, step while, however, some one stands well | SWinburne, A. C. 8 this critical there is a bit of reason this approval which rubs the captious stuff that seems to this splenetic Like all other Englishmen, he . regrets it, sees in it. talks about it, ally quite personally But—take the man himself somewhere—sleeping York house make strange companions in the moonlight, out on him with no reference | national tragedy whatever to the aptitudes and wishes | and probably is r of that child. Under the familiar | on the roof of a at the top of a lonely moun- and another and another. is delivered something that is yours and mine, something to keef® and cherish for its truth and penetr: al and poignant of the habit use it, too, is of the substance of plain truth. You unfailingly, -perhaps bec this Llewelyn Powys sees to write about, THE GLEAVE MYSTERY. By Louls 'he Black Cat,” Zdward J. Clode, just home from India finds himself in a crowd face to face with his father's A second or so, then the another com- nd the man important point in this story is, how- WORLD WAR; The United States in the war, 1817-1918. By Thomas G. Frothingham, Captain, U. S. R. With Maps and Diagrams. Cam- bridge: Harvard University Press. THE CLUB OF MASKS. By Allen Upward. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co. SHORT TALKS WITH THE DEAD AND OTHERS. By Hilaire Belioc New York: Harper & Bros. UNEARTHLY. By Robert Hichens, author of “The Garden of Allah,” ete. New York: Cosmopoli- tan Book Corporation. ISM IN AMERICAN L2 UNIONS A Plea for Con- structive Unfonsim. By John A. Dyche. Introduction by _Jullus Henry Cohen. New York: Boni & Liveright. MARKETING DEB. By Hughes.Cor- nell, author of “Born Rich,” etc. Frontispiece by William C. Hoople. New York: The Macaulay Co. CATTLE INDUSTRY AND TARIF By Lynn Ram- say Edminster, With the Aid of the Council and Staff of the Insti- of Economics. New . 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THE PUBLIC LIBRARY Recent accessions at the Public Li- brary and lists of recommended read- ing will appear in this column each Poetry. Browning, Robert. Works, v.1-2, 1912, YP-B82a5. Robert. -~ Seleeted Poems. YP-BY3as. King, Stoddard. What' the Queen Said. Y P-K587w. Mary Angelit Candlelight. 8s. Schauffler, R. H. comp. The Poetry Starshine and YP-9Schi8p. Edmund. Epithalamion. p3de. . Swinburne, A. C. Poems and Bal- 1878, YP-Sw662a6. of the Spring- 1880. W662s0. New and Old. 1880. Lesbla and Other Poems. 1920. YP-Sy66l. Taggard, Genevieve, ed. May Da YP-9T124m. Genevieve. Words for the YP-T124w. ‘Widdemer, Margaret. Ballads and Lyrics. YP-W633b. Wilkinson, Mrs. M. O. B. Yule Fire. YP-9W6H4y L. ¢. comp. A Manual of Mystic Verse. 1917. YP-9W663m. P. Sacred Poems. 1860. YP-W676: The World. New York. The Conning Tower Book. YP-9W894. Yogananda, Swami. ' Songs of the YP-YT4s, Literary History and Criticism. Abercrombie, Lascelles. The Theory of Poetry. ZYP-Ab34t. E. A Studies From Ten Literatures. ZY-B698s. Brooke, S. A. Naturalism in English Poetry. 1920. ZYP-B794. Clark, T. F. English Classics Com- pletely Analyzed. ZY-C54%, H. . Modern © Poetry. ZYP-C696m. 3. A. The Modern Novel. ZY-D82m. Bernard. Panorama de la Lit- terature Contemporaine. ZY39-F2 F. M. Thus to Revisit. 1921, ZY-HS8T4t. L. P. Reviews and Criti- cal Papers. 1921. 2ZY-J63r. irsky, D. S. prince. Contemporary an_Literature, ZY54-Mé67c. Mordell, Albert, ed. Notorious Liter- Attacks. ZY-MS8In. Allardyce. British Drama. ZYD-N51b. AROUND THE CITY BY NANNIE LANCASTER. N THE downtown business section there is a street of second-hand smells. Also there are nolses— the Babellike shrill of foreign voices, the insistent shuffle of pushearts and the always goings and comings of job-lot humanity that must buy castoff clothing at bargain prices because—everybody knows why. But at one cor- 4 ner, the other morning, the Au- gust sun was try- ing to dry out the daily downpours, and succeeding so far as to blow clear but fussy lit- tle breezes that had set all sorts of small trash to skirt-dancing over the pavement. And in one spot there was a box. And on the box sat an an- cient man who was selling pencils and shoestrings in brown and black hanks A passing man who was in a rush to get wherever he was bound for— th& sort of man who is going to Heaven if he ever takes time to die— hurried a coin out of a pocket, dropped it in one extended hand and was sprinting off when the ancient man halted him with a shrill reminder to come back and get what he had paid for. The customer must have thought this a remarkable matter, for he wheeled back to say that he had no use for shoestrings and had a peck of pencils which he rarely-used, because he preferred a pen. He just wanted to help out—— “I supposed it was an understood thing that people were to give without iking. Don't know that I ever saw apy customer go off with a pencil or whatever it was on sale.” “Well, sir, I'm not that kind. I'm no beggars My business is to sell pen- cils and shoestrings and matches. And besides, if some of us have got in the habit of not expecting customers to take off the goods they buy, it is the fault of their good nature. They think it a helpful thing to contribute—which is not the case, since it teaches the peddler to be a pauper instead of trying to run a little business same as ou may run a big one. ' It Kills his self-respect, until now many in my business have come to think they are entitled to keep their stock in hand.” The customer touched his hat, se- lected a green-coated pencil and men- tioned that it was the first time he had ever known a pencil seller to show ny symptom of expecting a customer to take what he had paid for. “I bet you are the only one in town,” he added. The ancient man gave a contradic tory shake of the head: “You are mistaken. There are al- ways ot in everything. “\isdom is worth buying,” agreed the man. “Glve me a couple more pencils.” Then he sprinted on again, and the peddler waited on—with the sunshine covering him like a yellow blanket— brand new. e HIBR bob was of a gloriously flam- boyant red that the sunshine turned into a gold mine. And her skin—where it wasn't painted—was of the satin white of a bride”s gown. The rest of her was a one-piece of green organdy from= low mneck to knee tops. And she stood at a counter considering a string of pearls. As she filtered them through her fingers each head held a glow of faintest iridescence, and a customer standing by caught a picture of their beauty against the youthful slimness of the purchaser’s neck—for she couldn’t resist, though obviously the buying of them gave her finances a pinch. However, the lure of posses- sion world old. And the clerk shuffled the’treasure into a little paper Dag. She was such a pretty yvoungster and so adorably foolish than an on- looking customer, who wouldn’t wear pearls if you gave her a peck—if you had seen her you would know why-— had to chip in with a remark as to the becomingness of the gems. Of course, the adage tells us that praise to the face is open disgrace, which is-doubtless the reason so many wist- ful lives fade out and die without ever having had a word of praise from those who should have encouraged them, but, anyway: The woman said she knew the pearls would be becoming, and the girl bubbled with joy: “That’s lovely in you to say so! I think they will, too. Of course, they aren’t real. I know a girl who has real pearls she paid a lot for, though she Dought them on a Friday when they were marked down from $5 to $4.49. Still, when T get these on I bet they will look as real as hers. The woman remarked that she bet so, too, and the girl bubbled on: “Me and my friend are going on a moonlight tomorrow, and mom got me a real cute little white voile with low neck and sleeves, and if I don't let on I just paid 10 cents for them nobody could tell the difference. Do you honestly think they could? I Det they will look just as good on me as them pearls that rich woman got robbed of in the newspapers, don’t you think so?"” The woman agreed and to herself felt that she could take her affidavit that the many ladies—mainly dow- agers—whose lost or stolen pearls get into headlines would see only too acutely the, difference between fabu- tous jewels on their own time-dis- torted necks and the wax beads on the snowy slimness of outline to be revealed by the cute little voile, and would be rhapsodically glad to swap it only the exchange inciuded the soft freshness of youth. 1t you don't believe it, ask Father Time. . He knows. * ¥ k¥ N the last day of the last century, a bride lost hrer wedding ring and her husband bought her a new one. Unlike most wedding rings, it was banded with stars of black enamel, for ! the reason that the bride’s mother ad been married with the same style ring and her life had been so happy that the daughter decided to follow copy. 5 . After the marrjpze the young cou- ple went to California, and the years passed and passed until it was time to celebrate their silver anniversary, and they so arranged it as to be here for the oceasion. On the way, they stop- ped for a day in Chicago to show their son the big town, and while they were on a street car the woman’s attention was attracted to a passenger across who wore a ring banded with stars of black enamel. She got out at a certain street, and the wife, having signaled her husband into noticing the ring, followed after, until they reached a spot where the two could approach her, whereupon the wife very frankly told her she would like to know where she got that most unusual ring. The owner was confused, but admit- ted that it had been given to her years ago by a voung man who had found it on a street in Washington, D. C and though they quar i afterward, she had worn it ever She took the ring off her finger and handed it over to the wife to see if the initials inside were hers, saying she would gladly give it up to her. The wife, so tremulously delighted that she could scarcely speak, told the owner, before looking inside the ring, that the initials would show it was from J. L. to M. B. . i The initlals were different. It seems a pity, of course, to come so near finding one’s lost wedding ring and then missing it, but—- Think of the poor souls who have never had a wedding ring to lose! THE G WO women stood on a seventh floor waiting to go down. As the elevator man opened the wire grating, each stepped back to allow the other to enter. The man waited. The woman who had hobbed gray hair and a blue georgette ag short as the law allows smiled deferentially and took a step backward. The woman in every-day black took two steps backward. The man waited. “I don’t know that T'm older than you, but—-" georgette entered the car with a nagging smile on her lips and a nagging twitch to her shoulder The every-day woman followed and said nothing. The clevator started down. “I say I don’t know that T am older than you " changing her smile to a snicker, “Who said you were, madam?” “Well, you implied it, waiting for me to get in the elevator before vou, < if T were older—and, as I said, I know that I am.” We are both old enough, madam, to have common sense. 1 work here and naturally give ‘preference to strangers.” The elevator stopped to let in a man who took his hat off. “You may think I am because my hair is gray, but I've been this way ever since I was 18. It runs in our family. My mother had a white lock over her forehead the day she was-g—" The elevator stopped to let in a man who kept his hat on. ; 3 ried, and that was before her seventeenth birthday.” The elevator stopped to let the first gentleman out. “So I may be younger than you think."” The every-day woman, who knows a freak when she comes across one— close—made no answer. The other woman's voice reached after her as she was making for the entrance: “I don't know that I'm even near as old as you are.” And if the problem gave her pleas- ure, she was welcome. > * K ok ok COLLEAGUE of the staff adds this incident to the column: An_ elderly lady accompanied by an Airedale dog, near as old as she, can be seen most any night, sitting on a bench in the center of Lincoln Park. The elderly lady blends in contrast with the soft green tinge of the park and surrounding trees, in a black, tight-fitting dress that rustles at every movement. The dog seems happy—in fact he is happy and a bit lazy, too. Ile seems to be quite satisfied with life—nothing to do but eat, drink and sleep. Who wouldn't? The lady takes a small package out of her much-too-large pockethook and, 1o and behold, pigeons of all distinc- tions appear upon the scene. The lady proceeds to feed them, and they fly up to her shoulders and perch on every available place near her. The dog looks slightly jealous, but is satisfied when his elderly mistress passes some food his way. Then the squirrels come and the dog growls ominously and leaps off the bench. Soon the unin- vited guests are perched in the top- most parts of the trees, looking down hungrily at their luckier rivals. SEPTEMBER 5, 1926—PART 2. | CLUBWOMEN OF THE NATION Women Review Accomplishments of First Six Years as Voters. Lady Astor to Speak Before Woman Voters—Nationil Woinan's Party Gives Reception—Conference Notes. BY CORINNE FRAZIER. ITTLE more than a week ago members of women's organiza- tions throughout the country celebrated the sixth anniver- sary of the American woman's citizenship, gained through the fran- chise which gave her the power to assist in making the laws by which she should be governed. Leaders of these organizations in summarizing the political achieve- ments of the first half-dozen vears of enfranchisement for the fair sex urged the necessity for concerted & tion-on the part of all women of the Nation in forwarding the movement for greater equality and for higher ideals in political and legislative pro- cedure. Exercise of their new power to institute a “political house clean- ing” in their individual communities and distriets was advocated for all clubwomen as a. practical means of adding materially to their achieve- ments of the first half-dozen years of political freedom. According to a writer in Wilming- ton, Del., the outstanding achieve- ments of women in the political world during the past six years can he summed up as follows: : There are 133 women occupying seats in State -Legislatures of 36 States, There are two Woman governors— Mrs. Nellie Ross of Wyoming and Mrs. Miriam Ferguson of Texa Half a dozen women have sat in the Congress of the United States. One woman is on the Supreme Court bench in the State of Ghio. One woman is a member of the “little cabinet” in Washington-—Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney General of the United States Numerous women are mayors of towns and cities throughout the country. - Women are judges in many courts. * ok ok K AN interesting comment on the re sults of women's activities as voters was given in this connection by s herwin, president of the wue of Women Voters, said, in effect: 3 'he most significant result of six years of woman suffrage is the voter's contribution to the open mind in poli- .. Woman's entrance into the po- A field also has created a new con- ception of what to vote for. It has become a political habit for them to study candidates of all parties, the merits of all campaign issues and.the election laws themselves. ¢ “The first six years of woman suf- mark no new era in definite the polls wecause of the woman vote. But here and there where women have taken the leading part in local elections the result has been a political house cleaning,” At least three of the major Wwomen's organizations—the League of Women Voters, the National Woman's Party and the Woman’s National Democratic Club—have worked and are still work- ing to increase the percentage of women voters at all elections. It is the chief issue with the Women Voters, who already have advanced their get-out-the-vote campaign in preparation for the Fall elections. An increased vote among the intelligent classes of both men and yomen is be- ing urged constantly by the Demo- eratic Club, and_th fonal Wom- an's Party appeals consistently to its members to encourage vofing among women. 1t the women did nothing else save to awake the voting conscience of the average American citizen and increase CONDITIONS IN FRANCE WORSE THAN AVERAGE VISITOR SEES Laborers Receive But Little More Than $1 a Day, | Three-fourths of Which Goes for Bread; Other Wages Correspond. BY ROBT. UNDERWOOD JOHNSON, Former Ambassador to Ttaly. American visitors to France during the present season have found little on the surface to indicate the desper- ate situation‘in which our ally across the Atlantic finds herself. After cold Summer, the crops have had a new stimulus and the yellow fields of Normandy and Brittany give promise of a good harvest. The chief index of the pinch of want is not so much the increased price of bread, but its de- terioration in quality from a standard of excellence that was not found in any other country. But beneath the surfate there is abundant justification of Ambassador Herrick’s ~ characterization of the country as a “house of mourning. Few tourists penetrate to the intimacy of French family life, and now there is a new barrier of pride that conceals the true state of affairs. But a little inquiry of a sympathetic nature re- eals that, with the possible excep- tion of a few classes, such as certain farmers and the hotelkeepers, every one In France, from the President of the republic to the humblest work- man, is hard hit by the depression of the franc. The salary of a professo at the Sorbonne is now hardly equiva lent to $1.000 a year. Laborers with large families who receive 40 francs a day—a little more than $1-—must pay three-fourths of this wage for hread alone. The cultivated c] s are suf- fering as they did not suifer in the war, and many with names of historic signiticance are clandestinely selling off their heirlooms of jewelry and fur- niture in a pathetic attempt to “tide over,” while they are heroically deny- ing themselves every luxury and even restricting the list of their necessities. Incomes—the dependence of widow and orphans—have shrunk to a bag: telle, and ladies of the St. Germain quarter are crowding into such ave- nues of business as offer hope of dail bread. It reminds one of the condi- tions and the heroism of the Southern people after our Civil War. With the remembrance of the com- mon _sacrifices of the two ¢ i for the happiness of the world, of gratitude, generosity and chivalry to do what she can to alleviate the situation. This ean he done inj many ways—by -sympathetic exhibitlon of 2ood will and good manners, by a high-minded refusal to resent the occa- sional little outbursts of bad manners toward Anglo-Saxon travelers, for it must be borne in mind that a gentle- as slow to take offense as to intermitting until France is in a hetter condition the many ex- cursions of societies and delegations which make heavy drafts on her hos- pitality; by paying the prices asked in the shops instead of bargaining; by refraining from critici of small defects encountered in -travel which have their counterparts at home, and, in general, by bearing in mind how much we have in common with those whose battlefields hold the sacred dust of our dead. There has never been a time be- tween nations when a few mischievous persons in each—with or without a fair grievance—have not been able to play the misleading role of “the three tailors of Tooley street.” The heart of France is as sound as its sofl is rich or as its people are industrious. Let us cultivate the “will to believe’ in_her good faith and not lose any part of the vision of ideality so nobly mated with ours in the Great War. The reluctance of some of the best friends of America in France to have their country sign the debt settle- ment, generous as it seems to many on this side of ‘the water, is due to an honorable ~ conscientiousness which hesitates to commit them to a burden to which they feel they are sure to be unequal in the many years to come, long after Germany shall have had a lean slate. All our official protesta- tions that we have reached a final ad- justment in the Mellon-Berenger agreement cannot conceal thé fact that, independent of political consid- erations, there is a strong undercur- rent of feeling and conviction that for practical as well as sentimental rea- sons America_cannot let France go to the wall. The principle 'of the “capacity to pay,” which has been the basis of our policy, is very likely to be again invoked in the years to come. Meanwhile it is 1o be hoped that France's phenomenal need at the present moment will find the most generous consideration of Washington, (Copyright, 1926.) League of Nations Is on Public Trial In Session About to Begin in Geneva when Greece, as a friend of Britain, is fighting Turkey, the situation is dif- ferent, and the representatives of countries at Geneva are bound, in the nature of things, to stand on na- tional interests and not to view pend- ing questions impartially or objective- ly. On the question of suppressing conflicts outside the league. So far, since the failure of March the league has done nothing and been able to do nothing to modify the sftuation. Thus, it can be but a’registering board of agreements made, not a force to pro. mote agreement. However else one may view the situation, one can fairly say, that its future is actually at stake in the forthcoming session, and a new failure would be fraught with almost thereby the percentage of intelligent voting at the polls, their enfranchise- ment would be more than justified. When they have swcceeded in forcing upon Uncle Sam'’s substantial cttizenry the necessity of exercising its voting privilege en masse. and not by a | meager percentage, they can feel that hey not only have accomplished much but have established that “new era in politics™ which one of their leaders declares quite homestly has not yet been reached Statisties show that nowhere else on the face of the globe is the duty of voting taken so lightly as in this great American republic. Perhaps polities would not have to be “house cleaned” so vigorously or so often if the majority of the voters regularly exercised their privilege. ‘This is the opinion of the leading women's political organizations, which, despite varied aims, are united in the one big effort to encourage a more representative number of regular vis itors to the polls on election day. & *x % ITH the vacation period at an end the fmmediate attention of the officers of the National i -ague of Women Voters is being dicected to week of important conferences, to be held from September 13 to 18, nclu- sive, in \Winnetka, 1L, at the home Mrs. William G. Hibbard, a directo . The first two of conference week, Monday and Tuesday, Septem ber 13 and 14, will be devoted exclu sively to organization matters. iss Belle Sherwin. president, and Miss Katharine Ludington of Lyne, Conn. treasurer, will confer with the regional directors and secretaries from all parts of the country. Reports of the growth of the league in 44 States will Ibe made and plans discussed for development of the work e directors making up the or ganization department who will meet with the president and treasurer in clude Mrs. James E. Cheesman of Providence, . L: Mrs. Caspar Whit- ney of New York City: Mrs. Mary O Cowper of Durham. N. C.; Mrs. Wil liam G. Hibbard of Wihnetka, Til: Marguerite M. Wells of Minne Mrs, Roscoe Anderson of St Louis, ) nd Mrs. Ernest J. Mott of San Francisco, Calif. ccretaries who will take part in t discussion are Miss Margaretta W liamson of Asheville, N. C.; Miss Flor ence Harrison of Minneapolis: Miss Ruth McIntosh; Mrs. John R. Parkes of Minneapolis, and Mrs. Elise Harlan Tharp of San Francisco Following the organization confer- ence, the annual Fall meeting of the board of directors will be held. The regional directors will be joined by other officers for the opening session of the board meeting Wednesday morning ptember 1o, Owir the absence of several members still vacationing in Europe, l(lll‘ o plete hoard will not sit at the Winnetka conference. Among the executive committee members expected to attend are Mrs. James W. Morrison of Chicago, first vice president; Miss Adele Clark of Richmond, Va., second vice presidept; Miss Elizabeth J Hauser of (Arard, Oblo, fourth vice president, and Miss Mollie Ray Car roll of Baltimore, fifth vice president Mrs. Hibbard, at whose home the fons are to be held, is in Geneva. erving the League of Nations at work. Miss Ruth Morgan, third vice president, is another board member watching developments at Ceneva Mrs. Herbert Knox Smith of Farm- ington, Conn., secretary, sailed 10 days ago for two months in Italy. Members of the league throughout the country, and particularly those in States adjacent to New York City, are interested this week in a meeting in honor of Lady Astor. The National and New York State Leagues of ‘Women Voters have arranged a meet ing Thursday night in the Waldorf Astoria, New York City, at which Lady Astor will make her only speech 4in this country before her return for the early opening of Parliament. tation W.JZ and allied stations will Tady Astor's address at 9 o'clock, and many local leaguers arc planning special sroup gatherings to hear her. arrie Chapman Catt, honorary president of the National League, will also address the meeting. Miss Kath- avine Ludington, treasurer of the Na- tional League, will preside. Owen D. Young. a member of the National League’s advisory committee, who had so great a share in the successful work of the Dawes Commission, will introduce Lady Astor. Widely known women are members of the special committee of arrange- ments, including_ Mrs. Montgomery Hare, chairman; Mrs. Catt, Dr. Kath- erine Bennet Davis, Mrs. Henr: dard Leach, Mrs. John W. Davi Charles Dana Gibson, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mrs. Norman DeR. Whitehot Mrs. Caspar Whitney, Mrs. Arthur Curtiss James, Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw, Mrs. August Bel- mont, Miss Mabel Choate, Miss Mary Garrett Hay, Mrs. Elon Huntington Hooker, Mrs. Edward M. House, Mrs. Wallace Irwin, Miss Belle Sherwin, Miss Ruth Morgan, Mrs. Herbert Loe Pratt and Mrs. Charles L. Tiffany. It is understood that Lady Astor is in. Virginia_at present, but will go to New York Tuesday morning. * * Kk M SMBERS of the National Wom- an's Party entertained at a re ERE ave Garsick, . Hichurd | ionl Wis Tas il mul comiht blini, Giuseppe. Giovanni P el e Tl 2 are | Garrick, Richard [ urder, although he had already . Gluseppe. Giovanni Pa- . . ot applrinsles Sheridan, e Prince ) 50" tarm in prison for It This 1924, ZYBHAPID. » Work Opposes Federal Contribution of Wales who later hecanie Georse IV iory” tale progresses by way of| The Saturday Review of Literature. ! erain. Mot i Ieie and Ielie slowigrowth it suspicionsaratont || L8 B8 REIRAS e oo, 0o 0 slfles, n host Of lopis “and! ladies,{ANother, man 4s the true scrimimali| ™00 v senpit = . - o | theater folks and scandal mongers. |1 DY of measures to discover | wilkinson, Mrs. M. O. B. The Poetry — — Measure of League Power. 2 peculiarly subtle and adroit man L2 of Our Own Times. Ref. ZYP- These constitute the human element | ;¢ many evil deeds and of many more Lo (Continued from First Page.) (GoYeriient) sHol tasiie: ant appro b ot AY IOy IEg uSk LS alzeady 4 4 ahother Tamance of elehteenth een|in the making. Modern ecience be. - - priation 0 the retirement fund in | proven a useful instrument. for doins | New Russian Drive tury London. The life of society and (0713 G781 assistont 1o ".'Q'f.'l‘“m" Rhetoric. ureau. and Tecelved the Indorsement | advance of actual needs, The Govern- | precisely the things it has been able the theater form the immediate back-| (Fined scamp. 4 politics i of the e se. 3 ment s in the positior ara i ¢ whic B e e sttt his most bitter activitles Goodman, Theodore, Narrative Strue- [ “Many who would Iberalize retire: |of the. fund. ami. bomg 1he foandor | to_accomplish, things of which the ¥ e S Bl n country. A _ture and Style. ZB-G622n. ment legislation believe-that the fund |tion of our ‘economfe structure, doss | T ioration of Huggatian finarces ' : the idthand “allance betworn the Grose, i, B. Collexe Composition. | shauid pe maintained. on a Mutual | ner nosd tr ghoo s striicture; does | a | umple. But so far it has her part in the Londen procession in stage cavorlie 0 the moment, ~ox {1 15, w0 Incpent am ciolarly, ve | Grg ol St Socretary Worl says. That | ot need to give bond or make deposit | unitormiy failed, elther directly or b (Continued from First Page) . |dJuly and touched upon her program [oiiepng e B ity must have | House, H. C. and Harman, S. E.|is that the coniributions of employes | obiigations. © I a similar theory aere | 20Stention, whenever any large aues | ————————————— T L el Rhistic Wittle siovy, thoughta bl 2 romance in its generl luggage. The | Handbook ‘of Correct English for fshould be used, as at present, in pay- fextended to other Federal activities, | o o e b e oraresnta. | VoW absolutely, and cause to cease, | the introduction of drafts of the equal et e i | romance here is so knit with the mys. | _College Classes. =ZB-HSISh. ing_annuities, 'with the Government |it' would follow that the Government | COuntrles arose and all the represcia | tha ~ Communist propaganda wide: | FIghts law into the State Leglslature. | tory itself that, serving to complicate | Lewis. ‘William Dodxe and others. |in the background as guarantor of the | would carry insurance on its build: | ey O e ‘0‘}“3:‘{;::“,.01‘,“,‘(); spread in the United States and| M -h‘";"“"'- e N5y talntals F Acteds amines e | known by the Federal authorities to | Some, had not returned to America B! in a_depreclation account | tjve nations, not as spokesmen for the | KHOFE W, ¢ CERAL SUOTTER "0 | when' the other delegates to Paris dimming with overu o nally vicissitudes for itself New Practical English for High | solvency of the fund. It is only the part of wisdom for the Government |againat its property or iiv. fop 1o 3 property or give bond for | world spirit represented by the | JO REIER B T L o ganization of | Were entertained at the Woman's Party abandoned for a newer one. A con % St theme. < you see working ithat are of a seemingly impossible| Schools. ZB-L588n. Sl every. - itime e "3 isolution. A very involved matter upon |Shipherd, H. R. The Fine Art of |to sense its liabilities under such an |gpecific pe ! e e hioran miture ot in4y |the whole, one upon which Louts | - Writing. 'ZB.Sheet. Nirangement and the. probable Hmk | Tani obeol Lance A8 & CORUSCLr |feague, anation of | the Russian government. headquarters, Selated her experience e o e ned mamner. | Tracy expends his customary adroit | Woods. G. B. and Stratton, Clarence. | when it will be called upon to con-|ment under the appropriation plan up | ¢po ote 25, e r;‘i“‘ E:P"E]{‘";“""‘.If' 5. The Soviet Union must pub. |at Paris, stressing her impression of the flasco of last March. The thini& [, 10\ ociaim the sanetity of private | the effect the opposition to the Wom- at issue was the stabilization of a . an's Party had upon the public in general. She predicted that the first Right here the familiar theme 18 con. | freatment and smooth extrication at| A Manual of English. ZB-W867m. | tribute to any deficiency. The experi- | to July 1 is placed by the Retirement fined to the high life of London 200 |the last second of the last moment. Printing and Typewriting. ence of the past six vears In account: | bivision at $32,000000. In other | yery great and promising Interna- ;Property within the Russian state. words, if the fund were to cease exist- [ {ional adjustment, the creation of a) 3. Russia must compensate Amer- uropean invasion” of the National Womaw's Party would result eventu- years ago. The author's clear ing the fund has demonstrated that familiarity with both the form and BOOKS RECEIVED F. M. Reach-Touch Typewrit- changed conditions can alter the most | ence fomorrow und stop entirely, the | Lo SCecurity’ and confidence in | fcan Cltigens detvolled of their prop- - ’ ert ussia by confiscation—prop ot b 088 & produce a vivid picture of the stage | Frazier, J. L. Type Lore. ZHE-|may ally in a change in the development the spirit of this theme serves to ZHW-BOSS, careful forecasts as to how long it|Government would owe this amount. | S0 ina 1 ~ be when the Government must | proponents of the appropriation R tern Em;qpfia:d\:}};;.:!1;:';‘;(?4’:255::"?9 erty valued at close to $1,000,000.000, : i v el el bt ot o =l participate.” i P fears and rivalries ! of the whole feminist movement in the s that muthered in the | ANIMULA VAGULA. By Leonard|{Harned. W. E. Junior Typewriting| The actuaries, Mr. Work says, have | this total until the day will com® can foresee a_mounting increase in | ecular, Yet the league was totally | 4. The money owed the United |, o, theaters of the period. A touch of| Bacon, author of “Ph. D.s." New Studies. ZHW-H226. not stated the period during which unable to serve this end, because of [ States Treasury, horrowed during the | ™y "yeathews described her part in political insurzency is here, tov, in the | York: Harper & Bro Little, J. J. and Ives Co., printers, |the fund will probably be self-sup- when heavy inroads will have to he i / o0 o | Czarist and Kerensky regimes in ; : e valries and jealousles which Y rée the London procession, which was the made into the Federal Treasur the Eiva g et Russia, must be acknowledged to be A . et o | M S b 5 i~ - il a he approaching time - .- Y 10| surged up between member nations— -~ > d first international demonstration in person of Charles Fox and in that NEW DEMOCRACY The N . 'Book of Types. 1923.| porting and t - keep pace with the mounting numbe: = jslac ationa ~ | due and proper obligation and funded | 155 - g oF the Prines of Walks egged on by Pabarsiof | Wobdtew Wil ZHETLT2. when it may be nflfess:;t/r) for the|or employes and the ,m‘re”fins“;‘“m“{ because, in a word, of national inter: which the Woman's Party had par- enemies of the dull and respectabie! gon. Edited b Stannard | Newark, N. J., Boys' Continuation | Government to appropriate. to ‘the |per of petired annuitants. ests served within the league. = R d M’ gt Bt debtors | icipated. She emphasized the keen old king. The heart of the matter,| Raker and Wi Dodd. Au-i Schgol. The Printer's Dictionary |fund. This period has been variously This time it is fair to suppose that | have < sl Gl Lo enthuslasm with which this appeal to however, rests with the career of Per | {horized edition. York: Har-| _and Handbook. ZH-iN42. § i unofficially estimated at anywhere [ _The Interior Department, however, | the mistakes of six months ago will { Senator Borah, chalrman of the | pgiand for complete enfranchisement dita Bobinson, stage beauty, and| yer & Bros Seibold, G. G. comp. Historical | from 10 to enrs. belleves that. far from a probable in- | not be repeated and the bargains will fflr;l:n_ = 1'4’1(‘]“'_"'::‘!;ur:l;nl;{tee.fomm}ms of her women was received by the finatly mistress of the Prince, This| - Tiie SE ot fe S RE Sketch of Columbin Typographical | The Interior Secretary says further: | Stefse in the Government pay roil, |be made before the sessions begin. |ta be an advocate of Russian recog- | multitudes who thronged the line of By e o e I Ceeh with | THE MIND OF THE NEGRO AS RE-| Freteh of Columble 'ypographicel | .y, "etermintng the ‘status of the [ there will actually be a decrease in | One may believe, too, that the smaller | Dltioh, BAlCUINE tve WWILL ake Ereater | march. The wavs of men with women, of| FLECTED IN LETTERS WRIT-| . pin” G b Gutenberg to Plan. |present fund the actuaries propose the next 25 vears. Working on the | nations will at least endeavor to pre-| procress without our four points The “voteless under-thirties,” ac- ner ith mon.® Perdita i% & quits| TEN - DURING SWHE S CRISIS, My S0y That the Government shail make an. | theory of the 2 per cent reduction | vent the intrigues and rivalries of the [ than with an unrecognized Russia.|cording to Mrs. Matthews, were the Femarkable study of the eternal| 1300-1809. “Edited by Carier .. appropriations in advance of the | inaugurated by the director of the |larger from injuring an institution | But President Coolldge and Secretary | feature of the procession, as it was in g AN e ey _| Woodson, Ph.D., author of “Negro actual needs of the fund to place it |budget in June, this should be true, in | which, for the smaller states, at least, | Kellogg do not see things that w their behalf that the women wi feminine whose essence remains un RO B Oratioas’” Sto Bibliographies. the judgment of r There is no tangible hat th bomig changed in the midst of many chan, Qriitors ‘Buil BERAr RIS 3 A ~ {upon a_permanently self-supporting | the judgment of many intimate with | offers the single real promise of se- et sign that they | holding their demonstration. In Eng. ing externals of situation. Keen pre- Washington: The Association for | National institute of Public Admin- fhasis. They further include this pian jovernment affairs, for considerable | curity. Faiflure again might easily |are likely to do &0 in the measurable | land women must be 30 vears old be- ception is projected here in a tolerant the Study of Negro Life and His istration. A Bibliography of “ub- | of annual appropriations by the Goy- [reductions have already been effected [ wreck the league; complete success | future. = ks £0re they aré Mtkused with the hallot. patience with hum: nature, at in tory, Inc ¥ __lic Administration. Ref. ZWJ-N21. | ernment in their estimates of the cost In Government personnel since June. | will certainly restore a portion of the (Capyrizht. 1926.) Mrs. Andrew Stewart, vice chairman a smiling cynicism becomes caustic|1F I WERE A },.xgmg{ LEADER. Nickles, I M. Bibliography of North ot mces proposed by Congress and Ddieay prestige and insure the immediate fu- . of the District branch, presided in the ¢ now and then. The whole is an| By Earnest J. P. Benn, author menican | Geology ‘or 1919-1922. | themselves. ¥ 3 i s i "B : Shacne o M Birli rerie e ity “constracted drama as well| of “Prosperity and Politics,” ste.| 19224 "ZWMC-NGL . ol Aaveh s The odds are 10 to 1.” savs the| Eut suecess now can come only it | A new highway 200 feet wide "‘lzr t chairman, who is out of the city, As @ deeply interesting story of lite| ~New York: Charles Seribner's|Nickles, J. M. Geologlc Literature ProtestS Adva y - Columbia_ Missourian, “that the man|the great powers have agreed in ad- |being built from Chicago to Mil-| Mrs. Wymona Bradbury, chairman of jtself. It moves out of the past int Son! on North America, 2785 . “The Interior Department is unwill- | who complains about a public official | vance, their agreement proves |waukes. In the old dfgs that the committee on arrangements, as A the present by virtue of its fidelity THE NAVAL HISTORY OF THE 1923-24. ZWMC-Nilg. ing to subscribe to the theory that the is a man who didn't v@e either way.” only that they have reconciled their | wouldn't ,,,g, been any too wide. sisted Mrs. Stewart in receiving. powers can and do unite readily. But Hhivlh-gxiv.\.).v. disaster for it. ception last night in honor of Mrs. F. on the issue of Mosul, for example, . Ildl‘ hope to describe what actu- | L. Ransome of Tucson, Ariz., State national interests become supreme | 211 does take place in these columns | chairman, who returned recently from ) 9 : o Aind they are rarely coincident with | fr0m Geneva, where I will attend the | Europe, where she attended the Paris To Employes Retirement Fund Now league ideals. assembly meeting. conelave of the International Suffrage (Copyright. 1926.) | Allfance, { Mrs. Ransome, Mrs. Burnita Shel- ton Matthews, president of the Dis- trict. Woman's Bar Association, and Mrs. Robert Walker of Baltimore were A the speakers of the evening. Aimed at the U. S.|"7: Kansome reviewed some inci- dents of the Paris conference, told of