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Traveling Through the Countries of Central America—A Few ' of the Latgst_ Novels—Thomas Burke Brings Out Another 5 IDA GILBERT MYERS. RAINBOW COUNTRIES OF_ CEN- TRAL AMERICA. By Wallace Thompson, author of “The People of Mexico,” etc. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. WEATING jungles, smoking volcances, mad sunsets, swift revolutions, ghosts of old buc- caneers, fat bunches of golden bananas, delectable breakfast bdors of steaming coffee, thess gath- pred up hjt or ‘miss under five tusical names. of foreign séund, ®Eum the average man’'s notlon 'of Central America. Neverthless, this is R beckoning bundle of promise to the traveler tired of the worn highways of the world. Right at home, too. Only three days from New Orieans, only ®mn overnight from Panama into Costa Rica, with Néw York but a week away from Panama, down the Atlantic and mcross the blue Caribbean stiil a-trem- ble with wild tales of old pirate and marauder. Still, Central America is mot, vet, tourist country. Before the Vacation traveler takes possession, roads smooth and swift running must be made. Hostelries with more than the comforts of home must be built for him. Scenery must be assembled in neat pictures and history herded into open stalls for the ready seizure of the speeding visitor. This day is well on its way. The competent aider- manic banana and the subtle coffee bean are the pioneers that are opening up the “Rainbow Countries” at a promising rate of achievement. Meantime, the traveler is ahle to go there in comfort by book. Mr. Thomp- son having gone on ahead to spy out the land is home again with packed budgets of fact and bulging portfolios of pictures which, together, serve to Eive the reader all the essential facts ©of this region to the south of us, with many a seasoned and logical outlook, ®lso. upon the probable immediate future of Central America. A travel guide must possess two essentials of equipment. He must know his ound—up and down, in and out. across and slantwise. And he must be the practical man, con- cerned with seasons, routes, time- tables, accommodations. Beyond these essentials he is all the better for en- thuslasm, vision, poetry even. On an equal footing with his prime qualities there must be the power to organize the many-sided material of the place, 0 that the traveler may come away, not with a raghag of miscellany to forget immediately. but. instead with a broadly comprehensive view so Iogically knit together in its parts as to command a permanent hold upon the mory Such is the kind of guide that Wal- lace Thompson proves to he in this trip to Central America. Back from this hook journey one has a vivid pleture of each of the five countries And of all of them together. Upon this there rises a zood view of the people in their present situation, in their history. in their aims for the future. The general outlook—social, economic. political--stands herc as a rational expression of racial trend acted npon by the circumstances of the present and by a well-defined tdeal the future of a United States of Central America 1 went with this author. an excel lent example of the zeneral ignorance upon the subject of these countries. While there 1 had a time of radiant enjoyment—he's that kind of man. Now, if vou please intelligent grasp of & subject that is surely a most interesting one probably & much more vital one than we, in our ignorance, are able to reaiize. At any rate, it Is case of our next.door neighbor. and it is good, all around, to know our neighbors. PR TH York Lella & A TOU Warr Shuster 1 OF A New By Simon T is doubtful if the flapper will soon | again get a fairer hearing than is accorded her i A Touch of Earth.” 1t i3 readily conceivable that the au- ther of this novel would deny vehe- mently that her girl belongs to the class which is ha to recognize as she goes flapping by. However, “Jick™ is without doubt one of that courageous. independent, gal- Jant band which, despite its many sil- esses. teaching many an older woman lessons in bodily comfort and personal frecdom. Rut.'to zet back to this story girl trom childhood to when she took a strong and 1 against her own weak induiged 14 have been L3 treachery There are certain outstan teatures in this novel ceortain s 1d subtle points. The Lamily one of these, features. Such 4 as every child ought to va it is here. The stor: more t justifies itself from t mlone. An enviable family. I'd read 1. 1€ 1 were a family. just for inspi Fation. A very subtie touch here, as deep-seated as life itself, is the one- ness of Jick and her father, a mys erious, beautiful, tender relation zarely wecognized for its full value. Another interesting point comes out n the girl's choice of a husband. Like almost every girl in the world, Jick was in love—in love with life and her dreams and herself. So. she Travers, who was at hand and wanted Yer—nice fellow, right to the end. Another point that gives the girl a ®ort of universal girthood is that sub- Jimate hero of her dreams. Her hus- band? Bless you, no. He was all fight, but he was just a_man. This one was more like one of the minor gods. She called him Lancelot. There. fore he wasn't so much of a god. after gll. In the course of time this Lance lot really came. &tory, in Jick the day decent ness that sta w herself, n thousand confessions instead of one plain storv. The climax of this ro manee is its triumph, one too worked out word by word throughout the course of the whole. When the time came for Jick to choose. within her relf, for this is no tale of scandal, be tween Travers the husband and Lancelot the dream, she was just the @ecent, fair-dealing, fine fellow that Jick ' would be, despite the innumer. mble follies of this gifted and very hu- man creature. Now, that seems to me a fine task for any writer to set for herseif. had to.write this book this is ne mawkish romance. You will be ghocked—if you are that kind— with the frankness of the whole mat ter. Don't he shocked. Just think about it tead Adm the real labor that the novel reveals. Five years of w it turns out. went into this etory wrirten by a young woman whose home is here in Washington, who went to our schools and in whom, certalnly. we feel a distinct pride for the sincerity of a very beautiful art that she has proved in “A Touch of Earth.” Mind you. R EAST OF MANSION Thomas Burke, author of “Lime. house Nights,” etc. New York George H. Doran Company T'HE east end of London belongs to Thomas Burke just as Mayfair be- longs to Michael Arlen. No one would ever think of finding either of thesa within domain of the other. Thay are in the same business. both in pursuit of life, Burke seizing it naked, Arlen digging it out from fts multi- tudinous trappings. Burke goes as HOUSE. By stralght to his bare theme as Arlen| oes roundabout among its many hid. en nocks abd crannies. Amazingly -~ \ 1 have at least an | and | der to define than | took | Up to this point the | embodies o | much of every girl's life as to become | 1 think & woman would have | Volume of Stories. interesting, both of thefm. Here Thomas Burke looks more lige—I hate to say it, since’'O. Henry has become stereotyped as a stapdard for a cer- tain literary habit—but Thomas Burke, nevertheless, does look more like O. Henry than like any other American short story writer. You'll sée it at once in the first story of this group, “The Dream of Ah Lum.” The com- monplace situation, the artless de- velopment of an everyday matter, the plain stor§ turning at this peint or that one, but only a shade of a turn at that—then, at the last moment a perfectly tremendous second, yet a second that is as plausible as tomor- row's issuance from today. And out of the simple matter some very big and pressing thing that is urgent upon all life—East London, West London, all around the town—accosts one with “That's you, too.” Like this first story are all the others in their deep general interest, in their pecullar Burke development. oK% x THE DICE OF GOD. By Cynthis Stockley, author of “Ponjola,” gtc. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons. 'YNTHIA STOCKLEY'S literary stock in trade is the African back- ground, against which her various ro- mances are cast. At home in this set ting the author has used it to the de: light of readers in both the sweep and intimacy of its projection. And here with the many faces and moods of Africa as it i3 with a situation that one would call melodramatic and un- convineing if it were not for the.fact that any issue of the daily paper car- ries on its front ‘page items of fa that represent human nature to be just the revolting thing in certain ‘of its behaviors as that recorded here in one of Miss Stockley’s African tales It is impossible, therefore, to pro- nounce against the consistency of the sto) It might have been true, liter- ally true. All the same, read one of her really admirable novels of South Africa in place of this hectic romance. * * IN BAD WITH SINBAD. By Arthur Stringer, author of ““Lonely O'Mal- ley,” etc. Indianapolis: The Bobbs- Merrill Co. 5 IT down for a half hour's over the adventures of honest Laban Lindhagan in his attempts to deliver a package addressed to one Wu Fang Low, 907 Pell street, New York. The bundle had been handed to him on the train by a meek and in- offensive looking man. Arrived in New York. Labun’s firet business was {10 rid himself of his obligation to his |good train companion crossing the | country from the West Coast. These |attempts, covering a single night, are |all there is to the adventure. It is a Into it has gone and _intrigue to ing of this tale. enough - of trickery of the Roman Empire” if such a night had been undertaken by a ful writer like. say, Theodore Dreiser or some Russian telling his stor sible things happen, ust as they did with Sinbad when in old Bagdad he, too. tried to car a burden through A “certain street” that proved to be the most unecertain thoroughfare imaginable. Reading here and then casting back to the days of Haroun- al-Raschid. one realizes that Bagdad has no show beside Manhattan and {that Sinbad beside Laban Lindhagan looks lfke 30 cents, or less, BOOKS RECEIVED THE INTERNATIONAL LABOR ORGANIZATION; A Study of Labor and Capital in Co-operation. By Paul Perigord. Ph. D.. with an introduction by Henry M. 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AROUND THE CITY BY NANNIE e ANY men of many minds” 1 u know the old say- n ‘Two friends motored - together to Benedict for a week end of fishing and then con- tinued the trip down as far as Point Lookout, the once Federal prison for Confederate sol- diers near the close of the Civil War. They came . home pleased and refreshed from the outing, and that was all there was to it, except s for the different accounts they gave to a woman 3 they know pretty Fod well. .’ The one who X bagged the big- gest count of fish ".‘% frankly consider- D ed that event the star feature of the trip—nice road and all, but couldn't call southern Mary- land progressive, seeing that buggies and even ox carts and mules have a right of way, and most of the farm fields are fenced in with oldtime rails instead of wire. But the fishing off Benedict—taylor, trout, sheepshead— well, sir. The other man came home with a story about a granite shaft rising from grass that ripple in the breeze like a pond. It stood a bit from the road, and its base was sided with bronze tablets that rostered the name and State of every prisoner that had died at the Point. The unexpected- ness of it gave him a thrill. “They tell me that most of those old families in southern Maryland can claim ancestors who wore white wigs and danced minuets, and I guess it must be so. for they are the politest people 1 ever saw in my life. Even the ancient colored men and women still lift hats and bob curtseys to strangers who ask directions on the road—a colonfal custom handed down from their ‘white families of the long and long ago. And those peace ful, fine-mannered people are chuck full of memories of their past. At St. Mary's City, say. where the first Maryland pilgrims came in 1634, and formally took possession of the land. there is a Catholic church built of the bricks of the old courthouse, which were brought from England, and in its sanctuary stands the trunk of a mulberry tree under which the first mass wds said when the pioneers from the Ark and Dove landed on Blacki- stones Island. There is another granite monument in the Episcopal graveyard, placed there by the Daugh- ters of the American Revolution. on the site of a tree under which Gov. Calvert stood when he declared liberty for all colonists of all faiths.” “And this first great Catholic chief of the new colol is so beloved, and owned by the Episcopal members of the picturesque little temple set in the midst of shafts and slabs that record their dead, that always the monument ig decorated with flowers and wintergreens throughout the year. “Talk about the ocean at Atlantic City? You ought to see that mighty shoreless sweep of Chesapeake Bay as it tumbles headlong from the sky line onto the stretch of beach that runs out to make the Point! “Fishing? Oh, ves, we had a cou- ple of days of it at Benedict—taylor and trout—I didn't catch a sheeps- 1head, but Joe did. What got me was the people and their pleasant ways; their history and their homes; the pastoral beauty of th country, and their Chesapcake Ba %o F you want to know more about Nicaragua than the papers are tell- Ing. go over to the Smithsonian Insti- tution and find out for yourself. Most of us have already identified the republic with that yellow splash on the map and have read our thimbleful about its sacred volcano. its golden sands frothed with blue-green break- ers; its ancient legends and its strict- 1y present row. Maybe you own a terra cotta something yvou like to call a tear bottle, or a queer conch. with lips the pink of sunset, or delicious possibility, a_rebosa, woven by some primitive child of nature with a skin as brown as a coconut and a soul the white of milk. But, with all these, the chances are that the archeological collection at the Smithsonian will give vou your first real understanding of icaragua and its tropic islands in those way-back days when a lonely brown creature, crouched on the shore of an untraveled sea. chipped stone and moulded clay with néver a pre- monition of the explorer. who was to scoop him from oblivion. nor of the museums that would hold his crude ware above the kilns of Sevres. Limoges and Wedgwood. because it bears the potter's stamp of pre-historic man. As you touch the top step of the dreamily silent floor given over to the exhibit, vour eyes will flare againat two idols of chocolate-brown sand- stone. They are stocky gods with in- distinct faces that have been chiseled with an Implement too crude to fashion other expression than the sealed lids and the inserutable bland- ness that characterizes most prehis- toric sculpture of this continent. Their squatty limbs are too short for the bodies and their misfit arms end in an elaborate display of fingers that con- trast with thelr vague attempts ai toes. Some of them sit serenely bow- legged and a few crouch frog-fashion with their fingers on their toes. One hideously affable rain god bears on'his head a huge serpent, coiled in fat, satisfled rings that sort of sug- gost that he is resting up after a dip- lomatic day's work in the garden with Eve. This ymbol of the water deity and manifests iteelf in the pottery these ancient Nicaraguans ate from and the urns that packed their dead—most of the vessels being paint- ed or crusted with vertebraic outlines that vary from a good sized water snake to the one tiny wriggle that be- gins and ends a worm. And because of the presence of the snake and of the cross that figures so frequently in the archeological researches of this continent, notably on the tablets of Palenque, some theorists, unable to separate these emblems from Scrip- ture, ascribe them to the agency of missionaries who preached the Gospel long before the advent of Pizarro or Cortez. One authority, at least, scouts this claim as being as stupid as the one deriving our North American In- dian from the Hebrew. It is risky work trifling with the dictum of a learned scholar, and yet— vet: It the Apostle Thomas really came over here to teach Christianity, and if he brought along the usual sailor with the usual reputation, where's the “stupidity” of supposing an international marriage between the prehistoric maiden and the Jew? 1f Columbus could come, and before him, Liefef, why not Thomas, the very first of all? When the order was given to go forth and teach all na- tions, he may have scanned the line soul: “I will pierce the beyond in atonement for the doubt that made me put my fingers where the nails had been. And was not Thomas a Jew? One can interpret the symbols, how- ever, on other than biblical grounds. It you have ever been in the tropics at the end of a drought and seen the whole face of nature rejuvenated by the first rain, vou will understand how water became the synonym for lite—and why the rain god was the popular model for the Phidias of that hidden day. As for the Cross, the emblem is so N nermmi crawls persistently over every other where sea touched sky and said to his| LANCASTER. simple that it seems only natural for the early Nicaraguan to have evolved his own design. If you give a baby a couple of sticks to play with he will likely do the same. That is one way, anyhow, to account for the pro. Ufic use of the sign of the cross in the paintings and sculpture of old Egypt and among the pagan gods of Greece and Rome. Most of the pottery was taken from tombs. Some of it well burned, some scarcely fired, but nearly all of it shaped or painted into grotesque sem- blance of birds and reptiles and queer objects that must have looked like monkeys, befora monkeys took to looking like men. This doesn’t coach you up on modern Nicaragua, of course, but—there i always the encyclopedia. o ow o A GIRL breezed in on a woman at a desk. Sie had her reasons: T didn't think if would be right you, because you have given me 80 many ice cream sodas and things. We are going to Rockville and come right back, because Johnnie can't get leave for a trip, and besides we've only got ten dollars between us. If you are going to give me anything, Miss Ann, you better make it knives and forks, 1've got one spoon, but not a tablecloth to my name—still; I'd love a cream silk sweater—— John- nie’s different from the other fellow: 80 settled in his ways, llke—— That's because he fsn’t young, you know. Say, Miss Ann, you don't think a man of 23 is too old for me. do you? I'm 17 next month. It's better, any. how, to be an old man's darling, isn't it? Though, believe me. I wouldn't stand for being any fellow's slave——" and so on. Tt was a bubbly little visit, and when the girl had breezed off with the promise of a bridal sweater and some table fixings from the woman's own stock, that would have been the end of it. except that—the woman had a memory of the youngster's father- a man nearing death. whose one big thought was of gratitude that his wife and son would care for the baby daughter—and then went his way to eternity spared the knowledge that the wife would marry and go a leaving the girl on the brother's hands, and that he, too, would go adventuring, leaving her nothing bet- ter to do than ‘“dance with visitors” at some gay little place which, to her own mind, was “quite respectable, Miss Ann, oh. entirely respectable, though not what you could call nice.” That was two months ago, and -yes- terday she was back, radlant in scar- let chiffon, topped by the cream sflk sweater; with a black velvet tam on her hoyish bob and red heels to her slippers. And vivid with utmost jo. She was on her way to the Sesqui wit! a girl friend, and she just popged in to bid her Miss Ann good-by. “Johnnie going along The girl prefaced her answer with a pert smile that brings out her one |dimple and which is one of her most attractive assets “Why, didn’t T tell you? I had to leave Johnnie, Miss Ann He's all right, you know, except for his age— awful settled in his ways—and T reckon he is just as glad to be quit of me. This May and December busi- ness s all wrong, ladv—yes, indeed. left him two weeks after we were married, and I've been waiting in a cafe for three weeks next Tuesday. My friend and I expect to be a dancing team in a restaurant in Philly.” Now. Miss Ann, don't go blaming me ahout Johnnie, because it was impossible for us to mix in. Maybe you won't believe me, but he actually wanted me to stop doing the Charleston for pay—wasn't that the limit? Poor old chapple, I hope he meets up with some good, settled woman of his own age.” Then she bubbled off again, with an arrangement that she was to notify her Miss Ann if she got in trouble. And the woman at the desk wondered it—somehow—her father was too far off to help his gay little sprig of girlhood to keep a straight path in the great road that he had traveled before her—and if the poor ‘‘old chappie” who was her husband felt with her, that a man of 23 was indeed too Xrlald for a wite of 17 All of it Is too trifing to tell except that it is the small th!n‘gb.:uoff lite that make the world go round. And being true. is worth what Cap'n Cuttle would call “makin’ a note {on't.” Senate Control by G. O. P. Hazarded (Continued from First Page.) they now possess. It is expected that l;lalne, a wet, will be elected to the Senate in Wisconsin in place of Len. root, who has been a. dry; that Vare will win in Pennsylvania, taking the place of Senator Pepper, who has been regarded as a dry and strong for law en]forc‘elme % n Missouri Representative rry Hawes, the Democratic nomlnee’.{?sri wet, and Senator Williams, his Re. publican opponent, is held fo be sat. isfactory to the wets, though not so moist as Hawes. In Maryland Sena. tor \Weller has trimmed Representa- tive Hill for the Republican nomina- tion, but the drys, although they supported Weller. can take little con- solation from this, since the Associa. tion Opposed to the Prohibition A{nenflment gave its indorsement to Weller as well as to Hill. Tydings, { the Democratic nominee for the Sen. ate in Maryland, s wet. nless the Rgpublican nomin the " third " Matvland " distems o {step aside and permit Representative {John Philip Hill to make the race in his place, the House is due to lose its | most outstanding wet figure. On the other hand, Representative Upshaw militant dry from Georgia, has beei |defeated for renomination. Steele, { Who defeated Upshaw, is aiso a dry, I nowever. ¥ Court Wins and Lost The World Court has had both de- feats and victories in the senatorial primaries. Outstanding among the World Courters who were defeated for renomination were Senator Mc- Kinley of Illinols, the late Senator Cummins of Towa, Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin, who led the fight for American adherence to the court in the Senate. and Senator Pepper of | Pennsylvania. Senator Gooding recant- |ed on the subject of the World Court before he was renominated in Idaho. Senator Moses of New Hampshire, Senator Williams of Missouri, Sena. tors Watson and Robinson of Indiana are among the opponents of the court who have been successfully renomi- rml!)ed}h X n the other hand, Senator Short- ridge of California, supporter of the court, won his fight for renomination jagainst candidates who denounced the court. Senator Jones of Wash- | ington, Senator George of Georgia and | Senator Smith of South Carolina are among the others who won renomina- tion against candidates who sought to make the World Court an issue. The antf-court strength in the Sen- ate, will, it appears, be increased, but | the Senate will still be strongly pro- court even with these changes. | _The most outstanding setback which ithe Ku Klux Kian met maries was the defeat of Senator Rice W. Means of Colorado, who was elected two vears ago as a Klan can- didate, Tuesday by an ant Charles W. Waterman. in me to get married without telling | in the pri-! and who was defeated last|seeing the voting. not of nations, lan candidate, |of groups; he i8 seeing the last pub- National Woman's Christian Temperance Union Leaders to Con- vene in Los Angeles—Mrs. Sherman, Federation Head, Dis- in Politics—Woman's Pirty Notes. cusses Womcn BY CORINNE FRAZIER. EMPERANCE leaders from every State in the Union will gather in Los Angeles from September 26 to October 2, in- § clusive, to attend the annual donvention of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Wash- ington will be represented by Mrs. illis A. Yost, national legislative rep- | resentative, whose headquarters are on Capitol Hill, and by the official | delegates from the District of Co- ‘Tumbia_ Union, Mrs. Nettle E. Lyons Mrs. Orril Moody, Mrs. Estella V. Buxton, and the three alternates, Mrs. Alyin Day, Dr. Loretta Kress and Miss Mulligan. The Washington delegates already have arrived in Los Angeles and dele- gates from other parts of the country are expected to pour into the Sunshine City throughout the coming week, many leaving their homes today and tomorrow to join the special train de- parting from Chicago tomorrow at 10:25 p.m. Tt was learned at legislative head- quarters that the national program will include, in addition to plans for continued support of prohibition and the Volstead act, which are naturally the main issues, resolutions reaffirm- ing support of child labor, the na- tional education bill, special legislation guarding and strengthening State prohibition laws, enforcement of the maternity act, uniform marriage and divorce laws and civil service status for prohibition agents. Few people. outside of the organ- ization, realized the breadth of the pro- gram of national activities which is carried out by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. The popular idea is that the members have but one object in mind—prohibition enforce- ment. On the cont like most of tne national women's organizations, the union has but is vitally interested in a compre- hensive group of activities calculated to promote public welfare and to pro- tect the interests of women and chil- dren. ‘The prohibition department is but one of many. There are, in addi- tion. the Americanization depart- ment, with Miss Rose A. Davison of Ohio as director: the department of anti-narcotics, directed by Miss Helen G. H. Estelle of Poughkeepsie, N. Y child welfare, under Mrs. Edith F. Lee of New York; Christian citizenship, headed by Mrs. Stella C. Stimson of Indiana: the department of economics of prohibition. with Miss Epha Mae Marshall of Chicago, 1. directing; the department of health, directed by Dr. P. S. Bour- deau-Siscc of Baltimore; institutes. under the leadership of Mrs. Marden DeYo of San Francisco: legis- lation, with Mrs. Ellis Yost as director: motion pictures, directed by Miss Maude M. Aldrich; prison re- form. under Mrs. Minnie Barker Horning of Evanston, Ill., and numer- ous others, including departments of publicity, scientific temperance in- vestigation. peace and arbitration, parliamentary usage, medical tem- perance, exhibits and fairs, flower mission relief work, soclal morality. soldiers and sailors. temperance and missions and the Bible and the public schools. It _can be seen from (his review of the departments that the nationa program of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union is equally as com- prehensive as that of other women's federated groups. And, like many others, it is becoming a powerful in- fluenge in the political world as the women probe more deeply into the problems of vital interest to them— problems of health, education, child welfare, crime control, marriage and tivorce laws and discriminative legis- lation. During the business sessions of the forthcoming convention a: Los its one main object, directors will Angeles, their ac- department make detailed reports of tivities during the past year and outline programs for 1927. In addi- tion to the routine convention busi- ness, a notable group of speakers have been invited to appear before the delegates, headed by William Gibbs McAdoo, former Secretary of the Treasury, and one of the most prominent political speakers in America. * ok ko OUBTLESS with the idea that he would “get a rise” out of her which might produce some “hot” copy, a correspondent recently put a half-serfous query to Mrs. John D. Sherman, president of the General| Federation of Women's Clubs, ‘which brought forth, not an indignant de nfal he may have expected, but a suave and cleverly turned reply, which showed an unexpected clarity of vision among “these club women' | whom many men have not yet learned | to take seriousl. The query—“Whether the club- woman of today is to become the| ward heeler of tomorrow”—might have been construed as very uncom- plimentary. But not by Mrs. Sherman. She took it at its face value and re- sponded accordingly. Her answer revealed her never- falling sense of humor. While she could not picture women just yet it the role of ward heelers, she declared, ! still she could not say that it would be amiss to have them there. “They could not possibly add anything to the degradation of the position, and they might by chance lift the occu- pation into public respect,” she said. Continuing, M Sherman stated that there is an ever-increasing num- ber of women who think politically. and in the course of time undoubtediy some sort of unity would be evolved for political purposes. “Since women have begun to think seriously of politics—I mean now the sonservative home woman who con- stitutes the nearly 3,000,000 member- ship of our General Federation,” said Mrs. Sherman, “they have come to realize how disastrous it is to neglect organization. The teamwork they will develop eventually, however, wiil be something new in the political world. As organized clubwomen they have had long experlence in working for civic interests. The basis of their success rests in their ability to create public opinion. They have been able to meet irrational propaganda with verified statements of fact and, con trary to the well established belief, have been ruled by logic and not by sentiment. “There will be a large increase in the woman vote in the Fall elections, but possibly not large enough to| change conditions perceptibly. Wom. en are studying quietly and earnestly how to take the first step. Natural economists that they are. they do not wish to make a single false move or | to have a single step to retrace. i “The modern, efficient, studious | clubwoman 1s not easily fooled. She knows 100 much. She may have gained this knowledge by using some | one else’s outline or bibliography but to her her club work has been a serious thing. and the trained men tality of millicns of women directed |toward better laws and better enforce- |ment of those laws, backed by the | power of the vote, will be a thing to | reckon with. | “When women do become ward | heelers, T think that I can promise a very interesting time in the wards in which they operate. Tenacity and tirelessness, being two chief feminine qualities, added to long experience in organizations, should have some effect | upon a neighborhood." | In discussing the popular theory | that women would use sentiment to promote their political campaigns, and |by the same token would be swayed | What the League of (Continued from First Page.) provoked certain irritation. but it has been otherwise without significance, and has only emphasized the paradox that the nation most resolutely op- posed to entrance into the League should supply almost all the audience. 1f the League of Nations had served no other purpose., achieved nothing save what i expressed in this fact— that it has become a European meet- ing place—I do not think it could be argued that as a European institution 1t has not already justified its exist- ence. Even in the rising tide of the great powers to predominance, it still supplies the small powers with some- thing of infinite value not before or otherwise obtainable. The influence of the small powers in shaping policies, controlling or directing is slight where the large powers are concerned, but the small powers have the right now to be heard, the right to appear and to speak, not to the League, but to the world. The world, or that world which counts for them—namely. Eu- rope—Iis present to hear through the press of all nations. There remains. however, thé great question to which no answer has ever been sketched yet, namely, apart from providing a piace and reason for in- valuable contacts hetween the pres: and governments of the European na- tions, can the League acquire any real authority, any moral influence, over these governments and public opin- ions? League Is Battleground. For France, Britain or Italy. for Germany tomorrow. the League is not a sovereign body, it is an instrumen- tality to be manipulated to serve na- tional interests which may be at stake. Thus, in the last analysis. the League is a battleground of conflicting diplo- matic and political purposes. In the present instance the machin- ery of the League has been disor- ganized, the character of the Council made over, the prestige of the League momentarily shaken to obtain the ratification of a bargain made be- tween France, Germany and Britain, with Ttallan assent, outside the League altogether. Spain and Brazil have quit and gone home because they could not obtain for themselves 1 t a_vote favorable to the e nr&‘ce o{ G a as a member ision of ermany as A ich she is entitled of the Council to wh by virtue of being a great power. Poland, on the other hand, by bending her will to that of the great powers, has obtained a semi-permanent seat to which certainly she had no peculiar claim other than that of having ac- cepted advi from the interested reat powers ‘The aumo pact has been intro- duced into the League party platform by a bargain transaction. a trading compromise; but a significant cir. cumstance which the episode has dis- closed is the extent to which the League is itself in all easential details controlled from without. The American visitor who by a happy chance gets a ticket of admis- sion to the gallery 1ooks in wondering | approval on the spectacle of the roll| call of the nations. hears with en thusiasm the stirring speeches about League idealism. But what he does not recognize is that in reality he is but lle chapter of Wistory has been Nations Is Doing Analyzed by Observer at Assembly | made behind closed doors, between foreign offices: he is seeing a bargain ratified after the interests—the self ish interests—of the great powers have been satisfied, and the small powers whose support is required have obtained their “pourboire.” The relation of France to the little entente, | of Poland to France, all the realities | of European politics. natjonal and international. which are known to all European observers, escape his notice. He goes away having accept- ed at face value something which | has far other implications and sig-| nificance. Fate of Disarmament. | | The utter, complete and, for the time being, final collapse of the dls)lrml- ment conference held under the aus pices of the League is perhaps a clear evidence of the reality as con trasted with the appearance of League influence. In conference there was nothing representing the League: there were only representatives of various nations which had selfish, pe- culiarly personal views on the sub. Ject. 1t came to nothing, could come to nothing, for preciselv this fact. Before Germany entered the League it was clear that as an agency of the victorious powers alone it could not have even FEuropean scope. To get Germany in it was necessary to uncover an almost fantastic amount of what we are accustomed to call the methods and measures of ‘“old- fashioned diplomacy.” Tn reality, the ! great powers which defeated Germany first made a bargain with her for European reorganization, then the thrust this bargain down the mouth of the protesting League. In March | the League resisted, in September it surrendered to the steam roller. But one must see losses as well as gains in_the result achieved. In view of what has lately happened is there a new reason for American entrance? I cannot see it. The League now becomes instantly the center of 2 vast number of European disputes— disputes over the S8aar, over Rhine- land occupation. over the Danzig cor- ridor, Austrian union with Germany, over the claims of both Italy and Germany for colonies. over the rights of protection of Heaven alone knows ! how many minorities. It is the battle- ground of rival Italian and French political campaigns for the Danubian and Mediterranean areas. It is the scene of the certain struggle of Ger- many to regain in Europe a position commensurate with her real great- ness, not certainly by war, but by diplomacy. . Settled by Bargaining. ‘With all these questions, which are to be the main problems of the League for the next decade, what con- ceivable concern have be settled by bargains. by trading within and without the League. They do not involve questions of war and peace, because there is no will for war in Europe. But if we enter them we shall certainly find very shortly that the resuit will be the arrival of we should undertake l | reasons why European claims, or we shall invite the same sort of flaming hostility Wilson drew when he intervened against the Italian leaders in the | That we? They will | European responsibilities and resign | sentiment M in forming their con Sherman was most ex ‘sob stuff’ is being put over by men,” she asserted. “The political candidate who pleads elo quently for a modification of the Vol stead act, so that our dear childres will not be killed off by the quality of the stuff manufactured todd,. or Lis they may not fall into the relentiex clutches of the unprincipled bootleg ger. makes no impression upon the average clubwoman. who understands the mental, moral and economic waste of intemperance. The only re action to his eloquence is contempt for nis rather cheap manner of express ing his own desires.” Mrs. Sherman has just returned to of today { Washington after spending the Sum. i mer at her home in Colorado. She will remain here through the Winter. mak ing her home at tha federation head quarters on N street * ok ow K RS. ROSE V. 8. BERRTY, chair man of the arts division of the General Federation of Women s Clubs is in charge of exhibits in the Fine Arts Building at the Sesquicentennial Sxposition, and will remain there dur ing the months of September, O« tober and November, according 1o word received from Philadelphia. @ ox % COMMITTEE of three from the National Woman's Party is attend ing the sessions of the League of Na tions for the purpose of observing especially the action of the various committees under the League dealine in_politics affecting women. Miss Sybil Jane Moore of Washing ton State. 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