Evening Star Newspaper, December 26, 1926, Page 40

THE SUNDAY STAR, - REVIEWS OF WINTER BOOKS A Volume of Special Local Interest—New Fiction From the Publishers—Bookplates and Their RECORDS OF ,THE COLUMBIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Volume 28. Edited by John B. Larner. Washington: Published by the So- clety. F immediate local interest, like others of the great class to which it belongs, this volume may become, is cer- tain upon occasion to be- come, of prime importance in a more general application than appears upon its surface. Historical societies, in growing numbers, are part an parcel of our common local life. They began, after a fashion, even before we had achieved an independent na- tional existence. And steadily have they grown in numbers as the im- portance of their purpose became clear and as the quality of their in- vestigations took on a higher grade through improved facilities for re- search. Now; all over the country. these bodies of workers have as their mission that of gathering exact rec- ords of their varfous localities, the whole forming an authentic body of historfe_ fact that covers North, South, East and West. When occa- sion makes the demand these socie- tles provide the source of authentic information upon whatever subject may be under scrutiny. Naturally they vary with the intelligence and zeal and scholarship and general equipment for the work that supports each of them. The volume in hand is the iwenty- eighth issue of the Historical Society of the Capital. Its contributors are members of this socety, each chosen, it is assumed, for some special &pi tude of research, for some dennite line of approach to the theme under consideration ‘The most of these contributions deal, very properly. with the past of the city, though in one instance a public-spirited profes- sfonal man of recent years is {re- sented in a short _biographical sketch. On the whole, however, the book confines -itself to the past, ob- jectitying the city under the leader- ship of two mayors, Benjamin Orr end Samuel Smaliwood. Here, too, is an interesting story of old Tiber Creek, and a quite charming run- ning picture of Lafayette Square, where so.much of the atmosphere of an older Washington still lingers. Be- sides, there is here a reminiscent view of the reception tendered by the Congress to Gen. Lafayette just about a hundred years ago. Such are some of thé features of this issue of the society’s investigations. An ap- pendix gathers up officers and mem- bers of the organization. Certain illus- trations, interesting and -:ppiicable to Jocal events, round out the volume to a full measure of fine purpose and serious undertaking. * %k k¥ YOU CAN'T WIN. A story from life. By Jack Black. Foreword by Rob- ert Herrick. New York: The Mac- millan Co. W/ OU can't win, maybe. Jack Black “% says you can’t. The certainty is that you can’t leave this story un he has said his last word in it. Here he sits down with you, Jack Black does, and tells you about his life as a thief, 30 years of it. No pride mani- fest in this career, nor any humility, either, for that matter. Instead, much ’d tell your own story of fair citizenship, 8o does he tell 1awless living. No preaching, no suy- ing what the world should have done for him at the star. None of that. Just the bare record. But it's fine in hat you begin to tell yourself what olght to be done, not for Jack Black, biit for all the boys and girls coming on along Jack's road. These self-ac- ng thoughts and forward-looking notlons leak out of the story as it moves beside the man telling it. He has no rule, “What to do, I don’t know,” is what he says, adding, “I'm #ure of one thing—I failed as a thief, and at that I am luckier than most of them. I quit with my health and liberty. What price larceny, burglary and robbery? Half my 30 years in underworld was spent in prison. 1 handled $50,000 in the 15 years ‘was outside; that's about $9 a day. fow much of that went to lawyers, g;r-. bondsmen and other vlaces? n count in the years in prison— suffering, hardship, privation.” Still talking, he asks any young man, headed upon his old course, “What chance have you now, with shotgun equads, strong-arm squads, and crime crushers cruising the highways and byways; with the deadly finger print- ing, central identification bureau, and telephotoing of pictures; and every police station broadcasting_your de- scription ahead of you? You cawt win. Figure it out yourself. “Had I spent that 30 years at any dseful occupation and worked hard at it and thought and planned and brought such ingenuity and concen- tration to bear upon it, I would be in- dependent today.” No, you can't win, s get back on the straight road. Nothing on this ons !:r you. * THREE WOMEN. By Faith Baldwin, - author of “Thresholds,” etc. New - York: Dodd, Mead & Co. ' ERE is a study of three women of the same family—grandmother, mother and daughter. In the face of current facts this might be a story of the youthful grandmother outshining and outwinning both her child and her grandchild as she nowadays is in good faith occasionally represented. But it is not that kind of modern illusion. The grandmother here remains true to the traditions and practices of her own day and date. Each of the others also objectifies the gradually easing ways of women in outlook and be- havior. The oldest of these three is wholly shut in upon herself, as all women were 60 years ago, as the most of them stlll are. Within the prison of convention and custom very un- beautiful things go on in the mind of this woman. Dominated by Jjealousy and the will to possess her own son against_any claim of wife or child, Laura Sheldon, quite in the name of righteousness and propriety, becomes & clear agency of cruelty and unfair- ness. Set off against her is Joyce Sheldon, the granddaughter—the girl of today. Independent, frank, know- ing something of life and admitting it; Joyce takes a stand against the hypocrisy and lying of the elders in respect to the most vital things of any woman's existence. Between the two is the mother of Joyce, not daring qtite to look life in the face, and still tremendously unhappy in her relation to the pretense and makebelieves that she dare not wholly disregard. This is good work. It is a true picture and one that is not overemphasized in for the sake of making a case. ere is a falt embodiment of & most significant and important period in the life of woman as she moves out ifito latitudes hitherto unknown to her. And the study, for it is a study, comes out in a story whose insight and comprehension give depth and point to an interesting drama of the most vital matter under the sun. * Kk * X FHE SARDONIC SMILE. By Ludwig Diehl. Translated by Louise Col- . ller Willcox. Boston: Houghton, Miffiin Co. beautiful story is founded on the strange and romantic life of Heinrich Heine, Its title is drawn Collectors. from Matthew Arnold’s portrait of the poet who, Beholding the abgurdity of men-— Their vaunts. their feats—iet a sardonic For ona shert moment wander o'er bis lips. That smile was Heine. This is the record of the pilgrimage of Heine, body and® soul, through a world of many illusions and bitter dis- appointments, Tilven by his own spirit of restless seeking, this modern wandering Jew, \ke Ahasuerus of old, sought far and nedr for an answer d | to the tormenting riddle of life. From his own home on the Rhine down into TItaly over into France, always in want and physical need, this story by Lud- wig Diehl follows in a beauty of con- ception and understanding that is bound to reach the heart of many a reader. You will find joy in the land scape here, in the Rhine of legend and fairy tale, in the mountains and vineyards of Italy, in the sophisticate lure of France. Deep interest will come to you in the weary goings to and fro of Heine's spirit, out of his own Judaism into the religion of Jesus, always seeking room and free- dom for his own growth in life and in letters, in thought and in motion. A harassed spirit that gives some of its own restlessness out to readers, raising questions for them to answer as well as questions for him to worry, exciting sympathy and sorrow for this strange man who, quite obviously. found the world a strange and allen place for him. A sad story but a very beautiful one to the many who love the lyric quality of this poet's songs. * ok kK TENTACLES. By Martha Kinross. New York: Harper & Bros. DARING theme looks cautiously out here from a thicket of reticence so dense as to give the effect of a perfectly constructed and carefully maintained copspiracy of truly plous intent. This is the story of a mother and daughter. 8o, ac- cording to rule, this would be a record of selfless maternal devotion on the one hand; of filial love and compliance on the other. But this is a truer story than that. This is the story that almost everybody lies about. There is a reason, sourced deep, why mothers are not always selfless toward their daughters; why, in_ the nature of things, they cannot be. And by the same token there are excellent reasons why daughters sometimes do not blindly love their mothers. A revolt- ing story, such a one would be to the great majority of people. To get across at all it would have to be told with discretion, with an adroit marshalling of plausible facts well knit together into a convincing whole, and all of the distasteful business eased and lightened with bright and attractive And that's just what we find here. Once in a while, reading here, one catches a hint that the author is herself a bit daunted by her own temerity. This is when the actual theme grows thin and scat- tered or gets lost under its coverings of the Itallan setting or the clever and diverting social to-do going on in the English colony at Florence. But, in the main, the real story holds its own, showing that which we all know, but about which we are righteously untruthtul, of the lack of sympathy and understanding that 8o often exist in the hearts of mothers who spend their 1lives tyrannizing over their daughters in the name of “their own good.” * % ¥ ¥ THE COLFAX BOOK-PLATE. By Agnes Miller. New York: The Century Co. UNDER the universal human in- stinct of pursuit there is no finer quarry for a certain brand of hunter than a scrap of paper. An old volume or autograph or book- plate points the trail for him and sharpens his wits as big game does for the killer or as hidden treasure does for the adventurer. The mys- tery story in hand is based upon the search for a rare book-plate, long lost | Lang, and keenly desired. The matter cen- ters in an old bookshop of lower New York. Upon this spot various sorts of keen interest focus. There is the commercial zeal of the shopman and the intellectual zest of the book col- lector. More to the point in this con- nection, however, is the struggle be- tween two members of the same fam- ily for the secret hidden under the [emlll'ua'-h(}t)l'?‘;t bo:tk";a“lllm'bul:t is upon the authent y paper that the whole ldering business rests. A trifling thing, upon the sur. face, to produce every appearance crime and to unfold a family feud of long and bitter duration, One goes along, some of the time convinced and interested, some of the time, however, reluctant to seem so easily satisfled. Still, there are good humor and fair wit to cover the thinnest spots over which the reader skates easily to the mearby safety of consistent invention and plausible incident. . Upon the whole it is the engaging manner of this tale rather than its actual sub- stance that warrants it for a good balf hour of amusement and diversion. BOOKS RECEIVED SMITH EVERLASTING. By Dillwyn Parrish. New York: Harper & Brothers. PROGRESS AND POVERTY. BY Henry George. An Abridgment of the Economic Principles. Author- ized by Anna George De Mille, New York: Vanguard Press. THE VALUE OF THIRST; The Golden Thread of the World's Life and Activity. Talks for Young Peo- ple on the Saving of Talent, Effort, Time and Money. By Edmund Dane, LL. B., author of “The Com- mon Sense of Economic Science,” etc. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Son! THE ITINERARY OF A BREAK- FAST; A Popular Account of the Travel of a Breakfast Through the Food Tube and of the Ten Gates and Several Stations Through Which It Passes; Also of the Ob- stacles Which It Sometimes Meets, By John Harvey Kellogg, M. D., Medical Director of the Bat- tle Creek Sanitarium. Revised Edition. New York: Funk & Wag- nalls Co. POLITICAL AND INDUSTRIAL DBE- MOCRACY, 1776-1926. By W. Jett Lauck, Secretary of Former Na- tional War Labor Board. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Co. THE SONS OF KAI; The Story the Indian Told. By Henry Beston. New York: The Macmillan Co. SPICE FOR SPEECHES. By John Henry Bartlett, First Assistant Postmaster General. Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Co. COLUMBIA JOURNALISM GRADU- ATES; A Study of Their Employ- ment and Earnings. By C. W. Steffler, M. 8., with a Foreword by Roscoe C. E. Brown, Litt. D. New York: Columbia University Press. THE CANON LAW OF THE PAPAL THRONE. By Gilbert O. Nations, Ph. D., Professor of Roman Law and Canon lLaw in the American University. H. Revell Co. THE BRITISH GENERAL STRIKE; An Economic Interpretation of Its Background and Its Significance. By Scott Nearing. With an Intro- duction by Ellen Wilkinson, M. P. New York: Vanguard Press. STILL WATERS; A Play in Three Acts. By Augustus Thomas, Mem- ber of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. New York: Sam- uel French, Inc. MOTOR VEHICLES AND THEIR ENGINES. By Edward 8. Fraser, Instructor Motor Transportation Course, Coast Artillery School, and Ralph B. Jones. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged. New York: D. Van Nostrand Co. THE BUGLE SOUNDS; Life in the Foreign Legion. By Maj. Zinovi Pechkoff, Officer of the Legion of Honor. Preface by Andre Maurios. New York: D. Appletori & Co. THE CAPTIVE. By Edouard Bour- det. Translated from the French by Arthur Hornblow, jr. Introduc- tion by J. Brooks Atkinson. New York: Brentano’s. THE WITCH: A Drama in Four Acts, By John Masefleld. From the Nor- wegian of H. Wiers-Jenssen. In- troduction by JHubert Osborne. New York: Brentano's. THE AMERICAN FLAG OF STRIPES AND STARS; Mirror of the Nation's History, Symbol of Brotherhood and World Unity. By William ..lliot Griffis. corporal in the Flag Guard of the 44th Regi- ment of the Pennsylvania Volun- teers, 1863. Ithaca: Andrus & Church. LOOKING BACKWARD, 2000-1887. By Edward Bellamy. With an in- troduction by Sylvester Baxter. New York: Vanguard Press. . THE JUNGLE. By Upton Sinclair, New York: Vanguard Press. THE BOOK OF PLAY PRODUC- TION; For Little Theaters, Schools and Colleges. By Miiton Smith, head of the department of Eng- lish, the Horace Mann School for Boys, ete. . Introduction by Brand- er Matthews. New York: D. Ap- pleton & Co. EVERY WOMAN'S COOK BOOK. By Mrs. Charles F. Moritz, co- author of “The Twentieth Cen- tury Cook Book.” New York: Cupples & Leon Co. THE PUBLIC LIBRARY Recent accessions at the Public Library and lists of recommended reading will appear in this column u.ch Sunday. Voyages and Travels. Athearn, C. R. Bosts G844Atd. e oa Branom, M. E. Practice Tests in Geography. G-B736p. Carpenter, F. G. The British Isl and the Baltic States. G“I-CZ“?. Carpenter, F. G. Lands Caril bean. G96-C226. e ¥ Collins, F. L. Travel Charts Travel Chats. G30-C696. o Colum, Padraic. The Road Roi land. G42-C728r. g e Czarnomski, F. B., ed.. The P Handbook. 1925. G66-C99. R:lf'.‘h Davis, D. H. The Geography of Mountains of Eastern pxzn‘t’ucg? 1924. G883-D29. Franck, H. A. East of Siam. G685- F84. Gilbert, R. Y. What's Wron, China. G66-G37w. i Hakluyt, Richard. A Selection of the Principal Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. G12-H126pa. Broken Earth. G&4- Hindus, M. G. Hobart, M T. rt, Mrs. A. T. N. By the City of the l’:mzsand. ‘gxas-msz. i 3 Ranching with Roose- velt. G921-L26. Marble, F. E. Round the World Travel Guide. G12-M32. Milton, Arthur. London in Seven _ Days. 1923. G45L-M644. Nutting, Wallace. Connecticut Beau- tiful. 1923. GB846-N97. Scott, A. M. Beyond the Baltic. G54-Sco8. - Bu.:'mlnneh' Vlkhgflm:ar. and Knight, . L e Adventure of Wi Island. G14-St34. s ings. G83-St82. New York: Fleming of | Wade, J. H. Cathedral Cities of Eng- land and Wales. G45-W116o. . Boclology and Social Problems. Blackmar, F. W. of Human Soclety. H-mcsgm C. G._Introduction to Social Elmer, M. C. Social Statistics. H-E163s. Marchant, Sir James, ed. The Coming Reénaissance. 1928. HAC-M334. Park, R. E. The City. -H-P217c. Platt, Charles. The Riddle of Socfety. H-P897r. Tutrner, R. E. America in Civilization. H83-T86. Advertising and Salesmanship. Advertising Arts and Crafts, 1926, Eastern edition. HKA-Adf6e. Advertising Arts and Crafts, National edition. HEKA-Ad96n. Advertising Arts and Crafts, Vol 1. Western edition. HKA-Ad96w. David D. K., and McNair, M. Prob- lems in Retailing. HK-D288p. Giles, Ray. Breaking Through Com- 9. vince and Close Your HKF-H318h. Lownds, W. G., and others. Advertis- ing and Selling Digest. HKA-L956. McMichael, 8. L. Selling Real Estate. HKJ-M226 Pohp.a:g, H. Belling at Retall. HKF- . The Real Estate Manual. HKJ-R226. Riis, R. W., and Bonner, C. W. Pub- licity. HAO-R44p. Mining and Minerals. Bernewitz, M. W. von. Handbook for Prospectors. RDB-B45. Cammen, Leon. Principles of Metal- lurgy of Ferrous Metals. RE-C146p. Du_Pont de Nemours, E. I. & Co. Blasting Accessories. RDK-D92b. Jeftrey, E. C. Coal and Civilization, RFC-J87. Getting Out Kneeland, F. H., comp. the Coal. RFC-K78g. ine Transportation reparation. RDT- Kneeland, F. H. n.r:’a Market Kneéland, F. H. Preliminaries of Coal Mining. Rmu-xnp. i mestones of Pennsyl- ia. RFM-M61, Nationgl Carbon Co., Inc. The Carbon Electrode. RER-N21. Richards, R. H., and others. A Text- book of Ore Dressing. RDU-R39t. Bmith, E. A. The Platinum Metals. RFP-Smb4. Spielman, P. B. Bituminous Sub- stances. RFB-Sp4, , Trinks, Willibald. Industrial Fur. naces. 2 volumes. REL-T73, White, !“’:”h‘l' and T:ée-en‘\mn- hardt. e Origin of Coa), \1913. REC-Wbito, It Paid to Shut the Door (Continued from First Page.) push it up hill. The danger lles in the circle becoming a hoop which will only travel downward until its mo- mentum carries it to a crash at the bottom. Not only have we been able to keep our own wheels on the upgrade, but in putting and keeping our own ma- chine in order w® have rendered a service to the other nations of the world. ‘When an individual knows that he must work out his own salvation and cannot leave his difficulties behind by running to some haven of refuge he is more likely to buckle down to busi- ness and accomplish something for his own benefit. That is one of the inci- dental benefits which we conferred upon others in adopting the policy of restricted immigration. It may have seemed a drastic measure at the time, but it has proved a blessing. Had we received all the burdens of the Old World, piled on top of our own, we would have been so badly crushed with the weight that we would have been powerless to help ourselves and powerless to help others. * ok K K Any sudden change in the policy of a country is likely to create tem- porary situations of hardship. In that respect the restriction of immi gration was no exception. Particular- ly were the early days of restriction difficult, but with improved legisla- tion and_a better understanding of the laws by allens most of the serious hardships have been ironed out. Some things still remain to be done to make the law everything it should be, and in my recommendations to Con- gress for additional legislation I have asked for modifications to facilitate the re-entry of familles and to expedite the bringing to the United States within the quota of special labor which may be needed from time to time in the establishment of new in- dustries and new methods. It has been an interesting feature in the administration of these laws to note the complaints from alien resi- dents when they have not been able to bring relatives and friends who have been living on the other side. For instance, there is the complaint of the alien who has been in the United States 10 or 15 years, but has made no move toward becoming a citizen and now wants to bring over his wite and the children whom he has not seen in all these years. Previously it never occurred to him that the place for his wife and children was under his care, but now that he finds some limitation placed upon immigration he has a tremendous desire to bring the family over. * % Kk K Still more interesting are the num- bers of brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, nephews, nieces for whom the ties affection are so strong that after not having seen each other for a decade or even a quarter of a century tears come into their eyes when they find that the immigration bars still keep them separated for another year. 1 believe in preserving the family unit and believe it is the duty of the immigrant who intends to make the United States’his permanent home to make arrangements so that his family can follow him as soon as he can establish a home to bring them to, if he cannot bring them along with him. That can and should be arranged be- r?;: the alien starts from the other side. In my current recommendations to Congress I point out that it is not un- natural that husbands and fathers, especially those of small means, should desire to make suitable preparation in the new country for the future homes of their families. In many, instances the head of the family must earn and save in his new job the funds to trans- port his family. When he is able to send for them, however, he may find that the number of applications await- ing distribution of quotas is so great that years may elapse before his fam- ily can secure the necessary quota visas. * ok kK To overcome this objection—for it is an objection that familles cannot be reunited while we are receiving other immigrants—I have recommended that whenever an application is re- ceived from an immigrant head of a family he should be questioned re- garding his intention relative to the future residence of his dependents. If he expects to have them join him in the United States later he should be required to file applications for his family at the same time. They should be given preliminary examina- tions to determine their apparent ad- missibility and receive their appropri- ate visas. In the case of these family visas, the period of validity of the visas should be increased from. four months, as now limited, to one year, thus making it possible for all pre- liminaries to be arranged by the hus- band and father for his family prior to his own departure from abroad. The immigration laws provide for exemptions from the quota for the wife and minor children of an Ameri- can citizen. Ample time has passed for those who came to this country prior to numerical limitation and left their families behind to become citizens if they are worthy of that state. For those who cannot avail themselves of the privileges of citizenship and have familles which should be brought over, I belleve that some preference should be given among the 164,667 quota im- migrants we admit. While 50 per cent of the quotas are now available for preferences for certain relatives of citizens, there is no reservation in the other 50 per cent, and of these, it seems to me, priority should be given to the families of those allens who have established homes here. * kK K Even in the centers where the for- eign born congregate in greatest num- bers there is a general appreciation of the advantages of restricted immi- gration. The admission outside the quota of one or two relatives seems to the individual to be of small possible effect upon a Nation of 115,000,000 peo- ple, but collectively, when we consider how many residents, citizen as well as allen, have collateral relatives abroad, they make a problem which, if not carefully and cooly solved, will affect the very foundation of our na- tional prosperity. Has immigration restriction been a service to the working man and wom- an in the United States? Without hesitation and without equivocation, I say emphatically, “It has.” Theories of Earlier Ages Just As Sound Today, Enhanced With Modern Additions BY RO! A. MILLIKAN. Winner of the Nobel Prizo in Physics in Is there anything new under the sun? To obtain an answer to the question it is only necessary to tell the story of the beginnings of ph: 300 years ago, of its subsequent de- velopment and application to human life, and then of the amazing changes in it going on under our very eyes. That story seems on its face to justify the philosophy of revolution and of protest, for has not twentieth century physics shown that nine- teenth century physics was merely ‘a pack of lies,” rubbish fit only to be dumped out and forgotten? . That is precisely the way in which a devotee of the philosophy of revolution and of protest would state it. But in so doing he would be guilty of a com- plete distortion of the facts. For the exact and obvious truth is that no dis- covery of the twentieth century thus far subtracted, nor can it ever subtract, one whit from the great body of experimental facts brought to light in the nineteenth century. These facts are henceforth the ent heritage of the race. In them eternal truth has been dis- covered, truth which will forever guide the race in its efforts to live in better accord with and better control over nature. In other words, experimental o eeware stop. It moves only for- a ) moves o ward in ever-expanding circles. But how about the framework of theory which had held these facts together, given them unity, assisting the memory in them, and giving them relations. Ue? phatically no. The seventy- 0dd elements of chemistry, now be- come 82, are still, and always will be, the ultimate units of chemical combi- nation, which was the nnluel.fl in which their ultimateness been tested before 1895. In the study of chemistry and its practical applica- tions too, we use the elements now precisely as we used them before the dllcova? of the electron. The only change is that the dphyllcm! has dis- covered a new fleld entered by new processes, X-ray processes and the 1ike, in which the ultimateness of the elements disappears. This means that we have merely had to supplement, extend, build, over a bit our old theories, not abandon them. It is amazing how seldém a well worked out physical theory is abandoned. Thus, the principle of the conservation of energy is still the corner stone of all engineering and of practically all physics, and that, too, in just the way in which we used it before it became mixed up with mass. In a word, nineteenth century phys- ics was in 1900 and is today eternal truth, so far as applications to the domain of knowledge to which we had access in 1900 is concerned. And what is true of physics is probably to a very large extent true of the growth of all knowledge. The civiliza tions of the past have all discovered truth. Some of them, perhaps most of them, have gone as far as they could with the observational data with which they had to work. Why is it that we have never surpassed the sepulchral decorative art of the Egyp- tians nor their sepulchral architec- ture, either? Is it not because they, too, in some flelds, discovered eternal truth? *Why is it that in the plastic arts, in esthetics, in the exercise of pure reason, we can only imitate the Greeks? Again, because in these flelds :’:l:l (il':fik! ?llco\‘;l‘:g eternal truth, must go em to learn it. Whnlll it that all the world is still willing to say of Jesus, “Never man mk.: lgonthh man”? Is it not be- terally spake 2,000 years ago the words of everlasting life— the words of rich, full, abundant, satis- fying, unselfish living for all times and all places? Only the undiscerning and thoughtless fail to see the truth that was olothed in the old dress, fail to see that this whole process of which we are a is but a slow continu- fneed, s not ndeed, not the main purpose of education to enable one to ‘:a:vthe truth of the present, and to under- stand also the truth of the past; in a word, to enable one to estimate correctly his own place, and that of his cotemporaries in ‘the ever-ex- panding ocean of knowledge, for only with such understanding can he shake off the Inhibitions of the con- ventional, free himself from the emo- tional futility of the radical and put forth constructive effort for the real betterment of the whole world. (Copyright. 1926.) Crime Laid to Political Influences On Police, Prosecutors and Judges (Continued from Third Page.) about, being blazoned large in news- papers. “Thus men frequently h posi- tlons on the criminal h after their characters have been systemat. fcally attacked and sometimes un- Justifiably blackened by the political opposition, so that their loss of stand- ing among political opponents and to & certain extent even among political friends has been carefully assured. High community standing is essential to a judge’s efficiency. “An accompaniment: of the Ameri- can situation inevitably is that men up for election to the bench make camj promises. Some of these are in the open on the platform, more are made in secret behind the closed doors of the party councils. “This also is disastrous, for it is obvious that really there is nothing which a man properly can promise to do_ after he has been seated in a judiclal chair except to carry out the provisions of the law honestly and impartially in every case over which he is called upon to preside. Judges Honest as Rule. “American judges in the main are honest, but speaking generally, especially as concerns judges of the Inferior courts, they are deficient in education and other necessary quall- fications. Even the best of impulses scarcely can save such men when worrled lest they may endanger their chances of re-election. “It would be unreasonable for us to expect from our judges the sort of administration of Jjustice Jand gets from which Eng. wi “In most states our judges are elected for terms varying from four years to six in length. A former Judge of the Supreme Court who had not sought renomination .in one of our States told me that he would have been glad to be re-elected to the office, but that he had found it impossible to 80 through the campaign procedure of climbing stairs to political lawyers’ offices and ringing the doorbells of political bosses, giving them, in re- turn for their promises of support, his own promises of political behavior on the bench. “This situation is not characteristic of any one State, but of the whole Nation. There are a few exceptions, but not many. “A recent murder case which attracted wide attention was an ex- ample of the penalty we pay. Be ginning with the inconceivably in- competent work done by the coroner at the start, the conduct of the case was a tragi-comedy of mal-administra- tion as it went through the hands of the police, the grand jury and the public prosecutor. The whole pro- cedure, which should have dealt sternly with a terrible crime, did nothing of the sort and ended in com- plete failure to place the responsibil- ity upon any one whomsoever. The dead are unavenged, the guilty escape, the public quarrels over pa ment of immense and fruitless costs, ——— A Nuremberg man who invented a. ticking clock, in 1840, was accused of tchoraft by his wifeand his neigh- WASHINGTON, D. 0., DECEMBER 26, 1926—PART 2. NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS The Phillips Memorial Gallery Obtains Characteristic Work of Winslow Homer—Madonnas in Washington Galleries—Other Notes. BY LEILA MECHLIN. AINTINGS by Winslow Homer are so scarce today that the announcement made last veek by the Phillips Memorial Gallery of the acquisition of a characteristic canvas by this great painter of the sea almost partook of the sensational, “To the Rescue,” which now hangs in the main gallery of the Phillips Memorial Gallery, is essentially in Winslow Homer’s best vein, an epic of the sea, in which the human ele- ment has been introduced to lend emphasis to the drama. Three fig- ures, a man with a rope in his hand striding forward, and two women walking side by side, are almost sil- houetted against a raging surf, waves beaten into froth as they pound upon the shore and fill the murky air with mist. Sky and water meet without definition in a dark gray pall, through which one sees, or seems to see, the outlines of a ship in distress. There is intense action both in the figures and in the foaming water, and ever present is the suggestion of doom. No one who knows the sea, even those who love it most, can completely escape the sense at times,of its dire- ful menace, its relentless cruelty. Conrad speaks of this in his “Per- sonal Record.” Winslow Homer as a painter of the sea paralleled Conrad as a writer; the one pictured with words, the other with brush. Both are equally terse, powerful and verac- jous. Winslow Hqmer lived for years on the coast of Mhine a solitary life, mingling not at all with other artists, comparatively little with his neigh- bors, but he knew and painted the sea on that rock-bound coast as no one else has. The Phillips Memorial Gallery is fortunate in possessing two charac- teristic water colors by this same master—one a golden sunset over still water, the other a rocky Maine head- land, on which are assembled a group lof happy people. Each takes her place as a factor in the composition and one little figure poised on the very topmost rock silhouetted against the sky lends scale to the whole. Homer, it will be remembered, be gan his career as an illustrator. He was special artist for Harper's Weekly at the front during the Civil War and, following the Northern Army Into Virginia, made pictures not only of the fighting force but of the negro life which he found on the old plantations. One of these early paintings, an interior of a negro cabin, is Included in the Evans Na- tional Gallery collection, as well as Homer's masterly later painting, “High Cliff, Coast of Maine.” The Corcoran Gallery owns two works by Winslow Homer, a gaunt figure of a woman, wind blown, walk- ing along the shore, and a brilliant water color of a river man gulding downstream floating logs. Winslow - Homer’s “All's Well, familiar to many through reproduc- tion, is owned by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. *“The Searchlight” and several pictures of the sea are in the Outbreak in Reichstag Demonstrates Vitality of German Republican Forces (Continued from First Page.) military elements recovered thelr freedom of action. This recovery was first indicated when there was a general protest against the course of Gen. von Seekt, who had permitted a son of the for- mer Crown Prince to enter the army as an officer. As a result of the do- mestic muss which this action caused, Seekt had to go. But Seekt had been the able soldier who had in fact laid the bases for the future restoration of German military strength and within limits played the role of Gnel- senau in the Napoleonic era after Jena. Fell With Little Protest. Before 0 no German party would have dared to attack Seekt and he had survived all political changes. But he fell quickly and with very little protest. Now the present up. roar in the Reichstag is the result of newspaper disclosure of the fashion in which under Seekt's regime the evasion of the disarmament clauses was carried on and the manner in which publlchtunds were employed secretly for the purpose. The meaning of the present incident can hardly be exaggerated. It dem- onstrates that the internal condition of Germany has reached a point where the parties and groups working for a peace of concillation, Ing for a peace of understandimg with the natlons which were enemies during the war, at last feel strong enough to attack the military element in the open. And it signifies further that the German people have at last reached a int where they no longer fear that allled policy actually envisages the permanent humiliation and oppression of their country. So far from supplying French min- isters or governments with new rea- sons for occupying more German territory or employing greater coer- clon, the German parties which are back of the new disclosures and de- bates believe that the departure of the French will be actually hastemed if only the German military forces are successfully exposed in their evasions and controlled in their resistance. Step Is Long One. This i8 a very long step. It means that at last there is beginning a public opinion supporting the Repub- lic which is not only passive but active, not simply condemned to the defensive but able and ready to take the offensive. It means that the need of alled supervision of German mili- tary policies must diminish as the ele- ments within Germany which are opposed to military ideas are more and more able to assert themselves. That the German Republic would endure 'has been the growing belief not only of foreigners but of Germans for at least two years. But its per- i manence has been rather set down to the absence of any really appeal- ing substitute, to the destroyed prestige of the Hohenzollerns and the unavailability of any dynasty, even that of Bavaria. The extent of real republican sentiment. has been gravely questioned. But recent events and particularly the clash between the Socialists and the nationalists over the military issue indicates that there is develop- ing precisely that kind of public sentiment which .in the end must exist if republican institutions are to take root. Moreover, a year ago, the vote upon the money settlement with the kings and princes over lands and palaces demonstrated the enormous strength of the anti-monarchial senti- ment which has developed. Reactionaries Are Limited. It may well be that the present explosion produced by the Socialist attack will result in the creation of a cabinet which rests for its support upon the Bourgeols and Nationalist elements, but'on the other hand the power 6f the reactionaries will hence- forth be limited by the fact that what they do wilf certainly be dragged forth into daylight and have evil effects at home and % . Hearn Collection at the Metropolitan Museum. * ok Kk Kk IN the Phillips Memorial Gallery, on the wall opposite that on which “To the Rescue” is hung, is a still life by Claude Monet secured by Mr. Phillips from the Durand-Ruel private collection a few months ago. It is a beautiful piece of color and flnely painted, but not in the style that commonly {s associated with this great impressionist’s works, for Monet was, above a.l things, a painter of sunlight and sunlight through atmos- phere. He ad.pied, too, it will be re- membered, a method of painting with small dashes of pure color so placed in just a position that they recreated the illusion of light. This painting is not so rendered but for this reason is none the less Interesting, probably more so, for it goes to show that a really great painter is not restricted to one style or to one kind of theme. * ok %k * ACHARMING little picture is the newly purchased interior by Vuil- lard, showing the corner of an at- tractive room prettily grouped and well hung with pictures wherein sit, in evident engaging conversation, a man and a woman, typically French. Mr. Phillips has sald: ‘Mr. Vuillard's specialty Is the domestic atmosphere of his popular interiors—the eloquent suggestion of the relation of people to their living rooms. He is called an ‘intimist,’ as is also Pierre Bon- nard. Both are links between the impressionists whose lght and air they employ and the expressionists whose aim 18 not to reproduce a scene or an object but to suggest the ideas it conveys in *th: r:\m‘d." THOUGH not a recent purchase, remark may be made at this time of the third painting now on view in the Phillips Memorial Gallery, a pic- ture of the Market Place, Dieppe, by Pissaro, a most elaborate theme beau- titully rendered, a work essentially in the style of the French impression- ists but evidencing the fact that it was not the intention of the members of this school to cast aside or mini- mize the value of good drawing. There are literally hundreds of people swarming the street, the market place; there are dozens of windows like eyes looking from the facades of the surrounding houses; the stalls in the market are piled with colorful flowers, fruit and vegetables. The scene is full of vitality, of color, of charm, somewhat the same charm found out of doors that Vuillard found indoors and that our own Rob- ert Spencer discovers and manifests to us in his tx::tr;ry-‘to:vn paintings. THE Phillips Memorial Gallery is to give the Washington public a chance to see the work of John Marin, than which none has created in recent years more discussion. In the Little Gallery, in February, some of his finest recent water colors are to be shown with earlier works available The German political system is and will remain in a state of unstable equilibrium_because broadly speaking there are three elements: The Social- ists, the largest single group, which are not only republican but radical; the Nationalists, who on the other hand are both monarchists and conserva- tives; and the third group, made up of the Clericals, Democrats and People’s Party, who are both repub- lican and conservative. Thus majorities such as are re-| quired to support a cabinet must al- ways be impermanent, and any cab- inet will have to seek support for a foreign policy which is conciliatory from the Socialists and against the Nationalists, while to obtain a ma- jority for conservative domestic pol- icles it will have to turn to the Na- tionalists. And in the nature of things no out-and-out Socialist or Na- tionalist cabinet is feasible, because the German people on the whole are both republican and conservative, as neither of the two great parties is. But no one can mistake the evolu- tion which is taking place nor fail to see that Germany is escaping from the state of mind by post- war conditions which very nearly threw the people back into the arms of the old_monarchial and military elements. In their crusade to make the world safe for democracy | Em: the allies at the Paris conference very nearly Germany unsafe for democracy. Normal Struggle Expected. Today, however, the gradual with- drawal of allied control is releasing republican forces within the life of the nation itself and these are at once joining battle with the influences and elements which would seek to re- store pre-war Germany. Thus there is coming in German political life that natural and normal struggle be- tween forces which are present in all democracies, but could not operate de- cisively under the old regime and have not been able to operate de- cisively hitherto, even under the new regime, because all Germans felt the instinctive need of unity in the pres- ence of foreign conquerors whose pur- poses seemed destructive. Locarno, therefore, while it served the cause of world enor- mously by bringing about a viable relation between the French and Ger- man people, may in the end prove to have been at least as useful in liberating the democratic elements within Germany. Moreover, the rise of this demoratic force can alone do what no foreign or League of Na- tions supervision could accomplish in the fleld of limitation of national armaments. For despite all control and supervision coming from without, evasion would not only be natural but inevitable, while faced with demo- cratic opposition within, it would be facing a national, not a foreign force. In the long run the German people will recover their freedom of action. ‘The transitory consequences of mili- tary defeat cannot last indefinitely. If, for example, war should break out between France and Italy tomorrow Trench troops would have to leave the Rhine as they had to quit Rome in 1870 and Germany would as com- pletely recover her freedom of action ~s Italy did by reason of the Franco- Prussian War, ‘That is what makes the present re- action against military expansion ~oming from within Germany one of ‘he most imvortant post-war circum- stances in German and even Euro- nean history. ( (Copyright, 1025, by the ewspaper Syndicatar e N Dies at Age of 125. An - Irishman named Willlam Smythe, said to have been 125 years old, died in Ireland recently. Bmythcl lived alone and was famous in his neighborhood not only for his great age but also because he was walk two miles each week to ;237‘: pension. He 'supp! in- come by for comparison. *“Marin speaks emo- tionally or not at all,” says Mr. Phillips. “He trusts himself implic- itly to his amazing instinct and in- spiration for colors which are dyn- amic_and symphonic. He has been ftflled the Beethoven of modern paint- ng." But before Marin's works are set forth there will be shown in the Little Gallery works by a group of American painters who have devoted, or are devoting, themselves to ess tially American themes, such as Wins- low Homer, John Sloan, Robert Spencer. Gifford Beal, Edward Hop- per, James Chapin and Charles Sheeler. This exhibition will last temporary paintings by and European artists will be shown in the main gallery and the familiar masterpieces of the. collection will be transferred to the lower gallery, room not usually open to the public. * ok k¥ AT this season of the year attentien turns to religious themes in art, pictures of the Madonna and Christ Child, pictures of the Nativity, favor- ite themes with the old masters, dut exceedingly seldom rendered today. The Corcoran Gallery of Art has ac- quired through the Clark collection a very charming Madonna, Christ Child and St. John, by Bernardino Luini, who was born in Luini, Italy. albout 1460 and died about 1535, a follower of Leonardo da Vincl, whose work to a degree resembles that of this great master. ‘There is a Modonna and Child by Luini also in the Harriet Johnston collection in the National Gallery of Art, a work quite unusual in composition, the Child being repre- sented as fleeing from the mother and gently caught and held by her loving hands—a work exquisite in color. There are several paintings representing this general subject in the Ralph Cross Johnston collection, notably a beautiful “Madonna and Child with 8t. John and an Angel," by Sebastiano Mainardi of the Floren- tine school, a pupil and brother-in- law of Domenico Ghirlandajo. In this collection also there is a Madonna and Child by Govaert Flinck, who, though a Prussian by birth, is reckoned with the Dutch school, having lived most of his life and died, in Amsterdam, a pupil of Rembrandt but a disciple of the Italian masters. Of about a cen- tury earlier is a “Virgin and Child" by Bernard van Orley, who was born and died in Brussels but who spent sev- eral years in Rome prior to 1515 study ing Raphael, in whose style he painted. Finally, there is in this collection a painting attributed to Peter Paul Rubens of the Flemish school of the late sixteenth and seventeenth cen- turies, a “Holy Family with St. Eliza- beth,” which, if not by the master, is essentially of his school, and repre- sents those same persons whom he repeatedly used as models. * ¥ * % IN a competition held by the Wash- ington Soclety of the Arts and Crafts for an emblem or design that might be used on_ letterheads and that could be used as a mark of Identification on articles made by members of the soclety, a design sub- mitted by Miss Ruth Bitting, 3911 Grant road northwest, received first award with a cash prize of $25. Miss Bitting is a senior at the McKinley Technical High School, where she has received high commendation for her designing ability. Honorable mention was awarded to four other designers: First, Paul Casassa, also a student at McKinley Technical High School; second, Frederick Shepard Taylor, and, third, Miss Marian Lane, a craftsman at bookbinding with a studio at 806 Seventeenth street. The committee making the awards consisted of Henry K. Bush-Brown, 'man; Alvin W. Hall, director of the Bureau of Engraving; Felix Ma- hony, director of the National School of Fine and Applied Art, and Alexis Many, art instructor at the McKinley Technical High School. Mr. Many was not present at the meeting at which the awards were made on ac- count of the fact that many of his students had submitted designs in the competition. P * AT the Washington Arts Club there is now on view a collection of 21 paintings by members. Miss Saw- telle shows a painting entitled “The Blue Door”; Miss Annie D. Kelley one entitled “On the Canal.” Eleanor P. Custis and Margaret C. Munn are represented, one by an Italian subject, “San Giovanni," the other by a pic. ture of “Virginia Wayside Flowers.” ima Duel Rice sends a still life and “Spring Blossoms.” Mrs. L. MeD. Sleeth sends not only “A Gray Day* but a still life, “A Few Flowers,” From Miss Edith Hoyt has comed picture of a “Sentinel Pine,” présum- ably painted in Canada last Summer near Murray Bay. May Maj 1 con- tributes “A Log Cabin,” while Nella Binckley sends an “Impressions. ofs & Dancer.” Margaret Laws is repre- sented by “The Rallroad Bridge’; ai by a picture entitled ‘“Noon.” ‘&l L. L. Ferguson is doubly répresen by “Wintry Hill” and “Sugar Pine,” There is a picture of “Sand Dunes on the Jersey Coast,” by Jane S.-Eiliett. Mrs. Susan B. Chase, who._has a most excellent picture in the cwrent exhibition of the Washington Witer Color Club, shows this collection a picture entitled “Mary. W.” '}Miss Lillian Giffen of Baltimore : shows '‘Good Surf” and ‘“Across ‘Bemo's Ledge. It has often been sald tl 11 amount of art spirit possessed’ %flnfi s community should be reckones, by the numbers who visit exhibitions or listen to symphony concerts, rather by the number of actygl ducers. The Arts Club does 3 afford opportunity for the Wi n public to get better acquainted with the works of :ur' Washington artists. * ¥ BENSON B. MOORE of this city was represented by a group of four prints: “King Vultures,” p“?‘lm&:‘" “Bengal Tigers,” and “Female Black- Crowned Night Heron,” in the fourth annual exhibition by living American etchers, which opened in the National Arts Club, New York, December 2, continuing to December 22, * k% % & TH'E ‘Washington Water Color Club's thirty-first annual exhibition, which opened in the Corcoran Gallery on December 18 and will continue to January 16 s attracting much favorable attention. It is the con- sensus of opinion that this is one of the best exhibitions that the club has set forth. A chance visitor from New York, a business man, purchased five out of a group of six water colors by Miss Leslie Jackson. One of Mr. lmes* “Improvised Bits" has been purchased by Mr. Stephen T. Mather,s director of the National Parks Service. G2nealogys If interested in youe +++++++44+ family History, our geaealogical books for sle by ue will be muiled to you for 10c. instampe. + GOODSPEED'S BOOK-SHOP @ Ashboctoa Placs, Bostos, Mgz,