Evening Star Newspaper, September 8, 1929, Page 32

Tong Shao- THE SUNDAY i, Friend of President 30 Years Ago, Recalls Young Engineer’s Risk of Own Life to Help Others in Boxer Rebellion. BY VICTOR KEEN. HANCHAL—Tong Shao-yl, prob- | ably the only Chinese now living who was an intimate friend of President Hoover when the latter was associated with the China Engineering & Mining Co. in Tientsin nearly 30 years ago, is planning a visit | to the White House. “Not in an official capacity,” Mr. Tong told me when I called at his Shanghai residence to inquire about his trip, “but merely to shake hands with an old friend.” Mr. Tong. who is approaching his, seventieth birthday anniversary, was| manager of the government Peking| Shanhaikan Railways when Mr. Hoo- ver came to China in 1898 as an engi neer employed by the Chinese govern: ment. The railways manager also was closely identified with the China En- gineering & Mining Co., operators of the Kailan mine, as the company was founded by his uncle, Tong King: X and the Tong family had always been among the largest shareholders in the enterprise. The Kailan mine today has an output of 6,000 tons of gold-bearing ore daily and is one of the richest mining properties in the world. “Saved 1,000 Refugees. | One of Mr. Tong's favorite stories| about Mr. Hoover is the account of how the young engineer saved his life as weil as the lives of nearly a thousand | other Chinese during the Boxer up-| rising. The Chinese statesmen related o me in detail what was probably Mr. | Hoover's first experience in the relief | work which was eventually to make him known throughout the world. ‘7 “As general manager of the Peking & Shanhaikan Railways,” Mr. Tong said, “1 lived in Tientsin in the interna tional settlement at that time. Mr. Mrs. Hoover lived just across the road from our home. “The Boxers were shelling the settle- ment with a powerful gun which they called the Empress Dowager. It threw a 750-pound shell and was being fired continuously. They called us southern Chinese f Boxers and we wgre in constant danger of our lives. House Struck by Shell. “A shell from this gun struck my house and my wife was killed instantly. There were about 200 men, women and ehildren in my home at that time seek- ing refuge, and, while quite a number were killed or injured, it has always been a wonder to me that so many survived. We were in a panic. My first thought was to seek safety in some other quarter. I carried the body of my wife on my back and led the way to the large cellars of the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company, which were about two blocks distant. “Mr, Hoover rushed to my house at about the same time and at the risk of his life carried out a number of the dead and wounded. A day or two later my house caught fire and burned to the ground. “Meantime about a thoussnd refugees had assembled in the cellar. Mr. Hoover appeared and his first question was: ‘Mr, Tong, what can I do for you?" - ‘{’m us some food,’ I replied. Deserted Shops Yielded Supplies. “Mr. Hoover asked for a dozen strong men to follow him. The men were se- lected, four for water and eight for Tiee, and through the long, hot day Mr. Hoover led them to deserted shops, | whose owners had fled, and gathered | supplies for the penned-in refugees. “Then I called Mr. Hover's attention to the thousand pr. more. Chinese the cellars of the-Bank ‘of China. It was Mr. Hoover and Dr. Tenney who for 20 days, absolutely fearless in their humane mission, supplied the refugees at both places with food and water and probably saved their lives. “It was a tense period filled with suspicions and accusations. Together with Chang Yen-mao, director general of the mining company, 10 days after the siege, I was arrested on the charge of communicating with the Boxers, by the Chinese authorities, after the Box- ers had destroyed my home and killed my wife and daughter. For three days we_were imprisoned in a coolie house in !lmerflelg and Swire’s Compound. It faced the west with a July sun beaming down on us and the situation reminded me of what I had read about the Black Hole of Calcutta. ' “Mr. Hoover, learning of our arrest. together with Dr. Tenney, afterward charge d’affaires, and the commander of a British gunboat, brought our re- lease with apologies. “For their humane efforts, Mr. Hoover and Dr. Terney were under the impu- tation of some extremists that they were disloyal to the foreigners defending the settlement.” Answered Campaign Charge. Nearly 30 years later, Tong Shao-yi was in a position to be of service tc Mr. Hoover dunnf";he last presidential campaign. Durj the campaign, Hoover's opponents attempted to dis- credit his candidacy on the basis of his relationship with the transactions of the Chinese Engineering & Mining Co. Mr. Tong, in a statement given at| Macao to B. W. Fleisher, publisher of the Japan Advertiser, an American daily in Tokio, pointed out that Mr. Hoover had severed his connections with the mine after its transfer to Bel- gian management, and that during the subsequent litigation involving the terms of the transfer Mr. Hoover was a witness, not a defendant. ‘This statement was published in newspapers throughout the United States during the closing of the cam- , Mr. Hoover sent Mr. Tong a let- ter-of thanks and another message at the time of his inauguration. Mr. Hoover came to China in 1898 as an engineer for the Chinese V- ernment, and, following the withdrawal | of the Chinese government to Sunafu during the Boxer uprising in 1900, the | engineer was offered the posi- ting engineer with the China Engineering & Mining Co. At/ . that time the shareholders included four groups, combined Chinese and! German interests, two separate British | units and a Belgian group. Properties Seized by Armies. TFollowing the Boxer uprising various | of the country were seized the armies of Russia, Japan, Ger- and Great Britain. It was only to the action of Mr. Hoover, Mr. ‘Tong declared, that the Chinese did not Jose control of the company. Mr. Hoo- ‘ver then went n;o l.“?m c&e mrtlnmfi: the company. Wi Teo! - ization, th!’ Chinese demanded m-cl they be represented on the board and | K memorandum 0 this Tector eral. A mem: ruary, . Mr. Hoover was - eral manager. Later, Mr. Tong m out, the Belgian shareholders ol control of the company and Mr. Hoover severed his .connections with it and returned to the United States. the Chinese went on “Subsequent]; to say, “the Belgian group failed to al by the terms of the memorandum. A stit was instituted in British court| in England in 1905 against the com- . Mr. Hoover was not a defendant, | was called as a witness, and it was 1y on his testimony that the valid- the memorandum was established the Chinese won their suit, and ‘en-mao was reinstated as di eral 18 months Mr. Hrover was rty he trans- t had_ been % ] L | Mr. Tong met during his stay in the in | producing 200 heavy locomotives and recollection Mr. Hoover, though only | abopt 23 years old, received a salary of 325,000 a yea! Mr, Tong's first visit to the United | States was 55 years ago, when he was a boy o(‘& He remained six years studying in¥Springfield, Mass., and sub. sequently at Hartford, Conn. “I shall always remember four great Americans whom it was my good for- | tune to meet during my early years in the United States,” Mr. Tong said.| ‘The four Americans who so profoundly | impressed him more than half tury ago were Horace Greeley, gr. Henry Ward Beecher and Gen. ant. T met Greeley in Springfield, I think, | it was in 1875, Tong recalled. “He im pressed me as a grand old man. H must have been about 70 years ol I met Ben Butler about the same time.” Later, Tong moved to Hartford, where he lived with a William Smith, who was well known breeder of race horses. ‘He used give me ‘pony’ lessons,” ‘Tong related. ‘“Not abqut horses, but you know what I mean—Ilessons out of ::hool——pony lessons we used to call | em.” Met Grant in Hartford. It was at Mr. Smith's home that ‘Tong met Gen. Grant. “It was in| 1877 or 1878," Mr. Tong sald, “and he | was no longer President. I will remem- ber that he was particularly inter-| ested in Mr. Smith’s horses. The latter | llion that had won an im- | e at Philadelphia and he kept a special two-story stable just for this animal. He used to have him lifted up to the second story with a rope and pulleys at night. “Grant asked Mr. Smith if he would | take $100,000 for the stallion, but Smith refused. “Grant had a kind face, but he im- pressed me as being a stanch soldier. | His conversation was always terse and | to_the point.” ‘The fourth great American to whom United States was Henry Ward Beecher. ‘Tong confessed that he had always disliked attending church services, but declared that during his years in the United States he never missed an op- | portunity to hear Beecher preach. | “He was the sort that when he fin- | ished you wished the 'mon had been | an hour longer,” the &” added. First Premier of fepublic. Mr. Tong seems a kimdly, young old man, untouched by &he cataclysmic changes of revolutiom and counter- revolution that have msolded and re- molded China's political fabric during the last 18 years. But he has served his country in an official eapacity under the Manchus, he was selected as China's first premier under the republic and ! (Continued From First Page.) was but a natural stgp forward, then. | at this moment to enter the field of | manufacturing finished locomotives and freight cars, Accordingly, the largest of the former Hindenburg Shops, | covering 18 acres of floor space, was equipped as a locomotive manufactory. As _early as March, 1919—when the | allied engineers were in the very midst | of their work of destruction- Kmpfls began to build their first h\l{: freight locomotives. By July, 1923, they were 2,500 15-ton freight cars of a Krupp patented design annuaily. | But one of the great needs of Ger-, many immediately after the war was the repairing of practically every piece | of her broken-down railway roiling | stock, for the better parts had had to | be delivered to the allles in the repara- tions program. Several other large | war shops were turned into railwa: repair shops. The former Turret Gun Shop was converted into a plant for the building of large-sized Diesel stationary engines. The Howitzer Shop became a factory for the manufacture of auto- | mobile trucks and other motor vehicles. In its immediate and careful survey of the urgent mechanical needs of Ger- many itself, which Krupps had made, | it had been revealed that agricultural/ machinery had suffered badly. So sev- | | has assured me of his co-operation.” Germany Pushes Ahead | hours faster than any other ship had | he is today, despite his years, chairman of the model district of Chungsan. During his early years in the United States, the Chinese statesman obtained a fluent command of the English lan- guege. He spe: without the trace of an accent. After his six years' training in America he returned to China and almost immediately entered public life. He was sent to Corea in the customs service in 1881, when that country wi under Russian control. He served 1 years in Corea, eventually being made consul general. * In 1898 he became manager of the Peking Shanhaikan rai s. Follow- ing the Boxer uprising he was appointed ! to the office of toa-tai of Tientsin, which combines the functions of mayor and superintendent of customs. Hopes to Reform City. ‘Tong's model district includes the city of Macao, which probably num- bsrs among its leading industries gambling and traffic in oplum. Tong, who has been a stanch supporter of the anti-opium movement, hopes of accomplishing reforms in Macao. “I have approached the governor of Maceo on the subject,” he said, ““and he No visit to Mr. Tong’s home is com- plete without an inspection of his Chi- nese porcelains. There is probably no private collection in the world to com- pare with it and two of his choicest pleces cannot be duplicated in any existing collection, public or private. One, a 15-inch vase of the shade known as palm green, dates back nearly 300 yea to the Kaien-lung period. The color and texture of the porcelain e almost an exact approximation of jade. The other piece, a smaller vase, made during the Kang Hsi period, the first of the Manchus, is the shade of lapis lazuli, ‘When I was inspecting Mr. Tong's porcelains, a large bronze urn caught my attention and on closer exami tion I discovered that the piece con tained an inscription stating that it had been presented to Mr. Tong by Kitchener. Mr. Tong had met Kitchen- er for the first time when he helped negotiate the British-Tibetan treaty of 1905. Kitchener was then commander- in-chief of the British forces in India and Lord Curzon was viceroy. Subse- quently Tong and Kitchener became | close friends. s “He was a man of good temperament | and character,” Tong said in describing | the British military leader. Tong Shao-yi passes some of his time in Shanghai and lives a part of each year in his country home in Ma He has not fixed the date for his departure to the United States, but expects to leave during the next few months. He will visit a number of friends while in America, but the chief purpose of his trip is to renew his acquaintance with President Hoover. crossed the ocean more than seven ever made the trip. Her sister ship, the Europa, as scheduled to be launched several months before the Bremen, but first was held back by labor strikes and then partially de- stroyed by fire. New York will prob- ably see her in less than a year, ‘This is the first instance wherein Germany’s competition on its grand scale has been felt and &ppreciated by her competitors. The whole maritime world has been thrown into a mild state of panic. The White Star Line has suddenly decided to scrap its giant 1,000-foot Oceanie, already well under construction, and build a larger and faster ship. The 'Cunard Line has planned and placed the orders for two 70,000-ton liners. An Itallan line prom- | ises immediate work on a ship to be more than 1,000 feet in length. And the new American owners of the Levia- | han—still the largest ship on the seas | —issue a counter challenge that they intend to build the largest ship afloat, regardless of all others. It is worthy of note that all these ships are floated on paper, except Ger- many's Bremen and Europa. Germany “l‘l this has stolen the march on them all. But the launching, the sailing and the | record-holding of the Bremen and the Europa are again but a manifestation of eral projectile shops, with a floorage of. 21 acres, became the headquarters for | the manufacture of agricultural me- | chinery of every description. The first | step was to acquire an old-established | agricultural machinery firm bag and| b Its patents, designs and mod.: els were turned over to the laboratory | and improved upon. The result was new design mowing and reaping ma- | chines, special steel ploughshares, har- rows and sowers, cultivators, hoeing and | covering machinery, potato planters and | diggers and a score of others. many, as well as the rest of Europe, had | hitherto been largely supplied by Amer- ' ica with these devices. | Continued shortage of coal lunpheaf led to increased working of brown coal and lignite deposits, and this circum- stance was the Krupps' reason for se- riously taking up the invention and production of mine excavators, which in turn led to the manufacture on a large scale of building excavators with extraordinary resistance against wear and tear. | There still remained acres of shops | empty and thousands of skilled and | willing engineers idle. The searciand | research continued night and day for| additional products that would help put | Germany to the fore and meet world market demands at the same| time. This led gradually to a most diverse program of production. Among the first of the numerous machines projected was textile ma chinery to be used in the many ane | various processes for the separating and spinning of cotton and wool. Just as one fleld that American in- geruity had long since exploited—win- ning the envy of all foreign competitors —had been that of harvesting imple- ments; so had another been that of the cash register. For years American cash registers had flooded Germany and the rest of the world. . Krupp inventors and engineers attacked the cash register with & will. At length the Krupp cash register was evolved and before long was being produced in quantities suffi- cient to export and challenge American o Tist all the X ruj ucts [ fill a small book lnp&:l;?dxmmfl but a symbol of what the whole o?’(;er- d gigantic prod steel as well. Again Krupps is in the world market ready to offer steel by the thousands of tons. ‘There remains another German chal- lenge for supremacy in peace that has recently engaged the attention and ad. miration of the world. It is Germany's bid for maritime supremacy—at least ' certain commercial phases of it plying between Europe and America. ‘The announcement of the Norih Ger- | man ip Company a few vears ago that it intended to build | two glant liners that would surpass; anything on the sea was not taken altogether seriously. l Now, mot only one but two giant Huers have been constructed as an in- the | 781 | of the year of its birth, in 1857, | while several of the chief competitors | are a little worse off than they were be- { fore the war. i1dea, only competitors should keep at ! the more significant facts. Any coun- | try can build the “biggest and fastest ' ship,” but how many countries would, | like Germany, start with a couple of | hundred thousand tons of obsolete ship- | ping junk—which is what the allies left | to her in 1919—and in less than 10| years’ time, id both revolution and | bankruptcy, add more than 4,000,000 | tons? Today Germany's tonnage is less | ?l.l‘sllllzlv 2 million tons under the peak of The ship-building record and plans of the North German Lloyd Co. so' closely parallel that of Germany itself that its actual figures are worthy of | study. At the outbreak of the war the North | German Lloyd possessed a magnificent | fleet of 494 vessels, with a gross tonnage | of 982952, including ships under con- | struction. Of the ships that remained unconfiscated at the end of the war the | Versallles treaty allowed the*company | to keep 57.671 tons. These were small | craft, vessels such as tugs, launches and lighters. Not a single passenger or freight steamer remained to the Lloyd | of its once proud fleet. Its largest vessel | was a seaside resort steamer by the name of Gruss Got—God’s Blessing, it might be interpreted—its gross tonnage | 81. In other words, the company stood practically where it had been at the end By the end of 1925 the tonnage of the Lloyd company had been rebuilt so that it aumbered 613,056 tons, of which 558,- 000 tons were sea-going vessels. Today the North German Lloyd Company has only about 200.000 tons less tonnage than it had at the outbreak of the war! In looking forward to what Germany s doing and will do on the sea, it is ab- | solutely necessary to look backward in | retrospect. If Germany was able to ac- | complish so much during the Jast 10/ years, five of which were -almost fallow | because of acute political and financial | distress, what is she capable of doing during the next 10 years? ‘The only adequate answer is that to- day, & mere five years after Germany’s total bankruptcy, the republic is pro- ducing in all the most important | bra s of industry as mruch as the | empire did 4n its best years, despite the fact that her area has been diminished, | Watch the Germans! is not a bad work while they do so. el andwi;ir” Board Used To Obtain Employment {7 Berlin busybodies suddenly stoppeg walting for Fuad to drive through the 2 streets on the Egyptlan King's recent visit and turned their attention to a sandwichman. Por on his board was he short but impressive legend, “1 want a job.” Below these large letters the| man stated his education and the os!- tions he held to date in terse {-legraphic lal g up with the assur- dication of Germany’s industrial psy- | that would chol energy. A series of mis- fortuste "sione _prevented the. Liord marks, It worked. Wit he got the job he the | the wi STAR, WASHINGTON, Is New World __ (Continued From Pirst Page) world. Neither the Red armies nor the Soviet state itself would, under such a combined attack, be able to put up any effective or enduring resistance. Politically regarded, however, the pre- sumption in favor of any such combina- tion appears to me to be very slight, as communistic prorcnnd- would render im| ible. Russis iberation might be concelv- able if Germany were again fully armed and if the nations were to intervene dis- interestedly to deliver the Russian peo- ple from their persecutors. Such a contingency is today not yet to be an- ticipated. The second great questions refers to the annihilation of England in the | event of a war between England on the one hand and the United States and | France on the other. In the event of such a war, England wpuld stand alone. Germany would be held in check by the armies of the Far East on its eastern frontier and.bLy tnose of Prance on its western. France's air forces would carry the war into England; Prench submarines, op- ®rating from a favorable base, wou:d cut off supplies to England, while thc fieets of the United States would crip- ple English trade on every sea until ul- timately they found in French ports adequate bases for the direct blockading of England. England’s land forces can never land in France, as is obvious enough from the weakness of her army. The French Army, on the other hand, once the com- mand of the seas has been secured by France and the United States, could proceed to invade England, where rev iution would then break out with ex- actly the same opportuneness as for- merly it did in Germany. BY PAUL PAINLEVE, Prench Minister of War. T am fully convinced that war is not inevitable. . The prineipal causes of ar, such as national amour propre and the desire to prove that military virtues are not extinct within & nation, will hardly suffice in the future to bring about hostili- ties after such ap- lling proofs of national bravery as were given on all sides during the great war., Neither will eco- nomic_ differences be sufficient, in my opinio These troubles can be settled within any mmunity without recourse to Aarms, and why should they not be settled between countries in the same way' Paul Painleve ? ‘As M. Briand has very truly said, the | aceful | preliminary condition to the settlement” of a difference is the con- viction that it can be settled peacefully. We must all cultivate this conviction. BY VISCOUNT CECIL, Distinguished British Statesman. Admittedly the present tendency in | international affairs is in some places rather disquieting, but I do not think that the position is such as to justify anticipation of an- other disturbance of the peace of the world. To regard the of a lasting peace Viscount Cecll. J}ong the pations are stronger than those which might, some time or another, for the outbreak of another world war. BY VISCOUNT ALLENBY, Distinguished British Soldier. There will always be disputes and bickerings between nations, There al ways are. But disputes betweeox::&a.l- lies do not lead to blows and b] hed. Why should it ever lead to war 1 | tween nations? Let us live in peace and friendship not only with Europe and America, but with all the world. ‘There is no reason why nations should not be as friendly disposed toward each other as the component parts of each state. is a curious thiwg that, al- though loud-voiced nationalism is looked upon as Viscount Allenby. virtue, yet even a whisper of internationalism is soms times regarded as treason to one's Is there any reason why the mankind should not in and friendshi] throughout the world? We have got hare the world with other much better to live in coun general etwen individusls, snd glad to sce that the League of N s perfirming the some function Pach the ETERteSt §esture toward pescs el ated Ire Socmary to uss ihe sl Methods of war; we shall find other means of | countries are covered with blood and y | men( of modern \d, D _0, War Possible? (Continued From First Page.) Under the Arc de Triomphe, under the floor of Westminster Abbey, near the capitol in Rome and at Arlington lie the symbolic dead. When they fell, they must have found consolation in the thought of dying so that others disappoint their final hope and nullify their heroic sacrifice would be a de- flance to their memory and an insult to_their sepulchers. The most terrible thing about a dec- laration of war is that the governments themselves cannot control it. Some event, happening quite suddenly and | unexpectedly, is taken up by the press; | the flame of patriotism is fanned and | national amour propre is aroused: cur- rents of opinion begin to show them- selves; impalpable forces set to work and governments are powerless. Before the people have been able to make their views known, war breaks out and the | It will always be so unless we make up our minds to appoint judge: for nations as well as for individu We have heard plenty of fronical lusions to the Tower of Babel, in which nations with a multitude of tongues | worked for peace and drew up texls | which were certainly not academic. | Ridicule was poured on these mad at- | tempts, but something more than the | | sarcasms of politiclans had to be con- sidered—the instinctive plain common sense of the people, who, unlike the | | superior critics, did not _laugh at the | |idea. It has grown and flourished sim- | ply because it found a refuge in the hearts of the people themselves. The critics ask how a war can be | revented from breaking out. The | arm, we are told, will be done before | the Council of the League of Nations can be brought together, and when the Council meets, how can its members be persuaded to agree? In the meantime, |the conflagration will spread and war | will bear its usual fruit. 1 One day, while I was minister of-| foreign affairs and also had the honor | of presiding over the Council of the| League of Nations, I received a telegram informing me that a conflict had broken out between two Eastern countries. The frontlers had been crossed, armies were fon the march and rifle and artillery | fire was heard. There was every reason to fear that the conflict would not be circumscribed to these two countries and that we should be faced with another | serfes of those terrible events that cause |the bloodred wings of war to hover | |over the world. | What was to be done? 1 immediately faced my responsibility | and acted upon it. With the consent of the frrmnnent officials of the League of Nations, I summoned the members | of the Council to meet in Paris as soon as possible, and I was very soon able | |to call upon the two countries to lll}" their hand. A few years ago, if any statesman had ventured to predict that it would be pos- sible to take such action in the near (future, he would have become nothing less than an object of ridicule. The Council of the Leagus of Na tions assembled. The two countries con: cerned put in an -rp ance. They were | asked if they would submit the case to arbitration, ‘and they replied in the affirmative. I said to them: “That is not enough. 1f the arbitrators are to think this mat- ter over quietly and give an independent judgment, you must stop fighting and stand apart. It must be a question of justice, and not of rifles and artillery.” The two countries, greatly to their credit, replied: “It shall be done. The \gmn are silent and the troops are no nger in contact. We await your judg- ment.” In another two days all danger of war was at an end. e Brazil Is Improving Double-Decked City ‘While congested cities in the United States are planning double-decked | streets Brazil is using American capital to improve her double-decked city, Ba- hia de Sao Salvador de todos os Santos (Bay of the Holy Saviour of All Saints), better known as Bahia, or Sao Salvador, which has existed since 1510. It is a city of 350,000, and until 1763 was the capital of the country. It is the first important port north of Rio de Janeiro. Those whose business takes them between the first and second stories of the city must make use of an clevator or & road like a long, winding ramp. Most of the business and resi- dence sections are on the second story, while the docks are below. New eleva- ’wr! are being built by the Brazilian | Electric Power Co, an_adjunct of the | Electric Bond & Share Co. of New York, | which has the light, power, telephone, trolley and elevator concesion in Bahia. | . The bizarre reinforced concrete struc- ture, with its tower, will be 240 feet high. Two shafts of 200 feet, each with an elevator with”a capacity of 27 per- sons, operated by electricity and making the trip in 30 seconds. If they step | lively, 4,000 riders can be han in an {hour. The elevator equipment is made in Chicago. Work on Posters Aids Irish Artists’ Incomes Ireland’s painters, however brilliant, | do not find a ready market for their canvases. A new source of income has been opened to them by the develop- Zing. The ra companies have found paintings of irish beauty more attractive to ourists when y come from the academicians. “ Paul Henry has made "onnaught familiar to millions in Eng- and and the Empire Marketing Board, which ordered a picture from him to the merits of Irish butter, SEPTEMBER 8, should not also die in future wars. To | 10Ol | adventure. ! these come and go. but is is Castlereagh | mountain side. | from point to point 1929—PART 9 “Field of Honor,” by Donn Byrne, the Author Who Died in Ireland a Year.Ago—-A Variety of Fiction ~ for the Late Summer. IDA GILBERT MYERS. FIELD OF HONOR. By Donn e, author of ‘Messer Marco Polo,” etc. New York. The Century Co. ' “Blind Raftery,” “O'Mal- ley of S h,” “The Wind Blowet! Saul” and_ Batly—on auite foalyo " and finally—oh, qui e “Field of Honor,” s A rosary, this, each name a shining Jjewel, rose-red with romance and ad- venture, blood-red with war, sottly opalescent with the Irish landscape-— murk of daybreak, gold of dawn, purple and crimson of nightfall, emerald in bog and forage field, in the soft grecnery of leafing trees, in the black verdancy of packed forests. And, if you have Irish eyes, you will see movement with- in these gems—cloud fleeces doubling themselves in the dark water below, platoons of wild geese on the wing, the Liffy dense with silver-bellied salmon hastening to their mysterious seasonal rendezvous. If you are Irish—keen to scent and sound these bright beads yleld to you the tang of peat smoke, the salty breath of the sea, the wild bird's call, the thud of racing hoofs, the bell of pursuing hounds, and under all you may hear “the tap-tap-tap of the leprechaun’s hammer as he cobbles the small folk's buckled shoes.” A rosary of beauty this to be counted again and again—“Messer Marco Polo,” “O’Malley of Shananagh’ * ok %ok AN Irishman, young and tall and personable, schooled at Dublin and Paris and Leipzig, then New York and the newspaper craftsmanship. Uni- versity and city street and the daily press were but the brew in which this man of Antrim ripened into the in- curable Irishman, loving the sod to its ring the folk lore to its founda- rothering the people, singing the songs of Ireland. And then one morning—just a year ago last June it was, the 18th—this man, this Doon Byrne, went out from Coolmain Castle in the early sun of a ‘Hang- smiling day to ride beside the sea.! Suddenly the “Brown Hand” settled upon his own. Not any man can re- | sist the “Brown Hand.” Now Cool- imain Castle stands in the nature of a shrine to the growing company of those who love Donn Byrne, spirit of reland, its revelation, its poet. S “FIELD OF HONOR” is a story of love and war. The story of Na- poleon conquering the continent and ready to gather England up as ye other proof of his genius. -A big and covering movement here—battles at sea and on land, a disquieted England shuffling its military plans from hand to hand to meet military emregencies created by the seemingly unconquer- able Napoleon. Castlereagh and Bona. parte are the great figures in this war Pitt, Fox, the failing Ring, rold and inscrutable, who dominates the England of the moment. Garrett Dil- lon, his young kinsman, is the story hero here. Set off against him is his wife. Jocelyn, hating England as only an Irish woman can. “You are a loyal man.” said she to her husband, “and I am a rebel. You will not try to make me think your way!" 'God forbid! mh“ must think as he sees!” said Gar: rett. and color what pictures come to view— Napoleon at the last in ignominy inde- scribable, and shameful. Great heroes, dozens of them, behaving as only heroes can. Nelson, as vivid as_life. many, too many to count here. And how this Donn Byrne knows women— Josephine, Lady Hamilton, the Jocelyn of the tale itself. Yes, all women, too. Listen—“And because of their deaths” —Emmet's, Fitzgerald ' “they were the lovers of young wom- en's dreams. And the other men, who faced a white and weary road of life instead of a leap into the cool waters of death, were only poor louts.” Amaz- ing perception of the countless women who through the magic gift of imagina- tion discard the “louts” and live with the heroes. A great story, a_great poem. a great picture of life. His “best” so Donn Byrne decided. Yet they are all best, & beautiful legacy to us—"Messer Marco Polo,” “Blind Raftery,” “O'Malley"— “Field of Hono: LI IRELAND; The Rock Whence I Was Hewn. Donn Byrne. Foreword by T. P, O'Connor. Illustrated. Bos- ton: Little, Brown & Co. KETCHES of Ireland, six of them, by Donn Byrne, touching~ upon many a point of common interest—the geography of the place, its area map- red, its moyntains set, its rivers placed, ts climate touched upon. A passing look at ancient history. at Tara, “once the seat of Irish kings,” at other points of acceptance or dispute that marked the early days. Then. the le—*1 know of nothing more dignified than an Aran Islander—than, indeed, any Irish peasant. When they are young they are as supple as a larch. When they are old they have the kindness and sanity of a gnarled apple tree. Always your trouble is their trouble, and you! joy theirs. We are a giving “Ireland’s place names have color ai charm”—an assertion that Donn Byrne backs with a chapter in proof thereof He speaks of the intricacies of the Gaelic poetry, the difficulties of the Gaelic tongue. “How the British came to Ireland” gives a touch of spirited history. nd and literature, Byrne's own belowed theme, become a theme of delight with this man. “To me Ireland always is the thatched cottage on the ‘The thunder of the hunt as it goes for Fairyhouse River, the grave, soft Irish voices. There is even a terrible black beauty about the mountain men. as, mad with solitude and drink, they crash through a fair fighting.” The views thoughts around Donn Byrne's island—historic, legendary, per- sonal—both useful and beautiful end like this—Ilike Donn Byrne “Half a hundred moons, a few more harvests of the mountain ash, and our time is come to leave for Tir nan Og, to which our’ g‘mpon is that we loved our country. ut the thrushes and the wrestling, the poems and greyhounds and chiming rivers of the Assured Land can hardly tear us from her who has given us birth and vision. Herself has to dr: her arms and put a quiet ‘Now I in my sleeping, and THE BUFFER. By Alice Hegan Rice, author of “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cab- bage Patch,” etc. New York: The Century Co. NOVEL whose foundation is the family. The institution itself is as old as the Garden of Eden, but only within the few years has the fam- ily, as such, been tolerated as fit for print. There are certain venerated things which romance, invention, tion, are not allowed to meddle. has been one of them, perhaps chief one. Nowadays, however, cour- ageous writers like Mrs. lieve ive the family an. airing g So, h she offers us the story ol mily, deep loyalty to the home, the ancestry, the group idea under which its mem- bers live. As in every other combina- tion it turns out, finally, that one of the group, or at best two, . bears the burdens of the whole. “Let Gi And it is upon this path of deep | divergence that the romance takes its | uneasy course, almost a fatal course. TFhroughout this tale of historic content | Oh, | absorber for the entire outfit. A finely modern girl, capable, industrious, in- telligent, fearless, good: 15 this Cynthia Freer. And you know exactly with what a spirited” hand Mrs. Rice | aids and abets this family prop through the various slumpings and crumplings | of the family itself at the approach | of menace to the feitch that it holds to so tenaciously. If that were all, just supporting the limp household through every manner of weakness the story would not be worth telling. Trust Alice Hegan Rice. Heré is the slow growth of individual loyalties to offset the mass, loyalty to one’s self, to those outside the family wall, to friendships, to ambitions. And, with the robust co-operation of Cynthia Greer, Mrs. Rice works out from everyday life a romance of sane unselfishness, broad under- stan , common interests. Works it | out in the fo ht and humorous way that this made use of ever since “Mrs. Wiggs” helped her to turn a “cabbabe tch” into a fleld of joyous and helpful living. Fine story, in both spirit and projection. * % * % HIDE IN THE DARK. By Prances | Noyes Hart, author of “The Bellamy Trial,” etc. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co. r OV!IH. in Virginia not far from Wash- ington is an old manor house made exactly, it would seem, for gay Hallow | | eve gatherings. At any rate, there they | were, & troop of them, at this particu- | lar time. The matter gets under way | | with laughter and talk, with music and | swishing liquids whirled about in shiney cans, with other foods and nourish- ment for mind and body. A most at- | tractive set of men and women—not long married, the most of them. Clever {folks at saying things, pertinent and sometimes impertinent. The women are of an almost devastating pulchri- tude. The men are gallant and gay. Mirth and wit are having right of way at this particular house party. And finally games , the immemorial | games of All Halloween. Great hurry- ing and scurrying here and there on mysterious errands for which that old house seems to have been de, with its long passages and rooms hldden for no one knows how long. The play is | fast and furious. A moment of danc- | | ing for interlude, another story or two, | and then again to the business of cele- brating this night of all saints. Then' comes the hide in the dark. Through | the black house all scatter to chosen | | hiding places. And then the return to the big living room, left so short a time | | before. But on the big divan there is— | from this moment the story changes to that of solving the mystery of Doug King's death. There he lay dead. Then | there comes something like an object | lesson in the analysis of crime, in thy | pursuit of the criminal. These people, | this house party, become at once a cor- | i porate band of sleuths, following clues | | of every possible pattern, abandoning | | these in turn, accepting others, and 5o | | on till by the process of elimination the | company stands with a pretty demning | plece of evidence in hand. All nice | folks, you know. All friends. No, some one from the outside did not slip in while the party was at its darkest. Nothing like that. Pigure it out for yourself, or, better vet, suppose you | ;7!2 t’}‘ll.s“ story by Frances Noyes Hart alloween party gone shockingl: and lamentably v'z’roni. . ¥ y’ * ok ok % | BRIGHT INTERVALS. By Nancy Hoyt, author of “Roundabout,” etc. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. | WAYWISE in its effect, this novel, | wherever the ways may lead—to | London, Paris, New York, into mar- | riage and out of it, into makeshifts of compensatory design, into fresh pnb» (terns of daily interest and habit. And | | then—after the whole range of a clever | woman's capability toward managing | life—the inevitable turn backward to | the immemorial business of womankind | the world over throughout time. There's | no use. It can't be done. Yet, what | gallant efforts are now and then made | by gifted writers to give a semiblance | of actuality, of permanency, of results, | to these ‘twistings and turnings of the | ‘temlle trying to shirk her job. Nancy | | Hoyt has achieved distinctly here in | | this direction. Oh, no, no, not in set- | | tling the matter. Nobody can do that. | | But, in the portrayal of what is now | |known as the “emergent woman” Miss | | Hoyt and created and set upon her way | |a woman of intelligence, beauty, origi- nality and plain good sense. |petent and flexible woman, at base, !using a background of substance to | | promote independence for herself. A charming woman as the best of them | today in reality are, charming in her | wit and adroitness, in her seizure of | | the essence of things, in her equal dis- | | regard for clutter of mere stuff through which most women try to make head- | way. A calm woman in love, where it | used to be that tranquil love on the lady's part was at least unbecoming, | at most deeply mistrustful. A modern woman, playing the game of life, with gallantry and courage. The man? Bill was just a man, but Lydia seemed to like him. The romance, as such, savors somewhat of a smart set—but it is well done. That is, it is not overdone. So, one reads the cleverness with a just-waking-up sensation, reads liking the work of this alert young woman taking a look at life from New York and Paris and London from her own | outlook station. I came out of the story with the notion that I, too, had been somewhere. * Kk x % ANOTHER PART OF THE WOOD. Ey | Denis Mackail, author of “Green- | ery Street,” etc. Boston: Houghton, Miffiin Co. YOU can take 'this book without any sense of duty toward yourselt wr toward it. A blessed relief. No lessen to be given you here. No social drifis to analyze and condemn, no sins to gloat over in secret and to condemn from the housetop. Nothing like anv of these. Instead, a handful of yoing folks, boys and girls, who are taking life with gusto, heartily, as they shouid. | Here is a book of sheer gayety. Not a humorous book, which is another thing, a deadlier thing. Life, high spirits, quick turns of thought and speech, meaty situations, sudden turns of de- mand and response—these make up the very human content of this of Noodles and Snubs snd Beaky. laugh a ry turn, because each of the turns is truly laughable—and then a little bow of homage to this man, this Denis Mackail, for the deep-see- ing that he does, for the frank recog- nition that he accords to youth, for the hearty handshake of partaking that he so spontaneously . Under the fun here a book of lovely understandings Togotion. ohee I B past. b here 18 & oy , once ut, here is a man, a writer, who remembers it all and enters into it all. Books Received YOUR FAMILY TREE. By David Starr Jordan, PhD. LLD. Chancellor Emeritus of Leland Stanford Junior University, and Sarah Louise Kim- ball. New York: D. Appieton & Co. AN IMPERFECT. LOVER: A London Novel. By Robert Gore Brown. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc. EXTRA GIRL. By Stella G. S. Perry. New York: Frederick A, Stokes & Co. QUOTATIONS AND REFEREN CHARLES DICKENS. By J es S. Stevens, Dean of the College of Arts A com- | you stop smiling for a minute to make | Ga Hubert Guyol. Illustrated by Ruth King. New York: Harper & Bros. BEAUTY? I WONDER. By Dorothy Coursen. New York: Elliot Holt. HOUP LA! By Crosbie Garstin. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co. FLORENTINE NIGHTS. By Heinrich Heine. Translated by Kirke Boylan Pitz-Gerald. Introduction by John Driscoll Fitz-Gerald. ston: The Christopher Publishing House ‘THE COMMON PROBLEM: A Romance of Young Love and Mature Devo- tion. By Sara Lindsay Coleman ;12'/ York: Doubleday, Doran & Co.. ne. CONTRACT BRIDGE: Bidding and the Club Convention. By Harold S. Scribner’s Sons. THE RIDDLE OF THE UNIVERSE: A Memorandum of Psychometric Ob- servation of Space. By Charles Ind- gnon. Boston: Meador Publishing 0. MRS. EDDY. By Edwin Frahden Dakin. New York: Charles Scrib- ner’s Sons. THE SINGING SWORD: & Poem. By G. Laurence Groom. ith a_fore- word by Richard LaGallienne. Dra: ings by Clinton Balmer. New Yo Harper & Bros. THE MODERN FAMILY. By Ruth Reed, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Economics and Sociology at Mount Holyoke College. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. HOVERING SHADOW. By Elizabeth Hollister Frost, author of “The Lost Lyrist.” Prontispiece from an etch- ing by Henry Emerson Tuttle. New York: Harper & Bros. THE BATTLE. By Stella Hamblen Tappmeyer. Boston: Meador Pub- lishing Co. CHESTNUT COURT. By Mabel L. Tyrrell. Illustrated by Marie A. Lawson. New York: Harper & Bros. CITY AND COUNTRY SERIES—THE STORY OF WATER SUPPLY. By Hope Holway. With pictures by El- x;ner Hader. New York: Harper & ros. CITY AND COUNTRY SERIES—THE STORY OF THE THEATER. By Louise Burleigh. With pictures by Ben Kutcher. New York: Harper & Bros. THE COMMODORE. By Charles Geof- frey Muller, author of “The Base Ball Detectives,” etc. With draw- ings by Elsa Hartman. New York: Harper & Bros. THE MOSAIC OF LIFE: A Study of Man and the Factors in His Devel- opment. By Abram Glaser. Boston: Richard G. Badger. SLINGS AND' ARROWS: Sayings Chosen From the Speeches of the Right Hon. David Lloyd George, O. M., M. P. Edited with an introduc- tion by Philip Guedalla. New York: Herper & Bros. WHAT PRICE SUGAR? Washington: Compiled by the American Bottlers of Carbonated Beverages. EUROPEAN FINANCIAL CONTRO! IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: A Study of the Establishment, Activi- ties and Significance of the Admin istration of the Ottoman Publi Debt. By Donald C. Blaisdell Ph D Instructor in Government in Colum bia University. New York: Columb,- University Press. - IHE WOODCUT: An Annual. by Herbert Furst. Limited. Edit- London:- Fleu: THE PUBLIC LIBRARY Recent accsssions to the Public Library and lists of recommended read- ing will appear in this column eacx Sunday. History, Aulard, P. V. A. Christianity and 2 French Revolution. 1937, w35 Au53c.E. . Attila, the Scourge of B77.E. Brion. Marcel. Butler, 3. 1N utler, J. R. M. A History of Engl: , 1815-1918. F4566-B97. d Huddleston. Sisley. Loujs XIV in Love Joh‘nd in VTVIJ'. Mflsi{-HBfi& inson, s . Withe g F30792-J638w. e Ketelbey, M. M.. ed. Readings from the Great Historians. 1926. F30-K490r. Randall, J. G. Constitutional Problems Under Lincoln. 1926, F834-R153, Randdll-Maclver, David. The Etrus- - 1filnsii l"927.A,:'735-R15. eilly, H. J. erica’s Part. - B T F30792 Seaver, H. L. ‘The Great Revolt in Castile. F403-Se 12. Showerman, Grant. Eternal Rome. Wfl?l V. lflg‘:‘.‘“ F36-Shs9. lams, I The British Empire. “ P45-W676. 3 Animals. Anthony, H. E. Field Book of North American Mammals. PG-An88. Boulenger, E. G. A Naturalist at the Zoo. 1927. O-BS6n. Peattie, D C. and Mrs. L. R. Down : Secrets of the by of e Underwoods. Chemical Technology. Badger, W. L., and Baker, E. M. In- oBrx‘xntc Chemical Technology. RQ- 14. Miskella, W. J. Practical Japanning and Enameling. RQS-M68. Riggs, H. C., comp. The “Slack Loop” 5 %y‘s‘l:m of Bleaching. 1927. RQQ- Rooker, W. A. Pruit Pectin. 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Six Mrs. Greenes. Stone, G. Z. The Heaven and Earth of Elena. g Willsie, Mrs. H. M. Splenidor of God Slfux in the Ai X From the Roanoke World-News.