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Future of Eng (Continued From Third Page.) the middle upper crust plus some farm- ‘ ers hopeful of protection for home- wn produce. With Lord George, one never can tell. A man of enormous and varicd achievement, strange and wayward genius, Lloyd George. He has been a great democrat—and a great dema- gogue. No one weuld call him an al- truist, ready to serve mankind and his state without reward. He has no point of resemblance i; those austere old Roman statesmen who would come to | the capital from their estate and see the republic through great crises, labor untiringly in the public caus> and then return quietly to their homes. neither accepting nor expecting reward. He has been a professicnal politician. a man with a career to make and a for- tune to push: a man with a great mis- sion. too, but still always and at all times the professional, the laborer worthy of his hire. Has Dzzzling Qualities. He has grovn into a world figure by the exercise of a dazzling combination of qualities; fervent oratory, blatant demagogy. shrewd business sense, adroit opportunism, lion.hearted courage, cool judgment, uncanny intuition, pity for the underdog. hatred of unjustified rivilege, enormous energy. an unrivaled Bair for publicity and showmanship, marvelous physical and mental resili- ence, biting wit. a superb digestion, a mimble end facile intelligence, bread bumanity. the wariness of the trained @rhter who has a scrap every day. and eombativeness of a Napolconic order— all these have marched in the van. He has declined in prestige and power steadily over the last eight vears. Why? The notorious fickleness of the great public; the exigencies of the party evs- tem. which left him imprisoned among the dwindling Liberals like a lion in a mouse trap: weaknesses in his ewn ive makeup ok at him. His upper structure— that powerful torso, that drum of a chest. that magnificent. leonine head with its vigorous. wild mane of white s oddly sustained on short, tly knock-kneed legs which operate siightly undignified scurrving movement. They hint, those desperate | legs, at something not quite sound 2t the core about this impressive spell- binder with the charming smile, m: netic eves and ruthless, driving, de- vastating powers of work. who has played so great a part in the island story. He was born unpropitiously amid the gloom and clamor of the northern cot- ton city of Manchestor in the Winter of 1863; but before he was a year old his father. a small schoolmsster, re- turned to his native Wales ind later died. leaving his widow with -year-old | David and no monev. Luck ‘. she had a brother. the village sh~maker of Llanystunidwy, who took m mother and son and constituted himself David's foster father. This_uncle never married. To the task of ecucating his sister’s child he gave his time, his encrgy and all his money. Lloyd George, DIOSPerous, famous, secure, living in solid comfort on his pleasant country estate at Churt in Surrey. must have locked back many times and seen in the smoke of iis fragrant cigar thcse remote and austers dars when they ate fresh meat but raraly and their greatest luxury was half an ezg each on Sunday morning’ It was in this rough school of poverty that the little Welshman acquired that profound sympathy with the cottage folk and the common people and above all for the underdog in life, which colors his oratory and which inspired his main political acts up to the war. He was the great radical and a tower of strength to the Liberal party, which dominated England from 1906 until the war. Gained Loud Applause. “Down with the dukes!" he shouted at Limehouse. The people applauded rapturously. The capitalists and in- dustrialists, new political _powers, grinned. The dukes had lost the tecth they had once known so well how to use. They were finished as anything but feudal ornaments anyway. He naugurated schemes which changed the whole social life of Britain. He brought in the state systems of in- surance against old age. unemployment | and 1l health. He introduced the pro- | gressive tax scales which, intensified. function today. He opened the great road building era. He had learned how to master facts and size up a situation in law practice. He was admitted as attorney when he was 21, and inside four years had achieved fame throughout Wales in connection with a remarkable ourial Religion is narrow and fervent in vales. Into young Lloyd George's of- | fice one day came the rejatives of an | old quarryman of Llanfrothen. They | said thev wanted to bury the old man | beside his daughter in the village fused to allow it because the corpse was that of a dissenter. “Break into chyard and carry out the fu- ral without his permission,” advised the fighting lawyer. The relatives took his advice. The damage. Lloyd George defended them | in the ccunty court. but was refused a verdict. He took his case to a higher court, and won. He celebrated his vic- tory by marrying, and about the same time was chosen by the local Liberal| candidate for the Cernarvon Boroughs. | Two years later he was in the British Parliament and in that assembly he has | sat continuously since 1890—longer | than any other British politician living. | He and Winston Churchill were the during the 10 years preceding the war. Lloyd George was chancellor of the ex- chequer for eight of those years, and busy bringing in “people’s budgets” which steadily increased the scale of public expenditure on social serviges. Put Ideas Across. | State insurance scunded complicated | and those who benefited were required | to contribute some of their hard-earned cash. Lloyd George invented a phrase that got right into the hearts and heads he said, giving them ninepence for fourpence. Roars of applause frcm everybody aboul to receive ninepence | for fourpence from a benevolent state | and chancellor. He was not so successful with the | wurzel which he devised to put_over | his rlea fcr an agrarian reform. Here, e said in eflect, w:re rapacious feudal | landlords breeding for sport pheasints which ate the mangel-wurzels grown by fhe poor farmers to feed their cows. zels. That bit of imagery becem< a na- tional joke. Lloyd Geor H allowed to forget it, and his newspaper | caricatures are still given the accom-, panying symbols of the bird and the; vegetable of tow soaked in paraffin, became so | hostile at one meeting that he had to escape through the back door din~‘ guised as a policeman. This was when Britain went to war with the Bcer farmers of South Africa. Lloyd George | jingo country called him anti-British | and would have welcomed news that a | mob had lynched him. When, 13 years later, the British cabinet met to take the historic deci- | ston for which the French were an- | case. churchyard, but the village parson re- parson sued them for trespass and | machine as the next parliamentary | most virile figures in British polmcs‘ He could popularize anything. of the voting masses. The state was, image of the pheasant 2nd the mangel- But pheasants do not like mangel-wur- They pelted him with lighted lumps | was ageinst ‘the war and a violently | xicusly waiting, it was thought that| majority were for wer sut he threw | 4o his own lot with the war party. He was a great war minister in all | his roles. | guardsman, | confidential man: Philip Kerr, his ad- | Th land’s Wizard Asquith and as prime minister and vir- tual dictator took over control. The island, which by 1916 had seen defeatism growing, instantly braced up. H2 spellbound at a time when spellbinding served a big purpose. His boundless imagination. his matchless vigor. his preference for direct-minded men able to cut through obstacles and get things done somehow and any way—these qualities were ‘of incalcu- lable value. He engaged: on endless, torturous intrigues—but = they were necessary to get his way. He rode | roughchod over personalities—but this was war to the death. To the titanic struggle, in which the destinies of Brit- ain and her empire were at stake, he brought precisely that vitality and tenacity which had driven him on and up in his own personal battle with life. Ready to Sacrifice. Behind the scenes he was bluff. hard, businessiike, also tricky and ready to anybody to gain his own ends—which ends, however, boiled down to the single aim of winning the war. He fought, energized, drove. organized, performed mirecles of cajolery, rallied forces. He also sold titles and filled his_political party chest to the brim and packed Parliament with hand- picked men he could count upon—not a nice lot, profiteers largely, hard- faced men who had done well out of the war, but who were useful because subservient, realizing that their po- THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SEPTEMBER 13, 1931—PART TWO. report, who cut loose with a loud re- port this year. Today, barring his daughter and Edgar Wallace (whose pirations as a Liberal politiclan are as puzzling to grasp as the motive for the murders in the early chapt-rs of & Wallace yern), Lloyd George has few men of importance left in his little band. Retained Old Spirit. Yet until his sudden illness he re- mained relatively young in spirit at the age of £8—wary, combative, resourceful, quick to sense political currents, a penetrating and detached observer of the way the wind blew. But one de- tected the Micawber of politics, hope- fully waiting for something to turn up. So soon, relatively, after the war and his peak of power, he occupies that place reserved for old men of politics. The mass of the people gre crowding into either the Labor or the Tory camps now, with an element of the younger generation gravitating toward the Brit- ish Hitler, Mosiey. All the younger generation regard Liberalism as debs regard bustles. They don't remember the great Lloyd Georgian campaigns. The clarion note which made old Lib- eral war horses snort leaves them cold. So Lloyd George has sat on in Pa liament at the head of a pathetic hand- ful whose candidatures he financed out of his still huge war chest. Although the Labor party, whom he had placed in office, did not want to go to the blizzard because they would experience defeat, they perceived that the Lloyd Georgians hated the prospect of An election still more, because they would be annihilated. So they paid scant re- litical futures depended upon the big spect to the man who was keeping chief's favor. At the peace conference he constituted himself Britain's attorney. He was de- termined, like any good lawyer, to see thet his clients got all they thought they were entitled to and, if possible, a bit more. Clemenceau taking the same line. Wilson, them in office. Instead of being mas- ters cracking the whip, the Liberal band found themsclves being dragged along like a tin can on a dog's tail Lately Lloyd George announced that he must have a certain amendment to a measure, or he was through. e idealist, got squeezed | “Crisis!” whispered every one excitedly, in the dog fight between the rival at-and the stock market ‘staged a little torneys. Back home, he looked around and saw no rival in sight. Who was there to supplant him? Nobody—nobody but little men. All the big men, all_the first-class brains, were gathered round him, subservient to his wishes and ac- knowledging his stupremacy. ~ As Am- bassador Harvey confidently wrote to the United States Secretary of State at this time * * * “Mr. Llovd George is not merely the head of the British government. He is the government, in full and absolute control.” Astonishing to look back to that time There, for four years aiter the end of the fighting, tower Lloyd George and his coalition ministry. They dominate the whole scene. They block out the rest of the view. It takes a long and anxfous search to detect Ramsay Mac- Donald, and you may look in_vain for a gentleman named Stanley Bald- win. But there is Lloyd George, al- ways in the limelight and on the front page, the biggest figure not merely in Britain but in Europe, where he orates and negotiates, maneuvers and bar- gains at conference after conference. He basked in the sunshine of a power thote absolute than that of any other | British prime minister in history. His obedient Parliament assured his huge majority. The cabinet, in the words of the first lord of the admirality to | boom on the prospect of a Tory victory, with tariffs to follow. in a general election. But the Labor chiefs simply stood fast. and as the hour for action approached Lloyd George hurried to call MacDonald and work out a for- mula which amounted to a elimb-down. There was no revolt. The newspapers jeered. and in_the House they baited Lloyd George about it until the little man's ruddy face turned crimson and he jumped up, white mane flying. and showed all his teeth as of old. Let them yell! Let them howl! There would not be generation under ths impression we are at the cross roads, and that the nincteenth century, are giving place to | trtumphant new id-as of different pur: port. Youth loves to go crusading. an | the new generation, fired by an abso- lutely pure idealism, is out to champion these new ideas. The new generation fcrgets, on the an American diplomat on the eve of | on~ hand, that antiquated though most the 1921 Naval Conference, “no longer of the ideas of the nineteenth century country at the height of the economic | an election when they wanted one. There would be an election when he wanted one—he, and nobody else. And the jeers faded and the defiant ghs sounded a little uneasy. The old lion could still bite. Churchill Sounds Call. ‘Will a Lloyd George restored to health come back? There is a movement to finish him, there is al<o a movement to resuscitate him. His friends are rallying. Rothermere boosts him in his papers. Winston Churchill, loyal friend. repays old obligations with a clarion call: “¥ * * the chief and most damaging cause of Mr. Lloyd George's decline is his identification with the petty political exigencies of a small and dwindling party. Let us hope that when he is restored to full health he will stand squarely upon his own feet and, untrammelled by party ties and weak, discordant associates, give his own true counsel upon national and imperial questions to Parliament and the nation as_a whole.” Lloyd George is well off now. Starting with nothing, he has a nice block of capital and a very pleasant country estate. He is a shrewd investor. In his journalistic heydav, following his fall, he was getting $4.500 each for his articles, which were syndicated all over the world. He lives not extravagantly. but well. He has bitter enemies, but no financial worrjes. He has not a tormented heart. His superb animal vitality preserves him from the vice of developing a grudge against the world, although sometimes his vituperation #nd animosity against persons are car- ried to a point where one is acutely reminded of the odd fact that the mob orator and the great statesman may | upon occasion be found housed in the same capaclous body. Withal, he is a happy man, with a | cheerful ‘temperament and & _kindly (Continued From First Page.) ‘ that (& result of the present economic_crisis | old ideas, the ideas of the ideas of the severely 4 | subjec heart, who has amply fulfilled himself. He knows how to order his life. At Downing Street you would a'ways find him on cold days with a big fire behind and an open window in front. He has great reserves of strength. He knows how to exercise within his physical limits and how to live his day in such a way that when he goes to bed he sleeps like a child and awakens next morning to an adventurous world which has forgotten yvesterday—and in which the first important duty is to survey, with a clear, smiling eye, the fried sole. sausage, ham, eggs. fruit, coffee and tea on the sideboard, make a swift choice and settle down to a hearty | breakfast, followed by a choice cigar. before going for to break another lance | with 1ife. Europe’s Political Future of the proletariat. in their numbers must b> expected as | from which Germany today is suffering inst the encroachment of this It is agal which dangerous mass movement, 1v and objectively (according to the wAll of its l~ade opnoged to repson, that the present e emergency | dictatorship is directed. If the Soctial | Democrats have made many cencessions to this dictatorship and have agreed to the temporary suspension of democratic | principles, they have done so only be- ascumes to do anything more than to | are. they represent much that is perma- | PUOEIP RS, TROE ZUFG R0 0 Gietator- register and approve the prime min- ister's proposals.” Winston Churchill privately acmitted at the same time that but for Lloyd George's favor he | the ideas offered to them by their lead- nent and cannot be discerded; on the | other hand. they fail to perceive that thing fAr worse. ship was the means of averting some- There is no doubt whatever that ers and misleaders represent & RTeAt | German socialism, Which also repre- would be down and out as a political | deal that is retrograde, inimical to life, cents and defends demorcracy, has suf- factor. Even Curzon, aristocrats, Lloyd George had reduced to the position of a figurehead. Gathers Powerful Aides. Around him the all-powerful premier had gathered a redoubtable entourage to aid. protect and further his inter- ests. Sir Maurice Hankey, astute and fertile in ideas: Sir Edward Grigg. diplomat. ~publicist, his | of dead histo haughtiest of | and worthy of nothing but condemna- tion. cal achievements of the abolished without a conscious denial ‘of inner realities. go back on freedom and democracy. All attempts to do so spring from an unnatural to reconquer aban- doned terrftory. It is abundantly viser at the Peace Conference and in | clear that, allied with defiant nationa charge of the Lloyd Georgs paper, the | ism, | gnfl‘\; Chronicle, and one or two others. | Eac! in turn had his satelites trained aides. Representing him Parliament he had the smooth, astute Jew, Sir Philip Sassoon, one-time inti- | view democracy mate of the Prince of Wales, Earl Haig's private secretary during the war, | stitution today. As the offspring of the cratic lines. a multimillionaire whose mother was | a Rothschild and who could swing a most_powerful cohort to the premier's support (as an instance of this, one may quote the provision of $5,000.000 to buy a newspaper for Lloyd George) Yet his position had its Achille heel and he knew it. His was a per- ¢onal dictatorship which, to be perpet- uated, must soon put down roots in a | He has split the Liberal party | called emergency decrees—that is to through Hegel into German idealistic party. y ousting Asquith, its leader. He had made innumerable enemies, playing persons like pawns in his game. No- body really trusted him any more. He could not shove in and make himself Tory party chief, and he could not expect to maintain a perpetual coali- tion. What better, from his viewpoint, than the alliance of the first-class brains, a rally around Lloyd George of the chieftains he had picked from the Tory and Liberal parties and from big buisness, and the creation of a new na- tional party on the ruins of the divided Torles and Liberals, with Lloyd George as eternal prime minister? What a dream! It might have be- come reality. But the country wanted tranquillity. and he. politiclan-wise, kept it ai constant tension by recur- Tent crises which got ever more sen- sational and dramatic, and which he played "f' to maintain the legend of his omnipotence and indispensability. He was always going off to European conferences to settle world affairs and never getting them settled. One thing alone he had settled—he had played chief role in the Irish settlement, which eng:fltxhe feud of 500 years. ly, pursuing a fatal pro- anti-Ttalian policy, with an eye T ing a greater Greece a bastion of Brit. ish sea power in the Eastern Mediter- Tanean, he alienated France and got Britain on the edge of a fresh, tin- wanted war with a rejuvenated Turkey. Ignored by Colonies. Then he banged the war drum: sent forth the tribal call to the Brifiy dominions to stand in case they were needed to face Kemal and his legions at Chanak. The dominions, farther away Lrom Welsh wizardry than Brit- ain, ignored the tribal call. They indi- tsa:r::i that “t]eé, were through. If Lloyd ge wanted anot vi 1] hn_;'_g AR her war, he could nat event broke the spell. 1t was followed by a meeting of the Tories :u their stronghold in the Carlton Club, e Lloyd George adherents spoke crushingly in favor of coalition and Lloyd George. Then up rose a quiet, obscure man and slew Lloyd George as neatly as David slew Goliath. It was Stanley Baldwin who here declared that yd George was a dynamic personality. and, as such, a destroyer. Had he not destroyed one party, his own? Now, he threatened to destroy another, theirs, And the proof of it was that they in that room were profoundly divided at that -moment. And why. and over what? Lloyd George, and nothing and no;gdy else. at settled it What Baldwin expressed the profoundest feelings ?;g instincts of the average and the com- he men who feel safe m monplace minds, t! " stirrea ast stirred = rank and file to revolt agains wizard. Lioyd George was done. 21":: miilions of the electorate, who had been getting deadly tired of him, greed with Baldwin. Lloyd George, the “man who rog the war,” was hurled into outer Priness as ruthlessly as in France his Gallic prototype, Clemenceau, had been relegated to et his Biscay coast farm the retrogression so-called new ideas sent to the past, and and | not, as the new gencration believes, an in | advance. Even from the nationalist point of represents the only possible and thinkable political con- bourgeois revolution. democracy is his- { torically_intertwined with the national |idea. With democracy ali-powerful, | war is an impossibility. championing_the cause of democracy seeing that I am a citizen of A coun- try which for some time past has | eliminated parliamentary government and is being governed by means of o- say, almost dictatorially. Sees No Contradiction. However, therein tion. Many years ago, in an account of my visit to Paris after the war. I ex- pressed the opinion that in certain cir- cumstances an enlightened dictator- | ship was the most suitable means of insuring progress in the right direction It is quite certain that had they had a [free hand, and had they not been | obliged constantly to take into con- sideration nationalist-public opinion at home, Briand and Stresemann could have advanced the cause of Franco- | German understanding and therefore iinsured European consolidation to an incomparably greater extent than they | were able to do under the sway of con- flicting forces. The German government. too, would | possibly have progressed farther toward Franco-German conciliation during the recent negotiations but for the fact that lies no contradic- the hands of the opponents of concilia- tion. Viewed from the angle of foreign politics, the German government's power is therefore far from complete, while its policy at home is nothing | more than a makeshift for the purpose of steering democracy through ®conomic crisis which, exploited to the full by demagogues, is producing an unheaithy radicalism of the masses and at the same time threatening the pres- ent form of government. As a matter of fact, democracy today is a classical conception, far nobler than the system of brute force, which threatens to overthrow and replace democracy. and the rise of which would mean the downfall of Europe. 1In this connection 1 would call especial atten- tion to Jose Ortega y Gasset’s recently publishea “Revolt of the Masses.” a work of exceptional critical insight dealing with the psychology of the mob type as a new (and from a cultural point of view) menacing phenomenon. As Ortega so convincingly says, it this mob type who, having found mod- it 1s a gift of nature; who, ignoring the human effort that has gone to its crea- tion, deride the ideas out of which it has grown, and who, incapable of com- prehending that political and technical achievements partake of the same char- acter, value the latter and abuse the former—it is this mob type which con- stitutes the backbone of the anti-hu- man movement which threatens to de- stroy democracy. They listen to the doomed, they lap up the information that it is an antiquated set of ideas and that the future belongs to a bar- barous system after their own hearts. Points to Differences. That takes me back once more to the mock revolution I have already mentioned, which has been christened national-socialism to delude the slow witted. This name is a lie in itself, for one need not be a party politician to know that socialism and nationalism are not only two different things, but are, in the present state of affairs, dia- metrically opposed to each other, and Everything began to give, then; his | that the mixing of two conceptions can the Welch pacifist would resign if the | whole little world crumhgled. cl:flrchfl; only lead to c%n(usion and deception. deserted him for the Tories. Thi industrialisis and bankers who hldeo:li:g stood by him as Liberals and whom he This so-called national-socialism in Germany is a reactionary mass move- ment which flatters itself that it is At the treasury, first, he | had favored and frequently ennobled, | revolutionary and thereby attracts mil- rallied frightened finance and invented | Crossed over and became ‘“‘Progressive | lions of hot-heads who have nothing to the phrase, “Business as usual,” which | restored confidence. As munitions subsequently, he organized ter, Wm industry for war purposes. He war minister after Kitchener's - death. Finally he ousted the passive ' John Conservative: who had faithfully supported him dur- ing the war, hitched Baldwin's star. The last to go was Sir Simon, author of the great Indian The two Berry Broth- |lose, but whose social vanity neverth: ers, controlling nearly 200 publications, | less hmevmu them from joining the Socialistic proletarfat. _The vast ma- their papers to jority of the National-Socialist electors people who members. consists of these declasse do not wish to e regarded as repre- it had reason to fear its overthrow at .. .. | an o ern civilization ready at hand, regard |, | theorists who say that democracy is | enoy, fered and will continue to suffer heavy secessions to the Hitler party. The ex- Freedom and democracy, the politi- planation lies in the latter's methods of nineleenth | propaganda, which are suited to the century, are things which cannot be hyper-democratic spirit of the times, and their appeal to the masses who are It is not possible 0 | insensible to all but the crudest and most blatant appeals. Symbolism and primitive emotionalism are resorted to, e to relieve a period and like a horde of savages, the masses react. Scorns National Socialists. I nevertheless am convinced there is no reason to fear the National- Socialist movement. even though it may not yet have passed the peak of its de- velopment. Germany will never perma- nently succumb to it The future will see a development along Social-Demo- The_intellectual founda- tion of National-Socialism is far too weak for it to be regarded as a_vital historical movement. It is a Colossus with feet of clay. It resembles a Ri- You may be surprised to hear me gantic mushroom with hardly any roots in the sofl. It will disappear as rapidly as it has grown Social-democracy is 8 _movement of long and legitimate intellectual tradi- tions which has penetrated from Marx philosophy. whereas National-Socialism. despite the efforts of its theorists to | juggle with philosophies and endow it with an intellectual basis, has produced £ nothing but A crass and ridiculous dilet- It is only necessary to com- | tantism. pare the standard works of Socialism with those of National-Socialism, 1. e. “Das Kapital,” by Marx, which i truly epoch-making work, and “My Life,” by Adolphe Hitler, a piece of lit- erary gibberish, in order to understand the difference between the respective | levels of these two movements. ‘The economic theories of National- Socialism which, as its leaders un- doubtedly know. will not hold water; its anti-Semitism, which owes its origin partly to fable and partly to the basest human instincts; the insincerity of their socialism, which' does not prevent them | from being financed by big business capitalists: the corruptness of its lead- ers, with their palatial headquarters and $10.000 motor c: and last but not least. quarrels in their own camp and d within the party—all these things have considerably lowered Na- tional-Socialism in the estimation of i;\:n lh? modera:;‘l]y intelligent, though party may still continue the foolish. = bl I think that it is not too bold of me prophesy that these things will ulti- mately destroy National-Socialism. Par- ticularly in respect to political prob- lems and the future of Europe, the usual division of humanity into optimists and pessimists is thoroughly wrong. These two contrasts may form integral parts of one and the same system and conduct. i SfannEne Extremes Combined. It is. as a matter of fact, a character- istically European habit to combul;e these two extremes. In his book “Re- gards sur le Monde Actuel,” Paul Va. ery, a prominent French poet, remark: ‘The most pessimistic view of hu- manity, of life and the value of life is compatible with the actions and the optimism which such a view demands.” That is the synthesis I have in mind. is possible to entertain the gloomiest thoughts about man and his lot on earth, and yet act and talk—and talk is also a kind of action—as though one believed in the possibility of a better future. Europe’s fate is more uncertain to- day than ever hefore, and pessimism in this respect is thoroughly justified. An- other war is not at all out of the ques- tion, though the devastating effect of war has been demonstrated frequently e gh. It is the duty of every think- ing man and woman today to reason problems out instead of encouraging people in their passions and inciting them to discard reason by the glorifica- tion of mock heroics. With many people pacifism has a bad name and a musty smell. They connect with the conception of pacifism soppy idealism and a rationalism lacking in vital depth. Intellectuals are particularly sensitive to such a reproach. This popular view about pacifism is erroneous. One need not be an intel- lectual vegetarian or a soppy dreamer to believe in pacifism. One may even be a poet—that is to say, a man of intellectual adventure, a dreamer of dreams—yet put in a word for a sane rationalism where the fate of the world is concerned. That is why I am a pacifist. For it is generally agreed that peace and a far-reaching political and economic consolidation are the only means of saving European ecivilization from destruction. In spite of all the adverse factors, I still think we have reason to be hopeful. ‘The psychological conseguenees of the a | leaders have beco Doak’s Radio Speech __(Continued From Third Page) the Government is trying to interfere with the rights of the individual. A number of individuals and socieiies who are so vehemently protesting against our activities in apprehending not only the aliens illegally in the coun- try, but the racketeers who are preying upon them, perhaps have selfish or per- sonal interests because in some instances we have found that these same in- dividuals and societies have been used in the furtherance of this nefarious practice. Act for Money Alone. I therefore particularly appeal not only to the native born, but to the for- eign born people in this country to join with us in the efforc to see that this| graft and extortion is stopped, whereby miilions of dollars have been wrung from the poorest of the poor within our land. It is not my intention to per- secute any class or classes of people, but I am endeavoring to enforce the Jlaw and to protect the foreign born peo- ple within our country from the damn- able methods resorted to by these crooks and gangsters, many of whom are parading under the guise of friends and protectors of the poor. In this effort I will in no manner slack, but shall increase the activities of the La- bor Department from coast to coast in the hope that I may effectively break up these practices, However, in doing 8o I want it distinctly understood that we will not permit fllegal or improper methods to be resorted to in the ac- complishment of our purpose. ‘While there have been some minor THE PUBLI Russia of the Soviets. N connection with the increasing in- calls attention to the following books published during 1931: The Leaders. Lenin. by D. M. Mirsky. E.L5427mi E “For an understanding of the Soviet system, as well as of Russia's relation to the rest af the world, nothing better could be offered than a volume like this. The book is ample in its por- traiture of Lenin—with details of his life and activities from cradle to grave— but it also presents the man as ‘maker 1031. biography.’ also furnishing a frank ac- count of Leninism by a believer in it such as makes it possible to estimate | the real meaning of Sovietdom for , modern civilization.” E. N Lenin, Red Dictator. b nadsky. 1931. E.L5427 “The chapter which Vérnadsky de- votes to the pre-war aciiviies of the Social Democrats, especially the Bol- | shevik group. which acknowledged the | leadership of Lenin, forms an fmportant { contribution to the history of the or- 1917 revolution.” V. M George Ver- E. | igins of the | Dean. Stalin, by I. D. Levine. 1931, ESt151. | " “In’ spite of obvious shortcomings, | Levine's book has merit. It is well writ- ten. and it iz, after all, the first at- !tempt in Engiish at a complete story | of Stalin. Despite inaccuracies, the last | part of the book bears evidence of ex- | tensive research.” Maurice Hindus. Among the People. | Red Bread. by Maurice Hindus. | ,G54.H583r “Mr. Hindus interprets for individ- | ualism-loving America the historic and economic significance of the convulsive changes he found in the Summer of | 1930, against _a background of the 1931, war were two-fold and of a contradic- tory character. On the one hand, it !proved a mighty stimulus to na- | tionalism, and on the other hand. it | brought the nations closer to each other, even though their path led through horrors unspeakable. The war lifted the lid off the European brain | It gave us a more intimate idea of and a deeper appreciation of Europe, and ! has therefore operated with equal force | against national isclation. Interdependence Forced. The same applics to [ economic crisis. which is perhaps the | crisis of the capitalist system in gen- | eral. The economic crisis too—and this |is particularly noticeable in Germany- has added fuel to t I passions. On the other hand, however, the common trouble has forced the natlons to co-opcrate with each other. | Personal meetings between the national | me s(rlkmgl_\"‘ lr'(\-qu;:l d one is sometimes left with the im- Pression that, the nationalistic activities iof powerful parties in the various | countries is no more than the scenery tending to the consolidation of Europe, are taking place. Certain it is t fication which s the screen of nati tions has the appro in every country. wisdom and a better recog! need of the times will ultimat vail over stupidity and saber will mention no names, Tavison in all countries between the histories and reputations and _intellec- tual level of those who are working for the consolidation of Europe and the political reactionary leaders would un- doubtedly prove that the noble element is on the side of European peace and happiness. Particularly doe: and Germany. Al both countries agre Europe depends on t tween these two grea whom have done so muci tion and whom a tragic so long condemne 1 speak from persoral ered in the course of fi to Paris since the war, when I say that the intellectual world in France |wl}h a few freak exceptions) is all in favor of an understanding with Germany a§ a matter of sincere conviction. The hat the process of uni- taking place behind onalistic demonstra- T am confident that nition of the ely pre- 1l the best minds in e that the fate of he relationship be- t peoples, both of h for civiliza- fate has for experience, gath- requent _visits viction, and it is to be fervently hoped that the masses in both counlrles‘wuvl soon be converted to the same View. Silent on Bolshevism. Determined as 1 have been In my opposition to national Socialism, T have so far refrained from defining my at- titude to bolshevism. I must confess that, to some extent, this has been due to a feeling of tolerant caution. for 1 find myself incapable of working up against the undeniably impressive state cxperiment of the East the upplacn?l! antagonism which I feel against Na- tlnnll-So(‘lnglfimt. This must nof 1 agree with the tenets of Communism. | Far from it; that would be diametri- i cally opposed to my profession of faith 1in democracy. As a product of middle- class culture, T cannot regard the abso- lute dominion of the community and the dreadfully ascetic suppression of personal freedom as anything but strange and menacing. e ideal of freedom is too deeply rooted in Europe for me to admit the possibility that bolshevism will ever establish itself in Europe. Of course, & comparison with Fascism, especially from the German angle, forces me to admit the higher morality of bolshevism and the sin- cerity of its bold striving toward a better future. That my views on bol- shevism are shared by others is proved by Bernard Shaw’s recent enthusiastic praise of the Russian experiment. Nevertheless, I can only repeat that the physical and intellectual tyranny of hnlsgevhm seems to be irreconcilable with Eu;a?e n ideals. I hope that Europe emerge from "the present confusion with a new stres but without ‘Which terest in Russia the Public Library | the present | he fire of nationalist | behind which the real developments, | wval of the best minds | rattling. | but a com- | s this apply to France | d to mutual hllred_s best minds in Germany share this con- be taken to mean that | officers and employes of the immigration service of the United States who have been parties to the schemes for the smuggling of aliens, and while there have been some foreign born men and women engaged in this practice, it | should not be lost to sight that some | of the most prominent racketeers and | alien smugglers whom we have appre- hended are native born Americans will- ing to betray the interests of their country and vitiate the intent of its laws. And for what purpose? Money alone. Local and State authorities can be of inestimable value in assisting the De- partment of Labor and the other de- partments co-operating therewith not only in ridding this country of unde- sirable and in many cases criminal aliens, but in the apprehension and prosecution of these racketeers. In- dividual citizens from coast to coast who have knowledge or leads whereby we could be assisted in apprehending and prosecuting the members of the rings that we are endeavoring to break up should, I belleve, as a matter of common justice and patriotic duty to our country, assist in every way. At least all those who believe in right- eous government and proper law en- forcement, as well as the protection of the poor within our country, it seems to me. could not join in a more lauddble cause than the one in which we are engaged. Finally T desire to warn all allens, here legally or illegaly, to keep away from these gangsters and to come direct to the Secretary of Labor when in doubt as to their status in the United States, and I will endeavor to see that justice is done them. C LIBRARY state's necessity and the agricultural | backwardness of five years ago.” Bruce Hopper. These Russians, by W. C. White. F5466 W583t “A surprising air of actuality and aliveness permeates the book, in part derived from the author's perfect de- | tachment and his happy abstinence | from littering the pages with footnotes | and statistics. We should rate the book | high among 'those which have some- | thing unprejudiced, definitely inform- ing and thoroughly Interesting to im- part on contemporary Russia and her people.” E. C. Beckwith. The Red Fog Lifts. by Albert Mulda- | vin. 1031, G54.M89. | 1931 | A further increase | o tno” yorld. not as ‘hero of stunt| “The 56 short chapters of the book are the record of innumerable brief epi- sodes: nothing ‘discussed’ in the for- mal sense of the word. but all sorts of interesting and more or less significant ligh's cast on present-day Russia by what natives themselves do and say.” Arthur Ruhl. The Five-Year Plan. New Russia's Primer. the Story of the ' Five-Year Plan, by M. Ilin, pseud.. 1031. HC54.115E. “The book is cnly 161 pages long. in- cluding maps and a numoer of excellent Ulustrat.ons, yet it touches on a thou- sand subjects. * * * It is like sitting in the newsreel theater. You see a whole people in love with their own natural resources.” Ernestine Evans. The Soviet Chalienge to America, by G. S. Counts. 1931. HC54.C84. “Mr. Counts presents the Five-Year Plan as no foreign author has done be- fore. * * ¢ It makes Mr. Counts' book | a valuable study of Russian govern- mental structure. Bolshevik psych-logy, the Russian temper and Moscow's edu- | cational ideals, as well, of course, as of the country’s economic dreams.” Louis | Fischer. Economic Life cf Soviet Russia, by C. B. | 1931, HC34.HT7 “By all odds the best bock vet in its field. * * * It is as unprejudiced &s & book about Russia can be, and gives full credit to the government for the really c-nstructive work it has done in the field of social insurance of various kinds.” J. D. A The Red Trade Menace. by H. R. Knick- erbocker. 1931. HC54.K74 “Mr. Knickerbocker's book differs from Mr. Eddy's as newspiper men differ from Y. M. C. A. secretaries. They are cooler and cannier, and talk in & | dry voice, which suggests infinite so- phisticaticn and a total indifference to good and evil. This is an excellent way | Hoover. that in Russia. I think almost any sa- gacious American wculd like this book and learn from it.” Max Eastman, The Last Stand. an Interpretation of the Soviet Five-Year Plan, by Walsh. 1931. HC54.W 17. A record of the giant enterprise of the Soviets, undertaken as “a last stand by & nation dectitute of capital but rich in crude strength.” The Communistic State. The Challenge cf Russia, by Sherwood Eddy 1931. Fsdse Bd2s “As secretary for Asia of the Y. M. C. A..Mr. Eddy's interest is naturaliy strong | in the status of religion, and his obser vations in that respect are specially noteworthy. He undertakes, too, the casting of a ‘balance sheet. a weighing of the scod and bad in the Communist s e. which is helpful in v | one’s idens.” 3. D, A, © Sy | The Russian Experiment. by Arthur Feiler. 1931. FS466.F324E. | “Feiler is a German, who studied Russia on the ground. He is open- minded without being a Bolshevist. He | brings his story down to March, 1930. | ‘rrnré;:rt]m:, z:( &u‘:sn’: needs revising every | , bu good as ft | goes.” "Harry Hansen. S Making Bolsheviks, by 8. 1951, “Fasoetisson, o | HATPer: “What this generation will mean and make Russia mean is as yet unknown | But it is of the training and of the g::;"ualrc‘? it bproduces that Prof. | es succinctl, | W. C. White. A Fan-Sovietism, by Bruce Ho AEsAs6.HB, ¥ cuiking though Lhe author’s thesis is inevitability of the coming conflict bt tween capitalism and communism, he has chapters dealing with “the land and the people, political control, eco- ,g’nmk‘, or‘m?lzuunn. art. marriage and vorce: in fact, with almos | of Russian life e LINER LEVIATHAN FOUND 10,000 TONS LIGHTER Shrinkage Will Result in Saving of $3,000 Yearly in New York Port Dues. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 12. — The liner Leviathan, customs officials have discovered, isn't 5o big as it used to -be. They remeasured the flagship of the United States Lines and found it had decreased 10,000 in tonnage. But what she suffers in pride will be made up in dollars saved. ‘The difference will mean a saving of $3,000 a year, barring further shrink- age, on her entries to New York, where port dues are 30 cents a net ton. British customs authorities will ac- cept the ruling of the New York ous- toms officials ind by the Commis- sioner of Navigation in Washington in charging port dues at Southampton, about 12 cents a net ton per voyase, and thus another $1,200 will be saved. The remeasurement will make the Leviathan smaller than the Berengaria and the Bremen, and leave her slightly larger than the Europa. In 1923 the Leviathan's supesstruc- ture was redesigned to make the ship the largest in the world, but the de- signer of the liner Majestic insisted his ship was the and the claim denying the ideals llrwl, t her through the childbirth of was allowed by the North Atlantic Con- brough! - to talk about a situation as far off as | y E. A. | - | J. H. Bogart, C. W. S. CHAPTER XXVIIT UNMASKED MURDERERS HE song went on—the song in Duckworth’s powerful voice— “Roses of memory, roses of Sep- tember.” Yet, he was not in the __Toom, nor was there any one! playing. Richmond stood for & mo- | ment amazed as his eyes took in the | scene. In the drawer of Evelyn's desk there stood a graphophone, used while its owners were busy on their deeds of N . | “Mrs Dalton, where is your hus- | band?>" 2 | With a cry of terror, Evelyn shrank | into the corner. | “Guard her, Richmond. I know | where he fs. T will fetch him.” | He strode back into the darkness and re-traced his steps to the Dutch | garden. He soon returned. With him | came Donald Wade and between them they carried. the limp, corded figure | of the singer, Lionel Duckworth, or, as he was more correctly called, Lione Dallon. During the few minutes of Jimmie's absence the bridge players, startled by the commotion, had de- serted their game. They stood, an amazed group, while Richmond guard- ed the girl who had collapsed into a chair. The graphophone had ended its song and was scratching on unheeded. Jimmie and Donald deposited their prisoner on the floor. Jimmie turned to the little company of friends. cinThis is the man he said, “who I | lled Miss Annabelle Querdiing. He so poisoned Edward Green, putting v his side a confession to that, first crime. Tonight he sought to take & third life so that the truth about the others should not be known. It might have been hard to prove his guilt, but 1 laid a trap, and he fell into it.” No one replied. The only human sound was a moan from the girl in the chair | In the Dutch garden you will find a dummy figure dressed in my clothes. This man pushed over the stone image | on it. just as he did when Miss Querd- unng h:d'he other seat, { , “Two weddings have been announc tonight. Marjorie Blake married Cn: tain Stirling. but her sister Evelyn married Lionel Duckworth three m:::}r_x; 280, They told no one. but 0 st iss Querdling to get There method was simple. There are graphophone records of Duckworth's voice. “They said they detested such machines. but had one nevertheless They would enter the room and he would sing one song. Then, at its conclusion. the graphophone started another while he crept out to do his evil deed. Those outside would swear he was singing all the time. Behind that curtained doorway his wife | would await his return, the door mean- While being locked. ' To reach the Dutch garden. throw over the figure and come back was the work of a few at his return the rould be hidden and his 1d take up the song.” As he paused there were moans from the two accused. but the others re- mained slent. dazed by what Jimmie | was telling them b |, He told of his proof that Green had been poisoned and related how he had informed Evelyn of this discovery, ob- serving her alarm at his_words. She had received the news of Green's death and was happv at the termination of her fears that he might recover. repudi- ate the confession and deny his suicide at'empt. but Jimmie's disclosure stirred fresh fears, and when he led her to be- lisve that he had told no one else her fatal plan was born | “T said that I would sit in the Dutch garden tonight beneath that other stone figure and wait for Richmond. I knew she would tell her husband and figured that they would attempt to remove me The party I suggested was to bring to- gether those under suspicion. When Duckworth threw the figure on what he thought was my head, we seized him You know the rest.” But Richmond's curiosity was not | I inarctive training Service for the 1931-32 school year, | which will begin October 1 and term- |inate May 31. was approved last week | by Col. Melville S. Jarvis, Infantry, senior instructor of the Organized Reserves in | Washington. In view of the fact that | there is no Chemical Warfare Service {officer on duty at local Reserve head- | | quarters, various officers of that bran in the office of Chief of Che ical Warfare Service, War Department, | will conduct this training. The Chemical Warfare troop school | assemblies will be held on the second Monday of each month, the first of which will be held on October 12 under | the direction of Capt. E. P. H. Gempel, | C. W. S. The subject of this confer- | ence will be an oricntation talk The | November 9 meeting on recent progress of the Chemical Warfare Service will | be conducted by 1st Lieut. J. H. Becque. C. W. S, while the assembly to be held {on December 7, the last of this calendar |year, will be conducted by Capt. | Gempel. The organization and mis- | sion of chemical troops will be dis- cussed at this conference. Maj H. Shekerjian. C. W. S. will conduct the first chemical warfare | meeting in the 1932 calendar year. | This assembly, which will be held on January 11, will embrace Chemical Warfare tactics with relation to other arms. Chemical Warfare procurement | will be taken up at the February 8 meeting under the supervision of Capt.| . On March 7,/ { the chief of Chemical Warfare Service, | | Maj. Gen. H L Gilchrist, will discuss | the Chemical Warfare Service. Maj. R | C. Ditto, C. W. S, will conduct the April | 11 conference, at which will be taken up the training of the Army in Chem- !ical Warfare The last conference of | the 1931-32 inactive training schedule will be held on May 9 under the di-| rection of Mai. P. X English, C. W. 8., who will discuss supply problems of the Chemical Warfare Service. | | ‘There was also approved last week by Col. Melville 8. Jarvis, Infantry, senior instructor of the Organized Reserves in the District, the 1981-32 inactive duty | training schedule of Washington Mili- | tary Intelligence Reserve officers. Ar- | rangements have been made for all of the conference listed on the schedule below, except for that of February 10, 1932, on corps area intelligence, which has been assigned to Lieut. Col. A. Rutherford. assistant chief of staff, G-2, of the 3d corps area headquarters. Only general subjects have been a. signed for the conferences, and gener- ally speaking. the conferences for the next school year will be a continuation and amplification of conferences on the | same subject given last vear. Lieut. Col. W. E. Shedd. jr, G. S, will be in general charge of this instruction. Mili- tary Intelligence Reserve officers of the District will hold their instruction con- ferences on the second Wednesday of each month. B The first conference for District Re- servists of this service will be con- ducted by Lieut. Col. Shedd on October 14, the subject of which will be nega- tive intelligence. War Department In- tel ce will be taken up at the No- vel r 11 meeting under the direction | of Lieut. Col. J. P. Marley, G. S.. while | Lieut. Col. P. V. Kieffer, G. S., chief of | the press relations section of the War| Department, will discwss public rel tions at the conference to be held on December 9. 2 Lieut. Col. O. 8. Albright, G. 8., will conduct the first conference of the 1932 calendar year The subject of this| meeting, which will be held on Janua 13, will be Signal Intelligence Service., corg; Area Intelligence will be taken HE Lieut. Col. A. Rutherford, G. at the “10 meeting, while Lieut. will discuss com- | there at that time.” said Jimmie. | Graves, Alice Haley, Mary satisfied, as Jimmie learned next morn- ing when the superintendent called on him at the Wade home. “I'd like to know what first made you suspect Lionel and Evelyn and how you guessed they had a graphophone.” “If Duckworth hangs,” said Jimmie, bringing out a small shining object from his pocket, “it will largely be be- cause of this.” “A graphophone needle!” exclaimed ne: “Yes. That first day in the young Iadies' room I noticed this on the car- pet and picked it up. Then I thought it strange that there was no grapho- phone in the house. When we heard the stories of those in the house, I was struck by the general agreement that Lionel and Evelyn were busy in that Toom with their singing. I saw at once how a graphophone would answer all requirements of the case. Real singing_at first, then a record turned on while the singer slipped eut for a few moments. Then real singing again I could see it was possible, but you cannot say more of it than that.” “I thought you were worrving about the car at the bottom of the garden, observed Donald. “I was. Whil unaccounted that factor remained . it_was impossible to pin one’s f finally to any definite theory. Green, Grasham. Netherton Vincent, Marjorie—there was suspicion againsi each of them, but I was not satisfied with the case against any. I felt—we all felt—that Marjorie and Netherton werc keeping something back, and while the mystery remained as to Stirling's car doubt was inevitable. At the same time I kept my other theory in mind. I asked Duckworth what, as a singer, he thought of graphophones. He condemned them heartily, and Eve- Iyn, with just a shade of excessive warmth, said she would never have one in the house “There wasn't one when we searched for the will" said Richmond. “If there had been. I think I should have noticed it. T went through the contents of the desk.” “I agree there was no graphophone “Ob- viously they would not let it remain, As you saw, it was a very portable in- strument—Duckworth's I suppose—and he brought it over when it was to be used. You will perhaps remember that Janet told us she listened with delight to the song “To the Desert.’ After that she heard a song she did not like 8o 11, ‘September Roses’" s heard Duckworth sing said Nancy “Heard him and saw him.” agreed Jimmie. “I had the curiosity to ap- proach the zraphophone people and I found out that Lionel Duckworth had done only one record for them. It was of “To the Desert’ and on the back was ‘September Roses.’ “You will agree the discovery was significant. Duckworth _could have committed the crime while a grapho- phone record was being played. and the songs that were heard while the crime was done were the only songs of his which ~ graph records existed. But it was n f. Who had been garden? I had told theory was incone doubt remained. Why. indeed. should not Duckworth sing his greatest suc- cesses “You saw the truth. but couldn't be- lieve it." remarked Donald “Yes. In a way that is so. Unti) yesterday my case was not complete, ven then it fell far short of absolute roof.” he said. smiling at Richmond, and you had already shown me you { would take a Iot of convincing I was able to demonstrate that Edward Green had never written that confession and had never attempted suicide “But that was a v different thing from showing who had killed him or Miss Querdling. Evelyn and Duckworth acted Jast evening exactly as I antici- :);'e(‘dt;‘hrv wouid It is entirely due to at that their guilt is s Iy ese T g 0 clearly es (To be continued.) Organized Reserves ‘The troop school schedule for the instruction of District Reserve officers of the Chemical Warfare bat intelligence at the to be held on March Col. Shedd will conduct conferences of the 103 inactive duty training schedule. He will discuss com- bat intelligence at the April 13 assem- niv,mwhx'z;] on May 11. the last meeting e school vear. will be devof resume of instruction. g conference 9. Lieut. the last two Second Lieuts M. Dickerson llon, both I Reserve, are assigned 10 the B0th Gil. sion. Second Lieut. Horace C. Dudiey, jr. Chemical Warfare Reserve. is as. signed to the 4024 Chemical Laboratory, Second Licut. Robert A. Hitch, En- gineer Rakerve, is ascigned to the 343d Fngincer General Service Regiment, Second Lieut, Oriille 1. Oskes. Air Re- serve, is as forve. is assigned to the 409ih attack Lieut. Col. is Reserve: Joseph S. Marriott, Afr relieved from asc‘gnment to the 4815t bombardment squadron and is assiened to the 8th corps area service command. ~Capt. Earl W. Hutchison Air Reserve. having accepted promotion to the grade of major. is relieved from assignment to the 305th observation squadron and is assigned to the 8624 observation squadron. Second Lisut Carl D. Coleman. Infantry Reserve. i assigned to the 428th Infantry (Cld). Y. W. C. A. News There will be a meeting of board of directors September 17 lahza 10:30 o'clock at the Y. W. C. A, Seventeenth and K streets, Preceding the meeting an Executive Committee meet V] il ng will There will be a committee meeting of !}.le Girl Reserve delegates to the Kiski Conference on Wednescay at 11 o'clock in the Girl Reserve Club rooms. The meeting will be followed by a luncheon party. The next Winter Council chos the year 1931-32 for Kamp Kahelrnr{;: Planning to have a meeting the latter part of the month. The members are Peggy Cragg, Dorothy Detwiler, Frances Douglass, Bescie Calston, Margaret are! - cock, Evelyn Markham, JPEnn ‘Mfi:flg Frances Pope, Helen Sheppard, Edith Sparling, Thais Spencer and Betsy Watkins. The senior members of the Kouncil are Hazel BeMte, Florence Carpenter, Ruth Dabney, Thelma Fal- cone, Elizabeth Findlay, Lillian Mau- pin. Cleo Michelson, Marjorie Miller. Esther Nelson, Margaret Osburn, Paul- ina Palmer, Clara Schwager, Doris 'nxAckrr and Gertrude Wiber. presentation service was held at Kamp Kahlert last week by the 1930- 31 council. when they formally pre- | sented to the camp an outdoor fireplace as a gift from that group. Miss Mav~ garet Hedgcock and Miss Hazel Beime spoke. A grour of 50 students from the Uni- versity of Maryland are having a con- rerdcnce at Kamp Kahlert this week end. “A caverns bus tour” has been ar- ranged for September 19 and 20, under the auspices ot the general education and industrial departments of the Y. W. C.-A, to the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, where both the Luray and the Shenandoah Caverns will be vis. ited. Information may be secured anc registrations made at the informatiod desk or in the education office at Sev- enteenth and K streets, The outdoor fireplace, recently given to the lodge by the Indoor-Outd: Club, is now ready for use by grou Information concern! reservatior may be secured at the at Bevens teenth and K