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D—6 VETEAN HTENTS CUESTS AT PARTY T In the World of Books 300 at Walter Reed Attend| | VIEWS AND REVIEWS, Entertainment Given by V. of F. W. Unit. Meetings This Week. Monday, 8 p.m. Front Line Post, No. 1401, 806 I street; Washington Post, No. 2364, 1508 Fourteenth street; Follow Me Post, No. 1830, Ambassador Hotel. Wednesday, 8 pm. Defense Post, No. 2357, 2030 Rhode Island avenue northeast; Overseas Mili- tary Band, Drum and Bugle Corps, National Guard Armory. Thursday, 8 p.m., Potomac Post. No. 1085, Northeast Masonic ‘Temple. Friday, 8 p.m.. Advance Post No. 2194, Continental Hotel: United States Treasury Post, No. 2400, Soldiers, Sailors and Marines' Club, Eleventh and L streets. More than 300 veteran patients of Walter Reed Hospital were entertained in the Red Cross Building last Mon- day night with a Christmas program | presented by the Hospital Entertain- ment Committee of the District of Columbia Veterans of Foreign Wars, under the chairmanship of Mrs. Flor- ence Morris. Charlie Edwards was master of cere- monies. Miss Marion Mackaye gave songs. Dances were rendered by Betty Guthridge, Peggy Plantz, Mildred Covey, Margaret Carroll, Violet Don- aldson, Gladys Donaldson and Mildred Tucker. William Mitchell sang. Mrs, Dorothy Lodge, chief of staff of the D. C. Department Auxliary made a short address. The entertainment was repeated Tuesday night at Mount Alo Hospital. Comdr, John W. Wimer presided at the last meeting of Defense Post. Ar- rangements were made for a card party to be given next month. An open meeting will be held January 23 when relatives of the members will be entertained. ‘The last meeting of National Capi- tol Post Auxiliary was presided over by President Ethel Sendlak. The 15th birthday anniversary of the auxiliary was celebrated. The president an- nounced the following committee chairmen: Ways and means, Josephine Car- doza; social, Lucille Miller; hospital, Sallie Clements; sick and relief, Mar- garet Lidstone; national home fund, Dorothy Allen. Plans were discussed for a dance at the Hamilton Hotel in February. Chairman Cardoza of the Ways and Means Committee an- nounced the selection of her assisting members: Lucille Miller, Elsie Miller, Margaret Pirrone and Ethel Sendlak. A bingo party will be held January 5 at the home of Elsie Miller, 1014 Massachusetts avenue. Top Notch Tent, Military Order of Cooties, held a “cratch” last Tues- day at W. O. W. Hall, with Seam Squirrel Bacon presiding. The Awards Committee, with Past Seam Squirrel Topash presiding, con- ferred honors on Past Seam Squirrel Wickstrand and Cootie Guiffere. The third degree will be conferred January 15. Follow Me Post met last Monday 2t the Ambassador Hotel and planned a dance for January 16 at the Arcade Auditorium. Representative Wright W. Patman made an address. Jesse Stotler, Edley H. Grayson and Ed- ward B. McDade were obligated to membership. Comdr. Sigmund Mil- brandt appointed Past Comdrs. Phillip R. Belt and Selby C. Harr on the Executive Committee, and three ad- ditional members will be elected at the next meeting to serve on the committee. ‘The meeting of Front Line Post scheduled for tomorrow night has been postponed to January 14 at 1105 Sixteenth street. A house warming will be held. Post Chaplain Dr. H. J. Bryson will appear as Santa Claus at a Christ- mas party for children of post mem- bers tomorrow night at the apart- ment of Senior Vice Comdr. Frank Topash. W@ ou? The Romance of Your Name. BY RUBY HASKINS ELLIS. THE first record we find of this name is that of William Yardley, who witnessed the signing of the Magna Charta granted to England by King John I, dated June 15, 1215. This great document was executed in the presence of many of the noblemen and the clergv on the “field of Run- nemede.” It is thought that the Yard- leys made their first appearance in England as followers of William the Conqueror. From the years 1400 to 1682, when ‘William Yardley, the first of the name, came to America, the records of the family appear complete. William was 2 lineal descendant of Jobn Yardley of County Stafford, and sailed with his twe mrotners, Enoch and Thomas, and one servant on the good vessel | Friends Adventure, arriving in Dela- ware River in 1682. These pioneers pitched their camp on the west side of the river, where Trenton, N. J., now stands. The town of Yardley was named for the family. This settlement was made on land purchased under an agreement with William Penn. Their homestead was called Prospect Farm. William Yardley was an active member of the Society of Friends in Pennsylvania. In the New England States the name Yardley was represented in Colonial settlement by John, who lived in Braintree, Mass., in 1688. (Copyright. 1934.) Pray for Trolley Victim. Women knelt in the street and prayed at Islington, England, while a wrecking crew was lifting a street car under which 7-year-old Leonard Phillips had fallen, receiving fatal in- juries. ! north, the sandy desert to the south, | the roads today. | becomes an adventure as Mr. Morton { volved | with his penknife. IN THE STEPS OF THE MASTER. By H. V. Morton. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. O PALESTINE Mr. Morton brought the same alert interest in discovering things for him- self that produced his delight- ful “search” books, “In Search of England,” ““In Search of Ireland,” “In Search of Wales,” “In Search of Scotland” and its even better supple- ment, “In Scotland Again.” He is an ideal traveler, apparently never weary, taking nothing for granted, relating history and literature to every scene without becoming pedantic or losing the full flavor of the beauties before him. He believes that “when this feel- ing of surprise is no longer possxhle! the time has come to give up wander- | ing.” The time has not come for him | and we hope that it will not arrive for many more years, for no writer of books of travel at the present timel excels him in the power to take his reader journeying with him. Whether or not you have ever visited Palestine in the flesh, you are likely to feel that you have never really seen it until you have followed Mr. Morton “in the steps of the Master.” The illustra- tions from his own photographs and the endpaper maps of Palestine in the time of Christ, at the present time, showing the author’s route, and of Jerusalem assist in the book journey over this small country, so small that “from many of the high ridges of Judea all the boundaries are clearly visible; snow-capped Hermon to the the “Mediterrancan Sea to the west, and the high ridge of the Trans-Jor- dan Mountains to the east.” Mr. Morton entered Palestine from Egypt and saw the sun rise, leaping up iike an orange flung into the air, between Gaza and Ascalon. In Jerusa- | lem he tried to put aside a question- | ing mood and *o accept the view that tradition is more likely to be right than not as to the exact location of | the Holy Sepulchre and other sacred | places, and he found it easy to think | of Jesus the man, walking over the white, dusty roads, among men and women and animals such as throng The trip from high Jerusalem, 2,500 feet above sea level, to Jericho and the Dead Sea, 1,290 feet below sea level, so that in abouf 25 miles there is a drop of nearly 4,000 feet, from frosty hills to a hot, tropical pocket in the seared earth, describes it. He was warned to re- turn over the winding mountain road, | the ablest soldier they (the Union | the before | Army) had.” But the failure to pre- | among “perfect brigand country,” GEORGE BRINTON McCLELI LAN, THE SUBJECT OF A NEW BIOGRAPHY BY WILLIAM STARR MYERS. his honesty and sincerity there can be no doubt.” To the military career of McClellan | Dr. Myers does full justice. He quotes | Robert E. Lee, admittedly great strate- gist, as saying that McClellan “was land of geographical fantasy, a land of youth and fortune and gold.” This quest was never a deep racial urge: it was an individual motive in a few adventuring lives. Man the explorer is of even greater antiquity than man agriculturist. Exploration is the oldest of urges, and dark, but failed to ovey the injunc-|vent the Confederate forces from | curiosity began long before man, with tion, because he took time for the | establishing batteries on the lower the monkeys and near-humans like ascent, long but easy, of the Mount | Potomac, thus practically closing all| Pithecanthropus of Java and the of Temptation back of Jericho. followed the road through the Kedron | | Valley, zazed at the superb panorama | of the Jordan Valley and the Dead | Sea from a height below Jerusalem, | which looked like “a primitive con- ception of hell,” stopped at the hud- dle of Arab houses, which is Beth- any, descended into the dark, dank | cave of the Tomb of Lazarus, and | from the hill above the village re- | flected on the universal problem in- | in the story of the realist, | Martha, and the idealist, Mary. Half | way down to Jericho he found the old khan by the.side of the road, which ‘radition makes the Inn of the Good Samaritan, and there sat and read the parable. At the north end of the Dead Sea he found a stirring of life in the shape of an ugly chemi- cal factory. In search of the place of Christ's baplism, he followed a| cart ‘rack across the baked hills and came to an odd cafe on stilts on the bank of the Jordon, where the pro- prietor sat among his chickens, tur- keys and goats and whittled a stick | For some reason, | unaccountable even to himself, the | Jordan here reminded Mr. Morton | of the Avon in Warwickshire. | The impression made by Bethle-| hem was “one of peace and gracious- | ness. Jerusalem is taut with mental | conflict. Bethlehem is quiet, and, I| think, happy.” Meeting the last of the Samaritans in Samaria, watching the village carpenter at work in Naz- | areth, standing among the ruins of | Caesarea, crossing the hill which sep- | arates the Old and New Testaments | and going into Galilee, “free from | the powerful hypnotism of Jerusa- | lem,” bathing in the Sea of Galilee, | witnessing the feast of the Passover | and celebrating it with a Jewish fam- | ily on_the outskirts of Jerusalem, and | attendinz “the strangest of all the ceremonies of the Eastern holy week. It is held by the black monks of Abyssinia on the roo: of the Holy Sepulchre”; whevever he went Mr. Morton found the heart of every ex- perience in its relation to the New | Testament story. Yet his book is not motivated by religious emotion; it is| the work of a cultured traveler to | whom all history anti tradition are a | large part of the joy of exploration. e S GEN. GEORGE BRINTON McCLEL- LAN. By William Starr Myers, Ph. D. New York: D. Appleton-Cen- tury Co. 'HIS is a season of military biogra- phies, with Douglas Freeman's R. E. Lee,” Col. Robert McCormick’s lysses S. Grant,” Frederick Palmer’s “Bliss” and this study of the person- ality of McClellan by Dr. Myers, pro- fessor of politics in Princeton Uni- versity. In the personality of McClel- lan is found the key to his military career, that career which is often con- sidered one of the most tragic failures of the Civil War. -The interest of Dr. Myers was first aroused in McClellan through reading a statement of John W. Burgess in his work “The Civil War and the Constitution,” to the effect that “whether a crushing vic- tory cver the Confederates, ending at once the rebellion beforg slavery was destroyed, was wanted by all of those who composed the Washington Gov- ernment, may well be suspected. And it is very nearly certain that there were some who would have preferred defeat to such a victory with McClel- land in command.” This throws out a suggestion of politics more power- ful than patriotism even at a great crisis, but such inappropriate sub- ordination is common in history. McClellan was an intensely religi- ous man, kindly, simple and guileless. “Let it be said-in summary that in Lincoln and McClellan we see two guileless men who unfortunately did not fully understand each other. And tragedy was the result.” But Mc- Clellan was also pugnacious, stubborn, high-handed and was a poor sub- ordinate. His lack of understanding of “practical” politics and his failure to participate in the practice of the art resulted in his making enemies (or at least associations which were less than friendly) among them Sec- retary Stanton, Nicolay and Hay. His enemies accumulated as he rose to “the dizzy heights of commander in chief,” yet he was fortunate in hav- ing loyal friends who helped him to “parry the thrusts of selfish and malicious enemies, often: more intent upon their personal advantage or ad- vancement than upon the welfare of the cause they were serving.” Dr. Myers does not, however, have a perse- cution complex on behalf of McClel- lan. He sees him as a man of many faults, making mistakes, perhaps too pliable in the h.lnd;\ot others, yet “of | plains, Mr. Van De Water shows that of Washington, is pointed out as an| almost fatal mistake. Had McClellan | been selfish instead of devoted to duty | he would have resigned when he was | relieved from the supreme command, | as it would have been to his advantage | to do. Dr. Myers speaks of McClel- lan’s candidacy for the presidency in 1864 as a “disastrous political experi- | ment.” Dr. Myers, who has already | edited McClellan's Mexican War diary, | here presents a piece of valuable his- | torical interpretation. * ok %k GLORY HUNTER. A Life of Gen. | Custer. By Frederic F. Van De Water. Indianapolis: The Bobbs- Merrill Co. "THE pursuit of glory is taken by Mr. | Van De Water as the mainspring | of Custer’s life. “He followed Glory all | his days. He was her lifelong devotee. She gave him favor withheld from | most men and denied herself when his | need of her was sorest.” After his | death on the heights above the Valley of the Little Bighorn, where the coun- try was “stiff with Sioux,” Glory re- lented and placed him in her hall of fame. It seems at first that this Glory theme is to be overworked in Mr. Van De Water's biography, but he has | avoided too great insistence and re- | iteration. Custer has always appealed to the imagination of old and young by his eager entry into the Civil War, a golden-haired youngster, afraid the war would be over before he could get to the front, his brilliant Indian fight- ing and his martyr’s death. His per- sonality was that of a dashing adven- turer and action always suited him better than thought. In narrating the events of Custer’s career, from his insurgent West Point days, through his Civil War record, with his burning of Shenandoah farms end lynching of Confederate troopers, insubordination and court-martial, his Indian campaigns and life on the Custer was a paradox. He was a ve- hemently positive character. A popu- iar hero, he was distrusted and scorned by many of his colleagues. A devoted son and husband, he was a brutal commander, careless of the suffering he inflicted. He “forever identified tolerance with weakness and in its presence comported himself like a cal- culating pupil who tested how far he dared plague the professor.” As a cadet and a subaltern he was unruly and as an officer insubordinate, but he implacably enforced discipline among his own troops. Some praised him as a generous and gallant foe; others stigmatized him as a lyncher and butcher. His valor in battle was without any faltering and he was the foremost Indian fighter of his time, but “his only positive victory in battle against the red men was massacre rather than conflict, and his chief sur- viving fame as a soldier is based upon a defeat as complete as ever United State Regulars sustained.” Mr. Van De Water, by accepting all these in- consistencies in the character of Cus- ter, by not striving to find unity or to explain away contradictions, has created a very living picture and one in which even-handed justice is ad- ministered. * ok K K EARTH CONQUERORS. The Lives and Achievements “of the Great Explorers. By J. Leslie Mitchell New York: Simon & Schuster. THOUGH the book is large, it col;ll(; not possibly pay tribute to the great explorers. Selection has been necessary, and that selection has favored those not too often cel- ebrated. Columbus is present, of course, under the chapter heading of “Don Cristobal Colon and the Earthly Poradise,” and his geographical be- liefs and the consequences of his dis- coveries are stressed. Like many other adventurers, he did not shine in domestic life, and Mr. Mitchell comments that, after the “seduction, courtship and marriage—in that or- der—of the pious, complacent and poverty-stricken Beatriz Enriquez de Arana,” he alternately “maltreated and mislaid” her. Nine great explor- ing figures are chosen from the rec- ords of history; they are, in addition paper. Mr. Mitchell Mpelflt bey explorers was imj and romantic idea, which he calls “Quest of the !Wlfk He | navigation and cutting off the city | Heidelberg man. Loot, fame and fun have been the triple cause of much exploration. They actuated the nine here chosen, but the importance of what they accomplished went far be- yond their motives. Among them they discovered the earth for western civilization. What western civiliza- tion has done with it is another mat- ter. Each of them blazed & new trail. Leif Ericsson, like many of his suc- cessors, combined religion with loot and took with him a priest to con- vert the heathen of Greenland. No immediate results followed his dis- covery of “Wineland the Good.” Messer Marco Polo was the most sin- gle-minded of adventurers. His quest was his life—the “quest of the golden ruler, Kublai Khan: a quest success- ful, fulfilled, and yet never ended.” Columbus and Cabeza de Vaca were unashamed seekers for gold, but they discovered a new continent and did not neglect the glory of God. Magel- lan sought gold in the form of spices and other eastern treasures of trade. Bering had heard of a mysterious | Gama Land in the North Pacific, and was tempted also by dreams of lively trade and huge profits if a northwest passage were discovered. Mungo Park, in a much later period, followed his quest inland and explored the course of the Niger River, but died in the river without finding the delta which he sought. Richard Burton, in the nineteenth century, disguised as a Persian Moslem, explored Ara- bia, then little known beyond Mecca and Medinah. Nansen, separated from Leif Ericsson by 900 years, surely without hope of gold, sought the utmost pole, a mathematical point. Of all these explorers, Nan- sen is the Paracelsus, in search of knowledge. With such material, Mr. Mitchell could hardly write a dull book, but he has enhanced his ma- terial with a highly colored narrative style. * ok ok x EDISON. His Life, His Work, His Genius. By William Adams Simonds. Indianapolis: Bobbs- Merrill Co. THE name of Edison 1s almost __Synonymous with that of a ma- gician, not only in our own country but throughout the world, vet to a large extent at least his genius was that of hard work. The world into which he was born, in 1847, was still 8 pioneer world, a world in which nearly everything was waiting to be done. Some luck, much work and an unparalleled inventive imagination went into the making of Edison. The inventions that came from his lab- oratories at Menlo Park and Orange, N. J., justified the name which came to be applied to him of “Wizard.” Mr. Simonds, studying Canadian archives for his ancestry, visiting the places of his childhood and youth, examining models or duplicates of all his inven- tions, spending three years at Menlo Park, much time in Schenectady, and coming to “the end of the trail be- side his grave at West Orange,” seems to have exhausted every resource in gathering material and impressions for this biography, and the result is one which it will be hard for any one else to equal. Sweeping aside both the fantastic legends which have grown up about Edison and the “question of the sin- cerety of his work,” the charges that he stumbled on some of his results, borrowed or stole others, Mr. Simonds has aimed only to discover the real man and inventor, using the methods of accepted scholarship. His detailed story, every page of which is full of interest, shows that Edison was in- evitably a part of the pattern of his period, beginning with the infancy of Amercan industry and ending with the toppling and crashing of a labori ously built economic structure. But if he was a part of the pattern, he was a very large figure in its composi- tion. From his first invention at the age of 21, a double telegraph trans- mitter, to the climax of the electric light, and the conclusion in over 1,300 patents, the story is one of the most remarkable in history. , Yet Edison spoke of his genius as “2 per cent in- spiration and 98 per cent perspira- tion.” This story of Edison is not a dead SARAH BOWERMAN utive of the new Chicago Edison Il- luminating Co. in 1892 is a background story for recent Insull news. The patent fight in the motion picture in- dustry recalls the fact that Edison received patents on the first motion picture camera and projector and did something with the talking picture. Of facts, woven into a narrative which never lags, Mr. Simonds has given an abundance; of criticism he has given almost none, which is to be regretted. * X ¥ % CLEOPATRA'S DAUGHTER. The Queen of Mauretania. By Beatrice Chanler. New York: Liveright Publishing Co. 'HE famous Cleopatra, whom age could not wither, had at least four children: Caesarion, son of Julius Caesar; the twin children Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene, and the boy Ptolemy Philadelphus, children of Marc Antony. Caesarion, invested as King of Egypt, was sent by his mother with his tutor up the Nile and across the desert to a refuge in India, but was tricked by Octavian into returning to Alexandria, where he was put to death. Learning from this that she ‘was powerless to thwart the conqueror, whose star was rising while hers was setting, Cleopatra decided “to leave the fote of the other children to Isis and Serapis, and find death in Egypt rather than follow Octavian’s triumph and die in a Roman dungeon.” After the suicides of their parents, the three children of Antony and Cleopatra, the last of the Ptolemies. were taken to Rome by Octavian. History has told | little about them. They marched, pathetic and frightened, in the triumphal procession of Octavian, while the Roman mob seethed and howled. They became the wards of Octavian, who was crowned as the Emperor Augustus, and were brought up not unkindly by his wife, Livia, in the imperial palace on the Palatine Hill with her own children, and the legitimate children of Antony. After a time the two boys disappeared from history. It is probable that Augustus recognized the menace of two Ptolemy princes to his empire, Cleopatra Selene, 11 years old when she was taken from Alexandria, was married at 15 to Juba, son of the King of Numidia, whom Augustus made King of Mauretania. She considered | royalty her right and her crowning a | removal of the humiliation of her entry into Rome as a captive. As queen she worked actively for the Romanization of her kingdom, a process resisted by the native popu- lation, and built’ Caesarea “on the burning soil of North Africa, a city of marble; temples peopled with stat- ues, palaces with mosaic floors that rivaled the rarest Babylonian carpets; libraries where the royal historian studied with Greek scholars and com- piled his works for posterity; theaters, mansions and palatial baths.” The birth of her son Ptolemy set her to dreaming of the conquest begun by Alexander the Great, striven for by her father, Antony, and perhaps to be achieved by this son of hers. In the absence of Juba on campaigns in the East, Cleopatra Selene acted as regent nd during her regency built a temple to the goddess Isis and attempted to establish the religion of Egypt in Mauretania, though in opposition to the mandate of Rome. She died in the year 6 A. D. Her son Ptolemy became a favorite of the emperors Ti- berius and Caligula and continued to rule over Mauretania, but incurred the | Jealousy of the sadistic Caligula and was put tn death after torture. He was the last of the Soters, “the last child in whom the blood of Antony and Cleopatra flowed.” Mrs. Chanler has evidently done an immense | | | | VISTAS FROM THE STREAM. HE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, DECEMBER 23, 1934—PART TWO. story of the Donner party is perhaps the most tragic in the history of the Overland Trail, EE T MR. PINKERTON FINDS A BODY. By David Frome. New York: Farrar & Rinehart. VID FROME has created a real perscn in Mr. Pinkerton, whom even those who are not mystery fans are glad to meet. In this new book about him he has left the security of his large, empty house in Golders Green and has gone to Oxford to visit an 8ld friend, a fellow Welshman, a don at Jesus College. Before he has been there 24 hours, during which he has not reported to his friend, finding the college exteriors too awesome, he finds himself involved in the murder of Sir William Brame, originator of “any kind of suit for any kind of man” at 49 shillings sixpence. First taken into custody as a possible wit- ness, he soon finds that he is suspected of complicity in the murder, but on the arrival- of his friend and chief, Inspector Bull of Scotland Yard, he is drawn into the solution of the crime mystery. There is a love story, of course, not Mr. Pinkerton's, for he has too vivid recollections of his servitude as pot-boy and scullery maid in his wife’s boarding house and too much satisfaction in the 75000 pounds his wife inadvertently left him to make any new venture into matri- mony. The academic setting of Ox- ford gives piquancy to the crime com- mitted in Turl street. Books Received Non-Fiction. PHOTOPLAY APPRECIATION IN AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOLS. By William Lewin. New York: D. Ap- pleton-Century Co. HYDE PARK ORATOR. The Auto- biography of a Soap Box Artist, By Bonar Thompson. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. THE MIGHTY THREE. Poushkin- Gogol-Dostoievsky. A Critical Tril- cgy. By Boris Brasol. New York: William Farquhar Payson. THOMAS MASON, ADVENTURER. By Henry Pleasants, jr. Vith Drawings by Peter Hurd. Phila- delphia: The John C. Winston Co. GATEWAY TO RADIO. By Maj. Ivan Firth and Gladys Shaw Ers- kine. New York: The Macauley Co. JESUS IN MODERN LIFE. By Alger- non Sydney Logan. Philedelphia: National Publishing Co. A FEATHER FROM THE WORLD'S WING; MESSALINA; VESTIGIA (Verse). By Algernon Sydney Logan. Philadelphia: National Pub- lishing Co THE MIRROR OF A MIND: THE LAST CRUSADE (Verse). By Algernon Sydney Logan. Phila- delphia: National Publishing Co. 2 Vols. By Algernon Sydney Logan. Philadelphia: National Publish- ing Co. THE CANAPE BOOK. By Rachel Bell Maiden. Decorations by Lucina Smith Wakefield. New York: D. Appleton-Century Co. | HAMLET: AN ANALYTIC AND PSY- CHOLOGIC STUDY (Pamphlet). By Fayette C. Ewing. Boston: ‘The Stratford Co. WHEAT UNDER THE AGRICUL- TURAL ADJUSTMENT ACT. By Sherman Johnson. Washington, D. C.: The Brookings Institution. THE BEGINNING OF MIND DIS- CRIMINATION THE END OF SO- CALLED CRME. Analysis and Synthesis of a Nation. An Inte- gration. Edited by Charles J. Clarke. Mind World Organization. POEMS OF WILLIAM GAYLE. Mont- gomery, Ala.: The Paragon Press THE SOUL OF AMERICA. An Ore- gon Iliad. By Eva Emery Dye New York: The Press of the Plo- neers. Fiction. THE WHITE PARADE. By Rian James. New York: Alfred H. King. SECRET WAYS. By Andrew Soutar. amount of research in producing this biography of a little known but very picturesque queen and has given a rich spectacle of the period when the second triumvirate ended and the Roman Empire began. Tk | | A MODERN COLUMBUS, By S.P.B. Mais. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippin- cott Co. MERICA is still an undiscovered tountry to a surprisingly large number of Europeans, some of whom have no desire to cross the sea, even in a comfortable modern liner bearing no resemblance to the little vessels of Columbus, in order to explore the rumored sensationalism of our high finance, our mad motoring and our gangsters. Mr. Mais, British author, lecturer and broadcaster, was one of those to whom America seemed “a long way from home.” He t= ~ t5 make the B. B. C. realize that ] not the man for the job of t 1 20,000 miles in the United Sta ad telling the British public about i. over the radio. But he came and found “the whole world, every type of scenery from jungle to pole, every type ofman,and * * * every known type of climate.” Following a map made for him by William Hard in London on the back of an envelope, he began with Virginia, moved on to Florida, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Cali- fornia, then back slowly through the Middle West to New York. .In this book Mr. Mais shows an encouraging, and perhaps a new, America to many Americans. He didn’t like kidnapers, though he had no personal experience with them, nor the New York subway (but Americans don’t like it either), nor all our “back-chat and cross- talk comedians,” nor the ‘spoliation of the landscape by billboards, nor his own press interviews. But he was glad he had come and, since he says that “whatever America is it is not hial,” we may conclude that he gave a favorable answer to the Lanca- shire member of one of his lecture audiences who asked: “Is the Amer- icans as aristocratic as wot we is?” And now that he is home, he is “aching to go back.” * ok kX * oK ok % GRIM JOURNEY. By Hoffman Birney. New York: Minton, Balch & Co. UST as Nordhoff and Hall have their sea trilogy, used much fact as the basis for “Mutiny on the /Bounty,” “Men Against the Sea” and ‘Pitcairn’s Island,” Hoffman Birney has in this story of land dangers equal to those of the sea adhered to a true record, accentuated it but not altered He tells of ‘the tragic adventures of the Donner party, a company which r narrative begins New York: Claude Kendall. DEATH OF A BANKER. By Anthony | Philadelphia: J. B. Lip- | Wynne. pincott Co. ALL THE SKELETONS IN ALL THE CLOSETS . By Keith Fowler. New York: The Macauley Co. USEFUL LADY. By Evan J. David. New York: The Macauley Co. GRAMMAR OF LOVE. By Ivan Bunin Translated by John Cour- nos. New York: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas. WILD STRAWBERRIES. By Angela ‘Thirkell. New York: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas. THE RED TIGER. By Don Skene. New York: D. Appleton-Century Co. PEDIGREE OF HONEY. By Barbara Webb. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co. THE WOMAN WHO HAD IMAGINA- TION. By H.E. Bates. New York: ‘The Macmillan Co. WIFE TO CALIBAN. By Louise Red- field Peattie. New York: Minton, Balch & Co. MURDER OF THE HONEST BRO- KER. By Willoughby Sharp. New York: Claude Kendall THE LAUGHING JOURNEY. By Thomas Lennon. New York: The John Day Co. HEART, BE STILL. By Isabel Wilder. New York: Coward, McCann. CARESS AND FAREWELL. By Lionel Houser. New York: Julian Messner. NEVER ANY MORE. By Nancy Hale. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. LEGACY. By E. W. Lovell. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. DEATH IN THE THEATER. By J.R. Wilmot. New York: Claude Ken- dall. STILL DEAD. By Ronald A. Knox. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. UNDERSTANDING MEN. By Ade- line Morrow. Boston: Meador Pub- lishing Co. THE MAKER OF SIGNS. By Whit Burnett. New York: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas. NOT ON THE CHART. By Algernon Sydney Logan. Philadelphia: Na- tional Publishing Co. s AMY WARREN. By Algernon Sydney Logan. Philadelphia: National Pub- lishing Co. PUBLIC LIBRARY FOR THE NEW DEAL. AST week the Public Library listed books on the general as- pects of the New Deal. The list this week is of books in favor of the New Deal and its policies, supplemented by a few re- cent magazine articles. Next week the library will list books and articles in opposition. Books. New Frontiers, by H. C. Wallace. HC83.W155n. “An able explanation and defense of the administration’s policies that is also a plea for a wider vision of national life and for courage and wil- lingness to experiment. The - cultural situation and evolution of a remedial scheme are discussed at length. New Democracy, by H. L. Ickes. HC83.I¢5. “I offer this book to explain, in broad outline, how the accomplish- New Hampton, N. Y.: The | the privilege of Ithat administra i People at Work, by Frances Perkins. HF83.P414. being & member of tion.”"—Foreword. | “The book outlines the historical development of American labor from Colonial times to the present, and the slow building up of a public opinion which has come to acknowl- edge the significance of people at work as human beirgs, rather than so! much power. The greater part of the book is given to the period since 1929, the causes which led to the de- pression and the recovery measures instituted by the Roosevelt adminis- tration.” Tomorrow’s Money; a Financial Pro- gram for America, by F. A. Van- derlip. HM.V28t. “An eminent authority on bank- ing and finance . . . sums up the weaknesses of the old gold standard and proposes the setting up of a mod- ernized gold standard. . . . He ap- proves, in general, the financial meas- ures taken by the administration, | and proposes, in order to safeguard ! the advantages already gained, the establishment of a new Government agency to be known as the Federal Monetary Authorigy.” Looking Forward, by F. D. Roosevelt. HC83.R675. “An unhurried, dispassionate, en- tirely coherent resume of his polit- PETTITCAMPPLANS YULE GELEBRATION Auxiliary to Join With Mem- bers in Party on De- cember 27. MEETINGS THIS WEEK Camps. Tuesday—Col. James S. Pettit, 921 Pennsylvania avenue south- east, Friday—Gen. Nelson A. Miles, Pythian Temple. Auxiliaries. Monday—Col. James S. Pettit, Naval Lodge Hall Friday—Gen. Nelson A Miles, Pythian Temple. Comdr. William G. Copley pre- sided at the last meeting of Col. James 8. Pettit Camp, Spanish War Veteran: The camp and auxiliary will hold a {ical philosophy and of the larger as- pects of the program, which, as Pres- ident, he hopes to consummate. There is consistent ‘follow through’ from broad premise to particular con- clusion. It is the work of a man who has made a careful selection of his mental baggage and kept it in order against the rush of events.”—W. M. Houghton. On Our Way, F8325.R670. “In -composing the sequel to ‘Look- ing Forward,” Mr. Roosevelt has in- terwoven with his principal speeches and messages a thread of explanation and of comment in language as com- pressed and as calm as a skipper's report of a rescue at sea . Going through them consecutively gives one | by F. D. Roosevelt. of the enterprise on which the Na- tion is launched."—E. K. Lindley. America Must Choose; the Advan- tages and Disadvantages of Na- tionalism, of World Trade, and of Planned Middle Course, by H. A. Wallace. HC83.W155. “Many regard it as the most im- portant statement of issues that has emanated from the present adminis- | tration.” | Roosevelt Revolution, First Phase, by E. K. Lindley. F83525.L64. “A complete history of the New Deal from its earliest roots in the President’s own mind down to the | moment of pause, stock taking and |.".. It is wholly favorable to Presi- dent Roosevelt, and inclined more particularly to the ‘left-wing' view- point among his supporters."—Walter | | Millis. |New Dealers. by Unofficial Observer F83525.N42. “Written brilliantly and with lively and at times mordant humor. the au- thor has produced the most enter-| taining reading matter about the New Deal to date, and at the same time a book consistently based on a con- ception of the New Deal as a revo- lutionary process made necessary by |the brutal paradox of poverty in the {midst of ‘permanent plenty.’ "—E. K. | Lindley. | Roosevelt and His America, by Ber- nard Fay. F83525.F79. “It is this Frenchman's belief that America thrives on crises, that at such times its taste for greatness asserts itself and its abounding vitality in- sures victory.” Magazine Articles. The Bogey of Regimentation; the Patriots Prepare to Defend Our Liberties, by Duncan Aikman and Hawley Jones. Harpers, 169:641- 650. November, 1934 lectivism will bring with it restraints. The task is to see to it that in that collectivism the greatest freecom for individuality may be maintained.” What About Public Works? by D. C. Coyle. Harpers, 170:146-158. Jan- uary, 1935, “When we get ready to take the public works program by its right handle we shall have a powerful en- gine for making stable prosperity Roosevelt at Mid-Term, by Geoffrey Crowther. Nineteenth Century, 126:615-626. December, 1934. “The Present Democratic Admin- | istration stands between the conservative elements, the party of property and the first beginnings of a party of the dispossessed.” Roosevelt Runs the Rapids, by Ray- mond Moley. Today, 3:3-5. No- vember 10, 1934. “All the administration policies in- volve a process of careful adjustment, from month to month and from year to year. To venture a prediction as to the exact form that each of them will take is to assume the role of prophecy. Nothing can be more de- structive of confidence than a Presi- q:m who makes promises and predic- tions that he cannot justify.” The New Deal Endorses Profits, by D. C. Roper. Forum, 92:322-325. December, 1934. “No period of recovery in our his- tory has shown such improvements as have taken place in the past 18 months.” We Ar€ More Than Economic Men, by H. A. Wallace. Scribner’s, 96:321- 326. December, 1934. “There is a tremendous burden on (my generation to make enough prog- ress with the New Deal, so that even though the conservatives come back into power, they will of necessity have to build wisely on the foundations which we have laid.” = MARINES TO NEED 1,200 MORE MEN iLarger Force Declared Necessary to Staff Ships Under Construction. i Navy Department officials have esti- mated that 1,200 additional marines will be required to man additional ships authorized and under construc- tion. This number is to be in addition the heretofore recommended strength in the proposed naval bill and is an emergency item. No addition in commissioned officers is recom- mended. Maj. Gen. Harry Lee, commanding general at Quantico, has issued orders allowing a large number of his com- mand leave over the holidays. Every mess officer at Quantico is endeavoring to outdo the other in Christmas dinner. Col. Emile P. Moses, the headquarters barracks, Eighth street southeast, has issued leave and furlough to a large number of his offi- cers and men. Col. H. D. South, commanding the yMarine Barracks at the Navy Yard, likewise has allowed holiday leave to moves backward. ments and aims of the present admin- officers and men not scheduled for a new sense of the heroic proportions | | (perhaps) of doubt i -October. | IMAGE' (OF ATR: SAUL: THEL = 1% shan manimd October | chaplain: “It is inevitable that economic col- | joint Christmas celebration at the United Brethren Church, Rhode Is- land avenue and R street, December 27, at 8 o'clock. The joint installa- tion of the officers of the camp and auxiliary will be held January 14, at Naval Lodge Hall. The following camp officers were elected: Calvin B. Lucas, commander; Charles Cohen, senior vice com- mander; Charles H. Appich, junior vice commander; Leander O. Jones, officer of the day; P. P. Quinn, officer of the guard; William G. Copley, trus- tee. The following were appointed: Charles A. Strobel, adjutant; Willia: P. Irving, quartermaster; William De Shazo, chaplain; Edward Halpin, color sergeant, and Ike Hersch, quar- termaster sergeant. C. B. Lucas was | appointed to provide baskets for needy families. Among the speakers were Past De- partment Comdr. Charles A. Strobel Past Comdr. Eschelman, Senior Vice | Comdr. Gary Powell of Urell Camp and Messrs. Johnson and Thornberg of Miles Camp. Pettit Camp will hold its next meet- ing January 14. Admiral George Dewey Naval Camp met last Friday night Comdr W. H. Waters presided and officers were elected. Past Department Comdr. P. J. Callan and Arthur League and John Gallagher and Wil- liam Rink of Harden Camp, spoke. Auxiliaries The Council of Administration met with Department President Catherine Dintler presiding The next meeting of the Department Auxiliary will be held January 2 at 921 Pennslvania avenue southeast. Col. James S. Pettit Auxiliary elected the following officers: Ethel E. Finn, president; Gertrude Miles, senior vice president; Hilda Brooks, junior vice president; Louise Lucas, Mildred Rhodes, patriotic instructor: Josephine Hirsch, histo- rian; Ruth Pixton, conductor; Bettie Pixton, assistant conductor; Ella Cohen, guard; Ethel Long, assistant guard. Among the speakers were Mrs. Munich of California and Mrs. Hil- leary of James E. King Auxiliary, of Alexandria, Va. ‘The auxiliaries and camps will at- tend Christmas cheer visitations to hospitals, as follows: United States Soldiers’ Home December 23, at 2:30; Walter Reed, December 26, at 2:30: United States Naval, December 27, at 1:30; St. Elizabeth’s, December 7:30; Mount Alto, December 28, 1:30. P ELECTRIC RAILWAY | STRIKE SETTLEL | | Wage Increase and Certain Working Rule Changes Ef- fected in Los Angeles. By the Assoclated Press Headquarters of the National Me- diation Board announced an agree- ment on a settlement of the Pacific Electric Railway strike in Los Angeles The board has been in the West Coast city for several weeks attempt- ing to arrange the settlement. A strike called by two unions on the interurban road was held up dur- ing negotiations. The agreement was reached last night. board headquarters said, and the formal terms are to be completed and signed today. The settlement calls for a wage in- crease, part of which is to be effectiv January 1 and part July 1, and certain changes in working rules. DEMOCRATS COMPLETE DANCE ARRANGEMENTC Prince Georges Club Holida Event at Beaver Dam Country Club on December 29. 8pecial Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., December 22.—Plans for the holiday dance to be held December 29 at the Beaver Dam Country Club by the Young Men’s Democratic Club of Prince Georges County are progressing, it was announced today by Irvin G. Owings, chairman of the club’s Social Com- mitee, which is in general charge of arrangements. The dance will be from 10 p.m. until 2 am. Other members of the committee are Judge John K. Keane, vice chair- man; E. Nelson Snouffer, vice chair- man; Capt. Vinton D. Cockey, J. Tar= bell Howard, Walter L. Green, Ralph W. Powers, R. Earle Sheriff, Weldon H. Taliaferro, W. Waverly Webb and H. Winship Wheatley, jr. Patronesses will be Mrs. Brice Bowie, Mrs. Mary W. Browning, Mrs. T. How- ard Duckett, Mrs. Willlam 8. Hill, Mrs. M. Hampton Magruder, Mrs. Charles C. Marbury, Mrs. Joseph C. Mattingly, Mrs. G. W. 8. Musgrave, Mrs. Irvin Owings, Mrs. Daisy F. La Coppidan, Mrs. Lansdale G. Sasscer and Mrs. William Stanley. —_— COL. LYNCH ASSIGNED TO TIENTSIN INFANTRY Former Deputy Administrator of N. R. A. Under Johnson Given New Duties. By the Associated Press. Col. George A. Lynch, former deputy administrator of the N. R. A. has been assigned by the War Department to command the 15th United States In- fantry at Tientsin, China. Lynch is now on general staff duty at 2d Corps Area headquarters, Gov- ernors Island, N. Y. He recently returned to active Army duty after ‘serving as an assistant to Gen. Hugh 8. Johnson, former N.R. A, The 15th Infantry is the force maintained bn'yyuu Unlol:l&'ém outside American o - Troops have been he Boxer outhreak.