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pointed out today that the advisory
committee Is in reality an advisory
committee on civil service policies.
The civil service system has It's weak
points. Il Is declared. and Il Is hoped
that they can be corrected. The ad
visory committee meeting today has
no power Of action, but Is merely ad-
viBory to the reclassificat tion commit
tee.
Dropping Of the bars of civil service
entrance requirements during the war
In order to get enough workers to
man the departments and bureaus was
another question considered by the
advisory committee today. The whole
question of examinations for positions
in the government was considered.
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D. C. FLAGS AT HALF-STAFF

The Commissioners have adopted res
olutions of regret at the death of former
Engineer Commissioner William T. Ros-
sell. who succumbed at New Brighton,
N Y. Sunday, his SEVENTEEN birthday
anniversary. In his memory the flags on
all District buildings are at half staff
Until after the funeral. The resolutions
of the Commissioners read, in part, as
follows:
THE Commissioners express their
deep sympathy to the members of the
family OF Gen. Rossell in their bereave-
ment. and as mark of respect for his
character, abilities and eminent sery-
ices, as displayed in all of his relations
r. life, direct that this testimonial be
placed in the official minutes of this
board, and that the flags on all District
buildings be placed at half-mast until
after the funeral
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J. H. HUNTLEY, ACTOR, DIES.
Succumbs After First Act-Wife
PLAYS Out Her Role.

PROVIDENCE. r. l.. October "a
James IL. Huntley. aged seventy
three. an actor in the Turn to the
Right" company playing here. died
suddenly after the conclusion OF the
first act of yesterday afternoon. Mr..
Huntley. who had one of the prlnci-
pal roles in the performance. was not
feeling well before the holiday mat
inee started. Heart disease was the
cause of his death.
His widow, known on the stage as
Maude Fox, is playing in the same
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CHARGE |NSAN|TARy
WORK CONDITIONS
Congressional Commission
Discusses Situation in
Some Departments.
WOMEN ARE INSISTENT

Charges of insanitary conditions in
several governmental department
buildings were considered today at a
meeting Of the advisory committee on
employment policy of the joint con-
sresslonal commission on recla ssiflca-
tion OF salaries in the District.
Woman members of the advisory
committee on employment policy are
determined tnat every worker in the
federal service, including every one
of the 10000 federal and District
workers who come under the jurisdic-
tion of the Redistribution commits
sion, snail have an absolutely clean
and sanitary place to work in.
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Advocates General Increases.

General increase in the salaries of.
first-class postmasters of the country
was advocated by a delegation of
postmasters from the larger cities rof
the country who appeared before the
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| joint congressional commission on
| postal salaries today.
Colin NJ. Selph, postmaster of St
| Louis. who is president of the National
Association of Postmasters. presented
the plea to the postal ommission.
which is headed by Senator Bankhead.
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Complaints Have Been Made.

Sanitary conditions in several of the
departments. it has been reported to
the reclassification commission, are
not quite what they ought to be. The
great majority of the 10000 federal
workers in the District are women, it
is pointed out.
Sessions of the advisory committee
on employment policy, with Edward
keatinS, secretary of the reclassifica =
tion commission, presiding, were held
this morning and afternoon, and a
third session is to be held tonight.
subcommittee will be appointed to-
night to consider specifically the
charge above named. and many other
questions affecting the life of the gov
ernment employe here. These subcom-
mittees Will prepare reports to pc
made to the committee on employment
policy at the end of two weeks.
Questions Discussed.
Training Of government employees
for the work they have to do for Uncle
Sam: abuse of annual sick leave
privileges granted government clerks
all questions of promotion, and the
advisability of proper retirement
system -or superannuated government
employees, were among the Questions
considered by the advisory committee
on employment policy.
Secretary Keating of the commission
Evening star., 1919-10-14

Stricken with paralysis, Albert
Brooks, aged seventy-two. of Man
dan. n, D.. called the states attorney
to his Bedside yesterday and confessed
he had killed his wife in Columbus
Ohio, twenty-five years ago
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company and pluckily continued in
her role to the end OF the performance
Mr.. Huntley's homo was in Chicago.
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CLASSES C|TYP. 0.
AMONG LARGEST
Malcolm KerIin Tells Salary
Commission of Huge Busi-
ness Handled Here.
rs PER CENT FREE MAIL
rs PER CENT FREE MAIL

Why the Washington city post office
should be classed with the post offices
of New York Chicago and the other
/ great cities of the country. thereby
! allowing its postmaster a salary such
as is granted the postmasters of the
! larger cities, was explained by NAL
colin kerlin. assistant postmaster, at
| the hearing held today in the Senate
| office building for presidential post
masters of the country. Postmasters
| of many large cities appeared before
| the joint congressional commission on
! postal salaries.
The quantity of mail handled by the
Washington city post office which is
not revenue producing is much great
| er than that on which postage is paid,
Mr.. kerlin explained to Senator Bank
head and other members of the. postal
salaries commission. Any salary call
culation based upon the receipts of
the Washington office. therefore. he
continued. does not furnish a fair.
just and equitable basis for the de-
termination of the salary of the post
master nor the supervisory officials
Clearing House for South.
The Washington office is the medi-
um for the distribution of not only
the official correspondence and print
ed matter of the government. Mr..
Kerlin stated. but also all kinds of
governmental business. The Wash
ington office is also a clearing house
or terminal office for the distribution
of circular and parcel post mail for
certain southern states
Assuming that only 15 per cent of
the mail handled by the local post Of
flee today is what is known as free
mall" Mr.. kerlin declared then the
annual receipts for 1919 of s3.755,-
S12.90 represent but % per cent of the
matter handled in the Washington
post office, and the receipts of the Of
fee would have been four times as
great. or S15,n23. 3.251.60. Report of the
Postmaster General for 1907 showed
that the government departments here
furnish about II per cent of the busi-
ness of the Washington city post Of
flee.
Weighing of free mail was discon-
tinued in 1917. Mr.. kerlin said. hence
no exact information is available for
present conditions. following the ex
pansion of government business with
the war, but it is conservatively es-
timated that 100000 pounds. or 100
tons of free mail pass through the
Washington office daily.
1T is not believed that pre-war con-
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The Erotic Motive

The application of the Freudian
theory of dreams to the Interpretation
and explanation of literature is the
subject OF an arresting book by Albert
Mordel. He calls it "The Erotic Mo-
tive in Literature. and he processes
to find in most unexpected quarters
revelations of sex motive and sex SYM
bolism.
Longfellow and Browning, not usu-
ally regarded as eroticists, Mr.. Nor
dell tells us were influenced even more
than they knew by their sex life In
what they wrote and the way they
wrote it. "How they brought the good
news from Ghent to AK" for example,
ne says is an erotic poem. His ex-
planation of this is found in his theory
that literature is a personal voice,
the source Of which can be traced to the
unconscious. He says that we have
even the most bestial instincts in a
rudimentary stage and that they arc
revived. to our surprise, not only in
our dreams, but in our waking thoughts
and also occasionally in our conduct.
The sediment of this primitive life
appears in many books without the au-
thor being aware of the fact, and thus
deterministic influence prevails in
literature" Mr.. Mordell elaborates his
theory with examples from many liter
atures. Whether one agrees with him
or not his book will be fascinating
TO the student of psychology.
THE ERoTIC MOTIVE N LITERATURE,
TIveSlaSt nl,9Sstt ST. STE T5 :.
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ATHLETES ALL
Walter Camp Writes Excellent
Book on Value of athletics

Walter Camp adds another epistle
to his gospels of the healthy life in
"Athletes AL" This book is far more
than mere plea for athleticism. Ex-
ercises. gymnastics. gamPs-nll that are
expressed or connoted In the embracive
term athletics s'-are as Mr.. Camp has
indicated on many occasions. not the
goal itself. but solely the varied and
efficient means to be employed toward
achieving a desired and highly desirable
end. To his mind too. formal. and
by that token. somewhat lifeless move
ments and itPrations. however important
they may be in making or developing
muscle, are not the most valuable
agencies for physical betterment. There
fore he stresses the value of group par
ticipation in games. etc, and the value
of the great outdoors as an environ =
ment. However. he does not disdain
giving informative instructions in va
rious sorts of exercises. He also eX e
plains the organization of athletics in
schools, clubs and other community
groups. He advocates. heartily. partici
patton in health giving recreation OF
business and professional men and other
workers. even or more strictly speaking
especialy when they have passed the
flush of youth This book is an ex-
cellent preachment on the sound body
as a setting for the 'sound mind but
it is never preachy.
ATJI ETES ALL. BY Walter Camp New
York: Charles Scrbner's Sons. $3.50.
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PIONEERING ROMANCE
"The Year Between" Runs Its
Length in Fiction From Aus-
traIia to Gallipoli

Doris Egerton Jones has written an
interesting novel in '"The Year Re-
tween" The title is symbolical of the
ripening in life's ways and in expert
rnce of life of particularly appealing
heroine and the fruition of love which
succeeds the burgeoning of romance.
January Ellice. even at the middle
teens age at which she is introduced,
is a vivacious. witching little body. She
is waif of the Australian bush. In
II gold camp of West Australia she mar
ries rakish young mining engineer, and
her portion instead of being the joy
aunce Of youth, is trial and sorrow. Ro :
nance comes into her difficult existence
through the glowing personality of John
Beresford. n good deal older than Jan
uary. whose love for her is great, but
is exceeded by his sense Of honor. He
will not match his worldly knowledge
and sophistication against her imma :
turity in the worlds ways and her
naivete of temperament. He, goes to
war with the Anzacs and wins distinc
tion at Gallipoli.
His return to Australia brings real
love at last into January's life. Her
tangled matrimonial skeins are un
raveled, and Bercsford is happily woven
into the fabric of her future.
& Co. 81. so.
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ANCIENT AND MODERN PEACE PLANS CURRENT FICTION
VESTED INTERESTS
"PSYCHOANALYZED'
Thorstein VebIen Gets Under
the Skin and Into the
Spirit in Treatise

A long time ago some epigramStist
observed that corporations had no heart
to be touched and no soul to be damned.
to which colleague added, no place to
be kicked. Brand Whitlock, in one of
his most admirable stories, Fowler
Brunton. Attorney at Law" concluded
that corporations were all mind, and
80 they must perforce have a psychology.
The corporation, as an abstraction, is a
sort of intellectual creation built by
legal Frankensteins out of the original
eighteen fine printed pages which suf-
feed Blackstone to set forth the be-
all and end,cll of the body corporate as
he understood it. Those few pages have
bred whole law libraries. to say moth
ing of endless volumes of statutes.
Thorstein Veblen. liberal, has psyche
analysed corporations as part of THE
Vested Interests" under which title is
collected his papers in ''The Dial" on
THE Modern Point of View and the
New Order" The book publication
permits expatiation on some points. The
original papers follow the argument of
series of lectures delivered at Amherst.
The scope of the volume is shown in
few words of the author: This vol
ume shows how and why discrepancy
mas arisen between those accepted prin
clples of law and custom that underlie
business enterprise and the businesslike
management of industry, on the one
hand and the material conditions which
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-23
S4CKVILLE VESTS
SPANISH ROMANCE
Used as the Basis of a NoDel on
Heredity by a Member of
His Family

- "rS' plush one would say that
s"ere was no more unpromising theme
Io' novel than an examination of the
Worklhg out of the Mrndcllian law of
n'redltN. But after little reflection
'ne experienced novel reader would con
riude that it would all depend on how
'.ie 'hlne was done A writer with tho
S'"r' 'l"lllng gift can make n fascinating
t",e out OF any human relations.
Inc Honorable Mrs Harold Nirhol-
SON writing under the name of V. Sack
Nllie West. has proved that she has the
story telling gift and that she can make
even the Mcndcllinn law interesting
Wheh 1t nncrntrs uuon human tcmppra
mrnt. Heritage. her first novel. is
told with such literary art that II is
dlmcult to believe it is her first attemnt
lt Is the story of the descendants of a
Snanish gypsy dancer who married an
Engishmnn. Now Lionel Snckvilp
West. who was British minister to
Washington under President Cleveland.
had an affair with n Spanish dancer
when he was secretary of legation in
Madrid The dancer bore four children
to him. and V. Sackvillc West. who has
written Heritage" is of tho family
with the Spanish strain. Tho story Of
tho family scandal will occur Mt once
to every informed EngIshman who reads
the book and to many Americans This
will give the tale fOrtuitous interest.
| But il docs not need any such help.
Ruth PcnniStan. the heroine, great
granddaughter Of the Spanish gypsy. is
an English farmers daughter. She
| looks like n Standard and iuherits a
Spanish temperament. tempered by her
| English blood. Mrs. Nicholson tells
how shc falls in love with an English
man. who loves her but does not know
it. She is finally driven by her temper
nmcnt to marry n cousin. who also has
the Spanish blood The man abuses her
and she tries TO kill him. Then he
grove afraid of hcr pnd runs awav. and
the Englshmnn whom she loved. who
has in the meantime discovered that he
loves her returns and the lovers are
united. There is much in the story
about the Mcndcllian law. according to
which family traits appear and disap-
pear with regularity. but it does not
Interfere with the progress of tho mar
rativc. The scene of the story is laid in
Snnin. in the English farming country.
in EphcSus and in London. Mrs. Mich .
olson has drawn her characters with
sympathy and has made them live. and
she has told her story with a sense of
nroportiOu and artistic values which is
rare.
HERTTAGE Ry V Sackvle West. New
York: George II. Doran Company. 81
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COMEDY ,
IN 4 BOUND BOOK
Wallace Ir,Uin Shows HotU
Much Better IL Is to Be Rich
Than to Be an Orator

What girl did to man to prevent
him from becoming an orator Is the
theme of Wallace Irwin's screaming
burlesquc, 'The Blooming Angel" The
girl is a young woman who knows her
own mind and knows also how to make
other people do what she wishes. She
begins by rescuing the man, a bashful
youth, from the wiles of mature spin
ster who had drilled him in clocution
till he had taken prizes in college and
was about to take her in wedlock.
The blooming angel marries him out
of hand. Then she makes him presi-
dent of complexion beautifying com
pany. Then when advertising is needed
she paints an elephant pink and paradrS
it through the streets of San Francisco.
The elephant faints. Its heart is weak
anyway. And the society organized to
protect helpless animals has the youth
arrested for cruelty. The wife smiles
at the judge and secures his release.
Then she smiles at him some more and
obtains loan to float the company over
its financial embarrassment.
Then she takes her husband TO New
York and to please him arranges a testi-
monial dinner at which he is to make
speech. but she prevents him from
making the speech by having n lot of
golden rod on the table in front Of
him. and the flowers give him ar acute
attack of hay fever. And, finally. she
takes him to Bohemian restaurant
where an orator prcsides at dinner at
which the patrons of the restaurant
make speeches. The orator is a dis
barred lawyer who begs his friends for
drinks. and, as it turns out, he is the
man whom the girl who was to make
the hero an orator married.
When the hero sees what oratory leads
to he is at last content with his career
as the millionaire manufacturer of n
complexion cream. The story is slap
stick comedy. hut is none the less
amusing on that account.
THE BLOOMING. ANGEL" BY Wallace, lr-
win. New York: George H. Doran Com
pany 81 80.
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SheHey's Elopen,ent

Alexander Harvey, the we'll known
literary critic. retells in a fascinating
way the romantic tale of Mary wolls-
toncroft Godwin's relations with the
poet of the skylark. the west wind and
the cloud in ..'shelley's Elopement. -
The other side of the story-the sordid
side--for desertion is not romantic, even
though 1t leads to lyric elopement, 1,
told in Mark Twain's essay on Harriet
Westbrook. Mr.. Harvey makes analysis
and Interpretation of Shelley, Mary
Goodwin and her father, William God
win. He has given at least an inter
esting view of the difficulties and ire
sponsibilities of the artistic tempera
ment.
sHELLEYs ELoPEMENT. BY, Aiexande,
Harvey. New York: Alfred Knopf 32
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-23
THE SUBMARINE
AND ITS ENEMIES
Sir Henry Newboh Describes
Its Euolution and It's
Use in Warfare

IL is somewhat far cry from an
authoritative work on the substance
and structure Of poetry, such as Sir
Henry Ncwbolt. regius professor of
poetry at Oxford. recently wrote. to n
popular account of the submarine and
submarine warfare such as he presents
in Submarine and Anti Submarine -
Yet the distinction Of the writer's style.
the imaginative flavor of it. and his
skilled literary craftsmanship. cspC-
cially his sclPCtivc faculty. make thi,,
popular book worthy tn stand on the
shelf with his scholarly work on poetry
Sir Henry's association with the sea
is. of course. of no recent dating
Probably score of years have passed
since he wrot" his stirring and notable
salt water and naval ballads Since
the war he has written several inter
osting books Interpreting the naval and
military side of the great conflict. of
which "The Book of the Thin Red
Line and 'Thc Book Of the Blue Sea
have had great success.
His book on the submarine belongs
TO this class. lie gives short but
sufficient account of the historical de
vHlopm"nt of the submarine. from
Rushnclls Turtle and Fulton's Nauti-
lus to the inventions Of Lake. ITotch-
kiss. Woodhousc. Garrett. Bcrkley and
others. Incidentally he puts QuictuS
on the German claim that the T-boat
was the product of German ingenuity
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-23
ropAYs MARRIAGE LICENSES

Charles f. Packer 2G22 s.; Jessup st, and
LiIlag smID RSfgfss 2SsS s. Jess%D s .DDs
Henry /. sSHsTSs5 @sISsr "a ga and Gladstone
RfhHFS E. sohsnss r. Miller rSsss 4STss:oy Pa Pa" and Lillian
cf45Iss Esn Ss ID 3 FssnRS%ss %Ga
Jack R. silysrs s66 n; 9TH ST. and Ethel
1aSss Ssss: e. A4%s!sons SPTsfs st. 1900 n 2s,n st.
JoSS KsSs5 ;%sS seii e s;S A St. and csssa
yossSS ssSf" Ssyckas ssIs E%sry lis s wharton and
AfssSss G GfsSSss' 5s;s @ @ssss Aaa.on St and
Mary A xaash' ss Cedar lane. " ,11
pfxia Misen 9Ss 9Ss Betnscn @ %Sore st, st. and Ida
TTSssls MsSs + sesM:Tisa siS s'%:H I St
Rshsr9 sSs n 2resHo g wss Gssf Nwksf sS
Nathan Vtna,I roiqsd and, tlS Goth st, and Sarah
GeoFse sHRs s. zs[rcR 1881 cfSSR SussRs iy
and Gertrude e. shauEhneSsy, 1910 Mas
Howard r. stsinmstE, ss24 n paEisn st.
FredsricE s S' K. Helm. sss woodiswn M ave ave-. and
Ruth lockwood, SIs wister st.
IoSF %a.I IiaiRs"S fgss ssSs ssS Ann st. and Marie
RichardY, c. Walk ins. Browns Mills, n. j.,
and Helen McFeely, 1902 Master st,
John j. Dcnning 27l4 TatOna ST., and Mary
McCann. 27i2 Latona st.
Albert Isozard. Perkasie. Pa. and Frances
NJ. Albreeht, Perkasie, Pa,
Bridget MeGlinn, 5O2 ". 18th st,
WIs:S EIsssfS 4 $$s!sy %
Peter NS J. Ward Ward. issa hE piekinson St. and
Daniel 4, ,peyinHss; ?oi6 Morris st. and Jane
William u, shultz 26os r. Cumberland st.
and Hlida g Everett. Willow Grove. Pa.
Ekther y. Hogan, Torresdaie. Pa,
James y. Wilson. l022 Rerks st., and Fannie
r. Dent. 1922 Berks At,
Roswel! o. y. Garland. ff2i Arch st:. and
cIandina heelord. gall Lamaerl q.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-23
2 HELD IN STATION ROBBERY
Youths Said to Have Confessed
Theft In Norristown

Two youths, held responsible for the
robbery of the East Falls station on the
Norristown branch Of the Philadelphia
and Reading Railway last Tuesday, were
arrested at their homes in Germantown
and will be arraigned for n hearing to-
day before Magistrate Price.
The prisoners are Thomas Flanagan,
twenty years old, former operator for
the railroad, of Chclten avenue and
Sprague street, and James Murphy,
seventeen years old, of Ashmead and
Sheldon streets. They were arrested by
Detectives Swartz and O'Donnell.
Murphy, according to the police, re-
ceived $1O.5O for his share in the rob-
berry in which $24 and some checks were
stolen. With his share he is said to
have purchased So cap, SO pair of
shoes and two pairs of socks and a
necktie.
Flanagan is said to have entered the
station during the absence of the agent
and taken the money while Murphy
remained outside on watch. The checks
were found buried in a vacant lot. The
robbery occurred between IL o'clock and
midnight.
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Hedvy-Handed Satire

"Rollo's Journey to Washington" is
by no means an up-to- date Jacob Alb
bott tour to the national capital, al :
though the author, Richard d. Ware,
has named some of the characters after
the celebrated figures in the old fash =
ioned Rollo books and the artist, Robert
Seaver, has drawn some clever woodcuts
of antique design. But the illustra ;
tions are the chief cleverness of the
book. which is a heavy handed and
often l.natured satire ut the expense OF
the President, the administration and
war workers in Washington. Mr.. Ware
is no Swift or even Finley Dunno or
George AIDE.
ny Richard D, Ware. Boston, PAGE com,
pany, M
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HIGHWAYMEN SHOOT MAN
Former Roxboroush Resident Victim
Of Hold-Up

Henry NJ. Phillips. thirty seven years
old. former resident OF Koxborough, is
in st. Joseph's Hospital. Reading, in
a serious condition as a result of being
yesterday.
He was shot in the right knee by n
much blood in being rushed to the hos
pital that the doctors say his recovery
is doubtful.
Phillips, who was employed recently
at the Lee Tire Company plant, was
on the cast side of Mount Penn, east
of the Engleman Reservoir Park, when
the two bandits came from the trees
and ordered him to put his hands up.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-23

MRS. s. sTIDFoLE lived most of her live
in Mount Holly. She has lived in Had
dontield fifteen years. She is the mother
of thirteen children, seven of whom are
still living.
She is a member of the Haddonfeld
Methodist Protestant Church. the pastor
of which made an address at her cele-
bration today.