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Insulted by Pro-Germans.

1t would seem incredible that. at
this time, members of the Red Cross
say. that solicitor for the Ped Cross
than politely by any resident of the
District of Columbia. or the whole
country, for that matter. Yet one of
the workers. reports that in covering
the block on goth street between NJ
and N streets northwest she met with
apparently violent pro-German senti-
ments and was insulted by the occu-
pants OF The house whom she asked
to Join. She left the place in tears
The Reed boys, all of whom are ambu-
latory patient. have volunteered and
guaranteed to see that there are no
occurrences OF this incident Mrs c.
d. Carter, captain of the Red Cross
motor corps, has arranged for their
transportation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-04

Nebraska to Frame Constitution.
lection of delegates to a constitutional
convention was the only statewide
proposition before Nebraska voters
today. The city OF Lincoln voted on
municipal operation OF the street car
lines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-04

amendment The republicans favored
submitting it to the Legislature for
adoption or rejection, while the demo.
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-04

While It is still little too early in
the drive to obtain reports from the
division leaders, Thomas Bell Sweeney,
chairman OF the local campaign. an
nounoes that he is highly encouraged
by the spirit IN which the .canvassers
have tackled their jobs. and If the
Districts quota in the drive. which
Is scheduled to end armistice day,
November IL, Is not completed wen
before that date. II win not be their
fault.
Miss Alys Downing reported to cam
paign headquarters. 1719 H street. this
morning that her team had enrolled
500 members yesterday, and expect ed
rs many more today.
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Edgar Lee Masters Explains

Il DGAR LEE MASTERS, being
IL asked by Books and the Book
World for an explanation of Mac
millan's announcement that D0mes-
day Book, announced for publication
this fall, would be held over indef-
nitely, says:
"DomeSddy Book is constructed
around a skeletal schemeJ that is I'M
like anything else, and gives me the
opportunity at last to say all | have
to say about most things in this life
For some years / was looking for a
form to build around, and so to use
the material I had accumulated and
which needed the right plot and ma
chinery. You have Boecaecio for a
scheme and Chaucer and The Ring
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Several Women Novelists, One a Victorian

as something wider and nobler than .
stage setting for her own pessimism.
Nevertheless | do believe there IS
something that Lucas Malet could
teach her. The story of Damaris is q
little absurd in itself and very absurd
indeed in its telling, but it has been
felt, lived with, dwelt upon, loved and
shared in by its creator. | do not
know how long Lucas Malet gave to
the composition of Damaris and this
new sequel, but l think that she must
have known her heroine for many
month before she began to write about
her. How long has Miss Kaye-Smith
known her Moneypennyf Her town,
yes-that has been in her heart,
verify believe, since the day of her
birth-but a novel must give us more
than atmosphere; it must give US .
crowd Of created human beings walk.
ing in the world as God has made it
and as the author has seen it.
The way to create those human be-
ings is to believe in them rather than
ones self, to live with them, watch
them, love them, know far more about
them than one will ever tell. When
all is said that is an art l believe that
the old novelists knew better than do
the new. HUGH WALPoIE.
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A London Letter From
Hugh Walp0le
in America.
Copyright, 1919. Al rights reserved
in porico

sort Of solidity, a kind of thickness
that the novel of the twentieth cen
fury almost always missesi
Not always. Forsterk Houard's
End had it, Lawrence Sons and
Lovers had it, The Old Wives Tale,
Tono- Bungay and Nostromo most
marvellously had it. But these new
novels that we are asked so Justify to
praise-the Dorothy Richardson's,
the James Joyces, the Rebeeca Vests
and the rest-do we remember any
thing about them a year after we read
them except their possible truth to a
life so ephemeral that no one could
possibly grasp itf Sheila Kaye
Smith is not with these-she has
something fundamental and perma-
nent in her view Of life. She is crea-
tive. She is concerned with other his
tories beside her own. She sees life
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ated, no figure caricatured and, In the
image of the old Sussex town, first
beautiful in its retiresent, then col
ored with its assemblies and resorts
and fashion, then ruined and hideous
and broken with its piers and bands
and niggers, picture, symbol that
will live with the reader forever.
Indeed, whether the modern critic
will have this year or next better
thesis for the advance of the English
novel than TamdriSk T0Un l doubt.
| have said for long time past, and
1 have the greatest pleasure in saying
it again, that Sheila Kaye-Smith is, in
my opinion, with May Sinclair, Edith
Wharton and Ethel Sidgewick, one of
the four best women nOvelists we
have. Indeed l am not at all sure
whether just now she is not our best
woman novelist. She has a fine body
of work behind her now, beginning
with The Tramping Methodist, pub
lished ten years ago; she has scarcely
ever fallen from her own high stand
ard, and SUSSEX Lore, StGrbrGce, lat
tie England and this new book are
among the very finest Of our modern
novels. She makes, then, an even bet
ter opposition to Lucas Malet than
does Bohun Lynch, who is still in a
stage of most admirable, if provoca-
tive, apprenticeship.
There remains this question: Why,
when Deadhdm Hard and TGmGrSSk
TO,Cn have both been read and a year
has passed since that reading, is it
probable that one reader, at any rate,
will remember Lucas Malet's prepos-
ferrous Colonel and unnatural Da-
maris and exaggerated Henrietta and
will retain as the mereSt ghostfy Wis
itants the colored shadows of Money
penny and Morgan, the unhappy
lovers of Tamarisk ToUnf Can it be
that the bad old Victorian novel has
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and the Book. / did not want to use
anything that had been used before.
At last l originated the machinery
and began to write. in September,
1918. The book went rapidly for
ward and became as long as Paradise
Lost, written in iambic pentameter.
No sooner had the manuscript left my
hands than many things came to me
by which / could enrich it. And by
the time Macmillan announced its
publication my mind was so full Of
additional ideas respecting it that to
allow it to be published without the
development of these things was out
Of the question. This book has been
a growth and will be so until it leaves
my hands for good. / shall not be In
haste about publishing this book.
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"The New Days" Lark

the vernacular, will be "all dressed
up with nowhere to CO." In this new
day, when the scarlet lady, or the
pink lady, takes a fancy to you-the
world belonging to the Young-you
console yourself with her until you
become inconsolable. This may 60 on
indefinitely. You will not love your
country; you will love humanity. That
is, you will talk about loving human
ity. You will be a child Of love, but
yon will probably produce no other
children because the Old may make
cruel wars arise which will be bad
for the nerves of the future. You will
not take the trouble to know anything
Of the past, nor of the complications
which make wars possible. You will
simply blame everything on the Old,
indulge your vices or your passions
whenever you can do it in accordance
with your canons Of taste, and rejoice
In the illusion that you see life clearly.
1t is no doubt true that war i'm
proves the good and makes the bad
worse; and the best we can say of
it does not take away its immeasur-
able evil. Yet, after all, it encourages
the robust virtues-the virtues of the
Romans; these people seem to be in
caple Of Roman virtue. But interest
ing as they are-and Mr.. Canaan
visualizes them well-no war could
do anything better for the good of
society than wipe out most of the
principal persons whom Mr.. Canaan
delights to honor by writing about
them IN Pink Roses.
MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN.
PINK ROSES. By GILBERT CANAAN. George
II. Doran Company.
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Continued from First PG0e.

Continued from First PG1e.
the direction in which | should move.
But it's an odd thing to happen to
man, isn't it,"
The substance of the expression of
this rather nebulous creed is, as Ire
vor says: 81 am member of human
ity, a child of love and an inheritor
of the kingdom of my soul. y
Hark, tits the New Day. And is
not Mr.. Canaan, or. Mr.. Trevor
Mathew, the lark? 1t seems, from
"Pink Roses, to be a rather ordinary
day, in which everybody, to drop into
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-11-02

THE first products of the autumn
L publishing season have been .
bunch Of novels, and these novels
have by happy coincidence offered
very pleasant contrast in the litera-
ture of yesterday and to-day. l don t
think that Lucas Malet would like to
be called yesterday" and to do so is
perhaps a very poor compliment to
the lovely vigor of her new book,
Deadham Hard; nevertheless 1 am
not at all sure whether it is not after
all compliment.
The point of distinction is this
that Deadhdm Hard might without
changing a syllable of it have been
written thirty years ago. 1t is equally
certain that twenty years ago could
not have seen single page of either
Sheila Kaye-Smith s Tamarisk ToWn
or Bohun Lynch's The Tender Con-
science as they are here written. A
modern critic of Deadham Hard could
say very easily (some critics have al
ready said) that there is not one of
its 500 pages that is not in one way or
another false to life and human ma
ture, that the dialogue is absurd, that
an elderly colonel who calls his young
beloved "sweet witch" in every third
sentence is intolerable and not to be
borne, that the curates and the~old
maids and governesses are mid-Victo-
rian conventions, and that the whole
book is hodge podge of Trollope and
Ouida and Syp, earicature of life
as we know it.
He will say on the other side that
Bohun Lynch is excellent. Here is
specimen of the new novel that we
ought all to be engaged in welcoming.
The dialogue is perfectly natural, the
characters human and alive, atmos-
phere slight but sufficient, motive
novel and interesting The modern
critic, if he passes OH to Miss Kaye
Smiths Tamarisk T0wn, will have
yet more vehement reasons for damn
ing poor Deadham Hard. Here is a
really admirable book-here is atmos-
phere true and strong and beautiful.
Here is a real style, with words right
ly chosen and a poets spirit in form
ing them. Here is no type exagger-
Evening star., 1919-09-28

10 estimated that practically al omcers
without additional incomes other than
pay-Are in debt, and only q hope
that the country win pun them through
by enacting some such legislation az
thas proposed bill now before Congress.
BY way Of comparison. It is pointed
out that the average railroad freight
engineer gets q very much larger salary
thsn the average Of naval officers. The
engineer is now receiving $4,700 a year.
against the pay Of naval officers. $1.700
to $1,000. The steel workers Of all
classes are getting an average Of $4,000
a year. And the latter have not been
SO extensively educated aS the naval
officers, and are consequently not htted
as the latter are to fill far moro lucra-
tive places
It is pointed out that while the. Navy
pay rates have not been increased since
1908 the pay Of railroad men OF all
classes has been increased 1l0 per cent
and the steel men 160 per cent, Jn-
cidentally the pay Of officers OF the
British navy has been increased by the
English parliament TIL per cent since
the outbreak Of the world war.
Evening star., 1919-09-28
PAY OF NAVAL SERVICE
NOT UP TO H. c. OF /.
Compensation Has Remained Sta.
tionary for Twelve Years-one
Small Increase Since 1899.

That the pay Of the naval service has
remained stationary foR almost twelve
years, during which period the cost Of
living has climbed to heights undreamed
Of. and calls for prompt remedial ac-
ton by Congress. is the opinion Of naval
officers who arc giving this matter seri-
Gus attention at this time. Only once
has Congress increased the pay Of the
Army and Navy Of the United States
since March 3, 1899. and then only to a
small degree. This occurred on May
13, 1908, when officers and men of the
service received 10 per cent addition
to their pay.
Considerable interest is being mani
Tested in II. r. bill 1904, which has al
ready been introduced. giving a 30 per
cent increase to officers and so per cent
to enlisted men. This bill is strongly
favored by those in the naval service
1t Is known fact that the total of the
designations of Army and Navy officers
of the permanent service to be acted
on by the secretaries of the Army and
Navy has created such an alarming
situation that no acceptances are being
made despite incessant appeals for re-
lief.
There exists at this time a great re-
luctance on the part of the officials
charged with the discipline of the Army
and Navy to court-martial officers for
debt A large percentage-in fact, it
Evening star., 1919-09-28
ORDERS INVESTIGATION
oF5u,..s. SUGAR SHORTAGE

withouts dehats the Senate yesterday
adopted =, resolution by Senator New.
republican,. Indiana. authorisins the
agricultural committee to investigate
the present sugar shortage and to de-
termine whether LEGISLATION to penalize
spectators is necessary. =
Senator New said that owing TO
Americans had made contracts for the
new Cuban crop and that beet sugar
refiners we're asking III cents q
pound for .beet tugar:
exhausted in four weeks. "ssaid ;Sena-
tor New, rand refiners will be ont of
sugar by November, resulting in a
sugar famine for the entire eastern
half Of the country" - - -
Evening star., 1919-09-28
THE, WEATHER..

District of Columbia and Maryland
Fair and warmer today; tomorrow
fair, gentle shifting winds becoming
southn.x
Eirginia-Fair today. warmer in the
ipxerior: tomorrow fair and warmer
iHl.southeast portion moderate north
edit to southeast winds.
Mest virginia-Fair today; tomor-
row fair and cooler.
Yesterdays Temperatures.
Midnight, 81: am. 53; 4 am. 81;
a-m..sts: a-m,; ~; 10 am, So; IL
noons e4s pm, 81; pm, 6s: 9 pm.
81: pm. so; 10 pm, IS. Highest
ss: lowest, 4S.
Relative humidity-s am, 50: 2 pm.
50: Pm. 72.
Rai1RaQ Is r.m. to p.m-), 0.
& Houl1 1of sunshine, 12.Q.
8 Percent 81 possible sunshine, fee.
Departures.
Accumulated excess or deficiency Of.
4npersture since January l. 1919
Excess or deficiency Of temperature
inea aaptember 1. 1918, asa.
AEBUnlat1d exceBs Or deficiency N
~ snsiea ana Jsnusr1-sasf
8Eress or deficiency Of precipitation
nfdSS September I. 1919. -1.56.
36eAperature same date last year
H1efest. es: lowest. 4s.
mi Tide Tables.
{E65&piled by United States coast and
ga. geodetic survey
tide, e:02 am. and 6:12'
RsssS high tide. 11:4o am and 1133
71lhorrow-Low tide. Sat am. and
1:f4s m: high tide. 1921 pm.
III! The Sun and Moon. &
2Say-sun rose. am: sun sets.
1{Sorrow-sun rises 7:o1 am; sun.
sn rises. 11:is am; sets. $40
lfiomobile lamps to be lighted one-s
shG&fhour after sunset.
.:s s.s Up-River Waters.
DispateA 70 The Star.
G HGRPERS FERRY, W.. Va, Septenn-
&efss2H-Potomac and Shenandoah
xdv3sfS both clear this afternoon.
1fSaperatures in Various Cities.
Evening star., 1919-09-28
COZ. SETTLE TO. RETIRE.
Physically Disqualified and Order
= ed to Proceed to His Home. NJ

Lieut.. Col Douglas Settle, United
States infantry, recently stationed at
Topeka. Kan. having been found
DISQUALIFIED for promotion.
has been ordered to proceed to- his
home to await retirement. h = -
A native Of North Carolina, he was
graduated from the United States
Military Academy in June, 1891.
With the exception Of service in
the adjutant generals department of
the volunteer army during the Span
ish war, his entire service has been in
the infantry arm. He has held the
rank Of lieutenant colonel since May,
1917 >" ~ "
Evening star., 1919-09-28
nY MAJ. ERNEsr ). swtFr.


.---Commission to Montenegro.
Some one has described Montenegro
I'd '.sound-proof country" the
ni1untains being an effectual barrier
shutting out the outcries of misery
that come from within. Late in De-
cenber. 1918. however, the American
Red Cross, its ears attuned. heard
M1ntenegro'S appeal for help and
sent thirty American men and women
with a shipload Of supplies to the
quaint little town Of Cattaro. just out
like nx5m sentinels between Monte
negre apd the sea
ii Demoralized by Occupation.
INSIDE the row Of mountains. topped
by.Mount Loygon, 40O. 900 ragged peo-
pie, struggling against starvation
and disease, had been left by the re-
trea ting Austrians to shift for them
selves. Months on months Of enemy
oceupation. adding thousands OF
country and so completely demoral-
lied Tie economic structure that the
conn[X was helpless to assist its peo-
Pile. -,
During the months of hard, grill
ink work that followed, the Ameri-
can Red Cross. distributed hundreds
of tons OF food and clothing and treated
10000 persons in four dispensaries;
seven Of which were established and
equipped In cities where no hospitals
existed.
A battalion of the 332d Infantry. U.
8. A., q part of the army of occupa-
tion, following on the heels of the Aus
TRANS. had been given the post OF
honor in Montenegro and Cattaro. This
organization was doing its best to en-
courage the people, although the lack
of srations was of serious concern to
the battalion. Soon after the arrival
of the American Red Cross came the
Ameracrn relief administration with q
shipload Of flour. To these American
agencies belongs, In large measure.
credit for the victory against starva-
tion in Montenegro.
~
Shell of Hospital Found.
The first American automobile to
climb the crooked road into interior
Evening star., 1919-09-28
'''WIRE" CONFERENCE
DECISION IS DEFERRED

President wilson's request for au-
thority from Congress to call an in.
ternational conference here next
month on telegraph. cable and wire
less COMMUNICATION was considered
yesterday, by the Senate foreign re-
lations committee. but action was de-
.ferred until additional information as
to the purposes OF the conference can
be obtained from the State Depart
ment. = =
!. The holding of the cohferences was
agreed upon by the big hve" at Paris
during discussion Of the disposition Of
German ,cah1es.f, 81 ~ =
Evening star., 1919-09-28
Goes to Study Grasses Of Guiana.

Prof. A. 8. Hitchcock. systematic
agrostologist in the United States bu-
reau Of plant industry. has sailed for
British Guiana to study the grasses Of
that country. He will return in about
four months. The work is to be done
in cooperation with the New York
botanical garden and the Gray her
barium.
Evening star., 1919-09-28
WILL SHOW WAR PHOTOS.
Sixty Enlargements to Be Exhibit
ed at House Office Building.

Sixty enlargements of photographs
taken overseas by, the Signal Corps
will be put on. exhibition in the
caucus room Of the House Office build
ing Wednesday. The exhibition will
continue for a week or ten days.
One Of tie enlargements is eight
feet by ten feet in size. and the others
grade down in size from the big one.
All the activities of the doughboys
life in the trenches and warfare as
it was in France, including views of
air warfare, will be shown at the
Evening star., 1919-09-28
:tfers to ..itary Director.

1Aaj. Gen. ". Z. Gorgas, formerly
suigeon general, U. 8. A.. who has
bean. Investigating sanitary mat
ferH: in Central and South America,
has, It is said. offered to assume tech
nipAi dictatorship Of tho sanitation Of
0Anyaqujl. Ecuador. provided the
N14ey Tor the work IL supplied by the
1n6alcipality or the republic. At the
fe41est Of Peruvian authorities, Gen.
Gorga Is about to proceed to Piura,
which infected With the yellow
8ever@>
Evening star., 1919-09-28
Greenlee Resigns Chemistry Post.

A. D. Green4ee, formerly assistant
chemist with the food research labo-
ratory, United States. bureau Of chem
istry, and, during the period Of the
war, specialist in poultry handling for
the same bureau, with an Office at the
field station. Indianapolis, has resigned
from this position to become president,
of the newly organized Greenlee Prod
ucts Company at st. Louis.
Evening star., 1919-09-28
How to, Make Arrows.
nv GRANr NJ uvnE

What makes rine bullet go SO
straight?
1t is the ''rifling'' or spiral grooves
inside the barrel. This gives the bull
let whirling motion that keeps it
In a straight line. Fig. 4 shows how
to- make the feathers do the same
thing for an arrow.
Make a big bunch Of arrows at the
same time. tits easier.s There are
three steps in the work: ~ making
the shaft; ca putting on the feathers;
(3) liking the head.
Evening star., 1919-09-28

Heads Smithsonian Expedition.
E. Heller has charge of an expedi-
ion sent by the Smithsonian Institu-
ion to South Africa to make collec-
lions for the National Museum.
Evening star., 1919-09-28
Red CROSS WORKERS RELIEVE
SUFFERING m MONTENEGRO
Distribution Of Food and Clothing Is
Supplemented by Medical Treatpent
s' of Thousands of Persons.

Montenegro was a Red Cross truck
carrying the baggage and personnel
for the first station at Cattinje. Here
the she'll Of a hospital was found. but
the valuable instruments and equip
ment that had made it a workable in
stitution had been looted by the Aus
TRANS and the place was in deplor-
able condition. An incipient revolu-
ton against the provisional govern
ment had filled its bedless wards with
patients and there were neither band
ages nor medicines to alleviate their
suffering.
AS the work extended to other Sec
tions of Montenegro, the same con-
ditions were found to exist. At Pod
goritza the military authorities had
established very inadequate station
Austrian hospital, dirty and insani-
tary, was filled with patients, but
there was only one doctor to attend
to their needs and those of the people
OF a city OF over five thousand. Kola-
chin was without doctor or hospital,
and the people in many other districts
received absolutely no medical atten-
tion.
Results Of Red Cross Work.
Two weeks after arriving in Pod
goritza the American Red Cross was
operating a hospital of fifty beds. At
Niksic the Austrian hospital was
taken over and cleaned up, and later
a hospital was built and equipped. At
Kolachin an +old building was recon
structed ana is now filled with pa
tients.
Mr.. Hoover of the American relief
administration has described the coun-
try as Inaccessible Montenegro" The
route to. .Podgoritxa,. where the central
distributing warehouse was located,
crosses two divides, one 1000 feet in
elevation and covered with snow in
winter, There were many exciting iu-
cidents. verging on disaster. during
the days Of snow and Ice. but Ameri-
can courage and American machines
conquered all difficulties and the sup
plies came sup from the coast in a
steady stream, piling high in ware
houses the material that was sustain
ing life and hope in the hearts Of
Montenegrins. Not one car was lost
during the many months Of operation
over q roadway that Is strewn with
the wreckage Of military machines.
Evening star., 1919-09-28
Lieut.. Col. Rice Reassieued.

Lieut.. Col William c. Rice. Dental
Corps. at Hoboken. N. J.. has bean as-l
:Qigned to duty In the ONCE Of the af-
tending surgeon, this city.
Evening star., 1919-09-28
Named for Labor Conference Here.

vtconde de Era, former minister Of
fomento Of Spain. and Adolfo Posado
have been appointed Spanish dele
rates to- the l&bor c6nfesence at
Washington. They will probably sail
about october 20. Two. other dele.
Tates. one reprsserfting capital and
one representing labor, will be ap.
pointed shortly.
Evening star., 1919-09-28
Pogroms IN Siberia Denied.

Reports OF pogroms In siberia VEN
denied in an oflicial dispatch from Ern-
est L. Harris. American consul IT
Omsk, recsived yesterday a4 the STATE
DeDartment. The message read:
''At no. time has there BEEN . single
pogrom since Kolchak came Into
power"