The Washington times., 1921-06-19
FOR BELIEVERS IN
DISARMAAENT.


mittee OF the Church Peace Union
which asked 100000 clergymen OF
all the great religions represented In
the United States to preach for dis
armament on June 9Th and urge the
sending aG> petitions to members OF
Congress asking for conference OF
leading nations on the subject, Will
1rwin's book on 'The Next War
(E. p. Dutton 4 Co.. comes at q most
opportune and lively time.
The protagonists Of disarmament,
| or OF some action looking toward dis
armament. will find in 1t the best
material they could desire for their
arguments. Mr. Irwin is thoroughly
well informed on the development OF
instruments of slaughter during the
world war and also on what has been
happening since in the laboratories
and the stan colleges of all the i'm
portAnt nations In the devising of
still more deadly implements Of wa1-
fare.
He devotes several chapters to an
| account of these things. chapters
which will make the readers blood
turn cold as he learns about the
/ methods by which "the next war;"
which we are already hearing, so
much about, will certainly be car
| of men, women and children IL will
involve. He tells something about
the great wars of the past and shows
how different the world war was in
| many respects to any war that had
preceded II and makes II evident that
the practice of war in the future
| Is bound to advance along the same
| directions as those made possible by
| science during the last seven years
There are also some incisive de-
| scriptions and illustrations of the
way such calamities are bred and
Mr.. Irwin argues that the breeding
| of another is already under way.
Then he goes on to cogent argument
OF the duty of the United States in
| the present crisis. The book con-
tsins also pictures and diagrams
with pithy comments showing the
shocking increase in the destructive
ness and cost of war instruments.
For instance, a picture of a pro-
posed aircraft carrier whose esti-
mated cost is $2s,ooo 900. is ac-
companied by the statement that
that sum. would provide an increase
of $500 per year for hve years in
the salaries of $4,000 school teach
ers and the comment that we may
have to do without properly paid
teachers in order to prepare for the
| next war.
1t is a book SO full of information
| presented with simplicity, earnest
ness and force that everyone who is
| alarmed by the present trend OF al
! fairs will give II warm welcome.
.COUNsELs AND IDEALS"
Houghton- MifYiin Company have just
published an important enlarged edi-
| ton of STR william Oslers' ''Counsels
| and Ideals" This very valuable anC
characteristics book was written several
years ago. In 1t DR.. Osier gives advice
| to the young physician based upon his
own long years of service to hu-
manity. During the war DR.. Osler
| in the light Of new experiences. re-
! wrote and enlarged the earlier little
book and II was set up in England.
| The edition intended for America was
| sent TO the bottom by a submarine. II
| has taken some time for this loss to
be made good, but after the long wait
| the book seems even better and wiser
than during the war.
~rHE GREEN BoUGH.-
| z. Temple Thurston presents what
nay appear to the prudish reader at
hast a most unconventional heroine
in The Green Bough." published by
Appleton. yet strangely emphasizes his
portraiture of her with the challenge,
| "All women would be as Mary Throg-
morton IL they dared" Certainly, IL
is most unusual book, dealing In
a daring fashion with a subject of
economic waste that Is seldom dis
cussed in mixed companies except OF
the most enlightened sort
Mary Throgmorton, nearly thirty, is
the youngest of four sisters, whose
viewpoint in life is gained from the
narrow precincts of an English viii
tlage. She has observed how the lives
OF her sisters have been wasted and
how her own threatens to follow the
trend of the others. She has evolved
her own PHILOSOPHERS and when her
opportunity comes, seizes IL In order
to achieve her destiny, which is the
destiny of every normal woman.
She devotes the rest of her life TO
the upbringing of her son, a child OF
love, the father of which has no place
in her order of existence. True, the
father returns when the boy has
reached manhood and his re-entry
brings material changes In her plans
and further sacrifices.
After reading The Green Bough
one cannot well help thinking that II
is in many ways a remarkable work
with a really serious purpose be
hind it
QUARTET OF WANDERERS.
These are quaint tales, redolent OF
the long ago. but still fresh with the
personalities of the men who lived
them, that william Boulting has
brought together in -Four Pilgrims.
The author has taken all his materia
from old records, quoting some of II
directly and retelling the rest. anc
has furnished also Introductory chap
ters for each tale that provide suf'
ficient historical background to re
late 1t to the world of it's own time
In the preface he says that they wer'
"shrewd, fearless, observant men wht
oyercame surprising obstacles ant
met with adventure unparalleled.
Then he describes them and thei
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