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Evening star., 1921-06-26
ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR

Naomi Chapter, No. 3. at it's meeting
Wednesday evening. initiated seven can
didates. the work being done by the
following past matrons and patrons:
Matron, sister Ball; patron. Brother
Wyatt: associate matron. Sister feat-
man: secretary. Sister Strait: treasurer
Sister Taylor: condnctress. sister
Isham; associated conductress. sister
Webb; chaplain. Sister Hill: Inarshal.
Sister Wood: Adah. Sister Sweet, Ruth,
Sister Poynton; Esther. Sister Huggins;
Martha. Sister Gavin: Electa. Sister
Omohundro; warder, Sister Heard, and
sentinel, Brother Rutherford.
After the meeting the chapter was en-
lane, accompanied by f. J. Brown.
Sister Minnie Keyes gave an interesting
talk on fraternalism.
Esther Chapter, No. 5. entertained the
members of he Masonic and Eastern
Star Home Monday evening. many
members and visitors being present. An
enjoyable program of dialect songs and
recita tions was presented by Mrs. David
KinchelQe, wife of Representative kin-
cheloe u Kentucky. Miss Grace Dut-
ton, the young daughter of Past Patron
The amusing play. "a Perplexing Stu
ation." was performed by Misses
Ruth Carter, Susan Murphy, Ruth Esker.
Doris Uppercue, Kathryn Jenkins. Lou
Use Bready, and Messrs. Franc Birg-
field. Joseph Phillips, Andrew loss, loss
Stanley Bell. Raymond Kidd and John
s. Perkins.
Esther Chapter has called off the
meetings for July and August and the
first meeting in September.
Matron Ethel v. R. scantlebury has
issued invitations to Electra Chapters
twenty-seventh anniversary Tuesday.
This is also endowment evening to
the Masonic and Eastern Star Home.
Members are requested to give ~
cents for this fund.
The meeting of Ruth Chapter, No.
| 1. scheduled for July. has been post
poned until July z. when the degrees
will be conferred on large class
! The play entitled Just Little Mis-
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The address of President Harding,
delivered at the anniversary meetiri.
on April 10 has been printed in book
let or folder form by Supreme Keep
cr of Records and Seal Wheaton 1t
will be given general distribution
throughout the supreme domain
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LEARN GREs;G SHORTHAND. TAKE PR1-
vate lessons ani become expert StenoG-
rapher Call 1909 Kenyon st. NV. Col. 1l99.'
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Illustrious Potentate Call Me Henry
LaEsburgh did not materializes for his
expected talk at the Caravan luncheon
Wednesday because following what is
said to have been one of the greatest
ovations ever given a potentate at the
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Spanish School of Washington
Profs. from Spain. 1895 st. NJ. 56SS.
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ment was in Greenwood cemetery
and large number of Pythians were
in attendance.
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With impressive ceremonies the new
Brightwood Commandery. No. s.
knights Templar. was constituted
Friday evening by the Grand Com
mandery, in Brightwood Masonic Tenn
pie adding another to the live'~ire
Masonic organizations in that section.
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Letters temporary have been re-
ceived for the institution Of a chap
ter of the new Masonic Boys Fra
ternity. the Order of De Molay. The
installation of officers and the con-
stitution of the new chapter will oc-
cur sometime in October. Worth +.
Landon is chairman of the local ad
visory board and may be reached in
connection with the new order at the
Scottish Rite Cathedral, 433 Sd street
NJ
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The eUniversityPreparatorySch School

9. f. Corner 10Th and + SITS NV. Fr. o0sO.
l.. Adolph Richards. NJ, A.. NJ: s.. .Prin.
Mathematics. English. Latin. French. Ger
man Physics History. Economics, Chemistry.
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The Gavel Club continued to in
crease its membership by the cleo
tions of a large number of applicants
Wednesday evening. The club is
making extensive preparations for
it's excursion to Chesapeake Eeach
July 49, when it hopes to have
large attendance from all the Ma
sonic clubs.
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Tomorrow evening Senior Deacon
William J. Loveless will head the Off
cial line in the F. c. degree in Poto-
mac Lodge. No. S. and at the/com-
munication July the building COM
mittee report will be received.
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The degrees will be conferred in
Miriam Chapter. No. %. tomorrow
evening. The officers of the Grand
Chapter have accepted an invitation
10 do the work.
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Columbia Council No. 3. Royal and
Select Masters has large team for
the degrees at it's assembly Wednes-
day evening.
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Tuesday evening Robert de Bruce
Council, Knights Kadosh. will have
it's annual election and installation of
officers and Albert Pike Consistory,
NJ. r. s.. will hold it's statutory ses-
sion. Both meetings. it is said, will
probably be brief in order to enable
the members to reach Campo Meade
in time for the demonstration in
honor of Gen. McGlachlin.
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Lebanon Lodge. No. Z. has found it
necessary to change its work to the
F. c. and E. a. degrees for Friday
evening. starting at 6 pm. at a spe-
cial communication.
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The meeting of Ruth Chapter. No
1. scheduled for July. has been post
poned until July 2. when the degrees
will be conferred on a large class.
The play entitled Just Little Mis-
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In Potomac Chapter. No. S. Tues
day. the Royal Arch degree will be
conferred upon three teams by the
king, Grover f. Payne.
High Priest George E. Stringfellow,
of Washington Chapter. has just re-
turned from an extended motor tour
through Ohio. the great lake region.
Canada and New York state.
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Pentalpha Lodge. No. %. has called
Off it's communication scheduled for
July 4. but will have the NJ. NJ. degree
at a special tomorrow evening.
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The call from labor to refreShment
is being circulated among the several
Masonic todieS of the District, al
though there are said to be many
which will not be able to heed it.
Anacostia Lodge will recess through
July in order to refurbish and redec-
crate it's lodgeroom. and following
its special session. Thursday. Colum-
bia Royal Arch Chapter will "vacate'
until September Z. when it will re-
convene with a get-together convoca-
ton. with a special program and re-
freShmentS.
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Brightwood Lodge will confer the
first degree on a large class next
Saturday night. At the last meeting
of this lodge the initiatory degree
was in charge of General Degree Di-
rector Lawson, when large class
was presented
The New York herald., 1921-01-30
Reviewed by SAMUEL ROTH.

T@ HE problematic destiny of Israel has
become the battle-ground of two great
English wits: Israel Zangwill, whose
"The Voice of Jerusalem" sounds to us from
England, and Gilbert Keith Chesterton. our
guest, who has descended on us with THE
New Jerusalem" published here yesterday.
Mr.. Chesterton and Mr. Zangwil may be
said to be combatants only to the extent
that they argue on the same subject. Blind
folded. they have wandered into the same
arena. Each is armed to the teeth and
thrusts skilfu sword, and though the eyes
of both warriors closed their swords do
clash occasionally with devastating sound.
Mr.. Chesterton pleads the natural and
inalienable right of an Englishman not to
have disentangled Mr.. Chesterton from his
logic, which this modern intellectual Her
cules wears like a shirt of Nessus he has
two really substantial complaints against
Jews: 1. A Jew named Eckstein 2. A Jew
named Montagu. Against Eckstein he says
nothing in particular, but since his lively
play on Jewish names is we'll known the
inference is that Mr.. Chesterton's objection
to Eckstein is that his name is Eckstein
Mr.. Montagu has adopted an English name
and conducts operations in silver: but since
Englishmen who are not Jews are also cap
italists, Mr.. Chesterton's fundamental objec-
tion to Montagu seems to be that his name
is not Eckstein.
At any rate, it is apparent that Messeurs
Montagu and Eckstein were a power to lead
Mr. Chesterton into advocating exodus to
Palestine. which he describes in this book
with what charm of phrase and gallantry of
intellect need not say. For this Chesterton
resembles old Samuel Johnson in more than
his physical mass. always think of him
as of another Johnson except when l re-
member that he calls himself a Zionist.
Jews are literary people. and we would
gladly believe Mr. Chesterton, one of the
most profoundly beautiful writer's of the
age. our friend--if we could. We have some
faith left. but no easy credulousness. Jews
resent Mr.. Chesterton's assumption or
friendlness because his attitude is not
friendly and he has chosen to attack the
honor of the Jewish name at the most
critical stage OF Jewish life, when whole
populations are being slaughtered and
starved. Nor Is 1t honorable that he does
II in the name Of friendship.
He says, taking up the matter of the effort
of Zionism to win for the Jews place
among the nations: 1T is rather strange
that the Jews should be anxious for
international agreements. For one of the
few really international agreements is
suspicion OF Jews" What are Jews sus-
pected Of? This friend of Jews has no
hesitancy In telling us-usury. capitalism,
political treachery. "Disraeli lived for Eng
land; we cannot think that he would have
died for her"
But these opinions belong with the medi
eval beliefs that the Jews were poisoners
The New York herald., 1921-01-30
Zangwill VS.. Chesterton on Zionism

of wells and murderers of innocent Gentle
children for ritualistic purposes. lnterna-
tional agreements! If the kind of suspicion
that leads to massacres Is made the basis
for agreements of any sort they are not the
agreements of nations but of hoodlums.
When churls We're permitted to pull the
earlocks of Jews in East London. surely that
could not have been from a national Eng
lish agreement. And when Mr.. Chesterton
brands the whole race as usurers and spies
he might as well charge his Jewish friends
with looking covetousy at his children on
the eve of the Passover.
Mr.. Chesterton repeats: "A Jew does not
work. yet he grows rich. You never see a
Jew working. and yet they grow rich" Can
Mr.. Chesterton believe this with the London
slum under his very nose? Is not every
Jewish community overwhelmingly poor:
Do they not in Poland break the rock with
the bones of their fingers and do they not
in Russia break their backbone with the
weight of the rock their backs? Is il
mercifu. is 1t honorable to repeat such an
obvious untruth against a people on whom
the hand of devastation has been laid so
heavily?
Mr. Chesterton's supreme paradox is the
statement that he is a Zionist But his
The New York herald., 1921-01-30
First Life of Admiral Mahan
ABOUT AUTHORS
ngland,s conception Of

Ger according to Englands conception Of
his deserts
The chapter in Mr. Taylor's book on Ad
miral Mahans experiences in England Is
quite the best one he has written. With
inimitable humor and appreciation Mahan
described these experiences himself and Tay-
lor quotes literally from the pages Of From
Sail to Steam" here. particularly the hu-
morous description of the comforting Of a
degree on the Admiral by oxford University.
Mahan's modesty did not permit him to tell
however. that he twice invited to dine
with Queen Victoria nor of the many other
honors showered on him. Lord Rosebery
said that Mahan had "broken the record, he
believed" by being given degrees by both
Oxford and Cambridge in week. An
exhibition of his tact was shown when the
Chicago made her first port In England
Mahan Immediately received an invitation
from the First Lord of the Admiralty to a
dinner in his honor. AS there was a Rear
Admiral aboard the Chicago it would not
have been the thing for that officer to be
omitted and Mahan let this be known pri-
vately. When the First Lords dinner
eventually took place 1t was given in honor
of Admiral Erben and Capt Mahan' Mr.
Taylor points out that of all the distin-
guished men he met at that time In Eng
land-Mahan wrote to his family at the time
that "he found it hard to believe, John
Morley wished to meet him-the only one
he ever kept up a friendship with was Ad-
miral Sir Bouverie Clark 1t was then Mahan
had the honor of being "the first man. not
a British subject" who had ever dine
with the Royal Navy Club.
The professional side of Admiral Mahan's
life for the next few years included special
duty at the Naval War College, his retire.
ment in 1896 and special duty in connection
with the War College from 1896 to 1912 In
the years between these last two dates he
served with distinction as member of the
Naval War Board in the Spanish American
War. and was delegate to The Hague
Peace Conference In 1899. where he gained
added distinction by the originality of his
views and the clearness and power with
which he presented them. Mahan and Capt
Crozer Of the United States Army upheld
the use of gas in warfare at that confer
ence, and whether they ever regretted it
there Is no record. The definite views
which he held to disarmament and peace
are well known and were based on a knowl-
edge of human nature He wrote: 81 feel
with full intensity of personal conviction
that when moral motives come to weigh
heavier with mankind. than material de-
sires there will be no war, and coincidently
Herewith better provision of reasonable
bodily necessities to all men,"
This Life" gives an insight into one hid
den phase of Admiral Mahans career that
may yet be developed by another hand more
fully. 1t is the chapter devoted to the side
of his character which may be called the
statesman. In this Mr.. Taylor quotes few
The New York herald., 1921-01-30

letters written to Senator Lodge on inter-
national politics which suggest a hidden
mine of such things as the world would
like to read AS to the fact that in his later
years Che died December l, 1914 in Wash
ington) Mahan was deeply concerned over
the influence he had had in causing the up
building of the German Navy, Mr.. Taylor
makes this statement: There is ample evil
dence that in the last few months of his life
Mahan suffered acute mental distress about
the war and the part he had played-al-
though entirely unpremeditated-in stimu-
lating the growth of the German Navy,
thereby contributing to make possible the
crime of August, 1914, with it's appalling
menace to his own country. This anxiety
doubtless reacted upon his powers of physi-
cal resistance and tended to hasten his end"
And yet Mr.. Taylor is of the opinion that
the study of most history is a matter of
education and training; the study of Mahan
is a matter of national safety" Most met
will agree that Mahan's teachings were the
cause Of more good in the world than of
evil in spite of his influence on the Kaiser
Wilhelm that was.
The New York herald., 1921-01-30

although 1t Is the subject of the chapter
''The Turning Of Long Lane" in From
Sail to Steam,'' for Mahan realized that his
acceptance Of Luce's invitation was the real
turning point in his life. Mahan then
As years DID, with limited knowledge of
history and believer in the erroneous i'm
preston that the naval history of bygone
days was of little or no value for the study
of naval strategy in the present era of long
range guns and speedy ronclad ships" He
tells himself, as Taylor quotes, while read
ing Mommsen's History of Rome" in the
English Club in Lima, Peru, his ship being
at Callao, how the idea came to him Of the
influence Of sea power on history. And the
idea that terminated in that remote little
club served not only as the basis for his
subsequent lectures at the Naval War Col
lege but for the books that brought him
such undying fame.
Mahans career at the War College was
one of many trials, for the Navy Depart
ment was not In favor of the institution,
Congress would make no appropriations for
it for several years. and there was distinct
prejudice against 1t among many of our
navy officers. a prejudice that has come
The New York herald., 1921-01-30
Those Engineers
Behind the Guns

THE AMERICAN ENGINEERS IN FRANCE
BY William Barclay Parsons. d. Appleton
& Co.
T~HAT a war book" should ever be able
to arouse the enthusiasm of this re-
= viewer after five years Of enforced
devotion to such literature seemed an i'm
possibility. Yet this is exactly what William
Barclay Parsons has done in the volume
named above.
This very distinguished engineering au-
thority went from civil life into the Corps of
beginning of our effort In the war and was
appointed colonel of the Eleventh United
States Engineers. a regiment that won
undying fame through participation, al.
though technically non-combatants, in the
famous Cambrai offensive. in which tanks
were used for the first time. But renowned
as that engagement was Mr.. Parsons gives
only one chapter to 1t, for the American
engineers in France did things much more
important than actual fighting. And just
what they did and how they did it is the
burden of this wholly admirable. spirited
and yet impersonal narrative.
Mr.. Parsons opens his story with a de-
scription of the new military engineers. in
which he shows the great contrast between
the older type of military engineer and those
Of to-day; he tells of the formation of the
engineer regiments that went to France; of
our problems there from the engineering
viewpoint; of how the ports had to be de-
veloped new railway systems organized, and
of how we worked alongside of the English
and French soldiers, his sketch of the life
Of the British soldiers being both realistic
and sympathetic
Naturally the professional aspect Of the
war was what he Is most concerned with.
and he gives us the best account yet written
of the forestry troops how the water supply
was provided for army (the British and
French systems being also described), the
chemical engineers" camoufiage and other
fields of engineering, map production. the
artillery, trench warfare, and the organizx-
ton OF engineer troops in the field.
The New York herald., 1921-01-30

Zionism can be explained in only one way:
He does not like Mr.. Montagu and Mr. Eek
stein in British politics. and the only way
he can think of. getting them out Of II is
to get them into some kind OF Jewish poll
tics In that case he might, as bait make
Jewish politics attractive. But his love OF
Jewish things has a limit. "The true test
of Zionism." he says. may be "a topsy-
turvy test. II will not succeed by the
number OF successes, but by the number
of failures. II will be tested not by
whether Jews can climb to the top of the
ladder. but by whether Jews can remain at
the bottom not by whether they have
hundred arts Of becoming important, but by
whether they have any skill In the art of re-
naming insignificant. The modern
Jews have to turn themselves into hewers
of wood and drawers OF water"
All this we are to do so that the Arabs
may learn to respect us as hardy, horny
The New York herald., 1921-01-30
Reviewed by
T. COMMERFORD MARTIN.

A chairman of the research information
"A service of the National Research
Council the editor of this interesting
and valuable collection of monographs was
In a position to observe and record with
accuracy and fulness the wide. ranging
achievement of American scientists and en-
gineers under the compelling demand of the
great war, of which might well be used, far
from their original significance. the words
Behold make all things new!" Naturally
such compilation deals largely with what
was done for the army and navy and the
higher refinement of all the processes of
destruction and the appliances for the COM
plete annihilation of an enemy.
But there is much done or attained even
r thus intensifying the agencies of war
that. despite the merely bellicose purpose.
results in greater perfection of pacific arts
and in the enhancement of social welfare
IL would indeed be a grim and hopeless
world II the wastes of war had no offsetting
compensations of that kind. Above all Is
the emphatic stamp set upon the value to
mankind OF pure science.
Each of the chapters of this volume so
compact of the latest researches and results
in nearly all the important domains OF
knowledge, Is the contribution of recog
nzed master or authority In the respective
natural science or its associated technology
and engineering-optics, chemistry, electric
ity medicine, alimentation. &c.
II is I'm fact an encyclopedia writ small,
but by no means made brief because of ex-
clusion Of any essential data. Most encour-
aging is the evidence presented that in the
National Research Council a very potent
medium has been found for coordinating
and synthesizing all American advances into
the new world of unknown physics
The New York herald., 1921-01-30
THE NEW STONE AGE. BY Harrison f.
Howe. The Century Company.
Reviewed bv DAVID COYLE.

IN o you wish you knew why the stucco
is peeling off your house? Here is
- book that will tell you Are you
disappointed about the fossil footprints of
your six-year- old son, which you had ex-
pected would remain in that sidewalk so
long that some solemn old professor would
classify him as coming about the same time
as the megalosaurus? Well, they have split
off and gone away in the ash cart, and the
contractor wants an atrocious price for a
new sidewalk So you're paying for your
ignorance about what makes concrete do
that way. and here is a perfectly painless
treatment for such ignorance.
Mr.. Howe, who Is an expert with a taste
not always shared by experts for expressing
himself in pleasant and comprehensive
English, has written a book to tell the gen.
eral reader about concrete. He begins with
the Egyptians and pauses to point out the
Romans who made the first cement that
would set under water. That art was lost
until about hundred years ago, when mod
ern men began finding out how to make
Roman cement and afterward Portland ce-
ment which has now developed nnumerable
uses.
Mr.. Howe details the process of manu-
facture of cements of various kinds and tells
little of the theory of what makes them
harden--enough to convince the average
man that they do set, but that he may safely
leave the explanation Of that fact to the ex-
perts. We are led by the hand up to the
cage where tricalcic illuminate and dicalcic
silicate below and thunder, but these fear
some critters are not allowed to get at us,
and we soon pass on to more familiar things.
There is the byproduct romance which at
taches to the cement industry as well as to
so many others; there is a description of
the making Of concrete and the factors that
determine its lasting qualities. a brief ac-
count of cement testing-all matters which
the layman may find of practical as we'll as
general interest. Any one who is building a
house will find valuable ideas in the chap
ters on surface texture. the cement gun.
waterproofing and stucco. There are other
chapters roads. bridges, waterways and
tanks. on the use of concrete about the farm
The New York herald., 1921-01-30
Yes, Concrete Is Set in Its Ways

and a fascinating account of the concrete
ships.
Altogether delightfully."- successful at
tempt to bring romance down out of the
abstract and to set it upon solid, everyday
foundations.
The New York herald., 1921-01-30

THE VOICE OF JERUSALEM BY Israel
Zangwl William Heinemann, London.
THE NEW JERUSALEM. BY G. X. Chester
ton. George III. Doran Company.
The New York herald., 1921-01-30
Scientific Results

THE NEW WORLD OF SCIENCE. Edited
by Robert NJ. Yerkes. The Century Com
pany.