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Evening star., 1926-09-05
REVIEWS OF THE NEW BOOKS
Tale Of Adventure and Volume Concerned With Florida
Early Autumn Novels Make Their Appearance
Shelves of the Booksellers.

WORLD WAR; The United States
in the war, 1917-1918. By Thomas
G.. rockingham, Captain, u. S. r..
With Maps and Diagrams. Cam
bridge: Harvard University Press.
THE CLUB OF MASKS BY Allen
Upward. Philadelphia: J. b.
Lippincott Co.
SHORT TALKS WITH THE DEAD
AND OTHERS. BY Hilaire Belloc.
New York: Harper & Bros.
THE UNEARTHLY. BY Robert
Hichens, author of ''The Garden Of
Allah" etc. New York: Cosmopoli-
tan Book Corporation.
BOLSHEVISM IN AMERICAN LA
BOR UNIONS a Plea for Con-
structive Unionsim. BY John A.
Dyche. Introduction by julius
Henry Cohen. New York: Boni &
Liveright.
MARKETING DEB. BY Hughes. Cor
nell, author of Born Rich" etc.
Frontispiece by William c. Hoople.
New York: The Macaulay Co.
THE CATTLE INDUSTRY AND
THE TARIFF. BY Lynn Ram
say Edminster, with the Aid of
the Council and Staff of the Insti-
tute of Economics. New York:
The Macmillan Co.
SNOWSHOE AIS BED TIME STOR-
RIES (and uther times). BY AL
bert J. Bromley. illustrated by
tha saim hombre.)' With a inter
duction by Richard Henry Little
New York: Milton, Balch & Co.
THE BLACK GLOVE. BY j. G.
Sasasin. New York: George III.
Doran Co.
VAN PATTEN. BY B. NJ Bower.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
THE BECKONING GLORY. BY
May Emory Hall. Philadelphia:
The Penn Publishing Co.
THE PHANTOM CLUE. BY Castor
Leroux, author of "Nomads of the
Night etc. F'rontispiece by
George w. Gage. New York: The
Macaulay Co.
OPIUM THE DEMON FLOWER. BY
Sara Graham-Mulhall, Formerly
First Deputy Commissioner, De-
partment of Narcotic Drug Con
troll of New York State. New
York: Harold Vinal.
TEA ROOM AND CAFETERIA
MANAGEMENT BY r. n. Elliott.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
GENEVA OPIUM CONFERENCES:
Statements of the Chinese Delega-
ton. BY Soa-Ke Alfred SEE. Balti
more: The Johns Hopkins Press.
THE LAMPLIGHTER; A Farce in
One Act and as a Short Story. BY
Charles Dickens. With Preface
by William Lyon Phelps. New
York: ID. Appleton & Co.
Evening star., 1926-09-05
Work Opposes Federal Contribution
To Employees Retirement Fund Now

Government should make an appro-
priation to the retirement fund in
advance of actual needs. The Govern
ment Is in the position of guarantor
OF the fund, and, being the founda-
ton of our economic structure, does
not need to give bond or make deposit
to insure specific performance of it's
obligations. If a similar theory were
extended to other Federal activities,
it would follow that the Government
would carry insurance on it's build
ings, maintain depreciation account
against It's property or give bond for
specific performance as a contractor" >"
The actual liability Of the Govern
ment under the appropriation plan up
to July 1 is placed by the Retirement
Division at s32, 100000 In other
words, if the fund were to cease exist
ence tomorrow and stop entirely, the
Government would owe this amount
Proponents of the appropriation plan
can fOreSee a mounting increase in
this total until the day will com:
when heavy inroads will have to be
made into the Federal Treasury to
keep pace with the mounting number
of employees and the increasing mum.
Der OF retired annuitants.
The Interior Department, however,
believes that. far from a probable in
crease in the Government pay roll.
there will actually be a decrease in
the next rs years. Working on the
theory of the per cent reduction
inaugurated by the director of the
budget in June, this should be true, in
the judgment of many intimate with
Government affairs, for considerable
reductions have already been effected
In Government personnel since June.
Evening star., 1926-09-05
BY ROBT. UNDERWOOD JOHNSON,
Former Ambassador to Italy.

American visitors to France during
the present season have found little
on the surface to indicate the desper-
ate situation>in which our ally across
the Atlantic finds herself. After
cold Summer, the crops have had
new stimulus and the yellow fields OF
Normandy and Brittany give promise
of a good harvest. The chief index OF
the pinch of want is not so much the
increased price of bread, but it's de-
terioration in quality from a standard
of excellence that was not found in
any other country.
But beneath the surface there is
abundant justification of Ambassador
Herrick'S s characterization of the
country as a ''houSe of mourning.
Few tourists penetrate to the intimacy
of French family life, and now there
is a new barrier of pride that concealS
the true state of affairs. But a little
inquiry of a sympathetic nature re-
veals that. with the possible eXcep-
ton of a few classes, such as certain
farmers and the hotelkeepers, every
one in France. from the President of
the republic to the humblest work
man, is hard hit by the depression of
the franc. The salary Of a professor
at the Sorbonne is now hardly equiva-
lent to $1,000 a year. Laborers with
large families who receive 40 francs a
day--a little more than $1-must pay
three-fourthS of this wage for bread
alone. The cultivated classes are suf-
fering as they did not suffer in the
war, and many with names of historic
significance are clandeStinely selling
off their heirlooms of jeWelry and fur
niture in a pathetic attempt to tide
over" while they are heroically deny
ing themselves every luxury and even
restricting the list of their necessities.
Incomes-the dependence of widows
and orphans-have shrunk to a baga-
telle, and ladies of the st. Germain
quarter are croWding into such ave-
nues of business as offer hope of daily
bread. 1t reminds one of the condi-
tiOns and the herOism of the Southern
people after our Civil War.
With the remembrance of the com
mon sacrifices of the two countries
for the happiness of the world. Amer
lea is called on by every consideration
of gratitude, generosity and chivalry
to do what she can to alleviate the
Evening star., 1926-09-05
League of Nations Is on Public Trial
In Session About to Begin i'm Geneva
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when Greece, as friend of Britain, is
fighting Turkey, the situation is diff
ferent, and the representatives OF
countries at Geneva are bound, in
the nature of things, to stand on ma
tional interests and not to view pend
ing questions impartially or objective
ly. On the question Of suppressing
the white slave traffic the league
powers can and do unite readily. But
on the issue of Mosul for example,
national interests become supreme
and they are rarely coincident with
league ideals.
Measure of League Power.
Certainly the league has already
proven a useful instrument. for doing
precisely the things it has been able
to accomplish, things of which the
restoration of Hungarian finances is
a fair example. But so far it has
uniformly failed, either directly or by
abstention, whenever any large ques-
tiOn of dispute between considerable
countries arose and all the representa-
tives of important countries have
acted as ambassadors of their respec-
tive nations, not as spokesmen for the
world spirit represented by the
league.
That was the real explanation of
the fiasco of last March. The thing
at issue was the stabiliZation of a
very great and promising interna-
tional adjustment, the creation or a
sense of security and confidence in
western Europe and the elimination of
fears and rivalries which had become
secular. Yet the league was totally
unable to serve this end, because of
the rivalries and jealousies which
surged up between member nations
because, in a word. of national inter-
ests served within the league.
This time it is fair to suppose that
the mistakes of six months ago will
not be repeated and the bargains will
be made before the sessions begin.
One may believe, too, that the smaller
nations will at least endeavor to pre-
vent the intrigues and rivalries of the
larger from injuring an institution
which, for the smaller states, at least,
offers the single real promise OF Sc
curity. Failure again might easily
wreck the league; complete success
will certainly restore a portion OF the
prestige and insure the immediate fu-
ture.
But success now can come only If
the great powers have agreed in ad-
vance, and their agreement proves
only that they have reconciled their
Evening star., 1926-09-05
BOOKS RECEIVED

ANIMUIA NAGULA. BY Leonard
Bacon, author OF 'Ph. DIS" New
York: Harper 4 Bros.
THE NEW DEMOCRACY; The
Private Papers of Woodrow Will
son. Edited by Ray Stannard
Baker and William f. Dodd. Au-
thorized edition. New York: .Har-
per & Bros.
THE MIND OF THE NEGRO AS RE
ELECTED IN LETTERS WRIT
TEN DURING THE CRISIS,
lsO0-1S60. Edited by Carter G..
Woodson, Ph.D., author of Negro
Orators and Their Orations," etc.
Washington: The Association for
the Study Of Negro Life and His
tory, Inc.
IF / WERE A LABOUR LEADER.
BY Earnest ]. p. Benn. author
of Prosperity and Politics, etc.
New York: Charles Scrlbner' S
Sons.
THE NAVAL HISTORY OF THE
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Bureau. and received the Endorsement
of the White House.
MANY who would liberalize retire
ment legislation believe that the fund
should be maintained on a mutual
basis" Secretary Work says. That
is. that the contributions of employees
should be used, as at present, in pay
ing annuitieS, with the Government
in the background as guarantor of the
solvency of the fund. 1t is only the
part of wisdom for the Government
to sense it's liabilities under such an
arrangement and the probable time
when it will be called upon to con-
tribute to any deficiency. The expert
ence of the past six years in account
ing the fund has demonstrated that
changed conditions can alter the most
careful forecasts as to how long it
NAV be when the Government must
participate"
The actuaries, Mr.. Work says, have
not stated the period during which
the fund will probably be self-sup-
porting and the approaching time
when it may be necessary Tor the
Government to appropriate to the
fund. This period has been variously
and unofficially estimated at anywhere
from 10 to 25 years.
The Interior Secretary says further:
"In determining the status of the
present fund the actuaries propose
that the Government shall make an
nual appropriations in advance of the
actual needs of the fund to place it
upon a permanently self-supporting
basis They further include this plan
Of annual appropriations by the Gov
-ernment in their estimates of the cost
of systems proposed by Congress and
themselves.
Protests Advance Payments.
THE Interior Department is unwill-
ing to subscribe to the theory that the
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conflicts outside the league. So far,
since the failure of March the league
has done nothing and been able to do
nothing to modify the situation. Thus,
1t can be but a registering board of
agreements made, not a force to pro.
mote agreement. However else one
may view the situation, one can fairly
say that its future is actually at stake
In the Forthcoming session, and a new
failure would be fraught with almost
incalculable disaster for it.
| shall hope to describe what actu.
ally does take place in these columns
from Geneva, where / will attend the
assembly meeting.
tCopyright. 1926)
Evening star., 1926-09-05

But at one cor
ner, the other
morning, the Au-
gust sun was try
ing to dry out the
daily downpours,
and succeeding so
far as to blow
clear but fussy lit
tie breezes that
had set all sorts of
small ira s h to
dancing over
the pavement. And
in one SPOT there
was a box. And on
the box sat an an
cient man who was
selling pencils and
s h o e s t rim & 5 in
brown and black
Evening star., 1926-09-05

Recent acceSSionS at the Public Lii
brary and lists of recommended read
ing will appear in this column each
Sunday.
Poetry.
Browning, Robert. Works. VIE. 1912.
YP-B82a5.
Burns, Robert. Selected POEMS
YP-B93a6
King, stoddard. What the Queen Said
.YP-k587w.
Mary Angelita, Sister. Starshine and
Candlelight. -M368s.
Schauff1er, r. H. comp. The Poetry
Cure. YP-9Sch1Sp.
Spenser, Edmund Epithalamion
YP-Sp34e.
swinburne, A. c. Poems and Bal
lads. 1878. YP-Sw662a6.
Swinburne, A. c. Songs of the Spring
tides. 1880. YP-SW662so
Symonds, J. A. New and Old. 1880.
YPSy64n.
Symons. Arthur Lesbia and Other
Poems. 1920. YP-Sy66l
Taggard, Genevieve, ed. May Days.
YP-9T124m.
Taggard, Genevieve. Words for the
Chisel YP-T124w.
Widdemer, Margaret. Ballads and
Lyrics YP-W633b
Wilkinson. Mrs. M. O. B. Yule Fire.
YP-9W654y.
Wilcox, L. c.. comp. A Manual of
Mystic Verse. 1917. YP-9W663m.
Willis, n. p. Sacred Poems. 1860.
YP-W676s.
The World. New York. The Coming
Tower Book. YP-9WS94.
Yogananda, Swami Songs Of the
Soul. YP-Y74s.
Literary History and Criticism.
Abercrombie, Lascelles. The Theory
of Poetry. ZYPAb34t.
Boyd. f. A. Studies From Ten
Literatures. ZY-B69Ss.
Brooke, S. A. Naturalism in English
Poetry. 1920. ZYP-B794.
pletely Analysed. ZY-C549e.
Collins. Fl. T. Modern Poetry.
TYP -C696m.
Drew. f. A. The Modern Novel.
ZY-DS2m
Fay, Bernard. Panorama de Ia Lit
terature Contemporaries. ZY39-F29.
Hueffer. F. NJ. Thus to Revisit. 1921.
ZY-HS74t.
Johnson. L. P. Reviews and Criti-
cal Papers. 1921. ZY-J63r.
Mirsky. D. S. prince. Contemporary
Russian Literature. ZY54-M67c.
Mordell, Albert, ed. Notorious Liter
airy Attacks. ZY-M81n
Nicoll. Allardyce. British Drama.
ZYD-N51b.
Prezzolini, Giuseppe. Giovanni Pa.
pini. 1924. ZY35A-P19p.
The Saturday Review of Literature
1924-26. ZY-7Sa8.
Scudder. V. D. lie Morte Darthur
1921. ZY-Scu24m.
Wilkinson, Mrs. M. o. B. The Poetry
of Our Own Times. Ref. TYP
W654p
Rhetoric.
Goodman. Theodore. Narrative Struc-
ture and Style. ZB-G622n.
Grose, H. B. College Composition.
ZB-G917c.
House. H. C. and Harman, s. f.
Handbook of Correct English for
College Glasses. ZB-HS1Sh.
Lewis. William Dodge and others.
New Practical English for High
Shipherd. H. r. The Fine Art of
Writing. ZB-Sh66f
Woods. G.. B. and Stratton. Clarence.
A Manual of English. ZB-WS67m.
Printing and Typewriting.
Butts. F. NJ Reach-Touch Typewrit-
ing. ZHW Boss.
Frazier. J. l.. Type Lore. ZHE-
Harmed. W. E. Junior Typewriting
Studies. ZHW-H226j
Little. j. ]. and Ives Co., printers.
n: Y. Book of Types. 1928.
ZHE-L72.
Newark, n. j.. Boys Continuation
Schsol. The Printers Dictionary
and Handbook ZH-5N4o.
Seibold, G. G.. comp. Historical
Sketch Of Columbia Typographical
Union, No. 10l. 1915. +ZH-Se44
Winship. G. p. Gutenberg to Plan
tin. ZH-W737g.
Bibliographies.
National institute of Public Admin
istration. A photography of oub-
lie Administration. Ref. ZWJN21.
Nickles. j. NJ photography of North
American Geology COR 1919-1922.
1924 ZWMC-N51
Nickles, J. NJ. Geologic literature
on North America. -7S5-131S. 2v.
1923-24. tZWMC-N51g.
Evening star., 1926-09-05

''The odds are 10 to l." says the
Columbia Missourian, that the man
who complains about public official
is man who didn't v6te either way"
Evening star., 1926-09-05

A new highway 200 feet wide is
being built from Chicago to Mil
waukee. In the old lbs that
wouldn't haze been any too wide.
Evening star., 1926-09-05

vN THE downtown business section
there is a street of secondhand
smells. Also there are noises
L the Babel-like shrill of foreign
voices, the insistent shuttle of
pushcarts and the always goings and
comings of job-lot humanity that must
buy cast off clothing at bargain prices
haca a1iSn-nverUh0dv knows WhV.
Evening star., 1926-09-05
New Russian Drive
Aimed at the u. S.

Continued from First Page.)
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Recent accessions at the Public Ii
brary and lists of recommended read
ing will appear in this column each
Sunday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-26
LiquidGting the German Leftists.

THE speech Of arthur Rosenberg Of Germany the seventh
session of the enlarged eDecUe of the COmNtern is sign
Of the dsntegrGton of the WEtGet IN the German party
1T being faced and b the policies of the
leadership of the COnnterR and the German eGecUe No
longer does Rosenberg representative Of the LETT dare
speak NTH the of confident and sharp enemy the
TbGemdnN eGecWtiUe and the beginning of
the recognition of the of the leftistS is noticeable
The speech of COmrGde ThGemGnm is an indication of
the theological liquidation Of the WItrGe opposition IN Ger
Gnhe greatest to the party The dark predictions
of failure made By them against the party leadership haze not
nGterGged The united front campaign for the conscGtiOn
Of the property of the nobility Of the old regime has, despite
the pessmsc prophecies of the Ieftss led to strengthen
ing Of the Influence of the Communist Party The general anti
Communist policies of the opposition Ie under the
bIows of The e1ectOe of the Comnten and the party
leadership to its splitting up Open party enemies like Kate
haze been eTpeed and the proIetGrGn elements making
the first steps tOads unity under the central committees
leadership By ddentying themselves 1ob the ItrGeft IN
eectWGI leadership The German party goes tortOGrd otk
great strides dnd is regGning the confidence of the
ohich lost during the regime Of FscheMGsoO and their
friends SchOEennsGnd KGts.
And thru its leader, TbGeInGnn the German party has
placed itself definitely record for the present leadership of
the Comiten "The German delegation firmly convinced
that the Russian Party should remain IN leadership of
Contn is the only party 10cb has conquered pooer
and has oorked for the concrete building up social
ism for eight gears"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-26
Illinois Labor Can Aid Passaic Strike

Aside the every ought
the strikers Passaic there special service the
of the state Illinois render the strike The LaFoete
luton urging investigation the strike by the committee
features will be bitterly fought by the Old Guard the republican
party The Coolidge administration does not look with favor upon
province of the cotton mill owners
of Massachusetts, Next Andrew W. Melon who boss the
republican administration the individual having influence
with Coolidge William M. Butler, himself mill
ploiter of children shop paradise
England Coolidge Butler who first
galaxy of the notorious political coundre Murray Crane
To investigate Passac investigate the whole industry
assa the industry which cannot bear to the light day.
is question the FOrdney tariff which
but the bere opposition be expected from the official machine
There however, bringing bear
Coolidge machine that launch attack against
those the Old Guard who seeking this year
Illinois play important part this
that Senator William Mckinley the traction magnate Central
illinois, for reelection this fall He is the
the committee to which the resolution will be referred
dentay he has the deciding vote poll of the committee reveals
that it will be equally dvded-sx sxon the question
investigation counting Mckinley against Mckinley
deciding The duty of labor Illinois plain in this
Every central labor body local union building and
council every allied printing trades and label
council word unit of organized labor should insno
reques-tha Mckinley his laborhang activity
least give strikers opportunity their before
investigation committee
every worker in Illinois alive the interests his
campaign that will force the political of Champaign
take action vOrng the investigation whether he likes
party labor will suy itself
nng Mckinley Smith Deneen
the other agents capitalism in the of the old
ties.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-26

among them are, however, beginning
to observe weak points. A certain
amount of uneasiness is being felt in
particular with regard to the enor-
nous speculations in building land in
Florida, and in buildings and building
shares. nsn~
Altho the building sites already sold
ensure sufficient occupation for the
building trade for the first few months
of 1926, everyone is very we'll aware
that there is a great deal of unsound
speculation involved. tra
Farm Trouble. SUES
\ The second weak point is the posi-
ton of the farmers. The wheat crop
was exceedingly small; the maize
crop was on the other hand extreme
ly large, but there is difficulty in
utilizing 1t, as last years failure Of
the maize crop caused the number Of
pigs to be greatly reduced. The farm
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-26

tern. The open letter resulted upon
the initiative of the executive. The
left movement in the trade unions is
growing outside of England also, in
Norway and Sweden for instance it
has produced great successes. In Italy
also there are important results to
be observed
.PORDIGA opposes the system of the
- Comintern with another system
which is not in the least Communist,
in the question of the state and in
the organizational question. This sys-
tenn is anarchy plus social democracy.
Bofdiga's speech is the first attempt
to oppose the Comintern and the Rus
sian Party one to the other. The Ger
man delegation is firmly convinced
that the Russian Party should re-
main in leadership of the Comintern
as it is the, only party which has
conquered power and it has now
worked for the concrete building up
of socialism for eight years. ThesGer-
man delegation strongly condemns the
attitude of Engel in the Russian quess
ton. 1t will not permit the differences
which showed themselves at the Four
teenth Party Congress to be utilized
for ultra-left purposes as Korsch and
others would like. The feminist unity
of the Comintern must not be shaken.
The statement Of Neurath, the enemy
is on the right, is incorrect and I'M
dialectic, this was said by Chancellor
Wirth following upon the murder, of
Rathenow. The question of where
the enemy is, differs according to time
and place. At the present time the
enemy is on the right in France and
on the ultra-left in Germany.
Scholem and Ruth Fischer declare
that the successes which have recent
ly been won are due to the objective
situation, we declare on the other
hand that another factor was also
present, the correct tactic and the in
ternal party policy.
THE speaker then described the per-
manent crisis in Germany and the
attempts which the bourgeoisie are
making to solve it by naturalization"
The agrarian crisis is beginning to
sharpen, in this connection the party
has already cohducted a successful
campaign. The bourgeoisie is prepar-
ing an attack for the purpose of low
ering wages 10 to Is per cent and
for this reason it is necessary to
strengthen our trade union opposition.