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WHAT WILL BE NEXT STATE?

Hawaii, Alaska and Porto Rico Mentioned as Possibilities,

Though Division of Existing Commonwealths

Has Been Suggested.

BY WILLIAM A. MILLEN'.

Closely bound up with thf question

of of th* House of

Representatives, which is to be taken

up in the coming Congress and will

again loom large as a close-up on the

screen of public affairs, is that inter

esting inquiry: When will the forty- ;

and succeeding States be added 1

to the Union?

Students of geography in Washing

ton see the forty-ninth and succeed

ing States fashioned from the Nation's

territorial and island possessions or

caned out of States that through pres

ent densltv of population may point

the w?y to creating additional sover

eign States —just as West Virginia was

created out Os the old State of Virginia.

To gauge more accurately the drift

toward statehood and to assess the

possibilities. The Evening Star ad

dressed inquiries to those best in a

position to know.

Hawaii Speaking.

Thf Delegate in Congress from

Hawaii. V. S. K. Houston, has this to

say about the Paradise of th? Pacific:

"Broadly speaking, may I not remind

you that a territorial form of govern- :

ment has always in the past led to

statehood. Alaska and Hawaii are the

only two territories in the Union at

the present time.

"Sneaking for Hawaii. I can assure 1

you that we are looking forward hope- i

fully to the time when the people at i

large in the continental United States '

will feel that our aspirations in respect j

to reaching statehood may b* granted.

When that time comes we feel that

we will in every respect be ready for

statehood. The difficulty appears at

the present time to be that we have

a large portion of ourpopulation which

Is of Asiatic parentage, and that many

people in the continental United States

have doubts as to the thorough Amer

icanization of those citizens of ours.

Those of us who have seen the result

of our American system of education

are not in the least in doubt. We be

lieve that our young citizens are as

good, thorough and sound citizens as

those of any other part of the country.

“There is nothing whatever in com

mon between the form of government

of Porto Rico and the Philippines, and

the Territories of the United States.

We have had on more than one oc

casion to find fault with the confusion

that appears to exist in the minds of

many people because of the fact that

they class Porto Rico and the Philip

pines with Hawaii and Alaska. Except

for the fact that we are islands as

they are. there can be no comparison

as between the two groups.

Tax Is Burden.

"Hawaii pays and has paid the Fed

eral income and corporation taxes, and

in the past I can assure you that the ;

131 j per cent corporation tax which

we pay has been a very heavy burden.

Neither Porto Rico nor the Philippines

have to pay this tax and yet their prod

ucts are received into the United

States in competition with ours. Hawaii

pays into the Federal Treasury also the

internal revenue taxes and the duty,

levied upon products imported into

Hawaii. No such taxes or duties are

paid over to the Federal Treasury by

Porto Rico or the Philippines.

"The territorial Legislature at its last

session passed no resolution asking for

statehood, but it has done so on two

previous occasions,” Delegate Houston

concluded. “I feel myself bound by

the action of the last Legislature and

feel that under the circumstances I

cannot actively urge statehood in Con

gress until a succeeding one may again

pass such a resolution."

Alaska Sfot Anxious Now.

Alaska's ambitions are not actively

directed at this time toward statehood,

Dan Sutherland. Delegate in Congress

from Alaska, points out.

"For the past 20 years there has been

more or less talk of statehood, and my

predecessor in Congress. Hon. James

Wickersham, introduced a bill to that

effect,” Delegate Sutherland declared.

“The serious decline in Alaska's popu

lation brought about by the World War

has handicapped the Territory material

ly and I feel that it would be useless

to ask for statehood for the compara

tively small population we have at

present.

•‘The principal issue in Alaska at the

present time is bureaucratic domination

and we are asking to be relieved of this

condition to the extent of legislating

on our fish, game, etc. I feel that under

the present administration of our fish

eries. the supply has rapidly declined

and I believe the local people would

restrict fishing operations for the pres

ervation of the general supply.

Sees Future in Paper.

"The pulp wood contracts that have

recently been given in the Alaska for

est reserves by the Bureau of Forestry

encourages us to believe that ‘the paper

manufacturing industry will be one of

the stable industries of the Territory, i

"In the northern section of Alaska

the grazing of reindeer is becoming a

large, important industry and there are

now about three-quarters of a million

of these animals on the plains of north

ern Alaska. About 9.000 reindeer were

consumed in the States during the past

Winter and it is expected that fifteen

thousand or twenty thousand will be

marketed this Fall This reindeer in

dustry will in time be a boon to the

native people of northern Alaska as it

will give them employment in herding

the deer and will furnish them a de

pendable source of income which will

not fluctuate as the trap fishing in

dustry does,” Mr. Sutherland con

cluded. • ! i

Porto Biro Is Willing. ,

The attitude of Felix Corc’eva Da

vila, Resident Commissioner of Porto i

Rico in Congress, is this: “If you grant !

Us statehood, I am sure Porto Rico i

will accept it. That is my opinion, but i

according to the views of prominent

Americans, statehood is perhaps not the i

best solution for the United States or !

for Porto Rico, but an autonomous gov

ernment. However, if you grant us '•

statehood, it is my honest belief that

Porto Rico will be glad to accept such

great honor in spite of the financial

difficulties that we will be bound to

meet.

“We do not want to separate from

the United States. If independence is

granted to Porto Rico, we will accept

independence, but we are not asking 1

for a separation. What we want is an I

autonomous government und*r Aineri- j

can jurisdiction and under the Ameri

can flag. If the American people be

lieve we are good enough to b? their

fellow citiz«ns, we would b* glad to be

cons.dered as such on the basis of strict

equality, but if you do not feel that

way, the only honest and fair course j

for you to pursue is to grant Porto Rico

its independence W* will never ac

cept anything that will mean inferiority

under the American fee.

“In the States the executive is elect

ed by the pccplc: in Porto R„co. ap- j

pointed bv the Pr r- -id-nt of th* United !

States. The people of Porto Pico have i

not any voice in the ri*c ion of the |

President. The power to appoint our

executive is. therefore, not derived from

the sovereign power of th» people of

Porto Rico. A republican form of gov- i

ernment has bem d'ftn*d by American j

authorities r.s one which derives all its 1

powers, direct! v or indirectly, from the

people, and which is administered by j

persons ho’ding t’.vi:: offices for a lim

ited period or duri*v; good b havior !

The people of Porto |y>"e no voice. |

directly cr indirectly, in th** election of

the President of (11° Unh"d SteVs nr in j

the appointment cf th* governor of

Porto Rico.

‘‘Under our organic law th* President !

appoints the attorney general and the '

kv< laMte ire.'ov' a. a,* fv/ R3AWJ -

bers of tho governor’s cabinet. Th?

President appoints the Justices of the

Supreme Court of Porto Rico. The

organic law prohibits the Porto Rican

Legislature from interfering with the

organization of the executive council.

It can neither create nor consolidate

nor abolish any of the departments of

j the government. The borrowing ca

pacity of th* insular gocernment and

j of the municipalities is limited by the

organic law. No change can b? made

by the local government of Porto Rico,"

Mr. Davila declared.

Virgin islands.

Th* move for a larger share of politi

cal freedom is finding expression in an

other distant s*ction of the globe over

which the Stars and Stripes are flying,

for in the Nations newest possession

there are elements that desire an ad

vance toward autonomy. A movement

is afoot, in the Virgin Islands, the small

group in the West Indies which Uncle

Sam acquired bv purchase from Den

mark in 1917. to have a resident com

missioner represent the islands at the

Capital.

The Philippine Islands have two resi

dent commissioners and Porto Rico

has one. These men have a right to

a seat on the floor of the House of

Representatives and can speak, but are

not permitted to vot*. They have, how

ever. offices and franking privileges as

have Representatives.

I

Canal Zone.

The Panama Canal Zenp is not like

ly to figure in any discussions con

cerning prospective statehood. This

strip of land, 48 miles long and 10

miles wide, on either side of the canal,

has a population at present of 36,569

and most, of these are in the employ

of the Government. The zone is a

Government reservation and there is

no private property there, with the

exception of some businesses that are

an adjunct to the shipping business.

The President of the United States is

directly in charge of the zone and has

delegated the details to the Secretary

of War personally. The governor of

the zone reports to the Secretary of |

War. Congress alone enacts any needed

new legislation.

A retired naval officer is the governor

of the Island of Guam in the miri-

Paciflc Ocean and a regular service

captain is governor of American Samoa,

but in neither of these United States

possessions is there a well-defined

movement looking to statehood.

In the belief of some observers, the I

forty-ninth and succeeding State* may

come into being out of continental J

United States itself.

State* May Be Split.

Section 3 of Article 4 of the Constitu

tion of the United States says: “New

State* may be admitted by the Con

gress into this Union: but no new State

shall be formed or erected within the

jurisdiction of any other State; nor any

State be formed by the junction of

two or more State*, or parts of States,

without the consent of the Legislatures

of the States concerned as well as of j

the Congress.

“The Congress shall have power to ,

dispose of and make all needful rules i

ar.d regulations respecting the territory i

or other property belonging to the

United States: and nothing in this Con

stitution shall be so construed as to

prejudice any claims of the United

States, cr of any particular State." |

The procedure for admission of a

State Into the Union is for the State

to draw up a constitution and submit

that to the Federal Congress, which

goes into the question of whether the

constitution was adopted by the people

of the proposed State. Legislation af

fecting territories or the admission of

States, under the rules of the House

Youth Educating Itself

_ (Continued from First Page.)

scholarship advantages afforded by en

dowments and other sources."

Dr. Oreenleaf's researches have im

pressed upon him one important fac*

that should serve as a warning to stu

dents who lack the proper grit, or the

health, to finance an education without

any outside financial assistance what

ever.

"Only exceptional students can go to

the campus ’broke’ and make the

grade,” he says.

"Every student who expects to work

his way through college should carry

at least SIOO or S2OO in his pocket

when he presents himself at the col

lege doer. The student should not

undertake to land a job during his

fiyst term. He will find it not only a

difficult task, but a worry likely to

hurt his scholastic standing at the

very outset of hts college career. He

first must get himself adjusted to his

new routine, and to do this properly

he should have a small amount of

money to start him on his way. Once

firmly ensconced in his classes, he may

fare forth confidently in search of em

ployment, with reasonable hope cf

success.”

While Dr. Greenleaf has not com

pleted his study of the replies received

to questionnaires sent to 1,100 institu

tions, he is able to give some interest

ing data on student employment in

many well known colleges and univer

sities.

What Students Do Here.

Os local interest is his statement that

most of the personnel of Washington

evening schools is employed in ihe day

time, that more than half of the stu

dents at George Washington University

earn their own way, that few students

at Georgetown University proper ire

at work, but that nearly all attending

the Georgetown Foreign Service School

are In Federal employment, and that

about one-fourth of the students at

Maryland State University are doing

odd jobs between and after classes |

Yale offers special advantages to th»

student who wishes to pay for his edu

cation as he goes, Dr. Greenleaf points

out. In this university there is a sys

tem of student sales agencies, or branch

offices of outsid'* firms—from the laund- 1

erer to the dealer in books and station

ery. Students who preside over such an I

agency receive a commission on all !

goods sold.

"Table running" also Is popular at :

Yale This is a campus term used to i

describe the practice of “lining up” j

customers for boarding houses A "tab’e |

runner" gets his meals free merely by j

inducing his friends to eat at Mrs. ;

Smith’s or Mrs. Brown's boarding house.

Yale students earned more than $350,-

000 last year by indulging in such |

gainful pursuits. One-third of the 5.000 '

students there earned at least a portion '

cf their tuition by serving in agencies j

or working at other jobs.

Have Greater Responsibility.

College authorities welcome the new \

| student who has worked his way |

through high school. They have found

that working students have greater re

sponsibility and steadier heads.

"Some of our best students have, j

; worked while going to high school and

i college,” declares the president of an j

Oregon college.

President Samuel Tyndale Wilson o’ ,

Maryville College. Tennessee, states:

"What, a variety of work is done by |

! students! Tlv-re is the manual tram-!

I ing shop work that, is conducted spe

ciftcsllv for the students by the student

i help offir": score? have found work

' .Irre t'n-t h’? both given them rei

i *nue and taught, them a trade. Ther^

* - the college farm, with its 40 acres

'and it? dairy herd: some have earn*l

nS tjjeu- expense* on id There is

THE StryPAY STAR. WASHINGTON. P. C.. SEPTEMBER 30. 1928-PART ».

of Representatives, is referred to the j

commutes on the territories

A sentiment has cropped up from

time to time—-particularly in New Eng

land—to have the United States prace

fullv and with consent take over the

entire Dominion of Canada. Should

this come about, quite « number of new

States would be added to the Union.

On the other hand, th? suggestion has

been put forward unofficially that the

United State* might turn over Alaska

to Canada, on the theory that thia

would be a better administrative move

for the territory.

Speculation on the forty-ninth and

succeeding State* includes both con

solidation of some existing States and |

i the splitting up of some of th? more \

populous and extensile ones into en

tirely new sovereign States.

P«sslbiHtle*.

This line-up has been suggested:

The consolidation of Maine. New !

Hampshire and Vermont Into one new

. State.

' A new' State of Long Island and a

! new» State of metropolitan New York,

with the present State of New York

thus being split up into three States.

Consolidation of Rhode Island with

Massachusetts and Delaware with New

Jersey.

The breaking up of Texas, now the

largest State in the Union, into three or

four States.

The creation of a new State of Chi

cago to include the industrial area of

northern Indiana.

The division of California, now the

second largest State in the Union, into

two States.

Would Change Flag.

In this wise, those who would re

write the map of the United States and

shuffle representation in Congre*s,

would make the now-familiar Stars and

Stripes with its 4# stars an altered em

blem. This shifting of stars in the

Nation's flag has the indorsement of

history, however, for it started with the

13 original State*. Then came Ver

mont in 1791. to add another star, with

Kentucky following a year later.

In 1796. Tennessee brought its star

of statehood and placed it in the red.

white and blue banner, and Ohio joined

in 1802. Louisiana came in 1812 and

Indiana in 1816. with Mississippi plac

ing its star in the flag in 1817. Illinois

came in 1818. Alabama in 1819, Maine

in 1820 and Missouri In 1821.

Then came a lull in the placing of

! stars In the flag to denote new States

i added, for Arkansas was the next one

j to be admitted in 1836. Michigan joined

i the Union in 1837 and Florida and

Texas came in 1845. Next came lowa

in 1846 with Wisconsin's star appear

ing on the blue horizon in 1848. Cali

fornia of the Far West shone in the

flag’s firmament in 1850 and Minnesota

came eight years later.

The Pacific Coast States and those

of the west then began to join the

Union in earnest, for Oregon came in

1859. Kansas arrived in the fold of

; the Union in 1861 and West Virginia

i appeared in 1863. with Nevada join

ing the year following. Nebraska was

| next, coming in 1867.

i Colorado became one of the sovereign

States in 1876 and North Dakota was

admitted to statehood in 1889. the same i

! v eai as South Dakota, Montana and !

Washington. Idaho and Wyoming'

! were elected to the brotherhood of the

Union in 1890 and Utah came in 1896.

Three States have been admitted to

the Union in this century, which may

see many additional stars added to Old

Glory, before the year 2,000 dawns upon 1

the world. America's newest admis

sions to the family of States that make,

up the Union are: Oklahoma. 1907:

Arizona and New Mexico, both/in 1913.

the college boarding club, in which

nearly a hundred young women an

nually earn half their board or all of it.

There is the ‘chain gang.’ *s the bo.v< ,

facetiously call it, which graded drives,

dug excavations, cut wood, set out,

trees, made brick, built fences, cut

grass, served as janitors and did the

other snd varied kinds of work always

to be done on the campus and in tho i

buildings of a large and growing

school. i

“There is not the slightest prejudice <

against the students who avail them- (

selves of the opportunity for self-heln. ,

Manual labor is honorable at Mary- |

vllle. This is to be expected when

one-half the student body do some \

kind of work during the college year i

and most of the others work during the j

vacation months. Not only is self-re

spect unimpaired, but the respect of |

oth»rs is secured by the manifestation ,

of this spirit of industry and self-re- \

spect.” ,

Dr. CVenleaf has received hundreds ,

of letters of like import from n’.l parts .

of the country. j i

Students Lam $1,65M»0.

At New York University, for in- j

stance, half of the 13,000 students

worked part time last year and earned j '

about $1,650,000. according to Francis i

W. Lawson, head of the bureau of em- I

ployment there. Almost as much again i

was earned during the Summer months. j

“Their jobs,” Lawson said, “ranged I

all the way from r series of house- 1 1

cleaning and other domestic tasks, !

which netted perhaps considerably less j,

than $250 a year, to sales Jobs paying !

$75 a week. In addition to the day

students, there have been some 17,000 1

evening students employed during the j

regular working hours and earning 1

anywhere from SI,OOO to $5,000 c

year.”

So goes the story at virtually every ,

i institution of higher learning in the

j country. It is a story of the irrepres- 1

, slble spirit of youth—a spirit that !

I brooks no obstacle in the pathway to j

I self-betterment and independence. |!

Dr. Greenleaf believes it is a story l,

i that answers the frequent cry of the

cynic: "Whet is youth coming to?”

| And it is an answer sufficiently

i strong to drown out the din of ali ,

i cynics for some time to come, he is ,

1 convinced. | (

I *

Bandits in Corsica

Honest; Never Steal

j

In order to be a real Corsican "ban- J

! dit” it is necessary to remain perfectly ,

honest and respectful of other people's

i property. The only motive admitted for

banditry by Corsican tradition is the

1 old "vendetta." Romanetti, "king of

I the maquis" imaqula means brushwood).

| who died two years ago, was an old

i fashioned "bandit” and under his gal- j <

I lent rule tourists peacefully enjoyed the

; splendors of the magnificent Corsican

, mountains.

But since Romanetti's death another

; “bandit” appeared, but dropped all the

i noble traditions of Corsican banditry,

! and turned to robbery and burglary.

H»s most, sensational crimes were the

; murder of three members of Romanetti’s j

| family and the pillage of his former '

i home and the hold-up of a sightseeing ‘

! car. I

| For the first t'me in the history of j

"the brush" the Corsican populace,

more indignant, than afraid, gave as-'

slstance to the police and the disloyal |

"bandit" was promptly shot down by j

♦he gendarmes.

Then It w»? dt.v’eypve'l that :h» m»n '

was not at all s Ccraican. but a gang- 1

star frrm Marseilles. Corsican honor

was a*4*

Next Four Years Will Be Vital

To Cause of Labor in America

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i benofit. itself and th® world generally by

| building homos instead of battleships.

Labor, strange as it may seem, is vi

tally interested in making industry

Krofi table for the owners—for those v.ho

ave Invested capital in factory build

ings, machinery and distributing facili

ties. The reason is that no industry

that is not prosperous can pay good

wages. The coal industry is an exam

ple of that. And the coal industry is a

national economic problem—one that

needs broad vision and constructive

thought by the new Congress and the

new President, by men familiar with

markets, with methods of mining, with

transportation conditions, with labor

and its condition and needs. It is not

a problem to be solved by the use of a

“big stick” or political measures. It is

a problem that needs business brains, j

the ability to organize, the ability to |

induce conflicting interests to work to- j

gether for the common good.

In the same way, labor is interested j

in the steel industry, even though it is I

one almost, wholly lacking in trade j

union organisation. When the financial I

pages of the newspapers chronicle in a j

brief sentence (as they have sometimes

in the past) that rolling mills or steel

mills are operating at half capacity,

what that means to labor is not re

vealed to most readers. But to those |

who have lived in the industrial dis- j

tricts. of Ohio or Pennsylvania in by

| gone days, it means plants shut down, |

| idle men aimlessly drifting about th* i

! streets of Pittsburgh. Wheeling. B®llnire

and other cities large and small in th*

steel sector; grocery and meat bills

mounting, merchants selling less furni

ture and clothing; women and children

j going hungry. So it is that labor is

directly interested in the prosperity of

America's key industries: in the tariff,

the tax laws and the immigration laws;

foreign loans and foreign debts, flood

reconstruction and waterway plans, and

all the other things that make or mar

business.

Knows Its Problems.

Labor knows that when factories are

operating full time and owners are

earning 6 cr 7 or 8 per cent on their

capital there is work which will furnish

money for not only food and clothing

but for flivvers and radios and houses

with gprdcn space and the other com

forts of life.

Labor knows that its problems and

those of industry are more than na

tional in scope; that they are based on

world conditions. It knows that a i

change of a tariff law or policy in Eng

land. Canada or anv one of a dozen

other nations may close a market or

open one for American goods; throw

our owm workers out of employment or

create work for more men in Pitts- 1

burgh or San Francisco or Atlanta.

Labor wants and should have, during

the next administration, proper restric

tions upon child labor and convict

labor.

Labor realizes that there are eco

nomic conditions that subject some

workers to injustice in comparison with :

th» hours and earnings of workers in ;

other industries. There arc, for in

stance, striking differences in wage

scales in different sections of the conn- ;

try. Industry should pay equal wages j

for equal work, whether performed by |

men or by women.

The "evening up” and balancing of j

Industries is important to the workers ;

as well as the owners of industry. How-- ! :

ever, it is not a political problem, and !

cannot be solved by mere good inten- } .

tions toward the workingman. It is j

an economic problem with a very im- !

portant human aspect.

Certain it is that during those years j

the right to collective bargaining by j

labor must be upheld and maintained.

Its value and necessity have been defi

nitely established: and there must be

no impairment of the right by legis

lative or administrative act. <

Must Have Fair Treatment.

Despite our economic progress and its | (

benefits to labor, therp are some millions j

of people in the United States de- ,

pendent for their living upon wages of | (

from sl7 to SBO a wee!;. They must j

have fair and sympathetic treatment, i

Too often such men are old at 40. and, j (

like other labor, they may be thrown

on the industrial scrap heap. To im- j

prove further the condition of this class ; ;

of labor, to keep their children from j

the necessity of poorly paid w-ork in j

stores and shops until they can acquire

an education, to prevent old-age de- j

pendency, are the tasks of labor as a j (

whole—and of government, too.

In the last few years great progress ! (

has been made in eliminating from in- j

dustry 9. 10 and 12 hour days and 7- !;

da.y weeks for labor. But the complete j

elimination cf (he overextended work |

day and the working week without a day j

of rest is another of the tasks that con- j

front labor. The agencies of the Gov- i

eminent can and should help.

To provide further funds for the j

building of decent, comfortable homes !

for all the workers of America is a prob- :

lcm of labor in the solution of which the j

Government can assist without, how- i

ever, adopting any “paternalistic" policy, j

Mr. Koover described w'ork in this di- I

rection in his Newark speech and j

showed that unemployment in building (

trades has been reduced by nearly one- i

half. j,

It is the duty of labor and of govern- |

ment also to bring about utilization of i

imnroved machinery, mass production j

and labor-saving devices, not as mere j

money-making agencies, but as conserv-i

era of life and health and lesseners of j

fatigue; to make life easier and better !

for those who toil.

Immigration Restriction..

Proper restriction of immigration is of j :

the moat vital concern to all wage and

sa’ery earners. In the four years from :

1911 to 19H, inclusive, more than

« rna.eoo people cam* to America from

the Old World—to glut our market for

laber and to bring about depression that '

was not relieved until our industries

wore stimulated by war orders from Eu

rope. In 1921, the last year before im

migration restrictions were fully applied,

805.000 aliens landed on our shores.

Even under the restrictions now' in effect

more than 300.000 immigrants entered

the United States in the year ended

June 30, 1923. Sixty thousand of these

came from Mexico nlone. Restriction of

immigration involves delicate problems

of foreign relations, as well as serious

domestic issues. Mr. Hoover bore out

the ne®d of a continuation of this policy

in his Newark speech.

Progress has been made in finding

just means of adjudicating disputes be

tween employes and employers. More

than 2,600 such disputes, involving

1.600,000 workers, vrere reported in 1916.

Less than 400 were reported in 1927,

with fewer than 300,000 workers af

feoted. This is a remarkable showing,

j and the next four years should witness

| a continuation of the efforts of Federal

! agencies to bring about industrial con

| dilation. To remove the causes, to bring

i about mutually satisfactory, peaceful

settlements of controversies between

| workers and employers is a problem of

| first magnitude for labor, capital and

the Go -ernment.

Foreign industrial development and

reparation payments, w'ar debts to

America, competition in naval atma

! ment, European industrial combinations

! to meet American competition—all these

1 are problems that affect the workers of

America no less than their employers.

! The economic conditions of the wwld

are extremely unstable. To bring out

own country through the next four

years without business depression dis

astrous alike to workers and owners of

Industries will be a task requiring the

most skillful and capable leadership by

the President.

Want Steady Employment.

The men and women generally who

constitute labor have no desire to amass

great wealth. Their desire is for steady

and reasonably profitable employment,

for security, for equality of ooportunity

for themselves and their children, for

the means to give their boys and girls a

proper home and an adequate education.

The desire of labor is not for a full din

ner pail or a mere living wage, but for

a saving wage—that they may provide

for their old age.

Labor exacts no promises from the

candidates except that it may be dealt

w’ith impartially, fairly and justly.

And the votes of the w-orkers of Amer

ica—men and women alike—will be in

fluenced in November not by promises

or glib phrases, but by study of the con

ditions and problems confronting the

Nation and deliberate judgment as to i

which of the candidates is best qualified

to assume the tremendous responsibil

ities of Chief Executive in this time of

economic stress and strain.

THE PUBLIC LIBRARY

Recent accessions at the Public

Library and lists of recommended

reading will appear in this column each

Sunday.

Biography.

Ephesian, pseud. Winston Churchill.

E-C478?.

Meynell, Wilfrid. The Man Disraeli.

E-Ds3me.

Prising, E. E. The Estate of George 1

Washington, Deceased. E-W27pr.

Rodman. Hugh. Yarns of a Kentucky

Admiral. E-R614.

Symons, Arthur. Eleanora Duse,

E-D943s

Whit,ridge, Arnold. Dr. Arnold of!

Rugby. E-Ar667w-h.

Willis, I. C. Elizabeth Barrett Brown- I

ing. E-BBl9wi.

Workman, H. B. John Wyclif. 2 v. j

1926. E-W973\vo.

Advertising.

Curtis Publishing Co.. Philadelphia, j

Advertising in the Country Gentle-!

man. HKA-C944a.

Curtis Publishing Co, Philadelphia. ;

Advertising in the Ladies' Home

Journal. 1927. HKA-C944a1.

Curtis Publishing Co.. Philadelphia.

Advertising in the Saturday Eve

ning Post. HKA-C944as.

Curtis Publishing Co., Philadelphia, i

Leading Advertisers, 1927. HKA-'

C 944 1.

Schneller. F. A., and Hamilton, R. V.

Advertising for the High School

Journalist. HKA-Schs.

Politics.

Chafee, Zechariah. The Inquiring j

Mind. JO-C 34. '

Crowther, Samuel. The Presidency vs.

Hoover. JUB3-CBB9p.

New York. Governor, 1919-1920 (Alfred j

E. Smith). Progressive Democracy.

Addresses and State Papers. JUBSI

-

Powell, E. A. Embattled Borders; East

ern Europe From the Balkans to the

Baltic. JU3O-PB7.

Wight, C. V. B. L'hcur passe. Yp-

W62Bh.

Poetry.

Bodenheim. Mfxwrll. The King of

Spain. YP-8832k.

Campbell, O. J„ and Pyre, J. F. A., cds.

Great English Poets. YP-9C l/>3e.

Gorges. Grace. The Bells of Italy.

YP-GG7Bb

Lafrentz, F. W. Cowboy Stuff. YP-L

137 c.

Ward, Christopher. The Saga of Cap'n

John Smith. YW-W2I3S.

Christianity.

Anderson, C. P.. bp. Tw-entieth Cen

tury Discipleship. CK-An23t.

De Blois, A. K. Some Problems of the

Modern Mtnist-r. CX-D353.

Fairbairn, R. E. The Appeal to Reality.

CC-F 157.

Fleming. D. J. Attitudes Toward Other

Faiths. CE-F 626. ,

MrAf»e C. B. Ministerial Practices. |

CX-M 112 m.

Traver, A. J. Life Service. CK-T 69 1.

I REVIEWS OF AUTUMN BOOKS

! ‘ *

j -

Appreciation of Rare Person Who Sees Both Sides —Children

and Divorce as Background of Farce —New Reminder

of Alphonse Daudet.

BY IDA GILBERT MYF.RS.

THE OTHER SIDE. By Strut hers

Burt, author of “Th? Interpreter's

House," etc. New York: Charles

Scribner's Son*.

YOU come upon him once In a

long time —oh. years intervening

between times—in somebody'*

house or in the street or. better,

walking along the roadway. And

at once, he begins to talk—as people

j should when they meet—to talk about

I many things. The present time interests

I him in some of its important aspects—

the law and its course, democracy and

Its true content, and direction, the ten

\ dency to see the errors of other*. Europe

and its effect upon the minds and man

i ners of Americans. The subject is not

| of so great moment as is the fact that

| in no time at all you make a discovery

about the man. He's one in a thousand

I and more. Yes. he thinks, but so many

jdo that—think after a fashion. That's

! not the point. Instead, the attraction

; of the man lies in his ability to see two

j sides of whatever theme he happens to

! have in mind. Now, I leave it to you if

this is not. truly, a distinction and a

| rare gift besides. These talks are all in

1 demonstration of this pow’er on the part

!of Struthers Burt. And what an cxcit

' in? companion it makes of the man.

! Just at the moment, you see. we are

| enormously overfed on exclusive and

I one-sided views and shall be for a cou

j pie of months or more. So. to meet, a

! man like this one is like coming upon

I the shadow of a mighty rock in a weary

j landfall of that. Whether talking about

| us at home, about our virtue* or our

follies, or about Europeans in their like

endowment of human traits, he talks

from side to side and roundabout in a

manner that inspires emulation. And

j that, in substance, is the office of this

highly entertaining and this very wise

summary of opinions on many themes—

i that it makes one determine to enlarge

j the borders of his own vision and to

i emulate the delightful manner of

I Struthers Burt in voicing his thoughts

I ! about any number of vital matters.

; l Read “Hokum.” Read ‘ The Rest of the

I Babbitts.” Read “Furor Britannicus.”

, | Read the whole book, for the stir of it,

| I for the truth and sound sense of it.

** * *

THE CHILDREN. By Edith Wharron,

j author of “Twilight Sleep,” etc. New

J York: D. Appleton <fc Co.

'T'HE spectacle of human nature in its

1 average of behavior and misbe

havior is not an inspiring one. The

common run, hovewer. the mere unpi’o

fessionals, recognize the discouraging

blend of good and bad that the human

is, letting It go at that., save for some

vague faith in religion, or time, or eter

nity. to lift the fallen estate of man.

With the artist it is. of course, different.

He feels compelled to do something

about it. certainly in the later and more

mature stages of his art. At. first, how

ever. he is likely to be content with as

literal a portrayal of the facts as the

structural demands of drama, or other

artistic medium permit. And so we get

from him a body of literary realism.

But this does not satisfy the sincere

I public-minded artist. It is too slow a

I process, exciting only comment and

I criticism as to the value of this sort of

! writing either as art or as an instru

j ment of progress. Here is something of

I a dilemma. What to do? Why. that is

! easy. Make the picture black, where it

was shadowy and gray before. Many of

the most honest, most sincere of the

writers are doing just this, stewing the

drama down to its dregs, getting it dark

and gooey and messy, skimming off any

lighter stuff that floats at the surface

of this brew. The product is inevitable.

! Where gifted writers have hitherto dealt

competently and powerfully with com

edy in its piercing lightness they are

now making friends with farce—amus

ing and diverting, it is true, but with no

thrust and drive to it. “The Children”

is farce as, to be sure, its gifted and

j famous author designed it to be. She

i knows, none better. The quarrel is not

: on that, score. Rather does it rest on

the belief that farce is futile except as

a means of smiles and laughter. These

children, a mob of them, are linked In

the loose bond of any number of

divorced fathers and mothers. The fam

ily (?) is held together by the mother

passion of the oldest daughter—of some

pair within the complex of parenthood

that exists here. In a manner that, un

i der the confusion, is undeniably true

Mrs. Wharton shows the calamity to

each of these individual children that

lack of love and care and training pro

duces. Clever and interesting, of course,

but. too stressed, overdone, exclusive of

any ray of reason or plausibility. One

laughs here—w here he should cry or ,

swear or do any other positive thing. |

The problem exists, all right. There is |

no doubt about that. But with all of

its practiced art, with its ready suavity,

with its smooth story flow’—this is not

r. dynamic novel on the subject of

divorce evils. And really why should it

be? The business of the novel, like that

of the play is, so people say, to lead

them away from the problems and per- I

plexitics of reality into a fair land of

j forgetting. The difficulty here is that j

j the theme falls in between the two j

stools of Intention—reform on the one

hand and mere diversion on the other.

** * *

LAWRENCE AND THE ARABIAN I

ADVENTURE. By Robert. Graves.!

Illustrated. New York: Doubleday, |

j Doran & Co.

: 'PWO or three years ago Low'dl j

: A Thomas wrote a book about a pic-!

turesque young Englishman whose ad

ventures with the tribes of Arabia made

I a most stirring stbry. This account

; by Thomas created a general interest

j in that young Oxford student who.

something of an archeologist, went off

; into Arabia, there to pursue research

along his line of study. His interest

n the native tribes, his friendship for

them, gave him in time an influence

over them of no small Importance. In j

this book Robert Graves tells the full j

story of Lawrence. Here is a biography

i of careful statement, of full content,!

| giving the career of this young man J

|up to tiie present. Mr. Graves stresses |

! the accuracy of his report as well as !

its completeness. The interest of tile }

whole lies, however, in his study of tills j

"exasperatingly complex personality.”

Here he looks into the disposition, tem

perament, character of Lawrence as >

these are acted upon by the unusual

adventures that seem to follow him

throughout his course and wherever

jhe goes. It is a difficult thing to de

liver a man over, as he is, to readers,

j And in this respect, it appears as if

the author has succeeded in a measure

I that is established by his single-hearted

! zeal in pursuing a most elusive subject.

I About one part of this hook there can i

be no two minds. That is the part.

having to do with the Arabian coun- 1

try itself—its natural characteristics, its

people, their pursuits and problems. |

their aspirations for self-rule and so on 1

through the course of their history up

to lhe time of the appearance of Law

rence. As to the study of the young

man himself it suggests an oveicare

on the pa.rt of the writer, as If, lust

possibly, the role of Lawrence in Arabia

i has served to create an excess em

phasis of points which, after all. are

a rather common endowment. Maybe

not. I’m sure the task w f as a difficult,

one that might have been made less

cryptic, and puzzling by the subject

himself.

** * *

“LETTERS FROM MY MILL.” Bv Al

phonse Daudet. Illustrated. Boston:'

Little, Brown & Co.

j r pHANKS. warm and sincere, go to I

. 1 the Beacon Library of Fiction!

| Classics, for this beautiful reminder of

Alphonse Daudet. The times buffet us *

about so strenuously that we have no

! leisure unless upon some happy hour,t

like this one, a great artist invites us to j

I sit down a minute with him. It was to

be but a minute, mind you. At the end

| of that time I was in thrall to the half

; forgotten charm of this man. simple as

! the morning, shining as the day, full of

love for beauty in the landscape, in j

childhood, in small animals, in flowers

Oh, an easement of dear delight, this :

day. or hour, with ‘ Letters From My j

Mill.” He bought the old mill, Daudet i

l did. Listen to him as he takes pos- j

i | session: "‘Twas the rabbits who were:

S astonished! 80 long had they seen the ;

I 1 mill door closed, the walls and the !

platform invaded by vprdure. that they |

had come to think the race of millers

; was extinct, and finding the place con

j venient, they made it, as it were, a cen

j ter of strategical operations. The night

- ! of my arrival there were fully, without

I exaggeration, a score sitting in a circle

r i on the platform, warming their paws in

i ! the moonshine. One second to open a

i \ window, and. scat! away went the

i j bivouac, routed: all the little white be

> j hinds scurrying away, tails up, into the

f thicket. I hope they will come back

[ again.” Then there was the owl, the

l [ solemn old owl. “with the head of a

: j thinker”—but you read for yourself

■ j about the owl and about “M. Seguin's

. ! Goat” and about all the rest of the

■ • wholly fascinating things and happen-

I ingfi.

. j A fine thing to do. Mr. Little. Brown

i ' St Co., that of making The Beacon Li

i i brary of Fiction Classics. “Thank you

- and good night.” as the radio man saj’s.

i** * *

> “OH. RANGIR!” A Book About, the

; National Parks. By Horace M. Al

i bright and Frank J. Taylor. Illua

-1 trated. Stanford University Press.

j Yl/TTH * n * ulomobilp panting at prac

ticriiy every curbstone, the whole

| out-of-doors is within every one's reach.

. And th» growing army of tourists gives

. evidence that the face of nature is.

. indeed, a luring one, threading upon

the high** vs of the land millions of

; spinning Wheels

- ‘Oh, Hanger!" is a clear response to

the call of the tourist. In a bulk ro

’ slight as to fit even the scantiest leisure

for reading, here is the story of our

Notional Parks, the prime objective of

j the modern American nomads of the

; ! Summertime. In feeling and move

j ment this is story, not history, not

! bare description. It has a regular

! I “once upon a time” flavor when a

i group around the campfire, dazed with

' | the wond/rs of the Yellowstone region

• ! which they had been exploring, fell to

! ! soeculating on what should be done

1 : about this region of miracle and marvel.

' | It ought to be open to all. so the talk

; ran. and no one’s private domain.

• ; This thought grew and action came ro

i its support. Then something like 60

> i years ago Congress turned its mind in

! j this direction, creating our national

' ! park system. The story is all here,

J | with a comprehensive body of inferma

; I tion about these parks going along

' | with the origin and progress of the

| movement. And there is here, too, the

; , nearer story, the one about that pic

■ i turesque and potent personage, the

j j ranger, who is the presiding genius of

! | these reservations. Counselor to the

; wayfarer and guide end friend, he is

i the source of all useful information for

; the tourist, of advice and suggestion.

’ A brave man and an enduring one.

, An enthusiast about his own Job as e

; j rule. He has knowledge beyond that

, i of any one else concerning his field of

work. He has wisdom and patience

and a beautiful sense of humor. The

animals are his intimates, no less than

the man-animal is. “Oh. Ranger, can

I take your picture with a bear?”

“Just a minute, ma’am, until I show

this gentleman where to go fishing.”

So the story begins and so it runs

along, companionably, until it comes

time to tell ‘‘the story of the National

Park Service” and to describe “the

National Parks and Monuments." when

it becomes conciS". direct and complete

ly informative. Either touring, in fact

or by the book route. this is the most

useful and. certainly, a delightful story.

** ♦ a

HISTORIC ROADSIDES IN NEW JER

SEY. Society of Colonial Wars In

the State of J>*v Jersev. Plainfield,

N. J.

: A good deal of the Puritan still hangs

on in the most of us. We still hold

a secret, suspicion against pure pleasure,

instinctively seeking to inject some

thing of utility into our playtime pur

suits. Here is a little book that fits

our plight exactly. With it in our

1 pockets and ourselves settled comfort- j

. ably in an automobile, away we go upon j

a thoroughly creditable lesson in his- !

1 tory. The State of New' Jersey is the !

I book under our wheels. And a very

| good history lesson this is going to be,

j as even a not overreliablg memory re

| minds us. Not only are we moving for

ward from point to point in the Colonial

I story of this State, but. by virtue of his

toric spot—site, old building, monument,

; whatnot —we are set back into the

spirit and mood of Colonial days, reliev

| ing the interests and activities of a

century and a half ago. With this

book ns the guide, we are able to wheel

[ in the sun and air of all out-of-doors

j through the historic points in this State

of notable contribution to the begin

! nings of our country. The scenery and

j the highways add greatly to thp joy of

| the adventure as we go learning a new ;

and beautiful lesson of the patriotism I

i and devotion of New Jersey to the

ideals of independence and' political)

democracy. Many have joined in the

making of this boox, many have bs- j

lieved in the usefulness of this serviep.

And it is a greatly beneficial work, to;

gather from records of every sort reli- !

able information, to co-ordinate this!

material into a coherent and compre- 1

hensive unity, to project it in the attrac- J

Live and convenient form that it here ’

presents. Then one falls to wondering j

j why education—l mean the formal j

i brand of education—dees not under;

| such inspiration as is daily being given i

j to it—docs not under such inspiration j!

i as is daily being given to if; w'hy it, j

| too. does not become less formal, more ;

> inviting. However, let's step on the

: gas and take another spin through the !

I lovely and historic land before us—the '

I land of New Jersey.

** * *

CONDEMNED TO DEVIL'S ISLAND:

The Biography of an Unknown Con

vict. By Blair Niles, author of

"Black Haiti,” etc. Illustrated by

Both Krebs Morris. New York:

Harcourt, Brace & Co.

“\yHY should I read this! I’ll not

do it. I’ll give it up.” But—

you don’t give it qp. not until the ißst

j word of the terrible story has been read.

. Nor should you, for this is a tru* story

tnd some time—in a million years or so.

such work as this will have grown into

| an irresistible rebellion against certain

! modes of punishment that prevail In

this twentieth century of progress. How

ever, that is something else. The thing 1

in hand is the story of Michel, and oth

ers, but chiefly the story of Michel, con

demned to Devil’s Island for a period

of years. And here is the day by day

record of what it means to be con

demned to imprisonment and exile in a

penal colony. Listen to Mrs. Niles for

v minute in explanation of her purnose

in writing this book. “I went to French

Guiana to study the most notorious J

penal settlement in the world, it being i

my plan to use that spectacular Devil's

Island colony to dramatize the universal

problem of th® criminal.” To get as

close as possible to the ’universal prob

lem of the criminal’ is the purpose of

this study. The particular Institution

provides merely the best medium for :he

study of th® problem, for a study of the

human, gone wrong, enduring the pen

alty of his revolt against the law. Here

-A.

! is a study of the prisoner, wherever h®

may be, of his life, his thoughts, his

j feelings, his reaction to the quality of

his surroundings. “None can sound the

profound misery of the convict.” It is

this, just this, that th* author brings

out from this first-hand study of Michel

and his associates. A sentimental! it,

sobbing over wickedness’ Not at all.

Rather, or so it seems to me. a pro-

I soundly serious woman whose mind

j turns to the ptison. as the mind of nn

! other might turn to the slums or to my

i other of the agencies of misery thH

; blight a generally humane and well-

I wishing world. Sincerity is the keynote

here. A will to go to the bottom of—

not a system, but to the bottom of a

i criminal's heart under the mode of pun

ishment meted out to him—that is >h®

puroose of this book. Blair Niles is a

! writer of crystal word. Better than

! that, she is a w'rit®r who has the power

1 to carry forward th* actuality byway of

her words and dramatic combinations.

Oh. a terrible story, a great story!

BOOKS RECEIVED

THE LOST LYRIST. By Elizabeth

Hollister Frost. Illustrated by

Henry Emerson Tuttle. New York:

Harper Sc, Brcs.

iHE UNINTENTIONAL CHARM OF

MEN. By Fiances Lester Warn®r.

Wlh Unintentional Drawings by

Mayo Dyer Hersey. Boston: Hough

ton Mifflin Co.

FRIENDSHIP. And Oth®r Poems. Bv

Annie June Johnson. Boston: The

Four Seas Co.

IIN THE HOUSE OF THE HIGH

PRIEST: a Drama in On* Act. By

Claude Houghton. author of

“Judas." etc. Boston: The Four

Seas Co.

TAMMANY BOY: A Romance and a

Political Career. By Dermot Cav

• anagh. New York: J. H. Sears Sc

| Co., Inc.

' ACCORDING TO JOHN THROUGH

THE LOUD SPEAKER. By Fer

nand E. d’Humy. Boston: The

Stratford Co.

THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD: A

View of the Meaning of Life and

Teaching of Jesus Christ. By Reu

ben Nordsten. Boston: The

Stratford Co.

WHITE OAK FARM. By Elliott

Crayton McCants. New York:

Longmans. Green Sc Co.

THE ESSENTIALS OF CHRISTIAN

FAITH. By Hugh R. Magill. Bos

ton: The Stratford Co.

MATHEMATICS IN LIBERAL EDU

CATION; A Critical Examination

of the Judgments of Prominent Men

of the Ages. Bj' Florlan Cajorl.

Fh.D.. Professor of the History of

Mathematics in th? University of

California. Boston: The Christo

pher Publishing House.

PERSIAN PICTURES. By Gertrude

Bell. With a Preface by Sir E.

Denisort Ross. New York; Bonl

& Llveright.

A TENDERFOOT WITH PEARY. By

George Borup. With Frontispiece

in Color and Eight Illustrations In

Black and White from Photographs.

New Edition. New York: Fred

erick A. Stokes Co.

THE FRONT PAGE. By B*n H®cht

and Charles MacArthur. Introduc

tion by Jed Harris. ' New' York:

Covici-Friede.

MORE HAPPENINGS IN CALIFOR

NIA: A Series of Sketches of the

Great California Out-of-Doors. By

W. P. Bartlett, author of “Happen

ings.” Volume 11. B'ston: The

Christopher Publishing House.

THE MASKED RIDER. By Hoffman

Birney, author of "King of the

Mesa.” Philadelphia: The Penn

Publishing Co.

PSYCHO - PHYSIO - KINESIOLOO v ;

The New Healih and Efficiency

Science. By Dr. Frank E. Dor

chester. Naturopathic-Saniprnuv

Physician. Boston: The Chr.s:o

pher Publishing House.

PRACTICAL HEALTH EDUCATION

SERIES—PERSONAL HYGIENE

By A. Gertrude Jacob. Teacher of

Health Education, Thomas Jeffer

son High School. Brooklyn, N. Y..

etc.. Pen Sketches by Anna M.

Cowlin, Washington Irving High

School. New- York City. Boston:

The Christopher Publishing House.

UNDER FROZEN STARS. By Georg®

Marsh, author of “The Valley of

Voices.” etc. Philadelphia: Th*

Penn Publishing Co.

j NEVER GO BACK: A Novel Without

a Plot. By George Boas. N?w

York: Harper & Bros.

A SECOND BOOK OF POEMS IN

VOLVING LOVE. 3v S. H. Sam

uels. Brooklyn: Published by the

author.

THE WAY OF UME. By Edith A.

Sawyer. With an Introduction b

William Elliot Griffis. New Yori.:

William Edwin Rudge.

Family Pedals Around World.

On a bicycle tour around the world,

Adolf Herr and family recently arrived

in Lisbon, Portugal. The party consists

of Herr, aged 41, his wife, Hedwig. 25,

their daughter, Irmgard, 4, and two

; brothers-in-law of Herr, 24 and 20. The

; five left Berlin July 3. 1926, and have

i already pedaled through Germany,

! Hungary, Austria. Czechoslovakia. Ser

bia. Rumania. Bu’garia. Luxemburg.

Switzerland. Belgium. Holland, France.

Spain and Portugal. From Portugal

: they will visit Spain, Morocco, the

i Canaries and South America. They

1 plan to complete their journey in 1931.

| The little girl generally rides in a side

car attached to Herr's cycle, but when

on good roads pedals a tiny wheel of

her own.

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