T ' Vf Tf" R"" -W f1F' "? H 'Wt-J( if ?,V "'St- . EVENING LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, JULY T, 1917 ' fB- I iai iu-i t UUI; tin-' wM wU an I PALMER PUTS DRAFT ISSUE UP TO BRUMBAUGH Refutes Governor's Defense by Quoting Letters and Telegrams REPEATS HLS CHARGES Statements From Nearly Thirty Counties Show No Appoint ment Suggestions rovernor Ilrumbaugh's statement thnt he ill not select men to ho recommended nr the Pennsylvania exemption boards, ;, merely pnssccl on to Washington names Commended b Mayors. Sheriffs and Con rollers Is denounced by former Repre sentative A Mitchell ralmer. Democratic ' iradcr In Pennsylvania, as a lylns at , ,mpt of the Governor to clear his own ' skirts, rainier says the officials tho Oov ' trnor mentioned were not consulted, and . ,(fr letters and telegrams from such ' iwclats In thirty counties which flatly Jfontradlct tho Governor. 'S ........ thn nAnntn et Tannvlfnnli maimer mj" iw ,...v,.. v. . ,..... no longer take the Governor seriously, anyway, and experience has taught them to have but little confidence In what the Governor says or does. Further developments confirm the original charges made according to Palmer. In Northampton County, the recommendations were made by t Brumbaugh factional leader, not holding any city or county otrico. In Schuyiklll County, the appointments were made by Paul W Houck, well-known local boss, now a part of the Brumbaugh Admin Utratlon, without consulting nny county or city officials In Lackawanna County, the appointments were made by Senator Lynch, a local Brumbaugh henchman. In tho strong Democratic county of Berks, In sections where the Democratic vote Is twice that of the Republican, and tho Soclnllst vote ox ceeds the Republican vote, all the members of the board are Republicans. Most of the names were sent to tho Governor by the minority commissioner. Tho president of the board of commissioners was not con sulted. , " Governor Brumbaugh will have to explain further, Palmer says, before he can sub stantiate his statement that ho did not make the appointments and that no politics Is In volved In those. Palmer declared Hint the Situation In this State Is worso than in any State In the country and tho operation of the selects e draft law will bo Berlously dls credited If the plans of the Republican leaders are not thwarted by Federal action. In a statement today Palmer said: When Goernor Brumbaugh's attention was called to the charge that political considerations had controlled the appoint ment of many exemption boards through out tho State, he made this remarkable reply Charges marts hv A Mitchell Pnlm- thit the Governor of Pennrylvanla wna ruMM by political conrlderatlcn In malting appointments to exemption beards nre nbeolutely fol-o and bsielesn, If he saa that I woh guided by pointer, he lies If he dor not know thnt I flia not make a single appointment he I a fool. If. knowing that 1 did not mai.o one appointment he siys what he Is rrdited with ia)lnr, ho is a rnscnl The trutn of th matter 1 mat nil boards were made by the cflklals a? Wrehlnrton. I til, rot make a ilnsle appo'ntm nt In cltla of th? first nnd eecoid Clara's recommendations nere made by the Mayor th c'fitT!on Irani ami the city fierflcsl authorities In the third clns c tl 1 the city eomtrnller nnd the- city mrdlcal au thorities. In tc intles. bv the Sheriff, th pres ident of th Conntv CommltfloncrH and the county medical authorities. GETS MANY TELEGRAMS I hao no desire to engage In nny controersy with Governor Brumbaugh. The people of thh State no lonrjsr take the Coernor rerlously, nnd experience has taught them to have but little confi dence In what he says or does I posl thely know that he linn allowed the dirtiest kind of factional politics to be Injected Into the operation of tho se Iectle draft law. but I am not surprised that he would deny it. I nm su-.efirlsed, hoimer, that he should undertake to deny his responsibility In tho matter be cause there are so many men who can and do contradict him For him to say that he did not ma'.to tho appol ltments v Is a mere quibble He recommt led to the War Department every man f. every exemption board In Pennsylvania, -nd tho War Department accepted them ' rovost Marshal Crowder has plainly '. clnred that the Governor's appointments were accepted from top to bottom. Since tho Governor's declaration that ho simply sent on to Washington the names sub mitted to him by sheriffs of counties, mayors and controllers of thlrd-cljss cities, etc I have receded dozens of telegrams and letters, from all over Penn sylvania, from sheriffs, mayors and con trollers, denying that they were . con tulted In any manner In these appoint ments and explaining how tho appoint ments were made. Some of these are as follows: &$iVK!, rot'VTY Joseph P. nryan. ,?.!. ' "'" mit consulted and mnde no nX. . P feanrdlns exemption boards In Beaver County " JSSR? COU.VTV Haln-i O. Matthews, comrals.ioner'a clerk- "Neither tho Sheriff STj MUn,3i Commissioners mad- recom ffS?. "0n8 'nr exemption boards. Tho boards ii .1 ffuJty insist of thirteen Republicans aa eight Democrats." h?HJ!'E!fro''"rY Theodore I.. Krandle. Su - 1 ," nt asked for uccstlons and if,..ni' .,h.n1w .who would lie appointed till uer notified of appointments." rJeC,i;5lli)Lt, Ol'NTY John S. Chaplin. i.l..'., sherJF , li suf-ecsfona or recom mendations tiled from this office." Sh?i5P??..t:i'!:'NTV Michn'el K llartnead.v, i?..iilL. Neither I nor Thomas II. Cral. ;!?itni 1 the board of commissioners, was consulted in making .appointments." Sh.Sw1''.?.11. I'OUNTY O. II. Talmer, u. ... JJ"',a .no suBBeatlons to Governor to exemption boards." tSiiSPW ..COUNTY W. W. Caldwell, S.r.i..'. . a!$ not appoint any one. I un cWmI the ftevernor named them." C. C. S5 JXr f"ldent county commissioners: "I !tk?0 .name 'hem from the couno. I had aothlna- to do with the appointments." trntuSB.!??un Dewltt A. Fry. City Con fir.. " hacl n"hinc to Uo with It. It must al,. n n..,h" County Controller." County ihJ,,?'""' ""'ST W. Oouf: "I know nothing wit appointments." i(K!?T9:'i COUNTY Job L. Garland. u i?-' i , ? suggestions from me on exemp- r.. in uiton County." Bh.JJ5EI?iE COUNTY George V. Buss. siir.1... . no time were we requested or ifi.,11. J submit names or render any inniuS9 '1 eonnection therewith. Our first hoiS. of ,h" members selected for these anVi7..I"ro. ,ho newspaper accounts, and suiti "m,nt ,0 effect that we were con tin.. iop eonsldered In making these selec aet bl""ue'y without foundation In CoyTON.rA. James B. Clark. City Mr i rl . Vprmlt me ,0 y that the Gov sui.,i5.,t,.lln ,hlt h bad acted upon the eS?p . ? "' tno" oftlclala named, was in clti ?e S... entirely mlataken m fur as the elss. iu ,,,,on ' eoncerned This la a third the ,mSiXl .n1 ' sure you I have not had Zi.,fMl" knowledge of any such recoin Mwn ?' h ha" Hleed. No request has, BaL k? J m9i nor baa any suggestion been aJ.. " to "lm r any one elee upon the -oner of such appointments. In fact. I have ction, "llghte,t knowledge of any such uiriKE8.-BAnnB PA. John V. Kosek, tlin tJ,..j' submitted the names for eiemp eeliJi ir1.',,n this city and on June 21 re retlrl ..,'1's.,',m ''on the Governor's sec utrafiiiS,orml,"r mo ht the Governor had OHKi?vii?,lVE. nm for appointment." tosrtit nE COGNTY-rGeorae M. Welmer, nUson'.P.orF.?.i,oor nl Daniel Six, Com j,,'."! "Mada no suggestions to Clover- so??A?I?.a-.K, Filbert, Mayort "I was l'2"!W by th Governor nor did I name MOntVTmJ." n local exemption boards. ."VjTpun county jnKi! n w I?JrPs VosrdiVnl,s no susgestlons for exemption i Wioin.SV.r county." orj. 80&rr'B,.ND COUNTY John P. KM - ttak. 'JJC. 'Was not consulted nor did I Llmntron 5i:T.llon to personnel or i-vtirv:."'". 1--HIUII tJUlINTV Alf..4 rt.ir.. Sth.plfTi ve net mad. .m ,n..iu.. ,.'nM.nA, J for men to ttrvf on exemption INB TWtw r2m.,Sri?i,jr."i)',n. fron' ln Governor r.g, count. "m r"m""n bosrds of it COfA'MHIA COUNTY J w Kldl. WmcVdh'oVMriofoS.' In ox-mutton l.oi H by th (Jof-rnnr rfcani rrt In this cmint ' ..sriiUYI.KIM. i- lrin I WflH nnt ixitnanll art . . i..j 11 5oU?,'clhu"v,?irllT,?,, ,h" "." bord. Ht,'.'i?ir7OMl?i"J-'Ol'MTY Charles n. Spring, Sn.ii.'f.i" ". '-ni'mher making any suggestions for exemption boards at all." .heVrA7N'R"-?o,U;N,TV.T,Vn"1'" A- "rman. -neriii Mi aisgetiins were requsl d Neither John 1 Jenk ns. pre. dent of board B'.ke,Ur,.y ,h-"l'"lon.r. nor m,Sif ". Z?.. ' .Vy "" Governor or anjbody else for suggestions as to appointees for exemption board for York County or city of York ' oms!ll,kri!.i'.OUn,,, " r"nt citizen of . '!Thlill"rm'".of th' members of the board from this county were telephoned hy Paul XV. Houck (now r-Trretary of Internal Aflalrai ?,. i .nrr,"1.W ..w,,hou, consulting Hherlff r.I'.r.hii.r.r ".v, Comptroller Harry rorts. of Pottsvllle. both of whom according to the (lovernor's statement, had the power to name certnln boards the MioniT In iiinj-im tl i, wiih the president of the (ward of county com missioners and Comptroller Ports In con junction with the medical board of Potts. Mile. I made It my business to get In touch with both of the above-named gentle nien. nnd. they Informed me that the? epj left in entire Ignorance of the composition of the board, and the rrt knowledge they re. celved was the publication of the names In the papers, Mr. Houck. before communicat ing the narm-a to the Governor, wrote to a number of them aaklng for their acceptance." In Franklin County all the six mem bers nf the exemption hoards nre Re publican, four them being Republican officeholders, nnd one the chairman of the Republican County Committee. Chester county All the members of the county boards are Republicans ex cept one. six of tho Republican mem bers are recognized leaders of the Eyre machine. NAMES "JOTTED DOWN" Lackawanna County Thirty mem bers of tho boards, all Republicans. Sheriff Phillips nnd Mayor Jcrmyn, while Included In the boards, have denied In the newspapers that they had anything to do with naming them. Sena tor Lynch snya that he named them : that at the Governor's request, "he Jot ted down a few names for nppolntment." He jotted down no Democrats, but In cluded the Republican county boes, .lacob R. Schlagcr, at least four can didates for county offices and three men on the State payroll appointed through his Influence. Northampton County appointments were made by a well-known Urumbaugh faction leader In the county who holds no official position. Ho ndmlts It pub licly. Dr T. C. Zullck, surgeon of the Easton Hospital and a leading physician of Easton, while a member of the regis tration board, wns dropped from the ex emption board. Perhaps it Is only a co Incidence that Doctor Zullck Is a Demo crat. IN LANCASTER COUNTY I have yet to find a single Democratic Mayor or Controller of a third-class city or a Democratic Sheriff who was con sulted In these appointments In counties where tho olflclals aro Democrats the np polntment was put up to a local Repub lican leader. If this is not playing poll tics with theso exemption boards, then what Is the explanation? Of course tho Governor can produco lettcii from men like "Hilly" Orlest. the Republican boss of Lancaster County, who will Indignantly deny that any partisan politics Is In volved In the appointments ; but tho fact remains that In Lancaster County Itself seventeen Republicans and one Democrat were appointed, and all of them aro Grlest machine men of the kind that take orders. BOARDS' GREAT POWER Tho dlslngenuouness of certain sea soned politicians who profess to see no possible means of granting political favors In the work of these exemption hoirds Is amusing. Of course the boards navo nothing to do with the draft Itself but they hac nil to do with the men after they are drafted Every claim for exemption Is presented to these boards. If passed upon favorably to the claim nnt, the board's action Is final. This talk of the Judicial district appeal board making certain thnt no Improper favors con be granted Is all nonsense. The man who Is refused exemption can appeal to that board, but when a favorite Is ex empted thero is nobody to nppeal. GOVERNMENT WILL FIX STEEL PRICE IN 3 WEEKS Weary of Waiting for Manufac turers to Agree on Figure and Will Press Action WASHINGTON". July 7. The price of steel will be fixed by the Government within three weeks, accord inp to ofllclals connected with the Ship ping Hoard, tho Federal Trade Commission and the Council of National Defense. It Is declared that the Government has crown weary of waltlne for tho steel men to reach an agreement and has determined finally to take matters In its own hands. Tho Federal Trade Commission now Is nt work on an Investlcatlon of steel pro duction costs, tho result of which It will report to the President. Following this,. It Is stated, a steel price will bo fixed with out further parleying THREE MEN INJURED WHEN AUTOS COLLIDE Drivers Turned to Same Side of Road in Attempting to Pass Each Other Three men were injured on the Chester pike, south of Leipervlllo and near the first tollgate tibovo Chester, today, when their light automobile and a heavy touring car collided. In order to pass the drivers of both cars turned to the same side of tho road. The Injured men. who were taken to. the- Taylor Hospital, Ridley Parit, are: Howard C. DIshler, Marcus Hook, cuts on body and head and left eye cut. George W. Mustard, Marcus Hook, head cut and arm broken. Andrew Sutton, Marcus Hook, right leg broken. - Neither the driver nor tho other oc cupants of the large car, which was going south, were hurt, though the car was dam aged. Tho small car was wrecked. MAN AND WIFE HELD FOR ATTACKING SOLDIER Refused to Let Member of Ninth Regi ment, Engineers, Stand Near Houso For attacking a soldier who was stand ing In front of their home, Mr. and Mrs Charles Woodlln. 2938 Alter stret. were to day held In 1000 ball for a further hear ing tomorrow by Magistrate Daker at the Twentieth and Federal streets station. Yesterday afternoon, according to Thomas Flllott, of the Ninth Regiment Engineers, ho was waiting for a car In front of the Woodlln home. "Mrs Woodlln," said the soldier, "or dered me to move away. I refused and she .r'..A nt me and slashed me with a razor. My clothing was cut and In the fracas Mr.-j Woodlln ana anoirrer muu ruaiicu iuau """rhe second man was Wade Bostwlck, of ?932 Alter street. He also was held for a further hearing tomorrow. Mrs- Woodlln suffered a nervous shock after, her quarrel with Elliott and was treated at the roly cllnlo Hospital. Little Girl Crushed to Death Under Car Five-year-old MargaAt WetielK SIJ Gibson avenue, while playing on Tlnlcum venu near Eighty-first street fjH under th. wheels of a trolley car " t""' botfi,arm rij JU? Th ehlld died V t Up- PRESENT AND BETTER TO CELEBRATE HEROISM IN VERSE THAN TO EMBALM HATE War Poetry Is of Both Kinds Sir William Wat son's Tributes to Belgians, French and British and His Scorn of the Germans TJOV many books hns the war pro-tJ- tltieerK" Mrs. McKabre wanted to know, ns she looked over a pile of vol umes on my table. "It Is too cntly to nnswer thnt ques tion," said her husband. "Wo liavo not tho Information on which to base even n. guess. Thero nte American, English, French, German, Austrian. Russian, Ital ian, Greek, Danish, Spanish, Swedish, Bulgarian nnd Rumanian war books and I suppose, there nre war books In .lapaneso nnd Chinese, and Brazilian wnr books and war books written In Argen tina nnd Chill." "How many of them have you read?" Dorothy Owen naked mo with a mis chievous twinkle In her eyes. "Tho last one that I looked over was by Sir 'William Watson," said I, dodging the question. "It must have been war poetry, then," Cabot Ames remurked. "The poets did not get busy ns soon na the prose wrlteis and some of tho best known poets wroto some pretty poor verse." "Yes," said I, "nnd some poets who have not been heard of before have writ ten some pretty good verse." "You mean Rupert Brooke and Alan Seeger?" asked Dorothy. "Those nre two of them, nnd I could nnmo somo others; but I won't. I have been more Interested lately In rereading some of the wnr poetry of tho past than In making n catalogue of tho men who have been moved by this war to express themselves In verse. What, In your opin ion, Ames, Is the oldest war poem we have?" " 'The Iliad,' without any doubt," said tho young Harvard graduate. "Possibly you nre right, but there nre some war songs In the Bible that may antedate Homer by a century or two. SIR WILLIAM WATSON and they aro contemporary expressions of the war spirit. You lemcmber tho tri umphant sons of Moses nfter crossing the Red Sea. And how ho said: Thy right hand, O Lord, dashcth In pieces the enemy And In the greatness of Thine excellency Thou, overtlirowest them that rise up against Thee ; Thou sendest forth Thy wrath, It consumeth them as stubble And with the blast of Thy nostrils the waters were piled tip The floods stood upright as a heap ; Tho deeps were congealed In tho heart of the sea. "This war has not thus far produced anything to rival the song of Moses," I wont on. " 'The Iliad,' If my recollec tion la not at fault, belongs In the same class with "Paul Revero's Ride,' In that It was produced lorn? after tho events which It describes. The most Interesting poetry about war Is like Tennyson's 'Charge of tho Mght Brigade' and 'Tho Marseillaise.' that were written under the Inspiration of the period. 'The Great Bell Roland,' Thcodoro Tilton's recruiting poem that appeared fcoon after Lincoln called for volunteers, Is another of the same class. So nre Richard Hovey's 'Tho Word of the Lord from Havana' and Guy Wetmoro Carryl's 'When tho Great Gray Ships Come In,' all of them poems of a fine quality." "One characteristic of much of the present war verse that I havo regretted," said Doctor McFabre,. "Is the spirit of hate that seems to Inspire It. The Ger man Song of Hate has been condemned by the Allies, but their poets seem to hate the Germans ns much as the Germans hate the English." "But why shouldn't every decent man hate tho Germans?" Ames wanted to know. "They have been guilty of most outrageous crimes against civilization." "I don't hate the Germans," said Doro thy. "I hato what they have done, but somehow I feel sorry for them because they do not know any better. I don't hate anybody,"' and she glanced In the direction of Ames. Then suddenly looked away and hlushcd. "I wish the poets had your tolerant temper," said I. "If Lincoln had been a poet lie would havo put the spirit of his Second Inaugural In verse, and we should have had one of tho great war poems of all time. Ho was devoting all his ener gies to the defeat of the South, but he was big enough to understand that in any human conflict It was Impossible for one party to be absolutely right and the other party absolutely wrong, Ho was willing to admit that the war might be the Instru ment of God for the punishment of all America for Its crimes against humanity. Coleridge had a glimmering of the same truth about war wh.ea.he wrote 'FArs in "KB? fflfc aju., i,j,w. tv. i..ij . -. AeUMefe irrvol(e4'W Ow rAd tela- PAST WAR POETRY FATE vnslon of7 England during the Napoleonic warn, ho said: I-'rom east to west A groan of nrctisatlon pierces Heaven! The wretched plead against us: multitudes Counties nnd vehement, the sons of God. Our brethren! Llko a cloud that travels on' Even so, my countrymen! have we gone forth borne to distant And tribes slavery and pangs. And deadlier far. our lces. "Coleridge knew that his country wns not guiltless. In fifty or n hundicd years the hlstntlans will be saying that this great wnr Is but tho harvest of the seeds that have been sown by all tho nations of Europe. Prussia has carried to their logical conclusion tho practices of somo of the other nations, nnd we sec how ter rible they nie, so terrible that wo turn from them In revolt and fight to prevent their consummation. The world Is being purified by fire. At least I hope It Is." "Rut what about Watson?" Ames nsked. "Has ho any of the vision of Coleridge?" "I do not see nny evidences of It. Ho has written some splendid tributes to thh French nnd to the Helglans, ns well us to tho Rrltlsh soldiers nnd sailors. Hut ho has also written some poems of hato against Germans. His 'Kaiser's Dlige' ex presses the .feelings of many of us, when It says Carnage, whose brows Reetlo o'er Hell. Here Is thy spouse Cherish him well, Lust-ln-Hate. With thy fangs all foam O hall thy mate, O we'eome lilni home Hut wo know that this Is merely the mood of passion that cannot last, or nt nny rate that ought not to last. It Is the mood of the first 'Locksley Ilnll,' which Tonnyson transformed and refined In Locksley Hall, Sixty Years After,' so that tho old man could say that love, nfter all, was the only permanent thing." "I think I shall have to reread that second "Locksley Hall,'" Ames said, while a gentle smile played over his lips. "You'd better read It, too, Dorothy," said Mrs. McFabre. "Watson's tributes to the Helglans are fine," said I, quickly, to save the young pcoplo from embarrassment. "Ho calls King Albert worthy of his people nnd says, Loftier praise than this did never yet On mortal ears from lips of mortals saundf Ho celebrates the glory of Llee and pays his tribute to heroism nnd lofty courage. This sort of thing Is worthy of tho finest poetry, becauso It lifts men higher by holding before them tho beacon of a fine example. We besmirch ourselves when wo wallow In Ignoble passions, even If we try to make ourselves bellevo that they are due to righteous Indignation." "I nm glad I came In tonight," said Doctor McFnhro. "You have given me my fcormon for next Sunday." "You will find n text In Watson's poems," said I, "if you tako those which celebrate the fine things that have been done. Watson knows how to do It, hut there Is a petty Mdo to him which ho displayed years ago when ho wroto 'The Woman With the Serpent's Tongue.' Al though he 13 one of the greatest British poets of lih generation, that poem kept him from ofllclal recognition for years. It was not until Asqulth ceased to be Pre mier nnd Lloyd George came In that ho was knighted, an honor that under other circumstances would have come to him long ago." GEORGE W. DOUGLAS, 1IIR MAN WHO SAW. And other rncm rlln nut of th wir Hy William Walton, New York. Harper & Ilros tl. Study in Propinquity Mrs. I'oyser, speaking of marriage, said that propinquity does It And when taken with homeopathic doses of separation It In variably worjjs. The novelist devotes him self to inventing new ways to bring the young man and tho young woman Into the necessary Juxtaposition and to devising new forms of separation. The shipwreck on a desert Island has played Its part in many a story The ocean voyage has served Its end. Vacationing nt the same summer re sort has been used so often that it Is as out of dato as tho overdue moitgage on tho farm as a feature In fiction. Francis L)nde, In "Stranded In Arcady," has used the aoroplane and a plotting scoundret for get ting his lovers In the wilderness far from civilization. They had nover met until they awoke from the effects of a drug on the shore of a lake In tho Canadian woods The youns man Is a novelist who suspects that a friend who says his women nro unreal has played a practical Joke on him in order to get him In contact with a real woman In unconventional surroundings. They do not suspect what has happened until they nre finally rescued by the man who thoy thought had played the Joke. They are in the woods nearly a month, making their way down a river In the hope they may find a houso with people In It. The tale Is de voted to their adventures with the wilder ness nnd to their discovery of interesting facts about themselves until all the uncer tainties have been cleared up. It is nn un conventional love story with murder and greed for gold In It, lost heirs and unsus pected kinship. We may next expect Mr. Lynde to give us a love story In which the submarine appears as the Instrument by which propinquity Is achieved. STnANDUD IN ArtCADT. By Francis Lynda. Illustrated hy A K liccher. New York. Charles Scrlbner's Hons. (1.3.1. Scot on Home Rule The Hrltlsh point of view on the Irish home-rule question has never been Bet forth more clearly or In better temper than In Ian Hay's little book, "The Oppressed English." Ian Hay Is Scotch, or, as he calls himself, a Scotsman. He reminds us that Scotland has historical grievances as great as those of Ireland. Instead of nursing their trou bles the Scotch go Into England and grow rich' and they seize the offices In the Imperi al Government and rule the empire. A Scot, he says, Is leading the British armies In France, another Is commanding the Hrltlsh grand fleet, a third directs the Imperial general start at home"; the Lord Chancellor Is Scotch and so are the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Foreign Secretary. The Irish, however, Insist on home rule. Ignor ing the fact that they have as much home rule as Scotland, and the other fact that they have more Influence in the rule of the empire than any corresponding number of Englishmen, Scotsmen or Welshmen. When the Nationalist party announced the Irre ducible minimum of their demands In 19M they Insisted on managing their local af faire without Interference from London, and they also Insisted that they should continue to have about forty representatives In the nouw vi summon, i.m ramcti me quea Ho of home rule tVr KUv4, free frem Irish Interference, and there was a deadlock. "et. writes Ian. Hay. "no one has yet brought In a bill to give home rule to Eng land'" Willi quiet sarcasm he points out the disabilities under which England suf fers, a sarcasm that will be lost only on the extremo professional Irishmen who nre con tinually bewnlllng the oppression of their country Tin: orpiu:ssr.t nstiMHii in- Ian Hiy tlarden fl I - Dnubleday. Paae A I'o f.O rents WHEN LOVE klLLS WHAT IS DEAREST r Tho Tragedy of tho Wife Who Shirks Motherhood A Crime Against Nature "She would escape her one business in life. Sbo would escape the business of her sex She would be light, gay. charming, young forever It Is thnt of which 1 speak when 1 say she does wrong sexually not In mere offenses nrtalnst some marriage law It Is deeper this thing of which I speak It Is a crime rgalnt nature" Thus speaks a German biologist In "The Hmpty House." nn anonymous novel writ ten nbntit the career of a wife win re. fused to have children. Her mother lnd died In childbirth nnd the girl had heard the gossips say that her father had killed his wife. Motherhood frightened the girl while she wns still young nnd she decided that she would let no man kill her. When she married she wanted her husband In herFelf alone with no distractions nf children. When i-he overheard the German man of rclence talking of the biologic crime of such women ns she her Indignation was great Ami (t did not grow less when she heard him continue: For that she will pay the penalty It Is Inevitable this law, like others It Is self-punishing like nit laws of nature. She will pay the penally In terms of kind! You will eat you do not work. Then . you die of eating You will work you do not eat. Then you nre destroyed by wot king. It Is the same. She would love, without consequence, without fulfilment then by nature r.ho will love moro al ways she will be destroyed by loving Hy loving, by sex whatever you call It What Is this love of ours: this sex, this Impulse' It Is n gieat primal natural force, l It not with one single cosmic aim? It Is a means to nil end. Is It not' When that end is accomplished. It is nbated. It becomes less active Hut on th" oilier hand, still net accomplished. It becomes contlnunlly more nnd more more Intense, more furious, more driving. Tho most violent of all the restlessness of tho Ameiican woman, driven by sex idle ness to scii-uestructlon. it t inevitable. Woman, not finding her end according to nature, -becomes self-destroyed Not she alone, with her she destroys the world around her Hut. first of nil, what Is nearest the thing she desires, loves, must have the man. And this is what happens In the novel. The childless wlf loves her husband toj death as an older woman In the story had done before her "The Hmpty Rouse" Is a novel that the modern woman should read for her own enlightenment It Is a moving tragedy exhibiting what happens when one plays with the fundamental emotions nnd shirks tho responsibilities of life. And It is niso a story nf absorbing dramatic Interest Whether a man wrote It or a woman, docs not appear Some chapters show such an Intlmnte acquaintance with the feminine mind that it seems ns If only a woman could have written them, nnd others nre so virile that It seems as If a man were tho nuthor. Hut whoever did It has a pretty profound comprehension of the woman question of the present day. THH EMPTY HOUSB. With frontispiece hv K. C. Caswell. New York. The Marmlllan Com pany. 1 40 'New Thought' Systematized Converts to that mlxturo of religion ard metaphysics known as New Thought, wi'i capital letters, will be Interested In Horatio W. Dresser's attempt to systematize the teachings of tho cult Mr Drosrer is one of Its prophets. lie. however, has theories of his own which differ from thoso of some of tho other teachers He measures the opinions of the others by his own and points out where his are better. His book Is moro than a s.vstematlzatlon of the New Thought doctrines. It i a practical guide for their application to the problems of every-dny life. He tells how to overcomo fear, how to acquire self-confidence and lrovv to possess wisdom HANDIIOOK (IP THH NEW THOUGHT Hy Horatio W. Dresser, author of "The Power of .J1'?00'" Ncw York, a P. Putnam's Sons. First Aid for Boys An excellent elementary manual nn first aid has been prepared by Dr. Normv H. Colo and Clayton II Ernst It Is Intended primarily for tho use pf Hoy Scouts, but It is valuable for every one who lives In the country or who may he at n distance from medical aid It gives simple directions for treatment of n great variety of Injuries and for relief of sunstroke, shock, epilepsy and tho like. It contnlns diagrams showing how to apply bandages, how to resuscitate the drowning, and how to carry tho Injured. The book Is written In narrative form and describes boys In all sorts of emergencies applying the directions for relief. If mothers would read It along with their boys the consequences of many accidents could bo made less serious and considerable Buffering could be avoided and now and then a life might be saved. FIRST AID FOIl HOYS A manual for Boy Scouts and othera Interested In prompt he'p for the InlureU and the alck lly Norman II. Cole. M. I., and tiavton II. Krnst. District Scout Commissioner. Second District. Boston. New York: U. Appleton 4 Co J1.J3. Municipal Ownership If any one Is seeking for n brief and com pact summary of the arguments In support of municipal ownership of public utilities he will find It In n handbook prepared by Carl T Thompson. The author reviews the rapid growth of municipal ownership In the t'nlted States and gives figures, to prove his case. Ho says that private ownership of a public utility, even under public regula tion, Is wrong In principle, and gives rea sons, and he cites numerous Instances where public regulation has failed to regu late. Where he cites the profitable experi ence of cities In owning utilities he accepts the figures of the municipal reports, which are notoriously Inaccurate, as they aro not based on any tound system of business ac counting. Yet those persons who believe thero should be no profit will not be troubled by the Indifference of municipal account ants to those elements of cost which pri vate producers have to consider. MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP. Ily Carl V. Thomp. eon. New York It w Iluebsch. II. "Mademoiselle Miss" Letters from an American llrl servinr with tho rank of Lieutenant In a French Army Hot pltai at tha front. Published for tha llenedt of the American fund for French Mounded. Price, 50 Cent A.W.BUnERFIELD.69UTroNLD8T- OVER THE TOP ArTTHUR GUY EMPEY An American Sol dier Who WENT Prnld Tdmmi'i Dic tionary of tbe Trenches,' tvery uord or Dtiraso a complete funnj story. Ue arrTM wide popularity and lll hate It.'1 i . r, man Ye t " I Utse inniut II.DO ,Vr Bvitall Wb. 11.60. prH vSjjwfry U W OF THE CHILDLESS Wlffy THE TRAGEDY OF THE IMMIGRANT His Children Grow Into Some thing Strange and Incompre hensible in America Those who rend Turgenietf In their youth recall most vividly the picture In "Fathers nnd Pons" of a husband and wife sitting on a bench In front of their house while they watch thelrlest born disappear down the road on his way to begin bis Independ ent career. The young man did not look back and the dumb nche In the heart of the parents reacted upon their bodies, which slumped In despair, growing deeper as the distance Increased between the son and the home where he had grown up. Yet this tragedy was almost comedy In com parison with that which is taking place In certnln quarters of every large American city. These districts nre occupied hy Immi grants who have come here ton late to learn American ways. Their children, however, go to Ameiican schools, nnd even to Ameri can colleges They speak English. They become attached to our ways of living and our point of view, co that when thc leave home It Is too often because they havo lost all points of contact with their parents Tho separation, then involves not only the break ing of homo ties; that Is, tho ties of nlTec tlon nnd a common life, hut almost a com plete separation of tho younger generation irom tho older. It requires little Imagination to picture what this means to tho fathers, nnd par ticularly to the mothers. Hut those with out Imagination can lenru something of It if they will read "My Mother nnd I," In which n young woman of l'ollsh-Jcw an cestry has told the story nf her Ilfo In the Ghetto nnd her gradual emergence from It Her father was a scholar, a rabbi, learned in the lore of his race and of his religion. He was poor. 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