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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 '
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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
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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
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WHEN LOVE klLLS
WHAT IS DEAREST
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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
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of tho other teachers He measures the
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T Thompson. The author reviews the rapid
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t'nlted States and gives figures, to prove
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the figures of the municipal reports, which
are notoriously Inaccurate, as they aro not
based on any tound system of business ac
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THE TRAGEDY OF
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His Children Grow Into Some
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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
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back and the dumb nche In the heart of
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as the distance Increased between the son
and the home where he had grown up. Yet
this tragedy was almost comedy In com
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certnln quarters of every large American
city. These districts nre occupied hy Immi
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year, such wcro the sanitary conditions
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language nnd living their life He had a
dim perception of It, for ho told his daugh
ter that he belonged to the fifteenth century,
while she belonged to the twentieth. He
could not adjust himself to the Intellectual
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