'e- H --'..? (Tlr,, A ""WVWirvZ!. 0- ..'-J .- k V".""V , jr . fc, ,-. - XI , " -" ' i 'f! " !' ;V - L k .r READING SYSTEM IN JOIN LEG! Pott No. 312, Namod "for Coorgo F. Baer, WIIUTaKo in zooo Railway Men, - MEMBERSHIP DRIVE ENDS Arrangement was perfected lust night kJn N. Schwartz, commander of iftmt No. 312 of tho American Legion, " bv which approxi mately 2000 former service incu of the Rending Hallway will ho brought into the Legion. At n meeting at the Spring Garden Tcrml- ail V. M. 0. A., Post No. 312 and rep Mentatlves 0f the available membership from the Heading Hallway elected the following officers: P. S. Lewis, com mander; Hector MnnsfloW, vice i com mander; Francis H. Wagner, flonnce Post No. 012 will be known as the "flcorgo F. Bacr" Post, having been named after the late president of the Heading system n Civil War veteran. Plan Vigorous Drlvo Plans wero considered for a vigorous membership drivo and it was decided that at tho noxt meeting, March 1, a program would bo rendered. Tho post las set as its goal GOO mernbera by In dependence Day and 1000 members for the j car. The entlro personnel of Company D. 414th Signal Battalion, was recruited jfrom the Headim? nnd have now re turned to their former positions. The railroad management has given the project its heartiest support. Post No. S3, in tho Forty-sixth ward, has arranccd n smoker in Ar cadia Hall, 5030 Baltimore avenue, "Tuesday evening, February 24, as a climax to n membership drive. The chairman of tho committee on arrange ments is Thomas F. Meehan. All for mers servico men in tho neighborhood are invited. Plan Buglo Corps P. P. ZIon, recently appointed pub licity representative of this post, stated that his post converts every meeting' into a smoker. Its aggressiveness is indicated by tho fact that it meets every Tuesday night. A bugle, fife and drum corps will be organized. Two bugles were donated and seven buglers vol unteered to play. Allan R. Frcclon has -been elected post commander of Post No. 07, negro veterans, In tho Seventh ward. The other officers are : Yico commander, James A. Post" adjutant, Henry W. Brady ; finance officer, Lee G. Warrick, and post historian, Elmer W. Crain. Lawrence B. Dclaney Post No. 20 held its -first social reception for mothers, .wives, sisters, daughters nnd sweethearts. More than 300 were present. There were ten entertaining specialties besides dancing. Lee Kins low and his Posts No. 20 Jazz Band played. The affair was held at the new headquarters, Fifteenth Ward Com munity Parish House, Nineteenth nnd Green streets". Commander Joseph A. Mahoney, assisted by Adjutant Matthew J. Collins, Jr., Dclegute JameH C. Owens and Entertainment Officer Harry A. Kelly, recruited more than fifty women forithj! Women's Auxiliary of Post No. 20. 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This worl is one ot several on Erlendly nnd Pennsylvania subjects which Doctor Bharpless had In mind to publish, as his continuing contribution to productive scholarship after bis voluntary retirement as prcsi dent of Ilaverford College, following three decades of constructivcr-endeavor as its head. It Is a pity tha his un timely demiso hns left fallow this field of research which has so much potentiul fertility. i T'1? 2ssayat independent in s,ty,lq but inked fin scope, which mako up the book arc sketches, not treatises. On that account they are the less formal nml tho more entertaining. Doctor Sharpless has viewed "his s!ubjects through very human and" wisely'humot ous eyes, no 'matter how important per sonages they may happen to bo on his tory's pages and no matter how mn- meiitous their bearing on the course of urgu Historical events unu issues. There is nothing sour or acrid in his chnrno tenzations of those whom he cannot en tirely commend in all their work? and ways, but there Is u faintly nnd delight fully ncidulnted flavor in somo of his comment. Heading his sharp and sure nnalvses nnd interpretations one is re minded of what the bovs at Havcrford '"pd to say about "prci': You can't "Uld" Doctor Sharpless. No more could personages who both mode and wrote Ponnvlvanin history "kid" him. William Penn, tho "Founder; his ereat secretary, .Tames Logan, tho Irishman so long Penn'a and hla fam ily's resident leeate ; Isaac Norris ; the radical David Llovd. nnd John Dickin son, tho Pennsylvania fnrmer, whoso notable letters prepared Penn'a prov lncefor tho Resolution, who gave li braries before Carneirie was heard of, and for whom one of the't.tatc's colleges is named, nro among tho subjects. They were, as Doctor Sharnlpsi points out, from Penn down to Dickinson, more or 'ess idealists: and of thU slant of at titude and mind thev were conscious. But they were practical men of af fairs, too, hard-headed and level-head-ml. Their experiment was idealistic, but controlled bv common ense. In poli tics and in other things they wero not avyrsc to temporising and compromise. Some of the Founder's, finest ideals, such as on capltal'punishment and broad re "igious tolerance, his successors aban doned for what appeared to them good and sufflicent reasons with an accepta ble, and to be jukt to them, perfectly legitimate quid of gain for the quo of 'ess, "xneir nnti-martiai views wero tho most difficult to apply "consistently, and finally were the caue of tho ab stention from public nffaiis." The Assembly would not vote troops, but it would vote funds to the deputy or tho king, which we're, of course, used for military expenditures. .."Their ideas of civil and religious liberty, their treat ment of the Indians, their penal and hospital systems, tho large material growth which nccompanicd their man agement, and the general tone of their nublic life nffprd the basis of a favor able judgment upon their experiment." The religious leuders of Friends, such as George Fox and John Woolman, bavo received, as Doctor Sharpless sajs, am ple recognition in print. So ho devotes himself to thoso practical men who wrought with Mich devotion in working out the principles of Pcnn's "Holy Ex periment." NEW INDIAN NOVEL 'BY ETHEL M. DELL "The Lamp in the Desert?' Will Please Admirers of English Fictionist Headers of fiction who liked and ad mired "Greatheart,'-, "Tbo Hundredth Chnnco" and "Tho Keeper of ,thc Door," tho best of Ethel M. Doll's novels, will have n treat In store for their liking and ndmlration in this pop ular English fictlonist's newest novel, "The Lamp in the Desert." Miss Dell has a very largonnd dovbted following whoso Interest ia caught by stories of tenso situation, cross currents of truo love, fluent sentiment nnd warm ro mance. 4 These qualities are found in her new book, which is the effective nnd often times gripping narrative of a great love, the love of a strong-hearted but essen tially feminine worann for the inau of her choice a strong man, reckless of fame, regardless of cemorious tongues, intent on serving only us a bulkier for the woman ho lo es. The plot is replete with intrigue, which is, of course, Fat Mactorily sohed. Tbo bcencs arc laid in India, and some of the brooding mysticism of that strango land of con tinfts penades tho pages, which hac both movement and passion. The title is Rvmlolical of uia fvcr-burnlng lamp of the nan's love .or acioss tho deierl of ashes of the woman's life. THe'lAMP IN THE DEREUT By Eth'l M Dell Now York: O. r. Putnam's Sons. U.T8. Do la Marc's Fairy Story Walter do Ia Mare, n doliglitful Brit ish poet, has tried his baud ut prose without that success which has followed his experiments in -verse. His fairy story, "Thu Three Mulla-Mulgars," is a talo of the adventures of threo mon keys which are not quito animals and fall short of being human. The adven tures aro fantastic and ciciting, but they aro hardly convincing. The book Is too childlike for the average adult and a llttlo too sophisticated to appeal to the child mind. Yet there will doubt less bo both children and udultn who will Cud pleasure in reading it. It is admirably Illustrated b Dorothy P Lathrop ia colors and iu black and white. THE TItBEB MUrA.jrUOAHH. By Waller de Ja Mare, illustrated by. Dorothy I Lathrop. New YorKl Alfred A. Knopf. Cullum Knowe tho Went Itidgwell Cullum, author of "The Law of tho Guii" nnd one of thu movt popular novelists iu Knglapd today, hud long and varied experience iu tho nest, where ho has laid the scene of most of his books. Born adventurer aud ex nlorcr, he drove a btcam donkey cuslne for a time, wail foromau to a traction cngino gang, bartender in a frontlet town, epw-puueher and rancher -1 .short, knew tho Ufo of primitive Mon tana and Nevada at first hand. Then he returned to England and began to write thoso thrilling romances that have been eagerly rcttd on boUi -aides of, tht Atlantic. , . WB3OTGF PIJBLTO' LEDMPHTCAKEiiPHIA; lTUBDAT, FICTION AND BIOGRAPHY IN THE NEW BOOKS SKETCHES The studies nrc nmply equipped with biocranhleal datu without in any nentc being merely chronological records of accomplishments. A properly selective process choso for recofdipg only tno events of tbo men!s lives that deserve inrnrnnrnflnn m ncf-mint. hf their an- ceutuatioh by public events. it is interesting to compare uocior Sharnleas'a lirnirniHnl of Penn with the harsh estlmato of Macaulay. Tho for mer writes, in scattered passages: "iho veneration in which his name was held, and tho beneficent, results of his poli cies and principles became after his death most intensively with his own denomination, but not confined to it the.orizln of almost too ereat.u reputa tion for sanctity and wisdom, and leav ened the lifo of tho province through out its whole history. There are, however, certain weaknesses iu Penn's character, not seriously discred itable to blm, but which detract bomo thirg from tho universal praise so often accorded him. Ho was a poor judge 6f character. His doputy governors were often most unfortunate choices. Theso then wero the weak pot8 in Pcnn's record, an- Inability to judge men and a certain timidity in dealing with difficult situations when his largo plans would be thereby endangered. Moro than this (hedging in his dealings with the crown: Kevlewer) can hardly be fairly charged against him. ButMa caulay's charges, disproved in the large and sometimes ia the minute by Hep worth Dixon,. are permanently embalmed in one of tho noble lord's most brilliant essays. It will be impossible for history or even apologists, to catch up with tho Scandal which Macaulay spread in his most sweeping rhetoric. His name has become throughout all civilized coun trief a synonym for probity and philan thropy. Penn had u strong sense of religious duty and' a fervent desire to promoto tho happiness of man kind. Or. one or twot points of high importance he had notions moro correct than were in his day common eyen among men of enlarged minds. , - But his writings and his lifo furnish tfbundant proofs that ho was not a mar, of strong sense. He had .no skill in reading the characters of otheru. His cnlhubiasm for one grcatvprlnclple sometimes impelled him td violate other great principles which he ought to huie held sacred. Nor was his integrity al together proof against the temptation" to which it was exposed in, that splendid and polito but deeply corrupted society with which ho now mingled bribes mav bo offered tq, vanity ns well as to cupidity, and it is impossible to deny that Penn was cajoled into bearing a part in &omc unjustifiable transac tions. He was a zealous Jac obit It was hardly possiblo to be at once a consistent Quaker and a courtier; hut it was utterly impossi ble to bo a consistent Quaker and a con spirator. It is melancholy to relate that Penn, whilo professing to consider even defensive war as sinful, did ever thing in iiis power to bring a foreign army into the heart of his own country." Thus .Macaulay and more to the same effect. Doctor Sharpless eAys of these charges; "Where n score read the attack, but one knows the de fense, nnd 60. the misstatements will forever bo renewed and believed." As to his hobnobbing with royalty and no bility. Penn himself says: "I know of no religion that destroys courtesy, ci vility and kindness." As to his part in transactions by which somebody profited (vide Mncaulay) Penn himself solemnly protested that his hands were free from illicit gain and that ho might easily, while his influence at court lasted, have made a hundred and twenty thousand pounds. fomticatj wsadehs of pnoviNcur. PENT'STL.VAN1A. By Isaao Sharpless. New York. Macralllau Co. KYNE AT SEA AGAIN "The Pea-Green Pirates" Is a Rattling Yarn With a Briny Flavor It will be cood news to tho admirers of Teter B. Kyne that he has gone to sea again. Of course, "The Valley of tno uiants" was a good western story. with a melodramatic tinge and a nice touen ot sentiment leavcninir the busi ness struggle. But Mr. Kyne's fans mostly preierrea nis "Uappv iucKs." "The Pea-Green Pirates" renews nil the marine ioya of thnt series.. Mr. Ksno knows tho lingo upd he enn spill , a lot of the atmosphere. Of course, I ho is no Joseph Conrad, either in lit- erary graces and distinction or in per- ceptiou of the deeper significance? of 1 the great waters. Ho is essentially a "t rirr ' rSrXn"Cf' -, And '" . 1. ??? ien Piratcs bc ha SPUQ 1 a delightful yarn. It is the Odyssey and Aeneld of the S. S. Moggie, a staunch craft, manned by an interesting crew. Theso modern fnr-fannc Arganauts include Phincas hcraggs, owner nhd master; Adclbert uibnev, mate; Iscils Ilnhorfccn" crew, and Bartholomew McGuffey, engineer, iiunuiuruus aiurjuj nnu unique, tliej are peculiarly fitted to the tubks thev undertake, mich as cinchinK u now dvnasty in the South sea islands, for warding a Latin-American revolution aud making a fortune out of pearl fish ing. There are other stunts galore, aud they all mako good reading. THE PEA-GREEN PIRATES. Ily pter H Co. .yiie. uaraeu uity; Woubleuay. I'aso 4 Cabell In Uniform Editions Robert M. McBride tc Co. unnounco that they haie made arrangements to ifcsue iu uniform binding ull of tho i-ar-Iicr novels of James Brunch Cabell. The first of these reprints' will bu "The Cream of the Jest," originally pub lislmd two sears ago, which has been unobtainable for nearly a jenr. Not a War Story The TIN SOLDIER Bu Temple Ballet) eoth Thousand If nil hnnUfttnr. ' J1.7C Philadelphia PENN PUBLISHING CO.. Headquarter For Engineering and Technical Books Philadelphia Book Company 17 South OUnSh-eet e J tannine twBST tmar w-ww QtffRYANDENMmM I STAT! yat:.. ft.-mjt:;::; j .y?&LJ-7.jf vJ'Y7-ai-'" At ' 'S leiB A TfcV JK fiil V " V I - . . ' MmMgmg -4l!LHHHs9HiHm).m M,j .tflHllllHSPSSif ? w.'W: ' 4VbHHHH ii-..y "" - - ' IBIsBIBmfitw , STEPHEN LEACOCK Wio has discussod tho unsolved riddle of social Jusiico TALE OF A MAN WITH HUNGRY EYES Ho Succumbs to Temptation, but the Author Makes the Reader Pity Him " Tho6c who have admired the novels of Leonard Merrick previously pub lished in the complete edition of his workn because of the great skill with which they wero written, but would have liked them better if they had not dealt witb the lifo of actors nnd un successful men of letters will find "The Worldlings," tho latest in tbo scries, moro to their taste. The characters aro just people and not members of n highly specialized and technical group distinguished by that indefinable thing known for lack of a better word as tem perament. " The task Mr. Merrick Mt before him self'in "The Worldlings" was" to pro sent u man of honor who as. he ap proached his fortieth vcar had to con- rfess that he was a failure, .and to rep resent this mun us succumbing to temp tation to d a grievous wrong whilo still retaining the fine instincts that moved him before he fell. The author succeeds so well that instead of being repelled by his hero the reader ia moved to creat nitv for him. No man who did not have a thorough understanding of tho complicated motives whinli con trol human beings coujd have handled the theme in such a way as to win tho reader's sympathy for tho hero. Maurice Blake, the man who falls, is presented at the opening as a watcher of. tho inegro workers in 'the Mlamond fields of Kimberley. He hud been born well-to-do parents, but when he was eighteen his father had lost his for tune and the youth had to make his own way. He had dreamed, of wealth and ease, hut had never been able to secure either. Tho negro workers iu the dia mond fields called him "the man with the hungry eyes." In these four words, which are characteristic of Merrick, more is told of the inner mind, of Blake than a less skillful novelist could hnve put in two or threo pages. . Blake is tempted to impersonate the son of a rich English baronet audi to go to Eng Innd and .eniov the baronet s fortune. The son, whom he resembled, had just died, and the woman with wlinm tlie heir was living had suggested tho im personation. The oppoitunity to have wealth which ho had not been able to accumulate for himself thus presented to "the man with the hungry eves" was too great to bo resisted. Klakc goes to England and is accepted, as the bon. The father wants him tq marry, but his sense of honor is too fino to nllow him to involve an innocent woman in his deception, and ho announces that he is not a marrjing man. But be meets a joung woman who, when he first sees her, reminds him of the women suggested in poems about goddesses. He falls in love with her and ifor a long time resists the temptation to woo5 her. But tho temptation becomes too strong and they are married. Then tho woman discovers he is not what ho pretend tn he. nnd Blake, after telline the father of the man he has inipersonatcd'who he, is, plans to drtiwn himself in such u wuv that bis death will appear acci dental. Before he puts his plan into execution his wife returns tp him nnd t confesses that she has grown to love blm so much that she is willing to share his poverty. And tho Btory end -with the reunited husband nnd wifo In each other's arms. " a masterly handling of a diffi- cult theme. Thero is not a superfluous word in it. Each character stands out j4 n separate Individuality different from an the others, and it takes only a fCw words for the author trTindivid- imljze encn. Men of letters, like some 0f the other Merrick novels better than (bis. but the nonprofessional leader will doubtless prefer thh tu niauj of the others. TUB WOtRLTJINClS Jly Leonard Merrick, With an Introduction liy Nell Hunrot. Iow YorK: 1". P. putton & Co. A Message off Hope to educators, i social workers anradl to the public The Narcotic Drug Problem A remarkable book by Dr. Ernebt S. Bishop bhowjug how this disease can be cured and the problem controlled. "A master land is settinR forth the facts with no related Interests 3t stake." At all book ctorc3 $1.C0 THE MACMILLAN CO. New York LE LIVRE CONTEMPORAIN A magazine devoted Heut free on to French Literature npnllcatlon. SCHOENHOF BOOK CO. lcncli Uookshup 15 Beacon St. Boaton. Man, . DonMiss the TIN SOLDIER By Temple Bailey 60th Thousand At alt too7.atorea. $1.75 ratm PUBWBHiNa cp pnuaijipiu vV UNSOLVED PROBLEM OF SOCIAL JUSTICE Professor Leacock Suggests a Plan for Getting lite Solu tion Under Way Stephen Leacock is so widely known as a humorist that the reader looking for, a discussion ot modern problems iu ff ferious vein is likely to disregard The Unsolved Problem of Social Jus tice, . because it has Leacock's naino on the title page. But Leacock ia professionally a teacher of political economy in McGill University, Montreal. The wish was once expressed on this page that he would writ? a hook on economics char ac .prized, by the same lightness of style and clarity of vision that have made his humorous books readable. He has done this in his book on the riddle of social justice. Its stjlo is light and easy, adorned with literary graces nnd lifted from the commonrilape hv im agination. But at bottom it is an earn est studv of current economic ques tions. The great problem of the.twen-' tieth century, he bajs, is tho allot ment of the product of industry among its producers and a reward in, proportion to the effort put forth. He reminds us thnt the greater part of the: industry of the world is devoted to the produc-1 tiou of nonessentials. This was proved when 50,000,000 men wero taken into tho armies without breaking .down the productive tuuehino. He wpuid like to see more energy devoted to. producing ! food and clothing and less to producing! things with which men cau get along I without. ' He lays down the rule that prices aud wages depend on economic strength. Prices aio as high as the: seller can force them, regardless of cost, and wages aro as low as the employer can force themr The increase in the eco nomic btrength of labor through or ganization has, in lijs opinion, forced up wages during the past cpntury, but no one is satisfied. Socialism is pro THE HARBOR ROAD By Sara Ware Bassett Second I.irec 1'rlntlne A btory of homely folk on Cape Cod with humor and pathos and a dramatic love story. At All llnokvtores. S1.75 net. The Penn Publishing Company Philadelphia FLEXIBLE Julie M. Lippmann .Sparkling with youth, humor and fine characterization, a delectable story about a boy who grew up lo reverie bis nickname. Second edition now ready GEORGE H. D0RAN COMPANY Everything Desirable in Books WITHEP.'jPOON bldc. Walnut. Juniprr and Sansom ts. , F,v.'nr (n 2nd Floor :&r4NES&aaBm WHAT WOULD YOU READ ON A WINTER NIGHT? A Story of intrigue, and passionate love? A Story of superb character portrayal? A Story of tense, thrilling adventure? One full of 'the warm color of Spanish, seas? MAHE NOSTRUM is, for combination of these qualities, quite unrivalled in recent fiction By ELASCO lEANiLl Author of The Four Horsemen of Ihe Apocalypse The Shadow of the Cathedral Blood and Sand (Sangrely Arena) and La Bodega (The Fruit oi the Vine) Theso vital novels, each of special interest, uro to bo followed this bpriii.: by Woman Triumphant (La Maja Dcsmuia) Kaeh$1.00 net, at any bookstore, or man bc ordered direct from E. P. DUT'l'ON & CO., G81 Fifth Avenue, New YorU Charming Teeth Charming teeth Is not just a matter of dentist's bills, but a question of how you caro tor tliem urusn tncnt. The price of Head's "Everyday Mouth Hygiene" is $1.00 a small bum to pay for tho charm of good white teeth. At Leading Bookstores or W. B. SAUNDERS COMPANY, Philadelphia M FEBRUARY 21, 1920 posed as a remedy, but Mr. Leacock is cdnvinced that, the cure would not work. It presupposes perfect men. free-from selfishness and gifted with greater wis d6m "than uny men havo yet mani fested. THo substance or uia pica is hat thcro should bo an equal oppor tunity for nil and special privileges for none, a nlea familiar to students of American political platforms. He would insure equal opportunity to work by having the government employ men vu public enterprises when the demand In private enterprises is slack And he would havo n minimum wage fixed by law supplemented by old age Insurance. Ho says in conclusion that "the bafety of tho futuro lies in a progressive move ment of mcJuI control alleviating the misery wlncn it cannot oblltcrnto ,nnd bused-upon the brood principle o.f equal ity of opportunity. Tho chief Immediate direction of social effort should be to ward tho attempt to give to c-cry hit man being in childhood adequate food, clothing, education and nn opportunity in life." ... . Tho book is really an exposition by a political economist of tho social philosophy for which Theodore Roose velt stood in his later years. TITE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OP 80CIAT. JtJB TICK. . 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