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Mi. This Prohibitionist, Discarding "Statistics," Asks Voters To Look At The Facts Within Their Own Knowledge And, If Necessary, Sacrifice Some Pleasure To Help Their Weaker Brethren. To Correspondents. Make yrmr letter! thort, concise and to the point and give your fellow-" Forum fightert" a chancel The shorter letter have alwayi the better chance of early pubUca-tion. Please observe that every letter kust be accompanied by the real name and address of the writer, which will, of course, not be published nor disclosed unless the writer so desires.

Write on one side of the paper only, and allow a margin of an inch or two at the top. Use a typewriter whenever possible, and if not, the letter must be easily legible. We cannot agree to publish any letter unless these conditions are strictly complied with. I For Readers Of Books. On this page today Thb Eventno Sun prints several columns of book news snd reviews, beginning the.

experiment of grouping here the book matter heretofore published ia the morning, evening and Sunday editions of The Sdn. This is done for what ia believed to be the greater convenience of readers interested in books and authors. It is frequently said that Baltirnor-eans show little interest in books. But, as a matter of fact, Baltimore has a body of book readers. Its educational institutions alone assure this.

Moreover, we have here a considerable number of writers who are themselves accomplishing much for contemporary literature, both local and national. What they are doing in bonks and in magazines and newspapers reflects to the credit of the city and possesses, of course, an exceptional interest to our own people. If the increased space which The Evening Sun will henceforward devote to books and literary happenings shall lend Baltimoreans to a better knowledge and appreciation of contemporary publications, the purpose of the paper will be achieved. 3oE 1 i W1 i(tt WILLIAM New Books By EVERETT MACDONALD'S NOVEL OF FEUDSMEN 'The Red Debt" A Gripping Story Of Life Among The Kentucky Mountaineers. Charles Egbert Craddock and John Fox have written such exceptional stories of the mountain folk of the Southland that most other novels along the same lines fall lamentably below their stand ard of excellence and verity.

This, however, is not true of "The Red Debt," written by Everett MacDonald, of Baltimore, and which first appeared in a current magazine. The Red Debt" is one of the best stories of the Kentucky feuds ever writ ten. It has all the adventures of the Cumberland feuds as incidents, but the life behind them Is the vital thing. Mr. MacDonald shows this so truly that the reader lives along with the people, he sees their motives, the good and bad of tueir hearts, the tight within a man heart of contending forces, who while carried so far with sympathy and understanding as to be almost a contender in the fend himself, yet sees emerging the beginning, of the understanding of a better way.

Rarely has a theme been so well handled. The mountain life stands out in pictures, and in pictures, too, mountain hills and streams, dawns and sunsets, woods and laurel thickets. Mr. MacDonald is exceedingly original also in his use of descriptive words and his viewpoint is distinctly novel. His characterizations of revenue men, of judge, of prison men encountered by the captured young mountaineer, of the Kentucky colonel, of Miss Worth who has established a mountain school, of the men on either side of the feud, and last, but immortally, of Captain Lutts and of Maw Lutts, are strong, virile, showing the inward spring of motives.

The picture of the captain leader of Lutts side building a "gawspel house" in memory of Maw Lutts is exceedingly pathetic; the destruction of that church by fire, burning the body of the dead "revenuer" within it, forms a splendid climax. And Belle Ann, with her young beauty and loyalty, her immediate grip on "schooling" under Miss Worth her gradunl understanding of a better way than that of bloodshed, and her conversion of young Lutts, head of the clan after hie father's death at the hands of the revenue men Belle Ann ia a wonderful study of the Kentucky beauty in the making. The story is brilliant and irinnlns. The writer has given the most sympathetic picture of the feudsman yet pre sented. Mr.

MacDonald's home in earlv life was a iventucKy tarm ami he hegan writ ing while a student at Cornell University. He has disposed of the moving-picture rights to this graphic tnla of a country with which, and a people with whom, he was so Intimately acquainted, and Dustin Fnrnum will personate the leading character when "The Red Debt" is produced. TUB RED PKrtT. By Everett MaeDon-aid. Q.

W. ntllingriara New i'ork. 0x8, pp. 8.14. $1.25.) Regular Stew Over The Railroad Strike Settlement.

To thi Eottob or Thb Evenino Stjnj Utr ao I we now nave tnat con spicuous Mr. Gompers entering the sphere of eternal ethics by his statement that ths so-called eight-hour day claim of the railroad brotherhoods is not arbitrable. This is a beautiful illustration of nhe law of social nhilosophy that as tbe nation thinks for itself, so the tn. dividual thinks for himself. Our poly.

misrchical sociologists have been busy in, denying the oblisation of nations t2 underwrite the expectation of peace and to refuse tn admit tne utter irrationality of war and the immorality of wasins it To hold any other view of fundamental law has been to be called a mollycoddle, fool or pacifist As there has been no protest against this point of visw the weak-brained conspicuositiea have accepted it aa the law of a second Moses. The doctrine has sunk down from men-conceived nationalities to men conceived as organised interests. It won't be a long step before we hear a new law to justify lynching and a new defense forpri-j vate murder based upon the same sociar law that there are some matters which are not capable of arbitration. The fact is, Mr. Gompers' statement is untrue.

While there are two men in ths world there is a matter of arbitration snd while there are three there is the duty of it The question raised by the brotherhoods is not ingenuous, and is just the sort of issue that obliges arbitration. The present settlement is wrong, and it is got to be unsettled unless we are going to write into con stitutional law the particular sovereignty of the agreement together of two or three to hold up a third. If Mr. Wilson loses the election he can attribute it to this cause. My dear Uncle Toby used to say that optimism had its good points, but the fellow who told you, when you had lost "our last cent, that) it was all for the best was no optimist but a bore." Db.

Zeohia Jtjdd. Baltimore, Sept. 5. tf Jelllcoe Was Afraid To Fight, Why Did The Germans Go Back Into Their Holes At All? To the Epitob of The Evening Sun: Sir An English naval writer by the name of Hurd wrote a book shortly after the beginning of hostilities, giving a sketch of the relative strength nf the British and German fleets. While Mr.

Hurd, who by the way is a writer of note in his particular line, did not throw any bouquets to the Teutons, he did not fail to point out the weaknesses and faulty designs of a number of their ships. Just why this is interesting occurs because several of these ships were 1 present at the battle off Jutland, which was undeniably a German triumph. When this war began England possessed 31 modern battle ships to Germany's 11). England also had a numerical superi ority in battle cruisers. Yet.

at the Jutland fight, while the English had present, according to the German version, 24 battleships, they were not willing to resume the fight at daybreak. It is only fair to concede that Admiral Jellicoe's statement is at variance with that of the Germans, fe'till, his explanation is not convincing in the light that the German fleet was willing to resume the action at daybreak, but no enemy was in sight The German high aeas fleet was at daybreak still in the North Sea. If the German fleet, which is numerically inferior, is able to bring on sn action and inflict heavier losses upon its foe than it receives, then return to port unmolested, it must be conceded tbw had the best of it. The Gorman naval statement of the reason why they scored on the British fleet is that they gained tactical advantages by better maneuvering and handling of their ships, and this, combined with good shooting, did the trick. Atmospheric conditions are as bad for one as the other combatant.

It is no a very strong case, then, which Jelllcoe makes as to why an Inferior foe was permitted to sink five of his capital ships while he was able to mit onlv two of theirs out of action. Mr. Hurd's criticism of the faulty de signs of some of the German units that were present in the Jutland battle indicates that the gentleman was not per- entirely bv his hidirmenr- ITnwav- there will eventually be a bigger day rnan this to come in the North Sob As Germany has made a hid for eaualltv upon the seas she will undoubtedly tie willing to give the British an even Digger ngnt next time. Germany is building and adding to her fleet constantly and the next action in the Eni-lish Channel or North Sea mnv have bigger place in the ultimate result th in lots of people at present expect. jurefk jonNHTnm.

Decorations manders. For U-Boat Com- To the Editor pf The Evtvino Vri; One of til thin a wo mm' derstand is the manner in wl-1-'- German ruler deliberately exnui public opinion in neutral i 'r bestowing signal honor upon comm- ers of submarine boats which, from '-e neutral point of view, are resnon" We for atrocities committed on the loirli seas. We remember how the commander of the submarine that torpedoed the Lnsitania was received by the Kaiser, congratulated in person and adorned with a high decoration. We learned from re-liable sources that Emperor William also decorated the commander of the submarine which torpedoed the Sussex. This information was given to Washington.

It came from Berne, though the name of the commander and the num ber of the submarine which torpedoed tne rsussex hns not been made public. It Is known, however, that it was the submarine U-28 which was sunk subsequently by French and English warships at the point near the scene of the Sussex explosion and whose crew gave information concerning the name of the! commander and the number of the submarine reported to have torpedoed the Channel steamer. We remember how outraged all lovers of humanity were when the author of the Hymn of Hate received honors from the German Emperor. It would seem that it would be to the Interest of Ger-many to arouse as little animosity against Germany in countries still neutral as possible. It is naelessly flying in the face of prudence and tact, to bestow honors upon men who, according to the interpretation of Washington snd other neutral capitals, committed only atrocities.

No doubt this has helped to away many Americans against Prusslanism. At any rate, if decorations ars bestowed as a reward for such questionable enterprises, news of it should not reach beyond Germany. The Prussian censor should have more tact than to permit such Information reaching the outside world. Dr. Jcpiah Jehoshaphat.

Baltimore, Sept. 8. THE BULLETIN BOARD SATCRDAT, SEPTEMBER 1. AT THK THEATRE. Fatal ta atnat Bear Kut- Fonts, law." Sport MarrUnd, Franknn rtraet near Hwaird-slr-la.

trra and Heath and raudatfllt. Auditorium, Howard itrwt near Frankiln-Blciil and Walam, In Xok Wha llm." Oatttr, Baltimore tral near Hollldar-OirU from jorlamt. Palace. Farstt rrrmt Bear Kutaw-Btm Toa (lb u. nardan, Lmrlnaron rtrwH naar Par Viidtu(a and Burring Blctuwa, Hippodrome, ftntaw ttrrtt aaar Baltimore-Valid rllla and moving pMuraa.

Partwai. North atni'i Ctsrl Mrart-" RfltMt Warwick. Ib KrWaj Uit ThlrtoniUk Now, tatlrtftofl itrwt Baaf V. la Tlw SIS feal Howard-Mae sr-ie CMC WHERE. Oriole Park OrianplnnabI la baaaballj BaltuwrS ta HichlBorul; two etmtm a r.

at. Trmrothrm Baltimore Onroty fair; mtinina rawa karnara ind riwrna Oak park-tanim and aavdrrtlla: Odd rviiowt' bar Bar Skor Park Bathing and laartna filial and daning I lnfh RaBlrnM Arm. WnfTrnan akM tt JL Bnitna-Mada-ia Baltimore aad Furs Pood England Discovers A Rare Genius In William McFee Author Of "Casuals Of The Sea" Has Had Unique Experience Afloat And Ashore. For a country that ia celebrated for the geniuses whom it has either per secuted or ignored, England certainly plays in luck in the matter of falling heir to those rare mortals called men with original mindH. She gets a Handel from Germany, a Wilde from Ireland, a Stevenson from Scotland, a Whistler, a Sargent and a nenry James from America.

Today the greatest living Englishman of letters ia by birth a Pole. But even in her native geniuses England is lucky. Why should she, more than any other country, have Bacon or Shakespeare, Shelley or Keats, Burton or Car- lyle? Why should she have any of the men who are too big for English Philis tinism and English snobocracy? England now has discovered suddenly that she is heir to another man who shows the stuff of which genius is made; a man who is English by chance, because he was born at sea of English parentage. The man goes about the world in the engine room of a ship, with Sallust, Florua Paterculus, Llvy, Gibbon, Shakespeare, Horace, Balaac, Tolstoi, Whitman, Goethe and Emerson to share his bunk after his day's work of 11 hours is over. Also, as short a time ago as 1913 he was inspecting boilers in Brooklyn and New Orleans for the United Fruit Company.

English? Well, 'tia a way the gods! have. The man is William McFee. He has ritten a novel, "Casuals of the Sea," which has brought forth a wave of criti cal eulogy in England. The book has just been published in the United States by Doublcday, Page the publica tion date having been advanced from September 20. Such importance is the novel likely to attain in contemporary fiction, such favor has it found with intelligent critics, that, in the opinion of the compiler of this sketch, at least, tne author is one whose life story, or part of it, should be known by those who read books above the common level.

William McFee was born at sea in 1881. His father was master of the ves sel on which the event occurred and was then bringing his ship toward the Eng lish coast after a long voyage, loa family settled in New Southgate, a sub urb in the north of London; and here, In various schools, McFee was educated, going finally to study at Bury St. Ed- mnnds, Suffolk. For several years in his early youth bis time was spent in an engineering shop at Aldergate, whence he was sent on a pumping job at Trlng. It was about this time that he wrote, in the Kipling manner, a poem of 40 pages, and even went so lar as to lecture on ivip-ling.

When the work at Trlng was com-nleted McFee went into the London of fice of a nrominent firm of engineers. Of an evening he was a familiar figure at Nnrthamnton Institute and on Saturday afternoons in the reading-room of the British Museum. Heport has It that he was then not only a good engineer and a scholar, but an excellent cricketer to boot. About this time a friend persnaded him to leave North London and come to live in Chelsea, where he took up a resi dence in Cheyne Walk. There he met the "Chelsea men." Oliver Onions.

Nich- oils, Belloc, Tweed and Herbert Alllng-ham. But Chelsea did not hold McFee long. lie gathered his "companions and left England for San Francisco. In 1905, when he was 24 years old, he went back to the sea on which he was hnrn. Tin was offered a 1ob on a shiD bound for Trieste and accepted it Most of the time that has passed since then ria Vina anonf on triA alma.

McFee says that on shipboard he formed the habit of writing a "daily whack" of BOO or 000 words. He had been writing since he was In bis teens. As earlv as 1001 he waa trying to place stories with mngasincs. "I am soaking copy through the pore of my skin In this steamship," he wrote in a letter to a friend. In 1W)7 his nrst ooog, "Let ters from An Ocean Tramp," was ac cepted for publication by Caesell A sua in the same year be wnt np for his Board of Trade examination and received a grade of 98 per cent.

Soon after, in the same year, he got a billet as third engineer on a steamship bound for Savannah. In the same letter he writes: "I know that one's luck must be backed by hard work, and writing in one's bunk after 11 hours' manual toil, plus anxiety and the certainty of being hauled out at midnight, is horrible." McFee says that sometimes he had to go for 70 days with never more than four consecutive hours of sleep, and at a time when the engine-room thermometer registered degrees Fahrenheit. In 1908 he was in Japan. Among his writings, contributed at this period to English periodicals, were a series of sketches of Mediterranean cities ral rd "Cameos of the pea and a tii(i(v of "The Conditions of Labor at In 1912 McFee left Glasgow, tramped all the way to London, took ship to Wilmington, N. and thence enme to Nut-ley, N.

where he settled down with an artist friend to give himself entirely to literary work. It is declared by tlioee who know him that he Is an excellent critic of painting, and might have been an art critic. At wutiey ne wrote a book, "Aliens," which was published In both England and the United States. McFee grew fond of New York aud frequently compared It to Venice. When England decided to get Into the war In Enrone McFee went back and volunteered for the army, but was refused.

Later, however, he was appoint ed engineer officer on a Ilrltlsh trano- lort. Since then he has spent moat of lis time at Saloniki and Port Said. The man McFee Is described by a close friend as very reserved, partly due to the fact that he is deaf and partly to his "really being interested in his own lie Is big-boned, with very blond hair and blue eyes. "He Is as at runs' as bull." the friend continued, "hut very gentle, pssslonntelv fond of children and cats, ms puysicai enour-ance Is remarkable; I have never seen htm tireil- "As to his literary future," the same friend goes on to say, "1 am not a critic and do not wish to predict. But I have never known a man who would seem to have so msnv cood bonks stored in his hraln.

At times he has been discour aged. Only two years ago, after repeated failures to place ms manuscripts, ne wrote! 'Nobody will ever get me to put pen to paper again; at sea is the only place where really f-el settled and st At least he has never written with an ere on ths editor's favor. Ia 1910 be wrote me: A is always pitching into me. He says I'm on the wrong track and I'll be a failure if I don't do what the puMlo wants. I said I didn't fare a bins curse for what the public wanted, nor did I worry much if I never made a big Dame.

All I want Is to do Some fine and honorable work, to do It ss well as I possibly can, and there tny responsibility ends. To with writing, I want to feel and ser JOKATHAIt HtWUm, Margaret Deland's Novel Deals With The Modern Girl The One That Has "Advanced" Just A Little Beyond The Point Of Propriety. Margaret Deland, the beauty of whose stories, "Old Chester Tales," "Dr. Lavender's People," "The Awakening of Helena Ritchie," possesses the charm of September mists, the mel- I lowness of ripening orchards, has eud- ueniy departed from action or a tender "day that is done" and in "The Rising Tide" has written a story of the girl of the period. It is a story of the girl as she is now expanding into eccentric and exotic bloom; the girl whose own parents do not understand her; the girl, restless in her home, who has not wholly found herself; she who disregards public opinion in regard to her actions and who, accepting no guide through the laby rinth of life, blunders on in pipneer exploration through the world; she who bruises her heart trying to tilt, with im potent lance, against conventions per taining to feminine speech and conduct that are deeper than the customs of any period of time that have their roots in the primal instincts of men and women.

Frederics Payton, heroine of the story, is a wealthy girl of active intelli gence, advanced ideas, restless and fearless nature, who, finding little under standing or interest at home. determined to enter business life and to maintain unchaperoned, in a forest settlement, a onngalow where she could entertain her own friends and express her indi viduality after her own light. nhe is clever, rude, llloirical. ineineri enced and indelicate of speech. Her standard is truth (as she sees it) and her belief is that what men desire in woman is the jolly good fellowship of a congenial mind.

She is full of self-as surance and tails in love with tne man who is most willing to admit her a literary wonder and who frankly says he would rather talk to her than to any man he knows. Her impetuous spirit of comradeship fails to grasp the delicate yet wide distinction between any man he knows and any woman he knows. Desnite her heroines eccentricities Mrs. Deland pictures her a really inter esting young creature, full of generous impulses and real sentiment, and she excuses much waywardness on tne ground that the past generation dons not at all understand the mental and spiritual needs of a large proportion of the girls of today. the latter encounter ignorant opposition on the fiart of parents rather than understand-ng co-operation, they have come to shy off from home guidance and environment like unbroken colts, impatient of bit and The author seems to express her own views of the girl situation and problem at the present time, in the words of Miss Graham, a delightful old lady of the story who, speaking of iredenca Payton.

said: "She had to have aome- thing to do. That's the secret of the situation and there's no use kicking against it. You men have just got to accent the fact of the change. All you can do is to fall back on the thing that hasn changed and never can change and never will change. Give girls that and they will be sober.

Let them be women, be wives, be mothers. Then being suffragists or real estate agents or anything else won't do them the slightest harm. Marry them, Arthur, marry them." "All of them?" he protested in alarm. She laughed, but held her own. "All MARGARET DELAND that nice, bad child, your Freddy Pay-ton, needs Is a husband.

The thing that troubles me mn sunrage or nonsut- frnge, it's the fact that somehow women seem to be fighting Nature. That worries me. -1 know that Nature can be depended upon to spank them into common sense when she gets holds of them, hut nnfortunstelv men won't beln na ture out They don like girls line Miss Payton xney don like girls who are cleverer than they are," It Is evident the author has thought deeply upon and considered Impartially the present-day mental attitude and conduct of the youthful woman question. Her novel is a good love story and written with sll the skill for which this literary craftswoman is distinguished. It will prove interesting to those who read merely for pleasure and enlightening to parents and girls to whom it eonvevs a special message.

Mrs. Deland holds a clear, true mirror before young womanhood facing the future. Perhaps they, beholding so vivid a reflection, will curb the rising tide of nn-rest when it leads them beyond tbe boundaries of those habits of thought those fixed rules of conduct and speech that have descended from Mother Eva. a legacy to the daughters of earth for their suidance and aeir-cuardlni. THIS kixinu Tii'N.

A novel Dy Mar garet IMdsnd. (Harpers, New York. Llouo. uustratea, pp. WJ, fi.HOJ ABOUT AUTHORS Wsdsworth Camo, author ot "The House of Fear" (Doubleday, Page Co.) was once a reporter on the staff of ths New York Sun.

Later he became a magnates editor, but miraculously maintained the power to write. George Creel, whose book, "Wilson snd the Issues." has just been Dnhllshed by the Century company, was also onos reporter. The great thing to his credit in fife, however, is that hs Induced Blanche Bates to become his wife. W. Somerset Maugham, who wrote "Of Human Bondage, ta in New lork superintending the rehesrsslsnf his new comedy, "Carolyn, in which Msrgsret Anglin win appear.

Manghsm is a sur geon when he Is not a manufacturer of literature, and has been serving' em ths aiedicai stall ot a JTrencJi Hospital. ar4 To thk Editor or The Evenixq Scs: Sir Much has been said in the Forum for snd against prohibition, and much debating about the number of persons who die from the effects of the "demon rum." But no statistics can ever be honestly compiled which can give an idea of the actual suffering caused by men and women who are slaves to intoxicants. How often do we hear that Mr. is a perfect gentleman when sober, but is a brute when drunk? How often do we bear the good wife offer excuses and bravely try to shield her drunken husband? How many children suffer from lack of food and clothes? How many die of broken hearts who never drank a drop of liquor in their lives many youths and maidens are there who, after the affairs of their deadT'fathers are wound up, have to begin to learn how to earn a living for themselves, after being reared in comparative luxury, "because father Oh, if all the silent sufferers could have their say, it would be a bad day for the saloons! If a man swallows carbolic acid and thereby dies, it is probably hell for him. But if he slowly kills himself by drinking rum, then it's hell on earth for his family or his mother during the process.

Now, you moderate drinkers and personal liberty men, be generous! Be willing to give up your occasional beer or whisky, and help the poor victim who many times in his sober moments prays for strength to fight against his craving for whisky. I firmly believe that if the moderate drinkers would stay away from the polls the whisky slaves would put the saloon out of business without the aid of the Prohibitionists. Statistics don't mean very much to the average voter, but a little straight thinking might How many people do you know who have been benefited by the saloon and how many who have been damaged? After vou ,.11 fw, polls and vote as your conscience tells yon. I do not believe that every man should be forcibly deprived of his occasional drink. But I do think that a a i.

j. man might forfeit this small privilege uiu.ui.uiuj ujr vuuus ugaiusi. uie aawou. 'XJU auluull is elw. bu Ui" uau.

j-i you honestly believe it to bt good, vote for it; and if you believe it to be bad, vote against it Play fair, don't play politics. Alfbed Cavannah. Baltimore, Sept. 6. This Opponent Of The Saloon Deprecates Billy Sunday Methods And Says The Evils Of Saloons Must Be Eradicated In A Sensible Fashion.

To the Editor of The Evening Sir Some sincere, earnest souls are making spectacles of themselves without helping their cause in tbe least and are giving the liquor interests and the scoffers an opportunity to belittle the intelligence of the prohibition workers. Let them consider that they fight against brain and muscle and that they cannot override the intelligence of such sincere antagonists as the Free Lance (is it "retired" or revived?) and others of his sort. We have a preacher within the Forum who give forth harsh and guttural sounds ill-befitting his dignity and station. Indeed, many of the clergy of this fair city have been badly bitten by the Sunday bug, greatly to the indignation of staid churchgoers and to the amusement of stanch men of the streets like myself. I have seen a young rector of an Episcopal church dancing around his pulpit, pounding thereon and giving forth mighty and magnificent snorts which are to his fair mouth quite foreign.

Understand, I am not belittling Billy. He is a great man engaged in a great work and doing great things for the Lord. But for a minister brought up along stnid lines and miniBtering to a quiet, studious congregation, to copy Sunday tactics is quite childish and Amusing. heard an anti-saloon talk on a street corner last week that was ridiculous. A little bit of a five-foot chap was bouncing around for all the-world like a juvenile ediion of Billy Sunday, slinging all of Billy's choice epithets in a weak voice and amne Hilly rvrattons witn puny cfrort.

For all that ne aid not advance one argument that would appeal to a reasonable man. I am not for the saloon, ira tne con- trnrv. I am decidedly aeainst it. Dut 1 would rather stand (figuratively) in this Forum and advance arguments tor tne saloon than argue in a weak manner against it for then I would hope to arouse a "valuable discussion and not rnn a whirlwind of ridicule. If the saloon is to ro from our midst it must be eliminated in a thoughtful, intelli gent manner ao as to cause the least possible disturbance of economic and socloloe-tral conditions.

It is folly to consider the supporters of the saloon as criminals ana degen erates or to Ignore the opinions temperate users of alcoholic beverages. I feel to my personal satisfaction that drink Is bad aud that its traffic should be halted, but I am not going to seize a club and try to Beat my opiniona into the head of tne nrst portly uerman oeer drinker I meet. I hone somebody rets tne point urant me this space as self-appointed spokesman for a very largo body of citizens who are anxious to see the evil influences of the saloon removed, yet who want to see it done in an intelligent systematic way, so thst the worldly-wise saloon men may not come back a few years hence and say: "There, we gave that bunch of nuts a bit of milk and water to pacify them they've made a mess of it and now we'll get back to our bacon." THB MAN IN THE BACK 1TCW. Baltimore, Sept. 8.

Another Uleterlte Outrage On The Loyal Irish. To the Epitob or The Evening. Son Sir Hhure. an me eyes near popped out of me 'ead this mornin' ss the following startlinf 'cadline came before me in the Rlsin' Sow, "Irish Ask for Prohibition." A slander, a lie!" says 1. an' then I read on snd found that it was from Ulster connty, an' I knew that the world would not come to an end Just yet, atter alL For the Ulsterites ere not Irish, at all, at all, and 'tis me that knows it Take the canov cnnnlns of tne Scotch.

ths intellectual brightness of the Irish sni the haggling, saving qualities ot tne Jew, pot 'em into a pan, stir well an' boil an' you have an Ulsterlto, or a Scotch-Irishman, as they like to be called. Now. the Lexington street mashers "eve got on tne nerves again, with the following result i Soft of 'and an' sett of 'ead An' sooriy cietoes an- mix, That's the sort o' chap you meet As yon go ror a noon-time wsik. Stick la 'is 'and and stick In 'Is month An' a pslld, Imhedle face, As 'e ogle ths girls passing by "A masher," yea say dlsgraeel tame chappies they go In for brains Aa' struggle to nrn in penny, But 1Mb ehSD "ss BO rd in is veins; As for brains, why, 'e 'ssn't got asy. ToatKT Atkins, Baltimore, Sept 6.

CORRECTION Reader ore requested to osil Attention to amy errors appearing 4 the columns of The Kvmine if- i The Traffic In Market Stalls. To the Editob op The Evening Sun Sir There are 1,000 stalls, more or less, in Lexington Market 800 in Belair, 600 in nollins, 300 in Richmond, 250 in Cross, 250 in Lafayette say approxi mately 3,000 stalls in city markets. Eighteen dollars the city receives annually for each stall $54,000. Stalls "rent" from $8 to $30 a month, averaging $15. or $180 annually.

For 3,000 stalls, $540,000 for the middleman. Stalls are "sold" from between $800 and $1,600 ($3,000 has been known to be asked). Averaging $800 for 3,000 stalls is $2,400,000 invested. Income $540,000, over investment $2,400,000, is 22 per cent, for the middleman! Figured on the same basis, the city, whose revenue is $54,000. would average 24 per cent, on the money in vested.

Middleman, 22 per the city, 2 per "Some" traffic! Norman Bean. Baltimore, Sept. 2. Ribald And Unseemly Reflections Upon The Count "Max Phony Botonl" And "Billy The Butcher" By A Pro-Britisher. To the Editob of The Evening faun Sir If Max Phony Botoni gets any comfort out of the "failure" of the last drive of the Allies, for goodness sake let him have it He needs it these dark days.

Like his master, "Billy the iHiituKi, lie sewnis lu ue sliming uui a i iiti own Tenom. as naturalists tell us certain snakes do Bv the bve. if "Billv" has been lord i of the sea since Jutland, why was it necessary for the Deutschland to come here under water and why are the German Lloyd ships still rusting in our harbors, and why does he not come over after some of our ammunition? If we refuse to sell to him. what is to prevent him from taking it away from ns? i notice a circumstantial account of the burial of the Zeppelin crew by the English. But "Billy" says no Zeppelin was lost.

Oh. "Billy," you used to preach sermons in Berlin and now you lie like an ordinary Ally. Botoni! Eat Limburger and sauer-raut. and those nastv Americans will not come within 50 feet of vou. They don't like bad smells.

Eaitcho. JBaltimore, Sept. 8. The Irrepressible "Pancho" Again Communicates With The Evening Sun, Quotes Latin, And, Like Other Predatory Gentlemen Of His Ilk, Is Opposed To Wilson. To the Editob of The Evening Son Sir This morning, after drinking a little of eau de vie (naturally I am in' favor of prohibiting prohibition; I'm sorry, Senor Costin), I picked up The Sun and read about Senor Wilson making his speech of acceptance.

Well, in a way, Senor Wilson's Administration has been the most success ful, for he has had to combat the most difficult questions ever before a Presi dent. His cousin William has at times been very disobedient, and his Uncle John has been very, very "nawsty." I think that his recognition of CarranEa will be the only act that will bound back nt him for betterment. You gringos know how I "love" CarranEa just about as much as Senor Bryan loves Senor Wilson. If Carranza wasn't the head of this de facto government, the gringos would not be hunting me as they are. Senor Wilson acted blindly; yes, I'll repeat, blindly, when he recognized Carranza.

What has Car-rnnzn accomplished? He has insulted the Stars and Stripes; he has insulted American honor. This will hurt Senor Wilson most of all at the coming election. Today our army moved northwest, and at nightfall we were camped on the outskirts of some town. Gen. Non Nomen reported everything favorable, snd we passed a peaceful night.

Say, the Editor ssys to be as short and concise as possible. Docs this mean that you have to write a story to the Editor? A few nights ago the last letter in the Forum looked like a continued story to me. Why don't you gringos look up the words "short' and I guess yon think thev mean "drawn out" and "long-winded." Remedy: Buy a dictionary. I see the submarine took hack some rubber and nickel and (which wasn't mentioned) some firearms. Well, Uncle Ram Is a little kinder to John than Wll.

Ham. He sends William the material out of which to make bullets: but to John he sends them already made. Delenda est Ocrmania! This is a sad out true statement The wermans are excellent fighterB oum verbis, but with nnuets tney an are failures. A German once said: "Yon can sit on a long Englishman, hut not on a sniked holme' True! But many a bullet whizzed over tall, skinny Knglishman, which a short fat sawed-off, hammered-down German got. As yet Botoni.

has not arrived to hunt ror me. i guess ne changed his mind. Well. Botoni, I don't blame you much, for Mexico's a bad place for a little fl. low like yon.

Next time don't make ucn rasn aiaxments. erbum sap." Villa "Somewhere in Mexico," Sept, 3. (By wireiess vis jioiano rqrg.J 8aye The Statements Of "Justice" Do Not Hsrmonlxe With His Pseudonym. To the Editob of The Evenino Son Sir How in all the world does "Justice" justify the choice of his nom de plume? If man calls the German soldiery "the Prussians who hsve foully murdered and French priests. snd hsve killed snd Ill-treated the nuns snd religious people," he has no right to sign himself "Justice," for be ought to snow that be is telling sn untruth.

I suggest thst hs In the future elan himself "Satan." The fairy tales of German atrocities during the advance through Belgium have, in spite of the most iranac mora, never neen proved, since they were absolutely without any basis. On the other hsnd, Russian bar- hariaes in fcast Prussia have never been mentioned In the American neutral press. The dav will come when V.na. land, the cause of all this slaughter, will nave to give a run soeount of herself. As to British participation in the fighting on French and Belgian soil or at the Dardanelles, the latu-r are not mentioned tfy "Justice," -for certain rea sons.

1 wish to state that very few real British troops hsve been aariflnaH There were several hundred thousand Canadians, Indians. Africans nf atvurv description and, sccording to the eta foments of Dr. II. E. R.

Paeons, who arrived with his family in this city recently from Australis, approximately immp Australian troops. This Illus trates the tactics of John Bull. I sin eerely hnpe that "Justice" will either change his pseudonym or his style of M'FEE Local Authors DR. MARY W. WILLIAMS ON ISTHMIAN POLICY Member Of Coucher College Faculty Publishes Important Historical Study.

The hasty consideration usually given by students od American history to Central American topics reveals a tangle of Spanish, British, United States and native interests. And this tangle is apt to be passed with an impatient thought of its unimportance. But these Central American problems have assumed gravity in light of questions connected with the Panama Canal and the surging to the front of the whole American matter. In the earliest days of the controversies the matter was triangular1 British, Spanish, native so that in taking up "Anglo-American Isthmian Diplomacy," as Dr. Mary W.

Williams has done in a book just published, a book which won the Justin- Winsor prize for historical essays in 1914, the first points to be discussed are those relating to old contentions between Spain and England and native divisions, notably In the case of the Belize settlement and in the questions relating to the Mosquito Uoast. Pushing her claims on the Mosquito Coast, JKnglond first aroused the natives to an assertion of their independence and then extended a protectorate over them, in spite of protests from Central American countries. Already England was seeing the strategic advantage of the reaion for overland trathc from ocean to ocean, or ip case anything like a canal might be attempted, the San Juan river makine its short and twist ing ay to the sea through the Mosquito Coast. Not till 1SU3 did the United States take any active part in these controversies, although the Monroe Doctrine had been that year promul gated: and not till 1S50 and the Clayton Bulwer treaty was auy firm stand tflken. in snite of the constant clash of interents between England and the United States in these regions.

All this earlier and lesser known part of the controversy is carefully and thor-ouchlv handled bv Dr. Williams. From the Clnyton-Bnlwcr treaty on through the last hnlf of the nineteenth century to the distinctly friendlier feeling of England toward the United States as the century drew to its close, and the crisis of the treaty. the points of discussion are better known, but they have never received such careful study as a whole or been presented so well in a continuous tale as bv Dr. Williams.

She hns eiven a scholarly account of a difficult and somewhat obscure subject This account Is based largely upon material found in the archives of the Denartment of State in Washington and in the Public Record Office in Lon don. Dr. Williams has made a thor ough study of the subject. In 1918 she delivered a course of lectures on Latin America In Goncher chapel which were open to the public. She is a -California woman, having taken her degrees at Lelnnd Stanford University.

She joined the Goucher faculty in 191 and is at present engaged upon still more ambitious hook. ANOIO AMRUIPAN ISTHMIAN TI PLOMACT. Kv Mnrv Wllhenilne W1I Hams. (Amerlcnn Hlxtorlrnl Association, Washington, ins, pp. was an inveterate matchmaker besides, not only for his feathered friends, but also fnr the young people whom he loved in the quiet village of Snuthrnoad Of course, there was Miss Millio Til-ton he couldn't make a match for her but he could find her a nest of her 'own, And there was the Wild Duck, too, who went away to try her wings.

Sometimes he had to Interfere in matches which were already made, esnecla lv after summer school of barefoot rlnncers In faded Southmead and the wife of the Bunday-aohoo superintendent was at tacked with temperament. His own happiness, of course, comes to hint at inst Edward C. Booth has gone down Into the heart of Yorkshire village life and out of the everyday experiences of its people he hss woven the story of "Fondle" (Appleton). Blanche, the harum-scarum daughter of the vicar, and fondle, her willing slave, are ths prtn clpal characters. We meet the vicar.

mild and unselfish, but with no sense of responsibility toward his mini ehil dren; Fondie'e father, prosperous man of the village, pillar of the church, but hard and stern in his dealings with his family; the young squire, the village gossips and the rector who dares not face life's problems when the tasting time comes. Harotd Blndloss must tarn ont ss many books a year as any other novel 1st. 1 he list of books "by ths same author" ahows 25 novels to hla credit To which add now "Johnstone of the Border" (Stokes). Andrew Johnstone and bis American comrade Whitney leave tbe Canadian wilds to visit rein tives in Scotland. Kvents along ths wild roast of the North Sea offer an unexpected task of daring.

Mysterious lights snd strange comings and goings a long the Holway shore, shins sunk and submarines In hiding give Johnstone a task to serve his country. He knows the coast like his hsnd. snd no storm is wild enough to keep him from nsvi- gating ths trnachemns Inlets snd islsnria In tearnh of the spies operating there. Perhaps it was the "woman vote" in his own household that made Raymond Robins change his mind so radically about Hughes. Well, By Judas! Some of the Hughes organs have worked themselves into such a frenzy of pious indignation over the settlement of the railroad strike that one of them, by inference, compares the President with Judas Iscariot, who betrayed the Saviour for thirty pieces of silver (not talents, however).

But what Christ was it that the per fidious President betrayed? Only that Republican divinity the money of the big corporations. What was the "everything that we have been taught to hold sacred" which waa sold "for a dollar in the Only the "sacred right" of the railroads to save money by making their men work ten hours a day, which must be defended to the last ditch even if the country suffer hunger and enormous loss and inconvenience thereby. Sometimes the nation "throws its ledgers away," but we have yet to hear of a railroad throwing its ledgers away in the cause of Justice or for any other And after all, what waa it that Hughes and his satellites, big and little, wanted the country to throw away Its ledgers and fight and bleed and, if need be, die for? Oh, lust to prevent trainmen getting better wages and fewer hours of labor, that's all Wo shall see what sort of a "merciless verdict" the American people' will pass upon the presidents refusal to fight under that banner. There are a few Americans outside the charmed circle of Plutocracy in which Mr. Mnnsey and his camp-followers abide.

It is quit apparent that "the woman vote" is not going to be solid for Hughes in spite of his eleventh-hour conversion to Federaliiad wom en suffrage. The suffragists ought to be wise enough to recognise their real friends, or at least to avoid male ing unnecessary enemies in the fu ture. Are Laws Made Merely To Be Ignored? turing the past few days one of the most entertaining sights in Baltimore was to be seen at Wyman Park, Just where a most distinct sign post reads "Business Vehicles Prohibited." We enjoyed one morning watching the drivers of five heavy motortrucks absolutely Ignore this sign and gnyly go on their lumbering way through the park with (quite needless to say) clouds of filthy, foul-smelling smoke streaming forth from behind. You, of course, are familiar with the sort of smoke we refer to the smoke which Is caused by having too much oil the sort of smoke that Is never to be seen shooting forth from the rear of an automobile in a city like New York, for the simple reason that the law agnlnit It ia enforced there. Such being the case, we desire to suggest that a new law be placed opon the statute bonks which ahall make It plain ti all owners of automobiles that Paltl morenns, unlike New Yorkers, are pos- scujed of unusual nostrils, which relish that unnecessary, noisome eihanst from automobiles.

And meanwhile why not change the Wyman Park sign to "Busi- Vuliirlcs Jfot If "ths unstained Integrity of ths courts" wars so important in 1912 that Juatice Hughes would not oveo consider a suggestion that ha "dreg thorn into politics," what has mads this of Uss importance in 1916? Caa It have been that Mr. Hughes saw a better chanco to ri this yar, or thought ha saw It? A DAILY THOUGHT (TIMS OmoiSiml ft la a dsnremoa period in a boy's 7s Easier To Be Critical Than To Be Correct' VYHEN one takes up Owen Johnson's Dttv nnvrtl "Tha Wnman ntvaa" (Little, Brown), expecting to find it delightfully Immoral and finds after more than 100 pages that it Is merely dull, one is in no frame of mind for playing chess. "The Great Dot Mystery," by Clifford Xu Sherman, has found its way Into bonk form, Houghton, Mifflin A Co. being the publishers. "Come Out Of The Kitchen," by Alice Duer Miller (Century Company), is a romance In which a bachelor under most original conditions and in mirth-provoking manner stoops to conquer the affections of his conk.

Breesy, spritely, vivid, light literature. 'The Unspeakable Perk," by Samuel Hopkins Adams (Houghton. Mifflin Company.) A tale of the Caribbean Sea, the hiibonio plague qurrantlne and a man and maid who played at cross purposes in tbe game of love. Featherweight romance with little to commend it "The Romance of the Commonplace" ftlnliha. Merrill Comnnnv) Is a series of W) esavs, written by Ooliett Burgess In his youth upon the vagrant thoughts that float, through a young man's mind.

They lack the complete literary finish 01 tne aurnor a inter wnra, ouv are refreshingly original, their wine fragrant with the flsvor of fresh grapes. A companion story to "Hasan" is "The Grissly King" (Douhteday. James Olver Corwood's new novel, The hero of the novel la Thor, the biggest K'mly bear in the Rocky Mountains, or, a crmrty old bachelor, adopts a motherless black bear cub. "Ths Bird TTonse Man" (Ponbledaf, Page) is another story full of birds, flowers and New F.ngland folks, by the author of "Tbe Idrl of Twin lrea, Wslter Prlrhsrd Karon. It Is a bonk about Also Faraom.

the man who made and wrote about birds -and vnsa be thinks that It is "siasilM" writing, inr tne two ao not exactly nar monlse. Biut Bcttin. Baltimore, Sept 8. fUts ta Ma aaethas..