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Ralph Waldo Emerson This picture of Ralph Waldo Emerson was drawn by Frank W. Peers for the jacket of Van Wyck Brooks’ “Life of Emerson,” which E. P, Dutton <fc Cos„ has just published. It sells for $3. a tt a BY WALTER D. HICKMAN WHAT it means to be the wife of a famous English author Is revealed by Mrs. Marguerite Bennett in “My Arnold Bennett,” published by E. P. Dutton & Cos. Mrs. Bennett was a Frenchwoman before her marriage to the English literary giant. Bennett was “not sure of his own judgment” concerning the woman he was going to ask to be his wife. So he asked one of his male friends. As Mrs. Bennett puts it in her book: “He was on the way to being in love and marry me but he was not to fall hopelessly in love and marry me without making sure that I spoke good French.” And that is something new to me ; at least as a qualification for a suit-' able wife but to Bennett it was! very important because at that time : he was trying to become a part of [ the life of Paris and of France. Mrs. Bennett reveals that her; husband had a strange passion for 1 making a fortune out of his writ- ! ings and even during the World war i bragged about the high prices he j was able to get. Another strange trait about the j late Arnold Bennett, according to I his widow, was that he had a strange passion for being exactly on time when he made an appointment and he insisted that everybody j be on time. Concerning his religion, Mrs. Betnett writes: “Religion had no in-! spiring effect on Arnold Bennett, i Though saturated in his youth with ! the beautiful religion of Christ, his I intellect refused to be impressed | with it.” It seems to me that Mrs. Bennett was just a lovely ornament in the life of her famous husband and he used her as a sort of a decoration in his study when he wrote and 1 that decoration must make no j sound, not even cough. As he became more famous and wealthy, Bennett drifted farther j and farther apart from his wife, although she maintains that he j considered her his “own conscience” and asked her: “Do you think it is J easy to live in front of one’s own ! conscience?” Life became more and more diffi- j cult for the Bennetts until as “a I result of a misunderstanding with my husband, I was asked, to my I great surprise, by our solicitors to I leave our flat at once, for the sake j of Arnold’s work.” And she did, never to return. And she writes near the end of her book, “Arnold was by nature a bachelor. He was, then, unconsciously striving to regain his freedom ... if only for a time.” tt a * Have received word from Jonathan Cape & Robert Ballou that they will soon publish, “The Master of the House,” which is "the first book that Radclyffe Hall has writ- ! ten since the publication of ‘The j Well of Loneliness.’ ” a a ts j Susan Ertz. famous English novel- | Ist and author of “Madame Claire,” j “The Galaxy,” and “The Story of j Julian,” is on her way to New York j on the-liner Majestic to be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Hiltman. Hilt man is president of D. Appleton & Cos. tt tt tt Harry pidgeon tells the j thrilling and glamorous story! of his solo voyage that girdled the globe in "Around the World Single Handed." published this week by Appleton. Here is a great modern adventure, an adventure too vast, no doubt, to be realized by most of us, and yet now we may live through it i step by step as it unfolds itself in Pidgeon's vivid narrative. To begin with, the author set out to build a boat himself. He studied boat building and navigation in a public library. Finally after a year and a half of constant labor, his 34-foot yawl was ready, and off he i went from Los Angeles harbour on a voyage which took him lackadaisically onward to the Marquesas j and other South Sea islands, to Samoa, Fiji, and thence to the Indian ocean, to Timor, Cocos. Cape- j town, and Trinidad, and then by| the Panama Canal to California and j home. The story of this solitary sail is J a remarkable compourid of romance [ and excitement. The author is not | only a seaman but also a proses- j sional photographer, and his own striking and beautiful pictures fully embellish the book. a a a The murder mystery is reputed to I be the book that cheers. It is also widely claimed to induce, not sleep, but forgetfulness. Asa cure for depression and pre-occupation with one's sins it is said to have no peer. The London News and Chronicle, j however, reports a case where it i produced an unexpected effect, j “While reading ‘Death Answers the : Bell’ by Valentine Williams. Glen- j cairn Stuart Ogilvie <74>, collapsed and died at his home in Leiston, Suffolk." a a a • “One Hundred Years of Yosemite,” by Carl P. Russell of the National Park Service, will be published April 11 by Stanford University Press. It is the first com- \ plete history of the famous region from the time of its discovery. i

CIVIL LIBERTY I 6AIN IS SHOWN IN LAST YEAR Union Points to Absence of Serious Riots Despite Lack of Jobs. By Berippi-ffowo.nl B cwgpoper Alliance WASHINGTON, April 22.—Comparative absence of food riots and similar disorders during a winter in which more than 8.000,000 workers were estimated to be without jobs was cited today by the American ; Civil Liberties Union. The union named Harlan and Bell counties. Kentucky, as the blackest spot on the civil liberties map of the winter, blamed Henry Ford for the killing of four workers in a riot, and denounced police violence in the anti-Japanese demonstrations in Washington and Chicago. But in general it was the quietest winter season of recent years as far as civil liberties were concerned, confounding prophecies made by po- | lice and radicals alike, the union j pointed out in its survey. No reason I was given for the lack of serious ! disorders as compared with other years of wide unemployment. Numerous gains for the year 1931 also were listed, including the antiinjunction act, state action outlawing “yellow-dog” contracts in Arizona, California, Ohio, Oregon and Wisconsin, court rulings invalidating Ohio's criminal syndicalism law and Michigan’s alien registration law, and upholding the testimony of an Alabama atheist. The supreme court’s decision that

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the Minnesotta “press gag” law was unconstitutional, and its reversal ot a conviction under California’s red flag law, also were mentioned. Against these, the union listed as losses the supreme court’s decision barring alien pacifists as citizens; dism ssal of Professor Herbert A. Miller from Ohio State university

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for a speech he made in India; dismissal of Professor John Earle Uhler from Louisiana State university for a frank novel on university life; establishment of Jim Crow rule in a Philadelphia Boy Scout camp; illegal closing of a Communist children's camp by an Ohio sheriff, and mob violence against Communists

in Texas, Maryland, Michigan, lowa and elsewhere. Laws in Washington, Michigan and Delaware passed through influence of the Daughters of the American Revolution,-requiring special oaths of loyalty from school teachers, were named as setbacks to academic freedom.

MOTHER FIGHTS FOR RIGHT TO TEACHGHILDREN Sincere Conviction That Her Methods Are Superior to Mass Education. By Uniird Prcng VINELAND. N. J., April 22.—Sincere conviction of the inadequacy of mass education is behind Mrs. Arthur J. Smart's refusal to allow her children to attend public schools, she said today. Convinced that her four children would receive a more complete education and training if she taught them at home, she has steadfastly objected to their attendance at the Vineland public school. Her conviction began years ago when she was a young girl. “I decided I would make myself rich or well-to-do,” she said, “then adopt four youngsters, and educate them according to my ideas.” She studied, and the more she delved into the subject, the more firmly convinced she became that she could educate childien for happy, useful citizenship better than they were being educated under the mass public school system. Then she married. Her husband. Arthur, agreed with her ideas of child education. “I intend to rear my four children exactly the way I planned to rear my ‘dream children,”" she said. The Smart’s have defied the

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Eminent Inventors answer the question s* to Whst the World Needs Most, in this series arranged bv Science Service. for readers ot The Times. BY DR. AMBROSE SWASEY Mechanical Engineer and Deeirner of Large Telescopes. 'Coovright. 1932. by Science Servicei CLEVELAND, April 22.—N0 doubt. In coming years, there will be great and important discoveries and inventions in the realm of industrial science, as there have been for half a century or more past. At the present time, however, I have not in mind an invention or improvement for which the world seems to be waiting. Although quite apart from my field of endeavor, may I add that, notwithstanding the wonderful achievements in medical science, there are yet some difficult problems which, if solved, as now hoped, will bring countless blessings to mankind throughout the world. NEXT: Dr. Frank B. Jewett, president of Bell Telephone Laboratories. Milk Tank Beats Bullets By T : nitrd Preeg ELYRIA. 0.. April 22.—William Ganders, 48, was a World war hero, winning a Distinguished Service Cross and several other citations for capturing two German machine gun nests. He is dead now, drowning in a milk cooling tank. Landis township school authorities, who demanded they send their two oldest children, Arthur, 9, and Elizabeth, 7, to public school. They may face court action:

APRIL 22, 1932

TIME RIPE FOR TREE PLANTING State Forester Says Delay Threatens Failure. Now is the time to transplant trees and shrubs, for a few days of warm weather, with the sap running and buds coming forth, will make it too late, Ralph F. Wilcox, state forester, advised today. “Best results always are obtained when plant material is dormant.” he said. "As soon as the buds swell and leaves appear, the rootlets begin to extend below the ground. The life processes have started to function and moving them during this period is certain to disturb them. “It is always best to secure shadr trees from a private nurseryman who has produced them for weli balanced crown and root system. “If unable to secure nursery stock, many can dig oaks, maples and elms from nearby forests. Such stock should be selected from an open and exposed site where the bark is accustomed to hot and drying winds. “Dig the. roots carefully, park them in wet burlap, straw or moss, and move at once to the planting place. Use a sharp knife to prune away the root ends which have been skinned or broken. “A tree four to six feet high is the best size to plant, and the hole should be large enough to accommodate the roots. The top soil should be tamped firmly about the newly planted trees.”