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Irina Skariatina In "First to Go Back,” Irina Skariatina tells of her experiences In Soviet Russia last year as the first member of the former titled Russian aristocracy to re-enter the Soviet Union. She returned to Russia after being absent for ten years. The writer lived under the imperial power of the czars, saw the revolutions in Leningrad and Moscow and experienced fully the post-war chaos. Bobbs-Mer-rill, publishers. consid°r this book one of their most important new fall publications.

BY WALTER I). HICKMAN IT must tx wonderful to be a child these days and get fresh off the j press the books that He Orleans is | writing. Have before me his latest, "Father j Gander," which is the companion j volume to "Funday.” Am going on record by stating that no home which shelters very young children is complete without these modern Mother Goose and Father Gander jingles. This latest collection of "simple rhymes and crude sketches carries” out the fine tradition started in “Funday." "Funday" actually provided a drawing, a jingle and some- j thing to do and observe for every day in the year. "Father Gander" captures just as the first book the natural longing j of every child for beauty, romance, rhyme and observation. The book is dedicated to all'the little Judiths and Julians in the country with these words: The* always talk Os Mother Goose. But never rather Gander. We’re fond of the Old Gentleman; In fact, we think Res Grander. This book starts with New Year's ! day with a greeting from all children to all other children that j everybody, as well as the new year, have a happy birthday. On the second day of the year the child reading this book will naturally want to observe in what kind of business their aad is engaged. The author of "Fatner Gander" is an author, and for the second day of January he records for his children that he is a lawyer. They have been curious because they have seen their father carry a brief case. So, Orleans has drawn a brief case and built his jingle about traveling to court and trying cases. ana /AF course the splendid and fine way to read this book to children is for the father to read this jingle and then in his own way tell his children about his own work. So many human expediences of the child have been captured and attention focused upon them. We all know how children when they are very young desire to write letters with pen and ink. TTus desire has been caught in the picture of an ink blot on an envelope with this jingle: I want to write With pen and ink. I'm reall* old Enough. I think. But mother ** That I ahould not Berauae I'm sore To make a blot. In "Funday." I thought the masterpiece was how the milk gets into the milk gets into thebolr the milk bottles, but in "Father Gander" on a May shower day. the jingle about the clouds is the masterpiece. This jingle is filled with imagine- j tion of th* purest kind. The children want to take a walk and it is raining. So they just wish that the clouds could see when little children want to take a walk that it wouldn’t rain. So the children wish that the clouds have eyes so they wouldn't bump together and make it rain. "Father Gander" is so rich in the very qualities that every child is always reaching for that it is a pity that there is not a fund which would put "Father Gander" and "Funday" in every home. "Father Gander" is published by Claude Kendall. 70 Fifth avenue. New York City. This book certainly makes the life of children one happy paradise. a a a Have before me another book for children. This time the jingles are set to music. It is called "The' Roundabout Book" and the jingles were written by two boys. Bob and Ted Maier. To properly present this book to children, some adult in the family must play the piano. These little tunes and jingles fit every season of the year It Is published by Riker. Brown & Wellington. Inc., and sells for sl. If you have a piano In your home while the children are growing up. then this book will solve many problems

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CHEAP RATES AND LASTING FLOOD CONTROL ARE BENEFITS OF HYDRO ELECTRIC SYSTEM

Power Dam Method Much Better Than Levees, Expert Asserts. INSULL PROJECT CITED Tippecanoe River Plant Cost Less Than Four Million Dollars. Dur to the interest in flood control The Time* a*ked William F. Collins, conservation expert and national director of the liaak Walton League, to interpret the situation in hi* own words in four stories. This it the last of the series. BY WILLIAM F. COLLINS Times Special Writer In my short life I have seen many levees and I never have seen a good one yet. In Stoddard county, Mo., a hopeful citizenry issued bonds for a half million dollars, which was about, a half million dollars more than they could afford and erected a levee along the St. Francis river from the height of ground on the north to as far south as their money held out. The next flood the St. Francis stayed out of Stoddard county, but its neighbor, Butler county, on the west bank, discovered new highwater marks on Its barn doors after the water went down. Then Butler county bonded and built a levee eighteen inches higher than the one over by Stoddard county and then things really started happening in the flood line. Confined between two tall levees in a narrow channel where in former years it had an unlimited spread, the river ran riot. The population ran riot with it.

Dynamited at Night The lower Stoddard levee passed out without a squeak, the Butler levee was dynamited in the dead of night by "vandals.” After the | spree, a lot more levee had to be built and some old levee remade. A pooling of the money that built both of these levees would have gone a long way toward erecting a permanent system of flood control I on the headwaters of the St. Francis. In 1913 I stood at a point on the Mississipppi river that is now 200 j yards out in the channel of the j river. On that point was erected I the terminal facilities of the Cairo, Poplar Bluff division of the Missouri Pacific railroad. There was $300,000 worth of everything that could be erected by government engineers over a period of years placed along that river front to hold the bank. Behind the town that does not now exist, was a levee that looked like a small mountain range. The river shot the whole works one drab night and still more drab day when i the great flood of 1913 rolled its way out to the Gulf. It has been realized more potently | than ever before that one good levee deserves another. Any stream confined within a levee starts building its channel higher and higher. At Cairo and at various other points along the Ohio river and the Mississippi where the rivers have been confined over a long period, the channel is now a virtual causeway above the surrounding land. When this condition comes into existence the engineer starts another system, just about as expensive as the original levee. Where to Control Floods I have stated that the place to control floods is where they fall, not where they go. To leave the Wabash and the White from end to end wherever the damage from flood water occurs will take all rs the money Mrs. Virginia Jenckes has procured from the government now and in ten years from now, I hope she is still our congresswoman then. She will have to battle through another $18,000,000 appropriation to build our levees higher. With this $18,000,000 a very practical start can be made in Indiana to control floods in a manner similar to the Dayton system. In the Wabash river at the rock narrows above Georgetown, we want a hydro electric dam. Samuel Insull In his prime contemplated the erection of a dam there similar to the two he built on the Tippecanoe river. This hydro-electric dam at J Georgetown either can be state or government-owned just so it will j tie us into the chain of electric rur- j rent that now flows so sweetly out j of Muscle Shoals at 3 cents a kilo- ' watt hour. It is the consensus that three small dams on the Salamonie. four on the Mississiruwa, two on the Eel and one big electric generating dam at Georgetown on the Wabash will control completely the floods of the Wabash and make it unnecessary to erect more or larger levees along the lower Wabash. Setup Suggested A similar plan is just as well founded for the White river basin, with one large generating dam near the last rock outcrop, the final location to be decided by the governmeht engineers. These two state or nationally owned dams, one in southern Indiana and one in north- t ern Indiana, will tie in well with the ! high line out of Muscle Shoals, that soon will enter Evansville and forever end the burden of electrical taxation thrown upon us by the Insull regime. Eighteen million dollars will carry this program well on its road to j completion. The profit from the hydroelectric dams will maintain the entire structure and add to it when and where needed. The two Insull dams on the Tippecanoe were built at a cost estimated by seventeen reliable engineers to be less than $4,000,000. The two dams, one on the Wabash and one on the White, will be the major items of expense; thereafter i their income can be used to aug- ! ment the sum neeeded to bring j about lasting flood control within j this state. THE END k

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Check It Off He’s Been Hoaxed Many a Time, Officer Admits. By United Preen WAUPUN, Wis„ Sept. 29. Prison doors were about to close here on Harold Gage, who stole a taxicab in Madison and drove it to Twin Halls, Idaho, when an officer asked him if he wanted to confess to any other crime. “Yes,” he said, pointing toward Deputy Sheriff Melvin Bailey, who had brought him to the prison, “I gave him a bum check once.” "Don’t worry about that,” said Bailey, a former restaurant proprietor. "Plenty of others did too.”

LUTHERANS END CHARITUAUCUS Milwaukee Man Re-Elected as Head, Presides at Final Meeting. Final session of the thirty-second annual convention of the Associated Lutheran Charities was held this morning in the Lincoln. The program opened at 9:30 with the Rev. Enno Duemling, Milwaukee, who Thursday was re-elected president, presiding. Devotional exercises were conducted by the Rev. E. Weber, Ft. Wayne. A symposium, "Essentials for a publicity campaign,” was given by the E. J. Gallmeyer. Ft. Wayne. Speakers on this morning's program included the Rev. Virtus Gloe, Kansas City, Mo.; Miss Marie Tucker, Ft. Wayne; the Rev. L. Winfield Wickham, St. Louis, Mo.; Miss D. K. Bischof, Cleveland; the Rev. A. E. Frey, St. Paul, Minn.; the Rev. J. H. Gockel, Chicago, and the Rev. W. H. Ellwanger, St. Louis, Mo. Convention adjourned at 11:30. Thursday’s sessions included the election of new officer?, and decision to hold the convention next year in Chicago. The executive board of the association will meet in January in Chicago to make plans for next year’s program. A dinner was held Thursday night in the Marott. SMASH SHOW WINDOW Burglars Hurl Concrete in Merit Store Robbery Attempt. Using a piece of concrete, burglars Thursday night smashed a show window six by twelve feet at the Merit shoe store, 332 West Washington street. Check is being made to determine if anything is missing. J. B. Sims, 1524 Massachusetts avenue, walking near the store, told police that shortly after*he heard the noise of breaking glass, he saw three Negroes run.

Austrian Suppression of Political Parties Looms

Heimwehr Leaders Disband to Join Chancellor’s Group. By United Press VIENNA. Sept. 29.—Suppression of political parties—a move which Socialists say will result in a general strike and perhaps civil w r ar—we regarded as imminent today. The way was paved for general political suppression when thee strong Fascist Heimwehr organization of Prince Starhemberg was dissolved as a political force and its members had joined Chancellor Engelbert Dollfus’ "Patriotic Front” party in a body. A communique announcing the inclusion of the Heimwehr. or home guard, in the "patriotic front” added: "This makes the further existence of other parties unnecessary.” Anticipating suppression Socialist

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UNITED STATES TO STAND ALONE

Nation Has Resources of World , Chemical Chief Says

With the nation's economic and financial structure undergoing momentous changes the World-Telegram undertook to gather and present the views of representative Wall Street leaders in a series of articles, of which this is the fifth. BY FORREST DAVIS Times Special Writer THE economic nationalists in Wall Street, an articulate minority, follow a gleam. Scientific Utopians, they foresee a United States self-reliant economically, living abundantly off its own resources and ingenuity and in control of its destiny, politically and spiritually. In commerce they would trade abroad only on American terms, breaking, for example, the grip of Liverpool on cotton and wheat prices; in finance they would lend sparinrgly and keep our credit structures free of London, Paris, Amsterdam or Berlin. Culturally they would revive the hardy spirit of pioneer America. They are “100 percenters”—lusty Americans, first, who maintain that the old nineteenth century dream of an isolated, strong republic has been made literally -possible by the labors of chemical and physical research. No longer dependent on Alsatian potash, Chilean nitrates and the chemical laboratories of Europe, the United States, they assert, now has need to import from abroad only rubber, tea, coffee, tin and sisal. A superior, durable rubber is being trade synthetically. It is available at 20 cents a pound in any quantity, presumably will become much cheaper. Tea and coffee have been synthesized from other products. Substitutes for tin and sisal lie within the chemist’s reach whenever the demand for domestic production arises. The United Slates, the economic nationalists aver, constructively is free of all necessity for buying any single item of goods abroad. If no commerce carriers touched at any American port for a year, the necessities of Americans could be served equally well at the end of time as now. So runs the promise of economic nationalism. a tt tt FRIEDERICH LIST, German economist, who lived in this country during the 1830s. is the doalectician; Ralph Waldo Emerson the prophet and Francis P. Garvan, president of the Chemical Foundation, the spokesman for the group. Mr. Garvan, one of the handful of men who developed the American chemical industry from a negligible factor to world leadership after the war, is not strictly speaking a Wall street man. Yet he is associated with the group of industrialists mainly in the technological fields, representatives of industriees which have grown up on the findings of science who bespeak the new trend; anew trend this country patiently follows in the closed economy tactic of NRA, regulated agricultural production and the White House attitude on international agreements. Himself neither a financier nor industrialist, Mr. Garvan was chosen as attorney and in his own right to develop for this series of articles the philosophy of the nationalists. Mr. Garvan, wartime alien

leaders called newspaper men to a conference and announced: "A general strike, and probably civil war, will result if the government dissolves the Socialist organization, outlaws the trades unions and proclaims a Fascist constitution. "We shall not take such a move lying down, as did German Socialists under Nazi rule.” Socialist deputies in the moribund parliament in a previous statement denounced the government and the Heimwehr and said Socialists were ready to defend their rights. Prince Starhemberg, Heimwehr leader, in a speech at a patriotic pro-Fascist meeting, said that Austria’s real rejuvenation would date from' the day the Socialists were expelled from the city hall and replaced by a government commissar. Vienna has a Socialist municipal government.

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property custodian, a former assistant attorney general of the United States, a patron of Yale university specifically and education generally, takes Emerson for textbook. The Emerson who said: “We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman already is suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. Public and private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat. “We imitate; and what is imitation but the traveling of the mind? Our houses are built with foreign taste; our shelves are garnished with foreign ornaments; our opinions, our tastes, our whole minds, lean and follow the past and the distant as the eyes of a maid follow her mistress.” Leaving Emerson and his ornate demand for a native culture, Mr. Garvan plunges into its application to the current situation. a a a "'T'HE spirit of internationalism A has prevailed for the last twenty years,” he said. "It is spiritually and culturally noxious. We have been told that we were dependent on the rest of the world. Accept the theory of dependence in production and economy and you accept it in theories of government and education, artistic development and character. "Internationalism is a doctrine of cowardice. It is a splendid doctrine for the international bankers —international Capones and racketeers—but not for the nation.” The economic nationalists are hard on bankers—especially the international houses—as they bear down upon foreign propagandists. Mr. Garvan proposes the nationalization of banks on the

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ground that credit is the most important public utility and that the government should safeguard the savings of the people. I am not afraid of our government’ in business,” he said. “Contrast the banking business under private control with the management of the United States navy! "I am afraid of the English government in our business, the French government in our business, and Hitler and Musolini and Stalin in our business.” He supports the government’s experiments in a controlled economy, although he does not view the Roosevelt program as essentially revolutionary. "I think that we shall return to the old system when the crisis has been passed. But meantime the United States is engaged in a vast national effort to improve its life and end the evils of unemployment and stagnation. Under those circumstances it is up to all of us to fall in line and 'forward march!’ ” a a a UNDER any political system, Mr. Garvan sees as a prime necessity in a nationalistic economy the balancing of productive return between the three great groups—agriculture, indusry and the service occupations. A man engaged in farming must be able to buy with his day’s work the produce of a man engaged in manufacturing or transportation, he holds, in close relationship. If farmers are exchanging a day's work for only $2 in goods while factory workers are receiving $4. the tendency, the economic nationalists assert, is to pull down the industrial worker to the farmer’s economic level. Mr. Garvan would not bolster

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the closed economy with topheavy tariffs. “I would grant high duties to any American industry required them to develop itself. But I would insist that such industries make accurate reports of their scientific costs and carry on research and other activities to lower those costs to the lowest world level,” he observed. “I do not believe we permanently can pay high wages unless we reduce our costs to the world level or below. We have done that in chemistry. Today, American chemists produce nitrates from the air at less than the Chilean or European cost—and undersell the Germans. . * "What has been done in chemistry can be done in the other arts.” n tt 'T'HE key word of the economic -*• nationalists is rationalism. They believe that foreign trade should be rationalized. They would produce everything required for our comfort at home; control our exports and buy only such amenities as we choose abroad. Mr. Garvan is working on a formula by which all Americangrown cotton be bought up, the domestic requirements at an arbitrary price and that allotted to export—customarily 50 per cent—■ be sold instead to American textile manufacturers at a reduced price so that our finished goods can be sold abroad advantageously in competition with English. German and Japanese producers. He foresees the need for rationalizing the agricultural problem. Other crops must take the place of surplus cotton and wheat, crops which chemistry already has a use for or such tree crops as slash pine for paper pulp. “It’s a shame to have a large population growing cotton on wornout land, receiving less than the cost of production, when that land economically could produce vast quantities of pulp. “It is demonstrated that slash pine will grow in Georgia, for instance, to paper-making size in seven to ten years. In Canada and Scandinavia it takes fifty years for pulp trees to reach the same size. There is no reason why we could not grow all our paper requirements in the cotton belt.” The rehabilitation of the cotton states in this fashion would require a major govern! nental control. Mr. Garvan does not shy from that. The economic nationalists looking into the long future sees a country transformed by scientific knowledge, precise planning and a soundly impregnable economy independent of the rest of the world. Finance capital, especially in its international phases, has a small part in their dream. Next—Cotton Exchange Head Talks.

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ROOSEVELT AT WORK OH NEW CREDIT PLANS Carries Forward His Ideas for Widening Giant Expansion Program. FROZEN ASSETS GOAL! President Soon to Loosen Money Tied Up in Banks, Assert Friends. By United Free* HYDE PARK, N. Y., Sept. 29President Roosevelt today carried forward plans for widening his already gigantic credit expansion program. Indications pointed to major developments before the week ia out. What these developments will ba no one In authority is prepared to say, although it is felt in wellinformed quarters that they will be in connection with the administration’s effort to bolster commodity prices. Mr. Roosevelt is contemplating a loan from the public works funds ta enable railroads to buy, not only 700,000 tons of new steel rails, but also other needed equipment. The loan, it was believed, would depend on reduction of the price oA rails to a figure below S4O a ton, lq line with White House suggestion! made several days ago. Such an advance which woulif total an estimated $20,000,000 would be in the nature of extending the federal credit expansion program to the nation’s heavy industries in an attempt to stimulate trade and increase buying power. Friends of Mr. Roosevelt were emphatic in dismissing repeated stories of an imminent and radical monetary inflation program as just so much talk. Advisers said Mr. Roosevelt was working with Treasury Secretary William H. Woodin on a program to release, as soon as possible, at least some of the many millions in frozen assets tied up in solvent, but closed, banks. The steps to be taken have not yet been formulated, although it was admitted that they piobably would embrace proposals for community aid to banks, coupled with the pledge of assistance, where necessary, from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. RING WRECKS MARRIAGE By United Preen OAKLAND. Cal., Sept. 29.—Mrs, Evelyn Stearns blames the installment plan for wrecking her romance with Robert Stearns. Sh sued for divorce when her wedding ring was repossessed.