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It Seems to Me HEYfOOD BROUN T WOULD like to extend my felicitations to M.ss -*• Lynn Fontanne for the manner in which she plays Katherine in ‘The Taming of the Shrew.” She and Alfred Lunt have made a good show out of a Shakespearean piece which is fundamentally a little threadbare. It was not conspicuously excellent in the first place, and time has dealt unkindly with its tricks and stratagems. Mind you, I am not blaming Shakespeare. In spirit he was a columnist, and the first and, quite

possibly, the greatest of the whole tribe of those committed to the task of getting something down on paper every day. Naturally, he couldn't be good all the time. I understand and appreciate his problem: He did have a good idea for "The Taming of the Shrew,” but it was not a full-length notion. It should have been a one-act play. The rest is padding. He needed a collaborator. Some of the Shakespearean fundamentalists may object to all the midgets and the tumblers whom the Theater Guild has assembled to

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help the Bard over those tough spots when his hero and heroine are not, on the stages. While lam not authorized to for him, I doubt that William Shakespeare would complain. After all, he confessed in his own version that his plot was slight, by introducing the complication of Christopher Sly. a a a He, Ton, Had Hills In Pay TF Shakespeare had not been a hideously over- -*■ worked author he could have done a great deal more with the story of Katherine and Petruchio. He might have written an extremely witty and subtle comedy about their relationship. But there were bills to pay and social obligations to bp met. and so a whale of a good idea went into the pot and came out a sure-fire, rowdy, hoakum farce. .fust a glint of the original subtle notion remains, and it is rherished and treasured in the performance of Miss Fontanne. I sec a distinct analogy between Katherine and Candida. Both were victims of the maternal complex. I hold to the interpretation that Katherine was never tamed at all. There was never a moment from the beginning to the end when she couldn't have knocked Petruchio's block off morally, spiritually and even physically. It is pofisible that after the first curtain descends and they are left alone she docs thump the breath out of him. But probably not, for, after all, Katherine's conquest of the, swaggering male is so complete that, she does not need to underline it with left, jabs or right hooks. She has taken the swaggering Petruchio into camp complctley. a tt tt What Happened Next? 1 DO not know whether anybody has written an ep- -* ilogue of an additional act for "The Taming of the Shrew.” It could be very interesting. In fact, many of Shakespeare's plays leave you with a strong desire to know what happened next. Certainly the story of Shvlock is not completed at the end of "The Merchant of Venice.” Os course, the line between tragedy and comedy may depend upon the circumstance of Petruchio's ever discovering tt?e manner in which he has been taken in. Katherine’s speech about wifely duty, by w hich Petruchio wins his wager, is set down in malice. She is kidding the life out of him. And yet she doesn’t want him to realize that fact. Dumb bunny though he be, she loves the fellow. His attempts to be the masterful man are so piti- • il that they arouse her maternal instinct to its .highest pitch. Katherine knows that without her protection he may really get himself into trouble and have his cars knocked in by any forthright man or woman. And so she is "tamed.” I have said very little about, the performance of Alfred Lunt, although I think that it's a good one. But, of course, he is not the type I have in mind. According to my conception, the perfect Petruchio would be Charlie Chaplin. i Copyright, 1915)

Your Health -BY DR. MORRIS FISHBKIN-

YOU may want to miss a meal to give your stomach a rest, but at the same time you may not be doing your gallbladder any good. The reason is that, whenever food is eaten, especially fatty food, thr gallbladder empties, and it isn't good for your health to keep that organ filled too long. In fact, you should eat something at least three times a day, to keep the gallbladder functioning well. If you have a sense of fullness and distention of Ihr abdomen, and you belch a good deal after eating. the gallbladder is no doubt responsible. Highly seasoned, fatty, and greasy foods seem to make the gallbladder disturbance worse. PaJn from a gallbladder disturbance is usually beneath the ribs in front at the right side, but sometimes goes to the bark and up to the right shoulder. If there are gallstones which block the gallbladder, the pain may be severe and may cause the person concerned to bend over. 808 INFLAMMATIONS of the gallbladder also bring about disturbances elsewhere. Hpadache is a common symptom. Dizziness may be associated with the headache. People with chronic inflammation of the gallbladder are irritable and nervous, and their sleep is disturbed. The sallow complexion, "yellow eye” and apathetic appearance are t\pical of gallbladder inflammation. Modern surgeory has able to develop methods for removing the gallbladder completely wnhout harm Certainly if there are gallstones present, and if there is accumulation of the symptoms that have been mentioned, delay will be dangerous.

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

''l''HE National Research Council organized during J- the World War by the nation's leading scientists for the promotion and direction of American research. is concentrating its efforts in five fields, a report by its chairman. Dr. Isaiah Bowman, the president of Johns Hopkins University, indicates. These five arc: 1. Borderlands in science and the training for their cultivation. 2. The educational relationships of post-doctorate fellowships and possible sources of future support. 3. The continuation of general support for individual grants-in-aid of research. 4 The responsibility of scientific institutions in relation to patents that may be issued on the results of scientific research. 5 Relationships to the scientific service of the government of advisory non-governmental scientific agencies. tt tt B CONCEALED in this formal and formidable statement is a list of items which profoundly will influence the future trend of scientific activity in this country and hence profoundly influence the future of the nation. For this reason, th* informed citizen should acquaint himself with the policies of the National Research Council. The borderlands of science are the places where two scientific fields meet. It is here that the most important advances of recent years have been made. For example, the great ductless glands have come in biochemistry, the borderland between biology and chemistry. Certain borderlands, such as physical chemistry and biochemistry, are now clearly recognized and cultivated." Dr. Bowman states in his report which 1 published in Science. Others are plainly in need of cultivation. Geolog.'. geography, and biology, for instance, have relationships of special importance in studies of land use and soil erosion.”

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r Jplp; glories of Rome reach back into the dim ages of the past—to the days of the Ciceros and the Caesars, to the days of the coming of Christ. But Roman history ; .s as new and shiny as a department store table compared to the oldness of Ethiopia. F'or the story of this anc'ent kingdom is wrapped in the misty legends of time. To the Bible may be traced the lineage of these dark-skinned and haughty people. The pages of the Old Testament tell of the people of the Land of Kush. And Kush was the son of Ham, who was the son of Noah. And the Ethiopians declare that when the early scholars translated the Bible from the Greek, the savants called j ~

them Ethiopics, and the Hebrew word Kush became Ethiopia. The ancicn!, time-worn Amharic is the Ethiopian language and Ethiopia, translated, is spelled "Ityopya.” To the Greek scholars the wmrld was a vast place. Beyond the horizon lay another horizon. They didn't know' quite how far they dared to go, before they dropped off into space. But beyond their immediate horizon, they knew stretched many lands inhabited by black people. So Ethiopia to the Greek scholars was an apt phrase w'hich covered plenty of territory. For its English meaning is “The Land of the Burnt-Face People.” a a o BUT where, the curious want to know, does Abyssinia come in Abyssinia is synonymous with Ethiopia. It is an Arabic w'ord meaning "confusion has come to man.” The Ethiopians despise the word. To them it is an insult, a term of contempt. Yet Ethiopia, to the neighboring Arabs, was the land of "mongrels” and the name Abyssinia came to be used with equal frequence. The Ethiopians insist they play second fiddle to no man in the matter of honorable and famous forbears. The biblical Sheba, they say, was their country, and the Queen of Sheba, their queen. From the love she bore King Solcmon, there came a son. and from the son descended in an unbroken line, a family, one of w'hich today sits upon this ancient throne and defines the powers and might of a modern Caesar. The latter often boasts to his fellow' countrymen the glories of the Roman past and shouts passionate exhortations that they rewrite this ancient history in modern language. And when they hear of this, the Ethiopians laugh. For King Solomon and his glorious queen lived 1000 years before the eoming of Christ, a time when Rome was virgin ground of forest and grass and mud, through which a mighty river wound its lazy way dow'n to an ocean as yet undiscovered by man. Antiquity? Glories of the past? Come again, laugh the Ethiopians when they hear the boasts of the modern Caesar echoing across the banks of the Tiber. a a a THE Ethiopians are a branch of the Hamitic race—and the Hamites came from Egypt. Once upon a time, when the deeds of the Bible were in the making, the Egyptians ruled the world. They were a great race of soldiers. and sailors, farmers and builders and, among other nations, they conquered Ethiopia. The Ethiopians paid them tribute in gold, silver and copper, slaves, frankincense and myrrh. But taxes grew heavier and the conquering hand of the Pharoahs grew' more oppressive. So the Ethiopians revolted and threw off the yoke of the Egyptians. They became a free and independent people once again and from that day to this—no man. black or white, has conquered Ethiopia. Many have tried, but all have failed. Mussolini talks of avenging the Italian defeat at Adowa in March of 1896—but that was not the first time the shadow of Rome fell athwart the children of King Solomon. When the Romans marched into the Holy Land, Jews fled right and left. When the Jews were told to "render unto Caesar the tribute that is Caesar's,” many decided that it was better to pack up and get out. And great numbers of them fled into Ethiopia. a a a THEN down from the dry and dusty plains of Arabia came sweeping Moslem raiders. They raced through Asia Minor, and to the fringes of Ethiopia, burning. pillaging and fighting. Then Abyssinia disappeared from the world's ken for almost a thousand years. It was, indeed. "The Forgotten Country.” And its people lived within themselves for a thousand years. And for a thousand years the rest of the world plodded along the path of progress to new inventions, new discoveries, new socialisms, Then came the Sixteenth Century. The Egyptians, the Romans, the Greeks—they had all fallen by the wayside of ever-ad-vancing Time. Each had had his day in the sun. And each had grown fat, lazy and decayed into nothingness. And so in the Sixteenth Century, the Portuguese and the Spaniards were the kingpins of the era. Both were great sailor nations. But it fell to the lot of the Portuguese to rediscover Ethiopia. tt B tt IT was almost like the famous fairy tale of the Sleeping Beauty. Here was a nation, the earliest Christian nation on earth,

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The march of Italy's great modern army across parched plain* ftiaard thr rocky plateau of Ethiopia ha* made that African nation the center of the world * eve*. And thi* dramatic story of Ethiopia tive* you the reason* for the invasion; the "story behind the story." The Time* today present* the fourth installment of Boake Carter's 'Black Shirt, Black Skin.’’ o a tt

which had dropped out of sight and br’en completely forgotten for the huge span of a thousand years. And now knocking at her doors again, to awaken her was the outside world in the shape of Portuguese explorers. They found her rich, and took back some of the riches to the Portuguese kings. And, sometimes, the kings dispatched troops to help the Ethiopians drive off marauding bands of Moslems. Once northern Africa was studded with Sees, presided over by bishops, one of them being the great Augustine, famous in ancient church history. Christianity was driven from this territory by the Moslem raiders, but never from Ethiopia. And so the Mohammedans held great affection for the Ethiopians. For more than once Christian Ethiopian armies rushed down from the highlands to the rescue of persecuted Arabs, and for many years Abyssinia held the Kingdom of Yemen in Arabia. a a o THE Evangelist Philip was the man responsible for the introduction of Christianity into E'.hiopia. A minister of the Queen of Sheba was returning from Jerusalem, when he met Evangel Philip, and the minister s conversion to the Christian faith was soon accomplished. Then two Christian missionaries. Aedesius and St. Frumentius, were shipwrecked on the coast and were made prisoners by the Ethiopians. From slavery they taught the Christian religion and before long Frumentius was consecrated a bishop. Like the Copts, with whom they have always had close relations, the Ethiopians depart from orthodox Christianity as we know it, in that they hold to ♦ the Jacobite doctrine as to the nature of Christ. The Abyuna, or the Archbishop of Ethiopia, is always a Copt, appointed and consecrated by the Coptic Patriarch of Egypt's Alexandria. And the Church exercises a tremendous hold over the people. Perhaps one third of the male population of Ethiopia—and the population runs from anywhere between 6 to 10 millions of people—are intimately con-

Coal Bootleggers Take 'Turn AbouT When Arrests Come, Suffer No Harm

This is the third of a series of dispatches of coal bootlegging. BY FRED W. PERKINS Times Special Writer MT. CARMEL. Pa.. Oct. 14. Students of social phenomena have tried vainly to define what is going on in the bootleg coal zone of eastern Pennsylvania. From 12.000 to 14.000 men are daylight lawbreakers, poaching openly from the coal companies’ preserves. They have seized private property and are using it for their own ends—scanty incomes that are “good - ’ when they average $2 a day. Abortive attempts to stop them haw ceased. A Republican Governor and a Democratic Governor have refused to buck the predominant public sentiment, which excuses the men on the ground that taking tho company coal is, after all, “not much of a crime.” The efficient Pennsylvania ctate police look on good-naturedly, and are said to be under orders to interfere only when there is rioting or fighting. Even the “coal and iron cops,” deputized employes of the big companies, are said to be no more oppressive than their superiors demand. a a a THERE is a story of a bootleg community near Mt. Carmel. The company police are expected to make a certain number of arrests each month, apparently just to keep the record straight. On regular days they appear among the bootleggers and ask. “Well, who's going with us today?" The bootleggers take turns in subjecting themselves to arrest. They are taken before the local justices. They plead guilty with a smile, and are sentenced to a few days in jail. Sometimes they serve an hour or two, but in most cases the doors never shut behind them. Frequently the “prisoners” get home before the officers. "It is something like a revolution. but few of the men seem to know just what they're doing.” said Miss Millie McWilliams, of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers' office in Pittsville. Miss McWilliams is a friend of many of the bootleggers, and is one of the Socialist group that provides for them thfe only radical support of any consequence. It may be a revolution, but certainly not in the Communist

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1035

The Story Behind the Ethiopian War

By BOAKE CARTER**—

EVEN AS PRAYERS ROSE OVER ALL ETHIOPIA, and European statesmen voted penalties against Italy, the troops of II Dure went grimly ahead with their invasion of the African kingdom. After leading thousands of his people in a great service of sunplication, the patriarch of Ethiopia, Abuna Kyrillos, umbrella raised, is shown in the top photo leaving the Cathedral of St. George in Addis Ababa, with his retinue. Below are Emperor Haile Selassie and hir son, Prince Kakonen, as they arrived, well guarded, for the service.

nected with the church in some capacity—priests, monks, deacons. A third of the entire nation—and the nation is three times the size of Italy—is owned by the church. Thus it can be seen how the church holds sway over a great proportion of the people, and how it can whip their emotions into white heat of passion, or control them by the power of the superstition. a a tt THE church has been the conservative influence on Ethiopia in the past, and is today. This is the Christian element. There still exists the Jewish sect of native Ethiopians, known as Falashas, who are descendants of those Jews who fled from Jerusalem. In addition there are the wild, uncontrollable pagan tribes of the frontier regions known as the Danakils. For most of its history—during the Christian era at any rate, Ethiopia ws a vast collection of provinces. Each warred against the other incessantly. Topping the list of provinces was Amhara, whose sovereign boasted of the blood of Solomon in his veins and called himself Negus Negusti (King of Kings) and claimed lordship over all the other provinces. The Amharics once, of course, were solely natives of Amhara, but through the years they spread through the whole of Ethiopia. After centuries—and a century to an Ethiopian is like a decade to you and me—they became Semitized by countless Arab invasions. Slave trading introduced Negroes and after centuries of in-

sense. The men seem satisfied with the prevailing social order so long as they are allowed to make a living in the only way that seems open to them. B B B A PECULIARITY is that among the bootleggers some of the traditional tribulations of the capitalistic system have begun to develop. There have been complaints that the more enterprising bootleggers have hired assistants at chiseling wages, and that women and children have been put to work in the bootleg holes. The latter charge is hotly denied. Radical commentators say the men are following the capitalistic pattern simply because that is the only system they know. There is an informal agreement among the bootleggers that prices must be maintained, but the scales appear to vary in different communities from $3 to $5.50 a ton, averaged for various sizes. Several associations have sprung up among the men. One is known formally as the Bootleggers Union, while the largest, centering in the Shamokin district, has the official title of Independent Anthracite Miners of Pennsylvania. Earl Humphreys, 31, is chairman and president of the Independent Miners. He worked in the mines as a boy, then joined the Army. For a time he was a noncommissioned field artillery instructor at West Point Military Academy.- Then he went back to Shamokin, got another mine job and lost a leg in an accident. Humphreys lives, with a wife and child and a number of other relatives, in a ramshackle frame house along the tracks in Shamokin. His front parlor is headquarters for the Independent Miners. In the course of an hour's interview with Humphreys half a dozen members and local leaders of the organization came in to report. He claims 12.000 members, including truckers of bootleg coal as well as the miners. b a b “'THEN years ago,” said HumphX revs, “15 colleries were operating in the Shamokin District. They employed 10,000 men. Thirteen of the collieries have been the breakers have

tercourse, their physical appearance changed. a a tt THERE are a few Amharics in Ethiopia who are sufficiently civilized—in our Occidental sense of the word—to think that to be all black is an incurable sign of inferiority and political inability. They like to think they themselves have a Caucasian origin—therefore they, being light of color, can thank this origin for their political sagacity, their ability to rule and their statesmanship. But there are many students of this enigmatic people who say that no matter even if there are brunette Amharics, they still hail from a fundamentally negroid race and nothing that the upper class and intelligent Amharics can say to the contrary will change that fact. It is, after all, one of those things which will remain controversial until the Judgment Day. Still, these people believe that they, surrounded as they are by darker, ignorant, illiterate natives, are the aristocracy of Ethiopia and are born to rule. Thus they are extraordinarily proud, highly sensitive and intensely national, so national, in fact, as to be almost fanatical on the subject. It is this fanaticism which faces Mussolini’s European troops, handicapped also by the rigors, the plagues and the strength-sapping heat of the tropics. tt a a DUE to the Coptic religion of the country the bond between Ethiopia and Egypt has been very strong. But though the bishops were responsible for

been torn down and the mines are flooded. Only one colliery (the Cameron, owned by an ‘independent’ and not the great Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Cos.) is now working steadily. It employes about 700. “The collieries were closed when the big companies started to centralize their operations, to make them more profitable. We have fought for equalization if work, or spreading the work, but there is nothing in the Shamokin district now to equalize with. It would cost five million dollars to get those old collieries and mines in shape for work.” Humphreys had a “bootleg hole” of his own for two years, and also was in the trucking end of the business. Lately he has been giving all his time to the organization. He is unfriendly to the United Mine Workers. "They have been working in collusion with the big companies,” he says. “They are degenerating into a company union.” a a a LAST week he was before a Pottsville court on charges of inciting a riot and resisting an officer. Reuben Kowanskv, operator of a small breaker in that town, had a large quantity of coal stored in his yard. Police of the Philadelphia &; Reading Cos., with state police “protection.” went with a small gas shovel and loaded about onethird of the estimated 2500 tons on trucks. They said it was stolen property—bootlegged coal from company land. Kowansky obtained an injunction restraining further removal until the ownership could be determined. Then the grand jury refused to indict Kowansky on the charge of receiving stolen property, and also threw out the charge against Humphreys, who was active in the proceedings. Such endings of prosecutions against the bootleggers are rou* tine here. “There are no radicals among us.” Humphreys said. “\Ve're just ordinary men trying to make a living in the only way we know how. There will be no radicalism among us unless the coal and iron police try to stop this without solving the question of how- we •*' .ting to feed our families.”

the spiritual guidance of Ethiopia, some of them were not above working for their own personal interests. For the bishops could read and write —and the majority of the nation could not and still can not. In addition the Ethiopian is a great believer in witchcraft and can be immensely upset by superstitions. These characteristics were not lost on some bishops and so the spiritual guidance of Ethiopia was not always as fast or as ideal as it might have been. Imagine then, the anger of the Ethiopian church and the fury of the bishops when, two years ago, the Ras Tafari Makonnen, the Emperor Haile Selassie, the modernist, outraged all Ethiopian tradition by refusing flatly to petition the Coptic Patriarch in Alexandria for a successor to an Egyptian bishop who had died. And so here the royal family of Ethiopia enters the picture. The present ruler —the bearded King of Kings, Lion of Judah and Emperor of Ethiopia—claims direct descent from the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon. Before him trickles through the pages of history a powerful and great line of kings, queens and princes —some good, more bad. B B B modern times—and this is what we are concerned with today—the first great King was Theodore the Third. He was born in 1818, the son of a small and obscure chief. But by his own political acumen, cunning and courage, he made himself emperor. He educated himself, became far more intelligent than any of his fellow countrymen and was a religious zealot and cruel in the bargain. He looked upon the English as a great white- people, a race whose methods of statecraft he would do no harm in aping. So one day he dispatched a. letter to Queen Victoria. The letter was never answered. This angered the great Theodore, King of Kings, Lion of Judah and Emperor of Ethiopia. Without more ado he sent a detachment of warriors to the house of the British Consul General, Capt. Cameron; seized him, bound him with thongs and flung him into prison. In London there was consternation. Who was this who dared lay unceremonious and rough hands upon the queen?—for the consul general was the representative of the queen and inferentially any one who laid hands on him, laid physical hands on her. The upstart, said London, must be taught a lesson —one of those lessons in which Great Britain has been past master in the day when she was building her great colonial empire. a a a A MILITARY expedition under Gen. Sir Robert Napier set out. In the spring of 1868, the British column marched into Theodore's capital, Magdala, after slaughtering many Ethiopians with rifle fire—one of the earliest times Ethiopians got a really first-hand taste of how deadly rifle fire can become in the hands of organized troops. When the town fell to the British, Theodore, too proud to flee, plunged a knife into his own heart and fell dead. Overshadowing the great Theodore's memory', however, came Menelik the Second. He was bom in 1842, the son of the King of Shoa. His father had resented Theodore's power and threw down the gauntlet, challenging him to battle, not once, but many times. At length the old King of Shoa was exhausted and surrendered. The young son Menelik led a life little different to that of his father —always a continual round of wars. But when Theodore stepped out of the picture. Menelik struck out all around and about him and in time, became powerful enough to declare himself Negus Negusti. Tomorrow The Massacre at Adowa. (Copyright. 1935. Telegraph Press. Harrisburg. Pa.). „

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Fair Enough WESTBROOK PEGLER THE football game that was to have been the first loud noise in a presidential boom was played Saturday at Ebbets Field, the home of the Brooklyn daffiness boys. It brought together those two natural rivals, Louisiana State University. Huey Long's school, and Manhattan College, of New York, coached by Chick Meehan. The natural rivalry of Louisiana State and Manhattan in football consists in the fact that both teams are. or were, directed by great masters oi the art of ballyhoo. Huey hit upon

the idea of developing a great football team, possibly a national champion, to carry his banner on the sports pages, the most, popular section of the newspapers. Mr. Meehan, a famous football showman, was brought to Manila tan College for th* same reason that he had previously been brought to Now York University. After he had made N. Y. U. famous throughout the United States, N. Y. U. got religion, so to speak, reformed, relieved Mr. Meehan and de-emphasized football. It was a shabby way of doing, because N. Y. U. went into

football exploitation for a practical purpose, with malice aforethought, but attempted to blame the coach for the over-emphasis afier he had done a splendid job at the very task for whirh he was hired. Now he is engaged in the same work in Manhattan. tt tt tt Some Deserving Footballers HUEY'S plan to use a university football team for political ballvhoo was unique in American politics. It began to mature last fall when he led the team—his team, as he called it—to Nashville and into Mississippi. For the trip to Nashville he subsidized many members of the student body of Louisiana State at the rate of $7 each. The source of the money was not known, but by a peculiarity of the law in Louisiana, Huey was not required to account for public funds. Some of the students thought Huey put up the money, but Huey’s law was such that he could have financed this personal political demonstration at the expense of the taxpayers. Huey and his football department did not always agree. Huey had been heard to boast that he was bound to get a champion team because he could hire the best players, charging their salaries to the payroll of the State Highway Commission. Huey insisted that it was perfectly ethical for a young man to serve the state government and still play football. And if it was contended that they were being paid for imaginary services to the highway department the answer to that was that countless other political favorites were drawing pay for similar duties. By this theory a man on the football team, in return for the ballyhoo which the team created for Huey, was entitled to patronage like any other deserving Democrat in his organization. It was anew idea in American sport and characteristic of the most ingenious and mischievous politician of his time. u a u Lost—A Great Parade IT was Huey’s intention this year to send his team into Florida about Christmas time, if a match could be arranged, to play a game on the East Coast which would smother, by superior publicity, the Pasadena Rose Bowl game in California. The plan depended, of course, on the success of his team during the regular season, but he was one who seldom gave any thought to the possibility of failure. In Florida, Huey would lead his team and his band and a great excursion of students in a parade through town and by the force of his own personality kick up a ballyhoo to be heard all over the country. The game with the great natural rival, Manhattan College, was to be a warm-up demonstration of his ballyhoo powers. He probably would have led his band up Broadway on Saturday with the newsreels cranking and the broadcast whooping but for the failure of his "thug men,” as he called them, when the crisis finally came. As matters have turned out, however, the political character of the football show has vanished from the occasion. The natural rivals met in a game of no special importance as Huey and Dr. Weiss wait for history to decide which of them was the patriot and which the martyr. (Copyright, 1935, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

Times Books

IF you dislike the New Deal and want to spend an evening hearing it roundly denounced, you may enjoy Ernest Greenwood’s new book, ‘‘You, Utilities and the Government.” <D. Appleton-Century). Discussing the Holding Cos. Act, he concludes: "It seems to me that it is not only the duty but the solemn obligation of every national industry to join with the public utilities in this fight with radicals who have secured temporary control of our government.” Discussing the Administration's whole power policy, he says: "The President is certainly bent on giving this communistic theory a thorough tryout at the expense of the taxpayers and regardless of the faet, that his experiments are sinking us deeper and deeper in the mire of economic depression.” These examples illustrate the tone of the book. a a a FOR a person hunting a fair, accurate summation of the utilities’ sidp of the power controversy, this book will hardly serve. It is as weak on facts as it is strong on invective. One would not gather, for instance, from his discussion of the Federal Trade Commission's investigation of utilities that this long, meticulous study, findings from which have proved so upsetting to power companies and to Mr. Greenwood, was undertaken in a Republican Administration by a conservative, Republican-controlled commission. One could not guess, either, that it was carried on under direction of a conservative Republican judge from Vermont, Robert E. Healv, friend of Calvin Coolidge’s attorney general, John GaribaldiSargent; nor that utility lawyers, present at every session, made no attempt to dispute testimony of commission accountants as to thp financial practices of holding companies. <By Ruth Finnevi.

Literary Notes

When Covici Friede signed a contract with James Wechsler for the publication of his book, - Revolt on the Campus.” it was necessary to have a guardian appointed for the author because he was only 13 years old. He will be remembered as the militant editor of the Columbia Spectator last year. An English translation of ‘‘An Outline of the History of Music,” by Karl Nef. late professor of musicology at the University of Basel, has just been published by the Columbia University Press as the first in a series of studies in musicology. The translation is by Carl Pfatteicher, director of music at Phillip Andover Academy. More than 130 unpublished poems by Emily Dickinson have come to light at the Dickinson family home in Amherst, Mass., and will be published Nov. 22 in a limited edition of 500 copies by Little. Brown under the title “Unpublished Poems of Emily Dickinson.” The book will be edited by Martha Dickinson Bianchl and Alfred Leete Hampson.

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