Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 215, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 November 1935 — Page 7

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It Seems to Me HEYWOOD BROUN lON D. BAKER has just written one of the ’I most “subversive" letter ever emanating from any American public man since the days of Thomas Jefferson. I wonder what the Legion or the American Security League purposes to do about it. Ostensibly Mr. Baker communicated with the New York 1 imes in an effort to demolish certain familiar stories about our entrance into the war which have been much circulated by liberals. He denies vigorly that Woodrow* Wilson was pushed into the con-

fiict on the side of the Allies through the pressure of Ambassador Page, the international bankers and the munition makers. But Mr. Baker is brave enough not to blink the fact that an Administration which was re-elected on a peace platform did ask for a declaration of war before tw r o years had passed. And his explanation of the reasons for this development seems to me to jibe precisely with those economic and political philosophies which are hailed in some quarters as alien and unpatriotic. "From the beginning to the

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end of my Tidal life in Washington," writes Newton D. JV er, “I never heard the President or any member i his Cabinet, either in conference or private conversation, express any opinion that the United States ought to go into the war or that any commercial or financial interest, either of the United States or of any group of our citizens, would be promoted by our going in." He adds that President WiLson and his associates did all they knew' how "to keep our country out of war." tt a a The ‘ Why?* Will Not Subside BUT we did go in. Accepting without qualification the statement that Woodrow Wilson, Nev ton D. Baker and the rest tried their level best to avoid this contingency, the eternal “why?" will not subside. Mr. Baker’s answer is less than blunt, but its implications, at least, are wide enough to furnish a very proper answer. “But after all," he writes, “what President Wilson said at St. Louis was profoundly true. The tension in modern international relations are industrial and commercial, and the causes of modem war grow out of the efforts of nations to acquire economic security or economic dominance." But if Newton D. Baker had said just that during the war he would, in all logic, have gone to jail as one whose words tended to impede the draft. As a matter of fact Eugene V. Debs did go to jail for saying approximately the same thing. I do not think I am twisting the language of the former Secretary of War out of its reasonable meaning when I interpret his statement as indicating his belief that modern wars are caused by the clash of rival imperialistic ambitions. Mr. Baker has said, and T think he has said truthfully, that those tensions which finally snap into armed conflict are industrial and commercial. But under these circumstances I think that New’ton D. Baker must have been extremely restive while serving under a chief who insisted that as far as the United States was concerned our participation was based wholly on a desire to make the world safe for democracy and to fight a war to end war. tt tt tt Must Hare Felt Uncomfortable 1 TRUST that Mr. Baker does not maintain that America, unlike the other contenders, had no commercial stake whatsoever. And I am certain he would not care to argue that there was ever any indication that a victory for the allies would bring about the end of all commercial and industrial tensions which make for war. Mr. Baker must have felt uncomfortable when he heard George Creel’s Minute Men announce that here was the final conflict. Indeed, after naming commercial rivalry as the fundamental cause of modern war, Mr. Baker goes on to say: “To vranslate this obvious truth into an accusation against munition makers or bankers is an unfortunate oversimplification of the case. . . . America's safety from future wars can not be secured by muzzling bankers or disabling munitions makers.” If I read Newton D. Baker correctly he seems to say that in spite of the best efforts of Woodrow Wilson and his associates the economic system under which they functioned was too much for them. I shall wait with great interest for Mr. Baker's next letter, in which he should take the logical step of advocating the changing of that system. (Coovrieht.. 1935)

Your Health BY SCIENCE SERVICE

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.—Deaths from malaria are increasing to an alarming extent in the United States. The seriousness of the situation is pointed out by officers of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Cos., who refer to “the rising menace of malaria” in their current Statistical Bulletin. According to their estimates, at least 900.000 persons are suffering frcm this preventable disease at the present time. This estimate is far too low, in the opinion of Dr. L. L. Williams of the United States Public Health Service here, who is in charge of the service’s malaria investigations. Dr. Williams estimates that there were 2,000.000 cases of malaria in 16 Southern states during 1934. He thinks the number of cases has dropped off a little since the 1934 peak, but the 1935 figures will not be vailable until the end of the year. The number of cases is not known exactly, but is calculated from the deaths reported. Some authorities estimate 200 cases for every death, but Dr. Williams believes 500 to 1000 cases for each death is more nearly accurate. Malaria accounted for 4520 deaths in the United States during 1934, latest year for which figures are available. a a a THE deaths and untold suffering caused by this disease can be prevented. On this point the editor of the Statistical Bulletin states: "It is an indisputable fact that any community cal now rid itself of every trace of this disease if it so desires. All that is necessary is the application of the principles laid do'"n by Gen. Gorgas in his work in Cuba and the Panama Canal Zone more than 30 years ago.” The general impoverishment of the people since the depression has been blamed by some for the alarming increase of malaria in the Soutn. The feeling is that people have been too poor to buy quinine or other anti-malaria remedies. On the other hand, it is pointed out that most of these states have had considerable CWA and FERA assistance for their drainage programs and this should have helped to offset the unfavorable effects of the depression.

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

T TNCLE SAM has set out to get the enemies of vJ the oyster. This will be good news to all those who favor the delicacy which may grace the dinner tables in the months that contain an “R.” as well as to those who make their living by oyster fishing. A special act of Congress, appropriating SIOO,OOO for the study of marine animals destructive to oysters, has made it possible for the United States Bureau of Fisheries to tackle the problem. The work is under the supervision of Commissioner Frank T. Bell of the bureau. a a a OYSTER pests cost the nation millions of dollars each year. How serious the situation is was demonstrated dramatically in 1932 when a marine worm or planarian. known to the Florida oyster men as "the leach.” suddenly appeared in great numbers in Apalachicola Bay. Florida, and destroyed over 1000 acres of oyster-producing bottoms. Active work is being carried on under the direction of Dr. Paul S. Galtsoff along the whole coastline from Cape Cod to the mouth of the Rio Crande. The work is divided into five major projects based upon the distribution of the enemies of the oyuer.

THE BABY DERBY—A YEAR TO GO!

Her Children Interest Mrs. Darrigo More Than $500,000 Prize

With only a year to go. competition is reaching new heights in Toronto’s S.VOO.fHM) Baby Derby. Laura Lou Brookman went to “the front’’ to report on progress and here is the second of her series of stories on the frantic scramble. tt tt tt a tt tt BY LAURA LOU BROOKMAN iCopyright. 1935. NEA Service. Inc.) 'JTORONTO, Ont., Nov. 16. Dark-eyed, gentle Mrs. Manuella Darrigo doesn’t speak English very well. She understands, though, and nods and smiles when asked about the baby that is coming soon to the Darrigo home. Yes, another one. That will make 16 Mrs. Darrigo has brought into the world. Nine have been born since Oct. 31, 1926, starting time for the $500,000 Toronto Baby Derby, inaugurated by Charles Vance Millar, who left that sum out of his fortune to lie presented to the mother bearing the largest number of children within 10 years of his death. Mrs. Darrigo has an excellent chance of wdnning the

$500,000. It’s only a year or so since the Darrigos heard of the Millar will. Even now, Mrs. Darrigo doesn’t quite understand it. Steffano, her man, does, though, and has explained it*. Five hundred thousand dollars for the most baoios. But that is a lot of money! To Mrs. Darrigo, Italian-born, to whom rearing children, keeping them fed and clean and healthy and off the streets is as natural a routine as night following day, it must seem strange indeed to have strangers coming to her home, asking about her children, particularly the little one to come. uaa WITH native-born courtesy, she answers questions when she has the words, turns apologetically to her husband when she has not. “Steffano—?” He will tell you. Steffano Darrigo is the spokesman for his household. Sure, all his kids are registered at the Bureau of Vital Statistics. Nine of them born within the nine years since Charles Vance Millar’s death. Another coming next month. Maybe it will be twins. Celeste, 6, was a twin, though the other baby died. There were twins last year, too, but Mrs. Darrigo fell and the babies, born prematurely, did not live. Another set of twins would put the Darrigos well in the lead in the baby race. Some of those others (Steffano says) who claim so many children are only talking! THERE are 12 children—five girls and seven boys—ranging in ages from 21 to 3 years, in the Darrigo family. The twins born last year were registered and will count in the derby. The small Darrigos born since 1926 and living include: Johnny, 9; Carmella, 7; Irene, 6; Angelo, 5; Tony, 4, and Joe, 3.

Coal Companies Seek to Stop Bootlegging by Publicity Methods; Unlawful Producers Carry on Primitive and Dangerous Operations

BY FRED W. PERKINS Times Special Writer DOTTSVILLE, Pa.. Nov. 16. J. More than 12 000 bootleg miners climbed back today to back-breaking work in their coal holes, hundreds of trucks loaded with stolen fuel again rumbled through the towns of this region on their way to markets in Eastern cities. It was “business as usual,” with the participants aparentiy unconcerned that the great anthracite companies have just attempted to focus a strong searchlight of publicity on the unlawful industry. Departing from a traditional policy in which press relations have had little part, the great companies, through the Anthracite Institute of New York, brought into the region 25 representatives of metropolitan newspapers to view a problem which the visitors found as “hard to crack" and almost as black as the coal itself. The reporters found a sharp conflict going on between the property rights of the coal companies and what the bootleggers conceive to be their human rights to make a living—and with the latter set of rights undoubtedly in control of the situation. The problem today is essentially the same as it has been for more than three years, but it has grown to such size that the companies now recognize it as a threat to their existence. Some observers see in it the seeds of possible breakdown of law enforcement and perhaps of civil war and bloodshed. Law enforcement already has broken down, but only with respect to the refusal of the officials in three counties—Schuylkill, Northumberland and Columbia—to defy local sentiment and protect the properties of the coal companies. State authorities have refused to intervene, at least until the county officers call for help. s a a COMPANY spokesmen charge the bootleggers are stealing company property other than coal, and they point out the obvioiis fact that many bootleg trucks do not carry license plates. The visitors saw several instances of public highways caved in over bootleg shafts. They saw one hole being driven into a hill and ectly beneath an old cemetery. They saw boys under the legal age working in illegitimate mines, and they saw a few women helping their “men folks” in surface operations. They were informed of the dangerous development of "barons" in the bootleg industry—men who hire other men to mine the coal, following the capitalistic example by paying as low a wage as possible. The company officers declared that one of the “barons” employs 30 miners and truckers and is using the same general business methods that he followed as a beer racketeer in prohibition days. The newspaper men, as guests of the Anthracite Institute, were

It’s a lively household when those children dash in from school. Heels clatter. There is pushing and shoving and highpitched laughter. The young Darrigos—second editions, most of them, of Steffano—have dark hair, snapping black eyes, and wide smiles, revealing white teeth. They’re all feeling good these days, because they’re no longer on relief rolls. That going on relief was a blow to Steffano Darrigo. Because it was hard for him, it was hard for his wife, too. For 15 years Darrigo had had his ow r n fruit store. Once he even owmed three of them. All the family helped in the store. “We didn’t work 24 hours—we worked 28,” he says. a a a BUT that didnfc help matters when times became bad. Two months ago Darrigo lost his store. He kept his truck and went into the country, selling: fruit. It didn’t pay. He lost the truck and there was no way to feed the family except to go on relief. All that is changed now. The father is working and so are the older boys. “We’re off the relief!” the Darrigo youngsters exclaim cheerily. They think it’s great. Asked about the $500,000 prize, Mrs. Darrigo merely smiles and shakes her head. She will talk, though, about her family. Raising 12 isn’t so hard, she says, if you can buy the food. It takes a lot for the Darrigos. When they had the store there was always plenty of fruit and vegetables. Two dozen eggs it would take sometimes for a single meal—one apiece, and the older ones wanted two. And 10 loaves of bread in a day. A gallon of olive oil each w r eek. Spaghetti—yes, they all like spaghetti. a a a IF you would prepare Italian spaghetti in the way Mrs. Darrigo learned in Italy, do it thus: Cook the spaghetti in salted boil-

driven 150 miles from Pottsville to Tamaqua, Mahanoy City, Shenandoah, Centerville, Mount Carmel and Shamokin—all mining towns and all bootleg centers. They were conducted also through modern commercial mines and coal preparation plants or “breakers,” one of which was the huge establishment of the Lehigh Navigation Coal Cos. at Coaldale, rep-

Shipyard Combine Able to Smother Proposed Opposition, Record Shows

BY ROBERT W. HORTON Times Special Writer VI7ASHINGTON, Nov. 16.—'“Rejor shipyards to bid on construction of the proposed $15,000,000 liner for United States lines is a serious threat to the merchant marine and the Navy,” Lawrence Wilder, former president of the New York Shipbuilding Corp., said in an interview today. “It also bears out most emphatically,” Mr. Wilder said, “testimony before the Senate Munitions Committee that the fate of our merchant marine and naval defenses is monopolized by the big three--New York Ship, Bethlehem Ship and Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Corp.” Mr. Wilder, who retired from New York Ship to organize anew company with major shipbuilding facilities at Pensacola, Fla., also said the record shows that this shipbuilding combine reaches into the highest political circles to smother all attempts at increasing shipyard facilities in the United States. s tt a "D ECORDS based on recent studies by the Navy Department show a serious lack of such facilities for the construction of firstclass merchantmen and naval vessels. Munitions committee records disclose that Mr. Wilder encoun-

Going Up! By United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 16. Dr. William J. Humphreys, weather bureau meterologist, today listed the layers upward from the earth’s surface as follows : 1. Troposphere (atmosphere to most of us.) 2. Stratosphere. 3. lonisphere. 4. Aletroposphere or high atmosphere. 5. Altostratosphere or high stratosphere.

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A healthy, happy, smiling lot are the 12 children of Mr. and Airs. Steffano Darrigo. shown here with their parents in their Toronto home. The Darrigos arc strong contenders in the 5500.000 Baby Derby.

ing water until tender. Brown onion or garlic in olive oil. Add tomato paste, thinned with w r ater, and season to taste. Let the mixture simmer. Shape ground beef into small balls and fry (in a separate pan) until done. Add these to the tomato sauce. Arrange the spaghetti on a platter and pour the sauce over it. Serve with a bowl of grated cheese. Cooking is a major interest with Mrs. Darrigo and she has taught all her girls to cook. She hopes they will marry—when they find the right men. a a a QTEFFANO agrees. “It doesn’t make no difference whether they marry young or later,” he says, “but they won’t take any but the best. We won’t have no bums and loafers in this family.” He wants his boys to go in business for themselves. Probably running fruit stores. “When you work for yourself,” he says, “you know what>you make. For somebdoy else—?” An expressive shrug of the shoulders. “I’ve tried it both ways. I know.” Steffano, who was born in New Jersey, married Manuella, newly arrived from Italy, 22 years ago. “I didn’t need a wife who could speak English,” he says, “because I speak it good myself. I could have married one of these up-to-date girls, but I thought, ‘lf I do that, while I’m making good money, it will be all right. Then suppose after a while I don’t do so good.

resenting a capital investment of several million dollars. The startling contrast came ■ from an inspection of the bootleg holes—narrow, dangerous shafts sunk as much as 60 and 75 feet below the surface, in which from one to four men would be working at the hardest kind of labor, cutting out other people’s coal for an income that most of

tered the big three’s political power when he applied in 1933 for an RFC loan to expand the Pensacola yards. His application was submitted in June. Previously a prospectus had been submitted. John Slater, a director of New York Ship at that time, wrote on May 13 to his company’s president, C. L. Bardo: “I was able to secure some extracts from this prospectus which will indicate the scope of the plans. Copy of this I am inclosing for your confidential information.” It never has been explained how Mr. slater obtained the extracts. Alarmed by the prospect of a new company entering the field, Mr. Bardo on June 28 wrote Gov. A. Harry Moore of New Jersey, now a United States Senator, asking that Gov. Moore seek to obtain "foreclosure against the loan (.to Mr. Wilder) at Washington.” Next day one of Mr. Bardo’s executives reported to his chief that he had "a long talk with Henry Maloney in connection with the Wilder matter. Mr. Maloney understands this situation particularly well, and while he was very busy, having just been sworn in today as collector of internal revenue, he said he would get in touch with Mayor Hague immediately and do everything possible to scotch the plan.” BBS June 30 Gov. Moore wrote Mr. Bardo: “I have taken the matter up directiy with Mr. Farley.” On July 7 Gov. Moore informed Mr. Bardo that he had “today written the President in accordance with your request.” The correspondence continued with exchanges between Mr. Farley and Gov. Moore, Mr. Farley having taken the matter up with Admiral H. L. Cone, chairman of the Shipping Board. Finally, on July 24, Mr. Bardo wrote Gov. Moore: “Many thanks for your letter of July 21, inclosing copy of letter from President Roosevelt. ~ . The inform a •

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Times have been hard, but Air. and Airs. Steffano Darrigo still are able to look on the bright side.

I know what will happen. It will be Good-by, John!’” So he and Manuella were married and went to Niagara Falls for their honeymoon. It was the longest trip Mrs. Darrigo has taken since her marriage. tt tt tt IF she wins the $500,000 will she go back to Italy? No, she doesn’t think so. A good home for the children,

them said averaged about $2 a day, and which the company men declared was considerably higher in many cases. n a tt CRUDE windlasses are turned by hand power to draw up the coal in buckets or iron barrels. Some of the bootleggers “shake” or size their product on the spot, and sell to the truckers. Others turn over the coal, as it comes from

tion from the President adequately disposes of this hazard to two of New Jersey’s principal industries.” It appears from the President’s letter that he had been led to believe the government would acquire the Pensacola yards because he wrote: ”... I appreciate your writing me about the matter, but we have no intention of acquiring shipyards.” Mr. Wilder said today that he heard nothing more of his application.

Co-operative Markets of Farm Women in Million-a-Year Class

BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY TiniPs Staff Writer TTFASHINGTCLN, Nov. 16 VV Farm women have built for their own products a co-oper-ative retail market now doing a business of more than a million dollars a year. How this has been done is outlined in the current "Consumers’ Guide,” issued by the Consumers’ Counsel of AAA. Under the title, ‘‘Farm Women Go to Market,” the story is told of how “groups of farm women co-operate to find a short cut between producer and consumer.” Lowndes County, Georgia, is cited as a typical example. Besides two roadside markets, which had their start in 1932, a retail growers’ market, organized in. 1931, last year took in a total of $48,000. Thirty-three families, representing 15 communities in the county, sold regularly on the market. “Many families were able to record in the individual records bocks provided by the marketing specialist a profit that went much further than the welcome stopgap trickle of cash that at least staves off starvation,” the Guide reports. MARKETS range from those operated in villages, where three or four women manage to >

all of them settled in comfortable, useful lives is w’hat she wants most. New dresses, parties? She laughs and shakes her head. She will do with the money whatever Steffano says. But no matter how many thousands they get, Mrs. Darrigo will go on making spaghetti. Yes, indeed!

the ground, to the bootleg breakers, some of which have become fairly elaborate plants in miniature. The bootleg breakers, operating as middlemen, either sell to truckers or operate their own motor fleets, which are doing an increasing business in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore Washington and other Eastern cities. Their business, according to company sources, is taking $32,000.000 a year away from the legitimate industry producers and retail dealers. The visitors were shown the great St. Nicholas centralized breaker of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Cos. as a monument to the company's enterprise in reducing production costs, partly through mechanization of cleaning operations formerly performed by hand. But the bootlegers pointed to St. Nicholas and to similar plants as the prime reason why they are defying the laws of property. “Open the old collieries,” they said, “give us jobs, and we'll quit bootlegging.” The only cure advocated by the companies is “enforce the law.” Observers on the ground advocate “equalization of work,” which would open some of the abandoned high-cost operations. Others have suggested a compromise—give the men work in the mines or at some other livelihood, and then clamp down the law.

make SIOO a year or less, to large city markets, like that of Montgomery, Ala., which took i*i $267,309 in one year, and is the main support of 237 families. Products sold in these markets include chickens, eggs, meat, milk, fruits, vegetables and honey. Also there are home-cooked foods, including old-fashioned milk bread, nut bread, brown bread, cakes and cookies, chicken salad, boiled ham, boiled custard, frozen custard, Brunswick stew, barbecued pork, sausages and spareribs. Chicken and poultry products lead the sales in most markets. These markets have brought town and country people together and made for better understanding. according to the Guide, which follows: "Regardless of whether or not the principle of selling individual farm women's labor and product over the counter to the ultimate consumer is fundamentally progressive from a basic economic point of view, the fact remains that from the point of view of the individuals concerned, it has brought in cash to families who would not get it otherwise. “It has saved farms from foreclosure, kept families off relief rolls and turned the wheels of business in rural towns.”

Fair Enough WESTBROOK PEGLER BARCELONA. Nov. 16.—First impressions may be deceptive, but in Barcelona your correspondent has the feeling of having dropped in on one of the neighbors during a lull in a serious family row. Outwardly, the citizens seem gay and at peace with one another, but there are soldiers and policemen of half a dozen varieties in the streets, some carrying big automatic pistols in holsters or in their belts, others leaning on their muskets, others un-

armed. strolling along the Ramblas, the grand promenade of the town, within siren call of their barracks in case of another political coup. The regular army troops are mostly mere kids picked up off farms and streets to serve their time, and they struggle and shuffle in ill-fitting khaki uniforms. with none of the spruce smartness, as the English call it. of well-trained and disciplined soldiers. Just what they wouid do in the event of a shooting scrape is a case for conjecture.

because they are a cross-section of the population and there is a great variety of poli’.ical faith. The extent of this variety may be judg and from the fact that there are 80 radical newspapers, morning and evening, each sheet representing some shade of opinion or some jiolitician. tt tt tt Bang! Don't Bother to Duck! AS to whether they are subsidized or devoted to blackmail, there is again a variety of opinion. One proud young Catalonian, the head of a business house, insists that journalism here is a low and loathsome trade and that the working classes are a menace to good order and prosperity He tells of employes who steal merchandise, and when fired for doing so threaten to have their employers killed by their union. He reaches into his hip pocket and pulls out a little automatic about three inches long. The pistol is known to American police as a Spaniard. He also says something about holdups on highways in which motorists are robbed of their money and jewels and sometimes of their cars, and left stranded in the mountains. But whether he means that this state of affairs exists today or that it existed some time ago and was brought under control by civil guards, your correspondent is not entirely sure. At any rate, it’s reminiscent of the United States, and provides a homey touch to a stranger in a strange land. A German who fought in the war to end war and who has lived in Barcelona for 15 years and seen all the shooting in the town during that time laughs at today's turbulences, and says the Spaniards are such rotten shots that the only danger is from stray bullets. There are marks of shellfire and bullets on some buildings, but the damage could not have been serious. and one is advised merely to keep away from windows in the event of another temperamental display. a a a Mr. Pegler Goes Begging for News IN Madrid your correspondent will be able to learn who is sore at whom and why, although that might be a waste of enterprise and not worth the tolls, because Spain seems to be merely a forgotten corner of the world stewing in her own juice, and the army division w'hich simply vanished from the earth in the Moroccan disaster has scarcely been heard of in the United States, although the incident was a great tragedy to the Spanish people. Although poverty, or at least a very low’ scale of living, is apparent in the city, there is no begging. and this is explained by a local law, which seems to be strictly enforced, w’hich sends beggars to jail and fines the man who gives alms. They were driven to that by a plague of diseased, blind and crippled beggars who flocked in from everywhere to plant their tatters and their frightful infirmities, and established a sort of post through which they exchanged trade secrets and methods. In addition to stamping out mendicancy, the local administration also rounded up and shipped home a great burden of beggars and villagers from poor districts W’ho had chucked it and come to the big city to live on the dole. But when they arrived home they were simply dumped on the land without equipment, for they had sold their animals and tools in the first place. These dispatches were not intended to be a travelogue, but on a trip of this kind you play the ball as it lies, so to speak, and Barcelona is not very hot just now.

Times Books

HARRY HANSEN, who has been a book reviewer since way back when, tries his hand at a novel in “Your Life Lies Before You,’ and docs a very neat job of it. (Harcount, Brace; $2.50 His book is an unpretentious story about life in a small Mississippi River city in lowa at the turn of the century. It deals chiefly with three people—a nice young chap who can t quite decide whether he is going to be a great writer or a great musician, but who is sure that he is going to be a great something; a warped old genius of a violinist who has drifted into the town and supports himself by giving lessons to scrub-nosed hopefuls; and the violinist's daughter, who is ardently loved by the nice young man. Our young man is a reporter on the local paper. Falling for the girl, he begins taking violin lessons from her father to get into her good graces, and unexpectedly reveals genuine musical talent. BBS THEN the father sends the girl to Chicago to have her voice trained, and the young man promptly drops everything to follow her, getting a job on a Chicago paper and forgetting all about his fiddle. Just as he gets going nicely, she comes home again —so he throws up his job and follows her. All this works up to an unexpected and rather harrowing climax, in which the ardent lad takes a severe bumping from life; and the story is memorable for its vivid picture of river-town life and its sympathetic study of youth and its emotions, its ambitions, and its pathetic, confused hopes. (By Bruce Catton.)

Literary Notes

Winifred Willson, editor of Independent Woman, tells us that the magazine is in the market for a wide variety of articles dealing with women s interests. They are aware, she says, that these interests have changed somewhat, and she thinks for the better, since the Victorian era. “Recipes for chocolate feather cake, be they ever so toothsome,” she says, “are taboo, and also directions for crocheting antimacassars.” The address is 1319 Broadway, New York. Winston Churchill has written an article on Charlie Chaplin which will appear in next week's Colliers. Dr. Arnold Genthe has signed a contract with the John Day Cos. for the publication next year of his autobiography, tentatively called “Self-Portrait.” It will consist largely of his experiences during the last 40 years from the early Bohemian days in San Francisco to his active part in the artistic and social life of New York. And there will be anecdotes of more than 200 persons, ranging from Sarah Bernhardt to J. P. Morgan. It will, of course, be illustrated with Dr. Genthe's photographs. Richard Sherman, formerly of Vanity Fair, has written a serial for the Saturday Evening Post called “To Mary—With Love,” which four Hollywood studies were bidding for. It has finally been bought by 20th Century-Fox and the author will go to the Coast to write the screen play. James M. Cain, who wrote “The Postman Always Rings Twice,” has finished anew book called “Double Indemnity.”

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