Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 217, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 November 1935 — Page 11

It Seem s to Me NEWOOD BROUN ' I 'HE other day I indicated a desire to write some A descriptive pieees about New York during my visit to this city. In particular. I promised to investigate the night life of the town. But by now I have met the night life. I am not going to write about it. In fa/’*. Id rather not even hear about it. It all happened so suddenly. A young friend of mine was celebrating her forty-seventh birthday, which seemed to obligate us all to participate in a curious

activity known as “going to places.” Tire final conflict was in a Chinese restaurant. Unfortunately, one member of the party got hold of a beverage menu and found that the place afforded a long list of “Oriental Liquors and Cocktails." She thought it would be cute to quit the honest Scotch highballs we had been drinking and try the wine of the country. But they gave me a Gar Pei Yu and after that a Tiger Skin. It was the latter, I believe, which did the damage. The name should have been a sufficient warning.

Heywood Broun

and I would not be surprised to find that the concoction was labeled in honor of ihat once famous but now forgotten novel of Elinor flyns. It was designed. I fear, to make the period of remorse extend a full three weeks. And so I have taken a pledge which I mean to keep. From this day forth not a single drop of liquor ever will pass into this column. The theme of drinks and drinkers is definitely out. n a a Thanks, Mr. Lewis TJEFORE extraneous matters came in I believe we were talking about Fascism. It must go to the eteinal credit of Sinclair Lewis that he has done an enormous amount to crystallize the latent fear of the coming of such a dictatorship. Indeed, he has been a pioneer in breaking down the smug attitude thai no such thing ever could happen in this country. Os course, a great many Americans are like Mol’iere s man who was startled to discover that all his life he had been talking prose. Many things are said which purport to be patriotism but are in reality the seeds of Fascism. For instance. I run increasingly into the person who says. “What this country needs is a leader.” Now, in the sense in which the word is employed, America needs a “leader” just, about as much as Italy needs Mussolini or Germany needs Hitler. This talk of a “leader” is the defeatist cry of those who want to put in power some patriarchal magician who will pull .jobs and rabbits out of a hat and give to all a sense of security through the very strength of his own personality t always have felt that the economic implications of the Freudian philosophy have not been sufficiently examined and understood. It is historically unfortunate, I believe, that Marx and Freud did not live in the same city at the same time and collaborate on at least, one book. Those economic factors which make for Fascism are tolerably plain and enormously important, but it is my notion that they are heightened and augmented by what the Vienna physician would identify as mankind’s dependence upon the father image. an a A o Need for ‘Strong Man ’ PROM the beginning of recorded history human beings have searched for “the strong man,” and 'hr most fortunate nations are those which never found him. The world could have very well afforded to wag its weary way without a Caesar or Napoleon. Although the name is new and still a little alien to the American tongue, Fascism is of ancient lineage, and we have had a taste of it here from time to time. Indeed, some of the men honored in our history books had at least a taint of the malady. Ce--tainly Alexander Hamilton, for one, thought along these lines not a million miles removed from the policies of Mussolini. And it is not impossible that some form of Fascism may come here through the activities of the modern Hamiltonians. But I think that the immediate danger lies in quite a different quarter. It seems to me that we already are burdened with a kind of judicial oligarchy Naturally, lam familiar with the theory that, the courts are a line of defense against Fascism, since they may prevent the usurpation of power by the executive and legislative branches of the government. But a tyranny can be built up in an unbridled use of the judicial veto. When a Federal judge can in effect kill all Federal regulation of holding companies we are moving decidedly in the direction of a power company dictatorship. (CoDvricht. 1935’

Your Health -BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

RECENTLY, a child was born to a couple in North Carolina, the father being 95 years of age and the mother a young woman of 28, Careful investigation made by doctors of the physical condition of the father indicates that he is extraordinarily well-preserved for his age and, quite capable of being a father. Such instances, while unusual, are not wholly extraordinary in the history of medicine. Three hundred years ago. there lived in England a man called Old Parr, who died at the reputed age of 152. According to historical records. Old Parr was married for the first time when he was 80 years of age, and apparently had two children who died in infancy. Then at the age of 105 lie is said to have become the father of another child, and at 122 he married again. a a a HILE the records as to the age and physical W condition of the North Carolina prodigy are quite authentic, the records of Old Parr are subject to considerable doubt. In the last stages of his life, all of his teeth but one were gone, yet his digestion was good, he ate well, drank well, and loved company. When he died, a post-mortem examination was performed by William Harvey, the famous physician who discovered the circulation of the blood. At this post-mortem test, the stomach and the intestines were found to bo sound and most of the other tissues in fairly good condition. a tt tt THERE are dependable records which show that the North Carolina father actually fought in the Civil war. On the other hand, there is no good record to indicate that Old Parr really saw any of the things which he claimed to have seen. Indeed, according to the best evidence, he was at the time of his d.eath actually only 100 years old or slightly older and the children said to have been born to him in his advanced years probably came along at least 25 to 30 years earlier in his long and interesting career.

Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ

PITTSBURGH. Nov. 19 —A group of the nation’s leading scientists met at the University Club here to form a National Advisory Council on Applied Physics. In charge of the meeting was Dr. Henry A. Barton, director of the American Institute of Physics. The new council, which is to function as a part of the institute, will concern itself with the relationship of physics to industry. The meeting follows a conference on Industrial Physics held at the University Club Friday under the auspices of the University of Pittsburgh. Speakers at that conference stressed the fact that whereas 20 years ago industry received its great stimulus from the introduction of chemical discoveries, today industry is getting its stimulus from the introduction of physical research. In particular, speakers emphazied the importance of the development in vacuum tubes, a branch of electronic physics, in the uses of X-rays in indusapplication of physics to the oil industry and the use of the spectroscope in industry.

Full Wire Serrlre rt Hie ( nirprl I’rpss Associatlou

THE BABY DERBY—A YEAR TO GO!

Family ‘Runs to Twins,’So Harrisons Have Hopes of Victory

A race unique in history—the SS<M),OOO Toronto Baby Derby—has one more year to to. To report this remarkable event, I.aura Lou Brookman went to Toronto, and she has written a series of stories about the derby, of which this is the fourth. a a a ana BY LAURA LOU BROOKMAN iCopvright. 1935. NEA Service. Inc.i r J''ORONTO, Ont., Nov. 19. The Ambrose Harrisons would like very much to sit down at the table and all have a meal together. They never have done so. There doesn’t seem much chance that they will, either, because there is simply no dining room table to make places for 16. If Ambrose and Madeline Harrison win the $500,000 Toronto Baby Derby (they are among the six leading contenders), one of the first things they certainly will do will be to buy a bigger table.

Meanwhile, Mrs. Harrison solves the problem as a sensible housewife—setting the table twice for each meal. The family eats in two shifts, eight at a time. The younger children are served first, then the older ones and their parents. Madeline and Ambrose Harrison, with their 14 children ranging in age from 16 years to 2 months, make up the largest family, all living and all under the same roof, in the Baby Derby. The Harrisons live in half of a plain, comfortable duplex house on a street lined with similar houses. Inside, it is furnished with plain, comfortable furniture, a bit worn, a bit scuffed here and there, as though by small feet. There are rugs, chairs, tables, a radio, pictures on the wall, artificial flowers in a vase—details missing in the homes of most of the other Baby Derby contestants. B B B IN the hallway stands the inevitable baby carriage. Two-month-old Paul sleeps there now, but before many months Paul is going to have to move over. At least, so his mother intimates. Madeline Harrison, with eight children born in the last nine years, lags behind four other mothers in the $500,000 Baby Derby—Mrs. Lily Kenny, Mrs. Manuella Darrigo. Mrs. Grace Baganto and Mrs. Katherine Nagle—each of whom has nine or more children born since Oct. 31, 1926. But there are about 12 months

Ace Political Reporter Finds Maine Just Hot Potato These Days; New Deal Losing Out in 'Spud' County Where They Vote Republican

Lyle C. Wilson, ace nnlitical reporter of (he United Press, is tourine the country. rerordine present trends. His first trip was into the Maine potato country, which is vitally interested in the potato control act. In the following; dispatch, the first of a series Wilson reports reaction in this pivotal political state. BY LYLE C. WILSON (Copyright, 1935, bv United Press! HOULTON, Me., Nov. 19. Maine is a hot potato these da,, s—too hot for the New Deal to handle. Old Dennis Sheehan told me they'd live on a crust of bread around here before they'd vote Democratic. Dennis is about 80 and an old-time Democratic leader in Aroostok County. He teetered back in his rocker in “The Handy Store —D. Sheehan, Prop.'* as he discussed the current political situation in Maine. Sheehan sells a strictly cheap

Detroit Is Big-Time Town, but Ernie Just Can Not Stand Pace

BY ERNIE PYLE DETROIT. Nov. 19.—Detroit is a dreadful city in a way. It's so big. and it's dirty and smoky with these auto factories pouring out black clouds, and there are so many people here, and the streets are jammed and you have to travel so far to get anywhere. But Detroit has something. It has a personality. You don't sense it at first, but after you’re here a while, you pick it up in people's faces, and the way they talk, and the way they act. Detroit is a gambler. Detroit is like the old Mississippi river-boat gamblers, hungry one day, eating stuffed partridge the next, happy-go-lucky, taking things as they come, often down but never out. Detroit was one of the first, and one of the hardest hit, victims of the depression. The city suffered terribly. But you ought to see it today. Prosperity is definitely back. The auto plants are going full tilt The street cars are crammed with workmen, lunch pails on their laps. The cocktail lounges are overflowing with richlooking people. Theaters, many of them closed for years, are jammed to the hilt. Detroit is happy again. o a a DETROIT is an emotional city. as an up-again-down-again city would have to be. It goes wild over anything. It worships prize fighters, and symphony orchestras. It does nothing halfway. It is a great follow-the-leader town. If you're a hero out here, you're a big hero. Take Mickey Cochrane and his ball team. Right today, you could stand out in the street and yell "Hurrah for the Cubs” just once, and you'd Vind up in the hospital. Just a little comparison between Detroit and Washington. Washington is constantly pretty prosperius. Detroit is prosperous part of the time, but when she's poor she’s really poor. Well, Detroit’s quota for its Community Chest this year is only $2,000,1^0,

The Indianapolis Times

before the end of the derby and Madeline Harrison smiles complacently. Twice she has presented her husband with twins. tt an AMBROSE HARRISON is a street car conductor. He has had the same job for 17 years. His wife is an attractive woman with blue eyes and waving, light brown hair. Doesn't look the 40 years she admits. Bridge? No, she doesn’t play it. Golf? Land sakes, no! Movies? Well, no, she doesn't care for them much and won’t let the children go. “I don't like to have them see the love scenes.” Mrs. Harrison says. She and Ambrose have appeared in movies, though. It was in a newsreel, showing the Baby Derby contestants. They went together to a theater to see the picture. Mrs. Harrison laughs when she thinks about it. “You know neither of us,” she says, “has any idea what we looked like. I was watching my husband all the time and lie was watching me. “Maybe we’ll get to see it again some time. I hope so.” a a a II /'HEN the Harrisons take roll VV call, the youngsters answer thus: Mary, 16; Patricia, 15; Wilfred, 14; John, 13; Teresa, 11; Madeline, 10; Gloria, 8; Ambrose and Jimmy (twins), 7; Joseph and Jun° (twins), 5; Ann, 3; Dorothy, 2; Paul. 2 months. Cooking, washing, ironing, settling for this 16-cylinder household is something of a job. Washdays, for instance, the Har-

and unostentatious stock of allday suckers, bulk candy and canned goods. He thinks the nation will go for Roosevelt next year but that Maine will vote for the Republican nominee for President—any Republican nominee. A few drills up and around Market Square and down toward the railroad yards where the potato warehouses stand row on row indicates that old Dennis is not far wrongin Maine. a a tt THIS north country likes Col. Frank Knox or Gov. Alf Landon of Kansas for President after next November. That, however, is community preference. The farmers farther up country are thinking of Senator Borah although they suspect he is a trifle wild on money

and Washington's is $1,870,000, despite the fact that Washington is only a third as big as Detroit. Washington nas trouble filling is quota. Detroit has just oversubscribed her two million, even before the drive was over. a a t> DETROIT, the auto capital of the world, has an awful time with its autos. Everybody has a car. everybody and his brother. It's as bad as Los Angeles for old cars. And do they drive them! And do they kill people! Yes, sir, right and left. The traffic toll here so far this year is 261 dead. One day last week The Detroit News had a 96-point banner line across the front page, saying "No Auto Deaths for 4S Hours.” When the auto doesn’t hit the man, that’s news. The city is full of grand stores, and restaurants, and all that bigtime stuff. And I might mention in passing that there's a Russian restaurant here, down in a basement, where the owner,‘and waitresses. and orchestra and even the chef are all Russians. The newspaper boys, who eat there frequently. say that one of the girls is the most beautiful waitress in Detroit. So we went up there, but I couldn't eat my borsch. There were two reasons: One, I didn't like it. and two, I was busy looking at a girl. n tt tx YES. Detroit is a big-time town, but I guess I'll be getting along most any day now. For I can't take my hard times with the good grace that Detroit does; and I can't take smoke up my nose, so much of it that you have to change handkerchiefs twice a day; and I can't take taxis that charge half a day's wages for riding you home: and I can t take these winter blasts that come cutting across Canada and the Lakes; and I don’t think I’d ever learn how to make an automobile or knock a home run. So I guess I'll be getting along toward home about this evening.

IXDIAXAPOLIS, TUESDAY, XOVE.MBER 19, 1935

dHßraan| WBKBKBBfSX 'igRKV: JflM a—M——

Fourteen children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose Harrison and they’ie all living, under one roof, the largest family in the Toronto $500,000 Baby Derby. Here they’re lined up in stair step fashion. Left to right are Mary, 16, holding Baby Paul. 2 months: Patricia, 15: Wilfred. 14: John 13; Teresa. 11; Madeline, 10; Gloria, 8; Ambrose and Jimmy, twins, 7: Joseph and June, twins. 5; Ann, 3, and Dorothy, 2.

rison clothesline sprouts 16 sheets; 32 pillow cases; dresses, shirts, undergarments and night clothes by the dozen; handkerchiefs, towels, table cloths, napkins by the score. There must be 32 clean, mended socks and stockings every time the entire family has a change. It isn’t easy to pay the bills, but the Harrisons know how' to economize. Ambrose cuts the youngasters’ hair and mends their shoes. Mrs. Harrison wears simple, becoming house dresses, which she makes herself. The girls like to sew, too, and Mary and Patricia, with their mother, do all the sewing. Ambrose Harrison came home the other evening after doing a little shopping. He bought four pairs of shoes and was going back for six more. The other six in the family will have to wait awhile for their new footwear. Groceries for the household cost from $22 to $24 a week.

questions. Hiere is some resentment against former President Hoover but he has friends here and they are smart and hopeful. They say he has broken most of his campaign promises. George Paul, who taxied me around Aroostook County, said, too, that a lot of Republicans had Federal and state jobs in Maine Work relief is functioning fairly well but there is some friction between local and Federal authorities. Houlton is carrying its share of the load. Money for annual resurfacing of the town’s tar roads was diverted to poor relief this year and the cars bounce you about a lot. I came up here because this little town and Presque Isle, farther north, are the joint capitals of a potato empire. Maine produces one-sixth of the potatoes grown in the United States and Aroostook County produces 80 per cent of spuds grown in Maine. The county is larger than Massachusetts but not so populous—--78,000 persons or thereabouts. a a u THE 1935 Congress made potatoes a political crop. It passed a sort of potato “Volstead Act” which may land you in jail if you purchase “bootleg” potatoes. You will be able to recognize the legal potato by a stamp which Secretary Wallace or some of his men will lick and affix to each lawful container. You won't go to jail right away. Congress neglected to appropriate money to administer the act. Meantime. Wallace plans a January potato farmer referendum—there are 3.000.000 growers—to determine whether they want “Volstead” potatoes. Wallace hopes the farmers vote “no.” Farmers in this part of the country are going to vote “yes,” I was informed. by about three to one. To Maine, potato control merely is its share of the Agricultural Adjustment Act booty. H. W. Grinnel. potato merchant, whose office overlooks Market Square, told me that Connecticut tobacco farmers and Southern cotton farmers who were paid not to raise their staple crops, had turned surplus land into potatoes and were wrecking the market. “Maine thinks if they would just abolish AAA we might get along okay,” Grinnel said. “But if there is going to,be any AAA, Maine wants some of it.” a a o THE rugged individualists of northern Maine anticipate regimentation with considerable pleasure. I inquired in Houlton whether there was resentment against governmental encroachment of the free American's right to grow as many potatoes as he could plant. Everywhere I was informed the bankers, merchants. farmers and inn keepers were content that Wallace should impose on Maine and other states a rigid potato production control. Furthermore, this potato country is almost booming. Potatoes jumped from 51.25 to $2 a bushel the week I was here. At $2 a potato grower makes a profit of around 80 cents to SI. Last year potatoes were 40 cents. Fifteen years ago they were $lO. But Maine considers $2 a fair price. A baked Maine potato cost me 25

THE 14 young Harrisons are healthy, mannerly, wrelltrained. The little ones must be in bed at 7 every night. Their older brothers and sisters who go to school and have to do “home W'ork” may stay up until 9. None of them is allowed to drink tea except Mary, 16. Mrs. Harrison believes there are times when children need spanking—but not to excess. “One good lick,” is her rule. “I don't believe in slapping them all the time,” she says. “I give them a good lick and that settles it. Some people think we’re strict, but my husband and I think it’s for the children’s own good.” The family is Catholic, Parents and children attend church regularly. Both Mr. and Mrs. Harrison are Canadian and were born in Toronto. Madeline Harrison never had a job of any sort, just worked at home and helped her mother. She v'as 21 when she and Ambrose were married it St. Cecilia's

cents on the New Haven Railroad, between New York and Providence, R. I. But President Roosevelt and the New Deal are getting strictly no credit for better times in northern Maine. Bernard E. Esters, in his Houlton Pioneer-Times, reported a “sensational rise in potato prices.” Hs is secretary of the Aroostook Republican Committee. Esters said Roosevelt would get no credit for good times in Aroostook. He pointed out that Wallace opposed and publicly condemned the potato act. Banker James Pierce, a Democrat, also thought Roosevelt would lose Maine next year. a a a IN fact, the first 10 professional and business men I approached, some Republicans and some Democrats, were agreed that the New Deal could not carry Maine nor any of New England in 1936. The Eleventh, Ransford W. Shaw, Republican dean of the Aroostook County bar. thought Roosevelt could win here if potatoes stayed above 51.50 a barrel and provided the New Deal continued to pour money into ’Quoddy. ’Quoddy is short for Passamaquoddy, the Eastport <Me.) experiment with tide harnessing in which Mr. Roosevelt has pledged the government to spend $35,000.000 in converting the ocean flow into electrical current. The New Deal has allocated $5,000,000 *o ’Quoddy so far. Mr. Roosevelt will carry Eastport all right. But 'Quoddy may prove to be a political handicap.

Buried Villages of Far North Reveal Habits of Early Races

By Science Service /CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.. Nov. Americans of the Far North, who lived in villages with sidewalks and had arthritis as their chief ailment, are being discovered on Kodiak Island, Alaska. “Astonishing results” from three and a half years of digging into buried villages of these vanished people were announced here today, by Dr. Ales Hrdlicka of the

The Anti-Freeze Lowdown By Scripps-Hotcard Seicspaper Alliance WASHINGTON. Nov. 18.—Ethylene glycol has been found fcv the United States Bureau of Standards to be the most satisfactory anti-freezing solution for automobile radiators. The high original cost of this product can be justified by draining and saving from season to season, the bureau reports. Denatured alcohol is called satisfactory if evaporation is watched. Menthanol solutions are too volatile, their acids may cause corrosion and the fumes are unpleasant and may be harmful, the bureau says. Solutions of salts, such as calcium chloride and magnesium chloride, should be avoided because of their corrosive effect. Oils should be used only in cooling systems especially designed for the purpose 'as in some heavy tractors). A suggestion that low grades of honey be used is rejected. Distilled glycerine makes a satisfactory anti-freeze either when used with water alone or with equal concentrations of denatured alcohol the bureau finds. Tests indicate that it is no more corrosive than denatured alcohol, and that the commercial grades are satis^ l factory for radiator use.

Church. He w y as a chauffeur then. She’d always thought it would be nice to bo married and have a family. a b a r T"'HEY started housekeeping in a three-room flat. "We didn’t have much,” Mrs. Harrison says, “but we were happy just the same.” Blushing and hesitant, this mother of 14 admitted that, if she wins the $500,000 next October, there is one secret desire of long standing that she hopes to gratify. It’s not a new 7 dress, a fur coat, a diamond ring or a trip to Europe. “I suppose you'll laugh at me,” Mrs. Harrison said, “but—well, I’d like to buy a layette—a w’hole one with everything pretty and dainty, the way they have them in the stores. And everything new. “I’d like that lots better than a new dress. You see—it’s something I’ve always wanted.”

Maine folk are money-minded. Many simply can't believe that any one would spend $35,000,000 for anything—at l£ast anything like 'Quoddy. And there is evidence of state-wide suspicion that 'Quoddy is a political hoax. “We don’t think he’s goin’ through with it,” a man told me in the lobby of the Northland Hotel. “If Roosevelt is re-elected he will find some reason to stop ’Quoddy, and if any one else is elected, they are sure to quit. No, sir, we don’t believe 'Quoddy ever will be built.” a a a IN a single issue of the Bangor Daily News I read three stories from Democratic state or Federal officials or from the dam site, reassuring the people of northern Maine that ’Quoddy was on the level. There are similar doubts about Works Progress Administration projects. More than $17,000,000 in Treasury warrants have been countersigned in Washington for Maine work. But word is getting around that only $2,300,000 actually is to be spent to employ 13,000 persons. Many persons consider the larger sum to be New Deal window dressing. The government is building an airport in this small town. There is anew postoffice and customs house. There is no doubt that Washington is wooing Maine. But a political poll just begun in Houlton showed 68 preferences for a Republican i resident in 1936 and only eight for Mr. Roosevelt.

United States National Museum, before the National Academy of Sciences meeting here. The region is outstandingly important in American prehistory. Dr Hrdlicka emphasized, because the immigrant trail in those days led from Siberia across the narrow sea into Alaska. Newcomers left whatever clews there are to their appearance and state of civilization buried where they tarried.

Second Section

ar !*osfnffior. Indianapolis. Ind

Fair Enough WESTBROM PEGLER BARCELONA. Nov. 19.—Taking one consideration with another, it is my conclusion that the job which ex-King Alfonso abdicated when the revolution broke was almost all headache and very little fun. He was head man of a declining country, and it seemed that nothing cou and be done to check the steady descent of a once mighty nation. Britain had grabbed Gibraltar, the Americans had chased Spain out of the Caribbean and the Pacific, his people were poor, his politicians clamorous in-

competent and uneasy and his generals either horribly dumb or terribly unlucky. It had come to such a pass that Spain just couldn't win a war any more, and this in spite of the fact that everybody who fought his troops would say after licking them that they were good, game boys, but overmatched or out of shape. They died magnificently on various fields and though there is a certain satisfaction in such regard and tributes of victorious foes, the fact remains that in war the object is not to die magnifi-

cently, but to leave that honor to the opposite team. In dejection of soul produced by painful beating l * in war and by the steady decline of Spain in the eyes of her former equals in the world, the people fell to growling, and the king, as general manager, so to speak, was held responsible Moreover, knowing of the jewelry he had in store and the splendor in which he lived on money which they were compelled to provide, they developed a fierce personal resentment against him. although the fact of the matter was that he didn't eat much, drank little and was bowed, worried and desperately anxious. tt a a It's Really a Tough Job YET no matter whether he blew on the dice or rubbed them on his pants, all he could throw w r as deuce. Spain is not a large country and although there is plenty of room in which to chase the stag, Alfonso's favorite sport, there came a time as he grew older when he knew every yard of it as well as his tongue knew the inside of his mouth. For a change of pace he could put on a soft hat and sneak off to Paris for a week-end, but he had a jaded mark on his face and was recognized wherever he went, so the upshot of these attempts to get away from it all w r as more resentment. People who couldn't afford to teach their children to read, because then they would demand books and newspapers on which to exercise this remarkable talent, thought of the king lolling around the gilded haunts of pleasure in a foreign city, eating hods of caviar and pouring champagne over his oatmeal at their expense. Much worse than the cost was the bad publicity which his pleasures gave him with the people, whose idea of a wonderful time was a ropy shred of boiled billygoat washed dow r n by a crock of grade B w'ine. Alfonso’s children were growing up none too robust and judging by the actions of the whole family since they moved out of Spain, the dew was off the rose in his love bower in Madrid Yet as the monarch of a Roman Catholic country, he had to set an example of family solidarity, patience and fidelity, whereas Carol of Rumania and George of Greece, who is now r returning to a kingdom which is distinctly minor league, were able to write their own divorcing papers, each divorcing the other’s sister, incidentally. B B B He'll Let George Have Greece ALFONSO, being king, could not go down to the pool hall of an afternoon and fan things over w'ith any one who happened to be there, but was socially restricted to a royal and noble circle and a limited number of ordinary people. Conoemned to be with the same people so many years, knowing all their w 7 oes by heart and hemmed in by convention and the boundaries of a country which doesn't provide much range, the king undoubtedly had moments when he thought of his mad money, planted in Paris or London or wherever it was that he w-as sending his earnings against the day he might wish to resign. But he was game and hung on. doing the best he could, not neglecting, of course, to take his profits from time to time. I am not contending that the king is justified in taking too much salary for himself, but it must be true that the job of king in a second-rate nation is more tradition, tinsel and boredom than pleasure. There’s only one really first-rate king's country left in the world, anyway, that being George's in England, where the people know how to make the king feel good and don’t load him down with a responsibility which turns to personal blame when things go wrong.

,irv, Geol , ge ° f Greece is welcome to his kingdom When they fail to do better the Greeks will get mad at the king again; and he not even a Greek himself but just a. descendant of a foreigner who was hired for the job.

Times Books

That a naval officer named Perry whipped the British in the battle of Lake Erie is known presumably. to every schoolboy. That a naval officer opened Japan to trade with the outside world y also common knowledge. But our knowledge of history gets a bit fuzzy as we grow older, and mast of us have a hazy idea that both of these stunts were accomplished bv the same Perry. As it happens, they weren't. Oliver Hazard Perry fought on Lake Erie- it was his brother, Matthew' Galbraith Perry, who went to Japan—and the second achievement, liom the viewpoint of world history, was perhaps even more important than the first. A file biography of this Japan Perry is now available in "The Great Commodore,” by Edward M. Barrows Bobbs-Merrill, 53.75). It tells the career of one of Americas most useful sailors and gives a complete study of one of the most consequential achievements of modern times. a a a ALL that Japan is today dates from Perry's visit. Up to 1853. Japan had no foreign relations, r.o foreign trade, no visitors. The country was hermetically* sealed; no one could enter it or leave it. Perry went there with a fleet and by a combination of clever diplomacy and brute force opened the kingdom's doors. Few human acts have had greater consequences. Perry himself was an interesting man; bluff, slightly pompous, a regular blow-hard sea dog of the old tradition—but a remarkably intelligent and forceful man, along with it. He w T as largely responsible for the modernization of our Navy in the pre-Civil War era. 'By Bruce Catton.)

Literary Notes

Madamoiselle, Street and Smith's magazine for young women, which was barred from England for its Matchmaker features linking the Prince of Wales and Mae West, will bring together Edgar Guest and Dorothy Parker in the December issue. Dr. Ludwig Freund, author of "The Threat to European Culture,” who worked last year in the packing department at B’oomingdale's. New York, has now taken a part time job in a Gotham book shop. Carleton Smith, writer for Literary Digest and Esquire, returns this month from an airplane tour of Europe and Asia, where he has been gathering new material for a series of articles on music.

aggaft? jraS!''-

WYstbrook Fcgl?r