Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 220, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 November 1935 — Page 21

It Seems to Me HEYWOOD BROUN 'T'HIF eolumn is written after hearing a speech Jl of Arthur E. Morgan of the TYA, but I am making no attempt to quota or paraphrase him and in all probability he would not agree with many of the conclusions which I drew. One of the curious quibbles in American thinking can be found in arguments about the League of Mat ions, ft y strange to find that the very mpn who bitterly oppose the League are also advocates

of stringent and old-fashioned States rights in interpreting the Constitution. But this point of view would make the United States something less than a nation. It would, indeed, transform us into a League of separate sovereignties. Nor Is this a far-fetched or fanta tic statement. The American Resolution was a unifying force, but even in its duration many forces in the field were paid by their own colonial groups and reponsible to their local leaders rather than to the high command. After victory had been obtained

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there was an increased tendency to reynt bark to the original units. A native of Virginia regarded himself as a VirK lean and not as an American, and the same thing v,a l - true of the men of Massachusetts and the rest. a a a Toner, for Example ''T''ODAY developments have taken plate which I. might have rwaved even the most ardent deferr!ei< of local autonomy. In particular, I have power in mind. Rv the very nature of its origin and effective transmission electric power is a force which ran not be adequately regulated either by the municipalities or the 1 1es. We know now' that it is possible to produce all 'he power we can use from a few fora] points. It is an anachronism for a city to generate its own power in its own plant even though it is true that in some cases this can be done at a saving on account of the high rates quoted by the utilities. I waive the point that many state utility commissinns are not efficient and that some of them ate not even honest. At their very best the state or city should be but a way station in a national transmission system. Fleetricity soon w ill be recognized as just as vital a factor in our daily doings as the city water supply, and there is no present disposition to extend the use of private enterprise in the supplying of water. But here is the point where many minds stick upon what seems to me an untenable position. They will agree that the water itself should not be left in the hands of big business, but they still maintain that no governmental agency should own, or even control, water power. Only recently I was in Miami, where a high wind happened along one afternoon. The lights went out, which was not unreasonable, although I think that with better engineering we ought to be able to conquer the disruption of power which occurs during floods, thunderstorms and hurricanes. The Florida Light and Power Cos. took occasion to put big advertisements in all the local papers saving in effect, “This mishap serves as a practical proof of the value of lidding companies. If we were not a member of a large holding company it would be impossible for us to make expeditious repairs. But under our present organization we are able to call upon our associates to furnish us with working capital.” a a a Too (load a llilliiuj performance of the Florida Light and Power .1 Cn did not quite live up to the billing. When I left Florida there were many householders who still lacked electricity even though a full seven days had passed since the coming of the storm. I am not a financier, but I assume that any sound business enterprise could borrow monfty from the banks in the e\ent of an emergency just a c well as from its associates. I know that Dr. Morgan is not an advocate of government ownership of power. He feels that such development should romp slowly, if at all. But to me it seems that power, both by its nature and its uses, is the entering wedge sot the coming of a co-operative commonwealth. Once upon a time radicals used to say that a change in the economic system was a good thing and ought to be accomplished for moral and ethical reasons. But the necessity for the socialized state has now moved beyond that stage. The co-operative commonwealth would be a good tiling, and it must be accomplished if we are to survive. It is part of the struggle of man against death. iCopvright. 193 M

Your Health -BY DR. MORRIS FISHBKIN

IN his 70 years of life, a person will consume 1400 . tunes his body weight; more than 200.000 pounds of material. The amount of food that he eats in that time includes 6000 loaves ot bread, three oxen, lour calves, eight hogs, lour sheep, 300 chickens, 75 geese, and 100 pigeons, if he does not eat pigeons, he makes up his meat requirement with something else. The amount of fish taken will include 2000 large fish, 3000 sardines, flounders and herring. He will eat about 9000 pounds of potatoes, 12.000 pounds of other vegetables, 14.000 pounds of fruit and drink 6000 quarts of milk. If he is German, he will probably include 15,000 quarts of beer. He will take hi also 12.000 quarts of eofTfe, 1000 pounds of salt. 5000 eggs, 8000 pounds of sugar, 300 pounds of cheese, 10.000 quarts of water, and a lot of smaller delicacies. This is a tremendous amount of food and nutriment. It is merely an illustration of the inexhaustible operations that go on constantly in the human body. a a a r pHE average man who weighs from 140 to 150 I pounds has 66 pounds of muscle; 20.2 pounds of Internal organs: 27.2 pounds of skin and fat under the skin; 26.18 pounds of bones, and 3.3 pounds of brain. But we should not consider living tissue in terms of special organs. Living tissue consists essentially of water, proteins, carbohydrates, fats, and mineral salts. On this basis, the body will contain 99 pounds of water. 30.8 pounds of protein. 15.4 pounds of fat, 7.7 pounds of minerals, and 1.5 pounds of carbohydrates. > Th.p body cells are constantly being broken down * and rebuilt to keep the human being in a living and healthful state. Food must be taken to repair this wastage, as well as for the energy that the human being will use.

Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ

Teeth became more highly developed and specialized as evolution prr ecded through the ages. Prof. Ernest A. Hooten, prolessor or anthropology at Harvard University, tells us. In the most primitive sharks, some species of. which still exist, the teeth are merely specialized and sharp-pointed scales. These were the best teeth in existence 350.000.000 years ago. Two hundreo million years ago when the first reptiles appeared on earth, teeth underwent another improvement. Gradually, the process of the differentiation of teeth into different forms according to their location in the jaws began. ana OBVIOUSLY, the teeth at the front end of the laws should be shaped for cutting and piercing, because that is the end of the jaws with which bites must be taken " Piof. Hooten says. At the corner of the jaw the primitive reptilian peg-hke form tends to be preserved in the canines or tusks, used for piercing and holding. Thp from teeth are modified into chisel form* for cutting. ' be farther hack in the jaw the teeth are. the gieaier the lexrrage of thp jaws and the more force ma' be brought to bear upon the teeth Thesp. howe'er move through a smaller arc than the front teetn. Consequently they are better adapted for crushing and grinding. ’’

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Thf wr'twaril n rrh nf ih* firvt transcontinental rail was—lnn* a hi*h spot SC* f • e Smrriran arhlrvrmrnt stems ordinary comparison with the. nf ti * lran-Parifir airway whirh intn service today. This is | i lj? \ "-L third of the behind the of the f PKfefc limes Special Writer 6 latever belligerent had need of it, was often an excuse '' j - | ~ |

The westward n rrh of Ihe first transcontinental railwas—lnn* a hi*h spot in American adventurous achievement seems ordinary in romparison with the development nf tl trans-Pacific airway which *oe into service today. This Is the third of the behind the scenes” story of the airway. B n a nan BY SUTHERLAND DENLINGER Times Special Writer according to plan.” During that war which is no longer the latest, this phrase, in the language of whatever belligerent had need of it, was often an excuse for retreat. To the builders of the trans-Pacific airline, however, it has represented only the manner of an advance. On June 15 of this year everything aboard the PanAmerican Clipper was strictly according to plan except the nine gallons of ice cream. That had been an afterthought of Pan-American Airways executives at Honolulu,

a though for the parched pioneers on Midway atoll, almost 1400 miles away. The ice cream was trundled aboard, stowed in the after cabin between the bunks which the crew had found no time to use. Asa result, the Clipper. outbound on its initial flight to Midway after its second voyage to Hawaii from the mainland, carried the first commercial cargo ever flown over the Pacific. The Clipper also carried passengers, two of them, C. W. Winter, Pan-American radio service engineer, and Philin Berst, section maintenance superintend?nt, assigned to an inspection of Midway's operating facilities. 808 npWO hundred miles an hour, X on the wind! An hour out of Pearl Harbor, and the last of the Hawaiian islands drops below the horizon. Nihoa. a dot of lava three-quar-ters of a mile long, a quarter of a mile wide. The Clipper, less than 2000 feet up in order to facilitate observation. glimpses a sandy beach, a mountain with a tiny lake at its feet, ruined stone walls dating, no doubt, from prehistoric times. Necker Island—two hours out of Pearl Harbor and 471 miles nearer Midway. On Necker are seen tw'O sheltered coves—"landings feasible 6n leeward side.” The Clipper circles islands and shoals, she has been ordered to make a survey en route. French Frigate Shoais drops abeam, 50 minutes later the roar of her engines startles the birds on Gardener Pinnacles, a little more than an hour and she is almost 900 miles from Honolulu, soaring over Marco Reef. B B B N r INE hours and thirteen minutes after leaving Pearl Harbor the clipper settles into the waters of the lagoon at Midway, taxis up to the landing stage before the clearing hacked by the machetes of the North Haven's pioneers. She disembarks her passengers and unloads her ice cream, she is also prepared to radio Alameda the gist of a survey covering approximately 300.000 square miles of little known ocean. That the Clipper, on each of her exploratory voyages, could make such surveys in addition to the routine work of flight, and navigation is significant. The explanation lies in her crew, and the nature of that crew was determined bark in 1931. long before ship, or instruments, or bases had been created. The roster of officers aboard the Pan American Clipper on that June 15th flight reads like that of a transpacific liner—as in fact, it was:—

Pact With Canada Marks a Turning Point in Checkered History of the Tariff, Heretofore a Child of Lobbying and Loq-Rollina BA RUTH FINNEY crate one. but it did fix duties fin VQel 1 _ .. .... . .

BY RUTH FINNEY Times Speeial Writer VT7ASHINGTON, Nov. 22.—For * ’ the first time in American history a major revision of the tariff schedules has been made without preliminary months of partisan strife, lobbying and logrolling. The Canadian trade agreement, negotiated by economists, diplomats and technical experts in strict secrecy, with schedules not announced until it had been signed, sealed and delivered, adds a revolutionary new chapter to the long story of the most persistent issue in American politics. It will be attacked with partisan methods in the coming session of Congress and the coming campaign, but its schedules were written with an eye to their effect on the economic health of the country rather than as a result of bargaining among sectional interests. In lowering rates on the bulk of our imports from Canada the agreement fits into the pattern of American tariff history, for rates have generally risen in Republican Administrations and fallen in Democratic ones. This is true even though the Democratic Party has. for a number of years, found itself sharply divided, along sectional lines, on the tariff question. nan r T''HE tariff war began on the American continent in colonial days. States fixed tariffs on products coming from other states. When the Union was formed this situation was recognized as impossible and the tariff making power was reserved for the new Federal government. In 1789. North and South began the first of the long series of clashes over tariffs that has continued to this day. The South wanted unrestricted commerce that would let Europe buy its cotton and permit it to buy European manufactured goods cheaply in return. The North wanted to protect and encourage manufacturing industries of its own. ■ The 1789 tariff was a very mod-

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Navigation Officer. Fred Noonan. Radio Operator, W. T. Jarboe. Unlike the officers of a liner, however, every one of those aboard the Clipper was capable, in an emergency, of filling the post of any other. It was as though the engineer of a steamship could step into the captain's shoes on the bridge, or the radio operator take over in the engine room. B B B THE whole plan had been. worked out. by Juan Trippe, Andre Priester and Col. Charles A. Lindbergh at those Chrysler Building conferences. Agreement on a route was just the beginning. Dowr in the streets, in the bars and the restaurants and about the soap boxes, there were people to say that the life had gone out of the capitalistic system, that the days of American pioneeering were over, that ours had become a static civilization, without drive and on the brink of dissolution. Up in the tower, Mr. Trippe and Mr. Priester and Col. Lindbergh decided upon the personnel of flying boats not then even in the blueprint stage, ironed out details of a Pacific route which was to defeat the aspirations of foreign airlines. They talked with aircraft manufacturers. and they set radio technicians to work, and they discussed Guam and Midway and Wake Island with the Navy Department. And they inaugurated a system of training against the day When there should be ships that could fly the Paci. c safely, and navigational instruments to guide them, and bases from which thev might spring. B B B IT must have seemed an almost hopeless task, even to men of that sort, had they not seen what proper organization, proper training and proper direction could accomplish in the space of three years. They had seen, in so short a period, the Pan-American system in South America grow from a short shuttle air mail route between Key West and Havana, flown by trimotored land planes, into a complex and efficient, network of airways using flying boats and amphibians, a network which ran from Texas down the mountainous backbone of Central and South America to Chile, eastward across the Andes to Argentine; a network which linked Florida and Cuba with eastern South America by way of the Caribbean Islands and with Panama by way of Yucatan, extending from Panama across the northern coast of South America and thence down the Atlantic seaboard of Brazil and Uruguay. Captain. Edwin Musick. First Officer. R. O. D. Sullivan. Engineer Officer, V. A. Wright.

erate one, but it did fix duties on 30 commodities. In 1816, when Madison was President, tariff schedules were raised appreciably. The country was generally behind the increase as protection for the many home industries established when the War of 1812 cut of! practically all foreign trade. nun A SECOND big upward revision in 1824 was less generally popular. The South opnosed it and so, strangely enough, did commercial interests in the East. It was supported by Western and Middle states. The work of raising tariff went forward under John Quincy Adams to such an extent that the

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Solution to Previous Contract Problem BY W. F. MKENNEY Suretur? Ameriran Rridcr !*atue I AM now preparing for the national championship tournament, which will be held in Chicago the week of Dec. 2. * *•

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1935

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At his place on the navigation bridge as chief officer. Capt. Edwin Musick sits at his forward window in command of the epochal Pacific flight. . . . Capt. Musick, Pan-American's No. 1 pilot, has had charge of the experimental flights which preceded regular service.

ESTABLISHMENT and operation of these 25.000 miles of routes had given Pan-America’s personnel exactly the sort of background, needed for the great adventure now at hand. Each of the lines had presented unprecedented problems of airport construction, flight technique, maintenance. Pilots and ground crews contended with long rains, fog, occasional hurricanes; a hot, moist climate; rugged country, isolated harbor bases. The system was forced to establish its own radio communication, its own weather observatories, work out new methods of landing, loading and takeoff for the flying boats in the commercial use of which it had pioneered. By 1932 Pan-American had set up training courses at its various divisional headquarters to school a transoceanic personnel. Veteran pilots were, assigned to take instruct on in meteorology, navigation. blind flying and other subjects. New pilots were sent to the shops for instruction in engine work in addition to taking the usual prescribed Pan-American courses, including one in the basic principles of international law relating to air transport. OVERSEAS the airways subsidized by England, Holland. France and Germany continued to draw closer to the Far East,

resulting schedules were known as the “tariff of abominations.” Antitariff men in Congress had thought to load the tariff bill up with such high schedules that it would be rejected by all interests, but to their dismay it became law. By 1832. Southern states were talking about nullifiration. and even secession. Andrew Jackson was President. An act was passed making a few reductions, but it did not placate the South. By 1833 South Carolina had adopted legislation instructing its citizens not to observe tariff schedules. The “compromise tariff” adopted in that year accomplished the first major downward revision under a Democratic Administration. But in 1842. with John Tyler in

I The American Bridge League was ; organized in Chicago in 1927. But j Chicago's last league tournament was held in 1929, when we were just an organization of three or four hundred members. Today the names of thousands of enthusiastic bridge players throughout the United States are enrolled on the league membership list. I hope to meet a great many new friends on my tour of the western cities, and wiil always find time for a chat at my new headquarters at the Stevens Hotel, in Chicago. R. R. Richards. Detroit, first president of the league, sent me today's hand, which brings out the line of reasoning you have to use to become a chamuion. A slam should not be bid as it can be beaten with a diamond opening. However, in championship bridge, even though a slam is not bid, you have to make all the tricks you can. With a spade opening, dummy's king and queen are established, providing one discard for declarer. Now let us say West shifts to the nine of diamonds; should declarer take the finesse? The odds are that he should not. Few players will lead away from a king. Tfce.v usually will lead through strengtn. ,

where Pan-America’s Chinese lines held the fort. In the United States aircraft men and instrument men and radio technicians worked steadily at their particular phases of the trans-Pacific flight problem. And in Miami Pan-American assembled its crack personnel for a sort of post-graduate school. Primarily in order that its crews might have adequate training in actual navigation over long stretches of open water the system inaugurated a flying boat route from Miami across the empty Caribbean to Barranquila—a route which became a sort of ocean laboratory. Igor Sikorsky meanwhile had been busy in his Bridgeport plant, and presently the first of a, series of 18-ton flying boats—the original “clippers”—was put into service. Now there was opportunity to employ the full complement of ship's officers as Mr. Trippe, Mr. Priester and Col. Lindbergh had conceived it. Crews took noon sights of the sun to verify their position, checked them against radio bearings from shore stations, practiced navigation by dead reckoning, used drift sights, tested experimental instruments. nan BY 1934 three nineteen-ton Sikorskys. embodying a number of improvements, were turned over to the line. Two of them

the White House, the tariff started its climb again. Tyler had been a Democrat, but was so bitterly hostile to Andrew' Jackson that the Whigs gave him second place on their ticket, and he succeeded to the presidency when William Henry Harrison died in office. Polk, a Democrat, succeeded him in the White House, and the tariff see-saw'ed dow'n again in 1846. n n u 'T'HE next revision, under the Democratic Buchanan, was also downward. But by 1861 the tide had turned again, largely as a result of the government's need for increased revenues to fight the war. The Lincoln Administra-

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went into the Brazilian sendee, but. the third was fitted up as a training plane for the Pacific project; fuel tanks fitted in cabin compartments, chart rooms installed, special hatches cut to facilitate navigation. Handpicked crews roared out of Miami in a series of exhaustive test flights. The clipper ranged from the mainland to Puerto Rico—l2oo miles over the open sea. She marie the distance under eight and a half hours, and the trans-Pacific goal was closer. A check of the pilot's celestial navigation with radio direction findprs showed a difference of less than one-tenth of 1 per cent. Finally, in April of this year—almost exactly four years after the Chrysler Building conferences—the Pacific exploratory flights began. So confident was Pan-American of success that already, thousands of miles to westward of the Alameda terminus, determined men were at work in matted underbrush of Wake and Midway Islands, cutting hand-hewn channels through coral rock, defying the enmity of ocean rollers and tropic sun. 808 THE results justified that confidence. justified the long pre-. liminary training. To Hawaii and return, flying night and day; men. ships and instruments functioning perfectly. Home again, and off to Midway; in August as far as Wake, on the other side of the international date line; then the 13.000 miles from Alameda to Guam and back. With each succeeding advance it was the same story—a flight which might have been routine. The big boat was purposely headed into the severest sort of weather, curtains over cockpit windows shut out, all sight of skv and ocean for hours on end as the crew practiced flying by instrument alone. Crews were rotated. Captain Musick. who commanded the first two flights, was succeeded by his first officer. Captain Sullivan. Captain Sullivan, in turn, shifted his roster of tinder officers from flight to flight, so that five full crews will be ready to man the big 25-ton Martins now ready for the service. These Martins are the mechanical fulfillment of the dream which spurred Trippe and Priester and Lindbergh. From the passenger's standpoint they are a luxurious cross between a Pullman train and an ocean liner. They are the biggest planes ever turned out in the United States and by long odds the safest and most efficient.

tion raised tariffs in 1861 and again in '62 and ? 64. In 1872 the partisan pattern was broken when the Republican Administration of Grant reduced a number of important schedules. The climb was resumed in 1874 when part of the reductions were set aside. It continued in 1882 under the Republican Arthur. Cleveland, in his first Administration, tried unsuccessfully for reductions. Instead, in 1890. Benjamin Harrison approved the McKinley tariff, with many important increases. By 1894 Cleveland was back in the White House, this time with control of Congress, and with a pledge in the party platform to revise the tariff downward. The promise was kept in spite of the panic of 1893, but reductions were not sweeping. The Dinglev tariff of the McKinley Administration started the march upward again. It was followed by the Payne-Aldrich tariff under Taft. nan TTyTOODROW WILSON'S Administration lowered rates after one of the mast sensational lobby investigations in history. With the shift to Harding, plans for boosting the tariff were set on foot immediately and in 1922 the Fordney-McCumber tariff bill became law. Herbert Hoover denounced the ‘iocust swarm of lobbyists” that hovered around Washington in 1930 but he signed the SmootHawley bill with the highest rates ever fixed by this country; rates which called forth immediate retaliation by almost every country with which the United States trades. The New Deal used its prestige to demand a sweeping change in tariff-making methods, and the result was the reciprocal bargaining act of 1934. Other trade agreements have been made under this act. but thp Canadian agreement is bv far the most important. On its success or failure will probably depend the future of the Roosevelt policy.

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Kntf-p.t Srp'ipil C'a so Matter at T‘,iti-.ffiep. Indiatiapeilis tn 4

Fair Enough WESTBROOK PEGLER MADRID, Nov. 22—It is With heavy heart that your correspondent has to revpal that the ancient, romantic sport of bullfighting has its practical aspects no less disenchanting than those which disclose themselves to intimate students of the prize fighting industry in America. Bullfighting, with its splendor and rituals, royal patronage and noble literature, has many points of contact with the vulgar trade of churning human ears into cauliflowers and human beings into twitching, slobbering imbeciles with furious lefts and

lights to the body. There are. for example, many In the bullfighting profession who perform an office similar to that of a prize fight manager and sports writers specializing in the bullfight branch of journalism who are not above accepting a donation from the manager in return for a few words of praise next to pure reading matter. Mr. Gene Tunney. in one of his literary confidences, whispered for all the world to hear that he had at one stage of his career

prostituted two members of the press in New York to obtain the reputation which he had not earned within that sweat-and-blood-stained square of canvas which is classically known as the roped arena. But intimacy has long destroyed one's illusions about the romance and chivalry of the roped arena, so this was no shock. Bullfighting, however, being a distant and thus a glamorous sport, seemed pure in heart, fine and altogether noble, except that there have hpen persistent objections among the fair-hatred races to the brutality which is inflicted on the bull. 808 Just a Xolc on Brutality A S to the charge of brutality, however, the Span--L\. iards long ago formulated their answer. They have cited the case of the English or North American sportsman who goes out fishing for the small but eouragons trout fish and. having snagged him by the lip with a barbed hook, delights to torture him until the trout runs out of strength and fight and submits to capture. The trout fish is held in the highest respect because his courage compels him to fight against, a human being who has more strength in one fist, than the trout has in his whole body and who outweighs the trout by the ratio of 100 to 1 and up. If he were a cowardly fish—such as the German carp, for example—he would not be regarded as a sporting fish, and so he is hurt by those who admire him most in appreciation of that quality which they most admire in him. So it hardly behooves the cat which tortures the mouse to peer down its nose at the toreador who tortuies the bull, and your correspondent herein feels sad. only it has just been explained to him that bullfighting, like prize fighting, is a business having its angles. The preliminary bov of the bull rtnr is brought along on palooka bulls, the flopping Fred Fultons and the Farmer Dodges of the breed selected for their softness and general harmless nest! by the manager w'ho has the preliminary boy's contract. B B B They're (ioorl to Their Mothers nPHERE'S small chance at the worst that the X toreador will lose the decision to the bull, for he has a corps of assistants in the ring to wave cloaks at the victim in rase the bull should become offensive and divert him from his attack. Thus, with barbed darts imbedded in his muscle? to torture him at every move, with his wind and strength failing and with the whole team of opponents making distracting passes at him, he does not know who his opponent really is until presently a sword enters his back, severs his spinal column and drops him paralyzed, exhausted and thrashing in pain upon the sand. In the extraordinary event, however, that the bull should pick out the man with the sword and tear after him, refusing to be turned away by ihe fluttering capes of the seconds, it is not at all undignified for the toreador to make for the exit and climb over the wall to regain his composure. Ha\ing gained sufficient confidence and experience on soft balls, after the manner of Primo Carnera in the ring and Benito Mussolini in Abyssinia, the bullfighter then advances from preliminary boy and is knocked dow r n. Your corresoondent has even heard that most bullfighters are just great big good-natured kids and good to their mothers. So the sum of it all is that the Spaniards aie only a people, after all. a prey to Publicity and their own idolatrous imagination, even as the American public, which for half a dozen Wars, at the cost of more than a million dollars, refused W accept its own conviction that Jack Sharkey was the most colossal false alarm in the history of the prize fight racket.

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' I ’HERE seems to be some natural law that make* books about bie-game hunting in Africa, among ♦he most boring of all forms of literature; and it. begins to look as if this law holds good p' - en when the books are written by genuine, 18-carat literary big-wigs. Ernest Hemingway has been shooting the kudu, the rhinoceros and the spotted what-not. and he tells about it in ‘‘Green Hills of Africa,” and although the book may keep the Hemingway pot. boiling for a while, it is, in most other respects, a disappointment. 'Scribner's; $2.75.i In this book we rind Mr. Hemingway shooting many animals, being virile all over the place and using enough plain, unadorned profanitv to stock three road companies of ‘ Tobacco Road.” a a a TTE also takes time, between rhinos, to state his f 1 orpdo as a creative artist, to express anew his faith that the one thing which matters, for him is to write to the very best of his ability— and that is precisely what makes the book disappointing For Mr. Hemingway, after all, is something rather special in the way of novelists. He is preternaturally gifted, he takes himself seriously as an artist, and he has every right to—and then, after a long silence, he gives us an account of the number of African animals he has succeeded in killing, tells how frightfully disappointed he was because someone else in his party got a better kudu head than he did. and seems, all in all, to be trjing to outdo Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson rather than, say, Thomas Hardy. (By Bruce Catton.)

Literary Notes

Edwin Balm°r, editor of Redbook Magazine, reports that Redbook has bought the first, rights to choose chapters from Carl Sandburgs npw book. ‘ Abraham Lincoln: the War Years.” Redbook will publish three exerpts. beginning in March, 1936. under the title. "Lincoln in the Shadow.” The boofc will be issued later that year by Harcourt. Brare. Sandburg's first two volumes. ‘ Abraham Lincoln the Prairie Years.” is generally looked upon as the most moving and au'hentic biography of Lincoln. It was issued in 1926, end Sandburg has been working on the new volumes ever since. an n Three professor* of English at the University of Chicago. Robert Morse Lovett, Percy H Boynton and Thornton Wilder, are now on the advisory staff of Harriet Monroe s Foetry—a Magazine of Verse This is part, of the program of co-operation between the magazine >cd he university, through which renewed support ha& been received from the Carnegie Corn.

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