Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 221, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 November 1935 — Page 9

It Seems to Me HFYWOD BROUN ' I 'HE ' hnlp business of loyalty oath l ; ha- r p- *- duced to it* final absurdity by Comptrollpr General McCail. As I understand hi* ruling. every teacher in tnp District of Columbia must sign an affidavit every two weeks that he has not taught or advocated communism. This is a preliminary to receiving ! he pa' check. Also there is a little ex post facto business to clear up. and the educators of the District must testify that they did not teach or advocate com-

munism during the months of September and October. I wish xomebodv would explain to me the precise significance of the phrase teaching communism.” Does that mean that the word is not to be mentioned? Is it the notion of the loyalty group that the iit tie scholars are to be taught that this is still another of the forbidden nouns which ate only to be discussed behind the barn and never in mixed company? II so it, seems to me that the patriots are extremely deficient in i their knowledge of the psychology

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of adolescence. If radical thought is to be treated by the schools in the same manner a- -p.x I feel sure that, it will become very popular. In recess period I seem to see the little tots grouped in a corner gravely discussing the class struggle. And stealthily there may circulate from lad to lad a leaflet entitled "Only a Marxist.” Suppose, for instance, a teacher in a primary l'' ■ is taking her scholars on a rapid trip around the map. With her pointer she indicates England and explains. "England is a constitutional monarchy. Next shp points to France and states, ‘ France is a republic." tt n tt \n Inrlrccnl Question "If ERE is Russia,” savs the sightseeing guide, and 1 *- attempts to swine back to Germany. But. (ear lier. ’ asks a little lad of an inquiring turn of mind, "what's Russia?’’ Johnny, answers the shocked pedagogue. "I'm a-hanierl of you. Go and stand in the corner for two hour Decent people don't discuss what Russia is." Indeed, it seems that old Mr. MrCarls notion is that children can be disuaded from taking an interi in revolution*ry propaganda by making them believe that communism is a four-letter word. Although T am not so young myself, such systems never worked in my own day as a youth, and I doubt that it is a sensible approach even now. Moreover. I am of the opinion that the scheme will work just as badly for teachers as for scholars. Probably a good many educators might be willing to take a good swinging loyalty oath once a year, or even once evriy *ix months, but a written stipulation of safety and sanity every two weeks is likely to become irksome. The harassed teacher may well inquire; What was the matter with the vow I signed only a fortnight ago l Didn't, it, take? Do I have to submit to constant vaccination against subversive’ ideas?” n n a Old Mon Ittuebcard IF I were a teacher, and a 100 per cent one at that, 1 I believe I would grow pretty restive during any such process of surveillance. I would begin to wonder what sort of thing tins communism might be that it was held to tie so heady and persuasive. My whole inclination might well be t n say, "I think I'll look into this matter. It must he interesting.” Indeed, old man McCarl is following' in the footsteps of Bluebeard and cutting a new' door into the classroom. “There,” he says to the teacher, "is a chamber into which you may not enter.” Weil, teachers, like other people, are human beings, and many doors will be broken down and lots of locks are going to get picked. (Copyright. 1935 1

Your Health -BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

VI7FI measure food energy in terms of calories. A calory is the amount of heat which would raise the temperature of 1000 grams of water one degree, centigrade, or about the amount of heat required to rar e four pounds of water one degree. Fahrenheit. When a man who has been fitting still and using up 100 (alories gets up and walks around, he doubles the demand for energ\. or may actually treble it. It is not surprising, therefore, that he uses from 2500 to 3000 calories a da\. But muscular energj alone is not the important factor ’n fatigue A lecturer who talks for an hour burns up from 120 to 200 calories, and each one of those who sit still and listen to him burns up 100 calories. Yet they may feel exceedingly tired thereafter. This introduces the mental factor which is very important in human life. The business man who works with a plan for a sales campaign burns up less energy while he is thinking than when he fiddles with thp pencils on his desk. But his mental process will tire him more quickly. it xt tt TT is impossible to discuss food values in terms of energy without realizing how much energy certain well-known foods supply. Since we seldom eat foods in quantities small enough to furnish one or two calories, dietary experts have estimated food values m 100 calory portions. Following are the amounts of seme well-known foods which will yield 100 calories of energy: Butter (nearly pure fat > about, one-half ounce, or a heaping tablespoonful. Sugar (pure carbohydrate*, about one ounce, or two tablespoonfuls of granulated sugar. Strictly lean meat (mostly protein and water, about three ounces Brf'ad. about one and one-third ounces, or two average slices. Any dry cereal, or flour or meal, about one ounce, or three tablespoonfuls. Milk, about five ounces (two-thirds of a glass*. Fheese. four-fifth ounce (about one-inch cube'. Dry beans, one ounce. Potatoes, fivp ounces (one fair-sized * Banana, five and one-half ounces, with skin, (one a'erage-sizedu Apple, seven ounces whole tone-good sized' Orange, nine-tenths ounce (one large, or two small i. Orange juice, eight ounces 'a full-sized glass*. Prunes, dry, whole, one and one-third ounces (four average-sized*.

Today's Science

BY DAVID DIETZ LOS ANGELES. Nov. 23.—There’s no question in inv mind that the high-speed Diesel-electric transcontinental train is a success. This is the im- j portant fact that registered with me in connection with the run of the Santa Fes new "Super-Chief” which left Chicago Tuesday night in hopes of setting anew world record on the run to Los Angeles. The attempt had to be given up when the forward unit of the Diesel locomotive caught fire six miles west of Gallup. N. M . Wednesday. Asa passenger on the historic run. I was impressed by three things: a a a IjMRST The remarkable record made by the train up to Gallup. Second- The romfor* and safetv of the train when going speeds in excess of 75 miles an hour. Third: The fact that when the Diesel unit caught fir the train was brought to a stop so smoothlv that the passengers did not even realize a mishap had occurred. The accident in no way reflects upon the future usefulness of the Diesel engines. It can be put down as the price of pioneering Something will be learned from it which will prevent it from occurring w the future.

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lUtunin nf |; i: 11. ;)n ,| ~j<yt*l: j locity swept down the Mid- ! n ' i !cc “The ‘ ChinT" countless computations. rile River off the (ilenn 1 * ■ / \ fW' number of demonstration flights : ' le same time big. lull-scale u V * \ /- •U* • from Baltimore. productions were made of MRI tin Aircraft factory, ! 1 * p ■■■ .* interiors; not alone to study oilrrl tbi-nn 47. ~ * g * i p'i'uiffi ana disposition of control cables. ' * seas on / ‘‘ , . /.tf c-pHIRTY guests, a crew of five, ing, plumbing and structural m Chesapeake Bay, MpF / . 1 a group of airline officials to ' hers but in order to work out Gathered before tl-io S ’ / /". bring the total to 43. At the con- arrangement of seats and rrp fl t Horn. c + 9 mm? ° tie’s Edwin Musick, Pan-America's scheme of color and decoratin neat doors of a construe- • W& chief pilot. The big ship lifts easly ! Actual construction did not don hailgfar which had /§ # from the water, heads for Wash- ff ? r 3 long tim ®’ and whe i Ul '- U ilelu / $ inotnn I did went ahead slowly.

With th- advent of the h,. K e China ( tippers the term ‘ air liner” becomes somethin* more than a proud rxa**rration. The passenger, ho speed from San Francis-,, to < hina , n four dav<( "'ll sleep In pnllman berths, plav hndge m a lounge, visit the purser's office dine pleasantly. This article is 'he fourth of , series „ hirh ramalic **nrv of 1 ankee ingenuity? ritimph—the ronstruction of , unmiwile aerial bridge from California to the nr East. Bv sl TIIEKI.AND denlixger Times Special Writcr W A B E ISLA ND ’ s square mile of sand and scrub still slept undisturbed beneath a blistering mid-f acific sun; the pen-guin-like Gooney birds of Midway hdtl yet to dodge the Diesel tractors of PannAme ri c a’s construction crew. It was the late autumn of 1934, and a freezing northwest wind of some 35 miles an hour velocity swept down the Middle River off the Glenn L. Martin Aircraft factory, piled three-foot seas on Chesapeake Bay. Gathered before the great doors of a construction hangar which had been for three years the scene of constant and carefully guarded activity was a little knot of engineers, aircraft company officials, airways executives. They were there for the launching of “Number 7,” largest transport airplane in the world, twenty-five and a half tons of luxury and mechanical efficiency designed for trans-Pacific service. ft tt a THE hangar doors rolled back. Slowly, without, ceremony but. with the utmost precision, mechanics trundled the big seaplane onto the runway and down to the ramp. As she slippped into the water the term "air liner” for the first time acquired meaning. Here was a hull PO feet long, its sides broken by a row of wide ports, a big "flying bridge" above and beyond the passenger quarters; here were wings with a spread of 130 feet, and here was power: four twin-row Pratt & Whitney Wasp engines, each capable of 800-horse power. Here were size and power, and "Number 7." if she was to fulfill her contract, had need of both.

Death of Jellicoe Revives the 19-Year-Oid Question as to Who Won World War's Titanic Clash—Much-Disputed Battle of Jutland R V PORTUT 117 lIADTAV i- . .

BY ROBERT W. HORTON •ITrASHINGTON. Nov. 23.—The. ’ * British fleet put to sea the afternoon of May 30. 1916. in command of Sir John Jellicoe. Far to the north the German High Seas Fleet, chafing for action, steamed through the choppy North Sea. The clash between those two monsters within the next 36 hours was ihe most notable naval battle in history. Hell Fire Jack" Jellicoe lived through it and became Lord Jellicoe. He died this week, convinced that Britain won the battle of Jutland. But equally sure of the opposite was Von Scheer. the German commander at Jutland. tt a a IT has never been settled who won. but many a lesson in naval construction and tactics was learned the night of May 31. 1916. The German fleet was substantially lighter and smaller than the British, which included 37 capital ships, eight arniu.ed cruisers. 26 light destroyers and 80 flotilla leaders and destroyers. The Germans entered the ring with 27 capital ships. 11 light cruisers and 63 flotilla leaders and destroyers. When dawn broke over the cold sea after a night of bloody encounter, the casualties stood: British. 6274 lives and 14 warships; German. 2545 lives. 11 ships. ana THE stratgy of the battle followed such highly technical patterns that it is difficult to understand unless every movement is followed in connection with the whole, a task undertaken only by the most avid naval historians. Roughly, the picture was something like this The Allies realized that the outcome of the war largely depended upon British superiority on the seas, which meant the ability to sink or seize all commerce headed for the Cernral Powers and to prevent the German fleet from operating Hence, when spies reported indications that Von Scheer was about to undertake a major maneuver, Jelli-

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JUAN TR-IPFE, Andre Priester and Col. Lindfcergh, back in 1931. had determined just what sort of flying boat they would need, and then set out to get it. They were not concerned, these three, with the fact that at that time no flying boat had ever covered the 2400 miles of open ocean betw’een San Francisco- and Hawaii. that land planes still cruised at speeds no greater than 120 to 130 miles an hour on airlines within the United States. They approached seven aircraft manufacturers, and told them what they wanted. They w'anted a seaplane which would carry enough fuel to travel 3000 miles, even against headwinds, and carry in addition an amount of mail, passengers and express sufficient to permit profitable operation at reasonable rates. They wanted cruising speeds above 150 miles an hour and they wanted complete seaworthiness. tt a tt FIVE out of the seven manufacturers gasped, said it w-as impossible. Igor Sirkorsky, who had b°en building larger and larger planes for the company's Latin American services, agreed to attempt. a 19-ton flying boat which w'ould fulfill all of the trans-

coe steamed out to accept the issue. tt a a THE two fleets met virtually head on, Jellicoe on the bridge of the Iron Duke. Reports of the battle's early stages abound with notations such as “battle squadron opened fire at 20.000 yards.” As the fight went on. the range narrowed and the notations run: "Range, 3000 yards.” Overhead swung several Zeppelins. in and out of sight, from j which flashed radio messages concerning the position of the British line and its auxiliaries. The character of the battle is suggested in this official account of a single incident: "Nestor. Nomad and Nicator . . . pressed home their attack on the battle cruisers and fired two torpedoes at them,

PROBLEMS

Today** Contract Problem South is declarer at five diamonds. What club should East play on the opening lead to let his partner know that his entry card is the ace of spades? 4 10 V Q 7 ♦Q9 4 3 it A K Q 3 i 5 *QSS32| fj UAJT4 J 10 56 w g *8532 ♦AS S *JIO4 3 A 2 Dealer AK3S V A K ♦ KJ10752 ♦ S 6 None vul. Opener— 4 2. Solution in next issue. 16

Solution to Previous Contract Problem by W. E. M KENNEY Serrrtarv American Bridte Learne More than a year ago I presented through this column anew defensive play in bridge. This was the con-

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1935

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oceanic conditions except the 1 gross load requirements; and Glenn Martin, who had turned j out scores of huge flying boats for the Navy, pledged himself to con- i struct a 25 1 2 -ton ship which | would meet all specifications. By ! the summer of 1932 Sikorsky was at work upon three 19-tonners at a price of $1,000,000; Glenn Martin had a contract to build three of his 25’ 2 -ton planes for $1,218.000. tt a tt NUMBER T’ was the first of these China clippers. For awhile she lay moored against the end of the ramp, undergoing engineering checks; eventually a boat took a line from her bow and she was towed dowmriver into the choppy waters of the open bay. Once is the bay the China clipper's battery of motors, streamlined neatly into the leading edge of the great wnng, roared into ac- I tion. propellers spun. Aboard was j a crew of 10 with W. K. Ebell, I Martin's chief test pilot, at the ! controls. For a time the big plane taxied up and down the wind, turning m wide and small circles through the chop. At last she headed into the I wind. Ebell opened the throttle. I

oeing suojecteci to a heavy fire from the enemy’s secondary armament. Nomad was badly hit . . . (and w’as sunk.) a a a "SUBSEQUENTLY Nestor and Nicator . . . found themselves within close range of a number of enemy battleships. . . . Though under terrific fire, they stood on. and their position being favorable for torpedo attack fired a torpedo at the second ship of the enemy line at a range of 3000 yards. Before they could fire their fourth torpedo. Nestor was badly hit and swung to starboard. Nicator altering course ... to avoid collision, and thereby being prevented from firing the last torpedo. Nicator made good her escape . Nestor remained stopped (she was was lost*.”

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vention of telling partner, by the card you led, which suit your reentry was in. It is surprising how often this convention can be employed. This and the next few articles will deal with this convention. They are hands submitted to me by B. J. Becker, who probably ranks first among the outstanding plavers of 1935. Mr. Becker conducts the Sylvania Bridge Club. Philadelphia, and will be one of the stars to participate in the coming national championship tournament, to be held in Chicago the week of Dec. 2. As South had opened with a minimum. he thought the double of three spades would be more profitable than continuing on to gam c . The singleton nine of clubs is opened. North winning with the ace. The drop of East’s three spot marks South with a singleton club. North should now return the deuce of clubs for his partner to ruff, as the return of the lowest of the suit tells partner his re-entry is in the lower ranking of the suits that are not trump. Therefore, when South ruffs the club, he can safely underlead his ace of diamonds, putting North fn the lead with the queen of cua-

and the first of the new-style China clippers leaped into the air. The big Martin took her first test as easily as she was to take all the others. tt tt tt BY December she had passed triumphantly through a series of exhaustive inspections and was licensed to carry 102.1 per cent of her dead weight. She had achieved a top speed of 181 miles an hour, cruised at 158. broken many international records for seaplane performance. Before she went down to the Caribbean for the preliminary work which preceded her departure for the coast and the inauguration of the trans-Pacific service. the China Clipper made a number of demonstration flights from Baltimore. a a '■■p'HIRTY guests, a crew- of five, -I. a group of airline officials to bring the total to 43. At the controls Edwin Musick. Pan-America's chief pilot. The big ship lifts easly from the water, heads for Washington. These within the three large passenger cabins or sitting in the. broad arm chairs of the loung cannot hear the roar of the engines—the interior is soundproofed. They try out the wide berths upon which overnight voyagers to Hawaii and the East will sleep; peer into the big control compartment at the crowded instrument panels; gaze downward through the cabin windows at the speeding shadow on the waters of the bay which marks their passage. tt a tt NO safer airplane flies than this Clipper. Her hull is subdivided like that of a liner: her service ceiling is 18.000 feet, ceiling on one motor, 6000 feet; she lands at 65 miles an hour. Her "flight deck” contains stations for all of her officers, including engineer and radio operator, and here are the bunks upon which mpnibers of the crew relax when “off watch.” Over the longest stretches of the Pacific bridge 'San Francisco to Hawaii) she can carry safely 12 passengers in berths, a ton of mail, another ton of express, enough fuel not only for the 2400-nnle flight, but for another 800 miles of emergency flying as well. On the daylight stages of the western journey she can carry' at least double as many passengers and much more cargo.

The dramatic sinking of the battle cruiser Invincible demonstrated to naval experts that this type of ship is unsuited to “infighting”—the "in’’ in this case being a matter of 9000 yards. The Invincible was attacked by the German Dcrfflinger, the latter getting the worst of it until the Koenig, loading the German battle fleet, came to the smaller ship's rescue, ripped the Invincible from stem to stern and sent her to the bottom with more than 1000 officers and men. a o a AS night cams on. fog arose and the ships withdrew from their earlier contact. The British expected to destroy the high seas fleet with the advent of morning. When morning came. Von

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monds. thereby getting another ruff in clubs. Now again the ace of diamonds can be underled. North winning with the king. Another club is played and. unless East ruffs with his ace of spades. South will again rulf with the queen of spades. East still must lose two heart tricks. North and South will be plus at least 800 points on the board. tCopyriilit. 1935. NEA Service, Inc.)

TN contracting to build her and X her two sister ships. Mr. Martin was aware that he had taken on the most difficult job of 20 years' expeiience. Experts had lpng been convinced that large planes were characteristically inefficient load carriers, that the larger the empty weight of the plane the smaller the proportion of that weight which could be carried in fuel and commercial load. Some of the trans-oceanic fliers of the '2os had carried as much useful weight in their small planes as the planes themselves had weighed, but the experts said that no big ship could ever do this, and they proved it mathematically. Nevertheless. Mr. Martin sei out to build such a ship. In their favor was the fact that they would have engines more powerful per unit of weight than those of any previous flying boat; more efficient propellers; materials stronger and lighter than those which had gone into earlier planes. a o u WIND tunnel tests were earned out to find which shapes and dimensions and relationships of hull and wing and controls would give the best lifting force with the least resistance to forward motion; models were tested in water channel laboratories to determine the most effective hull bottom contours for seaworthiness and ease in takeoff; specialists in structural design began countless computations. At the same time big, full-scale reproductions were made of cabin interiors; not alone to study the disposition of control cables, wiring, plumbing and structural members but in order to work out the arrangement of seats and a scheme of color and decorating. Actual construction did not begin for a long time, and when it did it went ahead slowly. The results are now proved—the big plane is efficient. What the experts in opposition had overlooked was the possibility' of turning size from a liability into an asset by making every part of the structure carry some part of the load. a b a A SMALL plane can carry only the most local load in its fabric covering; the designers of the China Clipper, a monster weighing 25.000 pounds when empty, had a metal covering to work with, so reinforced it, that it took up much of the load which would ordinarily have required heavy spars and bracing tubes. And the China Clipper can lift a load a fraction greater than her own tremendous weight. They stand not so much at the end of a long chain of progress, these China Clippers, as at the beginnings of. endless development. Already' Martin engineers speak confidently of ships which will be twice as large; already new engines are available of still greater power and economy; already there are new materials available, new advances in aerodynamics, which guarantee that the overseas air transport of the immediate future will be something to staeger thp imagination. Even at that, today's China Clipper makes Jules Verne look like a stolid dullard.

j Scheer's fleet was nowhere to be I seen. It nad slipped through the British line during the night, un- ! seen and unheard, and returned 1 to port safely. j The German Admiral von Holtzendorf wrote, long after the I j battle: "In# life it is not things j as they are which decide, but the images people make of them, j j Whether Great Britain’s naval predominance remains or not de- ] pends upon what the rest of the world outside of Germany thinks on the matter.” There the controversy rests. It depends upon how you view it. 12 BUTLER STUDENTS ENTERED IN CONTEST Oratorical Competition Will Decide j Representative for State Meet.. Twelve Butler University students | have entered the all-school oratorical contest which is to be held on the Fairview campus Tuesday to determine the university entry in the annual state intercollegiate ora - 1 torical contest on Feb. 14 at Earlham College. Entries are WiJliiam Stalcup, Eugene Fife, Mary E. Daniel. Winifred Andrews, Lyla Fullen, Alexander Kahn. Lois Gerdts, Glendale Burten, Frank Demmerly, Theodore Pruyn. Joseph Calderon and Evelyn Willsey. Prof. Charles H. Walters, instructor in speech, is in charge of 1 the contest. Judges are to be Prof. N. R. Buchan. Dr. I. T. Shultz and Gray Burdin, a graduate student. DRUIDS INITIATION SET Indianapolis Delegation to Attend Ceremonies in Lafayette. Members of Indianapolis Grove. 37, United Ancient Order of Druids. : are to go to Lafayette tomorrow to take part in initiation of a class of candidates of Star City Grove. The i following grand supreme officers are to make the trip: Lotus C. Schwartz. W. F. Young. Otto S Swanson. Wili liam F. Bonesteel. Charles G. N. Geider, F. Earl Geider.

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Fair Enough WHMiPEGIfR MADRID Nov 22—Every American newspaper takes an interest in the care and feeding eduj cation and physical training of the young Many of them publish, alcr.e with football scores and Wall Street closing prices, the advice of famous joumallstic physicians on medico-journals This is a public service The young mother hould be told how much spinach and oatmeal to feed her babv When the child is li’tle older she should be told that nail biting is a bad habit.

Finally, there's the matter of the young American’s schooling. The American child should be | hardened in the competition of combative sports and taught the | rudiments of mathematics and chemistry, so that 15 years from | now the baby of today will be able j to die as obstreperously as possible in the next war to end war There's a great, difference of opinion as to the reason why peo- | pie are born. In Italy. Germany. Russia and Japan today they are I born to kill as many other people | as they can. and die if necessary.

111 Germam. under Adolf Hitler, thp nation is propagating the idea that Christianity l , racial weakness becausp Christians are afraid of rhP wrath of an angry God. bob Meant if 11/ Picture 'T'HEREFORE. the Nazi German child is encourX aged to believe that if he should die in war his soul will go to some beautiful realm where all is honor and glory and the war-killed German is a heav, enl.v ward committeeman with authority to kirk the souls of Jews. Americans, Frenchmen. Englishmen Italians and Russians off Ihe sidewalks. This is no exaggeration. This belief is in Nazi books, which are plagiarized from Ihe belief of the Japanese. Nazi Germany has no substantiated God. although one of the great ecclesiasts of the new German state recently announced that Adolf Hitler the former house painter, was God and the Holy j Ghost. This reduced the case for the young German mother to the proposition that the new baby ! at her breast or toddling in the back vard could ’ come to no more beautiful end in this world than to die in battle with a chunk of scrapiron in his belly and with the saered namp of Adolf Hitler on his lips. Or he might die just as magnificently in a mudhole in the field with his lungs eaten out by a whiff of gas. The noblest purpose, however, is to die for Adolf Hitler, head of the New Germany, and the next noblest achievement is to risk thi3 death and live. In Italy, for 14 years. Benito Mussolini has I harangued Italians to breed more children on the ground that there were too few Italians in the world A year ago he began to agitate the claim that Italy had too many people and therefore would have to expand, which is a diplomatic euphemism for conj quering or stealing. So. for the last vear in Italy the new children who were bred in the last eight j or 10 years have been marching in parades, carrying | miniature rifles on their shoulders and shouting in ! th eir baby voices, ”Doo-chav. Doo-chay.” like Yale sophomores at a football game howling, "brek-ek-ek-co-ek-co-ek-co-ax.” tt it a No Great Feat NOW. after all. it's no great, feat to breed a child, although religion always has invested the prac- ; tice with a beautiful, sanctifying emotion, which has j ennobled propagation in certain countries. The d.anj £er is that in a world which never has been able to ; make up its mind -just who is good or what is noble i American mothers will make a terrible mistake and I the United States will miss the boat. American | mothers ordinarily do not raise their babies with the j idea that they will delight to hear one happy day in I tlie future that their little boy s head has been blow r n , off oy a shell or their little girl has been spattered by I a bomb from an airplane. They are a sentimental j lot - thp Americans, like the British and the French. and this sentiment seems to be £ dancerous wreak- ! ness -. Possibly, under thp poliU-oi circumstances 1 existing in the world, they should regard the children in whom they take such delight and for whose future : they make such naive plans'as so many riflpmen. so many pilots, so many female auxiliaries for the next war. And for all that any onp can prove to the contrary Adolf Hitler may be God and the Holv Ghost a- the German ecclesiastic said, although there is condition just now' in the person of Father Divine, the colored Bible flogger of Harlem, whose followers insist w ith some plausibility that Fathpr Divine is God and that Adolf Hitler is not even an apostle. Adolf ! Hitler is not even colored.

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ONE of the most, remarkable achievements of recent American fiction is now’ being offered to tne public in James T. Farrells powerful trilogy, “Studs Lonigan” (Vanguard; s3*. Mr. Farrell has. written the complete, uncensored case history of a boy from Chicago's congested nearslums. No one will ever need to do this job again for Mr. Farrell has told all there is to tell. Here, in thiee solid books, is the average under-privileged Chicagoan in all his misery. Studs Lonigan is the son of a small painting contractor , born into one of those neighborhoods that are slowly, but steadily, deteriorating. He grows up with the street for his playground and the corner rowdy for his boon companion, and he becomes just about what you might expect. a tt a 'VTOT that he turns into anything actually vicious. Hp from a region which is a forcing ground for gangsters, but somehow he escapes that. He is a sensualist without the nprve for conquests, a toughie who can't fight very well; and there are millions like him. This book, indeed, is appalling. I* is brutal unsentimental. frank in its usage of ugly words, its depiction of means arm pointless living, its account of sordid deeds: and Mr. Farrell builds it up. point by point, with deadly realism, so that you never for a moment doubt the literal truth of what he is telling you. It will leave you depressed, but it will teach vou some salutary truths about your America. *Bv Bruce Catton.*

Literary Notes

Clifford Odets, who has turned down dozens of offers from Hollywood, is now at work on a film version of his one-act play, "Waiting for Lefty,” with some assistance from Sidney Howard. tt u a “Lightship.” a first novel by Archie Binns. has just been awarded the Pnx Femina Americain for 1935. This prize was founded in 1931 by Mme. Jeanne Dauban under the patronage of the former French Ambassador, Paul Claudel. It is given each year to the American work of creative imagination considered most worthy of translation into the French language. Previous books which have won this international honor are "Shadows on the Rock.” by Willa Gather: God’s Angry Man. by Leonard Erhlich, and "Lamb in His Bosom," bv Caroline Miller. tt tt tt Story Time is the tempnrar title of a nen literary magazine for boys and girls, between the ages of 8 and 12. It will be a co-operative, and not a commercial venture. For the present editorial services are being contributed, but the printer will be paid and contributors will receive a minimum rate of one cent a word. Both realisti” and romantic stories of from 1306 to 2500 words will be used, verse and short plays are also desired.

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