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ft Seems to Me WOOD BROUN TN the Herald Tribune my attention was attracted A by the following item: "South Hadley, Mass.— Miss Florence Dunbar, of Amherst, Mass., on the eve of her twentieth birthday, has been singled out at Mount Holyoke College as the most perfect example in the senior class of the classic ideal—a sound mind in a sound body.” A picture accompanied the story, and it showed a large young lady with a very pleasant countenance. I got pretty indignant.

"She looks like a darn nice girl,” I said to myself. "They had no right to do a thing like that to her. Why should they maze an example of a girl who seems to be having a good time with her studies and her athletics? Making her a symbol of the best potentialities of American womanhood! She ought to go over to the dean, or whoever did it, and punch him or her right in the nose. It’s enough not only to ruin the rest of the college career of the hefty

Heywood Broun young lady but affect her later life as well.” I studied the story to see what material awards Mount Holyoke had conferred upon the luckless girl to make amends for the spiritual damage which might ne wrought to her soul. All that she gets is her name inscribed on a silver bowl. She can keep the bowl until she quits college. Yes, it says on it, "Mens sana in corpore sano.” I hope that's right. I copied it exactly from the paper. The motto was on a gate through which I used to go to college classes, but I never stopped to read it. At least I never digested it. a a a His Only Major Triumph TJbT if I speak with a good deal of feeling about the plight in which Miss Florence Dunbar finds herself it is because I went through a somewhat similar experience once myself and never have recovered. I was even younger than Miss Dunbar when this tragic thing befell me. The senior class of Horace Mann High School used to meet each year a little before graduation and vote the best this or that. I can't remember all the categories, but we had "the handsomest,” of course, "the best dresser” and "the best all around.” When the totals of the votes were announced I was a little disappointed to find that I had not received a single vote as "the handsomest.” The fact that I didn’t receive any votes, either, for "the best dresser” made no difference, I wasn't running for that. But then to my great surprise there came the announcement of "the best all around.” The figures were read, and they ran Heywood Broun 103 votes, Carl Fernstrom 102. Id won I stood head and shoulders above everybody else in the class. It went straight to my head. It remained there. The size of my hat from that day forth has been 735. ana Making Toward Freedom BUT my testimony is not based wholly on personal experience. I know a man who, through his talents, became a symbol of “the highest potentialities of the Negro race.” "How do you like it, Paul?” I asked him once. He said he hated it. "Sometimes,” he explained, "I'd like to take a cocktail or gamble or raise Cain, but there's always somebody around to look at me sternly and remark, ‘Remember you’re a symbol.’ ” In my own case I must admit that no such burden lies upon me now. Anybody who calls me a symbol of anything had better smile when he says it Very many years ago I was graduated out of both a sound mind and a sound body. And so my heart bleeds for Miss Florence Dunbar, of Mount Holyoke College. By dint of desperate work she may raise her blood pressure and lose her athletic figure, but it will take a lot of character for her to win her way through from 100 per cent health to the privilege of doing whatever she pleases. I do not like to be still one more uninvited interferer with the private life of a young lady who has every reason to be annoyed at the publicity which has been thrust upon her, but in all humility I would like to help. If Miss Florence Dunbar wants to learn how to get aw r ay from health habits I hope she will write to me. (Copyright. 1935)

Your Health -BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

TI /"HEN you lift a hand, turn your head, or tighten VV your muscles, oxygen is used up in your body exactly as fuel is used in a motor. Moreover, your vital organs keep on working even while you sleep. Breathing, the beat of the heart, the circulation of the blood, and even the restless movements made during sleep demand a certain amount of fuel. A man at hard work burns up 4150 calories a day; a moderate worker uses 3400 calories; a desk worker requires 2700 calories, and ladies of leisure who sleep late in the morning, play bridge, or do a matinee in the afternoon, and do not dance too long at night, will need only 2450 calories. That is why some women who do nothing but' munch chocolates multiply their avoirdupois until they get beyond being pleasantly plump. The one way to determine how much fuel a person needs is to study that individual. Two persons of the samp build, height, weight, age and occupation need the same amount of fuel. But there may be variations even in individuals similarly constructed. a a a BY use of a standard test, known as the basal metabolism test, your doctor can find out exactly how much food you ought to eat each day, provided you are not going to do any special activities. He can calculate from a list of your ordinary activities how much extra fuel you will require to meet the special demand. The basal metabolic apparatus measures the amount of oxygen burned by the body in carrying on its chemistry while a person is at rest and is not digesting food. The amount of carbon dioxide he breathes out. after inhaling oxygen, represents the burning of the fuel that comes from his body. In taking a basal metabolic test, the doctor puts the patient at rest and allows him to lie quietly from 40 minutes to an hour. Then the patient breathes through a tube which is connected to the apparatus. His nose is pressed shut with a clip so that all the breathing goes on through this tube. Fresh oxygen is supplied from a tank. As this oxygen is used up. the measuring device records the extent to which it is consumed. Thus we have an actual record of the use of oxygen by the body. This is known as the basal metabolism.

Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ

TEETH tell the story of human evolution, according to Dr. Ernest A. Hooton. professor of anthropology at Harvard University. Moreover, the future of man, he tells us, lies in his teeth. •'Our teeth have had an illustrious past,” he says. 'They have a serviceable present, and with due conservation they will continue to perform an indispensable function in the future of man. But if the human dentition breaks down, it will carry with it in its fall the human species.” a a xt r ~I''EETH are the most nearly imperishable relics of the vertebrate body. "If an animal’s teeth last until death, thev will continue to defy the destructive action of time and the elements, sometimes for millions of years,” he says. "After death the soft parts of the animal body decay rapidly. The bones are much tougher. But bones are frequently crushed into dust or dissolved by the action of chemicals in the earth.”

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fifth article of a serin telling how Yankee enterprise j f built a fKK)-mile aerial bridge to Asia, a dramatic chapter ~ - / in the historv of twentieth century material achievement. BY SUTHERLAND DENLINGER ' flft * \ 4 Times Special Writer 'lljt T fifty-foot radio poles seemed ac- Rrjgf Jjjf tnaily malevolent, inspired by that sullen, resistant animosity which some- Jr times seizes the inanimate. Ponderous, cum!>eryom<\ difficult vjf enough to handle under that particular afternoon Mmway I .-land ; n<\\ had an ally kept tie- steamer North Haven lighter nuity of a bronco on the & <b a" / jjßsSll bust. It was secured, this y lines snapped often enough. . I V JP g /** itlo . s—zw W . ff VST AT ES Alternately almost level with the Mjr & y I ®M"w--£§SisUte rail and far beneath, it received a , „■ ’/ JgWt* r* Tt k WSk.^WIP continual battering against the .Vi- fr** A L t i r ship's sides, that it did not open **f| V up and sink was a continual mir- ' S *‘ a \fl .£§ The men at work in the lighter, i||? the men whose pleasant job it was fm to receive and subdue the huge g£p3||pL \ timbers which danced crazily at NM Shanghai the end of the winch cable, were Clt l ri<h f K > often preoccupied with the effort . / v to keep their footing. And, so, a • ~ *.-* The route of the Pan-American lines to the Orient and, above, two misunderstanding of signals and CAMTOH? M * \ 0 f the four powerful motors that pull the clippers westward. a huge swell came at the same * , <yALr ■ ___________ time. The lighter lifted toward the \ \ ' m * ** rail, the winch-man let the pole C p +\ m * their longest overseas hop—from lessness, as though the great ship go with a run. *§ . San Francisco to Hawaii. hung suspended above the center a a e t <ki a a o of that monotonous seascape. ~ ?§L M anila y\ n , ... . OI'ANI 'TNODAY Pan American’s chain The radio bearings coming in ONE of the lightermen saw' it M Wrl/J?nJfv Aof radio stations extending every 30 minutes prove otherwise, coming and dived ovei board f y _jkisia.ncis --yv from California to the Philippines however, and their story of swift into the heaving swell, came up M / , maintains hourly communication flight is corroborated by the resafely to clutch at the scow's side. jefik’ > ' schedules wdth the control sta- suits of hourly “fixes” determined His companion was not so quick V f, " tions at Hawaii and California, by celestial navigation, and the pole caught him. The pole {Borneo transmitting meteorological re- a a a crushed his head and they brought „ ports and other data. Before the 'TP HE clipper rushes toward a him over the ships’ side in a cargo s first exploratory flights of the A battlement of great clouds, net. The work went on. clipper an extensive series of bear- into and through its walls of mist. These radio poles were the pil- \ in & tests - in which Hawaiian sta- As she emerges into the sunshine lars in the 9000-mile bridge to l 1 ■ '** & . tions and ships at sea co-operated, on the farther side the droplets M._ xt nrnvpfi that the. directional radio of moisture on the huee wins

BY SUTHERLAND DENLINGER Times Special Writer r fifty-foot radio poles seemed actually malevolent, inspired by that sullen, resistant animosity which sometimes seizes the inanimate. Ponderous, cumbersome, difficult enough to handle under any circumstances; on that particular afternoon off Midway Island they had an ally in the tall seas which kept the steamer North Haven rolling heavily, while the lighter against

her side reared and plunged with the demoniac ingenuity of a bronco on the bust. It was secured, this lighter, by double lines at the bow and stern; but the lines snapped often enough. a a a Alternately almost level with the rail and far beneath, it received a continual battering against the ship's sides, that it did not open up and sink was a continual miracle. The men at work in the lighter, the men whose pleasant job it was to receive and subdue the huge timbers which danced crazily at the end of the winch cable, were often preoccupied with the effort to keep their footing. And. so, a misunderstanding of signals and a huge swell came at the same time. The lighter lifted toward the rail, the winch-man let the pole go with a run. a a a ONE of the lightermen saw it coming and dived overboard into the heaving swell, came up safely to clutch at the scow’s side. His companion was not so quick and the pole caught him. The pole crushed his head and they brought him over the ships’ side in a cargo net. The work went on. These radio poles were the pillars in the 9000-mile bridge to Asia, in the North Haven’s long tramp from atoll to atoll they were always the first thing to be erected. In Hawaii the spades of the construction crew disturbed an ancient native graveyard, uncovering skulls and a war hatchet; at Midway and Wake they set ftp temporary installations on the beach so rapidly that cargo had hardly begun to come in through the reef before messages telling of the expedition’s progress were being sent to the Pacific headquarters at Alameda, Cal. a a a THE North Haven’s people possessed all of the pioneer's ingenuity: they evened scores with the malignant timbers by putting them to work. Off Midway they rigged one of them for a boat boom. From its end, 25 feet out from the ship's stern dangled a Jacob’s ladder by means of which passengers were transformed from the launch to the ship—a thrilling enough experience for landsmen when there was a sea running, even had there been no sharks circling about in the blue water. At Wake the poles were used to float huge 400-gallon tanks through the shallow hand-hewn channel into the lagoon. Lashed in a cradle formed by the big timbers so that a projecting coupling near the manhole was above water, the great tanks bobbed through the channel, were towed across to Peale Island. The North Haven’s stops along the island chain which began with

More and More Folks Seem to Think the New Deal Is Cockeyed, Declares Observer Who Sees Roosevelt Stock Slowly Going Down Ttif ie tbirrl nt V via P UTitenn'* 1 i. _ 11 _1 ....

This is (he third of Lvle C. Wilson's political dispatches on his tour of the nation to ascertain 1936 Presidential trends. Wilson is chief of the United Press Washington Bureau and an outstanding political writer. More dispatches will follow. BY LYLE C. WILSON (Copyright. 1935. by United Press) TJOSTON, Nov. 25.—You get the idea traveling through New England that a great many people think the New Deal is cockeyed. These people tell you they are confused by Washington's starts, stops, turns and twists. There is resentment against so many “theories” being applied by impractical men to problems vitally affecting New England's present and future. As of the present, I discount some of the things I heard in Massachusetts, and will venture an opinion that as of today President Roosevelt probably has not lost Massachusetts for 1936. But he will before then. That opinion is fortified by newspaper straw votes, intenser newspaper reading in this part of the country and questions put to many casual conversationalists as I have traveled around eastern and southern New England. Mr. Roosevelt's small 1932 majority here is shrinking. In that year he won Rhode Island and Massachusetts, the other New England states going to Mr. Hoover. b a a LAST August Rhode Island's First Congressional District abandoned New Deal reform and recovery to elect a Republican ir. a significant by-election. Massachusetts is in the same frame of mind. The New Deal last Maine in 1932 and won it in the 1934 gubernatorial and congressional election. Well, Maine is gone again. Not Passamaquoddy Dam. high pots t ) prices or what have you will suffice to make Maine vote Democratic next year. To conclude that the Repub-

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the erection of the radio, ended with the calibration of the direction finder station. For without radio, without the highly specialized type of radio devised by PanAmerican for its Pacific project, transoceanic flying would be the gamble it had always been until the line’s clipper ships began a service of exploratory flights each of which was completed with the routine efficiency of a railway train. a a a AS with transoceanic planes, bases and personnel, transoceanic direction-finding radio was non-existent back in 1931, when Juan Trippe, Andre Priester and Colonel Lindbergh first conceived the Pacific route. Its development was a most important phase of the scientific pioneering which had to be done before a single machete slashed the brush on Wake Island or human activities disturbed the solemn Gooneybirds of Midway. Shore or ship radio capable of spanning almost any distance had been, of course, a commonplace for some years. The problem lay in the development of lightweight, low-powered, completely reliable equipment of sufficient range to cover the entire Pacific when mounted in an airplane. The development of radios for straight communication was comparatively simple. Each of the China clippers carries two sending sets, two receivers, a dual antenna system. Even when on the water, with engines dead, batter-

licans still have to pull down a New Deal majority in Massachusetts it is necessary to realize Massachusetts is more diversified than Rhode Island. Hot business resentment in general and s he feeling of cotton textile mill workers that Roosevelt let them down produced a Republican majority last August in Rhode Island. Massachusetts cotton mill workers are equally unhappy. Bay State business men probably are as resentful. But some mill workers—woolen millmen, for instance —are doing pretty well in Massachusetts. Tool makers, rayon mills, screw makers, manufacturers of copper products are fairly busy in southern Massachusetts. Even

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Today's Contract. Problem South has the contract for four hearts After winning the opening lead with the ace ot spades, declarer takes two rounds of trump On the second round, how' can East tell his partner to lead a diamond when he gains the lead? AQ 6 5 V A K 4 K 10 ? AKS 3 2 ♦ 3 N UK J t<* 9 VQJ 4 2 w r 74 2 + 6542 w AQ J 6 4 _ S , ♦Q J 9 Dealer s 7 A A y 10 5 8 7 5 3 ♦A 7 3 A A 10 9 All vul Opener —A 3 Solution in next issue IS

Solution to Previous Contract Problem BY W. E. M‘KENNEY Secretary American Bridre League THIS is the second of a series of hands by B. J. Becker of Sylvama Bridge Club, Phila-

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ies make it possible to use this equipment for days on end to send position reports, secure weather data, dispatch instructions to and from almost any spot in the entire Pacific. When the plane is aloft the range is even greater. Far beyond Wake on an exploratory flight to Guam the radio operator of the clipper has talked easily with Pan Ame.’can’s Miami station, half a world away. a a a THE greatest radio triumph, however, lay in the extension of aircraft radio direction-find-ing devices to unprecedented ranges. The type of radio beacons which guide airliners through fog and night on the routes within the United States serve well enough on overland lines, but their short range—a hundred miles or so—makes them obviously unfit for transoceanic use. Using its Caribbean routes as a testing laboratory, Pan American radio engineers developed a short wave direction finder with an effective range of 1800 miles, free from the defects which limit the consistent range of the ordinary “loop” or radio-compass type direction finder and make it unreliable at sunset, sunrise or during the hours of darkness. By overlapping their range two stations equipped with this new direction finder can cover an operating range of 3600 miles, equivalent to the distance between New York and London, and almost 1200 miles further than is necessary in order to guard the ships on

yacht building yards have work, I was told. When you have seen the cotton textile business you have seen the worst of it. a a a ''pHE Boston Post conducted a Massachusetts poll recently. It showed Mr. Roosevelt slightly weaker than in 1932 and an even greater decline in the popularity of Gov. Curley, Democrat, who was elected in 1934. But on the basis of that poll, some impartial observers believe both Roosevelt and Curley would win today. The President may be a little stronger than Curley right now. Country weeklies throughout the

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delphia. Becker's outstanding achievement this year was to win the National Masters’ Pair event. This event is open only to players who have won sufficient points to qualify them as masters; it is the oustanding Dridge event of the year. In this series of articles, Becker explains the development of the new defensive discard signal. Against the five diamond contract, West opens the singleton deuce of clubs. Dummy plays the queen. East appreciates that this lead is a singleton, and if West gets into the lead with a heart or a diamond, he would like to have him know that he holds the ace of spades. Therefore, East’s play on the queen should be the jack of clubs. The play of this high card tells partner that his entry is in the higher of the suits not bid by the declarer and his partner. If the three spot were played on the first trick, this would convey the message that East’s entry card was in hearts, the lower of the outside suits. Now, you can see how easily contract can be defeated. The

their longest overseas hop—from San Francisco to Hawaii. a a a TODAY Pan American’s chain of radio stations extending from California to the Philippines maintains hourly communication schedules with the control stations at Hawaii and California, transmitting meteorological reports and other data. Before the first exploratory flights of the clipper an extensive series of bearing tests, in which Hawaiian stations and ships at sea co-operated, proved that the directional radio was functioning properly. Now radio bearings are received every half hour by clipper ships above the Pacific from both ends of the route. The radio towers are the pillars of the bridge, and the directional signals are its paving; the highway from Alameda to Pearl Harbor, from Hawaii to Midway and Wake and Guam and Manila is broad but straight—better marked, for all it traverses league upon league of empty ocean, than the Boston Post Road. For that matter, it is far more likely that you will get lost driving between the city limits and New Rochelle than the skipper of a flying clipper will lose his way, even momentarily, between Midway and Wake Island. a a a THE clipper takes off from Midway’s quiet lagoon at dawn, her crew looks down upon an ocean of shimmering crimson. Once beyond Kure Island, scarcely 40 miles from Midway, and the eye which scans the circular horizon sees nothing but water—neither land nor rocks nor ships. So it will be for almost eight hours, except when a school of porpoises or dolphins disarrange briefly the ordered, glittering, interminable expanse. Roaring along at 155 miles an hour, the clipper is only an hour out of Midway when she crosses the International Date Line and today becomes tomorrow. And yet, despite her speed, the unending emptiness gives to those aboard her an odd sensation of motion-

nation also are polling. I read latest returns the other day in Maine. The Massachusetts score read: Roosevelt, 1384; other Democrats, 38; all Republicans, 1365; third party, 97. It is as reasonable to believe the 38 who prefer a Democrat other than Mr. Roosevelt would vote for him under any circumstances, as it is to assume some of the 1365 votes cast for all Republican candidates might go to Roosevelt, a third party, or stay at home on election day if their particular choice were not nominated. The Post poll and this country poll seem to give the President a thin edge but that

A iw V Q 7 ♦Q9 4 3 AAKQ 9 7 5 AQB63l\ U A J 7 4 J 10 9 6 w p vs 5 3 2 4 W fc + 6 ♦ASSA J 10 4 3 A 2 Dealer AK 9 5 y a K 4 KJ 10 7 5 2 A & 6 Duplicate— None vuL South West North East I♦IA 2 A 2 A 2N. T. Pass 3 + Pass 5 + Pass Pass Pass Opening lead —A IS

club opening, of course, is won in dummy with the queen, East discarding the jack of clubs. Declarer now leads a trump and West wins the first round with the ace, immediately playing a spade. East wins with the ace and returns a club for West to ruff. The contract is defeated before South, the declarer, can do anything about it. {Copyright, 1935. NEA Service, Inc.)

lessness, as though the great ship hung suspended above the center of that monotonous seascape. The radio bearings coming in every 30 minutes prove otherwise, however, and their story of swift flight is corroborated by the results of hourly “fixes” determined by celestial navigation. a a a THE clipper rushes toward a battlement of great clouds, into and through its walls of mist. As she emerges into the sunshine on the farther side the droplets of moisture on the huge 'wing adorn its surface with a myriad of tiny jewels. Nine thousand feet up, the great monoplane flashes home along her radio beam. A speck of darkness on the face of the sea grows larger, becomes a miniature contour—we are aproaching the atoll. Eight hours out of Midway, and we circle the lagoon. Wake Island is a “V” of matted brush rimmed with white sand, Wilkes a thousand yards of beach and coral rock and scrub; Peale, longer and higher, flies the American flag from a staff before the airport buildings. a a a HERE, where a few months ago was barren desolation, are houses, windmills, and the towers, sixteen of them, 45 feet high, that serve the radio compass station which has guided us in flight. Down, new, into the marked channel, and up to the landing float. We have flown 1242 miles over open ocean at an average speed of 155 miles an hour, and as straight as a bullet to hit a 28-acre pinprick of coral rock square on the nose. We have been able to do this because of radio technicians and because neither heaving seas nor pounding surf, neither blazing sun nor driving tropic rain, neither treacherous reef nor the vagaries of 50foot timbers on the loose, could dismay the North Haven’s band of twentieth century pioneers. Tomorrow: The building of an aerial bridge.

it will be there on election day next November is doubtful. The trend is running away from the New Deal in this state. B B B r T~'HREE years ago Mr. Roosevelt ■*- carried Massachusetts with 800.148 votes to 736,959 for Mr. Hoover. That’s a slim margin at best and is not likely to survive when you consider New England feels the New Deal has favored the West and South at the expense of the East. If things were going well with New England it might look differently, but when things go badly the citizens are inclined to look around for the loose screw or the fiat tire. So I was shown some figures on imports. “Explain me this,” said a southern Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce official who preferred not to be named. He showed me two sets of statistics. One showed there was a corn shortage in New England where the grain is consumed commercially by cereal manufacturers, liquor distillers and others. In the last eight months the port of Boston has received 75,000 tons of South American, Rumanian and Greek corn. BBS “T'VIDN'T they pay people someYJ where not to plant corn?” this gentleman inquired. "Well, then, how about this?” His other data was on imports and meats from Canada in the first eight months of 1934, compared with the same period of this year. Here are some of the figures: 1935 1934 Cattle (number) 79.486 3,150 Calves 12.156 112 Pounds of beef.. 5.165,500 64.000 Pounds of p0rk.2,67.CC? 97.000 Pqunds of lard.. 402.800 2,700 With cotton textile mills closing, big business generally hostile, a number of influential Massachusetts Democratic leaders lukewarm —Mr. Roosevelt’s slim’ 1932 lead is not likely to be there next year.

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Fair Enough WESTBROOK PEGLER T\TADRID, Nov. 25.—The capital of Spam is strangely serene considering that the republic is only four years old and that two kinds of revolution broke out only a year ago on opposite coasts of the country with opposite aims. In Barcelona the Catalans, who speak another language and consider themselves a cut above the best of the Spaniards, attempted to secede in a capitalist-royalist uprising. They thought they were paying too great a portion of the taxes and that they were the victims of the

sloth and backwardness of the rest of the country. In Asturias a Communist uprising tried to hurry the wheels of social and political reform the Russian way. Both disturbances were put down with what the British would call firm, repressive measures. There was some killing in action, and a few other unfortunates were executed. With delicate tact the administration has refrained from shooting many of the political prisoners who were rounded up afterward. But. after all. many of them were old friends. Would

Borah shoot George Moses? Some of the Catalans were sentenced to 30 years or life as enemies of their country, but these and a group who remain to be tried are said to be enjoying all the comforts of a good club in their martydom. They may buy their own food, their quarters are comfortable and the golden rule is to govern the administration by the police in their case. The Communists, mostly miners, may be said to enjoy the same privileges as the Catalan aristocrats, except that being coal miners and Communists, they have no money with which to buy luxuries from outside. That can hardly be called the fault of a struggling republic, however, and all of them may expect to be turned loose as soon as the republic feels strong enough to keep them under control. n n n The Great Game of Lobbying IT would be rash indeed of the present republic to line up all the prisoners and shoot them, because the pendulum is always swinging and there might come a time when the members of the current administration would be captured. In that case they could expect to be treated exactly as they had treated their prisoners. The Communists, to be sure, are an ill-mannered lot, without a profound sense of gratitude, and might return evil for good if they should ever operate a successful putsch. Still there is no harm in sowing their seeds of kindness. Maybe they will be nice in their turn. They take their policies very seriously, and the great variety of newspapers, many of them mere pamphlets, each representing some "ism” or some politician, is a measure of the variety of political opinion. They disagree over "I” dots, and discussion of policies is easily the principal industry of the capital city next to eating and social drinking. Naturally, in the capital of the republic there are thousands of lobbyists, and a percentage of the kind whe are sometimes denounced in Washington as “insidious” and “pernicious.” Naturally, too, there are thousands of government employes and thousands ol mpmbers of the old aristocracy whose fortunes, though doubtless impaired by world-wide depression, are still sufficient to keep them in stylish comfort and without productive toil. a a a It's Same in Different Way TN a Spanish movie theater the other night a travel A reel showed a strange local tribe of people somewhere off in the mountains who had grown from seven to nine fingers on each hand. fn other European countries such a picture certs) nly would have been suppressed as tending to mj -e the reputation of the state, but the Spaniards of toe Madrid audience seemed not at ail chagrined, bu. merely interested. The king and his court are gone, for a while at least, and the republic has made some important developments, especially the building of roads, which were the passion of Primo Rivera as well as Huey Long. But it’s not claimed that the wealth of Spain has been redistributed to a noticeable degree. The poor remain as poor as they were under Alfonso, but the luxurious life of the aristocrats, government employes and, of course, the inevitable grafters and fixers has not been impaired. Spain has gone republican, but the more she changes the more she remains the same.

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HTHE story of Sally Harwood, a “little woman” of A 10, whose disarming personality and naivete lifted her from a washerwoman’s shanty to a swank hotel among New Yorks uppercrust, will amuse those who are tired of modern brands of sophistication. The author is Leslie Curtiss a Hoosier. How Sally kept the town of Hornetsvilie, Ind., in an uproar and how her teacher, Evelvn Miller' sensing the fine nature of the child, removed her to another environment, is an absorbing tale. Under artificial living conditions and among social-climbing puppets, Sally’s devastating frankness and clearness of vision creates another problem. The lovely school teacher. Evelyn Miller, serves as a much needed balance wneel for the irrepressible Sally and manages to smooth the understanding of people and her reactions to the humor and pathos of small town jealousies, afford amusement to any reader who has lived and survived the comp.exities and existence in rural communities. tPublished by Daniel Ryerson, Chicago.)

Literary Notes

For those lovers of typography who lamented the passing of the Fleuron, whose seven annual humbers have long been out of print, comes news from London of the birth of a successor to be called Signature. Edited by Oliver Simon, the Fleuron’s first editor, Signature will have three issues a year and hence subtitles itself “a quadrimestral of typography and the graphic arts.” The first issue is due thi3 month and subscriptions at $2.75 a year may be addressed to 47 Museum-st, London. XT tt XT The name of James Branch Cabell, which has not appeared as author since 1930, will appear again on a book that Robert M. Mcßride & Cos. is announcing for publication in February, 1936. There have been several novels by Branch Cabell but the new book by James Branch Cabell will be a commentary on the literary history of the last 35 years. It will be called "Preface to the Past.” BBS A strange story of the friendship of Rudyard Kipling and a French soldier whose life was saved by a copy of "Kim” is told for the first time in the December issue of Bluebook. Along with the story are some of Kipling's letters to Maurice A. Harmonneau, now president of the association of Veterans of the French Foreign Legion in New York, who was fighting in the trenches near Verdun and at odd moments learning English from "Kim.” A bullet which might have killed him struck the book in his pocket. Hamonneau sent to Kipling the perforated and blood-stained volume along with his own Croix de Guerre—and thus began the correspondence and friendship.

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