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HSeemioMe HHHOOD BWUN T WISH ' Tlie Woollcott Reader” could have been called ‘ The Last of the Pixies," but such a title u-ould have been much too optim.stic. Even if the Town Crier had not taken a hand I suppose there are always people eager to dig up stuff like "The Dolly Dialogues” and “The Bar Sinister.” There is a kind of garter snake persistence in the quaint, the arch and the sentimental, and after all anthologies are made while the sun shines. And speaking of prophets it is well to remember that the minor ones are not without honor even in

their own country. To a very large extent modern critics seem intent upon rolling away pebbles from the tombs of dead dragon flies. Such men as have written for the ages will sleep a long time before their call comes. The easiest way :o achieve an overnight immortality seems to lie in always blowing bubbles. There Is, I will admit, a certain brave and gallant quality in drawing hearts upon the sand by benefit of ebb tide nor is there any reason why reviewers should overlook the fine flourishes in the salutes of those who are about to die.

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But I must protest against attempts to embalm the evanescent and to set pyramids upon the graves of those who left insufficient material to provide winding sheets. My chief objection to anthologies such as "The Woollcott Reader” is that they do not seem quite sanitary. nan Let Them Sleep in Peace SHAKESPEARE himself made an appeal that his bones should be left undisturbed and certainly as much should be‘done for Richard Harding Davis. It is quite possible that an unbroken diet of firstflight authors may constitute an unbalanced ration, but surely there must be something wrong in any critical scheme which reserves its chief acclaim for the second-rate, the third-rate and even the fifth. I have a very strong feeling that even in the upper reaches of American letters one may find quite a galaxy of sad young men and equally disconsolate elders all of whom are conscious that they missed the boat for one reason or another. Until they have received the comfort which is rightfully coming to them I do not think that much time should be spent in inviting contributions to a burial fund for Thornton Wilder. The gentlemen who prepare anthologies and guide the reluctant feet of the American public to the doors of book stores are said to perform a useful function in providing a public taste where hitherto there was none. But perhaps it would be better to have no public taste than to build one up which is both bad and active. tt tt tt A Subject for Debate SUCH things are subject to debate, and I have no right to do more than state a humble and a timid opinion, but I must confess that I am less than enthusiastic about the fact that the broadcasts of Mr. Woollcott undoubtedly sell books. But such books! After a brief experience with his recommended list I was quite willing to withdraw an earlier objection that he boosted his own compilation rather too frequently. I can say in all sincerity that "While Rome Burns” was far superior to anything else he mentioned. One must not be dogmatic about such things, but if "Valiant Is the Name for Carrie” is actually a novel to "warm the cockles of the heart,” or words to that effect, I’ll gladly buy an orchestra seat the next time Mr. Woollcott declaims the Twenty-Third Psalm with choral accompaniment. We suffer in America, I believe, from a sleazy sophistication. The attempt to be smart and the attempt to be in the know have been ruinous to writers as well as readers. If not the last man to offer the advice I am probably the next to last, but I must say that the future of American literature depends upon developing not only writers but readers who are eager to do their own field work. You can't expect the ravens of the radio to drop great novels in your lap. (Copyright, 1935)

Your Health -BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

NEARLY everybody thinks he knows combinations of foods which disagree with him. Perhaps such diets do disagree, but that is not because of anything inherently wrong with the foods. Nevertheless, a half-dozen dietary faddists have, during recent years, weakened the confidence of people in their diets and in their foods generally by arguing that certain foods are invariably dangerous in combination, and that health can be maintained only by avoiding such mixtures. Notwithstanding the fact that many generations of Americans nave grown up on meat and potatoes, there are faddists who insist that proteins should never be mixed with carbohydrates. Then there are those who say that an over-amount of acid is exceedingly dangerous, and that certain foods will invariably cause acid. Now let me say at once uiat there are very few r pure food proteins, and that those who want to eat pure protein will have to live on egg white. tt a tt T'HE human body is maintained in health at a constant level of mild alkalinity. If the body ever becomes acid in reaction, it dies. All foods, after the process of digestion is ended, yield a substance which is either acid or alkaline, so that foods*nay be classified as either acid-producing or alkaline-producing. Obviously a great excess in the diet of any of the substances which tend to produce acid may result in a slight excess of acid in the body. Such foods as meat, egg yolks, and fish are prominent among the acid-producing foods. In general, fruits and vegetables are alkalineproducing foods. Sucl#fruit juices as orange, lemon, lime and strawberry do not yield acid in the body. After they are digested, the end result is an alkaline reaction. Hence, a human being in good health can not possibly be acid. tt tt tt T'HERE are. however, certain diseases in which the tendency of the body is toward acid. Diabetes is the most conspicuous example. In such conditions there is actually an accumulation of organic acids in the body, resulting from the fact that the body does not use up correctly the food substances that it gets. There is also a tendency to acid in certain inflammations of the kidney, or when this organ is unable to get rid of waste products which would ordinarily be passed out of the body. When a person is suffering from a serious disease, he is not capable of sclec s ing for himself the kind of foods that he ought to eat. Further are. he will require complete regulation of his 1 e, and not merely his diet.

Today's Science ' BY DAVID DIETZ

CREATION of a permanent Scientific Advisory Board to sene as expert counsel to the United States Government in the operation of its scientific bureaus and in the establishment of a national policy on scientific research is recommended in the final report of President Roosevelt’s Scientific Advisory Board. This board, appointed July 31. 1933, automatically went out of existence on Dec. 1 of this year. Under the leadership of its chairman. Dr. Karl T. Compton, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, this board performed a splendid and valuable piece of work in the two years of its existence. a a a IT is to be hoped sincerely that President Roosevelt and Congress will act upon the suggestion of Dr. Compton and his colleagues and undertake the establishment of a permanent board. The need for such a board, already plain in 1933, has been made doubly so by the record of performance of Dr. Compton’s board.

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LISTENING TO HITLER’S GERMANY

Cost of Great War Machine May Break Reich in 18 Months

Will Herr Nazi’* pocketbook continue to stand the strain of paving for this extravagant ‘‘new Germany” now in the building? The question is answered in the following article by Frazier Hunt—the third of his unrensored cable dispatches from Germany. tt tt tt BY FRAZIER HUNT (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service. Inc.) gERLIN .(by cable from London), Dec. Dec. 6. Within 18 months Germany to all intents and purposes will be broke. She will have sunk most of her liquid assets into a great army, air force and navy, an immense road pro-

gram, barracks and military factories. Germ any’s present gold reserve of $20,000,000 onehalf of one per cent of America’s—then will be gone, and unless England or France advance loans, she will not have sufficient foods and raw materials to continue her war expansion program.

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Germany’s capacity for production is far ahead of her available raw materials, but she adds to these natural handicaps the wox-ld’s resentment against her Jewish policy. Her latest move to conciliate is an attempt to regain world approval and break boycotts against her—but it comes very late. a a a HOWEVER, even the world’s continued disapproval does not check Germany’s determination to build up a dominant war machine. No sacrifice is too heavy to continue industrial mobilization on a war basis. In order to meet army expenditures of $125,000,000 a month,

Brandeis, at 79, Remains Liberal Bulwark of Supreme Court; Stone, Hoover Friend, Takes Firm Stand as Social-Minded Justice

This is the third of a series of articles on the justices of the Supreme Court. BY HERBERT LITTLE WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—Louis Dembitz Brandeis behind his back is often called "God” by some of his irreverent young disciples, convinced of his infallibility. Around this 79-year-old leader of the Supreme Court’s liberal wing has grown a school of legal

liberal is m which, transmitted through the Frankfurte r s, Landises and Corcorans and Cohens, has had a tremendous influence on law as well as government. He is Ken-tucky-born and Bostonbred, a scion of an aris t o c r a t i c Portuguese Jewish family. He

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crusaded against insurance companies to win a national reputation which led Woodrow Wilson to put him on the Supreme bench in 1916. His reputation as a liberal led to a bitter factional battle in the Senate, with every Republican but George Norris opposing confirmation. Justice Brandeis now symbolizes the idea that bigness in business and government is uneconomic and disruptive. He has battled valiantly for freedom of speech and opinion. His closest crony was the late Oliver Wendell Holmes. On the bench he is a strangely beautiful man, with a studied, incisive delivery. His thatch of unruly but not unkempt iron-gray hair makes a proper setting for a deeply lined face and eyes of unusual keenness. His opinions are uniqt.e in that

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While controversy over American participation in the 1936 Olympic games rages, the German Olympics Committee is rushing completion of the huge stadium at Berlin, where the track and field events will be held. The progress made on the big bowl is shown in this picture, framed by the steel-workers and the skeleton of a nearby structure.

the government compels factories to accept at least half of the payment due them in 96-month notes bearing 90-day coupons. In theory these bills are discountable at banks, but as the state actually controls the banks and industry, this means factories must accept pay with the 90-day periods spread over almost eight years. All these war and semi-military

they go far beyond the lawbooks. They are studded with references to modern philosophers and economists. tt a TTE and his wife have a big *■ -“-apartment, part of which is set aside for his workshop, and he lives on a rigid routine. He starts his day’s work at. 5 a. m., and takes .a rest in the afternoon. His social life is confined io afternoon teas, usually weekly, which are the nearest to an intellectual salon that Washington has. Invitations to them are prized. The Brandeises do not attend White House or any other social functions. Justice Brandeis’ liberalism, and the ambition for public service which “Brandeis lawyers” profess, is exemplified by his battles before he came on the bench. In addition to the insurance investigation, he was counsel for Louis Glavis in the BallingerPinchot investigation, for shippers in the big rate cases before the

Northwest Divided on Whether Canadian Treaty Will Help or Hurt Lumber Business, Wilson Finds

Here ix another of Lyle C. Wilson's political dispatches from the Western political front. BY LYLE C. WILSON United I'ress Staff Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 6. Northwestern Republicans believe the Canadian reciprocal trade treaty will cost President Roosevelt the electoral votes of Oregon and Washington next year. While first hysteria of protest has subsided, the trade treaty has distinct political possibilities. But

pleasure of meeting Bernard F. Magruder, who conducts a large weekly duplicate game at the Elks’ Club for the benefit of a children's fund. This is a worthy cause for a duplicate game and certainly justifies the wonderful success that Mr. Magruder is having in Racine. He also is one of the city’s outstanding players. I asked him for one of his most interesting hands, and he gave me this one. Mr. Magruder said: “After my partner had been doubled at seven hearts, I decided that maybe I would have a better chance to make seven no-trump and, when I bid seven no-trump, I was doubled.” This is how the hand was made. Against seven no trump. West opened the nine of hearts and Mr. Magruder, sitting in the South, won the trick with the ace. He knew that West's double was based one the missing kings. He immediately cashed his three aces. Then the king of hearts was followed by a small heart, which was won in dummy with the queen. The jack, ten, and eight of hearts were cashed, leaving this situation: Dummy held the queen of spades, seven of hearts, queen of diamonds and nine of clubs; declarer held the eight of diamonds, and the king, jack and ten

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expenditures represent needed capital that is frozen and nonproductive. Three million persons formerly unemployed now are working on war preparations, but the fact is that here is a poor country impoverishing herself by building a military machine. Germany will face a problem in 18 months of frankly what to do when her ready money is gone.

ICC, and counsel for the people in proceedings involving constitutionality of Oregon and Illinois women’s 10-hour laws, Ohio ninehour law, California eight-hour law and Oregon minimum wage law. He wrote copiously on economic and social subjects, and his "Other People’s Money” is still a standard text of principles for bank regulation. He is also active in religious affairs and a leader of the Zionist movement. tt tt TT ARLAN FISKE STONE is one of the Supreme Court’s most puzzling personalities, in that he is a close friend and confidant of Herbert Hoover and at the same time one of the stanchest liberals the court has had. A stocky, well-built man of 63, he was a member of the Hoover “medicine ball Cabinet.” The Hoovers were at the Stone home here the night Hoover was nominated for President in 1928. Need-

Northwest business men are divided on whether the treaty will hurt either commerce or Mr. Roosevelt’s chances of carrying Oregon and Washington in 1936. To hit a lumber man where it hurts most it probably is necessary to hit him on Oregon or Washington. The Canadian agreement looks as if it might be a bull’s eye. It is difficult to appraise political significance of the agreement tc lower duties on quoted quantities of lumber and other North-

Today’s Contract Problem South is playing the contract at six no trump, doubled by West. The double should be tip-off that should permit making the contract. 4KQ 6 2 yA7 6 4 2 4 64 4 9 4 4JIO 9 8 NU 7 4 V K 3 xw rV-JIOOS 4KJ 7 5 w c c 4109 8 3 4S 5 2 _ b . *J 6 2 Dealer 4 A5 3 VQS ,4A Q 2 4 AKQ 10 7 N. & S. vul. Opener— 4 J Solution in next issue. 29

1 I . I .1 I of clubs; West held the king of spades, king of diamonds, and the queen-eight of clubs. The seven of hearts was led from dummy, declarer discarding the eight of diamonds, and West was helplessly squeezed. The discard of a club would establish three clubs for declarer, while discard of one of the kings would establish dummy's queen, and again West would find himself squeezed. (Copyright, 1935. NEA Service, lac.)

A hungry man will not care to buy a revolver instead of food. a a a WHEN Hitler took power in January, 1933, the world was wallowing in the depression and seven million Germans were unemployed. Germany had—and still has—three great assets: First, a commanding industrial position in the center of Europe; second, unlimited skilled and disciplined labor;

less to say, Justice Stone is a Republican. In his decisions since President Coolidge elevated him from the attorney generalship to the Supreme Court in 1925, Justice Stone has been decidedly social-minded, and not at all hesitant to say so. Some of his opinions express such views in forceful language which contrasts sharriy with Hoover's extreme individualism and the property-mindedness of the court’s conservative justices. Justice Stone was for years a law school professor. He became a lecturer in law at Columbia University in 1899 (one year after he was admitted to the New York bar), and was dean of the Columbia School of Law from 1910 to 1923. He became a member of Sullivan & Cromwell, one of the big New York law firms, in 1923. He holds 10 honorary degrees, most of them LL.D.s. a tt tt AS in the case of Justice McReynolds, there is a suspicion that his elevation to the Supreme

west agricultural crops since it will not become effective until Jan. 1. First line of Democratic defense is that the lumber tariff was a New Deal inspiration in the first instance. Republican administrations refused from 1929 to 1932 to put barriers against Canadian lumber and shingles. a a o T> EP. WALGREN, (D„ Wash.), a resident of Everett, in the center of the red cedar shingle area, explained it this way: “The Republican party from 1929 to 1932 refused to place any sort of tariff on lumber and shingles. The reciprocal tariff agreement with Canada as it relates to lumber and shingles is not attacked especially by lumbermen but by Republican politicians who hope to use the trade agreement in the presidential campaign.” Paging around from here for information, I got this from M. G. Nease, a big Portland (Ore.) lumber operator: “Rats! One large Portland mill cuts 300.000,000 feet of lumber a year. You can't tell me that reducing the import duty on a smaller amount of lumber than is cut by one Portland mill is going to disrupt the economy of the Northwest’s greatest industry.” a a a ALL right, Mr. Nease. But listen to C. C. Crow, market authority and spokesman for lumber. He lives in your town: “The tariff cut means virtual disaster to the industry in the Northwest and I think the situation is hopeless. It is a terrible, terrible blow.” , Labor—or some of it —doesn’t like the Canadian pact, either. Abe Muir, vice-president of the International Brotherhood of Car-

third, the finest equipment in Europe. By demanding dollar-for-dollar trade agreements, antagonizing the Jews, interfering with other church elements and devoting her energies to building up a war army she destroyed overnight what it had taken a generation to build. Her 1929 world trade of nearly $3,000,000,000 dwindled to roughly $1,000,000,000. Taxes are crushingly high, business difficult and discouraging. Germany's land and resources simply are inadequate for her ambitions. She can’t grow more than 80 per cent of her normal food necessities and totally lacks many raw materials such as cotton and rubber. Under her poor soil is insufficient iron ore, copper, zinc and petroleum with plenty only of potash and coal. tt tt tt AT the lowest estimate the Reich needs annually from America $125,000,000 worth of cotton gasoline, copper, sulphur, phosphates and lumber for military stores, but it would be impossible to pay for these supplies. Most of her exports to America are finished goods such as toys, porcelains, mouth-organs and fabric prints. Seventy-five per cent of German exports to America are handled through New York Jewish importers and four-fifths of this business has been lost through a boycott. Meanwhile, she sticks out her chest and goosesteps toward an unknown fate. When she no longer can pour millions into her war factories, unemployment is certain to follow. If matters become desperate, then riots—even civil war, born of hungei—and economic collapse might come to Germany before war comes to the world. But Germans are disciplined, the dictatorship is powerful, and Hitler may be able to hold the masses in line no matter what happens. It is conceivable that the army might some day in a crisis move against the Nazi dictatorship, but never against Hitler. (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service. Inc.)

Court resulted from his vigorous —and embarrassing prosecution

Pf the anti-trust laws. Delivering an opinion, as the tourists see him in the Supreme Court, Justice Stone is unimpressive. He reads his opinions smoothly and without exexpression. But he nearly always votes with Brandeis and Cardozo. He likes to go

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about in society and is a genial, cheerful dinner partner. Justice Stone is a native of New Hampshire and a graduate of Amherst in 1894, a year ahead of Calvin Coollidge and Dwight Morrow. Stone stayed to get an advanced degree in 1397. His Amherst connections are credited largely with the Coolidge friendship that led to the Cabinet post and the Supreme bench. He is married and has two sons.

penters and Joiners, speaking, also from Oregon: “The lowered tariff will cause irreparable injury, throwing open the floodgates to products of British Columbia and Hindu and Chinese labor.” They are going into the files in the Northwest for Mr. Roosevelt’s 1932 campaign discussion of tariffs. He might as well prepare now to explain some of the things said in that year when the then President Hoover was ragging him from the hustings about reciprocal trade agreements. a tt u TTOOVER said about all foreign nations wanted was freer entry for their agricultural products. So, Mr. Roosevelt explained that he didn't intend to lower any agricultural duties. At Baltimore three years ago, Mr. Roosevelt said: “Os course it is absurd to talk of lowering tariff duties on farm products. I do not intend that such duties shall be lowered.” But the Roosevelt opposition is whooping it up now on the theme that after socking the Pacific Coast through trade deals with Japan and Australia, Mr. Roosevelt has invited the competitor closest at hand to come in and get his. A labor poll taken the other day indicated the Republicans had a long way to go before they caught up with Mr. Roosevelt’s popularity. Questions were put to stevedores, truck drivers, sales girls, railroad men, machinists, laborers and lumbermen. Tfie statistician reported 59 per cent of the workers polled favored Mr. Roosevelt’s policies and said they would vote for him next year. Seme 35 per cent were anti-Roose-velt. The remaining 16 per cent said they didn’t care who was elected and probably would not vote.

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Entered as Second-Class Matter at PostofTice, Indianapolis. Ind.

Fdir Enough wriai MI "D OME, Dec. 6.—The arrival in Italy of your correspondent, who was a buck-toothed American reporter in England in the spring of 1916, has been a stirring but very sad reminder of those days. The Polish at that time were engaged heart and soul in the patriotic work of hating Germans. They hataed them in print, they hated them by word of mouth and they hated them in mass and apart. German music was a digusting noise: German scientists were fakers: German merchandise was junk.

Within a year a great English patriot, who died crazy by deliberate misinterpretation of the word, wrote "kadaver” in a captured German military document, offered the English people the idea—which they were by then only too eager to believe—that barbarian Germans, in their dire necessity, were now boiling their own dead to obt.'.in grease for their motor transport. "Kadaver” in this case referred to dead horses. This fury seemed silly and pitiful, but there was no sense in pointing out that they had thought enough of Germany in the past to

import some German royal blood, that their own scientists and intellectuals had found much to admire in Germany and that many an old personal iriend of forgotten days before August, 1914. was now fighting on the other side. It only made them wilder to remind them of these things. n a tt Traitor to Brave Boys Dying in Mud 'T'HEY were doing without food, lights, train services, private automobiles, and an English merchant who offered for sale an article from his prewar stock bearing the loathsome Inscription “Made in Germany” would have been tossed into jail as a to the brave boys who were dying in the mud along the Somme. The League of Nations, in meeting at Geneva a few weeks ago, voted to impose a boycott on Italy for her plain violation of the League covenant in moving into Abyssinia with an army. There’s no doubt about the violation, but there’s no doubt, either, that the Italian expedition is a worse threat to Great Britain than to the Ethiopians, who have only their independence to lose, but many modern conveniences to gain, including shirts, trousers, gold teeth, salvarsan treatments, jitney busses, movies, plumbing, taxes and parades. Neither is there any doubt that the Italians were gypped by the British and French in the distribution of old German colonies after the war to end war. The Italians had a contract with the Germans to fight on their side, but made a secret agreement on the side to help the British and French instead, in return for which help they were to get theirs. Just pals, you see. And then the British and French gave them a royal trimming in the distribution of loot. Again, you see, just pals. a tt Got in End Few Rotten Islands TTALY lost more than 600,000 men who thought A they were fighting for king and country, and in the end got a few rotten islands and some other odda and ends, but none of the colonies which had been promised her by the nations with whom Americans finally palled up under the sentimental slogan of “No annexations, no indemnities.” It’s less difficult now to understand the psychology of American racketeers as they change their mobsters and form new alliances, compromising old grudges. Most of them are of old world origin or stock, and if they had stayed at home they might have been eminent statesmen with medals to wear on their shirtfronts and titles to their names. Italians have been fighting, if you could call it fighting, a lot of tattered, disorganized, barefoot tribes of no centralized loyalty. The enemy they hate is not the enemy they are fighting. They hate England. They hate England almost as intensely as England hated Germany in 1916. They believe in their hearts that England put the League of Nations up to the job of voting a boycott. In this they are more right than wrong, for the English, with their muddling-through exterior, are shrewd traders, and they have put themselves on the side of peace and justice and rights of small nations in this case, and put England in wrong. a a o Unwise to Carry an English Newspaper A N Englishman in Italy today is regarded as an 1 enemy, although Italy has no formal war with England. Americans, because they speak English, are regarded with evil suspicious and subject to insults. Ifc is unwise to carry an English newspaper. On the train from Genoa to Rome today a waiter in the dining car was not inclined to be civil until an Italian officer from the steamship Rex whispered to him that those were not English at the next table, but Americans. I left my hat and a copy of the London Times on the seat in my compartment while I went to dinner. When I came back the Times had been spread over my hat and the hat had been sat upon, although it was a Borsolina, made in Italy and bought in New York six weeks ago. In ail public schools children are being taught to hate the enemies who double-crossed Italy, cheating her of pay which she was to have received for dou-ble-crossing Germany. But Public Enemy No. 1 is England. They do without food, heat, light and luxuries because they hate England. But don’t try to tell an Italian that all this will pass or to remind him of the days in 1918 when London cockneys came pouring down into Italy off the Somme in their forty-and-eights to help rather pressing emergency. This is one of those phases such as the English themselves went through. Tha English should be the last to criticise the Italians.

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WITH “The Twenties,” Mark Sullivan brings to a close his great history of the present generation, “Our Times.” This is the sixth and last volume in the series, and it is perfectly obvious that the six volumes are going to be a standard reference work for a great many years. “The Twenties” (Scribner's; $3.75) in some ways exhibits Mr. Sullivan’s virtues and weaknesses as an historian with equal force. Asa political writer, he was on the inside of most of the post-war politics, and he can tell about it with complete authority and candor. On the other hand, as a partisan he is in this volume describing recent events, and his objectivity suffers. The bulk of his book is devoted to a discussion of the Harding Administration, and it makes surpassihgly interesting reading. nan MR. SULLIVAN comes to the rescue of Harding’s reputation. He presents him, convincingly, as a completely honest, high-principled man whose tragedy was that he took a weakness for yielding to his friends into the one place where such a weakness is unendurable—the White House. Harry Daugherty, too, is presented in anew light. He is not the villain of the piece, to Mr. Sullivan; instead, he is a man who honestly tried to shield Harding from the crooks and chiselers who swarmed about Washington after the inauguration, a man who reaped much undeserved obloquy. For the rest, Mr. Sullivan offers his familiar review of our popular songs, novels, plays, movies, and slang expressions and rounds out a very fine job of historical writing with an excellent, readable book. tßy Bruce Catton.)

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