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The Way!See It mimm i Bat tins for Heywood Broun) TULSA, Ok!a.. Dec. 23.—The intense but distinctly spotty sentiment for the Townsend Plan here and there throughout the United States is pathetic. In some places old people are so sure of getting pensions of S2OO a month next year that they are spending their savings. I have tried as simply and as patiently as words could permit to explain to some of these why it is utterly impossible to a country whose total income is 40 billions, of which 14

billions goes to government already, to take 25 billions more and give it to 11,000,000 of our 130,000,000 people and have anything at all left for the 119,000.000. Or how' can you get 39 bi'lions out of 40 billions on any plan to take from the haves and give to the have-nots, when next year nobody except government employes and people over 60, would have anything? It’s no use. These people are exalted—banded like crusaders on the purpose of a dream. They won’t or don't understand. They are neither vicious like some Communists, nor vituperative

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like some Coughlins, nor aggressive like some Longites. They are like calm religious converts and they are proselytizing with the formula of an evangelical revival. It is sad because there is no hope whatever for their plan. It is doubly sad because politicians angling for their votes and cynically laughing at them, are promising to support this. There is only one man in this country who could persuade them in a patient, kindly, clarifying radio speech, and he is Franklin Roosevelt. He could do no more courageous, kindly, humane fcrt. It may be bad politics, but it almost is a duty. a tt a Anent the Sectional Outcries TOUCHING subject, I don't know who first said “The tariff is a local issue.” But it Js the truth. During the campaign the tariff “expert” of the Brain Trust wanted the candidate to say: “We will reduce all tariff rates 10 per cent.” That formula would have spelt defeat in detail. Every locality would have been hurt in its own peculiar way and each would have voted against the candidate in general to avoid such harm in particular. That counsel, then, prevailed. But Mr. Hull is an old-fashioned free trader. The net result of his Canadian Treaty is to inject the whole issue of the tariff into the coming campaign. It has raised sectional animosities which threaten the New Deal in each affected area separately. I have just been in all these places. The dairy states have their hair in a braid about butter—the whole Pacific Northwest is sore about lumber—the cattle states about beef. a tt a s It Man Be Quite Painful MR. HULL soothes none of these people by telling them about how our oranges will go to Canada and how fine it is for them to have Canadian 'markets invaded. You can't persuade people to suffer for the general good, unless the sacrifice is general, too. These places are up in arms, and if it is true, that a similar treaty with Britain is coming, more places will be sore. It may defeat the President. Mr. Taft made the Same kind of a mistake. So, in a different way did Mr. Hoover. Mr. Roosevelt may not know it, but Mr. Sayre is preparing his destruction in these great lopcn spaces. j This Administration needs a strategy board. In this case, under no pressure of necessity and without sufficient consideration, it has injected into the campaign the most dangerous issue in the political book. (Copyright. 1935. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Your Health —BY DR. 3IORRIS FISHBEIN—

YOU needn't begrudge your child, or yourself, any candy, if either of you has a sweet tooth. But you should be careful that it does not replace the more important foods in your diet. • Candy should be eaten in addition to the essential t foods, not in place of them. Too much of such sweet substances will modify the nutrition seriously. Taken after a meal, however, sweets and sugars produce a sensation of satisfaction and do no harm. The desire of the average child for sweets may be simply the natural demand of its cells for carbohydrates, due to fatigue or to the fact that the child’s body is growing rapidly. But you should remember, also, that the child gets most of its carbohydrates from cereals, potatoes, most vegetables, and other important food materials. tt tt tt FOR years doctors though, that the eating of candy caused decay of the teeth. Candies that are extremely sticky and hard to chew may be bad for teeth and gums. But generally there is considerable doubt that the eating of sugars is in any way related to tooth decay. Manufacturers of candy have found that 52 per cent of the material used in such sweets is sugar, and the remaining 48 per cent contains gelatin, cornstarch, corn syrup, molasses, nuts, fruits, eggs, butter, milk, chocolate, and similar substances. Many dietary experts suggest that we use the least sugar which will produce an acceptable flavor. One specialist points out that sugar creates an appetite. not for other foods, but for itself. The candy eater asks for more candy, not for bread and butter.

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

THE attempt of the present-day scientist to understand the fundamental nature of the universe ends in a question mark. In the Heisenberg principle of uncertainty there is a strong hint that the question mark may be permanent. The Heisenberg princple is, in fact, an attempt to detour around the question mark. It makes no attempt to remove it. The reader who would understand what the difficulty is all about will do well to read ‘The Dilemma of Modern Physics,” by Prof. Donald Everett Richmond of Williams College. Here is a clear and lucid statement of the problem and the attempts of the scientist to find a way out. a a a PERHAPS you heard Clarence Darrow debate upon the. subject of "Is Man a Machine?” It may interest you to know that Mr. Darrow's arguments grew largely out of a point of view which science is today abandoning. The mechanistic conception of the universe which characterized Nineteenth Century science and which put strict faith in the inevitability of the law of cause and effect, no longer dominates scientific thinking. TJie new view is statistical with probability replacing causality. As Dr. Arthur H. Compton, one of the men responsible in large part for the new view, has said, it leaves man a place for free will.

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J. P. McEvoy covered the Philippine inauguration for the Saturday Evening Post and mailed his copy back on the China Clipper. tt a st a Harty Sylvester, who had a storv in the 1934 O. Henry memorial volume, has just sold a storv called “Some Like Them Soft” to Pictorial Review. This is the second story of his which Edward J. O'Brien has chosen as the Pictorial story-of-the-m^nth.

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This Is the first of a series of three articles pxnlaininir what the covernmentstate Social Security Flan means to you. The program, most ambitious of its kind in American history becomes effective Jan. 1. BY RODNEY DITCHER (Copyright, 1935. NEA Service, Inc.). Dec. 23 —The most tremendous social-economic experiment in our history, the socalled security program, will become effective on the first day of 1936. From Jan. 1, industrial pay rolls of the nation wall be taxed to support a national Federal-state system of unemployment insurance. (The tax won’t be collected until 1937, but most employers have budgeted for it.) Soon afterward, probably also in January, Congress will appropriate almost $100,000,000 for use of the states in immediate federally approved programs for: 1. Pensions for needy aged, dependent mothers, and needy blind. 2. Extension of state welfare activities, for maternity and infant care, crippled and neglected children. public health and vocational rehabilitation. 3. An additional $4,000,000 grant for expenses of state unemployment compensation systems. In 1937 the Federal government will beg n collecting compulsory contributions from both employers and employes for a huge national old-age benefit system designed eventually to provide definite incomes for millions of workers after they reach the age of 65. tt tt tt THERE you have the three big phases of the New Deal’s most ambitious piece of legislation—a program affecting at least 30,000,000 Americans, understood by few members of the Congress which passed it. damned by certain foremost authorities on economic security. defended often as “at least a beginning.” viewed apprehensively by many employers, and sometimes ballyhooed as some-

Entire Program of TVA !s Founded on Dams, Which Are Expected to Make Valley More Habitable for Thousands of Citizens There

(Editor’s Note—This is the third ot seven articles on TVA.) BY ERNIE PYLE TV r NOXVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 23. XV XVA, as nearly as I can figure it out, is an attempt to do the same thing to a whole section of the United States that a doctor does to a man who is smashed up in an auto accident. And that is, "fix him up.” The term “regional planning” has been used frequently in connection with TVA. That term alone is enough to scare most people off. A fellow I know in TVA thinks a better term would be “organized foresight.” I think a still better one would be simply, “We fix up the Tennessee Valley.” The public so far has thought of TVA nostly in terms of big' dams. That is all right, for big dams are spectacular, they’re something you can see, and their purpose is easy to understand. But big dams are only a small part of TVA—rather, they’re merely the foundation upon which TVA plans to build its castle. When you have finished these articles I believe you will see what I mean. There are a lot of dams on the Tennessee River. Wilson Dam (at Muscle Shoals) and Norris Dam (the newest one) are about the only ones with which the public is familiar. But there are others. Already three others are being built, and two more are proposed. a u tt ON these dams are founded the whole program of TVA. The program might be boiled down to these points: 1. To make the Tennessee River navigable, from its mouth, at Paducah clear up its 670 miles of meandering course to Knoxville. You might think that river navigation isn’t important any more. But cheap freight rates would do a lot for the South. 2. To allow man, instead of nature, to control the water in the Tennessee Valley. Up in the mountains they have 60 inches of rain q, year, and that makes terrific floods. By this series of dams, they can pen up the water during the rainy season, instead of letting it rush down and ruin the country. Then in dry seasons they’ll let the water out gradually. This will do two things: Keep the navigation channel at a steady level, and provide water

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thing like the dawn of the millennium. “Among our objectives,” said President Roosevelt, “I place first the security of the men, women, and children of the nation,” And the Social Security Act is his answer for better or for worse, to a system which in its creakier moments finds many millions of citizens on public charity and even in better times finds millions only a jump from destitution or already there. tt tt RIGHT now it is extremely important to remember that except for the long range program of old-age annuities or benefits — a phase which you mustn’t confuse with Federal grants to states for immediate old-age pensions, which can be effective as soon as Congress appropriates—the carrying out of the program depends on state legislative and administrative co-operation. State programs must be devised and approved here and state funds provided to “match” the Federal grants for pensions to needy aged, mothers, and blind persons as well as the Federal subsidies for other welfare work. Each state must legislate a satisfactory unemployment insurance program, within certain broad Federal standards, if it is to retain at home a stipulated 90 per cent of the amount of unemployment taxes its employers will be paying to the Federal treasury. Only eight states have set up unemployment insurance laws. Some fast work is expected in 1936 on the part of many others. tt tt tt THE administrative job created here by the program will be tremendous and the bulk o f it will arise when the Social Security Board begins to establish individual files for more than 25,000,000 Americans who wil be paying into the Federal Old-Age Reserve Fund toward their annuities in later life. Fortunately, most of the men in charge of the job are of high caliber. Members of the Social Security Board are: CHAIRMAN JOHN G. WIN-

for the big power houses all the year round. 2. To furnish cheap electrical current. Doing things by electricity is quite a contrast to the 1776 way of living you see in some of Tennessee’s mountain cabins. By the sale of cheap power, TVA expects to make enough money eventually to do all the other social and rehabilitation work it has up its sleeve. That’s one example of how the dams are the foundation for the whole program. 4. To provide cheap fertilizer. Most of the farm land of the Tennessee Valley is either eroded or worn out. It must have fertilizer. Farmers can’t afford it. The big plant at Muscle Shoals is experimenting, and actually producing too, fertilizer for the Valley’s farms. 5. I don’t know what you would call this last point. 1 guess the

Today’s Contract Problem South is playing the contract at four spades. West cashes the first three club tricks and shifts to the king of hearts. Watch the timing on the hand, or you will not be able to make the contract. A J 10 9 V J 9 ♦A9 7 6 3 ♦J 6 3 A873 m A 5 VKQIO w - VB7 54 3 ♦QJ S 2 w fc 2 *AKQ S 4 K lOj Dealer |* io S 7 AAKQ 6 4 2 V A 6 ♦ 5 A95 4 2 E. and W. vul.—Opener— A K. Solution in next Issue. 16 Solution to Previous Contract Problem BY W. E. M’KENNEY Secretary American Bridge league I REALIZE that, to the average player, squeezes and grand coups are just plays that you read about. I know there are many good players who have played bridge a number of years without making a grand coup, and then again there are outers who have

DOUBLE GRAND COUP IS MADE

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1935

ANT, the tall, dark, impressive former Governor of New Hampshire, a war aviator, former chairman of the President’s textile strike iniuiry board, and a fighter for child labor laws and maximum weekly hours for women. ARTHUR J. ALTMEYER of Wisconsin, former assistant secretary of labor, an expert on security and part author of the present plan, a statistician and authority on labor legislation. VINCENT MILES, Arkansas lawyer and former Democratic national committeeman, who has had relief work experience. tt tt tt SINCE the first money to be paid out under the program will be the grants to states for immediate welfare work, let’s consider that phase and its sums and conditions. It is the smallest of the three phases and the least controversial, since similar Federal subsidies have been granted before and there's no question of their feasibility or contitutionality. The grants approved by Congress and about to be appropriated for are: OLD-AGE ASSISTANCE—This will be described in a subsequent article, along with the long range old age plan. AID TO THE BLlND—Appropriation of $3,000,000, to be administered by SSB and distributed to states which contribute amounts equal to the Federal allotment to them and establish state-wide assistance plans for the needy blind. N Federal share of pension to a blind individual can’t exceed sls a month, but will match the state share up to that figure. AID TO DEPENDENT CHILDßEN—Appropriation of $24,750,000, administered by SSB, to states establishing systems of pensions for needy child or children under 16 who by reason of death, absence, or incapacity of a parent are living with a relative “in a residence maintained as a home.” Most of this will come under the head of “mothers’ pensions.” The state must contribute double the amount of the Federal grant, giving two-thirds of any pension up

word “everything” is the only title that would cover it. This is the big “fix ’em up” part of TVA. It includes everything from putting up park benches for the public, to showing farmers how they ought to plow. This is the “organized foresight” part. It is, in reality, a program to help the people improve their general allaround lot in life. tt tt tt T TERE are some of the things TVA is do: : ng under this last clause to rebuild the Tennessee Valley: It is indirectly, by example, teaching people to build anew type of community, half agriculture and half industry. Mountain farms require only about half a man's time. Work in the factories is spotty, and doesn't cover a full year. It is TVA's idea that if you

made the play, but failed to recognize it. Well, here is a hand that I believe explains this play better than any I have seen for a long time. Asa matter of fact, it is a double grand coup. A grand coup play is literally discarding a trump; in other words, you have to trump a good card to get your hand reduced to the same number of trump as your opponent's. In today's hand you have two trump too many, so you must dispose of them. In doing this, you employ a play known as the double grand coup. The Play Against the four-spade contract, East cashes the ace, king, and queen of diamonds and then leads a small club, which declarer wins with the king. A small spade is won in dummy with the king and the trey of spades returned, declarer finessing the ten spot. East shows out, discarding the eight of diamonds. It now looks as if declarer has to lose a spade trick. However, why not try to avoid this loss? Gamble going down an extra trick if necessary. If you make the hand, the reward is worth it. Lead your jack of clubs, win in dummy with the ace and return the queen of clubs, trumping it* with the six of spades. This

ss ' s * ance $50,000,000 ] fAid to Dependent ___ , 24.750.000 Children tmfk Public Health 8.000.000 iJSLi ill I & trjltil Grants to States to . d UIS Administer Unemployment 4,000,000 H P n Compensation Laws Maternal and Child Health 3,800,000 Aid to Blind 3,000.000 Crippled Children 2,850.000 Lj® si r Child Welfare 1.500.000 - if Grants to States 841,000 D* i; for Vocational Rehabilitation ® TOTAL 96.741.00D Almost $100,000,000 will be appropriated by Congress in January to launch the great Social Security program, in which the Federal government and the states will co-operate. The chart above shows the classes which will benefit and how the money will be apportioned among the needy in the greatest social-economic experiment in United States history.

to $lB a month for the first child and sl2 for any additional children. MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH—Sum of $3,800,000 to be administered by the Children's Bureau, through state health agencies for services promoting health of mothers and children. Grants are on a 50-50 matching basis, with $1,800,000 to be distributed in proportion to number of births in the states and $980,000 in proportion to need. Present local maternal and child health services will be promoted in co-operation with medical, nursing and welfare groups. CRIPPLED CHILDREN Sum of $2,850,000, handled by the Children’s Bureau, for states on an equal matching basis, to extend facilities and services for crippled children or children suffering from conditions leading to crippling, in co-operation with medical, nursing, health and welfare groups, and agencies specializing an rehabilitation of physically handicapped children. CHILD WELFARE Sum of $1,500,000, of which the Children's

could combine the two —give a man a job in town, and let him raise his own stuff on a small farm in his spare time, he would be much better off. It is taking samples of the insides of mountains all over the region. It is studying them in laboratories, to see what can best be manufactured out of the various minerals and clays. This would De the small industry, to take the other half of the farmer’s time. In such government-built towns as Norris (where the Norris Dam workers live) TVA is setting an example of what sanely planned towns can be like. Most anybody would like to live in Norris. One look is enough to convince you. TVA is planting millions of trees to reforest the land for the purpose of holding the soil.

A A J 10 7 6 4 V J 8 ♦ 10 7 5 A K J AQ9B 5 m A 2 *965 * K 7 4 3 ♦J 93 w b AAK Q 8 AB63S A 7 5 4 2 Dealer AK3 V A Q 10 2 !A6 4 2 A AQ 10 9 Rubber — E. and W. vul. South West North East 1A Pass 1 A Pass 2 * Pass 2 A Pass 3 A * Pass 4 A Pass Opening lead —A K. 16 is getting rid of trump number one. Now lead the jack of hearts. Even though East does not cover, you must finesse dummy’s queen. Return the good ten of clubs. West will refuse to trump, but you must trump, getting rid of trump number two. Now lead the eight of hearts and win in the dummy with ace. There are only two cards left in each hand, declarer having the ace-jack of trump over West’s queen-nine, and with the lead in dummy you do not have to lose the trump trick. (Copyright, 1935. NEA Service, lac.)

Bureau is authorized to pay $lO.000 to each state and $990,000 in proportion to rural population. Bureau and state public welfare agencies will co-operate to develop—especially in rural areas—welfare services for protection and care of homeless, dependent, and neglected children and children in danger of becoming delinquent. PUBLIC HEALTH—Sum of SB,000,000 to be distributed by the United States Public Health Service on bases of population, special health- problems and financial needs of states, to assist in establishing and maintaining adequate state public health services in accordance with plans presented by state health authorities to the National Health Service for approval. The act also provides $841,000 of supplementary grants to states for vocational rehabilitation work and $4,000,000 for the fiscal year 1936 as grants for administration of state unemployment compensation laws.

NEXT: The Social Security Program and Old Age.

It is creating beautiful mountain parks, and vacation places, and beaches on man-made lakes, to make the people happier. It is moving families from one place to another. It has moved some 10,000 families out of the regions behind these big dams, ■which soon will be covered with water. And usually it has improved their lot. And behind it all are the big dams, designed eventually to give electricity to anybody who wants it. Tomorrow—Regenerating Mother Earth. PICK CONTEST WINNERS Washington High School Club Sponsors Competition in Dolls. Winners of the doll contest sponsored by the Washingtonian Club of Washington High School are Lena Brent, Mary Mellinger and Elizabeth Jones. Those to receive honorable mention are Betty Kreutzinger, Valentina Stroy and Ann Mitchell. Mrrs. Raymond Davis, Mrs. Elizabeth Randolph and Miss Velma Schaaf were the judges. The dolls, are to be given to the American Settlement and Day Nursery. OUTLINE YULE PROGRAM Women's Chorus to Present Songs at Block’s Auditorium. A chorus of 60 women is to present a Christmas program this afternoon under the supervision of the Marion County recreation bureau of WPA at Wm. H. Block Cos. auditorium. The program is to be broadcast over Station WFBM. The choral group is composed of members of the Mothers’ Chorus of Schools 43 and 54, and the Seventh District of Federated Women's Clubs. They are to be accompanied by an eight-piece orchestra. SIGMA CHI IS WINNER Awarded Dyer Trophy for Part in Christmas Cheer Drive. Sigma Chi Fraternity at Butler University won the Dyer trophy in the 1935 Christmas cheer campaign for its contribution of food and clothing in the charity drive. Other winners are Kappa Kappa Gamma, second; Pi Beta Phi, third, %|P ,PP * Alpha Theta third. } \ , 'Vt .

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Fafpred as Matter at I’ostofTiCe, Indianapolis, Ind.

Fair Enough HMHEtt ROME, Dec. 23.—The efforts of some of his underlings to imitate rather than to emulate Mussolini must make him chew r the sheets at night. Some of them think they are being little Mussolinis merely by scowling with great ferocity and thrusting out their chins, forgetting that Mussolini does this merely for theatrical effect and actually achieves his most important results by hard work over long hours. To be sure, the Big Shot is a great showman,

and when he rolls his eyes and blows out his lips in an expression of imperious might, with his hands clenched on his hips and the tassel of his black cap dangling over his brow, it is difficult to keep in mind that this man was a newspaper reporter a few years ago. There are reporters still in action in t,he European service who used to cover stories with him and trade stuff at the end of the day’s work. Nowadays when he comes out on his little balcony at Palazzo Venefia they click their heels to-

gether, raise their right hands and holler “Doochay! Doo-chay!” But the job of running a nation of 40 million people and an army, a navy and a war is not accomplished by scowling and chinthrusting alone. The trouble is that the little Mussolinis of Italy, petty politicians and job holders, see Mussolini only when he is putting on his act and therefore attribute his most important results to his least important activities. The Italians insist that Mussolini has a sense of humor, and if this is so the man should have moments when he permits himself a private laugh at the awe-struck demeanor of the people who are ushered into his presence. Even Americans who have met Presidents and Shirley Temple and heavyweight champions and who think of themselves as standing in awe of no man born of woman have been known to lose their poise and chew their words when Mussolini puts the eye on them. So it must be admitted that the ex-reporter invented something, and it may be recalled that Adolf Hitler, when he was just getting away to his start as an imitator, came down to study the original at first hand. tt tt tt Camera Also Had Big Chin MUSSOLINI has a big square chin, but there are some 4000 chins arranged in artistic designs in the shadowy crypts of the remarkable cemetery of the Capuchin Fathers on the Via Venito, all of them alike and suggesting standardized automobile parts in the salvage department of an automobile junk yard. They are used chins. Turned to ivory and mounted on the walls like jaws of fish in the trophy room of a Florida fishing camp, they give no impression of formidability, but rather by the gaps between the teeth invite the imagination to consider how the good fathers must have suffered from toothache back in the time when there were neither dentists nor anesthetics. Primo Camera has the most prodigious chin of any Italian living, but Jack Dempsey, when he first saw it about seven years ago. far from being awestruck. looked at the chin, looked at his left fist, shook his head and murmured, “My, how could anybody miss a chin like that?” A short time ago, in the course of some public ceremonies in Rome, a young military attache of a. sanctionist nation discovered one of the little Mussolinis putting on the glare for him and protruding his chin in an earnest attempt to look like the Duce. The military attache did not like to glare back because he was a guest, so he waved gayly and called “yoo-hoo!” The imitation Mussolini turned away in disgust, looking for someone who would appreciate the glare, which undoubtedly had been practiced before a mirror for years. In a one-man government secondary officials are likely to be second-rate or worse, because all the important work is done and the important decisions are made by the boss. Mussolini has two strong men in his regime— Dino Grandi and Italo Balbo—but they are both far away, Grandi in London as ambassador and Balboas governor of Libya. There are two guesses as to why he keeps them in foreign posts. First, that he needs his best men in those jobs; second, that he doesn’t want strong men on home grounds. Marshal de Bono was regarded as a strong man, too, but they brought him from Abyssinia on a rainy night recently, and there was no triumphal procession through the Arch of Constantine for Marshal de Bono such as Balbo enjoyed to the full on his return from his great flight to Chicago and back three years ago. tt a Duce Needs Good Press Agent MOREOVER, his train was late, although they take special pride in the punctuality of their trains in Italy these days, and altogether you may judge that Marshal de Bono’s phase of the Ethiopian campaign was somewhat less than an historic conquest by the new Roman empire. When you get a corps of officials who are second-rate or worse you sacrifice efficiency for petty self-importance, and this empties the burden on the boss and on the taxpayers. Just now England and Italy are engaged n n, war of propaganda in the United States, anc the English, being masters of the art. have been g ving the Italians a terrible licking. But in Englarn. the government press agents are shrewd, genial and entertaining fellows who know their job and more, whereas in Rome Mussolini is constantly pining for good opinion in the United States, but the publicity is in the hands of a little Mussolini whose manhandling of the task would make any American press agent cut his throat in artistic horror. Between Mussolini himself and the Italians who toil with their hands in an unembarrassed, excessive dignity there is a group of political parasites and phonies. It's impossible, apparently, to eliminate them. At a time when laborers willingly toil in the rain and lunch on nothing but hunks of bread and women are turning in their wedding rings to raise money for the government Mussolini’s Little Shots surround themselves with mystery and flunkeys and glare and project their chins and let it go at, that. But take it from one who detests Fascism as much as slavery in any other form and castor oil in lethal doses as much as any other barbarous weapon, the Italian people are not as bad as the little Mussolinis make them appear to be.

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IF it is not yet too late to make a suggestion about Christmas books, I would like to advise you not to overlook “The Woollcott Reader,” that bulky anthology compiled by Alexander Woollcott (Viking; $3). Here you will find a great deal of highly enjoyable reading matter. Among other things, the book includes such stones as "Margaret Ogilvy,” by J. M. Barrie; “The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden,” by Thornton Wilder; “Mr. Fortune's Maggot.” by Sylvia Townsend Warner; “The Bar Sinister,” by Richard Harding Davis; “The Whistlers’ Room,” by Paul A1 verdes; ' Kamongo.” by Homer W. Smith, and “A Handful of Dust,” by Evelyn Waugh. Mr. Woollcott has followed his own unpredictable bent in assembling these pieces. In a foreword he remarks that he has grouped together “certain of the minor masterpieces from the literature of my own day which have given me the deepest and most abiding satisfaction.” The book is ideally designed fbr Christmas giving, Its only fault being that it is too big to go into ft (By Bruce Cation),

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