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It Seems to Me HEMBCIHIN OTRANGEST of all among the boasts of Borah was his recent pointing with pride to the fact that he has always been regular. A great liberal who has managed to swallow in rapid succession Harding and Coolidge and Hoover might be expected to show’ a certain reticence concerning such marring marks. It is a little as if Beau Brummell were to point out soup stains upon his vest. The only way in which Beau Borah's strange behavior can be explained is to hazard the guess

that perhaps he is preparing for some fearful gastronomical feat which staggers his imagination. He might, for instance, have to swallow Col. Knox. Maybe the gentleman from Idaho is right in thinking that when the ordeal comes he will be better prepared psychologically on account of his Coue course. A good Republican table d’hote diner should be allowed some preliminary quavers as he looks up and down the menu and finds that his choice is restricted to Fish or Hoover, Vandenberg or Ogden Mills, black coffee and Senator

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Dickinson. And remember that a Borah never bolts a candidate but chews him into tiny pieces before he swallows. And so the Senator takes his stand outside the b'g tent and beats his chest and shouts, “Lay on, Macduff, and be thy dinner one of nails or knives or iron scrap, I’m damned if I will be the first to cry out, ‘Hold, enough.’ ” tt tt tt He Should He Prepared OUITE obviously all this is good as far as the , mental phases of the problem in hand are concerned. If the Senator can truly convince himself that he is Bosco Borah, the copper-lined man, it may 6ase his way toward meeting the fearful repast which the Cleveland convention seems certain to set in front of him. But he should not overlook certain physical necessities as well, I strongly advise Borah to provide himself with three dozen sliced lemons, two quarts horseradish, one gallon tabasco and ten gross of well-grained salt. I would also take along an antidote. You can not give complete loyalty to the elephant and demand squab on toast at the same time. The G. O. P. furnishes no haven for the gourmet, but, on the contrary, operates under a swinging sign which proclaims to the traveler that he must take his chances. But although Frank was the first to declare that he has no intention of being finicky, I hardly think the country will be as much moved by the gallant sacrifice which he is prepared to make as by the abnegation of Bill Borah. a tt M Let Them Beware of Another ALFRED M. LANDON has also indicated his willingness to take pot luck at the Republican table, and a Kansas farmhand is no mean competitor in a catch-as-catch-can eatii contest. He has already Shown considerable prowess of a sort by regurgitating the better half of his first name, which had been bitten away for local political purposes. And yet I think that Borah, Knox and Landon, in spite of their records, will do well to fear a fourth contender. H>s very name indicates his ambidexterity as an assimilator of any kind of rations. Moreover, the gentleman I have in mind has gone well beyond the mariner who wore a dead albatross around his neck. This hero has carried for many years a red herring in every pocket. And so if the Cleveland convention this summer make,? for swallows rather than statesmen one name must lead all the rest. To a couniry which cries out for bread the convention most unfittingly may give Ham Fish. (Copyricht. 1936)

Administration to Uncork on Hoover BY RAYMOND CLAPPER WASHINGTON, Feb. 21—The Administration is preparing to uncork on Herbert Hoover. It probably will open up Saturday night when Democratic National Chairman Farley makes his Washington Birthday address at Topeka, Kas. The last straw was Hoover’s Lincoln Day speech. The Administration particularly resented Hoover’s charge that the stock market boom was an inflationary flight into equities, resulting from widespread fear of the Administration's monetary policies. Some within the Administration felt

that Hoover, intentionally or otherwise, was saying things which would tend to create a panicky state of mind among uninformed persons throughout the country. tt n tt Considerable mystery has developed over the loaning by the National Broadcasting Cos. of Dr. Stanley High to the Democratic National Committee. Dr. High, lecturer and former editor, was loaned by the radio people at

the personal request of President Roosevelt. One report is that Dr. High is to handle radio work for the committee. Another is that he is to assist the President in writing a campaign book. Some months ago, when whispers about Mr. Roosevelt's physical condition had reached a fantastic height. Dr. High spent an afternoon with the President and went on the air that night to refute the rumors. NBC also provided two men for the Republican National Committee’s radio division. A LADY manager for grand opera singers tells a House Committee that most of the big-shot movie stars are made through ballyhoo. She needn't have limited herself to the movies. Ballyhoo has made many a big business executive. As for politicians—without ballyhoo they would blush unseen and you never can get votes that way. Even the most retiring of our national figures. Gov. Landon. has learned about life from Garbo. He uses her formula. Run away from publicity and it follows you all the more avidly. In the press agent trade this is known as inverted publicity. Our more aggressive political stars are so well publicized as to character types that you could almost shove them from politics into the movies without the movie fans knowing anything had happened, starring Senator Borah, say, in "Mutiny on the Bounty," and with some help from the m&ke-up director, throwing the aspiring Col. Knox into Gary Cooper's new film, "Desire." Or imagine the greatest actor of them all. President Roosevelt, in "Anything Goes." He’s as good a crooner as Bing Crosby and in his time he has had to whistle through as much sour music. Even the comics won’t be safe if some of our politicians start looking fqr jobs in the movies. A1 Smith talks more like Jimmy Durante than Jimmy does. And it is hard to understand why they put Eddie Cantor in "Strike Me Pink" instead of hiring the great red-hunter, Rep. Ham Fish, who is funnier without trying. * * a SENATOR BORAH expects to enter the Nebraska primaries and to launch his campaign there with a speech at Omaha. By this move Senator Borah expects to smoke out Gov. Landon of neighboring Kansas by forcing the elusive Governor either to get into the Nebraska primary or else lose the state by default. Senator Borah is expected to open his Nebraska campaign with an appeal to voters of both parties to return Senator George Norris, his fellow Progressive Republican, to the Senate although Senator Norris, anticipating that the Republicans would nominate not Senator Borah but a reactionary candidate, already had declared for the re-election of Roosevelt* S3

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This Is the second of a series of dispatches tracing the origins and consequences of Tampa's notorious flogging murder. a tt tt tt tt tt BY DAVID E. SMILEY Editor of The Tampa Daily Times 'JpAMPA, Fla., Feb. 21.—T0 get a true picture of the situation leading up to the Tampa floggings, it is necessary to understand the background of several decades of struggles for control of the city and county governments. The crime of Nov. 30 was a climax to these struggles. There has been for years a sinister issue over which group of secret bosses should control an invisible government thriving on graft and corruption. This is not to say that good men have not been elected ro office in Tampa. They have. But too often they found themselves hobbled by the machine tactics through which they were elected. Too often they were betrayed by subordinates who took orders from the machine bosses. Frequently public officers whose names were on the ballots found themselves figureheads, unable to make their au-

thority effective or too weak to break with the backers who had financed their campaigns. This is not a unique condition. It has its counterpart in scores of American cities. In some of them, the stake is city contracts awarded to favored bidders. In others the stake is the award of special privileges or franchises. In Tampa it is gambling. tt tt a TAMPA is Florida’s industrial capital. Beginning 50 years ago with the establishment of clear Havana-made cigar factories, the city has been an industrial and commercial center. It is surrounded by a rich agricultural hinterland growing citrus fruits and winter vegetables, and has almost within its borders an area producing the largest winter crop of strawberries in the world. Gifted with a fine harbor which the Federal government has improved so that vessels drawing up to 30 feet may use it freely, Tampa has become'the largest port in point of annual tonnage between Norfolk and New Orleans. Locally controlled freight ship lines reaching out to most of the countries of the world. On the city’s outskirts are huge phosphate mine workings, and

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. —' The Secret Service is taking precautions for the visit of the President to the Fly Club at Harvard tomorrow. Not many people know it. but last year when the President attended the Fly Club dinner, he was “bombed.” The “bombing” took place when the President’s car drew up in Holyoke Place, a blind street which ends at the main gate to Lowell House, and on which the Fly Club is located. A student in a top-floor room of Lowell House dropped several toy torpedoes into the street. They landed about 100 feet from the President’s car, making a loud popping noise. Secret Service men on the running board drew their revolvers, and police rushed into Lowell House. The student was found, collared, lectured and released. e tt Inspect Kitchen ALL this happened even though 500 Boston police and 110 Cambridge police—the heaviest guard that has ever been posted for a President in New England—were on duty. Police were stationed every 40 feet along the route from the railroad yards. Plainclothes men were in the windows of all buildings overlooking Holyoke Place, while two local police guarded a vacant building—one inside and one out—for two days before the President arrived. This year, the vacant buildings have been torn down and offer no problem to the Secret Service. However, about 20 Secret Service men arrived in Cambridge a week in advance to “sniff” round the premises and make all arrangements with Charles R. Apted, chief of the Harvard Yard police. They are'also going through the rigmarole of inspecting the kitchen where the President’s food is to be cooked—a precaution also carried out for Coolidge. Police and sanity records of-the cooks also are being investigated. tt tt Fly Club THE Fly Club, of which the President and his sons are members, was founded in 1836 under the name of Alpha Delta Phi. No one knows where it picked up the name "Fly.” Last year, while the President was in the club, the members of the rival Phoenix Club, also intiating that night, came around and sang risque songs under the windows of the Fly Club, as is customary, without regard for the 1000 or more people congregated

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lumber is brought in from the nearby timberlands for shipment to many foreign ports. Consequently Tampa has a large laboring population of both skilled and unskilled workers. It follows that there is a traditional middleclass hostility toward radicalism, especially in labor matters. It is necessary to keep these facts in mind in considering the problems which furnish the setting for the brutal flogging murder. tt tt tt OUT of a population in the metropolitan area of some 135,000, there is a large proportion of working people with the Southern European and Latin-Ameri-can love of gaiety, expressed in frequent fiestas and carnivals. Probably 40,000 of them speak Spanish as fluently as English. In two sections—Ybor City and West Tampa, where the cigar factories center—Spanish is the prevailing tongue. Among these people there is a native carefree instinct for games of chance. They buy 10-cent lottery tickets as naturally as they buy their Spanish coffee in the cases and clubs where they read the Spanish and Cuban periodicals. There is nothing very wicked

there to watch the President’s departure. Secret Service men are a little stumped as to how, or if, they should try to prevent a repetition of this unwanted serenade. tt tt tt Cherry Trees EORGE WASHINGTON will soon have anew crop of cherry trees at his shrine in Fredericksburg, Va. In this case, however, they will be “Bred n Japan.” A delegation from the Fredericksburg Chamber of Commerce recently visited Japanese Ambassador Saito to ask his aid in securing Japan’s famous pink-blos-somed cherry trees to beautify the George Washington shrine at Fredericksburg. Ambassador Saito promised to get 200 trees. “But,” he added, as if just remembering something, “your government forbids the importation of plants from the Orient. There is a quarantine, I believe. “Nevertheless,” continued the ambassador, apparently enjoying the look of disappointment on the faces of the delegates, “I think I know how to avoid that. We have several nurseries in this country. I will request that they supply the trees for you.” tt tt tt NR A Again PROABLY 'the most important question arising out of the termination of the NRA is whether its demise has brought an increase in sweated labor. To answer this question, the President appointed a committee of experts. It was to study the pay scales and work-hours, and what changes had taken place in them since the end of the Blue Eagle. A few weeks ago the committee bought in its report. It showed a general lengthening of hours, slashing of pay, and a very considerable increase in child labor. The report was sent to the White House, where it fell into the hands of Marvin Mclntyre. That was the nearest it got to the President. Mclntyre sent it to his good friend “Uncle Dan” Roper. He took one look, then ducked. Several days went by and Maj. George Berry, co-ordinator for industrial recovery, got wind of the report. He made inquiries at the Labor Department, expecting that it would be sent there as the agency directly concerned with such matters. The Labor Department informed Berry it had not received the report, that Mclntyre had taken it upon himself to send it to Ropier.

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about it, and on the whole these people are good citizens, industrious and frugal in other respects ! With such a cosmopolitan citizenry Tampa has never been given to blue laws. The temper of the people has been to smile indulgently on the lottery sellers, and in such fertile fields it was inevitable that gambling in many forms should develop and flourish. . . And, of course, there were individuals to take advantage of these conditions. From the humble wheel of fortune or dice game in the back room of a cigar store or case, the business grew to large and well appointed establishments, financed by syndicates each controlling from half a dozen to 50 such places.

Roper Evasive QO Berry went direct tq the President, and asked to be allowed to see the document. The President assured him he could do so, that he would give instructions to thVs effect. A week went by and nothing was heard from Roper. Then a newsman, tipped off about the report, asked Roper about it. “Oh,” he replied airily, “it is unimportant.” Administrationites interested in seeing that the report is made public felt otherwise. They went to Rep. Connery of the House Labor Committee, and told him the story. “That is just the material I need to help me put over my 30hour bill,” he said. “I’ll get it.” Whether he does remains to oe seen. He has wfitten Roper a letter requesting the report. If Roper refuses to come across, Connery plans to offer a resolution in the House putting the Secretary of Commerce on the spot. Copyright. 1936. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

Gate Crashing! By Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. How three Congresswomen “crashed the gate” at a stag party in a hotel here leaked out today. The ladies were: Florence Prag Kahn (R„ Cal.), Edith Nourse Rogers (R., Mass.) and Isabella Greenway (D., Ariz.). The party was a “shore dinner” given by western New k York Co* -ressmen to some 65 " members ox the lower House. The Congresswomen wanted to go, but got no invitations. They hit upon a scheme of dressing as cigaret girls. As the coffee was being served the doors opened and in came Mrs. Kahn, wearing a Floradora hat, plenty of mascara and rouge and a gay silk dress; Mrs. Rogers, dressed like a soubrette, and Mrs. Greenway, attired in a garb somewhere between these extremes. “My Gawd!” sang out Pep. Carter (R., Cal.) when approached by one of the cigaretvenders with her tray of smokes. “It’s Florence Kahn!” Cheers and guffaws went up as the women wound their way among the tables. When they had sold out their ware, the three modestly retired in time to escape the after-dinner stories.

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THUS gambling became commercialized. Once commercialized, it inevitably attracted the attention of politicians. And presently the gamblers were paying for protection —and paying heavily. Thus the illicit connection between gambling and grafting had its beginning. There were sporadic attempts to break up this alliance. Reformers tried it with indifferent success. New law enforcement officials tried it with a blowing of trumpets and a smashing of doors. But the syndicates always came back with renewed strength. The most popular form of gambling in Tampa is “bolita,” which means “little ball.” It is a form of lottery like the numbers game in Harlem, the bank clearings

Man's Conquest of the Air Now a Nightmare BY JACK FOSTER r I 'HE HAGUE, Feb. 21.—When the possibility of war is mentioned the eyes of Europe turn upward—and not alone in prayer. The British shopkeepers, the Boer in Holland, the German laborer look apprehensively at the cloucs which at a moment's blunder by their diplomats could conceivably rain death. Into this lovely old city, where stands the Palace of Peace, come reports of the enormous world-wide building of military airplanes. There never has been such intense activity in this field. And it is

natural that Holland should be concerned. For if at some ttime the relations between Germany and England should snap she would become the Belgium of a second World War. She lies, in the cool mist of her canals, on a crow’s line between them with an army that could be a half million, an air fleet of 250 planes. And her business men are strengthening whenever possible their friendship for England. England will have 2000 fighting planes in 1937. They will be modern. The engines will be her own; for when England devises anew type of flying motor she puts it on the “secret list” for three years. tt tt tt IT is difficult to obtain an exact figure for Germany; but certainly she has between 2000 and 3000 planes. And the number of those studying to be pilots is greater than it ever has been. Asa matter of fact, it is believed by many that Germany could, if need be, muster 20,000 pilots. Many of these would come from glider camps, which have been encouraged by the government. France has 1500 to 1700 planes, a number of them, it is said, obsolete. It is estimated that Italy commands an air squadron of 1500 planes, although this figure is not certain, since II Duce, so voluble on some subjects, is extremely reticent when it comes to discussing military detail. Five hundred of these planes are of foreign make; but it is curious to not* that, according to reports here, the foreign identifications is removed so that the Italian pilot supposes he is flying a Fascist-made ship. tt tt tt IN the Ethiopian war Italy, it is said, has split her air forces. The old planes she has sent to Africa, where she will meet no opposition from Haile Selassie's uncultured tribesmen. The most up-to-date ships are supposed to have been concentrated in Sicily, ready in case of any conflict with England’s sea power. . Meanwhile, troubled reports come here from the Far East. Month by month Japan seems to be rubbing the skin of the Russian Bear a little thinner. Russir.

Treasury statement, baseball pools and policy rackets in many Northern and Southern cities. The bolita player selects a number from 1 to 100, and bets from a nickel upward it will be drawn. Peddlers sell bolita tickets throughout the city, many of them having regular routes, visiting industrial establishments and even calling at back doors to sell to servants—and their mistresses. The drawings take place at the gambing houses. Groups of eager players usually attend the ritual. One hundred small balls, each bearing a number, are placed in a muslin bag and shaken violently. Someone is chosen to take hold of one through the cloth. This is cut out of the bag and becomes the winning number for the day, paying on the average of about 30 to 1. a tt a CERTAIN syndicates have specialized in selling tickets based on Cuba’s national lottery, drawn each week at Havana. They pretend that the money is sent to Havana, but investigators say the local syndicates were able to sell enough of these tickets to warrant their paying large prizes in the same proportion as at Havana—and thus avoid running afoul of the government by forbidden use of the mails. Increasing profits by the gambling racketeers increased the demands of venal politicians, and the day came when the gamblers decided it would be cheaper to run candidates of their own choosing, especially for the lawenforcing offices, than to pay such heavy tribute. Thenceforth, while keeping under cover themselves, they were instrumental on many occasions in electing “safe men,” some of them respected citizens who took the view that there was no occasion to interfere with the gamblers since gambling was what the public wanted. Under the Florida one-party primary’ system a nomination is usually equivalent to election, since all participants in the primary are pledged to vote for the winners, and independent tickets at the general election are rare. Keep this in mind. It gives a clue to the reasons for the flogging of Shoemaker, Poulnot and Rogers. NEXT—A Political Feud.

knows that if she must fight Japan she must do it through the air. And, with the East always in mind, she has organized the greatest military air force in the world. At the end of the second fiveyear plan, in 1937, she hopes to have 8000 planes. It’s believed that she has 3500 ships now, including all modern types. Besides this, in some of Russia’s eight airplane factories workers are building 10 of the Maxim Gorky kind of super-craft. tt tt tt 'T'HE Maxim Gorky, you’ll remember, was supposed to accomodate anywhere from 50 to 100 passengers. It crashed last May, killing all the occupants. These new giant ships will have six motors instead of the Gorkey’s eight and would be used in time of war as a perch from which machine gunners in parachutes would sacrifice themselves to the state just as Japans “human bombs” gave their lives to the Sun God in the Shanghai battle. Japan’s air fleet is made up of about 1000 army and 950 navy ships, not including an increasing number of commercial planes, especially in Korea and Manchukuo. The Japanese are somewhat slow in the entering the military airplane race; but with that enormous energy which nationalism has given them they are building wings toward any eventuality in the East. And so the old dream of man—the dream of Roger Bacon and da Vinci—the dream of flying like gods has in coming true become the world’s nightmare., FIRE CHIEF IMPROVES Kennedy Recuperates in Florida; Assistant Heads Are in Charge. Fire Chief Fred Kennedy is recovering in Florida from leg injuries received in an auto accident several months ago and aggravated at the Continental Baking Cos. explosion. Assistant Chief Roscoe McKinney and Harry Fulmer are temporarily in charge of the department.

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Fair Enough GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Feb. 20. —To whom it may concern: Dear Friends: 'Yell, triends, as I have nothing else to do I thought I would drop you a few lines about seeing Adolf Hitler, Goebbels and Goering and Streicher and all the soldiers and fireworks at the Olympics. So far as his appearance goes, it is not hard to imagine him back at his old trade, standing on a scaffold painting the side of a house. But we know the man who now stands on a review-

ing platform receiving the patriotic and personal adulation of more than a hundred thousand Germans is a tremendous power, and it makes your flesh squirm to reflect that a nod or shake of his head can start a war that would kill millions of men. All this power resides in the person of a man who weighs about 200 pounds and wears a belted brown leather overcoat and a brown military cap and smiles much more than you would expect him to. He has rather heavy eyelids, and from the set of his

mouth under his small mustache it would seem that he had his share of trouble with his teeth. He has the indoor pallor of the man who spends much of his time at his desk, and on this occasion at least he did not compare with Mussolini as a showman, but it must be considered that he was trying not to steal the show from the athletes, whereas Mussolini when I saw him in action was putting on his act and whooping up a great crowd of Italian peasants to a creamy froth. it a Great Man Gets His Due HITLER, on the other hand, was present in the character of the friendly, reliable leader of the German people and the savior who delivered them from the slavery imposed by Clemenceau and David Lloyd George, come to join them in the pleasure of a sporting carnival. They flung up their right arms and yelled “heil!" but the outcry was not done in unison and thus lacked volume and dramatic effectiveness. It was a strange thing that although Hitler's presence always brought a great turnout of military power, jammed up traffic and completely obscured the peaceful ideal to which the games were dedicated, the great man himself was easily approached by many strangers as he sat in his low box at the hockey rink watching the game in which Canada licked the United States and gave his autograph to a hundred or more as willing as Babe Ruth and in astonishing contrast to the ill-tempered refusals of Col. Lindbergh and Greta Garbo. tt tt it Light to Onh / a Light TT7E were sitting in the press coop across the ▼ ▼ rink drawing beads on him with the binoculars and noticed that, like every other smart celebrity, Hitler invariably turned the card over to see what, if anything was written on both sides before writing his name, lest he discover that he was signing a promissory note or an indorsement for somebody’s shaving cream. And with so much soldiery lending their presence to the scene along the road, thus creating an odor of menace and mystery, there was a temptation to • speculate on the chance that an assassin would have had inside the arena. Hitler sat in full view, without uniformed guards, and it seemed that almost an j on his side of the P lace was free to walk up and thrust an autograph book in his hand. Autograph books are very promiscuous, and there may have been some among those proffered by the American athletes which contained the signature of Prof. Einstein or Max Baer. The fireworks up on the mountain at the closing exercises were a beautiful display of color. The m V l tary searchlights washed the snowy hills in an artificial moonlight as che batteries of three-inch guns banged away in a concealed position half-way up the slope, reminding us all that the beautiful Olympic flame, which was now dying slowly on the tower, was only a light, after all, and didn’t mean a thing. It is getting late, so we will bring this to a close with kindest regards to yourself and the missus . whom . ’

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—1 tis not one-tenth so much what this Administration is doing that gives its enemies ground upon which to jump up and down screaming, as what some of its ecstatic rhapsodists are saying. “I note,” cried the enraptured Auhrey Williams to the Association of Social Workers, ‘ t.iat your program calls for Federal works which should offer employment to any person who is unemployed and able to work, whether or not he is eligible for relief, ♦v,’ 1 believe you should go further and recognize that . . . such a program will call for a yearly expenditure of at least $9,000,000,000. . . . Shall false economy and the interests of property or shall the wellare of all our people dominate public relief policy? For social workers, there can be only one answer.” He denounced those who would give another answer as a “handful of rich and powerful men concerned with their own prerogatives and pocketbooks.” A job, said he, “is the right of every man and w-oman regardless of need”-clearly implying that ls ue * rom the Federal government regardless of necessity or expense. tt tt tt r I ''HIS is no private and unofficial view. Aubrey A Williams is Harry Hopkins’ Assistant Administrator m WPA and FERA, as well as director of the National Youth Administration. Now that couldn't be Administration opinion. There is nothing in Federal policy, authority or capacity that guarantees a government job to anybody who, regardless of need, wants one and can’t find it elsewhere. Nine billions added to present spending would bankrupt the government. Social workers have no monopoly on human sympathy, and this official branding of more practical critics of this absurdity as selfish misers of money and power adds no Administration support and destroys much. More harmful to the President than all the Liberty League’s tirades are these frequent, irresponsible, Tugwellian eructations. The whole flatulent crew couldn’t favorably influence 100,000 votes—but they could alienate three million. (Copyright. 1936. by United Peature Syndicate. Inc.)

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A RTHUR STRINGER is well equipped to write S*. "The Wife Traders" (Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis; s2>, an exciting tale of the North. Himself a lover of outdoor life, he ably pictures the society man Owen Winslow, who tires of the shallow life he has been living on his wife's money, and reverts to the life of the aborigines. Winslow leaves his beautiful society wife, Celina, and takes as his mate, the native Inuit Tooloona. When Celina, who thought Winslow dead, discovers that he is living on the Ungava coast, she sends her best friend, Stendal, after him. Stendal rather bungles up things and the situation is further complicated by the arrival of Celina. The story ends the only way it could end, fate helping Winslow choose between his two worlds. Mr. Stringer paints a sympathetic picture of the life of the Innuits and the reader can not help but admire the character and resourcefulness of Tooloona, who, surprisingly, is the dominating character in the story. Mr. Stringer tells of the exciting life led by these people who seem little more than children, of their weird customs, one of the strangest being the exchange of wives, (By Dorothy RitxJ

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