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It Seems to Me HEIM BROUN NEW YORK, March 12—The Columbia Broadcasting System would be well within its rights if it sent a bill to Ham Fish for his network talk on Friday night. Ham failed to keep his engagement. Fifteen minutes were granted to him to answer Earl Browder, but Fish took a walk and discussed Tugwell, Borah and the musical glasses.

It was a little as if he had been scheduled to lead Harvard against Yale in the annual football conflict and instead had insisted on playing tiddleywinks with Tufts. Possibly I am not the one to be captious about the broadcast. Ham Fish has been very busy lately what with boosting Borah, making speeches in the House and looking under the carpet at night for concealed revolutionists. The likely explanation of the Fish broadcast is that he was reminded of his radio engagement at the last minute and had time to do no more than shout, "Call

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me a taxi and give me a fresh copy of the speech out of the drawer.” The valet, being new, inquired, ‘‘Which speech, Mr. Fish, s-id which drawer?” "Don’t s.and there like an idiot!” exclaimed the exasperated congressman. "I said the speech. It’s in every drawer. Choose the nearest one.” tt tt tt Signposts of Interest AS one who has heard the Hamilton Fish speech many times, I am not likely to forget it, nor should the even less experienced listener feel himself strange’- in a strange land. There are convenient signposts to mark the spots of interest. For instance, you may be sure that it is the speech as soon as Ham begins to talk about the termites. The word was first used in connection with the New Deal by William Randolph Hcarst, and it has been used at least once or twice by all the Republican candidates for the presidential nomination. But by now is the peculiar and particular property of Rep. Fish. Ham has come to such a stage that he can’t even begin to talk without some termites on his hip. A Harvard classmate of Ham’s explained the whole thing to me the other day. “It all started in college,” this pal recounted. “The football team was floundering at first because Percy Haughton was experimenting with anew series of plays and he changed the signals twice in September. This confused Ham Fish and stalled the attack. Harvard backs were forever running into him from behind and bouncing off for losses of eight or 10 yards. Finally Haughton made a solemn promise to the team captain that if he would set himself to the task of learning one set of signals thoroughly nothing would be changed again. Ham got a leave r .j. absence from his classes for 10 days and they sent him up to Concord with two coaches, a set of phonograph records, a blackboard and a college crammer. The first two days were pretty desperate. The boys say that only a drill master like Haughton could have gone through it. Indeed, the assistant coach wanted to call it off at the end of 36 hours. tt tt tt A Trging Spectacle EVEN years after the event the eyes of the assistant coach used to grow moist as he recounted the ordeal. , TT _ . "It, was terrible to see the agonies of Ham tisn lost in thought,” he told me. “Sometimes he tried to cerebrate so hard that he quivered all over as if with an ague, but no matter what signal we gave him he would reply, ‘Around left end.’ "On the morning of the ninth day, after we had been plugging with him all night, he suddenly gave the correct answer. It’s a remarkable mind, that mind of Ham Fish. Once he knows two facts he will never forget them.” And this same habit prevails today. Say "Communist” to Ham Fish and he will answer “termite. Say “liberal” to Ham Fish and he will answer termite.” His present mentor is trying to teach him an additional word for campaign purposes. He hopes that in another month Fish will be able to remember the word “progressive” and that he will click into it under the stimulus of B-O-F-A-H Borah. - ’

Bipartisan Relief Inquiry Is Needed BY RAYMOND CLAPPER 117ASHINGTON, March 12.—As the time apVV proaches when Congress is to be asked to make another huge appropriation for rehef. Republicans grow more shrill in criticism of boondoggling, waste and politics, whiie Democrats become more indignant in their answers. . , Such partisan controversy sheds much heat, but little light. Wouldn’t it clear the picture to find out the facts? Instead of depending upon bitter political

argument l'or the facts, why not let a bipartisan committee of Congress bring out the evidence? Republicans have urged this. The Administration appears to oppose it. Yet it should be eager for the opportunity to vindicate its relief record. It is unprecedented that such enormous peacetime expenditures should go on year after year without any checkup as to the efficiency of the expenditure. Furthermore, relief no longer can be treated as a passing emergency problem. It will be a

burden on the Federal government indefinitely. Therefore relief expenditures should be supervised wit! the same scrutiny that Congress exercises over otht outlays. And are we certain that the present setup is the best? Is one all-powerful, hard-driven administrator, who is responsible for both policy and execution, better than a board embracing a variety of viewpoint? There is an old rule—for quick action, one man; for wise action, many minds. The latter is missing, as evidenced by the numerous false starts and reversals of policy under WPA. These are questions which Congress could well consider on the basis of facts brought out by thorough investigation, before it rubber-stamps another blank check for one or two billion dollars of relief monev. 000 BURIED down in the European war dispatches is found this sentence, suggesting the silent agony of suspense which hangs over millions of homes in Europe today: ‘Parish churches of French frontier provinces were crowded today with women and children praying that there might not be another war.” Futile prayers. Don't those poor peasants know that it is the jealously guarded privilege of their brilliant statesmen to bungle into wars for peasants to fight? 000 Private utility executives co-operating in organizing the third world power conference, to meet here in September, are somewhat disturbed over reports that the Administration will use this meeting as a sounding board for its public power policies. Government officials promoting the conference emphasize there is no basis for such reports and seek the co-operation of the private utility industry in making the conference a success. Reports that the Administration's power projects would occupy a prominent place in the conference apparently arose from the fact that for the first time in its history, the rower conference will put less emphasis upon technical matters and will consider power in terms of economic and social consequences, and problems in organization, planning, manage and control of power. Secretary Ickes is chairi’ of the American committee, and Morris L. Ox , Rural Electrification Administrator, is chairman or the executive committee.

SapffsSjMlgai li 1C El t .Main .trrH of typical farming community, Wembley. Alberta. lJffilO&Pt \t b it. a settler's cabin near Wembley. From country such as this 3. f fIU&S Aberhart draws his strength. eK|H Ihe \P.rrl 1 You iispihl 1’ ] in" jnirrnmrnt tin hrlrt nffirr for si\ months. l ln orip.o.HiiniM nru-p.iprr. .rut I orrr-.t Dim- to Albert, to male a vtitrl, fLns *■ l|g] I’r>mt<T \brrhirts pro;re„ in br'touin; >V, a month on all adult tj 1 1 /en s. ißaK> %yx, : WMiM Ills .Math and find article follows. • V'*• ' a- *■ 5 „* >; * #| MV FORREST DAVIS 11 Srripps-How ard .Staff Writer. 9 DMOXTOX. Allx>i i.a, March 12.—The impoverished, he- X- 1 wi Herod Albertans who, last August, whimsically cmbraced the personal advantages of 925 a month and the jiromi.se of anew boom, naturally are eager for the heavens X I||| to open and manna to descend. Their leader, William \ \ MPP&A, Aberhart, Canada’s Dr. Townsend, contrariwise is in no \ , windsplitting hurry to begin putting out. V \ V \ • Plagued daily with the hard cash reality of provincial - jß.jl debt and resisting, as best he can, a determined effort in * V J the Canadian East and Wall Street to deprive the distressed X ± TT - • provinces of nnancia! auton- ’ t Jl , 'J omy through bank - con- Calgary institute in which the f. . ! J 8 j lti i Premier painstakingly attempted jfBmJmSHUm * trolled loan councils, I re- to reconcile, for an inquirer, two ... ; mier Alberhart has, at the Plages in which st. Paul ap- Mm* 1 : .. parently had contradicted himself otner fish to fry. ~n women preach- i Moreover, as acute Social in &- 1 ma. • . . . T 4-rsrsW 4-U*

Right—Main street of typical farming community, Wembley, Alberta. At left, a settler’s cabin near Wembley. From country such as this Aberhart draws his strength. The “Alberta Townsend Plan" government has held office for six months. The Scripjis-Howard newspapers sent Forrest Davis to Alberta to make a study of Premier Aberhart’s progress in bestowing $25 a month on all adult citizens. His sixth and final article follows. BT FORREST DAVIS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer. Alberta, March 12.—The impoverished, bewildered Albertans who, last August, whimsically embraced the personal advantages of $25 a month and the promise of anew boom, naturally are eager for the heavens to open and manna to descend. Their leader, William Aberhart, Canada’s Dr. Townsend, contrariwise is in no windsplitting hurry to begin putting out. Plagued daily with the hard cash reality of provincial debt and resisting, as best he can, a determined effort in the Canadian East and Wall Street to deprive the distressed

provinces of financial autonomy through bank - controlled loan councils, Premier Alberhart has, at the moment, otner fish to fry. Moreover, as acute Social Crediters are beginning to perceive, the manna, if and when it descends, will not fall as freely as the snow. Under Mr. Aberhart’s program, there is a catch to the $25 per. The Premier stoutly insists—heretically, according to the Douglas Social Credit true believers—that all moneys paid out in social dividends must be "recovered” by the province in taxes. He prefers to call the taxes levies. tt tt it 1 INASMUCH as the price or virtually all products "exported” by Alberta is fixed in outside markets—wheat in Liverpool, hogs in Chicago, etc.—the levies could not be assessed against consumers elsewhere. The burden would fall on Alberta’s producers and consumers alone, who, as dividend receivers, may be privileged to pay into the Provincial Treasury a sum roughly approximating that which, with the other hand, they have drawn out of the State Credit House. A process which was disparagingly described to me, a visiting layman unversed in the subtleties of Prophetic Bible Institute economics, as robbing Peter to pay Peter, Paul to pay Paul. The Premier granted me an interview, through the kind offices of his attorney general, John Hugill, K. C., to discuss these points. I was agreeably surprised by his candor, his thoughtfulness and seeming sincerity. I had listened to a radio broadcast from the

WASHINGTON, March 12. —When the President first sent to Congress his plan for the taxation of surplus corporation profits. Muley Bob Doughton of North Carolina, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, was none too enthusiastic. He wasn’t outright hostile. but he had his doubts. Then Doughton’s committee began considering possible alternative taxes. It listened to Chester Davis, Triple-A Administrator, who supplied a long list of substitutes for processing taxes. Prominent among these substitutes was an item calling for a 331-3 per cent increase in the excise tax on tobacco. Tobacco happens to be a major crop in North Carolina. Also, Doughton not only happens to be a candidate for re-election this year, but wants to run against Senator Bob Reynolds in 1933. A tobacco tax for him would be political suicide. Doughton took one look at the tobacco item and stiffened. “You don’t propose to increase the tax on tobacco?” he asked Chester Davis. “It would be necessary if the President’s program were rejected,” was the answer. Next day Doughton made a nation-wide radio address. In it he voiced unequivocal approval of Roosevelt’s corporat on tax. “I am particularly impressed,” he declaimed, “by the wisdom and the timeliness of the President’s suggestion for a revision of our system of taxation of corporation profits, a system justly open to severe criticism.” a js tt THE complete informality of relations between the President and the White House staff continues to amaze strangers unaccustomed to it. Some time ago, Roosevelt was engaged in an important confer-

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Calgary Institute in which the Premier painstakingly attempted to reconcile, for an inquirer, two passages in which St. Paul apparently had contradicted himself on the subject of women preaching. I took that to be merely the working out of a private hobby, not a demonstration of his public capacity. tt tt tt IN the red-carpeted legislative chamber, I had observed Mr. Aberhart leading His Majesty’s government from the front bench unflurried and dignified; his voice didactic and precise like a schoolmaster’s. He easily dominated his 55 members, none of whom ever had sat before in a legislative body, as he did his Cabinet, which includes Mr. Chant, a farmer; Mr. Fallows, a railway station agent;.Mr. Cockroft, a solvent country storekeeper, and Mr. Manning, secretary of the Prophetic Bible Institute. The speaker is a Mormon bishop. All parliamentary uprisings of the people produce untried leaders from the humbler walks. When the United Farmers antedated Aberhart’s sweep in 1921, only one of their majority had legislative experience. The Alberta Legislature has only one house. The Premier, tall, over-fleshed, and who, like the Bryan of his admiration, is never tardy for meals, has what is known as a "fine presence.” A rounded man, with roundish bald head, rounded broad shoulders; round eyes and decidedly full lips. Mr. Aberhart gives a first impression of benevolence. The frostiness of his blue eyes modifies that impression. Authoritative rather than genial,

ence on the reduction of farm acreage. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and other high officials of the AAA were present. Suddenly Marguerite Le Hand, Roosevelt’s personal secretary, burst into the room. “I just couldn’t help telling you,” she said to the President, "Mrs. Sam Roseman just telephoned from New York to tell me about young Sam. He is going to school, and the other day they had a memory test. They all had to recite their fathers’ telephone numbers. “And when it came young Sam’s turn, what do you think he said? He drew himself up in a very dignified manner, and said: ‘My father has a private telephone number and I am not permitted to disclose it.’ ” After that the presidential discussion of crop acreage continued. Note—Judge Sam Roseman, now a justice of the New York State Supreme Court, once was head of Roosevelt’s original Brain Trust in Albany. Roosevelt always has been fond of him. tt tt u IT looks like a busy year for Rep. John O'Connor, who has kept one jump ahead of the kick he was going to give Father Coughlin. Several prominenc Tammanyites in the “gas house” district which he represents are being strongly urged to run against O’Connor on the ground that, although a Democrat and chairman of the House Rules Committee, he has opposed important New Deal legislation. . . . Rep. Jennings Randolph (D., W. Va.) has introduced a bill to erect a memorial to Dr. Samuc 1 A. Mudd, who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln assassin. Randolph introduced the bill one day after a moving picture depicting the career of Dr. Mudd was shown in a Washington theater.

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Premier William Aberhart at his desk in the Provincial Parliament Building.

the Premier disapproves of frivolity in the form of alcohol, tobacco, cosmetics, dancing, card-playing and horse-racing. tt tt tt TN our interview the Premier expressed himself with conviction on three points: (1) that sooner or later he would be paying the social dividend; (2) that this would restore prosperity and wellbeing in Alberta; (3) that all sums paid out must be “recovered” by the province. “Unless the money is recovered,” he declared positively, “it will be no better than fiat money and we would have inflation, which would harm every one.” He was reminded that Douglas’ social credit proposes distribution of credit gratis, both to consumer and producer, disavowing “recovery” of the credits. He replied briefly that Maj. Douglas, who is Chief Reconstruction Adviser to the Alberta government, had not seen fit to furnish him with a plan whereby that could be done. Douglas, the Social Credit Moses, and Aberhart, the politically empowered North American apostle, have worked at cross purposes since the election. Repeatedly, the government has announced dispatch of a cabled invitation to Douglas; just as repeatedly Douglas or the Social Secretariat in London has denied receipt of such a message. Orthodox Social Creditors lay the apparent rift to machinations by bankers. The difference, in my opinion, may be understood on simpler grounds. Mr. Aberhart’s Social Credit is a composite of Douglas, Dr. Townsend and the late Huey Long. He took from Douglas the premise that, owing to a flaw in the price system, buying power never equals the price of goods and services ready at hand. From Townsend he borrowed the transaction, or turn-over, tax as a means of financing the subsidies. Long contributed share-the-wealth principles out of which flowed Mr. Aberhart’s dictum—anathema 'to the Douglasites—that a citizen is entitled to an income “no greater than he and his loved ones can possibly enjoy.” Mr. Aberhart is firmly committed to his synthetic Social Credit and a problem in reconciliation awaits the arrival of Maj. Douglas, if and when he comes to Edmonton. The Premier expects him after the current legislative session. Meanwhile Mr.. Aberhart has stilled protest by announcing that he will have the legislature empower the council, composed of his cabinet and the lieutenant-gov-ernor, a figure-head representing the crown, to put Social Credit into effect—at a later date. tt tt tt THE Premier has not settled on a formula for distributing and recovering the dividend, although the “capanual” he wrote as a campaign textbook was nothing if not specific. Frankly, he admits that he awaits expert advice. At the moment he considers a switch from the Townsend tax plan to the use of “stamp money,” as advocated by a German economist. The scheme revolves abo-it the theory of velocity, i. e., that if money turns over fast enough its scarcity is overcome. Douglas unsparingly denounces the theory.

Stamp money finally is canceled and retired, its exponents suppose. A stamp dollar is issued, let us say, in the form of a social dividend. If its original holder keeps it longer than a week he must buy a 2-cent stamp to paste on its back. So on, through all the transactions. At the end of each week, • whoever holds the dollar must stamp it. At the end of a year the Treasury has sold a dollar’s worth of stamps and the last holder may redeem the bill with an unstamped one. That is the theory. “It presents constitutional problems,”., the Premier explained. Under the Bank of Canada Acts, money is closely defined and the right to its issuance reserved to the central bank. But Mr. Aberhart is in no perceptible hurry. He surmises that it may be necessary to begin paying the dividend gradually, perhaps to limited classes, such as the aged, infirm and those already on-relief. “But in time every one must accept the dividend,” he added. tt tt tt THE Premier plans ambitiously for Alberta’s development. He would like to establish power plants at mine heads and furnish

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Solution to Previous Contract Problem BY W. E. M’KENNEY Secretary American Bridge League TT is every bridge player's ambition to get his opponents into r, squeeze position. It is seldom, however, that you find a hand Where you can squeeze both opoonents. Such a p’ay by the old authorities was termed a triple squeeze, but modern piayers call it a double squeeze. The name “triple squeeze” was based on the fact that you got a squeeze on three suits, while the name “double squeeze” means that you have both opponents squeezed; and that is perhaps the better term. Today’s hand was played in a rubber game and was the last rubber of the evening. North and South were on the losing side of the rubber. South was an optimistic player and decided that he was willing to lose more in an endeavor to get even, which accounts for his bold bidding of seven spadts. He justi-

power to producers, industrial and agricultural, at dirt cheap rates. He envisages fur farms in the foothills of the Rockies, neighborhood plants to fabricate the straw that now goes to waste, shoe factories to use hides now buried by the farmers and woolen mills to make use of the province’s fleece. Alberta has vast power and r£w' material resources and the highest freight rate in Canada. I congratulated him on the political experimentations of Albertans and the magnitude of his opportunity. “Come back in five years,” he said. “Six months is too short a time. We’ll have something here in five years.” As I was preparing to leave the legislative building an elderly couple entered. The woman wore a shawl, old country style. They spoke imperfect English. It was discovered they liad come to see Mr. Aberhart because they had a notice of foreclosure. Their SSO a month would, they thought, hold hold off the sheriff. It was not, I was told, an isolated instance. Mr. Aberhart promised these people the moon. THE END

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fled this bid with exceptionally fine play. The opening lead of the queen of clubs was won with the ace. The king of spades w-as cashed, followed by the ace of diamonds. A small spade w-as won in dummy with the ace. The queen of diamonds was returned, East covered with the the ten of spades. The eight of spades was led and won in dummy with the nine spot. Dummy’s jack of diamonds w-as led, and declarer discarded the three of clubs. Now a club was led and w T on by declarer with the king. The queen of spades was cashed, and a heart discarded from dummy. Declarer now held three hearts and a spade. He led his last trump and West was squeezed. He had to hold the jack of clubs, on account of dummy’s club, so he played a heart. Dummy discarded the club, and East found himself squeezed. If he discarded the ten of diamonds, dummy’s nine would be good; so he also let go of a heart. This, of course, established all of declarer’s hearts and the grand slam was made. (Copyright. 1936. by NEA Service. Inc.)

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Fair Enough UMRPIM T7TENNA, March 12. You must come over to ’ Europe this year. Try to come for the Olympic games in Berlin and take a little swing through Switzerland, Italy, Austria, the Balkans. Russia and Czechoslovakia. Then go home and fall on your face and kiss the granite blocks on West-st, whers

the steamboats are tied up. Have a good look at the customs inspectors over here, who flop into the trains every few hours wanting to see your passport and count your money and go through your baggage for letters, banknotes and pamphlets, cigarets. matches and souvenirs. Try to realize that on one side of an imaginary line it’s a criminal offense to doubt that a notorious ignoramus named Adolf Hitler is the sum of divine knowledge and that on the other side of the same line it's a critical offense to regard him as anything but a murderous maniac.

Try to realize that in each case a race of people boasting of their ancient civilization and their modern education are required to accept the belief and may be thrown into prison for open defiance. tt a tt Strange Jabber Strikes the Ear LIST to the strange jabber of many languages that strikes the ear in a short journey. Try to compute the money lost by evaporation as you change your dollars from francs to marks, to crowns, to lire, to Austrian schillings and rubles. It will amount to something between 2 per cent and 4 in the ordinary state, and in Germany the loss will be 40 per cent, where there’s an arbitrary and artificial distinction between the registered and the ordinary mark. Don’t bother to figure that one out now. Come over to Europe and learn to appreciate your own country, where you may drive through 48 states with one license plate on your car, using one kind of money, speaking one language and without permitting any one to open your baggage or look at your private papers. Austria and Hungary used to be one country, but today you are stopped at the border and put through the mill. Coming out of Italy, a treasury man will fumble through your letters from home searching for smuggled lire. In Czechoslovakia you will draw a breath of fresh air. The Czechs are a more or less liberally sane island in a sea of madness. You can buy papers and books in Prague for and against Communism, for and against Fascism, Naziism and Christianity. They don’t like to let too much of their money leak out, but they aren’t very particular. Nevertheless, at thousands of points along the thousands of miles of international frontiers detachments of troops and inspectors stand to prevent the import or export of money and food and clothing and manufactured goods. tt tt tt By All Means, Visit Europe IF you live ir Austria and you're coming home with a 50-cent toy the Austrian customs collector wants his 2 cents duty. Going into Russia, you had better declare every thread and shred of clothing and every gilt collar button and get a registered inventory or they’ll hold you up on the way out and give you trouble. I’ve driven across many state boundaries at home; and sometimes I’ve been guilty of very strong opinions regarding the reigni: g politicians thereof. But even on entering Louisiana at the height of his power I didn’t find it necessary to declare an admiration for Huey P. Long, the dictator of the moment. And I doubt that Americans entering Georgia or Kansas today are made uncomfortable should they express doubt regarding Eugene Talmadge or Alfred Landon. Try to imagine the troops and customs stations and currency and passport inspectors of 48 states holding up traffic, going through the little possessions of the travelers and jawing away at them in 48 languages at hundreds of thousands of points of entry and exit along the state boundaries and you may get a glimpse of an idea. By all means come over to Europe this year, and don’t miss Germany. If you never appreciated your own country before you will then.

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WASHINGTON, March 12.—There is now more labor unrest than at any time since NRA went down. The reason is plain. Since the codes, hours have been lengthened, wages cut and the cost of living has increased. Labor is being increasingly squeezed between these obvious forces. Their dangerous resentment is almost certain to become more bitter. Labor knows that this Administration has tried to do all that could be done politically to improve working conditions. But in casting up the cold hard results, it finds mostly shattered hopes. Except among the few employers who maintain code standards, the results are nil. All efforts to help labor have been blocked. The New York building service strike is a failure, but it served to call attention to the fact that there are again people in this country who have to work seven days u week, 12 hours a day, for about 25 cents an hour. tt u tt DEPENDING altogether on the judicial fate of the Guffey “little NRA” in the bituminous coal industry, the intolerable pre-code conditions in that dark and bloody ground of industrial unrest threaten to return. The figures on total unemployment disclose the ugly fact that the load of 10,000,000 unemployed breadwinners for about 44,000,000 people is not in the least relieved. The most superficial examination of business trends, against unemployment figures, shows that on no reasonable prospect of business recovery, at present hours and wages, is there any promise of giving livings back to most of this vast group. From neither party and from no potential candidate comes anything designed to improve this impossible condition. There is only one word to describe such political complacency in this kind of danger. It is crazy. Unemployment is our worst problem and we no longer even try to face it. (Copyright, 1936. bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

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A NOSTALGIC romance of the “University of Chicago's swaddling days is the fare produced by James Weber Linn in “This Was Life” (BobbsMerrill, Indianapolis; $2). Mr. Linn, professor of English at is an able raconteur of college life. He is a nephew of the late Jane Acdams and recently published a biography of his famous aunt. His hero, Jerry Grant, seems a little ill-chosen until the pace quickens with the addition of fascinating Neil Gordon and vivacious Dorothy Keith, who seems a likely heroine. The story continues on in smooth vein, relating various incidents common to college life in those days until Prof. Linn introduces a little excitement. The aristocratic Dorothy falls in love with the exprize fighter. Chuck Bangs, and Jerry is drawn into the affair against his will. The story ends suddenly with Dorothy’s marriage to Chuck. The reader closes the book wishing it were not ended. Its characters, conversations and intimacies bring the college life of those days very near and delightfully real.. (By Dorothy Riui*. * XT'

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