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| KRON, May 6.—The boys on The Akron

Times-Press thought I might get a columngout of the Akron widow who had been advettising for a husband.

They, didn’t have a telephone, so 1 just |

drove out and rang the bell. “Is this Mrs. Cunningham?” I said, she being the one who was looking for a husband.

| She said| yes, and to come on in. There were ‘three people in the living room— Mrs. Cunningham, her sister Mrs. Keener, and a man named Jimmy. When I introduced myself they all laughed. = They had thought I was a prospective husband. (And

a mighty fine one I'd make, too, -

with my new Borsalino hat and my smooth city-slicker tongue.) The house was a nice, average workingman’s home, tastefully furnished. Mrs. Cunningham (the widow) is in her early 30s, has two boys, 12 and 10. She lost her husband | three years ago in an accident. This Mr Jimmy, on the davenport, said practically nothing. Mrs. Cunningham (the widow) isn’t averse to saying aj few words now.and then, but she doesn’t have much [chance While Mrs. Keener is around. Mrs. Keener really takes charge of situations. “This was all my doings,” Mrs. Keener says. “We read in the papers about somebody advertising for a husband, so I said to Sis, sort of kidding like, I said, ‘Why So you do that, Sis?’ So just more for a joke than anything else she sat down and wrote a letter to The Times-Press, giving her qualifications and what she’'d| expect of a husband.

Mr. Pyle

“Well, next morning the reporters and photog-

raphers were out here” (Mrs. Cunningham here. gets in a word and says she wouldn't have done it if she'd known hoy. the paper would play it up.) And Mrs. Keener continues: “But were people that don't start anything unless we finish it. And we're Irish and like a joke and we were having” a lot of fun.”

| z u's 10 Already Had Applied T HAD heen about a week after the first announcement when I got there, and already 10 men had applied in| person, and they had letters from four mora. They were having a lot of fun. Mrs. Keener was getting worried, too. Seems they had some nasty letters from Akronites who didn't approve of such

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“So the plot thickens,” as Mrs. Keener put it. “But I say that(if any of our friends don't take it in the right spirit, then ‘they're not the kind we want for friends anyway. “We did this thing partly as a joke, and we're open and aboveboard about it. A girl like Sis doesn’t have a chance to meet many new people, and maybe this way she might meet some nice man she wouldn't meet otherwise. 5 “As I tell Sis, she wouldn't take any beauty prizes, but beauty isn't everything and after you get to know a person you never think about how they lodk.” Mrs. Cunningham (the widow) laughed, and I said that’s the| way I felt, too, that beauty isn’t everything. ’ % #8 =» Jimmy Speaks Up SAID | hat I ‘could never answer an ad because I wou dn’t know how to get away. If I didn’t want to marry the gal, I wouldn't know what to say when I left. And at that point this Mr. Jimmy, on the couch, sort of raised up and said, “That's just what I was wondering all the way out here.” I had thought he was one of the family all the time, but here he turned out to be one of the applicants! Mrs. Keener said ‘well, no matter how it turned out, they'd met a lot of nice people. And Mrs. Cunningham)| laughed and said that-even if she didn’t get a husband she'd sure met a lot of newspapermen. And Mrs. Keener said they'd never known any newspapermen before, and that they sure did like that bunch down at |The Times-Press. | Finally I said I had to go. The |Keeners and’the Cunninghams asked me to stay for dinner, and when I couldn(t, they said the next time I came to Akron I must come out and let them stir lup a real homecooked meal.

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Mrs.Roosevelt's Day

| By ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

EATTLE, Wednesday—The other day, when every- _

* one who. came to tea remarked that I brought the sunshine with me, I began to think that Seattle must have a good deal of cloudy weather. If this week i§ any criferion the sun always shines and I shall take away with. me the impression of sunshine lon the| water, of glistening white mountain peaks, land of [flowers everywhere as we drive in town every [emning. The [stone walls, which are covered with yellow, ‘purple and white flowers, fill. me with admiration. I know no place in the East where you get the impression of| every available spot being used to;please the eye with some new splash of color. The city is spread out over so many hills that it seems to me to cover a tremendous area. . Yesterday we drove out to the University of Washington [campus. A number of the buildings have been built with the aid of WPA. I was told that it was difficult to keep building rapidly enough to accommodate the number of students who desire to attend. | During the afternoon, I made the‘rounds, with my daughter and son-in-law, of the various newspaper departments in their building. There is something quite fascinating about the variety of activities which go on under the roof of a newspaper.

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CORONATIONS SOMETIMES ROUGH

Slaughter Followed When William the

By MORRIS GILBERT NEA Staff Writer

BRITISH rulers have not always been as mannerly and upper-crust as the present reigning house, and coronations not always as high-toned and genteel as the approaching one should

be. Some coronations, in fact,

have been pretty rough. + Tragedy has dawned with the

once. “That hollow crown,” which Shakespeare says ‘rounds the mortal temples of a king,” has sometimes surrounded a powerful headache, too: ; William the .Conqueror, at his coronation in Westminster Abbey, got off importantly on the wrong foot. He was new to his job, didn’t like the Angles and Saxons much anyway (and they had pretty good reason not to like him either), and stood in considerable danger of life and limb. So when crowds outside the Abbey began yelling, William's soldiers -imagined the noise was a unified menace or razzberry, and maybe it was. wifliam’s marines landed to establish order, and did so with swords, battleaxes, and other unfriendly ‘tools. The slaughter was considerable, and then the troops tried a little arson. Pretty soon, a sizable section of London was blazing merrily. Meanwhile only William and a few priests were left inside the Abbey and the ceremony: was finished before practically no witnesses. : = 2 2 ICHARD THE LIONHEARTED seemed to like being crowned. It got to be a habit with him. The first time was at Westminster in 1180. Fearing that, like vaccination, it hadn't taken or had worn off, he was crowned again 11 years later. This was on the island of Cyprus - during the Crusades. Just to make it good, he did it all over again in Winchester when he returned to England. His first coronation was the worst because of the massacre that accompanied it. The persons who were massacred were Jews, the. Crusaders of those days being as resolute anti-Semites as will be found today in any German beer garden. Jewish homes made good bonfires, too. Most pitiful of all coronations

of 9 years in the year 1207. England was a prey to anarchy, armies of France were invading the land, only a few nobles still surrounded the little King. The crown and royal jewels had been lost by the late King John in fording the Wash, an estuary of the North Sea. Speed seemed so essential that the forlorn little band supporting Henry decided to have him hastily crowned at Gloucester with a simple fillet of gold. As it turned out his was a long, if inglorious, reign. The great Elizabeth was crowned under somewhat similar national conditigns, gBngland being then much disrupted and threatened from abroad. But her coronation procession was triumphant, she won the hearts of Londoners, and auspiciously commenced her magnificent rule.

" 8 2 T Charles II's coronation, the King himself had to separate the royal coachman from

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I, to prove that it was only by his own consent that the

church should crown him, lifted the crown from the altar and handed

it to the archbishop.

Conqueror Got Razzberry

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“God bless you, my son,” says

George V.

making episode at his coronation.

King Edward VII in a precedentThe son became revered King:

the Lords of the Cinque Ports who were indulging. in an unseemly brawl for possession’ of the royal canopy. When George IV (Beau Brummel’s “fat friend”) was crowned, the day was made hideous by the screams and evolutions of Queen Caroline. George and . Caroline had been separated for years, he had lost a suit to divorce her, and she turned up at the Abbey determined to take the place her rank entitled her to. George had ordered her barred. She was. For a long time she diverted and irritated loyal subjects outside the Abbey by her vociferous efforts to get in. Finally she drove away, her plumes defiantly nodding. Nicer manners set in with Victoria, She was the belle of her own | coronation, a bewildering apparition to the assembled multitudes who didn’t know what to make of being ruled by a girl of 19. One unforeseen episode occurred. Overcome with years and emotion, old Lord Rollo rolled down the steps of the throne on his way to offer homage to his sprightly sovereign. She leaped from her chair, lifted the ancient noble, accepted his allegiance at the steps, and seated herself again, all with such natural grace as endeared her to all hearts, the chronicle tells. Her son, Edward VII, repeated this kindly, simple act when the then Archbishop of Canterbury seemed on the verge of collapse. And Edward added a homely, paternal touch of his own when he was seen to kiss the cheek of the Prince of Wales, later George V, and press his hand during the ceremony of receiving homage: “God bless you, my son.” he said. s ” ”. HERE is a certain poignancy in the record that George V

gave a similar fatherly blessing

when his own eldest son knelt before him. No doubt it all seemed simple then. Little Edward in turn would sit in that high place, would receive the fealty of a great people, would commence a long and no doubt glorious reign! How could a loving father imagine the untoward events which ‘were to make that ‘boy a virtual exile from his own land, an absentee from the throne which was his by long heritage, from that coronation ceremony where he might have been the ‘unique shining figure! A bat, disturbed by so many people being in church, circled and circled around the head of Richard the Lion-Hearted during his Westminster coronation. 6 It was an evil omen. When Richard, on that same occasion, himself lifted the crown from the altar and handed it to the archbishop it was also considered bad luck. Richard wanted to prove that it was by his own consent that the church could crown him. Churchmen, jealous of their prerogatives, shook their heads. -

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HE most jealous churchman of all, however, was that Archbishop of Canterbury who functioned at the coronation of the queen consort of Henry I. Seeing a crown on the head of the king he abruptly snatched it off. He imagined, the historian explains, that “his right to put on the monarch’s crown had been infringed.” It wasn't a bat, but another bird, which troubled the superstitious subjects of Victoria on her coronation day. Flying in majestic sweeps around the palace, it caused a shudder of dismay. Then somebody discovered that it was a goose. All was well. The omen of a goose is hardly evil, whatever it is.

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Public Service

ASHINGTON, May 6—William Allen White once remarked in his Emporia Gazette that the late Frank A. Munsey had used his talents to change journalism from a profession into a 6 per cent investment. The old-time personal editor largely has given way to the newspaper corporation, and in the eyes of the Supreme Court the newspaper as a commercial institution’ is subject to the Wagner Labor Act on the same footing as the manufacturer of auto trailers and men’s suits. - But the Pulitzer prize awards; offer striking evidence that whilg the making of newspapers: may have become a large manufacturing industry, some of them are engaged in courageous battles ‘to serve public ends. The Atlanta Journal, one of the largest and most prosperous newspapers in the South, won a Pulitzer citation for its campaign against corruption and inefficieney in the Atlanta police department. This newspaper's journalistic activities resulted in the election of a new ‘mayor and /in a housecleaning of the local government. The Cleveland Press, one of the Scripps-Howard' group, won a CcCitation for its investigation of a cemetery racket. The Cleveland Press took up the complaint of a poor reader who had exchanged his savings for lots sold him on the speculative argument that there was a shortage of burial plots. As it pursued its investigation, the Press discovered that residents of" Cleveland had been swindled out of more than $1,000,000 through this racket. It found that high police officials were involved in it. Three of them were convicted.

2 E- 2 HE St..Louis Post-Dispatch was cited for its work in exposing election frauds in St. Louis. There was good reason to believe that reg-

Pulitzer Prize Papers Did , Clapper Says

By RAYMOND CLAPPER

Times Special Writer

have had to sleep 20 in a room to account for the number of voters registéred from those addresses. On primary day last spring -the Post-Dispatch sent photographers

out with cameras equipped with

telescopic lenses. They photographed men going in and out of polling places. Checking over these photographs later, they caught one city employee in line at nine different voting places. There was his face

lin the nine different photographs.

Registered letters were sent to suspected phonies, and scores were returned with the report that the addressee was unknown at the address given on the registration. rolls. The Post-Dispateh, on its own responsibility printed names and charges. Numerous convictions were obtained. The Governor held out against firing his election board, but finally the heat became so strong that Boss Pendergast, who by that time was scenting a similar storm in Kansas City, where the Kansas City Star was uncovering similar frauds, forced the Governor to put in a new election board. This new board found 40,000 false registrations—almost equal to the entire presidential vote cast in Nevada last fall—and' purged them from the rolls. E-4 ” ” N each of these three instances a newspaper exposed scandalous conditions involving police and local officials. - Except for the work these newspapers did, and for their courage in obtaining and publishing evidence against their local authorities; the conditions probably would have gone untouched. Local officials naturally were not looking for anything that would expose their own crowd. The public, without the newspaper as a medium of publication, would neither have discovered the full extent of the abuses nor have had any effective means of forcing action. If the newspapers hadn't done it, it prob= ably wouldn't have heen done. All of which makes: you wonder what America would be like with a press controlled as in Germany or

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Our Town

NEVER saw the like before. Maybe it's ~ the spirit of spring, or maybe it’s the natives’ annual habit of giving away to tems perament, but whatever it is, everybody is just dying to tell me everything. - For ex ample: Arthur L. Strauss says you'd be surprised to know the number of men in Indianapolis who don’t wear garters. . . . Walter Pederson. will not buy a necktie

unless it has a woolen lining cut on the bias. . . . The late Charles Moores used to call George Calvert. “Lord Baltimore,” and the name stuck. George J. — mother brought the recipe for Stuffed tenderloins to Indianapolis, and ex-

. cept for a little too much sage on

the part of the modern generation, the original recipe holds up right well, . . . Mrs. Fred McCain . didn’t get to know Mother Goose , Mr. Scherrer until she had children of her own. “ Mrs. McCain’s mother believed in bringing children up on Shakespeare—see? Mrs. Morris Ross rode in Tom Thumb'’s carriage when she was a little girl, by invitation of P. T, Barnum, and right here in Indianapolis, too. . . . Mrs. Otto N. Mueller likes to eat a cold potato before retiring. . . . Mrs. Arthur Taylor says you can prevent hives if you peel your strawberries. = | Albert. Walsman always carries a piece of string and a stick of chewing gum in his pocket. ... Mrs, Meta Lieber saves every bit of string she can lay her hands on. 5 2 5 #

Broke Cigar in Two

Oe STARK always broke a cigar in. two, got two ‘smokes that way. . . . Mrs. Hugo Pantzer studied piano with Clara Wieck, spouse of Robert Schumann. For the matter of that, practically all the wives of Indianapolis physicians are musicians, «.. And I would be ducking my duty to my readers, including Fred Polley, if I failed to tell them that Mrs. Frederic Polley has never seen-a circus. I may have mentioned this before, but it’s getting to be more serious every year; Neither has Arthur Bohn ever seen ga game of pro= fessional baseball. . , . The secret of Mrs. Leroy Tema pleton’s tomato bisque lies in pouring the tomatoes’ into the milk, and not the milk into the tomatoes. «+. I thought you ought to know. 4 :

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Boy Tired of Dutch

AVID PEAT, 4-year old hopeful of Wilbur and Talitha, is the youngest customer: of/ Luther Dickerson’s Library. Recently, when ‘it came time to pick a new book, gne of the attendants suggested

~“The Dutch Twins” by Lucy Fitch Perkins. “Gosh,

no,” said David, “I don’t want to hear anything more about those people.” . ... This is positively the last reference to Mr. Peat’s recent show in this colfimn. David Peat is also the kid whose birth. got George Calvert so excited. Mr. Calvert, I remember, spent days pleading with Pere Peat to name the boy Peter. I have always regretted that Mr. Peat wouldn't listen to Mr. Calvert, because Pete Peat certainly would have been a mouthful. !

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a? ‘A Woman's View

By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

= highest attainment of women will always be Christian motherhood, and upon you rests the full responsibility for making America a great nation.”

- So- said a clergyman in a sermon to a group of clube

women. A

How do the men get that way, I wonder? It sounds like mighty poor logic nowadays, yet most of them are ready to dump all domestic .and social troubles into women’s laps and say, “There, ‘take care of these.”

The inference is, of course that if women keep good homes, and train good children, everything else will be hunkydory, and we need not worry about such items as capital and labor struggles or political graft, or economic upheavals; or war and peace. “Just you look after the children and the home,” they say, “and we'll take care of everything else.” Well, it won't work. Because politics and business need women, and home and children need men. Mothers are a valuable domestic asset, we'll grant, but we could do -with a few more fathers who had stiff backbones and less love for material success. It isn’t the feminine influence that’s lacking in the American domicile but the good old-fashioned masculine bossing that used to function so well when men set up

“standards for the family, made the ultimate decisions

about major problems and decided when Junior could or could not take the fringed-top surrey out on Sunday afternoon for a drive with his best girl. | The home began to disintegrate at the precise moe ment when Papa took up commuting and golf, leav= ing the children to the wisdom and care of Mother and the school teachers. A! If men really believe the home is such an impor’ tant factor in the nation’s welfare. why don’t a few of them spend ‘some time in it? The children need more attention—nobody denies it—so it’s up to father to lend a hand with the job. In no age save ours has

My daughter, granddaughter and I ended up -our tour |in the homemaker's aullitorium. For little Eleanor to] have tea was a real treat, and we all enjoyed jour little period of leisurely conversation. I found this department of the paper was cooperating closely with the university, and I was told of a dourse given there which seems to me very practical for young women. ‘ Po |

istration rolls were padded with fake names which the machine was voting on election day. The Post-Dis-patch put a squad of reporters to work. They took registration lists and went from house to house, checking them. They found that in sonie rooming houses men would

Italy or Russia, where the ordered press is “co-ordinated” and played upon by government politicians .as if it were a piano. . ; On the other hand, it makes you

000 active registrants at offices of the United States Employment Service in July, 1936, showed that 23 per cent of the job-seekers were unskilled workers, an equal percentage semiskilled workers, 19 per cent skilled workers, 15 per cent service workers, with smaller percentages of clerical workers, professional workers, and sales persons. Almost onefourth of the registrants were from 16 to 24 years of age, 23 per cent from 25 to 34 years, 20 per cent from 35 to 44 years, 17 per cent from 45 to 54 years, with smaller percentages in the higher age groups. A comparison of these percentages with the proportions of all gainfully employable persons in the various age groups indicated that unemployment was less among persons in the higher and lower groups. While directing attention to the difficulties experienced by older workers in obtaining jobs, this analysis showed that the problem was apparently even more serious for men in the lowest-age group, covering the Years from 16 to 24. The latter statistics emphasized the need, now generally recognized, of providing more adequate facilities for the thorough training of young persons in trades and skills in which employment . opportunities may be expected to open up in the near fusure if recovery proceeds at its present pace. The program of the Federal Committee on Apprentice Training is directed toward this end. The F.C. A. T, working independently and through co-operat-Ing state committees, is striving to revive a system of indentured apprenticeship, which has largely fallen out of use in this country. It seeks to promote adoption of high standards of apprenticeship, which will assure an orderly flow of new and adequately trained workers into the various skilled occupations. Its work is receiving the increasing co-

operation of labor and e groups. Tapioyer

By E. R. R. |

Rove industrial activity is producing frequent complaints of shortages of skilled workers, despite the continued existence of a large volume of unemployment. The : : best available evidence indicates N B ~~ that while the supply of labor, even of skilled labor, is still plentiful ,in | ew OOKS most trades and most places, there

PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS— are genuine shortages: in certain +ITH his study of the American Indian in | highly skilled occupations in scat- | : ”» 771 tered localities. | “Massacre,” Robert Gessner began analyzing : the problems of minority groups. His present book, | . Recovery of business at an acSOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE JEWS (Farrar), celerated pace threatens to make is ho oui anti-Semitism in the world today. In |such shortages, and other shortages

the male parent been exempt from the responsibility of bringing up his children. What's more, he doesn’t seem to be making much headway with his own special business. Things are in even more of a mess than they used to be. Wouldn” wonder what those dictator coun-| it be a good idea for all of us to get back home and tries would be like if they had a| stay there for a spell? free press. - ;

CLIMBS PACIFIC HILLs| Your Health

Editor, American Medical Assn, Journal

N the United States, approximately 2,000,000 peoe ple suffer from heart disease. . The number of deaths from heart disease has been steadily rising so’that this condition now leads all others as a cause of death; its rate is almost double that of the next important cause. : Thus, in 1933, the rate for heart disease was 227.9 per 100,060 population: for cancer, 102.2; for pneumonia, 69.2, and for tuberculosis, 59.5. ; Of heart disease victims, 90 per cent are people over 40 years of age; the remaining 10 per cent below that age. Many cases of heart disease are the result of rheumatic fever occurring in childhood and degenerative disorders occuring in middle life. Before it is possible to explain heart disease clear= ly, it is necessary to understand the nature of this interesting organ. : K The heaft is essentially a pump which circulates the “blood throughout the body. At birth, it weighs less than an ounce. In a grown person, if the heart is normal, it weighs about half a pound and is somewhat larger than a fist. : At birth the heart beats about 130 times a minute; at 6 years of age, 100 times a minute; at 10 years of age, about 90; and at 15 years of age, . about 85. Among grownups, rates of anywhere from 65 to 80 a minute may well be within the normal. The impulse which causes the heart to contract develops in some nerve tissue called the pace-maker of the heart. An attempt to measure this impulse indicates that its energy is the equivalent of onethousandth of a volt. : The blood enters the heart after having been collected from the veins of the body and passed through _ the lungs, where new oxygen is taken up. When the heart muscle contracts, the blood is forced out of the heart and then goes by way of the large arteries and blood vessels to the farthest extremes of the body. The heart: moves hundreds of gallons of blood a day, but since there are only about six quarts of blood in a human body, it is moving the same fluid, slightly modified chemically as it travels about, over and over again. It has been estimdted that, during an ordinary lifetime, the heart beats 3,500,000,000 Umea

tion that is a part of their training course, and by the Division of Vocational Education in the Federal Office of Education. The FederalState program of vocational education, carried on since 1917, has been

expanded during the depression to help unemployed persons to keep abreast of new developments in their industries or to fit themselves for new occupations. Vocationaltraining courses have also been offered as part of the WPA and CCC educational programs. Failure to train new workers is believed to have reacted to the temporary advantage of older craftsmen in those trades where shortages have begun to develop. WPA statistics indicate, however, that older unemployed workers are going back into private industry at rates less -rapid than those for persons in lower age groups. The problem of the older worker has been made more difficult in recent years by the adoption of group insurance and private pension plans in many companies, which make: it to the employer's advantage to keep down the average age of employees and, therefore, to refrain from hiring persons who will not be able to remain in service over a considerable period of years. A recent survey by the National Industrial Conference Board showed that only about one-quarter of the concerns included had adapted definite maximum hiring ages, but it was admitted that preference in filling jobs would probably be given to unger applicants. . The plight of older workers will be somewhat alleviated in future by old-age pensions and unemployment insurance under the Social Security program, but it is contended that it is incumbent upon industry to relax discriminatory hiring-age ‘policies and develop - employment-ad-justment plans, so as to assume its share of responsibility for the olderworker population. Expansion of vocational and apprentice-training programs on a basis sufficiently broad to include persons 40 years of age and over has also been urged.

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Paris, he fouhd that the Dreyfus case was not yet | of skilled labor, general. Lack of buried in the legal archives, and that the forged employment opportunities during - Protocols of Zion were still a rallying cry to violence | the depression brought the training and blind hatred. : of new workers in skilled occupaIn Germany, the Jews were Hitler's hostages to | tions to an ‘almost complete halt. ease| the misery of economic devastation. He found | At the same time, a certain perPalestine in a feverish expansion with all the evils of | centage of older, experienced workrampant capitalism going at full blast. And here, too, | ers dropped out of the ranks each in the Garden of Eden, he found ghettos. - year. Consequently, as the United In Russia there was hope—economic assimilation | States Employment Service has of ‘the Jews had! been successful, and wherever he | pointed out, business may pick up turned he found the realities of security, work, homes | to only 75 or $0 per cent of its and|- spiritual validity. His thesis" throughout his travels and studies may be expressed in his own words: “....only in a nonprofit economy, where the fundamental basis for racial and minority frictions has! been removed and the psychological secondary motivations thereby lessened and eventually removed, can/ Jews or Catholics or Negroes or Mexicans or liberals or any distinguishable Americans survive as decent human beings.”

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former volume before’ encountering evidences of labor shortage in certain fields. - Signs of improvement in the gen-. eral employment situation are numerous. According to one reliable series of estimates, total unemployment dropped by almost 3,000,000 between January and De-’ cember, 1936. The percentage decline between January, 1936, and January, 1937, and between February, 1936, and February, 1937, was almost twice as great as between the corresponding months in 1935 and 1936. Placements of the United States Employment Service in private industry in March, 1937, were more than double the number of such placements in March, 1936. For more than a year the number of private placements each month has outstripped that of the corresponding month a year earlier. At the end of February, 1937, the Federal works program was employing approximately one million fewer persons than in February, 1936—a decline of about 25 per cent.

8 7 2 HE theme of Jacques Deval’s internationally famous play, TOVARICH (Random House), ccncerns the dignity with which two impoverished members of the Russian nobility undertake menial work to make a living. The play opens with Prince Mikail and Grand Duchess Tatiana on the verge of being dispossessed Irom a Paris garret. The Prince has in his name four billion gold francs which the Czar entrusted to him before the Revolution to be used for the good of Holy Russia. § The setting for the climax is {completed with the entrance of Commissar Gorotchenko (who once jailed Tatiana during the Revolution) to ask Mikail to give ~ him the Tsar's gold to save Russia's oil fields from foreign development. |The play has the authentic nostalgia of the Romanoff prewar glory, the grace and humor of Russian culture and melancholy, and the tempo of a lively, spirited comedy. |

The might of ocean almost obliterates man’s daring inventiveness as U. 8S. S. MacDonough, one of Uncle Sam’s latest destroyers, forging her way across the Pacific to Hawaii is half concealed from view behind a huge comber. : .

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