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* MISSION, “The Valley,” Tex, Dec. 29.—Last month’s Fortune magazine had a long article on Texas, and part of it was devoted to this famous Rio Grande Valley, Fortune gave credit for this whole miracle of desert-to-oranges to a man named John Shary. And although there are people who might quibble at bestowing the title of “Father of the Valley’ on John Shary, I expect that on the whole it is true. He is certainly the biggest man in the Valley today. He has had his ups and downs, but he is about the only one of the early gei-rich-quickers who is still here —and still rich, He was a promoter, but he got to believing his own spiels and he still believes them. He is probably right, John Shary was born on a farm in Nebraska, about 60 years ago. He went to school and got himself an education in pharmacy. Then he went back home and got himself a partnership in a couple of drug stores. It ‘has been a long, long time since he has needed to MIX up a capsule for a living, but he keeps up his pharmaceutical license—just, in case. After a couple of years in the drug stores he got an offer to travel as a salesman for the redwood lumber companies of California. He made good money, and this job took him all over the United States. It was in this traveling that he first came to know Texas. Some acquaintances of his had a land scheme in their heads, and asked him to come in with them. They said they could get 33,000 acres of land south of San Antonio for $50,000, with only $10,000 in cash. » »
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John Shary had saved about $4000. He liked the land idea, and threw in with the other fellows, His drug store partner back in Nebraska wanted to zo in too, but when he mentioned it to his wife she took a broom to him. So he stayed out, and John Shary went in. Within
Our Town
THIRTY YEARS AFTER Henry Ward Beecher left Indianapolis he wrote: “I went to Indianapolis in the fall of 1839 with a sick babe in my arms, who showed the first signs of recovery after eating blackberries which I gathered by the way. ... The Great National Road, which at that time was of great importance. since sunk into forgetfulness ran through the city and constituted the main street. With the exception of two or three streets, there were no ways along which could not be seen the original stumps of the forests. I bumped against them in a buggy too often not to be assured of the fact. “Here I preached my first real sermon: here for the first time, I strove against death in behalf of a child, and was defeated: here I built a house and painted it with my own hands: here I had my first garden: here I first joined the editorial fraternity and edited the ‘Farmer and Gardener’: here 1 had my first full taste of chills and fevers: here for the first and last time IT waded to church ankle-deep in mud, and preached with pantaloons tucked into my boot-tops, All is changed now. ~ »n »
A Precious Memento
“In searching for mv obscure little 10-foot cottage I got lost. So changed was everything that 1 groped over familiar territory like a blind man in a strange city. It is no longer my Indianapolis. with the aboriginal forest fringing the town, with pasturefields lvin~ right aeress from mv house: without coal. without r-ilreads, without a stone big enough to throw at a cat. If was a jovful dav and a precious gift when C=zlvin Fletcher allowed me to take from the fragments of stone used to make the foundations for the State Bank a piece large enough to put in my pork-barrel.
Washington
WASHINGTON. Dec. 29.—Robert H. Jackson. Solicitor General, is one of the most intelligent and balanced New Dealers. Wendell Willkie is the most articulate spokesman in the utilities industry, its hardest hitter and its most reflective leader. When two such men agree upon fundamentals, modern democracy can be certain that its foundation is solid, however furiously the workmen higher up on the walls throw brickbats at each other, Utility week's Saturdav writes an article on liberalism which in essential doctrine is like that outlined by New Dealer Jackson in his address which has been summarized in the last two dispatches. Liberal faith. says Mr. Willkie, must embody tolerance for mankind. Like Mr. Jackson, he savs there can be no fixed and predetermined program for a liberal. What might be liberal procedure at one time may be the opposite in another. Mr. Jackson's idea, too, is that liberalism changes direction as new dangers arise to menace democracy. Mr. Willkie says it is not the primary purpose of the liberal to make men secure or rich or powerful. but only to prevent such limitations upon freedom as insecurity, poverty and weakness may impose. As I read Mr. Jackson, he says just about the same thing. EJ » »
Deplores Name-Calling
Thus in general theory vou have New Dealer and utility leader standing together like a pair of Siamese Twins in defense of liberalism. When thev descend from academic levels and get down to cases, then the fun begins.
My Day
WASHINGTON, Thursday—The snow lz still making it pessibie for the children to coast on the south lawn at the White House, and they are taking full advantage of it. They have to take a good deal of trouble to keep the slide in coasting order. I was y amused when my voung grandson dashed in and demanded as big a tin tray as we had in the pantry. When 1 inquired if a sled would not. be more useful, he looked at me pityingly and retorted: “But, grandmere, the tray will be better for improving the slide.” At 12 o'clock, Maj. Walker of the Farm Security Administration, and Mr. Harry Slattery of the Rural Electrification Administration, came to discuss a $ group of young people's country neighborhood problems, I think they found each other mutually interesting, for they were still talking when I left at 12:45 with Mr. Frederick Delano and Mr. Cammerer of the National Park Service. We lunched with Col. Patton and the other guests were Mr. Cline, the engineer in charge of building the new airport, Col. Sumpter Smith, of the Civil Aeronautics Authority, and his assistant, Mr. Early. It always interests me to have a chance to listen to gentlemen who are planning the use and development of land areas. In Washington which has such great possibilities for beauty. it is important that every new development be considered from every pos-
Man Willkie, in this Evening Post,
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By Ernie Pyle |
a year he and his associates had sold 22,000 acres of | their new sagebrush land for $100,000. He came to Corpus Christi in 1906. He spent six years there, and made a fortune. He organized an immense land company; he bought and sold land in Texas, Kansas, North Dakota and Canada. He once had as many as 1300 solicitors out over the country. He would run long excursion trains full of land prospects down into the sagebrush, and sell them thousands of acres at a time. In his lifetime he has sold close to a million acres, for a total price of around 50 million doilars. Of course he made a slight profit here and there. By 1912 he had bought and sold all the land he could find around Corpus, and was looking for new fields. A fellow realtor enticed him down to the valley. He came in and bought 16,000 acres. In 1917 he built a mansion, and he still lives in it, » » »
Pal of Jack Garner
Today John Shary is the No. 1 citizen of Mission, if not of the whole valley. He owns around 33,000] acres, and 6000 of it is in citrus; he has hundreds of | people working for him: owns oil wells; two banks, two newspapers, a chain of packing plants. Shary doesn’t look his age. He works daily at new office building in Mission. He swears, and talks frankly and with enjoyment. He smokes cigars. He! wears 1 Charlie Dawes collar and a pinch-back sports | suit, | His office and his home are studded with pictures | of his only daughter, a beautiful girl now married to State Senator Allan Shivers of Port Arthur. The Shary home is almost frightening in its im-/| mensity. He has three boats down on the Gulf, and a! summer home in the Missouri Ozarks, whera he goes every summer to fish. He is a bug on fishing, He and Jack Garner are friends. | He does everything on a big scale —even loses monev on a hig scale. One year they had a disastrous freeze. | and Shary lost $150,000 worth of citrus fruit. But that! wasn’t what hurned him up the most. All that spoiled fruit had to be picked and buried deep in the ground —and it eost him £10,000 just to bury his $150 000 loss. But what's $160,000 to a man who has created Paradise?
Keep the Publishers
By Frederick Woltman |
Times Special Writer ephemeral
tunes, have relatively brief sellers. Last vear's sensations are shelves by book dealers to make room for this year's sensations in the modern
apolis
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we Sober, Steady Sellers
Going Year After Year (Fourth of a Series) EW YORK, Dec. 29.—Today's hooks are
commodities, rent hits, while they may clean up tidy for-
Even cur-
lives as best James W. Hiltman, chairman of D. Appleton-Century, one of the oldest publishers,
with a huge list of “hidden best
sellers,” looking at the gallery of the firm's past stalwarts: Darwin, Tyndall, Huxley, Spencer and Bess Aldrich and Susan
shooed off the
into $10,000,000 annual industry
HE shelves of the old-fash-joned offices at 35 W. 324 In a publishing class all its own, Known variously as the Big Lit-
St., occupied since 1908, first by tle Books or the Better Little
Known sales reached eight million; due to a defective copyright the total output is unknown, but it is estimated at 24,000.000.
By Anton Scherrer
“The old academy where I preached for a few months is gone, but the church into which the con- | gregation soon entered still is standing on the Gov-| ernor’s Circle. No one can look upon that building as I do. A father goes back to his first house, though | it he but a cabin where his children were born, with | feelings which can never be transferred to any other place. As I looked long and yearningly upon that homely building, that old time came back again. 1 steod in the crowded lecture-room on the nicht when the current religious feeling first was beginning to
flow. . . . » » »
Explaining His Surprise
“There is no color like heart color. The homeliest things dipped into that forever glow with celestial | hues. The hymns that we sang in sorrow or in joy and triumph in that humble basement have never lost a feather. but fly back and forth between the soul and heaven, plumed as never was any bird-of- | paradise.” Penetrating Foot Notes: (1) Mr. Beecher's nopeyed surprise is explained by the fact that during his absence Indianapolis had grown from a measly 4000 to more than 48,000. (2) The old State Bank from which Mr. Beecher got the stone for his porkbarrel is still standing. It's the weathern-worn building back of the big Coca-Cola sign at the point of Kentuckv Ave. and Illinois St. (3) The site of “the old academy where I preached for a few months" is now marked by a little tomb-stone-like memorial in the southwest corner of University Park. (4) The site of the church “into which the congregation soon | entered” is now marked. on the circle side, by stores | occupied by Maud Muller (candies), Nu-enamel, Sibyl Hat Works ($1.25. none higher). and on the Market St. side hy Wheeler's (eats), Tavel's (jewelry) and the Acme Novelty Co. (souvenirs of Indianapolis). (5) The “hymns that we sang” were on the order of “Am 1 a Soldier of the Cross” and “Come. Humble Sinner.” the air of which was a melancholy minor adapted from the old Irish ballad called “Peeler and the Goat." |
By Raymond Clapper
Mr. Willkie's complaint against the Roosevelt lib-| erals is that they are too rough and belligerent. They | have, he says, drained the vials of invective against | all who oppose them. I agree with him, and Often | have complained that the Administration aroused un- |
necessary opposition by its name-calling. |
helter-skelter of publishing that requires a succession of strikes to keep going. The average life of the best seller today is eight months. jut behind the gamble
in books there spreads a
domain of what the trade calls ‘hidden best sellers,” “back logs.” “sneakers” and sometimes “bread and butter books.” Little is said about them. for they usually don’t get much exploitation. Year after vear thev go on selling steadily and unexcitingly and paving the publisher's rent. Not infrequently, with their steady income, they support the “prestige” books or the contemporary hoped-for best sellers. If the latter don’t make money the publisher has the “back logs” -to depend on. While their scales often exceed best seller sales, thev never make best seller lists: Hence, “hidden best sellers.” Of course, the most obvious hidden best seller is the Bible. Last year the Bible Society of London published 11,039.491 copies in 732 languages, and the worldwide annual turnout is estimated to vary between 20 and 30 million. Textbooks are prolific back-logs, and cook books represent a steady publisher's staple, with Fannie Farmer's Boston Cook Book this vear approaching its two millionth sale. The Boy Scout Manual is another, running into its five-mil-lionth sale. Dr. L. Emmet Holt's “The Care and Feeding of Children” has grossed over $1,000,000 from the American public. Emily Post's “Book of Etiquette,” now in a “new and completely revised edition,” steadily sells 20.000 to 30,000 copies a vear. And “Land Birds East of the Rockies,” which you're not. likely to regard as a best seller, has topped 723,000. »n ”n ” N extraordinary example is the Rev. Charles Sheldon’s
vast
“America’s Best Best Seller,” of - fers the Retail Bookseller, was Webster's “Blue-Back Speller.” Irritated at the preponderance of British textbooks, Noah wrote his own in 1783 and gave the printer a note to print 5000 copies, which retailed at 14 pence. The D. Appleton Co. put the speiler on its 1855 book list and threw its entire sales force behind the book. From 1855 to 1890 Appleton sold 75,000,000 of the spellers. running one of the presses day and night, vear in and year out, exclusively for the Blue-Back. until thespress wore completely out, The largest sale came at the close of the Civil War in 1866, when the enfranchised Negroes bought the bulk of 1,596,000 spellers. All told, more than 100,000,000 copies were sold. A topnotcher before the Civil War was “Godey’'s Lady Book.” Single tax enthusiacists have claimed from two to eight million sales for Henry George's “Progress and Poverty.” An old-timer stiil on the active list of D. Appleton-Century Co. is F. Guizot's “History of Civilization in Europe,” copyrighted in 1842. Five hundred “Sketches and Skeletons of Sermons Suited for All Occasions” (1853) by Jabez Burns, D. D. finds a small but steady market todav. In its 86 vears the 500 Sketches have had 76 printings. Appleton-Century, nation’s oldest book houses. had its roots in a drv goods store Daniel Appleton nnened in 1823. Six years later he published the House of Avpleton’s first book, “Crumbs from the Master's Table or Selecied Sentences, Doctrinal, Practical and Experimental.” This 3-inch square inspirational work, is now out of print, In its early days the Appleton Co. was the only United States firm known to many South American businessmen who, ,consequently, used it as a general export agency. On one occasion the book firm had to deliver a spe-
one of the
Appleton-Century, are lined with thousands of yellowed volumes, a reservoir of back-log books. On its active list of no less than 5000 books such time-honored
tomes as “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch,” which other publishers originally turned down as odd-sized; “A Lantern in Her Hand,” “Hymnal for American Youth” and “The Covered Wagon” still are going 5000 strong or better a year. Very conservativeIv. Appleton-Century estimates it has sold more than 500,000,000 books in its history. The Macmillan Co. is another firm with an enormous business in texts, religious works and other back-logs. In addition, it has the largest annual new book output of the 243 American publishers who issue five or more books a vear. Its total of new publications for 1938 was 574. With a few rare exceptions, incidentally, publishing houses are astoundingly long-lived as compared with established companies in other businesses. A generally unrecognized hidden best-seller author, Grace Livingston Hill, at 73, continues to turn out three girls novels a year of the mother and home genus. Her 60 novels. such as “Daphne Deane” and “The Girl From Montana,” represent around 3.000.000 sales over the course of 18 years. She's “as good as wheat,’ according to her publisher, J. B. Lippincott Co., who says ‘any publisher would like to have more of her kind.” ” ” ” OT exactly in the “sneaker” class, “freak best-sellers” nevertheless fall into a distinct category. For instance, Cabell's “Jurgen,” an exquisite piece of writing, found a large popular market when word got around that some considered it immoral. Joyce's stream - of - consciousness “Ulysses” sold widely after the Government tried to ban its import.
Books, these 4x5 inch, pazer-cov-ered, semi-juvenile novels sell by tens of millions each year at a dime apiece, principally through chain stores. The Whitman Publishing Co, which started as a $25,000 printing plant 23 years ago in Racine, Wis., puts out, it says, 70 per cent of all the little books. Althouzh pocket-sized, by the way, thay may run as long as 400 pages. The brains of the Whitman Co. are the former print-shop owners who took over a debtor-publishing house that went busted and learned the publishing business as they went along. This is one of the few instances, if not the only one, of printers in the publishing business. The middleman is completely eliminated from their setup, the Whitman people like to hoast,
Avoiding the horrors of the dime novels, the little books, as a representative of the firm put it, are written “bang, bang, hang with tremendous action.” The modern lad reads “King of the Royal Mounted Gets His Man,” “Desert Eagle,” “G Men vs. the Red X.” “Tailspin Tommy,” and hundreds of such titles, Included in the Whitman list are most of the comic strip people with “Dick Tracy” at the head, and all the Walt Disney characters. Bulk production being the key to the - business, a minimum of 200.000 copies has to be run off for each title at a cost of $6000. The company printed 10,000,000 copies of “Snow White,” guessed right within 500.000. There's a complete set of the Big and Better Little Books. according to the firm, in the Harvard University Library. ” . ”
HE burning question of the day in publishing is what should be done about the war. The margin of speculation in book production is always increased in wartime. Should publishers ignore the war with “escape” books or try to beat it by getting in on the
Mr. Willkie accuses the New Deal of fomenting| industrial strife and seeking to provoke one class against another. A utilities man should complain about that! When the Administration brought up the Holding-Company Bill, designed to eliminate
“In His Steps,” published in 1899, which, according to Harry Hansen, “marks the high point in the rush for popularized religion.”
the
financial racketeering and abuses which reached their — = j peak in the Insull affair, it was Mr. Willkie's own in- | dustry which resisted with every weapon it could lav 4 YOUTHS ON WAY | hands upon. It even ransacked city directories for names to sign to fake telegrams. | | gis T0 NAVAL STATION ‘With Malice Toward None a | When Administration went into the long-| Eight Indiana boys. two of them neglected Tennessee Valley, seeking to bring to a [os Indias polis 008 ve x on| large under-privileged population some of the ad- re Stern a Now Ry Train vantages which modern engineering has to offer, Mr. enlisted at the recruiting office here Willkie's own utility industry went into the courts and yesterday. tried to kill off the whole business. | They are Wendell Beckley, 18, Mr. Willkie's theme is “With Malice Toward None” Son of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard A.| —and he is a swell person who harbors none, I am! Beckley, 612 N. New Jersey St.; Gar- | sure. When Mr. Willkie sits down and thinks, he|land B. Ellis, 18, son of Walter L.| brings the den.ocratic idea to life and sees it as the Ellis, R. R. 1, Box 312; Edward | thing we all wish to see it. But the next morning, Mr, De%is, 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rob- | Willkie is the lawyer again, looking out for his clients et L. Lewis, Seymour; Billie H. so to speak, and if other liberals get in the way, then Redburn, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. | off to court they go. It is somewhat the same with ©!iver H. Redburn, Hazleton; John | New Dealers, too, when they go to the office. J. Cichon Jr, 18, son of Mr. and On the whole, it looks as if the time has arrived M'S. John J. Cichon, Jasonville; | for all good liberals to carry some of their reading- Donald oi Mieth, 18, Son of Mrs. lamp philosophy downtown with them and try work- Moe Ske iy of Duie} Robert 1! A i fu a change. Then we might begin to get M. Moore, Anderson. and James D. | | Malott, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eg- { bert W. Malott, Marion. |
DEMOCRATS TO HEAR |
By Eleanor Roosevelt | Y Coelt MARYLAND GOVERNOR
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Governor Herbert R. O'Conor of Maryland will be the principal | speaker at the $25-a-plate Jackson Day dinner at the Claypool Hotel | here Jan. 8, BE. Kirk McKinney, | banquet manager, announced today. At the same time Mr. McKinney announced that delegations from all parts of the state are being organized to attend the dinner. Several hundred Democratic leaders are ex-
sible angle. I had seen no model for the proposed airport buildings and roads and it fascinated me to have a chance to see all the details which have been considered in these new plans, I was interested in the possible develonment of bridle paths, for the loss of the one which we used to ride so constantly from Memorial Bridge to Alexandria is a real deprivation this year, { I am back now from this very pleasant luncheon party and at 4 o'clock the American Political Science Association group will come in for tea. At 5 o'clock Sisty is having a party and they are going to be shown “Gulliver's Travels,” which I am told is a Pected to attend. most interesting movie. I only wish that I could | Proceeds from the banquet will watch it, but I shall be seeing various guests at tea | P® turned over to the National and later a few people will dine with us. Democratic Committee 1940 cam-
ti I finished a book the other day by Constantia de | P28 at chest, Mora, called: “In Place of Splendor.” The first! half of it is extraordinarily interesting, because ‘in ALLEN COUNTY PLANS
showing her own development, she pictures a period | DEBT-PAID CEREMONY
(ing the highest grades during the nlanes and is
of change which was particularly accentuated in ad country like Spain, where the old nobility had lived — with so little change in customs and habits over a Times Special | great number of years. Whether one is sympathetic! FT. WAYNE, Ind, Dec. 20 | with the Loyalist cause or not, one cannot help but Clearing of the debt of the Allen marvel at the devotion which the author and her County Court House will be cele-! associates gave to this cause. The sacrifices they brated at a mortgage-burning cere- | made seem almost superhuman. One can easily mony in the Court House rotunda understand that, having made such sacrifices, the New Year's Day. country and the cause are enshrined in their hearts.| The program, to be broadcast | It is an interesting book, regardless of your own sym- over WGL from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. pathies. and I think will be a contribution to the [will have Ernest G. Gallmeyer as historical knowledge of the future, the principal speaker,
dent again as it did this year.
Starting in the last war, a streamlined successor to “Diamond Dick,” the “Rover Boys” and the dime novel has expanded
60 AIRPLANES PAUSE Young ‘Dianas’ HERE ON WAY SOUTH “Bag Bunnies |
ground floor with war books. The prevailing theory seems to be that escape books, which get as far away from the war theme as
cially-built hearse to satisfy a South American book customer: another time it took a case of rare bird feathers in lieu of money,
Pop Corn Offer Fails to Sizzle
NEW ALBANY, Ind. Dec. 29 (U. P.) —Something like the famed “snipe hunt,” at least with somebody holding the bag, was reported today by a group of New Albany rabbit hunters. They related how Yvonne Crawford, 13, of New Albany, and Jewell Fagan, 14, and Barbara Fagan, 12, of Bloomington, bagged rabbits without guns. The girls, aware of the bunnies’ desire for shelters in snowy weather, put a gunnysack over one end of a culvert and punched into the culvert from the other end with a long stick. Successful results were obtained in three culverts and the catch was three rabbits, \
Times Spreinl
LA FONTAINE, Ind. Dec. 29, A Baltimore, Md. firm breathlessly wrote C. BE. Troyer, this year’s world corn king, that it would like to contract for this year's entire crop and advertise “popcorn grown by the world corn king.” This, Mr. Troyer remarked, would have been just dandy eicept that he grows corn which doesn't pop.
ENROLLMENT OPENS FOR FLYING COURSE
Times Special
| Approximately 60 light airplanes stopped over at the Hoosier Airport! here yesterday en route to Florida | for a two-week vacation air trek. | The planes came from South Bend and took off last night for! Louisville. The armada picked up one Indianapolis pilot in continuing the trip. He was Walter Smith, | president of the Indianapolis Aero Club, who joined the pleasure fleet of lights crafts with an Aronca | plane. The pilots who stopped and “gassed up” at the Hoosier Airport were a small wing of more than 1500 planes and private fliers MARION, Dec. 29.—Enrollment of throughout the country who are —
students in the ground school course making the flight to the sunny eg | for non-college civilians opened here | South. INTERSTATE INCOME (today. Marion and South Bend are| Planes from Illinois, Wisconsin,
holding civilian flight training Michigan, Minnesota and Ohio were | scholarship courses. [among the contingent stopping here. | IS SUBJECT T0 TAX Scholarships for flight training| The mass flight is the largest ever | |
| will be awarded 10 students receiv- made in this country by private known as the Cub] qualifying ground-school work. Convoy. This is the fourth annual The courses are being offered by trek sponsored by the manufac- in interstate commerce is subject to) the Civil Aeronautics Authority, turers of Piper-Cub planes.
1940 Calendars Disagree On Thanksgiving’s Date = z= bream
| there is no possibility of multiple tax burdens being imposed by other
‘SHERIFF FEENEY
year letter [them for their work and co-operae [tion during 1939.
Ertz. Above, the House of Appleton's first book (1831), which started a succession of more than half a hillion volumes,
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possible, have the hest chance. Yet every publisher is keeping a sharp eye open for a first-hand war best-seller, although very few books of this type are now scheduled. Some publishers say they're waiting for the fighting to open up on the Western Front; as yet there has been too little glamour or horror to arouse reader interest,
From the publisher's point of view this war bears a striking contrast to the last one. When it broke out seven of the leading non-fiction best-sellers in America dwelt on European affairs and the political background of the forthecoming explosion. At the beginning of the World War, on the other hand, not a single publisher had a book on his list. about, the background or preceding historical events. Indeed. about the only serious, realistic book published during the entire war was Henri Barbusse's “Under Fire.” . The serious novels, “Death of a Hero,” “Farewell to Arms.” “All Quiet on the Western Font,” “Sergeant, Grischa,” followed peace by 10 years, To the World War generation in America trench fighting, bombing, air combats were novel: war itself was a novelty. The public devoured Guy Empey's “Over the Top,” and Jan Hay's “The First Hundred Thousand.” Beleaguered by the Spanish, China and Ethiopian conflicts, this generation is sated with fighting, publishers reason. What. people want is not’ “Over the Top,” but “Inside Europe.” “The Revolution of Nihilism,” “Not Peace but the Sword.’
The whole book market was jit- |
tery in the first month of war, not knowing what to expect of book-buyers. As the combat became more positively confined to Europe, the doubts eased up and book buying returned to normal. If the fighting were to stop suddenly all the war books would go down the chute, both journalistic and first-person experience books. In times like this that publisher is happy who has a nice, fat backlog list to carry his overhead.
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THANKS WORKERS
Sheriff Al Feeney, in office one next month, today issued a to his employees thanking
The letter said in part: “As head of the department TI
‘receive too much of the credit. . . . | The public is realizing that you {work 72 hours a week... , They know also that to those unfairly llong hours are added extra duty on holidays. . cere thanks and best wishes for the (new year.”
“TEST YOUR
. . Please accept my sin-
KNOWLEDGE
1—What is primogeniture? 2—Name the President of the Re-
public of Colombia.
3—In which state is the range of
mountains named Sangre ¢e Cristo?
4-—Who wrote the famous South-
fern plantation song, “Old Folks at Income derived from transactions Home"?
5—With what sport is Jean Bauer
[the State Gross Income Tax when associated?
6—How many gills are in one gale
lon?
T—Has President Roosevelt always
states, Gilbert K., Hewit, State Tax been a Democrat?
"a 8 Answers
1--The state of being the first
{Court ruling which held that taxing | pon of the same parents or pare
a newspaper's gross receipts on cirYour calendar may lie to you dates, Nov. 21 and 28, sup2rimposed | culation outside of Indiana is valid. about Thanksgiving Day again this|On question marks. “This case was regarded as a sigyear The majority of calendars pub-| nificant test of the State taxing : lished for Indiana firms by €| power,” Mr. Hewit said. The reFor a cursory check of the new | asdvertising Specialties Co. 741 W : . : : “ :|cent high court decision reversed a 1940 calendars being distributed | Washington, have Nov. 28 listed ruling of the St. Joseph County Suabout town reveals that more than as Thanksgiving Day, according to|perior Court which had granted the half of them have Nov. 28 listed as| Company officials, South Bend Tribune a judgment of
The Sentinel Printing Co., has he for t Ks. $638 representing gross income tax the day for thanks | marked neither of the controversial | which the newspaper con-
President Roosevelt already has|dates on its calendars, but has| : announced that he will proclaim placed a line on the bottom of the|teRded Was exempt from interstate Nov. 21 as Thanksgiving Day and | November page stating that the . ’ it seems likely the Democratic State Thanksgiving date will be deter-' ~The Supreme Court decision held Administration will follow the Presi- mined by the officials of the various that “the tax imposed is one which [states. can not be repeated in another One calendar, distributed by the| Among the few firms sticking state, so the one tax is all that the Karl C. Wolfe Printing Co. 32 E. strictly to the Nov. 21 holiday is newspaper has to pay and does not Georgia St. prepares its possessor American Airlines, whose calendar place an improper burden upon in-
for any eventuality, It has both lists that date only. |terstate business,”
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2—Eduardo Santos. 3—Colorado. 4—Stephen C. Foster. 5—Golf, 6—32. T—Yes.
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