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0 OAKLAND TRIBUNfc, SUNDAY JUNE 23, 1935 8-S BOOK REVIEWS' AND LITERARY NOTES CALENDAR MATCH POINTS Activities Among 0 BY MARY ELLEN HOLLY U. S. 'Messiahs' TURNS BOO with the WORM And Panaceas LiVely Reading Long, LaFollette, Bilbo Among Those Picked By Unofficial Observer THE "Unofficial Observer," who may be one or many persons and probably is at least several, has written a bright -and provocative book of those men in politics whom he calls "American Messiahs." They are the demagogues and men with panaceas; in most part the crowd which is responsible for the thun-derings on the left. As a group the writer believes ftlfv orva nltrnnee rf' Irt thought and utterance the influence of men who are ponderous on the right There is a discussion of many men and notions. The mes- siahs in our Dolitics.

aceordine to -i: the author are: Senators Huey Long, Robert LaFollette, Wheeler, Costigan, Nye, Bilbo, Holt, Bone and Governors Langer of South Dakota, Olson of Minnesota, Philip LaFollette of Wisconsin, Graves of Alabama, Johnston of South Carolina, and Curley of Massachusetts. Then come as reformers who do not as yet hold office: Charles Coughlih, Milo Reno, Upton Sinclair, Francis Townsend and Norman Thomas. General Johnson and a single mayor, LaGuardia of New York, completes the list. If you read the "New Dealers" you have been introduced to the style of an authorship which is certainly singular and probably plural. There are smart phrases here, and many flippancies.

One man has "tarantulas in his political pants;" the mighty are "Bill' 'and "Andy." It is within the possibilities of the ancnymous to be annoying. The reader gets most interesting pictures and impressions, some of them blurred by contradictions and softenings of what had been made brittle. If there are several cooks in this broth they, might have made a more convincing dish by frequent consultation. But the result is lively, somewhat audacious, and carries all of the impression c.f being up to the minute and intimate. Followers of one or another of the "messiahs" listed will find occasion both to snort and applaud, A book about men who are in the news and may shortly have a larger fling, this one gives us their views, their speech and their habits.

Dis-. tinctively, it is timely and easyxf to read. Much is being written on bridge ethics and we'll Agree that great is the need thereof. But even the one who have been most woefully finned against along this line by their fellow card players, will agree that the ethics of today are a great improvement on those of yesteryear. In.

the sixteenth century in England, the outstanding game of cards was Whist, the venerable an cestor of present day. Contract bridge. It was called Whist because the word "whist" meant, "hold your tongue," and that in turn is what the players meant when they said "whist" to the kibitzers of their day. The kibitzer's lack of ethics was so uniformly apparent to the play' era that the actual lack of ethics named the game. These kibitzers, incidentally, were called "pipers' because they sat around, watching the game and smoking their ion clay pipes, and did not Join in the actual claying of the cards.

But their enthusiasm got the best of their honor, and "they would, at times, signal a player as to the situation of various of his opponent's cards by placing their fingers; in certain specified positions on their pipes. This practice was finally stopped, and then the "pipers" kibitzed by words, rather than gestures, nils' drove the players into tantrums, and in the excitement, they would cry "whist, whist!" Now that the game has turned into bridge, players can't call whist at the kibitzers," and anyway, the kibitzers' ethics have Improved, whether Tecause honon has improved, or whether because it is harder to gesture with a -cigarette than with a pipe, we don't know, and. will not hazard a guess. The Richmond Homestead Club took itself to the i Hotel Carqulnet Wednesday for a dessert bridge and an afternoon at. their favorite csr4 game: whist.

Sixteen hands were played, and here is the list of winners for the day. MrsM. Ardery, Mrs. Molly Black, Mrs. Lena Ras-mussen, Mrs.

Rosa Phillips, Mrs, Smedley, and Mrs. Selvester. Mrs, Ielia Osborn won the floor prize. While the guest were having their dessert before the card game, Mrs. Mae Masterson gave a series of readings, Oftft Mrs, Ruby Bryant of Richmond entertained the members of the Civic Center Club on Wednesday evening at her home.

Sixteen hands of whist were played with the following winners: Mrs. Ruel 119 Mrs. Minnie Ill Mrs. Bryant won the consolation prize. For those of you who consider yourselves holders of habitually poor bands, we drop a few crumbs of if you want to be optimistic about it.

Any number rt nersnns have asked us any num ber of times how many different 11 i hand patterns can uenu bridge. Not being much on higher mathematics, we turned our bridge statisticians, and the general feeling seems to be that mere are mmm than 800.000 possible combi nations in bridge hands. That should keen hope springing eter rally a little mora energetically, except that ona can; always ask, TeS, but now can you Keep irom fretting the same combinations over nd over?" Tor those unfortuates, we give Up, and say only that it's more fun to make something out of a bad hand than play a good one, We have consoled ourselves with that Pollyanna-lsh thought for years, fi wall anri tntn the" ear, den went the players in the Wo men's Athletic Club tournament Thursday afternoon, although it is said that some went conventionally through the gate. Anyway, the game wa played, and it was the last-one-The-playera slgWiL-l little over ihe prospect of dupu cate-less Monday and Thursday afternoons at the club this Summer, and we sighed with them over the fact that we wouldn't have their games to report on, but being In a a happy vacation, and going away snakes coming back to the cards in the Fall all the more fun. Claire Cole Dickson directed the play, and she and het1 son and daughter left practically immediately afterward to spend the Summer in their former home in Los Angeles.

Before she went she gave us the list of winners -for the Thurs day tournament, so here they are: North-South M.P. 1 Mrs. Thomas Watson, Mrs. Marius Hotchklss. 894 Mrs.

Webster Rut'tdge, Mrs. i. R. Simpson 82 East-West 1 Mrs. Henry W.tPetray Mrs.

Claire Dickson. 66 2 Mrs. Joseph Hunt, Mrs. Charles 6254 a Our latest news flash from Mrs. Daisy Feblea reveals these interesting gleanings from the card tables ever the hills to Walnut Creek Mid wayjpoints.

The Thursday Club at Walnut Creek met last week at the home of Mrs. John Schroder, who held high score with 2730 points at the contract game. One of the Friday clubs was en tertained by Mrs. R. V.

Burke, and 1 In If of of ing 1 2 the ber bid if Mrilh." by Unnffldil Ob. erver: Nrw York. Klmnn A Rrhuitrr, 12.) 'Murder in Haste Plenty of Thrills Realism And Actioirin Treasure Tale Mysterious" TraVen" Spins Yarn of Three Derelicts and Gold "The Death Ship" appeared a year ago, and I still do not understand why there was not more public ac claim for it. It had a fierce power akin to the passion behind Celine's "Journey to the End of the Night it had a roughneck realism; it seemed to have been written by a Conrad of the fo'c's'le. And it had an edge of mystery, for even its publishers insisted that they did not know much about Its author, Traven," except that his books appeared in fifteen European languages before they reached America, whence he came.

Traven refused to permit bis book to be wrapped in a "blurb," and one of the conditions of his contract was that it should not be advertised with citations from the critics. MYSTERIOUS TRAVEN" Here is-tTraven second book to appear in English: "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (Knopf, Modestly, Knopf admits that this book has appeared in only seven European languages. That, and that the story "tells of three American, derelicts who hunted for gold in the wilderness of the Mexican moun tains," is all that he is permitted to say about it. A critic, being bound by no con tract, may say more. "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" is a corking good yarn.

Traven is a natural story teller; and he talks as men talk who tell tales, with gusto and bitterness, about desert camp fires and in the stuffy depths of ocean vessels. He is no stylist, though his prose has a clipped, rough vigor. If he be a "proletarian writer," then he is a sort of Jack London, not a Gorky; he loves life and hates men, and obviously he writes of what he has lived and seen. LOST TREASURE "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" is the story of three down-at-the-heels gold prospectors who hear a tale of Indian treasure, pack up Into the mountains, find the gold, are attacked by bandits and, on the long trek back to Durango and the bank, meet the ironic adventures which close the tale. Conventional enough; but Traven gives his story an Impressively authentic and haunting Mexican atmosphere.

He knows his Mexicans and has a decent respect for their traditional morals and customs; -but he writes without an ounce of sentimentality. 11 mere is any at an. it is in reiterated certainty that, the search for gold inevitably corrupts the' soul. Yet that is true enough. These cheerful derelicts can bo trustlhe friends until they locate their treas ure; they have nothing to lose and no worries in life until they become slaves to their own property, Traven writes with a native, salty wit and a hard-bitten realistic certainty that the world is rigged against the poor man.

Apart from that faith there is no reason on earth why he should not write adventure yarns for The Saturday Evening Post. He packs his pages full and overflowing. LEWIS GANNETT, Tr-nnr of Ihr Sirrrt ftUrirr." By B. Travtn: Nfw Vofki A. Knopt, S2.S0) 'The Search1 Has Unusual Theme In "The Search" is presented a novel with an 'unustfal theme, story' of a life devoted to science Its-author, Charles Percy Snow, is nimself a young scientist, Fellow of ennsts College, Cambridge, and university demonstrator in physical chemistry.

Dr. Snow says "This is a work of fiction, not a concealed autobiography. The 'I' of the story is not myself, his experiences are not mine, nor are the characters who enter into them meant to be people I have met in life." Arthur Miles was dedicated to the service of from childhood; he also had a dread of poverty which dictated his concenftation on financial security and his manipu lation of persons and events to serve his advance. The search is perhaps symbolic of the modern man advancing the frontiers of knowledge to little spiritual advan tage, and- Miles' relinquishment of worldly honors just as he approaches the achievement of his life's ambition is a very forceful climax to the story. Miles is very intelligent and lives in a constant inner conflict which makes dramatic his love affairs and complicates his friendships.

"The Search" alternates between stimulating episodes and tedious discussions. Sometimes it is an adventure story of the mind, after the fashion of the ucrly H. G. Wells novels, sometimes it is bitterly dull. Sfirrh." hj C' P.

Tark, Bobba-Mrrrlll C. New Light and Airy is 'Castles in Sand' J. Calvitt Clarke, who wrote "Melissa" to delight an audience which takes its fiction light has repeated, with "Castles in the Sand." Here a simple story, with many of the old incidents, but the writer makes bright, even funny, and is not above adding a tear or two for effect A poor girl in a somber house grows up with youth and hope shut out. Then She is left a fortune by the same eccentric aunt who had kept her so remote, and learns a decidedly different life. The small town and the big city, the church mouse and the social butterfly and a lover who Is too proud marry a rich girl all are here.

r-rtm la ik 1 rt-ri( Clarke: New lerki Tk Arcalk Btui, TODAY Tribune radio broadcast over KLX. Free community breakfast picnic, lecture, 9a. C. A. Larson, "Is4he Depression Degenerating Our Boys and auspices Philosophers Club, Fruitvale Avenue between 16th' and 17th 'Streets.

Picnic, all day, Temple Beth Abraham, East Shore Park, Richmond. Philosophers Open Forum, 1 p. Central Trades School, 11th and Jefferson Streets. Picnic, 1:30 p. Natives of Men docino County, Mosswopd Park.

Mosswood Chess and Checker Club, 1:30 p.m., Mosswood Play i Kosmo Hour of Music, 4 p. m. Hotel Oakland. Dinner dance, 6:30 p. Athens Club.

Musical program, 7:30 a.m., Col ored Jubilee Singers, Cotton Blossom Quartet, also talkn current events by C. A. Anderson, auspices Philosophers Club, Fruitvale Church, Fruitvale Avenue and East loth Street. Benefit whist, 8:30 p.m., 1814 Market Street. TOMORROW Tribune radio broadcast over KLX.

Public meeting, 8 p.m., Manza- nlta Improvement Club, lecture by Charles Fisher on "The Legislative Session," Manzanita School Auditorium. Whist and bridge, 8:30 p. Oak land 1 Neighbors of Woodcraft, Pacifio Building. Benefit whist, 8:30 BtfJ Athens Avenue. TOMORROW Kiwanis Club, noon, Hotel Oak land.

High Twelve Club, noon, Pig Whistle. Altrurians, noon, Colt Hotel. American Legion Service noon, Hotel Leamington. Electric Club, noon, eiks uiuo, 20th and Broadway. Greater Oakland Motion Picture Club, 6:30 p.

m-, 1908 Broadway. Sequoia Dads Club, 7:30 p. at Allendale School. Christian Church Townsend Club, 7:45 p. Christian Church, Alameda.

i Piedmont Avenue Townsend CluB, 7:45 p. 3829 Piedmont Avenue. Harrison Street Townsend liud, :45 1419 Harrison Street. WnshtnetOtr School Townsend Club, 7:48 p. Washington School, Alameda.

Seminary Townsend Club, 8 p. 5802 Foothill Boulevard. Bay Bridge Townsend Club, 8 Congregational Church, 36th and Grove Streets. Townsend' Club, 8 p. Burck- halter School, Millsmont District.

Allendale Townsend Club, 8 p. 3080 38th Avenue. Rockridge Town Meeting Club, p. Claremont junior High School. East of the Lake Unemployed Club, 8 p.

Lockwood School. Reserve Officers Training Asso ciation, 8 p. Fremont High School armory. Dewey Townsend Club, 8 p. O.

W. auditorium, 3258 East Fourteenth Street. Eastbay Aquarium Society, 8 p. 1404 Franklin Street. Aquarium Society Meets Tomorrow Members of the Eastbay Aquarium Society will hold regular meeting tomonraw-nlghL aL 80'cloek jit its eadquarters at 14th and Franklin Streets, according to an announce ment made here today by R.

C. Scheile, president of the group. The meeting will be open to the public. Dr. M.

A. Miller of the Zoology Department of the University of California, will address the gathering. "Why Is a Seahorse?" will be the subject of his talk which will include a general survey of the ancestry of aquarium fishes. college graduates. The social committee, of which Mrs.

D. Bailey is chairman, with the assistance of Mrs. Terea Pittman, California Slate President of Colored Women's Clubs, is planning the affair. 1935 MEDAL AWARDED Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, afounder and president of Bethune- Cookman College, Daytona Beach, Florida, has been awarded the Spingarn Medal for 1935.

She is the second woman to win the covt eted honor, the first being given to the late Mrs. Mary B. Talbert, who, like Mrs. Bethune, was a former president of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs. The Spingarn Medal was instituted in 1914 by J.

E. Spingarn, at the time he was chairman of N. A. A. C.

P. board of directors and now president of that association. He gives annually a gold medal to be awarded for the highest or noblest achievement by an American NeKrg during the preceding year or years. Its purpose is two-fold first to call the attention Of American people to the existence of distinguished merit and achievement among American Negroes; and secondly to serve as a reward for such achievement and a stimulus to the ambition of the colored youth. Mrs.

Bethune was born of slave parents, native Africans," in a humble cabin on a rice and cotton farm near Mayesville. South Carolina, and one of a family of 17 children. With an idea, boundless courage and $100, she founded her school Daytona Beach, Florida. Since then she has won Nationwide recognition and success. Her life should be an inspiration to girls of the race.

The medal will be presented" at the N. A. A. P. conference to be held in SU Louis in-June.

CLUBS 1 is it NEGROES By Lena M. Wysinger. The objective of the directors' board of the Eighth and Linden Branch Y. M. C.

of Oakland, to put on an intensive campaign for finance and membership during the month of The present members of the board are Attorney John Drake, chairman; S. P. Dun can-, viqe-chairman; Charles Baker, secretary, A. C. Clark, treasurer; Rev.

G. E. Coleman, Daniel G. Hill, D. J.

M. Bridges, E. A. Daly, Dr. F.

M. Nelson, Dr. V. W. Orvis, M.

W. Ford, W. E. Gregg, T. Hudson, Henderson Davis and M.

Jackson. The board is supplemented by Women's Auxiliary with Mrs. Jayne Hudson and Mrs. Ethel Terrell, leaders. Dr.

A. O. Newman was the first paid secretary of the Colored Y. C. A.

He was called to the posi tion at the close of the World War and served for- nearly five years, During this time the boys met but once a week at the Linden Branch Y. W. C. A. INSTITUTION MOVES In-1925 William E.

Watkins, the present executive secretary, was called from his post in Washington D. amd he requested that a new Y. M. C. A.

building be secured. January 8, 1926, the institution was housed at 3431 Market Street for two years, hence to 804 Filbert Street, afterward known as the Fil bert Street Branch. May 1, 1935, the location became the Eighth and Linden. Branch, Y. M.

C. A. The first Sunday in June marked the formal Opening when a large group of representative citizens gave ex presslon to the need of a more com pletely equipped institution. The present location, surrounded by spacious grounds, with twelve rooms, 1 will be remodelled and used as a club and assembly room three roems on the first floor open ing 1pto- each other can be used as a lecture hall suitable for the use of organizations and club speakers, This is only a temporary arrange ment, according to the plans of the Interested promoters, for a new building is- hoped to be erected with every detail pictured ns a model Y. M.

C. A building. ENTHUSIASM GROWS When the Eighth and Linden Branch recently entertained at the new location, with a formal gather ing' in interest of the movement, with R. D. DeFrantz, the National secretary from New York as principal speaker, the enthusiasm swelled.

The speaker told of the prospects of the work, its fu ture and its well-served past and of the wonderful work to be ac complished in the Bay area. It is not an independent Y. M. C. but a branch, which is already estab llshed as in other sections.

"I read an article which classed Oakland Negroes as one of the three cities having the highest literacy In the United States. The other two cities named were Cambridge, Massachusetts and Denver, Colorado," said DeFrantz. "Where people have not the abil ity to organize for purpose of such accomplishment there is a sign of insanity among the people," ne said. Laughter and applause was heard and expressions of deter mined effort for an Oakland branch of a new Y. M.

C. operated by the united efforts of the community was 1 Dr. F. Nelson Introduced the speaker. Other speakers of the evening were Rev.

A. M. Ward, pastor of Parks Chapel, and Attorney W. A. Gordon, of Berkeley.

The Y. M. A. branch's new lo cation is adjacent to the Fanny Wall Home Day Nursery. The two institutions are agencies of the Community Chest.

Across the street js the Linden Branch of the Y. W. C. A. CHAIRMAN HONORED Sunday at 3:30 o'clock the par- Tors of the Linden Branch Y.

W. C. A. was a delightful setting honoring the present and past chairmen of the management board on the 15th anniversary of the Y. W.

existence. The decorations were carried out in the colors blue and white; the symbol, the triangle arranged in table dec orations planned by Miss Mary Mor ris, president of the Linden Club Business and Professional Girls. Mesdames Flora Bruce and Ruth Williams were honored hostesses. Each chairman wore a corsage of white flowers; white and blue corsages were pinned on each guest. In the receiving were the past chairmen.

Mrs. Willie Henry, chairman the first committee, which initiated the branch, was absent, owing to illness, and was represented by Mrs. Melba Staf ford, who was a member of the original committee. Others were: Mrs. Mabel Cal houn, chairman of fiait committee of management; Mrs.

Havens New man, second chairman; Mrs. Ivah L. Gray, succeeded by the present chairman, Mrs. Elizabeth Gordon. who made the introductory address and in turn introduced each chairman, each giving resume of the work during melr chairmanship in terms of "Mounds of Pil grimage." A bouquet of red roses was pre sented to Mrs.

Stafford from Mrs. Henry by the present chairman, Mrs. Gordon 1 MUSIC ON PROGRAM The music, which lent zest to the well-planned occasion, was ren dered by Misses Jean Martin, Vio linist; at the piano Winifred Henderson and Ruth Dean. Alzuma Burgess played during meditation for deceased members. Among the.

guests were Miss Martha Davis of the Centra and Miss Edna Sandlin, executive secretary of the Central Y. W. C. A. Miss Lulu Chapman is executive secretary of Linden Branch Y.

W. A and Miss Ruth Dean, assistant The 15th anniversary bridge was delightful affair, held on Wednesday evening at the Mrs. Katrrna Jackson's plans for the occasion were delightfully carried out Mrs. Jackson is chairman of the Girls' Reserve. The closing celebration of the fifteenth anniversary will be a party given honor of high school and as in TOMORROW'S CALENDAR Oakland Colonial Bridge Club, tournament; 8 p.

m. Berkeley I Women's City Club, Summer 1935 Cul- bertson series, p. m. TUESDAY'S CALENDAR Oakland Community Club, vacation tournament, 2 p. Cdlonlal Club, popular tourney, 8 p.

m. Berkeley Qui Vive Club, duplicate, 8 p. m. The bidding: East South West North 3 4 NT 6 NT Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass 3fj Pass 4 Pass Sy Pass 64 Pass Pass Pass The play lEast chose the ten of diamonds as her opening lead. West nlaved her qifeen Ind North won with the king.

2 North now saw that If the queen of spades was in the East hand and guarded, she would probably lose her cohtract, so she played with that Idea in mind, in order to find out where the queen of Spades was. Spades must be established before West could establish the club suit. 3 Therefore North led the queen of hearts and overtook it with the king in the faced hand. The ten of spades was led from the South hand which East won with the queen. 4 East led the nine of diamonds, which North won.

This gave her the contract as her king and queen, of clubs could be discarded on the hearts in South's 6 6 1 More news from abroad tells about the meeting of the Monday Club of Walnut Creek at the home of Mrs, C. R. Leech, where Mrs. R. V.

Burke held high score of plus 37 points. One, of the Martinez Tuesday clubs met in Walnut Creek last week and Mrs. Thomas D. Johnston of Martinez rated high score with 3200 points. This hand, which was played at that game, is an interesting one as it illustrates the void-showing convention of ,1., LIJ At ivja.

norms ma 01 inree spaa.es in response to her partner's opening bid of one placed a void in that suit bid, with about 2 ft honor tricks and either strong support for her partner's or a strong suit of her own. in this case, North held a power house, A slam would have been difficult to reach by using any other convention. South Neither side vul- neraoie. NORTH A None V-K 10 7 O-A 9 7 8 -J 10 8 4 'WEST EAST 4 A 9 A-KQ 10 8 7 64 9 8 3 2 --Q 8 0 O-K 10 3 0-8 4 -Q 8 7. i-9 SOUTH 4-532 4 0-Q A A 8 3 2 The bidding: South WesV North Pass 3 A East Pass 44 Pas 40 80 Pa" 64 Pass Pass South saved the contract when, claying the hand she led the queen of diamonds wnen ane aia.

she had made any other lead, she would have failed to make the con tract. It she had allowed the jack hearts to take the trick, she also would have lost. The Play: 1 West led the deuce of hearts, north played the ten spot, East the queen and south won with tne ace 2 South led a spade wnicn was trumped by.north. 3 The heart king was returned which held the trick. 4 The jack of clubs was laid down and taken by west's queen.

8 West returned the 7 of clubs which south won with her king, as she wished the lead. 8 South's choice was the queen diamonds, which west covered, and north won with the ace. 7 The 7 of hearts was then led, south trumped, and led the ace of clubs. 8 South then led the 8 of dia monds which put west in a helpless situation, and the contract was safe. Bid a Day: You as declarer have opened the bidding with one no-trump on either one of the" follow hands: 4 AKJ 2 4-K1078 10 8 0-AK83-- 0-KJ8 A-QJ6 4-AJ5 Your partner has raised you to no-trump, and.

now what should you do? First, how many honor do the hands contain? Hand number one has 4 honor tricks, opening bid guaranteed about therefore declarer has one-half honor trick to spare. Hand num two contains 3'tpUn honor tricks with 8 honor cards. The minimum requirement for an opening in no trump is 3Vj honor tricks the hand has 8 honor cards. Therefore this hand, with honor tricks and the 8 honor cards, should raise partner's response. In each case, declarer should take the con tract to game in notrump 3 no- one to two.

1 OOO Last but not least we have re turns from the Thursday night tourney at the Community Club Twelve tables of players jogged along at a nice even pace, with nothing to mar the even tenor of their way. Winners were: M.P. 1. Mrs. Emit Frltsch Mrs.

Claire 16 2. Ernest Noffsinger C. L. Granger 1M 2. Mrs.

F. A. Andrews Mts. Dlckhoff 15J Mrs. M.

J. Ralston directed. Third place was won by a couple new to our column. May we bid them welcome. IN EMERGENCIES 'For firemen or policemen see "We Can Do It" Phone numbers "ou should know) for men to clean 'p the mess, aee the same classification.

C. a A detective story which has stirring events in every chapter, pllei mystery upon mystery, thrills upon thrills, and keeps the reader on hia toes in hot water is "Murder in Haste," by a Garnet Weston. The tale is set near Los Angeles, but-that makes no difference. It brings abruptly into a fiesta at awj had happened to people like us who thought that by working hard we might earn for ourselves a little leisure. Nobody seems to recognize as yet, she agreed, what? has really happened that confiscation has been established as a precedent under the fiction of a "managed currency." (We've been meaning to ask David Cushman Coyle to think about that; he write- so clearly and sensibly, he ought to see the point.) MrsBanning remarked that even if there's nothing else we can do about it, we can realize that life was never safe anyhow, so our times are not exceptional.

We wonder if the Utopians will take it as well when their bubbles burst? Utop- ianism IS not romantic, because' it imagines results without any price to pay. The romantic knows that everything has to be paid for, but that ome things are worth whatever they cost. last Third omStted T. R. Coward asks us to re-read Agnes Smedley's "Daughter of Earth" as "an extraordinary book The new edition leaves out Ihe last third of the original edition, which I think was inferior in tone and content to the We read it all in the first edition, and the omitted portion was the key the rest.

The first part is the story of a tragically unhappy childhood, by inference placing the blame on the "social system." A drunken and brutal father, it is assumed, would have been different under a differ ent "system." But in the later chapters the author is shown doing a great many things which indicate a complete lack of common sense on, her own part. Is it so indisputable that "society" can supply decent feelings or good judgment where they are lacking? Where, would "society" get those qualities? will come of nothing; any form of society is merely an aggregate of individuals, Paul Allen relays to us a gem of wisdom from a review of Pareto's "The Mind and Society." The reviewer suggests: "It will be well, for this reason, to glance at all knowledge." Just a passing glance will do, of course, if omniscience is your foible, as it was Macaulay's. Storm Jameson, author of "Love in Winter" and editor of "Challenge to Death," an appeal to organize for peace writes us: "If you know William Soskin, will you say to him that we are not a post war, generation so thoroughly as we are a pre-war one; it's the next war that haunts our waking dreams over here. We were getting over the last pretty well when the next began to blow up." SHADE TO BE PROVIDED That's true enough, and we don't wish to discount such a disaster; but one can't be sure. So we mean to plant a few trees, and trust there will be some one to sX under their shade as we now gratefully enjoy the shelter of trees some unknown benefactor planted before we were born.

Stark Young and Margaret Culkin Ban-ning both, said they were going to build themselves houses; though Stark Young was describing a lovely old mansion ia Mississippi gone to ruin, because the age which made it possible had passed. It was built and used in its own time; that's all the time we have, anyhow. He's going to build in Texas, which is his favorite state; and Mrs. Banning in North Carolina, though she says jhe will con-, tinue to live in Minnesota most of the year, because she can't pull up her roots. The two Houghton Miffin literary fellowships have been awarded to Jenny Ballon and E.

P. O'Donncll. Thtey both plan to write novels; Miss Ballou's will have revolutionary Spain as a background, and Mr. O'Donnell will write of the Cajans of the Louisiana bayous. GIRLS TOO BEAUTIFUL Louis Paul writes from Hollywood that he has not been able to make any literary observations there, because the girls are so beautiful he can't look at anything else.

But he reports receiving a letter from a lady in Kansas who tried out a cooking recipe in "Pumpkin Coach." which was never meant for practical purposes. He just made it up. And the lady affirms that she has "really cooked the mad concoction, and wowed he." family with it; she ad vises me to do acookbook next." He'd better not; one cannot depend Tin inspiration exclusively in either cooking or literature. Here's book by a lifeeuard. "The.Sej is My Workshop." and that gives us a cue to tell another story, with no particular point except that it will enable us to call' it a We once interviewed a lifeguard, who rescued hundreds of simpletons from the tiderio at the Narrows in Vancouver Harbor.

Being very young and innocent in those days we said artless' 7 that the folks he fished out of tk; briny deep- must be profoundly grateful v. He said, not at alL They had been warned not to go there in the first place; and when dragged ashore they were usually indignant because he didn't rescue the canoe cushions, too. I. M. P.

NEW YORK, June 22. Stark Young was in town the other day, and he invited us to tea on purpose to ask, what do we mean by romantic? Such a definition is a large order like being required to say what you mean by life, love, art or literature Romance perhaps is the difference between living and merely existing. One might sajf-vtiiat it runs through the whole of the natural World. Plants could get along well enough without any showy flowers; some plants do. The flow er does serve a purpose, but the delicacy and beauty and infinite variety of flowers are a romantic manifestation.

Brainless, our cat is a fairly hardboiled tomcat, but even he' brings his captured moles and lays them beside the front door to show that he works for something more than his meals. He wishes us to observe that he is diligent and alert. He also requires to be spoken to, when we get home in the evening. He doesn't expect to be let in the house, or given any extra, but merely for good manners, a recognition of his dignity and honor. On the alleged human plane, the romantic spirit may be much more lofty and complex, so that even humility has a romantic quality, and pure disinterestedness, if it could be achieved would be the most romantic thing imaginable.

To be anonymously noble- well, the nearest mortal vanity can get to that is to dream of min gling obscurely with the crowd and hearing one's praises sung, and we shouldn't recommend such an ex periment even if the opportunity occurred. There might be dissentient voices. PITIFUL ROMANTICISM The romantic illusion, of course, leads to frightful disasters and even enormous crimes when it is linked to a petty ego and fourth-rate Intelligence. That is the romanticism of all 'the conquerors and dictators who seek for enlargement from their own poverty of spirit by the accretion of external And a pathetic romanticism provides them with follow erssimple conscripts who have a dim feeling that It would somehow be better to perish in the ruins of Moscow, a forgotten soldier in Napoleon's Grand Army, so long as one made the utmost effort to get there, rather than to die obscurely in the course of nature in one's native village. This blind romanticism is the price and the penalty of falling short in the great romantic effort of humanity the effort to think.

It is the romantic temper that does a job as well as possible when one could get by with an inferior performance. It is the romantic spirit which salutes better work than one's own. Here is a bit of dialogue from a romantic book, "Friends and Fid-lers," by Catherine Drinker Bowen. "Amanda says it has it! place, art, but it's dangerous when a person becomes too intense about it." I MUSIC AND MUSICIANS "Too intense? People aren't intense enough; that's the You must keep on; on." A charming little It's about music and musicians, of which we know nothing whatsoever: this is good reading for anybody. The book contains a delightful anecdote of De Pachmann berating his audience for not appreciating a Beethoven sonata when he played it.

"Uneducated beasts," he stormed. "De Pachmann will educate yo-i." And he played the sonata over again from beginning to end. He was quite right in requiring them to appreciate, and not merely sit What were they there for? This gives us an oppor- unity to tell another De Pach mann anecdote, twhich Mrs. Bow 1 maxikeispfa.ras-. we know, Jt's never been printed.

Will Cuppy told it to us. At a De Pachmann concert be noticed that the eccentric genius seemed to be playing specifically to a lady in one of the stage boxes. After a specially difficult passage perfectly rendered he smiled and nodded to the lady, and said. "You can't do that Years later William met De Pachmann's tour manager and Fecalled the incident The manager said: "But do you know who the lady was? William didn't know. "That was Teresa Carreno," the manager said.

And she couldn't do Only De Pachmann could. CURRENCY FICTION Margaret Culkin Banning pai ed briefly New York on-her way from North Carolina Jo Minnesota: she was looking extr3Jriely smart and cheerful ai she talked of what ranch more great fear and sudden death. Murder follows murder and in each the method is diabolical and bizarre. Someone wish to wipe out a whcJe group of men and that someone succeeds. Mr.

Weston places a beautiful girl In the middle of his mystery and thereby follows accepted pattern. But he makes his detective a knight of the road, a hitch hiker who outwits' the sheriff and finds the solution. There is an abundance of thrills and sideplay in the tale, for we have nudists, visitors from the South Seas, touches of. the old Spanish life in California, and modern Hollywood. The writer plays fair and those who pride themselves on their ability to solve fictional crimes may win at least a partial reward.

A deductive game and rampant action are in the book which exalts plot and action over style. In Hte." br Grntl Wm-ttrn: Nfw Tork, Frrdrrlrk A. Stokra, Young Henry Kept Right on Proposing It seems as if Henry would never cease proposing to Pidge. He started as a lad' and continued when she went ino search of a career. Pidge went forth to find a job while Henry waited and helped run his father's lumber mills in Harmony Falls.

For a time it did not look promising for love's young dream. Then Pidge admitted she was on the brink of something a bit terrifying, perhaps mistaken. Henry went, to rescue her the brave- young man from the small town and all he received was a piece of an enraged girl's mind. But this is a love story done for the month of Juno and July and Henry is a man who is not to bA thwarted. It is an entertaining and generally happy book.

Meon But This." bi Helen Psrt-rldtc: New York; The Arcadia Hel. t'2). "A remarkable novel for this prosaic, rteview of Lit $2.50. this time Mrs. B.

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