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Sunday Mornlnc, June 2, 1210 XS-- Si 3 NX, J. 'Rm md Reader America Since the First World Wav THE NASHVILLE TENNES SEAN From Stunt to An Antidote to News Tragedy A Marxian Appraisal of the Past 20 Years in 1 1ST Bruc Minton and John Stuart, author partlaana of the Democratlo and Republican parties. Aside from that ita chief Interest lies in figures and facta about the place of the minor partiea in each of our recent election campaigns and in its concise running history of the labor movement, fhe apathy of the A. F. the emergence of the C.

I. and the way in which labor has utilized such advantages I i Dr. Wodehouse in Thirteen Live Yams EGGS, BEANS AND CRUMPETS. G. Wodehouse.

Doubleday. Deran, New York. $2.00, Dr. Wodehouse cornea through gain with an antidote for the war wi, although hla likable people might aa well be on the front line for all the peace they have. Tou'll find many old characters here, dressed up in new togs and with a bagful of new Wodehouse tricks.

It may be that "Eggs, Beans and Crumpets" was written rather hurriedly, but to a dyed-in-the-wool follower of the English humorist this will hardly be noticeable. There are 13 stories, most of which are up to Dr. Wodehouse's standard and a few of which we think set a new high in what we like to call plaintive humor. Misguided young Stanley Feath-cratonehaugh Ukridge is the woeful herb in several of these yarns, and Ukridge's vicissitudes in his quest for "a decent living" make fascinating reading. We especially liked two of the stories about this bright young man who never misses a chance to turn an honest (T) pound or bo "But tercup uay and Ukridge and the Home From Home." Young Stanley Featherstone-hough Ukridge, for your is the nephew of a very rich lady, living on an Infinitesimal pension from her.

His wants are simple. Good liquor, a nice variety of well-tailored clothes, at least one pocketful of spending money will do nicely, thank you, if you don't mind throwing in a comfortable (and speedy) automobile, and perhaps a trip around the continent occasionally. Friends, so far as Stanley Feath- Stone Age NEW GUINEA EXPEDITION. By Richard Archbold end A. L.

Rand. Illustrated. McBride. New York. $3.50.

In the little explored area of New Guinea, great island in the South Pacific off the northernmost tip of Cape York, Australia, are people with a stone age civilization (or lack of civilization the stone age looks pretty good these days) disturbed only by an occasional government patrol. But recently men eager for adventure and gold have been penetrating the vast expanse to chart new mountains, rivers and lakes. The possibility of finding new petroleum deposits Is another attraction. The birds of New Guinea, noted for their brilliant plumage, have attracted naturalists. Richard Arch- Giving Students the Dignity of "Tha Fat Year and th Lan." aa hav been made accessible by the federal government.

Contrary to the Ideas of those who lately have been saying that President Roosevelt's foreign policies have been brilliant while his domestic policies have failed, Minton and Stuart contend that the United States, used to Britain's advantage in the Manchurian crisis in 1931, has been consciously the varied purposes of the student are lifted Into new meanings and wisely channeled into deeper and richer content gained not only through libraries but through workshopslaboratories museums art galleries industries music the dance and the theater. Adjacent to New York, source material of every kind is abundant. No longer is the student campus-bound. A close check and recheck between adviser, college instructor and administrator is essential and quite self-evident In the rapidly changing world outlook of today, women's education may call for even greater modification than Miss Warren indicates here, but there can be no question that Sarah Lawrence College has given young women the dignity of self-hood in their choice of studies R. L.

Goldman Author of "The Snatch" Lectures THE FAITH WE LIVE. By Alb.rt Edward Day. Cokesbury Prase. Nashville. 12.00.

Thla la a reproduction of the Fondren Lecturea for 1940, delivered by the author at Southern Methodist University. The lecturea are divided Into two parts, the first being the interpretation of the word pictures of God as revealed in the Old Testament. An understanding of the seven chapters in this section is not to be obtained by a careless or single reading, but only careful and prayerful study will give to the reader the rich trutha indicated by the author. The second section challenges the use of "the resources of God" to the every-day experiences of the reader. While the book is written in simple language, its understanding is based not only upon the teaching of the first section, but upon a knowledge and understanding of the Bible text.

Not intended altogether for the study of ministers and Bible teachers, it should have a place in the home of every layman. Simple Secrets FACING LIFE WITH CHRIST. By James Reid, D.D. Cokesbury Press. Nashville.

S1.50. There are fourteen chapters in "Facing Life With Christ," and each chapter has a lesson that is truthful, convincing, and of spiritual value. Simple in detail and statement, they reveal the secret of successful Christian living; that merging of life and religion; that care may be cured by religion; that religion can overcome evil; that in Christian faith there is a surrounding purpose, and that each of us may find a place in it; that following the Christian ideal of life without the Christian religion "is based to some extent on a the function of religion. Eachefcipter is prefaced by a New Testament vera 'that outlines its' content. A Strange Cry of Tragedy A Balance to Put Against Other Propaganda or unconsciously dancing to Britain's tun aver sine.

RUSSIA AND FINLAND They claim that after th Polish debacle England sought to unit th capitalist nations of th world, including th United States, in a war against th Soviet Union, transforming the war in th West, and bringing Germany into lino with th Allies. For such a purpose, they say, Britain incited Finland to acts of aggression against th U. S. 8. R.

That's their story, and it sms a bit hard to swallow, but th next paragraph makes sens: "Tha League of Nations, with aa alacrity wholly different from past performance when it had refused aid to China, Ethiopia, Spain, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Memel or Albania, expelled the Soviet Union from membership and organised aid for tha Finnish Whit Among their conclusions: "In th deepest sense, th history of postwar America waa th history of th stumbling, ill-defined, yet very real search for socialism. Th history of the years to com would Inevitably be marked by a growing realization that th final test of those who desired progress rested in the ability of the majority to win full economic, cultural and political freedom." William Kingsbury. of Selfhood to fit their life purposes, the development of social responsibility in caring for' themselves and others in dormitory life and In all important human relations. The student learns to be a good neighbor and helps her fellow-students to good neighbors. To some the wide margins given students in which to operate oa their own account looks dangerous, but when one recognizes that th close personal guidance program provides a safe framework In which democracy does not flounder but finds opportunity for leadership for investigation for creative arts for understanding of family lif and the home arts, one can but wonder why it has taken so long to come to the Sarah Lawrence plan.

Lucy Gage. force which, for th most part, bringa them together, and at th end each is going hia separate way, none too happy waya, at that A STRIKING GIFT Miss McCullera has an uncanny ability to make her people helpless and frustrated though they are- mean something. She tells us littles of Singer, yet ah makes credibl his quiet calmapparent understandingwhich leads each of tho wracked four other principals la her story to hla cheap boarding nous room ana gives them peace. haps, in the way aha makes a liv Mv Hr tm'iWav the fat Greek, who was Singer's only friend. There is something dismaying in this seeking brings these people to Singer; she seems to be saying, through him, that god is th noblest work of man.

Some readers will find it hard to believe In him. nut tnere are good portrait of minor characters, and through- tha novel flow the rhythms and dissonances of life in a Southern community. There is sufficient story to carry the novel along, but th thoughtful reader will find mor than th story; It Is a novel which will bear thinking about for a food while. William Kingsbury. Requiremnets SUCCESSFUL CHURCH.

By T. Grady Nsnney. roadman Press. Nashville. $1.00.

Every phase of church life Is taken under observation bv Dr. Nanhey. The author is fair, straightforward and fearless In stating what good laymen and a good minister should b. His con struction of th successful church finds its foundation In th Scrip tures of the New Testatment A successful church, states. should be divinely planted and scripturally organised, composed of a distinct membership, led by a good minister and good laymen.

as patterned after tha church at Antioch, the successful on would be spiritually guided, evangelistic, missionary, spiritual, prayerful, co operative, and sound in finances. The book is the first attempt at authorship by Dr. Nannev but does th work well, and the suc cessful clergyman would profit greatly by Its study and It ahould make better church member and leaders. a mil One Bfk at time. FICTION CO.

sin Brother Peedlum Wilkes THE By Pt. L. Goldman. Cowsrd-McCsnn, Now York. 12.00.

Perhaps everyone has experienced strange Sequels to the plana of mice and men, and know that they can prove not only disconcerting but sometimes tragic. For example, what started out as one of those screwy Hollywood publicity stunts ended In a double tragedy. And Nashville's own nationally known mystery writer adds another volume to hla rapidly growing list of Impressive mystery stories. Not because Mr. Goldman la a Nashville man, and instructor of short story writing at Watklns, does oncfeel It incumbent to say something nice about hla work, but In any comparison his works will stand the test In measuring up to the criterion for mystery stories.

His plots are logical, with good timing, natural characterizations, and a noticeable absence of Irrelevant and extraneous characters and events. "The Snatch" deals with a plan of the Zenith Pictures to pull off a publicity stunt as a build-up for their forthcoming picture of the same name, featuring Grant Mar-well. Eddie Ross, mild-mannered publicity agent for Zenith, arrived in Fairmont, Harwell's home town, and approached Rufus Reed, reporter for the Fairmont Express, and gave out a line calculated to bring out the brass bands to welcome the home town boys who had made good in Hollywood. After a round of feting for Mar-well, he strangely disappeared. Rufus Reed tried to expose the kidnaping gag, but the opposition papers fell for it.

After Marwell had been gone a few days and it was thought he would return with a big tale about his being snatched, he was found murdered on the abandoned farm of a relative who was supposed to have borne a grudge against him. Goldman works out the details ijicely and the freshness of his style should please the majority of mystery fans. Henry McRaven. New Guinea Among some of the findings of the expedition: The people of Lake Murray were still naked but covered themselves with a substance which looked like stove polish and wore their hair in a braid. At Palmer Junction the people were simple, unsuspicious folk.

They wore loin cloths, went around armed with bows and arrows and used stone axes to cut down trees. They had cunningly contrived hid ing places on the ground, making baskets out of leaves and saplings in which they concealed them selves, to shoot' their prey from small peep hopes, using arrows. The expedition found them eager for trade and especially anxious to get beads for food. They traded bananas and sweet potatoes for tobacco, which they rolled into ciga rettes smoked in strange bamboo pipes. The results of this second ex ploration, in the plants and animals collected, were more gratifying.

The account of the expedition is readable and interesting; the illustrations might hav been better. Clarence Fergersen. HORIZONTAL 1 European City 7 Jewish high priest 12 Clips 17 Souvenir 18 Breathe noisily 19 Marked with lines 22 French conjuno-, tion 2S Top of head 24 Grain pit 25 Suggests Indirectly 26 Land measure 27 Consumed 29 Parent 30 Vend 31 A roundup 32 Prefix: away 33 Take out 35 Chief river of Germany 87 Plots of ground 38 Greek god of war 39 Obliterate 41 Emmet 42 Caverns 43 Equilibrium 44 Wind 4 Hut 47 Peltry 48 Roundworm 61 Dogma 52 Huntsmen 55 Lethargy 86 Walked through water 57 Greek letter 58 Exclan.a-r' tion 59 Writing material 60 Ballads 61 Faces, as of clocks 62 Some 63 Twic 64 Rung of a ladder 65 Social assemblage 66 Edible seed 67 Command 68 Small perforated apherea 69 Masses of ice 72 Indian madder 73 Legal claims 74 Affrsy 75 Go to bed 76 Recompenses 78 Desires 79 Clarify again i 80 Frees 81 Combs 82 Stitch loosely 83 Roastlng-sticks 85 Parts of th 70 Classifies Premier 2 27 33 4 SO 67 76 77 S3 91 96" i02 Reasonable Story Once Premise Is Granted THE FAT YEARS AND THE LEAN. By Bruc Mlnten snd John Stuart. Modern Ag Books.

New York. S3.7S. The course which America has taken, and the way world events hav directed that course, from th Treaty of Versailles to the beginning of th Second World War, la the atudy on which thla book la based. It differs from other books of somewhat the same nature, covering the same period (Th Beards' "America in Mid-Passage," the Harding-Coolidga volumes of Mark Sullivan's "Our Times" and Frederick Lewis Allen's "Only Yesterday" and "Since In that It is written from th Marxan point of view. It lacks the light play of the Allen books, the length and substance of the Beards' work, the apology of Mark Sullivan.

But It is concise, documented, well written, and even a reader with small tolerance for th Marxian theory will admit tha it ia, in th main, reasonable. Many readers without prejudice may find it persuasive. LOTS OF EVIDENCE Once on accepts the possibility that this is not the best of all possible worlds, the evidence of 20 years to prove that capitalism imperialist capitalism is no great success is pretty abundant. These authors have traced the floundering of our capitalist economy through the dying days of the Wilson administration, with th "new freedom" an empty phrase soon forgotten with the enthronement of Warren G. Harding and monopoly.

The Coolidge era is treated under the heading "The Great Seduction," and it is not a pretty picture, one almost aa sordid as that of the Harding administration and the plunder of the nation's natural resources. Rooosevelt's administration is called "Th Great Compromise," and fifth and last division of the book is rather fittingly called "In the Shadow of War." The review of the happenings during these years is much as might be expected. Most books, however, which review these administrations hold a brief for one or another of the great political parties. Minton and Stuart hew to their party line and let the chips fall where they may. They do find some good the TVA in the Roosevelt administration, and they see the President as more susceptible to pressure of the people than were his predecessors, therefore offering more hope of relaxing some of the evils of our economy although with no desire to eliminate them.

The picture of the Hoover administration is etched In acid, and their account of Hoover's frantic efforts to do something in the last dark days of his tration forms one of the most inter esting sequences in this book. The book is a valuable" addition to the shelves of anybody collecting works, American historv cov ering -these years, Joili bias gives' weight to-balance against tha' theft VERTICAL 1 Rainier 3Part of "to be" 3 Fabrio 4 Break suddenly 8 Perfume from flowers 6 Sorrow 7 Concur 8 Feebleminded Revolv 10 Province In Ecuador In this sctet 11 Symbol for neon 12 Glides 13 Baseball teams 14 Within 15 Footlik organ 16 Symbol for samarium 17 United States general 20 Binds 21 Appesring as if gnawed 25 Inn 28 Not In Sunday Cross Word Puzzle P. G. Wodehouse Author of "Eggs, Beans and Crumpets." erstonehaugh is concerned, are nice people unless they are too stingy to let a fellow have a couple of pounds occasionally. Stanley is an engaging fellow as are all of the Wodehouse charactersand his gift of gab is amas-ing.

There are other top-flight yarns here that will make fine reading for a summer afternoon: "A Bit of Luck for Mabel," "Sonny Boy," and "Scratch Man." Nobody but Dr. Wodehouse could think up so many hilarious and painful situations. Stanley F. Ukridge thinks nothing of leasing room, in his aunt's fine home to boarders, or borrowing a suit, top hat or what-have-you from any chance friends he comes across. His schemes for making a little pocket money sometimes sound almost logical, which is one of Stanley's troubles.

His logic works fine up to a certain point. But then a fellow has to live, doesn't he or does he? John Lipscomb. Civilization in bold, research associate of the Museum of Natural History in New Tork, was attracted to New Guinea in 1932, and in January, 1933, his expedition left for the island in search of birds, mammals and plants. It returned to New York in 1934 with mild success. Another expedition, to use an airplane for its surveys, was organized and returned in 1936, its destination a small white settlement at Daru.

In the western division of Papau naked men, who used sharpened stones for all of their cutting, tend their gardens, raise pigs and wage wars. The stoge age natives caught the excitement of the white men while waiting for the arrival of the plane, which was put into reconnaissance flights over South New Guinea. lars. The devil had taken the hill town; I' Brother Alf Drland was also preacher, nnordaind, 'unauthor but a self-appointed of the Church at Lees. 1 Leland'a grandson, Wally was a preacher by the same authority as the grandfather, but been promised the pastorate of the church that Hatcher Crane was building.

Crane waa the factory "owner, and was trying to build up his own prestige by giving to the town a new place of worship. The plot is irregular and the reader is compelled to travel a zigzag road to' keep his bearings. W. H. Fitzgerald.

Indian Legends THE EARTH SPEAKS. By Prin-cess Atalie. Illustrated. Fleming H. Revell Co.

New York. $250. "The earth speaks with many voices: from the deep ravine and wild roar of the cataract to the dignified river whose banks are charmed with a profusion of -flowers; in the song of birds from a hidden' branch or of a tiny Insect passing on the edge of dusk; in the music of summer's in the sound of the raindrops as they straighten each withered leaf." Thus speaks Princess Atalie In her preface to 50 authentic legends of the Cherokee Indians, beginning with the creation of the world, its creatures and flowers, regarded by the Indians as conscious beings, "whose beauty was a reflection of love and whose petals brought them healing." Princess Atalie Unkalunt is a full-hlooded Cherokee Indian Princess from Oklahoma. She Is also a distinguished artist of unusual versatility, being well known as an author, artist, lecturer, and singer. Those Interested in.

Indian lore will find this an attractive volume worth adding to their collection. H. McR. Cropping Up BREATHE NO MORE. By Msrlon Randolph.

Henry Holt New York. 12.00. In "Breathe No More" we hav the country house and the Inevitable dinner guests cropping up again. The plot Involves the autocratic head of the house. Napoleon Bon aparte Guardet, his two daughters, and as nice a list of suspects as ever graced the dinner table In an about-to-be-murdered man house.

To go much farther into the plot might give it away, but there is a book publisher who helps the coroner solve the whole thing much to his gratification and that of one of the gorgeous daughters. For the reader who fancies himself as a sleuth we recommend the book; others not interested In a list of dinner guests, a series of coinci dences, and numerous false leads I bellev could employ their Urn to better advantage. I I A NEW DESIGN FOR WOMEN'S EDUCATION. By Constance Warren. Stokes.

New York. $2.00. Departing from tradition is difficult in all fields of thinking, particularly where there has been the fixity of form which persists long after the need of it is gone. This is definitely a weakness in the field of education. As college education for women has followed rather slavishly the pattern of college education for men, it goes without saying that experimentation along new lines pf women's education is counted a radical departure.

Constance Warren, presldenlif Sarah Lawrence College, BronvviUe, New. York, in her recent book, "A New Design for Women's Education," leads her reader intelligently and sympathetically into the philosophy underlying the plan. This plan is based upon democratic living and a clear recognition of the needs of the girl of today and the intelligent cooperation of the modern parent of today's daughters. Throwing aside the older autocratic forms of both administrative and classroom procedure, the individual student comes into the foreground of the plan and is studied and incorporated into the whole fabric of the reason for the college existing. king hold first of her dominant interesTSlmd her purposes in com ing to collegeMiss Warren gives us a detailed pifctwe step by step of the way the plan operates.

It is a ten-year, record of experimenta tion and reconstruction filled with numerous easeatudle sHoVipg; how' 45 Ventilate 46 A thicket 47 Entirely 48 Serpent 49 Stationary 50 Roman god of love 51 Armored cars 52 Inflames 53 Needle-bug 54 Timid 56- -Forests 57 Elegy 60 Extends over 61 Ventures 62 Nest of a predatory bird 64 Plants 65 Raw hides 66 Graphite 67 Legal profession 68 Feathered animals 69 Bows 70 Denominations 71Weight of India 73 Laymen 74 Female horses 75 Thing (law) 77 Inscribe 78 Diminishes 79 Tatters 81 Contends 82 Poet 83 Thin 84 Heaps 85 Emptiest 86 One engaged In banking 88 Household god 89 Chooses for office 90 Calm 92 Furnish food 93 Adhesive mixture 94 Ouat 97 Long sword 9. Endure 100 Arrow poison 103 Undermine 104 Color 105 Existed 106 Greek letter 109 Symbol for tantalum 110 Pronoun 113 Short for Albert Guido's seal 30 Submerge 31 Fasten firmly 33 Get up 84 Evades 36 Part of arm 37 Rescued 38 Larg artery 40 Mistake 42 Fruits of th pin 43 Barges propelled with poles THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER. By Carton McCullers. Houghton Mifflin. Boston.

$2.50, The first novel of a 22-year-old girl, "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter," is a strange outcry of the tragedy in the lives of five oddly assorted characters in a middle-sized Southern town. It is written With implications lying deep beneath its story, which is of the curious dependence each of four persons comes to have upon a deaf mute during a year's time, and -of the strange dissolution which follows fp the life of each otj th four when the mute-, himself rudely ended, takes his life. A GRASP OP TRAGEDY Miss McCullej-s has an astonish ingly penetrating mind; the reader finds her presentation of a wandering laborer, half deceived with half truths, as seemingly real as her understanding of an adolescent girl In a down-at-the-heela, boarding house. And her feeling for the struggling Negro doctor in' an unsympathetic community is as moving as her grasp of the tragedy in the life of an impotent man who would like to mother and sew for little children. But Miss McCullers has taken these real materials and given them a touch which is far from realistic yet steers neatly away from the pitfalls of fantasy, achieving a sense of real unreality which is something like the state one enters between sleeping and waking.

There is some weaving together of th lives of these four persons, with John Singer, the mute, as the First Epistle ASSURANCE OF DIVINE FELLOWSHIP. By Clyde L. Breland. Breadman Press, Nashville. $1.50.

The average reader will find an understandable-volume in Dr. Bre-land's essays on the First Epistle of John and why John established the reasons of divine fellowship. This study la not a word by word analysis of the book nor a running commentary. It is a clear, understandable narrative with spiritual significance. Dr.

Breland does enter into controversy, but presents the epistle as it is related. More appealing to the student of the Bible, the work will not prove difficult to the layman, but should giv him a greater and clearer view of what has often proved to be a controversial and too scholarly subject for the average reader. for un, July and August I Summer Library Rates and August 3 5 6 7 1 lO 12 TTlH 15 16 2S2? 3M 36 "37 51 7 52 5,3 SM 63 7 69 lO 71 7S 79 a7 6 ST 90 2 cu CLC- 27 92 55 93 94 92. 77T -779s TiooioT 103 "07 '3i 1 1:1 IN I I 1 1H 1 1Mb THE DEVIL TAKES A HILL TOWN. By Charles G.

Givens. Bobbs-Mernll. $2.50. xr iBi hia introduction- Mr. Givens says that he was cut adrift from tha "Methodist God" by the death of his mother, and that his father, "a fine, brilliant lawyer with a vast following of sinners and poor people, was openly and intolerantly contemptuous of the preachers sent to shout the word in our violently religious town." He insisted that the preachers were mediocre.

and perhaps some of them were. He was about seven years old when he began, to take an interest in God and called upon the preacher to ask a few pertinent questions. The preacher, he says, "was unbelievably patient but somehow he" couldn't make God live. I couldn't see my pastor's God; couldn't possibly imagine Him; couldn't love Him, and I was a bit afraid of Him. He was just a wraithlike something, neither man nor beast, hidden high in the clouds that never set foot on earth." BROTHER WILKES In contrast he introduces Brother Peedlum Wilkes, a hill product who preached wherever he found himself, and wherever he preached there was God right with him.

"And colorful God, boastful and arrogant, brutally direct, with his soul full of vengeful hate and bounteous love. and ever ready to forgive a feller his sins if a feller prayed loudly and long enough." The author remembers one of Brother Peedlum'a prayers so well that he has included it in his introduction and made it a part of hla story, They knelt by the side of a log, and this is the prayer: "Dear, Good Lord, In yore awful power I wsnt to ast You to wipe the fleck of hate eutrn this little feller's brains, If he's got any brains. He's runnln' around talkin' about tellin lies to turn neighbor agin neighbor euttln' another neighbor's guts out He's seven, join on eight an' he alnt got much sense for a boy of that age. So taken the hate outen him and make him forgit slch ornery foolishness aa turnin neighbor agin neighbor." There is no mistaking the meaning of this prayer, and It is a paragraph of the Hill Town story "that la worth remembering. THE LABOR.

PROBLEM One may feel that the plot is a cross-section of tha labor problem, but this is denied by the author with the statement that labor and capital had not reached the "stata of rampant idiocy pictured." However the factories had been built, som operatives had been Imported and hundreds of native-born had been introduced to eight-hour days and the contents of a pay-en-velopa at tha end of the wVk. With tha opening of the mills came -the store with allk dockings and whit shoes and" ready-mad dresses patterned after Paris and New York, ranging in jric from 11.98 to that many pi skeleton 86 Pouch 87 Dried tubers of orchids 1 Compassion 92 Short closks S3 Analyse 95 Small valley 96 Beverage .97 Peels. '98 Debark 99 Roman numeral 101 The tumerio 102 Concerning 103 Satisfies 104 Assignment 105 Fermented grape Juice 107 Circuit Court (abbr.) 108 Landed properties 110 Speed 111 A salt of acetic acid 113 Asunder 114 Pierc 115 Commits (Solution lwhr "and NON FICTION. AND HON FICTION. CASTNER-KNOTT.