Battle Creek Enquirer from Battle Creek, Michigan • Page 4

BATTLE CCEE3, KltTJ, SUNDAY, AUGUST 17. 13t THE ENQUIRER AND EVENING NEWS SEEN IN REVIEW TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND TOMOROW can be as much confident, buoyant planning for the future In the sick room as anywhere else. The man who recognizes the fact that he has What the People Think About It The Enquirer AD THE EVENIN EWS BATTLE CHEER. MICH. Publlihed weelc-da eTenmcs and Sunday morntac INQl'lBEHIJBS COMrANT.

34-43 W. Stat SireeU Telephone: Dial 71C1- I Willi f( (Tou are Invited to aubmtt letters to What the People Trlnk About It. Tour nam and address must accompany tha communication but will be withheld tt you so request. SayS TaX EfOSiOn Is Worse Problem Charlotte, August 24. Editor, Enquirer and News: Regardless of the experts tax erosion is obviously worse than soil erosion.

Although the encourage ment of seeding and the care of our land is good and the only reasonable method of crop restriction, so long as 'many of our people in the cities are in neea 01 iooa wnicn they cannot get, it does not look feasible to restrict production. It may be well to lefr congress have "soil con servation" as a toy to see what they can make of it and keep their minds on war, out until a better and simpler way is found it will not be of permanent benefit II people generally had insisht to coming events and as much under standing as "Woman Voter" in the Enquirer and News August 20 our officials would make fewer mistakes. Alaska would be find to open for refugees oppressed in other coun tries, provided they do not exploit and waste in settling, as we did here. is a nard climate. Those with nothing or little to start, migh find 11 too severe to survive.

Government might do well to help some at tne Beginning. tjr. Harper, Char lotte, Mich. Looking Over The Week (Continued from Page One.) civil service protection by the state cvil service commission. I vrwAir-iass wee-ena picnics or the Michigan Carton Sher man Manufacturing Co.

and the Grand Trunk locomotive shop volun teer firemen were held despite the heaviest rain In Battle Creek and its environs in 12 years. The Methodist testant church at Hickory cor ners surrendered to the new Meth odist union. Balking pastors planned a new start. Local school officials declared Battle Creek schools would be "in perill' If more money was not hcomlng for the school year to Tt. ioun datlon announced it would spend a million for good health and happiness during the coming fiscal year.

Trustees planned to bring a new executive to aid Dr. C. E. Stewart in managing the Sanitarium. The Calhoun county fair was held during the week, featured by an address by Governor Dickinson.

NATION FLOODED BY PROPAGANDA, CHARGE (Continued from Pum On to the contrary nnr.nrit.Vief an4r. both of the principal combinations ana Russia have certain vital inter ests to protect, interests which an. peal to the American people only wnen iney are snrewdly concealed under false slogans. "When all of the war slogans have been atripped awav from the und fl whlch cn wani io xeep tnem and on the other hand that. ntr- r.atin.

wv uut Aiavc empires (not imposing ones at least) ni4 tui.r; uicm. MOSCOW8 DV own propaganda over many C1M IS Ulafc UieSe ODPOSmiT COIT1- that destruction. Thes arr t.h- sues reduced to their simplest lerms. The committee said it would ap pear to be in the interest of a democratic formulation of American foreign policy for this committee to inquire thoroughly into the activities of many of these agents of foreign principals who have complied with the provisions of the registration act." Compromise Democratic Sullivan Candidates Will Be Accepted by an ailment, and who puts himself on a program to cure it Isn't necessarily giving away any of the op portunities and accomplishments that belong to him in the future. He Isn't necessarily losing his courage because he accepts the immediate facts as they.

are; he may be safe- guarding his courage. And on the other hand the man who, discovering he is ill, begins to wring his hands and tell himself that nothing can be done has lost his courage and, probably, his chance to recover. We have an emergency in the schools. It grows out of the wider, more variegated emergency which we call the depression. The emerg ency may represent an illness and we may have to doctor it with some medicine that may taste bitter but there's no use losing courage or am bition over it.

If we ever get ourselves into a "what's the use?" attitude in this community what we call costs of taxes or what we call troubles of school deficits will be found to be small troubles by comparison when, at some future time, somebody takes a measurement of what's happened to the town, its erowth. its real es- tate values, and so on. WE'RE NOT ON BOARD, EITHER Something was said the other day about the speed of the European process ol entanglement. There is some further enlighten ment on it in terms of how fast the United States had been traveling, or would have been traveling, in the travel schedule drawn up by the President. n.

If we had taken this schedule, as the President outlined It at the time of Munich, when Russia was ex rtrMKinff p-rpfc moral indlsmation over what Germany had done to Czechoslovakia, the passengers on board the Diplomatic Express would have been Russia, England, France and some of the smaller countries. The President, Mr. Ickes and others of the administration had been bitter in their attacks on die- tators. with no mention made of Mr. Stalin.

Presumably that was because Mr. Stalin was on the train passenger list whicn mciuaea we United States. It now appears that Mr. Stalin got off some place before the tram started, possibly escaping through a window of the parlor car. A revised estimate of the new deal's aggressive attack on aggres sors would have to Include Mr.

Stalin out of the calculations. He seems to have developed some ag gressive ideas of his own so far as Poland Is concerned. But it all gets back to the speed of travel in Europe. When you start out to go some place, you never know who's on board the train or how long they'll stay put. HIGH CURBS IN TILLAGES mere seems to nave oeen some surprise that the new state regula tion abolishing angle parking in all communities in Michigan won't work every place.

The rBJum wajt simnln emmiffTn. parallel parking is impossible. The Hence there will be parallel parkins I wherever possible, and wherever it's uuwc wu uc iKic While it mlffht be said that the huf wslm-nm Mm.lla. I of going wrong, and that the laws ejuBwiice, wuiie laumg jwwiue any measure lor tneir removal, we 1 i II J. i Lit gooa intenuons oi uie siate puduc safety department should be recognized.

It is dangerous to drive behind a row of cars parked angling to the curb. No regret need be expressed over a situation that cant be helped. It would be interesting to know, though, how many laws are passed which blithely ignore high curblngs and tell the citizen that he's got to Prk up against them whether he can. OT not" 1116 number must be Mja, 1V. uil vuuajueraoie.

LANGUAGE THEY UNDERSTAND Not much has been heard of the anti-gambling crusade in Michigan for the past few days, and this prob ably is the natural consequence of having so much war news. However, it is reasonable to sup pose that what Governor Dickinson told the local enforcement officers and the state police, and what the state police told the gamblers is still, as they say in gambling parlance, It ought by this time to be made clear that there isn't any such thing as a regulated" gambling situation, or a Treuy gooa gambling situation anv more 01311 is such a thing a Pretty good egg. It is the nature the gambling situation that, as a Public enterprise and operated other- wise than for private entertainment and not profit, it is like the liquor- business-for-profit. It either is kept under, command and control by a club, or it is out of control and run ning hog-wild. I necenuy cnicago mere was a comment on the clean-up campaign in force on gambling there.

"The only way," said an experienced ob server, "to talk to this business is to talk a language it can understand. mat the language of force and So that, if Michigan has started OUt clean up an evil, it will be I necessary to keep on going. Before war comment: Thev'r fonla uiey cio. i We Still lack a Will Rosrer. but until we get another one Governor Dickinson's random rnmnwnt affairs have the authentic homespun tOUCh.

I COURSE THERE has been none among us, no matter now little he knows of great affairs gen erally no matter how close Ins application is to Mn-viigai-, avenue and the street called Home who hasn't been Interested in knowing that Russia and Germany hare made an alliance while England was trying to make one. Probably there has been none among us so dumb or so in different as not to ask himself what an this new going-on in Europe means, or might mean, to him and his folks, now or some day. Because the memory of 1914 la still pretty fresh among us and because we know an of us know that the Atlantic is by no means as broad as it was. The boys who are writing the surprise stories about the il logical, unexpected alliance of Russia with Germany, and the diplo mats who are being photographed with the surprised look, could have saved themselves some shock by reading Kipling for a moral and political credit-report on Russia a generation ago and by looking around at the litter from broken treaties whose breaking or abandon ment by most of the nations is cur rent history. It was Kipling who wrote a warning of the Russia of his day, when Russia was then royalist and with a sense of re sponsibility and sportsmanship which is lacking, even, from the Russia of today.

Does anybody remember now the tale which Kto- out in the mouth of Matun. the blind beggar, about what mht-be expected by those who dealt with the Russian bear? But (pay and I put back tha bandaga) This la the time to fear. When he stands up like a tired man, Tottermer near and near: When he stands a P. pleadinc In waverine. man-like eniae: When he vella tha hat and cunning Of nis little, aevuisn eyee.

And so on. with the scar-faced proofs of what comes of trusting the good faith of "Adam Zad," I Over and over the story. Ending aa na oatran: There la bo truce with Adam Zad, Tha bear that walks Ilka a man." Since the last preceding install ment was written, there has been I time out for a short excursion up wards, through Michigan. What an empire it Is this Michigan of ours rather, empires, for the blue water of the straits makes two of them, and Up Yonder from St. Ignace on is something else again.

We lose appreciation of Michigan from knowing it too wen. Familiar ity breeds a kind of blindness. But Z.lM?ZrZ TC: i a. i M-m or the dust bowls, this Michigan of ours in the summer time is some- thing so fine that It must seem artificial There are a good many wonder spot, in One of them, it always has seemed to this Observer, is where the Little Sturgeon laughs and gurgles alongside highway 27. up near' Burt and Mullet lakes.

Another is in the highland coming down from Pe- I toskey, where the blue waters of the bay ripple in the sunlight rivaling in color the clear blue of the sky and reflecting back the decorative spots of white formed by the vagrant Nowhere In an the ocean- to-ocean expanse of travel possibility has a better Job of road-making and maintaining been done than in ni i ana i nor. common result from government as everybody knows. It's a fine demon- stration of tactful understanding that has built the roadside resting TT, piaces au wide and sare turn-oui, usuauy with JlaJ Dienas wiia uie uuuwjr ua i traveler on the open road; with a comfortable table or tables in the shade, inviting to picnic and en- hovment. and with a trash can to ratrh the litter and thus uieaerve the clean and inviting wholesome- ness At most such places clear I water tested and guaranteed pure, from spring or flowing wen. downutTjmirney found many Ul U1CH ib OWbO wvwhvu I a CUiaiUUiBbO flllUi waawisaa aauj I it in words or not, were thinking aratefunv of Michigan and its capacity for doing the graceful and helpful thtag "merchandising with a smfle," It might be caned.

There are many people on the road and it gives some assurance for the country, in these times of doubt and worry, to know that so much of the population can and will gee into a contact wita sunshine, sky. woods and water. But the resort hotel business has a lamentation. Things areni going as wen as was hoped. The condition was said to be pretty generaL There were two possible explanations one, the vast increase in the number oi cabins and cottages catering to travelers (which might or might not comnet for the character of trade which stops at hotels) and.

two. the fairs at New York and San Fran Cisco. This latter factor probably is an influential one. As to cabins and camps, the up-country seems tn have bloomed with tnem use spirea bushes bursting out In the spring, in tne Traverse wiy alone, for a space of several miles around the curve of the bay, there I has been a vast up-surge of camps and cottages, and many of them very attractive lookirtft- and most of them representing themselves as modern. The tourist industry has been recog nized as big business in Michigan, and the seller is meeting the buyer with anticipations of his require ments for comfort and happiness.

The same thing continues on up across the straits. There must be a lot of people who live in cabins, or else a lot of cabins that have guess ed wrong. The uniqueness of Michigan re veals itself again as the wide waters of the straits are approached for the necessary ferry transport from one Michigan into another, from one empire to another. There seems to be (and the impression was shared by several) a certain cumbersome- ness about the operation ox tne ferry service now that might be remedied. It seems the trip from I I I I I of on to off takes longer than it might.

The process of loading and unloading appears to lack snap. It seems, as comparisons are made from memory, that the customer who crosses the Detroit river (or who used to do so before there were so many other ways of crossing), or who crosses Lake Erie by boat, or who patronizes any of the other important ferry sei vices, finds himself in the hands of rapidly clicking machinery which places him on board in short order, impresses him with the fast tempo of the proceedings and gets him off with equal celerity. And there appeared to be -wmrthlnr lacking in this respect at the straits and the trip seemed unnecessarily long. The state highway dr fr-ment which runs this service Jb much else that is skilled and am that it doubtless can do the best pos sible Job of firry-operating if tt is not doing it now. One explanation offered by a wayfarer who shared the trip across was that Michigan ferry 'Jobs are political; other ferry Jobs are Jobs.

Maybe; this department doesn't pretend to know. Of course there Is increasing talk of a bridge at the straits, and of the growing necessity as shown by the growing volume of travel. Maybe again. There is an increasing volume of travel of coarse, and it's fine that this should be so. This department (no expert on the matter) does not believe in the practicability of the bridge.

It does believe in the best possible ferry service. In a little shop run by a woman. on the Canadian side of the Soo. was an example in community promotion that might wen do for copy in many larger community our own, for instance. Two visitors were in the shop when the Battle Creek party strolled in for a brief word of hello and good-bye for old time's sake.

know youH like the place, the lady was telling her visitors; "youH find it very easily by following this map; it's only 13 miles out, and they do serve splendid meals and the scenery is worth seeing an along the way. Then tomorrow you and there followed an equally en thusiastic and convincing description about a place to be visited tomorrow. When the visitors had left and the tourists from Battle Creek had caught a eomradely hall of greeting one of them said: "Wnarc been going on. anyhow? Do you trade endorsements with the resort people? When your visitors get out there will they be told anrnethmg about your place in return for what you've aaid about then me l.nnKA i leneh lanB vnn tr ntmi that nm th places but I do know the places, They're fine and the scenery around them's fine. I want people who me here to ee and do things they have here and go home pleased to have been here." Some of the smart lads on How to Win Friends or how to sell refrigerators in Alaska, or how to make each moment merry and bright might write a volume on salesmanship and civic helpfulness without describing or doing any- thins; ag effective as what the lady behind the counter at the Soo was doing Just to be friendly and make sure her town's guests would enjoy themselves.

The short and informal introduc- tion prevails along the highway, as rnniw kmon ho na eon- rcsuicuueub uuua tow Uess which co9m? ZTJT JS1 T. Zh inwku the up-state barn which, in reveal- in frankness and boldness of let- Tyv.1.lM t. rMible ownership as being Mr. and Mrs. B.

Bangs and Son. How many were there who. read- lna in the naner the other night of o-ath at Jackson of James r-nuiri rias their eves and gee the fine, upstanding figure of a man at traffic duty on the "bank comers" in the cod days wnen those were the bank comers? Or sea the parade of open street cars, tn canaeitv and bound for th nmn th- firickets were Dlarinc out where Lakevlew now Is while James Nypjes. policeman, waved the traffic on? That was a long time the forc8 here Tne crowds were coining down to Nancy Boyer at the Post in the emnings. or to take in the vaudeville that Walter Butterfield hrinmnsr to the BUou.

Every uo. ana anocner war mi, wnta reporter who chanced to be as- to the police beat took his first look at the blotter and asked what woman writing teacher was substituting for a cop. Then Jim Nypjes was presented. Almost as big as a house, he was. but in splendid physical trim.

His was a hand that seemed fashioned for stopping runaway teams or battering down brick walls. But he did the writ ing. It was like the finest Spencertan, When the war came. Jim Nypjes. who had been a soldier in the Dutch army, went away to training camp and came out a first lieutenant.

Afterward, when the troops came hark he rot a lob at the Jackson orison and became Its enrolling cIerK and he filled volumes with his flne writing. A pleasant, smuing; capable man was Jim Nypjes, with of duty and of respon- 81Diiity. arariitatinn turns from headlines Peking of war to contemplation of the story of the man who. turning in an expense account, usee tne term, G. O.

in connection with various items. Asked what' It meant he said that as to those items it meant. "God only knows." And so. perhaps, with the searching for explanation for this current news. What explanation is there for the madness which has come again to the world despite the bloody, agonizing proofs of the past that it IS madness? What can we understand it? The world is a fair place.

Perhaps a safe and sane humanity. fit for tne world, is in process of creation and in the queer and crazy phenomena that grow out of that process of creation, perhaps a su perior intelligence can see the reason and the progress that we do not see. THE OBSERVER. New Tork offlre 551 Fifth Chicago office WO N. Michigan Detroit office 630 New Center at all of which file of tha paper may mg and business tranaacud with the paper.

Delivery bf earner to tha city eveninga and Sunday. 20 centa a week. By mail In local trading tones. 50c a month. (4 a year, by mall outald trading territory.

1 month Sic. 3 on tha SI. 95. month $3-90. month J5 85.

ona year S7.80. Outside etata ot Michigan 10 per year. Entered at tha Battla Creek. Michigan. Foetolflc aa aecond claaa matter.

MCMBEB OF ASSOCIATED PRESS Tha Associated Press la exclusively entitled to tha uaa for republication of all oewa dlspatchea credited to It or not other-wlie credited In thl paper and aiao tha local new a publish! therein. SUNDAY. AUGUST 27. 1939 'EVERY MOTHER'S SON" Twenty-five years ago this news- naner published a comment about what it is that constitutes the interest and the anxiety which greet the war news what the war news itself really is. as it reflects itself in the nneirtpmrion of our kind of people everywhere.

Perhaps that editorial is worth republishing now. Not that it will do uiT rood: not that there need be any repetition of the descriptions of wars horror or madness but be- cause, perhaps, it defines war in its correct terms as differentiated from the big words and high phrases with which the talk of diplomats and politicians invest it. The editorial was written and published in the days of questioning and alarm In 1914. when, of course, there was rather more and stronger belief In the impossibility of war, than now, with the reminders upon us of the "war that couldn't happen, but The editorial was captioned, "Every Mother's Son." It follows: Humanity recoils with horror from the realization, made all too plain in the news of the day, that the nations are not at peace, as had been so fondly dreamed, but are, instead, constantly in the possibility of war whose terrors the whole of history has not hinted. But the tragedy of the realization Is not in the paralysis of European business, not in tne many nara ships Incident to the eruption of evervdav affairs.

War is waged with men. Its sac rifices are living human bodies. And the tragedy of the discovery that war is not ancient but modern and present, that passion is not yet subdued by reason this tragedy is being seared into the souls of mothers, who bear the sons whose lives are forfeits and playthings to the spirit ol war. The old shadow seemed to have passed. The mark of -war's levy that claimed the sacrifice of the firstborn had grown faint upon the threshhold and almost forgotten since the hosts of Napoleon and Wellington and Grant and Lee made In blood their arbitration of faiths and creeds and desires.

The terror of war in its relation to home and society had seemed an ancient thing, a part of the errors of ancient days. And the trust and hope had been cherished that boys might be reared to lives, of strength and usefulness and to pursue their ambitions and develop tneir guts, under the Diess-inss of peace and liberty. A new note had come into the world's cradle song that was not there when men went fighting at the utl i ii I wiauenge oi A nw flth iar1 olrvHflprl In vision that looked toward old age ana saw it surrounaea oy the pro tection of stalwart sons who had oecome coers of the world constructive work and servants to the world's constructive needs. Suddenly, out of the distance, comes tne cry or the beast again, that motherhood through all the ages has learned instinctively to know and to dread. The "terror that flies by night is loose upon the world once more making its prey of mothers hearts.

The drums roll and the flags fly gaily and the bugle sounds the charge. "The captains and the kings depart." And this is what remains motherhood, facing the loss of her hopes and the denial of her prayers, aghast at the realization that her sons are yet born subject thMf 2a oaKles create: motherhood, helpless before we leering Drute oi war. 1 a I The "fiehtlne streneth" of ntlnn 1 thp rnll if mnfh' aaoVi nf whom was born to be the' kina of a mother's heart. YES, THAT'S TRUE There was a true statement about the school problem and the com munity problem (of which the school situation is a part) at the most re cent conference between the public and the school board The statement was that the com munity needs to lift up and pep up its morale. Its courage, its ambition.

Whatever else It needs with reference to its schools, it needs that. There's been, perhaps, a littl- too much tendency to consider and eon- suit with reasons why things can't be done. As to some of t.h ntmnitmiK problems there's been, perhaps, too much of a tendency to try to "go on relief. There will be a pretty common agreement that in these times, with the circumstances upon us that are upon us, there will need be some extraordinary economies, some extraordinarily close counting of the cash. That's the only way locally or generally we will work our way out of the consequences of too little income and too much spending.

But as we apply this policy to any of our Interests like the schools we should remind ourselves that we are doing it as a means to protect and to insure the future health and adequacy of the schools to help them help us to get over an extraordinary situation and then go on to bigger, better things. There can be as much courage In laf Here is goverenftlng skin ned th nd sense and understanding in its I "Bills "Shorty Placjes. an net vai- Ticket Seen New Deal, Conservatives the great war. several years later. led to a revival of his influence.

No, Mr. Roosevelt is not likely to lead a third party. Impetuous though he is, ebullient though he is he nevertheless has little appetite for a losing fight. The ebulliency that is essential in him needs a prospect of success to arouse it. Ex citement is a first law of his nature, and there is no excitement in the dull plodding of a fight for a lost cause.

Mr. Roosevelt's zest is all for a fight with elation at the end of it, and applause. And there is in him a streak of canniness that would warn him away from a predestined defeat. The only course with appeal for him as one In which he can see an outcome in which he either leads the cheering or is the beneficiary of it. Na Mr Roosevelt is not likely to no, aar.

ixooseveic is not inteiy to i. 1.H i a that threat. It is doubtful if his threat was intended to be taken up. It was really less a threat than a gesture toward compromise. And fKi come oi me present, democratic sk- uation.

All this is going on so far is mainly within the circle of the democratic leaders, leaders as dis tinguished from the voters. And what the democratic leaders of both factions want more than anything else is success for the party. Many oi uie leaaera ire miux or are in other ways beneficiaries of power, and what they most want to stay in office. The regular democratic leaucrs warn, it wisnout quamica- i i. ti I tion.

Most of the new deal leaders want it, tarring those who are Of the zealot type. Compromising the situation would mean: Bar from the nomination aU. extreme new dealers. Bar from the nomination all extreme regular democrats. Reduce the field to those who are somewhere in the middle of the road those who have neither orthrightly opposed the new deal nor supported it 100 percent.

Norn- inate one of these. The regular democrats would feel they had sav ed face and so would the new dealers. Copyright. 1S39) Post Quips By Glenn Post In Hollywood marriage is a pause ior station laentnication. xoo many sunaay anvers nave a passing fancy.

Most any farmer would consider a i30-nour month a vacation. Dear Mr. Hitler: It is easier not to start a war than to stop one. QUOTATIONS ti A NY time I see a blank space on a ballot, I win either sup port someone else for the office or run for it myself L. Clark.

independent political tyro of Memphis, who received 664 votes for congress. TID I come here to be insulted?" Sir Percy E. Bates, chair man of Cunard White Star, when he was asked in Cleveland if it had. been possible to operate the steamship Queen Mary at a profit. t(r OVE Finds Andy Scrooge." swejgden Nasn, suggesting a dox office title for the film of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." go beyond the letter of his threat which is merely to not be active, to take a walk.

And it is doubtful if How New Deal Blessed-and BY MARK SULLIVAN WASHINGTON Let us look at the problem the democrats have Mr. Roosevelt says to them that if they nominate a conservative, he, Mr. Roosevelt, will "take a walk" in his own words, "find it impossible to have any active part." Now, Just for the sake of throw in light on the situation, let us look at the other side of that proposition. Let us imagine vice President Gar' ner, as head of the conservative wing of the party, saying that if the democrats nominate a new dealer, he, Mr. Garner, "will find it im possible to have any active (Mr.

Garner won't do that, but let's imagine it.) suppose tnese two threats con fronted the democratic party. And suppose they had to do something about it. There are three possible courses: One, the less obvious though I think the more probable, would be to compromise. But omit that for the moment. Suppose that the democrats simply have to accept one of the two threats either nominate a conserv ative and have Mr.

Roosevelt take a walk or nominate a new dealer and have Mr. Garner take a walk. Which should the democrats choose? They would choose, presumably, the one that would cost them the fewest votes. So the real question is, which would take most votes away from the democratic party, walk by Mr. Roosevelt or a walk by Mr.

Garner? It is the walk by Mr. Gamer that would cost them the most votes. For the reason that if Mr. Garner walks the conservative democrats who fol low Mr. Garner have something they could do about it and do it the baby, has run away from his wife, Victoria, and an the exemplary but excessively wearisome morality of the British island of Tortola.

So he comes back to the island of St. Croix and to Rhoda after an absence of five years. In that time much had happened. It was now under the Stars and Stripes. When prohibition came, the rum distilleries were closed down and the islanders had been losing money on their main in dustry, sugarcane.

Then came the hurricane of 29, and finally the de pression. The Negroes were prac tlcally starving and there seemed no solution to their troubles. When the new deal comes to the island the be wildered Negroes think Heaven is at hand. Through the hilarious episodes of the relief administration, the band concert when the playing of the national anthem failed to evoke a responsive recognition from the audience, and the giving of a Gilbert and Sullivan opera, there is a serious and unexaggerated account of how a beneficlent government through its misguided and case minded bestowal of largesses affects the integral fibre of a people whom, by its very beneficences, it deprives of their integrity, their work and their potentialities, so that they be come lost in idleness. It is the homesteadlng project that is their salvation.

And it la at the close of the book when Rhoda and Adam come back to the soil, their one essential expression of living, that Mr: Heyward's writing is at its vital and its masterful best. Laurabell Reed Connor. with great effectiveness and pleas ure. The followers of Mr. Garner can vote the republican ticket.

The republican party is there ready for them if it suits their purposes, con forms largely to their point of view about public affairs In the present state of things. Conservative demo crats would vote the republican ticket with a whoop, and glad of the excuse. They would do it by millions, in such numbers as would give the republicans a landslide. On the other hand. If it is Mr.

Roosevelt who takes the walk what can his new deal followers do? They can't very well vote the republican ticket that would be cutting off their noses to spite their faces, assuredly. And there is no other party for them to go to. There is no third party available. The two third parties that once might have served them, the La Pollettes' national progressive party in Wisconsin and the farmer-labor party in Minne sota were almost wiped out in the 1938 campaign. It is most doubtful if either of them could pull itself to gether to function in an effective nation-wide way next year.

There is also the American labor party. But it is confined largely to New York City, hardly exists outside New York state. It is suggested that, lacking an effective third party to be a home for the new dealers, Mr. Roosevelt might form one. One suggestion is that he might take one of the three third parties already existing and vivify it and expand it.

That is conceivable but for many reasons hardly practicable. Those three diminutive third parties have definite lines of doctrine-which do not wholly coincide with the new deal. Such leadership as those pay-ties have are Jealous of their posi tions and tend not to have great affection for Mr. Roosevelt. Their attitude toward him is one of watchful wariness.

They feel there is dis crepancy between the geniality of his friendliness toward them and the actuality of his support of them. There is a story, perhaps of du bious authenticity, concerning May or LaGuardia, of the national la bor party. In one of the stages of Mn LaGuardia's climb to the may oralty of New York friends of Mr. LaGuardia appealed to Mr. Roose velt for help.

As the story goes, Mr. Roosevelt was immediately and vo ciferously willing to help. Sponta neously and emphatically, he de clared: "Sure, 111 help LaGuardia; he's a good guy and I'm for him and 111 give him a hand; if he wins 111 lead the cheering." That may be one of those stories that frequently arise about public men, stories which are imaginative illustrations of a broad condition rather than camera photographs of actual events. But there is enough in the story to suggest the difficulty Mr. Roosevelt might have if he undertook to take over one of the existing little third parties, with its existing leadership and make him self the head of it.

Besides, to lead a third party would be certain defeat. Even if Mr. Roosevelt got literally every new deal vote in the country it would not take him anywhere near the presidency. Forming a third party would merely mean that the existing democratic party would be di vided almost exactly in half, 'making a breach through which the republican party would march to an absurdly easy triumph. The chance that Franklin Roosevelt would have with a third party in 1940 would be, for several reasons, less than the chance Theodore Roosevelt had with his third party in 1912.

And the outcome of Theodore Roose velt's adventure was not only defeat for the time being but relegation almost to political Impotence until Cursed the Virgin Islands DuBose Heyward Writes Another Moving: Interpretation of the Negro Race. STAR SPANGLED VIRGIN By DoHme Heyward Published by Farrar and Rlnehart It is unfortunate that the author selected such a title. It gives a wrong impression of cheap, dime novel material when, in reality, the book is another of his warm, human interpretations of Negro life and character. No living novelist has so caught the dignity, the deep sincerity and reverence that make up the real spirit of the American Negro as has the Charleston born Mr. Heyward.

His "Porgy," published in 1925, was one of the best setters of that year it was produced two years later as a play. Then, in 1029, "Mamba's Daughters" came out which had a similar success, both as a novel and a the latter running a most successful season in New York with Ethel Waters in the cast, This is DuBose Heyward's third Negro novel. It has fresh and oiigi nal content. The setting is the Virgin Islands at the time when the new deal came to the Inhabitants of St. Croix.

It is humorous, and naive and pathetic, yes. and some what shocking in its depictions of an uninhibited people and their bounteous and freely distributed progeny. But the startling social implications and the more riotous moments have been restrained by the writer's sure technique and skillful handling. The central characters are Adam Work and Rhoda and her children, crystal, Treasure, Patrick, Hoover and Ramsay McDonald, who was not her Child but Adam's. Artam with.