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k- a iA- a- BA '--f. EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE CAPITAL TIMES Sunday Morninjr, June 7, 1936 Ilome Owned ITome Edited Home Read THE CAPITAL TIMES Daily Records Making Light of The Times HBdDaDks NJ-IUJ By ADRIAN THE WORLDS GREAT AGE. TI1E STORY OF A CENTI'RY'S SEARCH FOR A TIItLOSOrilY OF LIFE, by Philo M. Burk Jr. (Macmillan) $3.50.

Reviewed by Joaquin Ortega HETHEFt consciously or by chance, Mr. Buck has given us the replica of a canvas memorable in the history of graphic representa- omirs could be presented interestingly and effec- textbook for elementary economics courses, is the result of many years of thought and study of how the complex subject matter of econ- By ERNEST Last week inaugurated the open season for rollege baccalaureate sermons. The word baccalaureate, says Webster, is derived from the Latin hares laurl or bayberry and originated in the practice of the bachelor's wearing a garland of hayberries. The word has now rome to mean a farewell address to a university graduating class. This department during the last few days has been reading a fine assortment of thumping baccalaureate sermons, but none of them seems to have been brought up to date since the days of the medieval universities of Bologne and Teague.

Therefore we submit a model sermon to save work for the hard-pressed and honest (if surh there are) contemporary barcalorators. FMBERS of the graduating class of Kirkapoo college: I gaze upon your uplifted faces with mixed feelings of confidence and pommisera- tion. Mv commutation lie in the fart that many of you believe you are leaving thw college cloister for a disrupted, disorganized and chaotic world, and I my confidence lies in the fact that I know you won't be disappointed. I. my dear students, am truly on the spot.

I have been called upon to deliver the baccalaureate sermon, which Is a sort of academic accolade bestowed upon those trustful collegians who believe that by studying philosophy and Anglo-Saxon phonetics they will inherit the fleshpots. It is true, young men and women, that in the lush years all rollege graduates had a fairly good chance of entering the blessed ranks of the possessors of babies, bonds and bungalows. In those days, truly, the word baccalaureate was derived from a garland or haybemes, but in our era it means a posy of poison ivy. Voice of The People "Let the Teo pie Hate the Truth and freedom to Discuss It, and All Will Go Well ni H0HLFELD ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES. PROBLEMS, AND POLICIES, by William II.

Kiekhofer. (Applelon-Century) $5.00. THIS volume, designed primarily as a college tively so that the student might become familiar with the economic organization of our society, the basic principles of its functioning, and the economic problems which beset it. Professor Kiekhofer, who has been in charge of the introductory course in economics at the University of WLsconsin for many years, has con- i stantly sought to present the major principles, 1 problems, and policies involved in an understand- ing of our economic life in a clear and logical manner. The results of his fruitful experience are embodied in this book.

The book incorporates the material usually presented in a one year introductory course in economics. It is divided into six parts which deal with the subjects of production, exchange, value and price, consumption and saving, the income and expenditures of government, and economic policies and politics. The treatment is unusually comprehensive and supplies much basic know- ledge about our economic organization and its functioning. Recent depression problems are dis- cussed and much of the New Deal legislation which has a bearing on economics is analyzed. 1 Teachers of economics will find many useful teaching devices and illustrative materials which should be of aid in the presentation of difficult points or subjects.

The clarity of exposition should relieve the teacher of much time-consuming rx- planatory work and should enable him to concentrate on special problems and devote more class time to discussion and analysis. The student who is just starting his work in economics will find the book very readable and rhould be able to ab'orb much of it, by his own careful study. The mooe of presentation and the logical and coherent arrangement of the material will add to the students ability to master the subject. While designed as a rollege lextbook the volume has much to offer those who once took" econ- omirs and desire to refresh their memories and to bring their knowledge of economies up to date. Thp layman who desires to make a first acquaintance with the subject will find this volume interesting.

enlightening, and relatively easy to L. S. THE CIVIL WAR LETTERS OF COLONFL HANS CHRISTIAN HEG." Edited by Theodore G. Blegen. (Norwcgian-American Historical Association I.

$2.50. Reviewed by Harry Williams THE diaries and letters of soldiers, are usually disappointing to most readers because the attention of the authors is confined almost exclusively to the monotonous routine of camp life. To this rule the letters of Colonel Heg. the commander of the Fifteenth Wisconsin Regiment the Civil War. form no exception.

The subjects disrusspd by the rolonel in his home letters, here printed for the first time, are those naturally dear 1 and essential to a minor military figure horses, food, tents, drills, pay, promotion, and the ron- dition of his regiment. While thp writer seldom ascends from this level, certain mens in style and material gup this hook a value and interest not possessed by many other simiiar collections. In a biographical essay preceding the war letters. Dr. Blegen supplies the requisite background for Heg's life before 1861 his Norwegian boyhood, lifp in frontier Wisconsin, the trip to the California gold Wisconsin polities as an anti-slavery Republican, Upon the outbreak of war, Heg, a recognized leader of the Norwegian-Americans, organized a fields, and his participation Jn as an anti-slavery Republican.

I I I I tion. This book is The Unholy Supper of the nineteenth century. Thirteen are the partakprs. Leonardo could not have arranged the place-cards more effectively. In the center ls Tolstoy, flanked on the left by Hebbel, Whitman, Manzonl.

Shelley. Chateaubriand and Rousseau, and on the right by Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Ibsen. Zola, Arnold and Hardy. All are gesticulating as in the immortal painting of S. Maria delle Gra- zip, except Tolstoy, n.

whose eyes have seen misery with humble understanding. He opens his arms in a propitiatory attitude. His feet bled on the soil of Russia, and he wrought as he bled unknown paths for his folk. His lips are slack with disillusion, but he looks hLs fatherly part. The author-host of this secular Last Supper has had the good taste to conceal himsejf behind the drapery.

He wants to listen to these new apostles to listen to their toasts to man's nature and destiny. For each guest brings his own liquor. They lived in the century of bartenders. Most of them would take not the earthy wine of the Master. They were all masters of elaborate cocktails that leave one a little dizzy.

The host, alone with his conscience before the guests armed, could have madp the cocktails somewhat more turbid by pouring in the cups too many drops of commentary. Hp has chosen, instead, to pour drops of clarification. There is racial bouquet in these cups. Not in vain are we in the age of strong nationalisms. The Frenchmen's cups arc sugary and sensual, predisposing to virtuous sin and self-glorification, but on reaching the bottom we taste the unsavory dregs of a Zola.

The Britishers' are angelic and homely, a sort of pop with some rum. The of course, is Shrllev. the pop the admirable Matthew Arnold, and the rum. Hardy. Manzoni's cup is filled with a rosv liquid which inspires one to sing a naive opera entitled Sweet Adeline." The American brushes aside the ordinary cup and draws from his park a pitcher bubbling with unfinished mixtures.

He gulps the whole without a sip of water afterwards, and raises his arms in triumph. There is something manly in this, for the others keep on pressing their tongues as if they wanted to get rid of the flavor. The Germans, as usual, bite the cups. for th stuff they hold Ls incorporeal, like the historical metaphysics of Hebbel or the primordial unity of Nietzsche. But they bite.

They are super-critics, super-philasophers, super-men or super-something or other. Their tragedy is to be SO excellent, with a slight complex of lnfrrioriiv. The Russian vodka is hitter and the drinkers on imbibing it shake their robust frames and turn up their eyes in agony. This lonely Norse from the ohseure north." Ibsen, lifts his rup of "one-does-not-know-what." When the time of toasting comes, he meditates on whether toasting or not toasting is a problem, and decides not to toast. A Spaniard might have been asked to join the party.

Mr. Burk knrw he would be late anyhow, and that is probably why he didn't bother. Besides. Spaniards dislike ghosts and the GHOST OF SCIENCE that hovers ovpr the table would have made him quite uncomfortable. One is tempted to follow up the allegory, whieh has afforded a means for reviewing epigrammatic metaphors the contents of a book so difficult to summarize; but space forbids, and it be Fntmd second rla matter it the Pintnltif Madison.

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Wla. June 7, 1936 A Sound Decision yrITH the reactionary rulinjrs of the U. S. Supreme court atrainst the social and labor legislation of the New Deal occupying first place in political discussions, it is hijr news indeed when a federal court upholds a substantial part of the Roosevelt power program. On Friday Chief Justice Alfred A.

Wheat of the District of Columbia supreme court held that the bijr FWA power program is constitutional and dismissed injunction suits ajrainst 10 municipal electric projects in Alabama, Texas, Oklahoma, and Iowa. 7VD DOUBT the utilities will carry the case on up to the U. S. Supreme court, whose reactionary complexion by a majority of on? offers hope to lost causes of monopoly. For the time beinjr, at loast.

a substantial victory has been achieved for the public ownership movement in the utility field. The Wheat decision will stimulate municipal ownership advocates in cities where the public is Heine victimized by hijrh rates. It will encourage public spirited officials in communities seemingly faced with an uncrackable utility situation to take steps that will break the monopoly jrrip of outside utility interests. Derision like this that open the way for public ownership are valuable, even through municipal plants are not actuary established. Substantial rate reductions have been obtained from private operating companies and the public has benefited without actual construction heir" started.

It is interesting to note that some of these reductions have come from private utilities that only just before had vigorously protested that their rates were as low as they could cut them and operate at a fair profit. Municipal ownership movements have called these bluffs and resulted in jrreat saving's to the people. THE decision of Justice Wheat is particularly noteworthy because it comes from a judjre who is known as an ultra-conservative and a reputed foe of thp New Deal. Justice Wheat, however. is to be complimented on taking a realistic view of the constitutional aspect of the power program case.

There are no Irjral shenanijrans in his opinion. We wonder whether the same can be said when the majority opinion on the appealed case comes from the U. S. Supreme court. -Mr.

Filune Oiiil of O' YARD A. FILENE. prominent 1 liberal Boston merchant whom Madison has cordially jrreetpd on his several visits here, recently resigned from the United States Chamber of Commerce and took advantage of the occasion to state tersely to the "rulers of America" some potent economic ideas that must have scorched their starched shirt fronts. Fiene minced no words in pointing out that the Chamber of Commerce was dominated by special interest groups that use the organization as a mouthpiece for their reactionary views and policies. These jrroups.

he declared, have little understanding1 of the needs of the jrreat majority of American business men but seek to serve only their own tiprhf little circle. Mr. Fileno believed that the Chamber of Commerce under proper control mijrht have been a tremendous force for trood. He felt it could have carried on with its ample resources an intensive study of why business went to the doghouse under Mr. Hoover and the reasons for the partial revival under Mr.

Roosevelt. (Some observers would challenge the word partial hv referring to the New York Times index for business activity which bounced up to 100 the other day for the first time in six years!) The Chamber could have done a jrreat deal of valuable research instead of contenting itself to takinjr polls of the closed minds of its membership and Hsinjr its facilities for propaganda purposes ajrainst almost all liberal legislation. It is easy to understand Mr. Filenes June 6, 1936 DEATHS Anton Schuster, 84, of Sun Prairie, died Saturday. Mrs.

Fred Hyland, 67, Stoughton, died Saturday. BUILDING PERMITS Mrs. Orin O. Owen, residence, 2722 Kendall $2,500. Wisconsin Life Insurance alterations, 600 Brearly $5,000.

F. J. Alverson, roof, 1102 W. Johnson st $225. Democrat Printing alterations, 114 S.

Car-roll $200. MARRIAGE LICENSES John A. Ewing, West Allis, and Anderson, Mt. Horeb. John J.

Hawkins, Glastonbury, and Ruth J. Dudley, 148 Breese tr. Robert Beyer, 803 State and Monica A. Clark. Manitowoc.

William M. Hainps, 140 Langdon and Rose L. Mead. Mineral Point. Rex Stevens.

321 W. Mam and Grace L. Adam, 323 W. Main st. George A.

Schaub, 438 W. Johnson and Jane E. Doran, 1015 Drake st. Selmer M. Nygaard, Stoughton, and Tena L.

Gretebeck, Edgerton. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Yawkey Crowley Lumber Co. to C. P. Burhholz, lot 3, block 17, Belle Isle, town of Blooming Groie.

Anton Severson to Gilbert Severson, land in section 9, town 7 north, range 6 east. Henry G. Reynolds to Esther Slinde, land in section 27, town of Blooming Grove. Prentice H. Conradson to Anna K.

Garver, part of lot 2, block 208. Madison. L. D. Atkinson to Albert Lange, part of lots 19 and 20, block 7, University Heights addition to Madison.

CIRCUIT COURT Mrs. Annie Hansen. Waunakee, granted divorce from Walter A. Hansen. Waunakpe.

Mrs. Ruth Almusin. 433 W. Gilman granted divorce from Gilbert Almusin, Madison. SUPERIOR COURT John Angus.

Cottage Groie, held under $200 bail on nonsupport barer. E. B. Griffith, 28. Evansville, and Lawrence Kolste, 29, Radkp ave, fined $50 and easts pach for driving while under the influence of liquor.

James Bayhss. Janesville, fined $5 and Albert 910 Oakland fined $10 for reckless driving. Morris Taylor, 257 Langdon fined $1 for overcrowding car. Clifford Cutler. 5 3.

Mills st and Hrrman refers. 2907 La Follettp fined $5 each for speeding. Albert C. Anderson. 504 BriUinrham fined $1 for unnecessary sourdine of automobile horn.

ESTATES FILED FOR PROBATE Margaret H. Johnson, Madison, assets, 1 ,1 00; no liabilities. Stale Press John Chappie's latest book bound in bright red and designated to create a horror of the red menace in Wisconsin and at the university, has recently been published. After a perusal of the document we are moved to the opinion that John would have been more effective if he had talked issues rather than condemning the Progressives as people who would raise the Soviet flag over the capitol if given the chance. The book is fully as radical from Ihe standpoint of the conservative thinking person, as the writings of the wildest communist.

Chapplp is doing the state of Wisconsin no great service with thp publication and he is harming hit pause, whatever that mav h. No person ran so roudlv condemn the state urmersity, in which a great many people still retain a good measure of pride, without weakening his own position as potential leader. People like leaders with a touch of toleranre in their make-up. From a political stand Polnt- chaPPle must embarrassing to Wisconsu Republicans. Elkhorn Independent.

Backward YEARS AGO TODAY YEARS AGO TODAY Machlis return from Chicago where they attended, the wedding of a cousin. Mr. and Mrs. John Galvin, Cottage Grove, announce the marriage of their daughter. Kah-i ryn.

to Miles C. Riley, Madison. Mrs. M. B.

Olbrich entertains at a lawn party. Mrs. Joseph Jastrow is elected president of the Madison Woman's club; Mrs. J. H.

Hutchinson, vice pres- idrnt; Mrs. E. R. Maurer and Mrs. S.

A. Brant, Showerman treasurer. new Orpheum theater. TODAY and Mrs. F.

of Europe. Madison, and Banford editor of the Mt. Employes of a summer picnic. to give a series of lectures in North Carolina. fall of a distinet civilization different from any that the world had sren before or is likpl.v to see 1 again.

In this, as in all civilizations, the great men were those who possessed certain selected qualities. The heroes of the old west seem to have been very much alike whether they counted their coups on the side of law and order or against it. Captain Bill McDonald of the Texas Rangers, with whose adventures this book deals, was one of the greatest of old law officers and it Ls the tragedy of such men that they should have given their lives to destroying the only order in which they could be really at home. Many of Captain Bill's adventures were so wild and Incredible that a writer of fiction would hardly dare to employ them. The book is recommended to all devotees of Westerns with the assurance that they will find themselves quite at home in it.

The author has used all the stereotypes of this highly formalized section of our literature and Captain Bill emerges as a rather typical hpro of the pulp magazine sort. It is to he regret ed that the book does not tell us more of him as a man. L. MEYER riease do not be shocked, my dear graduating class, and do not worry that I will be fired, for our good college president is not here today. He is busily at work on a highly helpful book entitled Life Begins at Ninety-fire.

To you who naively believe that life begins at 22 let me say in all frankness that we of the faculty have aided you In that illusion because that is our job. Our concern is with unchanging traditions and not with changing times. And so we professors have plodded along in the old routines and the ancient rut.s, sadly out of place as they may be in the world today, trusting that you students have neither the intelligence nor the temerity to detect the deception. You perceive that I am being honest with you, which is not the habit of baccalaureate speakers. The only reason I am being honest Is because our good prexy is absent and because you are half asleep.

You have become so inured to sappy lectures that you don't hear a word I am saying. But having succumbed to this honest moment of abberration. I want to say this: We members of the faculty have been wont to call you young graduates the seeds of promise and we have gone on year after year blowing you seeds into the world without concerning ourselves kernly about the soil you will inherit and in which you seek sustenance. We of the faculty have been as foolish as the amateur gardener who purchased sacksful or seeds of all kinds and then found that he larked even a backyard in which to plant them. It seems to me, in this moment of unaccustomed honesty, that we of the faculty should have shut up our scholar shop for a while and should have bent our backs to the plow, so that you who com" after us with such high hopes and ideals might not inherit a soil that is flinty and sterile.

Bless vou all. And beware of the cops. borltness and friendship you suggest in our out-tn-the-open community. Those words of yours are truly refreshing, for its nice to know that at least some of the people in our big sister. Madison" realize that Blooming Grove is a place and not a fly -speck.

We're blessed out here in many ways. We have the big, rlean in all our door yards, we have splendid roads leading into every nook and corner of the town, gravelled and clean and a town board that is constantly improving and keeping them clean. We are not blessed with any hig parks, but we have turned all our street ends" leading to the lake into public park-strips." Soon you will he able to wind in and out on our pretty roads among our fine trees, park your car at one of these strips and make your way to the lake. We are now taking tests of the water several beautiful springs in the town, and if we find the water safe or that it. can he made safe, we hope to have the surroundings improved so all may enjoy these splendid things.

Speaking about the bond Issue, almost within a mile of the same school another school board is expecting to spend $30,000 for another school. This is too bad for if the school boards of these districts would forget their little petty Jealousies and their little petty Jobs, put their $85,000 or $90,000 together in one big beautiful school and transport the kiddie to it it would be a fine thing. But for some reason or other, they just won't do it. One is jealous of the other and wont let the other get ahead of it The result of it is that these little boards soak the taxpayers instead of getting together like one hig happy family and working for the best imprests of the most people. Instead they go into their own litle huddles.

When the Allis school district has finished bonding the people. I imagine they will have spent between and $100,000 for makeshift schools and will in the end get a $40,000 school for it. It is true that this is a congested district. It needs a much larger school, and it will be fine to have it. But there are other things this community needs perhaps more badly, such as city water and a sewage system.

But they'll get that too. eventually, and then the community will be one of the most splendid in our town. Thanks again, and "Come out and see us some time." Frank K. Weslon. TAKF.S SOI.D'FRS TO WIN WARS Tlafteville.

June 4 It has hern charged that. Pres. Roosevelt has hurdered the country with a huge bureaucracy. Here are the farts: On Feb. 28.

1933. Just before he was inaugurated, the total number of federal emploves. not counting the army and navy, was 563.487. On Feb. 29, 1936, it was 799.939.

an lnerease of 236.443. Why that lnerease? Because Pres. Roosevelt declared war on the depression, and you can win a war without soldiers. Now. when wp went into the World war, we jumped the size of our army 36 times, from $10,000 to 3.673.888.

and increase of 3.573.888 men. In our present war against the depression, a war to end human misery instead of cause it, the civilian employes of the government are our soldiers. They have been increased only 236.443. H-tle more than a third. Both increases Wcre made to eombat national emergencies, just as private business engages in personnel expansion" when conditions require.

And Just, as the size of our regular army was brought back to normal after the World war. the number of Chilian employes of thp government will he reduced a.s soon as the war against the depression is won. But you cant win a war without soldiers even though your critics may call it bureaucracy." Progressive Democrat. us know that this camp furnishes outdoor life, healthful diet, and recreation for children ho are tubercular or who have show a tendency to become so. It is under the auspices of a trained personnel, with a nurse of outstanding capacity at the bead.

Anyone who has seen these children upon entering camp, and the same children as they depart for their homes to face the coming winter, knows how essential the good which it docs. As a result of this Kiddie Camp work, there is before congress a hill which would provide such childrens summer outing retreats as a national program. Money cannot he spent for a better purpose. We hope the hill will prevail. It is the privilege of all State Journal readers to participate in the financing of the Kiddie Camp.

To help even a little in so worthy a cause makes one feel better, probably actually makes one a better person. We hope the people of Madison will respond generously to this appeal, and make the 1936 summer program of the Kiddie Camp the greatest in its successful career. The first to suffpr from government uncurbed by law and curbed by tyranny are the housewives whose domain is reduced from a castle to a hut. U. S.

Senator 35 wren R. Austin, 3ermont. Pres. Roasevplt has instructed the radio corpora-until his death at Chiekamauga. Thp letters in- tions not to switch from the Republican national eluded in this volume deal with Heg's military convention broadcasts in order to put his speeches experiences from January, 1862 to September 18, -on the air" when hp makes a campaign tour 1863.

the last one being written the day before the through a half a dozen states during the week of fatal battle. 1 the Republican convention at Cleveland. The One would gather from thp Colonel's letters president's action is praiseworthy, and no doubt dangerous to rarry imagery too far. Mr. Burk to his wife.

Gunild. that he had little conception satLfartory to radio fans. The Republican mn-himsrlf, when tackling the question of how to en- of or interest in, the larger Issues of the Civil VPntion the big eient next week, and.it would rnmpass surh vistas of human thought as the nine- War. References to national polities and leaders nnt bp doming for the president to seek to divide tcenth century presents, also felt the necessity of are sparse. Lincoln's name is not mentioned once I honors bv taking up part of the radio upon a teehnieal device for unity.

He found by the eager colonel bent on acquiring military regiment of Scandinavian soldiers which he led icquiring military Kprord.PraI1. SKEPTICAL OF PHIL Madison. May 19. After Indulging in a bit of investigation of our own In Wisconsin, we got the feeling that Mr. La Follette has had moments when he wished that there was no Farmer-Labor Progressive Federation.

Some time ago Gov. Philip La Follette and Sen. Robert M. La Follette Jr. foregathered with a few of their political whips to discuss a third party for 1936.

Both rejected the idea with a speedy firmness that left the meeting nothing to do but consider a motion for adjournment. In fact the meeting didn't wait for the motion: it just broke up. Moreover, he is the average politician in that he has no stomach for leading forlorn rauses. Sen. La Follette joined his brother In dissent because, for one thing, he was already quite comfortably seated on the Roosevelt tram.

Besides, while Sen. La Follette's views are laden with the blood of crusaders, he's not notably militant. He is not much of a home-ties cutter. So Mr. Olson iGov.

Olson of whose political strength is in organized labor of the more radical persuasion, has not the complete confidence of the farmer. The farmer will vote the Farmer-Labor ticket locally because, principally, he has no alternative. He may vote for Olson because Mr. Olson is on the Farmer-Labor ticket. But he has political grievance for which he finds it hard to forgive Mr.

Olson. For example. Mr. Olson felt himself obliged to go outside the Farmer-Labor ranks to fill rer-tam state offices. It Ls taken for granted that he might hase preferred, for the sake of harmony, to appoint his own political fellows to these jobs.

But he didn't and, oddly enough, this hasn't endeared him to the farmers. So savs Walter Davenport in the May 23, 1936, Colliers 's. Haie you noticed Philip La Follette'' strategy as Olson' in appointing stalwart like Salen and so forth? He figures he has our votes cinched regardless of his appointments which can then he used for stalwarts. A friend of mine told me over two month ago that Phil had definitely turned toward the stalwart philosophy In the hopes of riding to victory in 1940 with the stalwarts. Hus appointments and recent acts certainly bear this out.

To this day he has failed to act up to the request of citizens of a large lakeshore city because the district attorney complained of Ls a stalwart. For myself. I am through voting for the La Toilettes. For governor, if no one runs against Phil in the primaries. I am going to write in this name.

William T. Evjne, and again in the election unless the La Follettes return to Progressive principles. A Progressive. I INK WESTON BOOSTS BLOOMING GROVE I Madison, May 24. We thank you for the verv nice things you said to Blooming Grove residents.

You say you remember, and it wasn't so very long ago, when the Blooming Grove settlement ended just past the Starkweather Creek bridge. That's where the "settlement begnx now. Bill. It goes for miles northwest to 31 and then east for miles almost to MeFarland taking In Edward's Patk and then the south line runs for miles west, and way over to Round Top and then north to Turvtlle's bav. We wish we rould hae taken you with us yesterday in our survey of the sanitary eonditions of the town.

We wish you could see how really clean it is and It's going to be cleaner. We wish you could baie seen the hundreds of little homes of the people, the people" who do know the neigh- resijrnation from this reactionary outfit to which our respects have been paid in these columns on previous frequent occasions. Mr. Filene, in the following statement, puts his views in a nutshell that is worth preserving: Had any one of ns, in his individual business, suddenly been faced hr a vanishing market, he might not know what to do, but he would proceed at once tn find out. That would he the business war.

But when business in general was suddenly faced hr a vanishing market, it was assumed that business men would know what to do. and that it would he unnecessary, therefore, to find out. That was the way of the United States Chamber of Commerce. Eventually I was forced to the conclusion that neither the ends of business nor the ends of democracy can be served by such a policy. My studies, as you know, have forced me to conclude that there wiil never again be lasting, nationwide prosperity until business in general ls organized to pay such higher wages that the masses of wage earners will be able to buy enough of our industrial products to give our industries an adequate market and thus keep them in profitable operation.

Help Kiililir ('amp (An rd it nr ml rnnt hr Wisconsin State Journal HI. campugn to raise funds for the Madison Kiddie Camp is in progress. Most of sau glory. Although he eame in contact with msnyj of the famous personages of the western army, he recorded no pen-pictures of his personal impres- sions. Thus a letter of August 3, 1862, describes 1 a conversation with General Grant: that the I general favored his project of raising another Nor- wfgian regiment was Heg's sole comment on the meeting.

His references to General Halleck are of the same order. It is only in discussing Rase-rrans, whom he greatly adnured, that the writer Looking FIFTY paper. TWENTY-FIVE Helpn and Sarah supplies any personal touches of thr military lead- ers of the period. Thp feelings and reactions of Heg himself are the unfailing subjects of the letters. Despite these limitations the book has value for the general reader and the student.

The layman interested in Civil War history will find many of the letters thoroughly enjoyable. The deserip- i tions of Heg's own part in battles and skirmishes. Iuka, Murfreesboro, and Corinth, are detailed with a certain vividness that makes for good reading. Although the emphasis on military minutia becomes oppressive at times, the shrewd and detailed observations on camp life will reward the reader who seeks to recreate the life of the Northern soldier. Excellent editing facilitates an understanding of this portion of the narrative.

Heg's accounts of important battles, due to their restrirted nature and his lack of knowledge of the broader strategy of the war, constitute no con- Burgess Batteiy Co. plan secretaries and Mrs. Grant Work is begun on the TEN YEARS AGO Lauriston Sharp, son of Prof, Sharp, leaves for a summer tour Miss Ruth Hendrickson, Dahlen, son of J. N. Dahlen, Horeb Times, are married.

a most legitimate one, whieh serves as a test for inclusion, exclusion and comparisons: the man as an index of his times, and his leading idea for solving the puzzle of life that wine tn the rttps of the guests of The Unholy Supper." There mav be impertinent critics who object to this simplification, oblivious of the many advantages accrued from a specific pattern when dealing with such chaotic matters as a throng of men, analytical and hesitant, trying to unsnarl a skein and get- ting more and more entangled in the press. With in the span of a well designed arch void of digressions, esoterir words and academic minutiae we follow, satisfied, an orderly exposition of one of the most disorderly centuries in human history. And such clarity a sign of mental ripeness and "architectural measure" in the best sense of the term the adaptation of the builder to the ground covered gives this book prestige and usefulness. Usefulness not only for the student of letters but for the general reader, the man of other professions who might wish to peep into the ideological implications of the literary giants of yesterday. He will be conducted on his excursion by a man who can hold a book in one hand and a sporting cane in the other, calm, earnest, scholarly, polite, mildly sceptic, a Christian graepd by touches of paganism caught in a childhood lived in India and through classical discipline.

This lucky reader would rest, be explained to, not preached at. He would eventually smoke a pipe with his guide, for the professor likes to puff at a pipe when the tasks are done. Here Ls my pipe talk: Thanks for your gentleness. Permit me once more the convenient image. I had a good time, though I feel a little bit nauseated after the drinks in spite of your comforting ministration.

Other author-hosts have Invited the same men. meddlesome hosts who made the drinks even more unpalatable with their pseudo-critiques. You have been wise enough to see that your apostles were bringing beverages already fermented, to be drunk straight or not at all. Like you. I swallowed the offerings of those theologians without a God and gone back again and again to Dante.

Montaigne, S. Theresa, Shakespeare. Cervantes, Pascal, Goethe, who do not intoxicate, who do not toast vociferously be- cause they have no patented brand to sell ith i high-pressure salesmanship, who do not belong to The Worlds Great Age! because they belong to all ages and their wine is the blood of man and earth, the wine of Divine Will upon earth to be drunk from the hollow of the hand when the thirst is great. Dora wonders if there is any chance of getting a refund on her coal bill, now that the supreme court cancelled Guffeys. 1 tribution to military history.

However the re- H- G. Brunquell Ls appointed deputy m- search student will find many valuable items. The commissioner by Commissioner O. H. John-drsrriptions of camp life and the problems of i snn' Acirla Eldridge, head of the regimental administration are of use to the his- burrau of nursing, state board of health, leaves torlan of that phase of military activities.

For the social historian. Heg's almost daily letters to his wife at Waterford form a valuable picture of a war-time family and its problems. The refer- ences to Southern conditions are too much colored by anti-slavery prejudice to be accurate. The student of war time public opinion can fit Heg's sentiments into his general picture of popular reactions; the reviewer noticed one useful refer- ence to Democratic propaganda activities and army opinion in 1863. To students of Wisconsin history and to Norwegian-Americans of the Middle West the book should be of particular interest.

RIDING FOR TEXAS, by Tyler Mason, (Reynold and Hitrhrork). $2.00. Reviewed hr Ralph Linton 3HIS book deals with the stuff from which JL Westerns are made. It Ls a true story of that heroic era in the Flains which intervened betwen the Indian and the farmer. T.vs era wis brirf that it could be spanned by a normal hit time, yet it witnessed me rise and -IK.

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