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BROOKLYN EAGLE. FRIDAY, MARCH 23. 1941 23 T-L Library to Become Vital Point In Cultural Activity of Museum 6-Point Plan Designed to Make Book Larnin' Available to All By JANE CORBY It the librarians at the Brooklyn Museum Library and the Brooklyn Public Library have their way Brooklyn Is going to get service. Together the representatives of both collections are whipping up a plan to make book larnin' accessible to all, from the young student to the scholar of established reputation, from the college graduate who wants to keep in touch with a certain branch of Ai A people of Brooklyn," said Mrs. Banker of the Museum Library.

"I am contacting schools, clubs, churches and Jr.versitles to try to make people realize that the library can help them not only in their studies but also aflord many hours of pleasure." Attendance Increasing The Museum Library, like the Brooklyn Public Library, has MRS. ROYAL FRANKLIN POTTER, superintendent of the circulation deportment of the Dr. Milton Ferguson, librarian, look over an interesting Chinese collection. new Central Library, and Groce W. Banker, museum librarian LINE ON LINERS by FRANK REIL Iceland Skipper Bides His Time, but Anxiously NEWS BEHIND NEWS IN WASHINGTON By ERNEST K.

LINDLEY Ha learning, to the hosewtfe who wants to find out something of the arts about which the other women In the neighborhood seem to know so darned much. Grace W. Banker, Museum librarian; Milton James Ferguson, chief librarian, and Thomas Gilbert Brown, editor of the Brooklyn Pub lic Library, nd Mrs. Royal Franklin Potter, superintendent of the circulation department of the new Central Library Uhe Ingersoll Memorial), have drawn up the initial plans for a system of co-operation between the Museum Library and the Central Library, which are so close to each other at the Eastern Parkway-Grand Army Plaza Intersection that a bookworm could shift the scene of its operations without missing a meal. These plans call for: Co-operation 1 Formation of a union cat alogue for use of the public and staff.

2 Discussion of purchase whenever duplication seems possible. 3 Brooklyn Public agrees to purchase the more popular, inexpensive volumes. The Brooklyn Museum is to purchase the more scholarly, expensive volumes. 4 Co-operation in research: (a) Brooklyn Museum will continue to do the more scholarly and scientific research. (b) Each library will assist the other in research problems, (c) Public will be directed to whichever library Is best able to answer the specific problem.

In this way an overlapping of work will be avoided. 5 Bibliography service of the Brooklyn Museum Library to be available at all times to the Brooklyn Public Library and its patrons. 6 All material to be available on inter-library loan. 7 Exhibition of fine reproductions available for loan to the main building or any branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, Vital Point of Culture The Idea is to put nothing in the way of anybody who feels, however faintly, an urge to open the covers of a book. "It Is my definite aim to make the library a vital point in the cultural activity of the Museum, and of the 4 X) Can undergone many changes of policy during the last few months.

Statistics show that the attendance is increasing constantly the last figures that it has been stepped up about a third over the same period for the year before. A new Study Room was recently made available for staff members and students working on prolonged projects, and library material is available for exhibition purposes for art schools and libraries through the facilities of the loan department. One of I the most Important phases of tne library work Is the preparation of bibliographies, which are constantly prepared to meet the needs of Individuals. "There is no limit to the amount of work which wHl be done by the staff to aid an individual, a group or an institution! anywhere in the country, or, In fact, the world," said Mrs. Banker.

Public Library I'nderstafTed Ingersoll Memorial Library, open only a few weeks and as yet functioning 'for only limited service, is still able to report a lively interest on the part of the public in its offerings. In one week after the opening the reading public stripped clean most of the shelves of the new building. More than one-third of the immediately available circulating books had been withdrawn into homes in the neighborhood of Grand Army Plaza though, due to lack of stall, the library was forced to limit borrowers to two books each. Also for lack of staff, high school students, who crowded Into the library by the hundreds the day it opened, have had to be barred and lack of staff has prevented servic- ing of the main collection of about 370,000 books housed in stacks below the street level. The building is open only from 2 to 9 p.m.

daily except Sundays and from 2 to 6 p.m. on holidays. "We can't do adequately with a On Tuesday evening the little Icelandic steamer Ooda-foss was ready to start her regular voyage to Reykjavik. She was fully loaded, her few passengers were on board, Capt. Peter J.

BJornson had obtained clearance for his ship and a tug was waitng to help the vessel get away from Pier 8, East River, Manhattan. Then came word that Germany seum collection. Material on primitive culture is extensive in the museum library and the public library has comparatively little to offer in the same field. Both libraries are endeavoring to serve not only the student and the desultory reader, but the worker, who is coming to use libraries more and more as a means of progress in his chosen career. Industrial designers, costume and textile designers, commercial artists, as well as historians and writers on all subjects, are among the constant users of special library collections.

A typewriter room at the museum makes the task of note taking easier. Course for Housewives Mrs. Banker has a new project by which study groups of housewives, children in school, and so on, people with no special training in the arts, can learn about them. "How can I learn something about pictures?" is a query constantly asked at the museum and this program will endeavor to supply the answer. "There will be no fancy work about it," said Mrs.

Banker. "Those who say they want to come in can come in there i's no definite program. Decent service through the museum will be provided, books will be set out in certain rooms and On Paper, the Administrative Framework For Defense Is Refreshingly Simple An administrative framework for the whole national defense effort has been worked out at last, and, on the President's return to Washington, can be expected to take on flesh and color. On paper, the plan makes sense and holds the promise of clearing away much of the confusion that has attended the administration of the defense program during the last nine months. 4 staff of 13 what a staff of 30 could do nicely," explained the head of the circulation department, Mrs.

Potter. A request for increased funds has been made. Fine Arts Popular The Brooklyn Public Library Is one of the three public library systems In operation in New York City based on private corporations. The City pays salaries and replaces worn-out books, but many of the most Important lefcrence books are available to the public only through private endowments and special funds. Among these refsrence books is a Civil War collection, one of the best in the city.

Brooklynites are more Interested in fine arts than In other branches of learning, to Judge from the demand for reference books in both the public library and the museum. Next come the technical sciences and applied sciences, then economics. In the last six years there has been a steady rise of Interest in practical and applied science. Economics and sociology rank second as subjects of Increasing interest. Co-operation Already Begun The two libraries are already cooperating to some extent and the museum is lending prints and art objects for exhibition at the public library.

The emphasis in the two libraries is in different directions, so that one suplements the other rather than duplicates the other's work. For instance, the museum library must have material to answer the needs of people who come seeking Information relating to the mu HEFFERNAN says We Get New Cake After We've Eaten This One? DR. BRADY says: rled fish to England. Incidentally the price fish has sky-rocketed and some Icelanders have benefited. But as Captain BJornson says: "They hr.ve the money but what are they going to do with it?" Luftwaffe on Iceland When he was back home on this '2st trlD.

Caotain Blornson heard sunk by the Germans off the English coast. Then on Feb. 10 there came that air raid on Iceland which made the front page headlines but did little damage. "Just one plane flew over but as the English planes were 'cold' and could not take off, the Nazi was able to get wn low enough to machine gun the British troops stationed 40 miles outside of Reykjavik," said the skipper in relating the details of the raid. "One or two soldiers were killed but I don't think it will happen again, as the English planes now are kept in warm hangars and can leave the field almost instantly." As the Godafoss has loaded on deck a very large number of wooden telegraph and telephone poles, we Inquired about them.

It seems that Iceland, after a very mild Winter which caused Reykjavik to call off a ski meet because there was no snow, was recently visited by severe storms. Communications were disrupted and Iceland, which doesn't grow a single tree of its own, has had to import some poles. But as a seaman, Captain Bjom-son felt deeply about the 25 fishermen who were lost when two boats were victims of the storm. That was something he could appreciate more than the uprooting of tele graph poles. When the Godafoss does leave sne have on ner declts tw0 We rgfls n(, on her brldg(J i a man who w)U do everytntrig po5, sihle to keep his ship afloat.

AUNT JEAN'S COLUMN Responding to a call for data concerning Individuals who would qualify for the role of the corpse in a murder story, one of our readers submitted the following: "You a.sked for data of those fit to murder. Allow me to The danger always present in the presentation of a detached text causes me to reprint with a warning to my readers against a false inference from an utterance attributed to Dr. Sumner H. Schlicter, Harvard economist. I am giving it as a newspaper published it: The average citizen might not 1 call to vour attention that out of marriage infects a woman with gonorrhea.

"In 15 years of general practice questions answered. Everything will be conducted in the most informal manner." It's all part of the new plan to popularize learning, to make it easy for people of all types and degrees of education to tap the vast resources of the libraries which Brooklyn has the good fortune to possess. One Doctor Finds Motive for Murder lowest of scoundrels, who in or. generally not dangerous, responds to X-ray treatment, in fome oases never causes any serious trouble at all. Squatting Test Is it normal for the pulse to increase considerably when one does the 3d movement ol the Last Brady Symphony from 10 to 20 limes? S.

K. Yes. Normally the pulse should slow down to resting rate within three minutes after you have done the squatting movement 15 times. If it doesn't, your circulation is deficient. Mm f.

'ft eel the impact of the defense program this year, but within a year or two we will witness shortages in labor supply for the non-defense industries; shortages in food supplies if we give extensively to Britain, and rising costs on other non-defense goods. I heard a portion of the Chicago University Round Table discussion had extended its blockade to Include Iceland and any ships found in its waters were subject to submarine attack. The ship's departure was postponed until the next day so that the passengers would have time to think it over before embarking on a trip Involving war risks. But the ship didn't sau on, Wednesday, as she was instructed to remain in port until the Iceland government gave orders. Perhaps by the time you are reading this, the Godafoss will have started her voyage, one which will be totally different from any of her previous ten visits to New York.

First Came Here in '39 The Godafos. made her first trip to New York in October, 1939, when it was found necessary to revive trade with the United States, the war having cut off Iceland from her usual markets In Europe. The Godafoss and the five other little Icelandic ships which followed her in the service brought here the country's fish products and relumed with food, steel and other commodities. As we met Captain Bjornson frequently on his many visits here, we learned a lot about his country. An island of oleanic origin Iceland, despite Its proximity to the Arctic Circle, is favored by the Gulf Stream.

The hot water geysers which spout from the ground have been utilized to heat homes and buildings but the Installation of Reykjavik's municipal heating system has been delayed because the pipes are in Denmark and can't be brought to Iceland. Usually a happy, smiling man, Captain Bjornson was grim and de termined when we called on him yesterday to wisn mm wie age. The Nazi blockade came as no surprise to mm. in met. i.c WOUglH Hie tjcrnmiis wuuiu nave acted sooner than they did as all last Summer Icelandic ships car- stitches; materials needed, photo-pi'ph of square.

To obtain this pattern send 10 rents in coin to Brooklyn Daily Fanle, Household Arts Department, 259 W. 14th Manhattan Be sure to write plainly your NAME. ADDRESS and PATTERN NUM-' BER. mmmm At the top of the pyramid is the Office of Emergency Management, attached directly to the White Hou.se Itself. This office has already been partly manned with personnel, fiscal, and other housekeeping officers.

Whether it will have a head, other than the President himself remains undecided. It is a position which Harry Hopkins might fill If he were well enough to stand the punishment. But he Is not. And it is doubtful whether anyone else would be acceptable either to the President or to other national defense officials although Associate Supreme Court Justice Douglas and Mayor LaGuardla have been mentioned in New Deal circles as possibilities lor the post. The probability is that O.

E. M. will be a service and reporting agency for the White House, without a policy-making head other than the President. Below O. E.

on paper, will be the key defense agencies. Key Defense Agencies The first of these, and the only one now in full operation, Is the O. P. headed by Knudsen and Hlllman, On a parity with O. P.

according to the present plan, will be a price adjustment administration under Leon Henderson. This office would watch and attempt to control In various ways the economic effects of the defense effort, especially In the field of prices. It would absorb the consumer-protection activities of the old N. D. A.

C. division now headed by Miss Harriett Elliott. On the same plane with O. P. M.

and Henderson's agency would be the lend-lease administration. This will be handled by Harry Hopkins, with the aid of a small central staff, attached probably to O. E. M. Major-Oeneral James H.

Burns, Executive Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of War, has been assigned to Hopkins as his chief assistant, and already has begun work. In addition, the War and Navy Departments will each have small committees to clear material for export and there will be connecting links also with the Marl-time Commission, the Department of Agriculture, and other agencies. War Cabinet Not Permanent The so-called War Cabinet-Secretaries Hull, Morgenthau, Stlmson and Knox is assisting in determining the Initial policies regarding the administration of the lend-lease act. But the President haa rot given this war cabinet permanent status. It Is a good guess that this committee will not long operate as such, and that the lend-lease act will be administered by the President through Hopkins, with such Individual contacts with cabinet members and heads of special defense agencies as may be necessary.

An Initial master agreement concerning lend lease arrangements probably will be worked out with the British. After that there probably will be subsidiary agreements for each law transaction or for earn kind of transaction. Some of these may be three or four-cornered agreements, slnre at times we ask payment In the form of raw Materials Irom British Dominions or colonies, or from the Netherlands East Indies. Ships, both naval and merchant, may be leased or leair to be returned at the conclusion of the war II they are still afloat while ammunition may be given in return for promises of future deliveries of raw materials. Many variations are possible.

Council of Economic Defense A fourth agency under O. E. M. probably will be an Office or Coun cil of Economic Defense. This will be concerned such things as the control of exports, pre-emptive buying of raw materials in neutral countries to prevent their purchase by the Axis or Japan, and the regulation of foreign balances here and in friendly countries.

Measures of economic war, or defense, have been floundering for months in interdepartmental disputes, And the situation does not seem to be much better on the British side. For example: when we stopped subsidizing the export of wheat to Japan, the Australians Jumped In to supply the demand. The need for a central group to control economic defense is recognized on all sides. Civilian Defense on Home Front A fifth key agency will organize civilian defense on the home front. Competing plans have been going Into the White House for many weeks.

Before going on vacation the President put the whole problem In fresh hands: those of William C. Bullitt, former Ambassador to France, and Wayne Coy, former Assistant Federal Security Administrator. They are to present a recommendation immediately on his return. If other agencies are needed they can be added, as equals or subsidiaries of the five main ones grouped under O. E.

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His damnable lack of moral sense or pity toward one he should protect and love causes thousands of Innocent women to go through a life of- misery, mutilating operations and subsequent sterility, and has brought death to many. For the scoundrel responsible fnr all that I can think of nothing more suitable than i here the doctor suggests a worse death than hangingi. Well, now, if I were going to write a story on that theme I'd brand the man and publicize the significance of the brand. He'd spend the rest of his life educating the public, bringing the truth home to people wherever he might venture i The introduction of sulfanilamide has increased the efficacy of treatment for gonorrheal Infection In women, but whether the disastrous effects of such Infection have been materially lessened we are as yet unable to determine. However, even if that or other treatment were specific against gonorrheal Infection, there would be little decrease of one-child sterility that is, the sterility that comes to the woman who has borne one child and shortly afterward suffered an acute attack of inflammation, invasion of tubes or ovaries, pelvic peritonitis, mrhint talnlnoltls nr nvnsalnln inflammation, nus tube).

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C. Different names for the most common tumor of uterus iwombi, which occurs fiequrmly In childless women in the iourUi decade. It Is at which Dr. Schlicter participated, and it seemed to me that he and the two other professors accepted as definite the policy of our Government and were concerned only with finding the best way of meeting the huge cost of the adventure. There seemed to be a difference among the doctors only on the point of paying by excessive taxation as we go along, or putting the charge on the future, Deferred Payments Suggested One professor said that as battleships and the like would endure for many years, the payment might properly be extended over helr life period.

For school houses, hospitals, bridges, highways and other permanent public works that principle is sound, but for weapons and ves- seis wnicn we propose in large measure to give away or lend until a time when they will no longer be of use, It Is of dubitable quality. Perhaps these professors may be right, but to me this proposition seems to be plain. Lost on the Orgy We cannot toss all of the productive labor of the country into the manufacture of deadly pyrotechnics and expect to have at the close of the orgy of slaughter the values that labor might otherwise produce. What, then, can save us? Perhaps the bounty of the Creator, the wealth of the land we occupy, un- less in our stupidity we give the land away, too, as some of our intellectuals blandly propose. We have in the United States a store of natural wealth now incalculable, and a supply of food more than sufficient for our needs now or for centuries to come.

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