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THE COLUMBIA MISSOURIAN SATURDAY DECEMBER 21 1935 PAGE OUR This Week THE COLUMBIA MISSOURIAN BOOKS ROM BAG or Dog Lovers airy Tales Made New BT 3 I SATURDAY DECEMBER 21 1935 chow 1)0111 for shipbuHdmg 1U mid thit ihr experiment to a Washington Unlver rejoined: when a paid Points to "Recoverable Assets' what cir Youth's Handbook on Operas like to ride a big sales such tax can the first Own Newsreel Story of Shaggy Pony the the a half: fuehrer Address the the produce old age monthly when the dead atop the the taxes if the country Is suffering business some taxes are less keep pay tallied with similar biting remarks In his hands clasped nervously stomach deviated from his of the prepared manuscript numerous alphabetical New and Olivia de Hatilland will be a gift want to write a nice "thank you" note "Sylvia with Katharine Hep Is the gift you've already partly seen prc Chrlstmas hiding place since ad publlcity has done Its best to prepare have been opened admired and how about a few hours of pleasant at your favorite motion picture at the fixing be In Inside when 01 in BY 1 or of poetry Sat or whom is Hickani ield which is to be constructed In Hawaii named? A It was named In honor of Lieut Colonel Horace Hlckam Air Corps who was killed in an airplane accident at ort Crockett Tex Nov 1934 to that which accompanies coming upon a bit of old lace In a forgotten attic nook Each story is as full a life story of its heroine as the author can make It When the facts could not be found Miss Sickels filled In with fiction a confession she faithfully makes prefacing every story in which it occurs But the reader is likely to forget where the truth leaves off and the fiction begins as he becomes interested tn the story for their exact rela tion ts not clear The make up of the book and the illustra tion by Use Bischoff are attractive The book will probably find an audience among cer tain types of people who young or old will respond to the quiet treasure hunting invita tion this book somehow extends though it is deserving of a better style of writing GW Shi rat tiiip a Me BB WUl ahi mt Car Ma Mt Columns city clerk About 73 pertons heard Samuel Jordan explain the Townsend Plan at the Columbian Hotel last Tuesday Columbia's policemen may soon answer emergency calls In a half armored car if the one on sale in Webster City should be found usable The City Council contracted for 2938 feet of clay tile for storm sewers from St Louis Poor children asked Jr of Santa for oranges and wagons The International Club held a unique exhibition at the Methodist Church last week end The Journalism Show of 1938 held Its first tryout for major cast last Monday School children in Columbia are out today to celebrate their Christmas vacation Only three more shopping dayi to Christmas 01 isd Between COLUMBIA'S merchants said Santa Claus will have a bigger Job this year The Jr of Christmas tree fund for Columbia's underprivileged children stood at $8725 riday Just $1275 short of the goal About 40 stray dogs were destroyed In Columbia during the last week In an anti rables drive About forty farmers met at the Circuit Court last Thursday to hear reports on work done by the Agricultural Extension Association Today is the tag day of the Boone County quota of the Salvation Army division Co lumbians stormed the City Council with pro tests against Its recent action excusing taxi cabs from filing liability insurance with the One of the woodcats by Owen Raverat for Tales rom Hans Andersen" newly translated by Kelgwin for the Cambridge Press and Macmillan Me Hod ait Sila! Up Pfll Latt Seta Graceful Biography of Omar Khayyam Written by ellow Countryman Kar Ito: OPI Gev Louis 3 1933 was an IN CALICO AND CRINOLINE By Eleanor Sickels The Viking Press Here is a collection of true stories designed for high school students about American wom en who played various roles In the shifting scenes of American life during the years 1608 to 1865 In sketching the women Miss Sickels has also given a definite picture of colonial and pioneer life And site has not confined her self as is so often dona In stories of this kind to New England and Virginia A Spanish girl dancc3 and weeps through the California scene a Massachusetts woman grows homesick on the Illinois prairies and a northern nurse tends the broken bodies of boys in gray Some of the women are Immediately recog nized: Sacajawea Belle Boyd Anne Hutchln THE YOUNG TENTMAKER By Vouel Mirza Lathrop Lee A Shepard Co Omar the Persian boy was like any other boy who was the son of a tentmaker He was the same he liked adventure and yet he was different from his schoolmates and friends He thought many things that boys of his age had never dreamed of nor would they had they been capable of doing so Nizam and Hassan Omar's playmates under the teachings of the holy man and the chief teacher of the Madrassa rose to high posi tions in their kingdom but they bered only because they went to Omar Khayyam it was he who foremost scholar of his age and greatest poets of all time Written with the grace and feeling of East this refreshing biography pictures growth of a boy's mind in the fields of great new thoughts and of exploration In strange fields of learning It may be predicted one of the outstanding children's books Of the year perhaps a competitor for the Newbery Medal Your Christmas dinner is finished All of your gifts tried Now relaxation theater? A real feast of pleasant things is ahead of those who wish to fill some of the holiday season's hours with cinematic entertainment There's a whole stocking full of goodies so put in your hand and see what you can pull out irst of all you'll find the another red Astaire Ginger Rogers Irving Berlin combination Remembering the other films those three have done you'll right fully anticipate much pleasure from this gift Into the stocking goes your hand again and this time you draw out another musical the Chutes" with Eddie Cantor and a new comer to the screen Elltcl Merman The next time you draw out two very satis fying gifts The first is Charles Chaplin's new picture Times" As you look picture on the wrapping of Chaplin complicated modern machinery you'll a hurry to open the package and see Smiling Harold Lloyd will greet you you open the second package drawn He'll conduct you down the path of his newest venture "The Milky "A Tale of Two Cities" will recall a Dickens present of the past that proved worthwhile Blood" with tile new stars Errol lynn you'll about burn in Its vancc you for the first hall of the film in which the star drese like a boy But wait you still have one more present deep In the toe of your stocking last and best: Eugene O'Neill's "Ah Wilderness" in celluloid form with Lionel Barrymore and Wallace Beery as very special trimmings And that's that for a merry and entertaining Christmas are remem school with became one of Items et the Missouri telegraph wirs istephoncs Business ortics MOO general news Slit eocleiv news M02 Whimsical Style of Musi cal Show Is Retained in it had burnt clear in any other poem few modern verses Markham has in show the new meaning of show how the age old art Private Lives of Scotties an Other Canines Put to Rhyme In his Atlanta speech Mr Roosevelt noted that: "Tlie gross national debt under the last ad ministration rose from a little over 17 billions to 21 billions The day I came into office I found that the national Treasury contained only $158000000 Since March 4 1933 the nat ional debt has risen from 21 billion to billions but it must also be remembered that today this figure is nearly Hi billions working balance in the Treasury and nearly billion dollars of recoverable To this point Debater Hoover rebutted: He received more than 2000 million dol lars of these recoverable assets from my ad ministration or alternatively they have realized those assets and spent the money With these corrections the increase in burden on tax payers in the Hoover administration was less than billion Also in addition to his 2la billion error in estimating New Deal debt Increase the president omitted the New Deal guarantee of 4 or 5 billions in bonds of lend ing companies We may expect respectable losses on these also It is unfortunate that within ten days after that address the national debt should have Jumped another billion" II PINAORE Adapted by letcher Smith Page A Co In this prose adaptation of the famUlir Gil bert and Sullivan operetta letcher Smith retains the light whimsical style whkh has made "Pinafore" a standard musical show for generations Although intended primarily tor children adults will find this adaptation de lightful reading Interspersed witli the prose story of the last that loved the sailor are the rollicking lyrics of the "Little and the well known Captain' song about Never? Well Hardly and others equally popular Mr Smith has with remarkable tUacenunent caught the spirit of these fasetnatog MBett and Sullivan characters Buttercup the apple cheeked bumboat woman with the secret sor row fair Josephine who loved beneath he? station handsome Ralph Ruckstraw the bold tar who loved the captain's daughter Captain Corcoran and his awful temper as well II Deadeye Dick and pompous old Admiral Porter come alive again under the author's touch Th plot may be worn thin by years of repetition the climax a bit far fetched but th uni versal appeal ol these vivid human characters and picturesque lyrics is maintained Pinafore" is the first of a series of a uniform edition to include other Gilbert and Sullivan favorites These other plays will be: "The "Pirates of Penzance" "Th Gond "lolanthe" Yoemen of the Guard" and Ruddlgore Mr Smith wants other children to hav the same pleasure he did as a boy in knowlni the story of before seeing the pUL When representatives and senator returned to Washington this week they all showed signs of genuine worry over the spread of the Townsend movement They found their offices deluged with letters from members of the old ago pension club back home urging support of the plan Representative Buchanan chairman of the appropriation committee opened 1H office to find 5000 such letters among which was one from Clements the politically wise co founder of the organization The Threat Invades Capitol Hill CIRCULARIZED among all other members of the House it read in part: "In order that may correctly Inform the Townsend clubs and the Townsend national legion members will you please be good enough to give us the following information relative to your stand on the Townsend plan: you in favor of the plan? Ye No "Did you vote for 7154 (the McGroarty bill embodying the $200 a month pension plan defeated in the last Congress)? Yes No we rely upon your help to pass a bill embodying the Townsend plan at the coming session? Yes No "In the issue of the National Townsend Weekly of Dec 30 will publish either your answer to the questionnaire or that you have failed to answer On Capitol HUI this letter wm regarded as definite attempt to put every member of the House on record on Hie plan Behind this nation wide movement is a slen der aged country doctor whose kindly eyes beam with sincerity behind over sized horn rimmed glasses He is Dr rancis Everett Townsend born seventy years ago in a log cabin In Illinois He attended the University of Nebraska and University of California and after receiving his medical degree hung out his shingle in a lonely North Dakota town Later with his wife and two children lie eventually moved to Long Beach Calif where he became a public health officer Wlille caring for the aged and the poverty stricken he evolved the old age pension plan now bearing his name They Petition for Recognition IN an official pamphlet sold at 25 cents a copy the program I outlined thusly: "Have the national government enact legisla tion to the effect that all citizens of the United States man or woman over ths age of 60 years may retire on a pension of $200 a month on the following conditions: "That they engage in no future labor business or profession for gain "That their past life is free from habitual criminality "That they take oath and actually do spend within the confines of the United States th entire amount of their pensions within thirty days after receiving it the national government create the revolving fund by levying a general sales tax have the rate Just high enough to the amount necessary to pension fund adequate to pension "Have tile act drawn that only be used for the old age revolving fund" Tills plan according to the doctor's estimate Ruth Plumly Thompson Carries on rank Baums Stories of Land of Ing structure at sound That ts tion The depression was over the world of the New Deal Why did we have a panic of bank depositors in 1933? Because they were frightened at the incoming New Deal We may accept that the day of creation was moved to March 4 1933 bureaucracy was spread over the land Around the Corner" Mr Roosevelt's sarcasm the former presl 1 dent Atlanta the smiling chief New Dealer began a sentence with the phrase sight of us" he paused to insert the words around the corner" and then as the crowd caught the point of his Jest added "Now we know how to get around the corner" In St Louis this week Mr Hoover his face expressionless and across his ample monotone reading to mention the Deal ERA PWA EPW SER CWA R8C and then added when they are all burled their spirit will live on in IOU" Below The royal vessel in which Tristan brought the princess Isolde to Cornwall This Is typical of the graceful decorations in Trite stories of famous operas is conducted on the premise that aluminum one third the weight of steel will permit great saving in weight with equal strength allowing greater power which in turn would give sea crafts hitherto unattained speed Hoover ires His Charges ORMER President Herbert Hoover who newly discovered the art of phrase making re sumed ills long distance debate with President Roosevelt this week before a Missouri audience at the John Marshall Republican Club In st Louis The verbal exchange between Mr Roose velt and his only living predecessor in the White House started more than a month ago when Mr Hoover attacked the New Deal in his speech in New York Nov 16 In Atlanta Ga two weeks later Mr Roosevelt mocked back: "This nation slipped spirally downward ever downward to the inevitable point mechanics of civilization came on March 3 1933 The former president in St "What happened on March induced hysteria of bank depositors The bank large subsequently proved to be scarely a dead stop to clvillza truth is that the world wide turned in June July 1932 all That was before the election lit Jap Ola Si All 'lit Reflection on Congress THE supreme court of the District of Columbia recently found Representative John Hoeppel Democrat of California together with his son guilty Of conspiracy to sell an ap pointment to West Point Conviction on this charge means a serious blow to th prestige of all government of ficials and Hoeppel will not be the only one to suffer Doubtless the case is not terminated Other legal possibilities include a trial before the House of Representatives which is the final Judge of qualifications of it members cases involving such charges do not often come before the house: but when they do that body can be expected to be duly Jealous of its in tegrity Certainly there Is no more serious betrayal of trust than can be committed by a public servant than the sale of appointive places which the government leaves to his Judgment assuming that he is open minded fair and honest Such acts us that for which Representative Hoeppel has been convicted strike at the foun dation of American government: at the roots of the representative system at the necessary faith of the people In those whom they elect to high office to serve their best interests It ts unfortunate but true that selfish re wards of patronage have prompted many to seek public office In these times when bil lions of the money are being spent candidates for office of proved honesty and proved unselfish devotion to the public in terest should be elected Th JIM Tr MH Ittl urt Ui soli srty di mu mm tt Sa I wl mt jlri tee ini 1SJ rent Oi prt lit jO in will benefit some 8000000 persons give a better chance to the young In employment and stim ulate buying power to such an extent that de pression will never return Economists See Weaknesses CRITICS who have been shooting holes at the Townsend plan generally agree that its alm is good They object however to Its ex travagance and its false economic principle To ghe 8000000 people $200 a month would mean $19200000 a year or one fourth ol the country's entire national Income In the prosperty year of 1929 and two fifths of the nation's total earn ing in 1934 They also point out that the claim of giving 8000000 persons $200 a month would create buying power and freeze out depression Is crack brain economic reasoning A Income may be expressed in money but in reality it consists of goods subject to con sumption The rapid spending of $19200000 by non produccrs would net replace the goods it bought but merely boost the prices of all goods An Experiment in Aluminum IN the yards ol the Bath Iron Works at Bath Me a miniature ocean going "ship" chris tened the Alumette glided down the runway one day this week to open a new era of naval architecture Weighing 12000 pounds the glis tening new boat built entirely of aluminum Watching the maiden dip with ab sorbed interest was Starling Burgess the de signer who spent many months in perfecting his theory that light metal alloy Is practical BANG THE DIAMOND TAIL Bj Gauss and Gauss Albert Co This story of the shaggy little black Is simple and lovable Children like They all want one for their own There a pony story ought to be good any The lithograph pictures are half the Tire cows don't look so very much like and the ponies run as if they were sllf there is a softness to the crayon and children will love Bang In every 011 notated by Edwin Markham William 11 Wise A Co This is the poetry "of your youth" if you are mature and poetry "for your youth" if you are still teen age or under It consists ol the masterpieces of poetry which may be expected to appeal to the young Indeed most of the poems have been tested In the home and classroom Old favorites form the greater part of the book from the first poem "Paul Revere' Ride" one of the "stirring deeds and bal lads" to the last Robert Browning's "Home Thoughts rom that exquisite mem ory In Italy of England in spring Midway of the book is such for life's as is welcomed in youth though scoffed at by age and is evidence of how true humor keeps Its charm many moods ol is a division containing some of the famous as well as some of the best of nature poetry Modern poetry is scantly represented and the child who already has a firm love of poetry will be acquainted with most of the older selections However such a child would want many volumes of verse That a great humanitarian made the col lection Is evident in the content of several divisions trumpets" for Instance which once would have contained only battle cries Includes Wilfred Gibson's verses on the psychological pain borne by a soldier and Alan Seeger's Have a Rendezvous With Death" which forecast his own fate in a war that extinguished the flame of his genius before The eluded rather may express the new meanings of life Brief notes make clear when and under cumstances most of the verses were written THE PRIZE SONG Stories of amous Operas By Henriette Weber Oxford Uni versity Press I Opera as produced today on mechanically I perfected stages in ornate theaters with high I salaried soloists in leading roles comprises what has been called richest lux ury" During the past few years noticeably since the depression the tintinnabulation of Post war Jazz has been losing its erratic grip of popular appeal Jazz today is receiving new attire rom our loudspeakers comes a new creation "symphonic Jazz" and more and more bits from the opera and from the master pens of composers such as Bach Mozart Beethoven Tschaikowsky and Debussy Now that opera lias come to the screen movie audiences are seeing and hearing ex cerpts from "Madame Butter "Carmen" and interpreted by such artists as Lawrence Tlbbett Lily Pons Gladys Swarthout Nelson Eddy James Melton Grace Moore and Nino Martini In keeping with this" increasing Interest in the opera is this timely handbook of the stories of fifteen famous operas written for children of early teen age but mature enough for any tyro in operatic literature Two toned Illustrations and leading themes are given in their proper places throughout the book Besides there is an appendix containing brief histories of each opera telling of it world premiere and giving the names of those who created the title and leading roles or those who would refresh their memories of the stories of Wagners "Ring of the Nibel for instance or for those who would teach appreciation of the opera this volume would be of inestimable value Music lovers will find this book a refreshing and clearly written addition to their bookshelf True Stories of American Women Where Youth Can Meet Poetry of Old A Bottomless Pit? HOW big a debt load can the United States carry without impairing the national credit?" This question furnished the country's lead ing economists and bankers with fruitful topic for debate this week In hl Atlanta speech President Roosevelt asserted that America's leading bankers told him in 1933 th federal government could eafely carry a load of 55 to 70 billion Since then Wall Street has been mystified by the identity of the President's banker adviser All over the country economic experts have been arguing about the correctness of the figure In Columbia Dr Karl Bopp University professor of economics and finance sold ability to carry a debt depends upon how th government proposes to psy it Certainly th United States could shoulder a national debt of 55 to 75 billion If It started to run greenback off the printing press The German government in 1923 had an obligation of 191580465422100 000000 paper marks" The 55 to 70 bllllon figures as given by President Roosevelt Dr Bopp added too many relative and imponderable factors for anyone to give an unqualified verdict" Dean Harry Gunnison Brown of the School of Business and Public Administration known nationally as an authority on money replied to the query by saying "No categorical answer Is possible Tthe burden of a money debt depends on the price level or the value of money unit More debt can be paid In is prosperous than if it depression urthermore burdensome than others" Dr Issac Lippincott of ally St Louis gave this comment on the ques tion: "We could pay a national debt of that amount but it would be a terrible burden and the burden would fall mostly on the middle class" He also said that according to hi esti mate debt total Including municipal state and national amounted to 45 billion dollars today" At the University of Nebraska Dean Lerossignoal qualified his support for the figure given by President Roosevelt by Hying that "it could be handled without it's becoming burdensome if there were no slate and muni cipal to be met Publlsbsd every Week Dey evening by TBX PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION Incorporated A SODEKSTMOM Manner Me inter of Audit Bureau of Clr ulatlenr Eateted ar tn Poatoffiee at Columbia Mo a eeoona eitaa man RATES i montbs 10 1 year In Boons County I months 100 i year 3 0 year 4 SO SINGLE Hrs cants marked "(O)" are ussd on the authority United Proas Association from which the len receives all day news service by leased It Happened THE seeds Of human imagination nourished by the un of Southern California sprout ed into a political crop thi week at Battle Creek Mich Harvesting the yield was Town sendlte Verner Main one time antl Saloon League official who won a special Congressional election on a two to one majority His success sent many a shiver up the spines of the coun try's Republican and Democratic vote reapers who started in real earnest to discover whether similar seed had not been sown in their own backyards Hitherto the strategists of the major parties have taken the $200 month old age pension plan as a good debating topic But during the recent months they have found with much uneasiness that the Issue has gone beyond the mere word flinging stage and entered the realm of matter of fact politics They found also that the penslonlSts are cutting up tradi tional party lines and threatening to become a more serious menace than either ather pressure groups or the late Sen Huey share the wealth clubs The Townsend Plan Stirs THIS week the GOP leaders met In Wash ington and selected Cleveland as the con vention city Committeeman John Harris of lorida horrified some of the old hands by bringing up the tabooed question of the Town send plan He argued that the GOP should force the Issue to a head declaring that "there is no use to wait and see what the Democrats did on the Townsend His concern and the "wait and tactics he mentioned repre sents the prevailing attitude among major party members To intensify the Townsend threat Senator Borah on his vacation in ills native Idaho a few months ago virtually Indorsed the old age plan when he spoke at a meeting of a local Townsend club Also Representatives Young of Ohio and Mlchener of Michigan ar committed to sponsor a bill embodying old age principles In the next Congress THE WISHING HORSE OZ By Plumly Thompson Reilly A Lee How would you like to ride a big horse to the land of Oz? That is whst Jd though foolish little emperor of SkampM did! He bewitched all of the Oz people tow forgetting the lovely ruler Ozma and P0 Ozma and her best friends into the of a magic sea! He could do this became had magic emeralds lost from Oz and c0 make wonderful wishes! Some grown folks think the Oz too absurd to be good reading but all dren can tell them that all they nee enjoy the land of Oz is nn Imagination vivid as that of rank Baum who tatw the Oz scries Ruth Plumly Thompson had the imagination to continue them any child who finds this book under Christmas tree will testify to her being perfectly deaf to the rest of Cluto Day as he sits absorbed in the Wishing Bo adventures Children who like beautiful things ion and unusual fairy people and animals an really Important mystery will like The Ing Horse of Oz I can't tell you enougn things about it The New 1936 edition of "Who's ap peared in the United States this week with the contents slightly changed since last year One of the new comer Is Dr Allan Roy Dafoe of Ontario whose biography takes eleven line mentioning this: "A general practitioner since 1907 In charge of Dionne quintuplets from their birth May 28 King George and Queen Mary who cele brated their Jubilee this year received four pages Instead of the usual tao Adolf Hitler takes three lines and "Chancellor of Germany since 1933 and chancellor since 1934 1889 Berlin summer address: Obcrsalzburg Bavaria Joaef Stalin received four lines: Gori Tiflis Province 1879 Madejda ergeyezna Alleluya (D 1932) two address: the Kremlin Moscow" Halle Selassie lias thirty one lines while Benito Mussolini's personal history is told in thirty lines of which the last twenty lines are Italian SONNETS ROM THE PEKINSE iv OTllkR nnnrLDrr DurM wute ZHUairatlAn rrtwlna 'aAiuJiimil If you love a peke a scottie a wiw little old dog then you'll enjoy these and Illustrations Even if your tastes slightly more sophistlcated your chow for still there are verses a please you There's a bit called which Is al! about that dlgnitzry who quite characteristically: "Kow tow The first twelve poem are dedicated Itrcly to a pair of Pekinese Mr Peke woes hk lady He brings her a bone slightly soiled but a boiie for all that point out He invites her to share hie admires her beautiful tail and is an sdorw swain all in all He takes her to walk teds her what a fellow he really "yon tawny Dane looks this way I wonder what he sees? Come on my Dear we'd better go imide It's getting chilly here beneath the trees' It is Just possible this kind of parlor lantry Isn't limited to the Pekinese The illustrations are quite as much am of the book as the Verses They art satis ing and thoroughly in the spirit of the hippj rhymes Edwina is known for her pictures of in Life recently syndicated in the newspapers ns "Tipple" She also draws ths comic strip "Cap Stubbs" BOAitilKi jesH'.