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Recovery: the Second Effort" considered one
of the finest works on the economic situation
and recently best seller, was read by clerk
in the Bureau of Animal Industry, magazine
writer, lawyer, a newspaper man, a stenog-
rapher in the Offices of the Southern Railway.
a post Office official, an employe of the United
States Shipping Board, and one of the un-
employed.
Humanity Uprooted," Maurice Hindu's
moving account of peasant and village life in
modern Russia was read by a clerk in the
Interstate Commerce Commission, an Army
officer, a lawyer a high school teacher, an
elcploye of the Government Printing Office, a
clerk in S and 10 cent store, clerk in the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Wilson
Normal School student, one retired worker and
two unemployed.
Gertrude Atherton's autobiography "Adven-
lures OF Novelist was read by the wife OF an
electrician a Department of Commerce Ii
brarian retired high school teacher, the wife
of a meteorolOgist, the wife of construction
engineer, a dancing teacher, a high school
teacher a stenographer and Catholic Uni
versity student.
The survey showed that these three volumes
were more popular than was expected with
types of readers generally credited with liking
only fiction as well as with better educated
classes of persons. Library officials believe
that studies such. as these show definite trend
of the public to read better material, and that
a few years ago books such as those checked
in the Washington Librarys test would not
have enjoyed as great popularity among as
widely diversified group of readers as they
do this year.
Both the information desk and the central
reference desk of the main building OF the
Public Library report constant and increasing
demand for literature on foreign affairs. New
histories of European nations and the Orient
written from an economic standpoint are in
demand. and it is significant that the old
political and military narrative has lost in
popularity to the social and economic study.
DuRNd the past year there has been
- steady demand by students and adults for
interesting books on Russia, the library reports.
No titles in fiction have circulated more
steadily than Humanity Uprooted." G. B.
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BY Margery Rice

Hoover's Economic Life Of Soviet Russia" M.
Ilins New Russia's Primer" and Dorothy
Thompsons New Russia This interest is
evidenced by persons of widely differing back.
ground-a former German commercial attache
at the Russian court, Frenchwomen of the
diplomatic circle, Russian exiles, American high
school students, clergymen studying the charges
and counter-charges regarding the Russian
church, university students who have spent
whole evenings discussing the subject. and an
earnest mechanic who wants to know what
Russia Is really accomplishing"
Miss Iva Swift, readers adviser in history,
notes that there are few inquiries for books Oh
the Far East. There are occasional requests
for studies of Sun Vat Sen, for Etherton and
Tiltmans "Manchuria, the Cockpit of Asia"
and for Eddy's Challenge of ASIA" she says,
but the subject appears too complicated for
many persons who may be bothered by the
effort to comprehend strange races, lands.
names, religions and political creeds. The
European problem seems of much more i'm
mediate and real interest to the average reader
Dr. George F.. Bowerman, who has been
librarian of the Washington Public Library
for the past % years. believes that while the
phenomenal rise in the library's business may
be laid at the depreSsionS door, q return to
prosperity will not bring about a corresponding
drop. The public is being educated to want to
be educated, he thinks and the enforced use
OF libraries which was brought on by the de-
preston has given added impetus to that move
ment. Unemployed men who have come to the
library seeking education that will f1t them to
regain their positions have become interested in
subjects to which they never before paid much
attention, and they will continue to read where
their new interests lie. Women who have come
to learn from books how to do fancy work that
is salable have found diversion as well as help
and have gained confidence in the hbrary's
ability fo S1lnn1v their wants and they will
return, even though the economic stringency
which brought them has passed.
The Library of Congress offers . picture Of
what is happening to an institution Of another
sort-a reference library as opposed to . cir
culating library. The increase in its readers
has been more gradual, extending over a
longer period than the depression, and omcials
do not believe that economic conditions are
responsible for the growth In the number Of
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readers. except to the extent that economic
distress has crystauized the need for further
education.
Herbert Putnam, librarian of Congress,
notes that there are roughly three classes Of
readers which make up the increased pat
ronage-mature Investigators engaged in i'm
portant research, students ambitious for more
advanced work, and adults who wish to further
their education.
Since 1927, when increased facilities in the
way Of study rooms with tables. desks and
other conveniences we're made available to
serious investigators who wished to do exten-
sive research in the library. the demand for
these accommodations has grown by leaps and
bounds. The study rooms and desks are always
occupied, and extra study tables have been put
into every available niche in answer to the
demand.
During the past year these accommodations.
which include access to the stacks and special
reference collections, were extended to 821
investigators, among them Sc students from 81
different foreign universities in Washington to
take advantage Of the Congressional LibraEy's
excellent international collection.
Students at Washington colleges and uni-
versities are making increased use of the library,
records show, both through its reading room
and through the arrangement which permits
members of the faculties of any of the schools
to use the books of the Library of Congress
through their school libraries.
The stimulus for adult education which the
depression has afforded is reflected in the de-
mands of a larger number of individuals for
reading matter along certain lines the library's
reports show.
The extension which is being added to the
east front Of the Library of Congress, and the
proposed new annex will help that institution
to care for its overflow of books and readers.
The capacity Of the reading room, which DUR
ing the last Winter was very much strained,
will be enlarged when . part of the card
catalogue is moved into the first-foor space
now occupied by the east stack. The card
catalogue has sprung from modest beginnings
into an extremely fast.growing convenience Of
5000 card trays occupying exactly one-fourth
Of the desk space Of the main reading room.
and its new quarters will provide for its further
expansion as well as for more desks and chairs
in the reading room. q.
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Mr. Bowling, ST.. November 3, 1900. when the
business was continued by Mrs. Dowling until
her death March 9. 1910. Both Mr.. and Mrs.
Dowling died at No. 614 e street. In 1918
Frank w. and Gertrude Dowling disposed OF
the property to the managers of the Young
Womens Christian Association.
Thomas Dowling, like all other auctioneers.
had his share of unusual sales, but perhaps no
one else was ever called upon to sell such
sacred place as he was employed to do back
in 1882 when the sale of the grave of Mary
Washington, mother of the First President.
was advertised to take place at THE Capital
of the United States Of America" on Tuesday.
March S, 1889, together with IL acres Of
land at Fredericksburg Va, in which the grave
was located.
The sale as advertised did not take place,
for the courts prevented it, and a certain
public spirited woman Mrs. Margaret Hetzel,
then living in Fairfax County, Va, began
movement which not only resulted in saving
the grave and acres Of ground but also in
erecting a monument over the ashes Of this
good woman, this being done through the
efforts of the National Mary Washington Me-
mortal Association. which received its charter
widow of Morrison r. Waite. Chief Justice of
the United States Supreme Court. becoming
the first president and Mrs. Hetzel secretary.
Thomas J. Owen. Who engaged in business
here with the senior Mr. DOwling, from about
1890 to 1896 when he went into business for
himself at 9l3 F street northwest was born
in Baltimore Md but soon moved to Gathers
burg, Md, where he made his home and died
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who must borrow the books they would have
bought in prosperous days. adults who through
curtailed hours of work have more time to
devote to cultural reading than they ever have
had before, the unemployed who are trying TO
fit themselves for jobs through home study, or
who want an exciting novel to take their minds
of their troubles, young folks who capior
afford the more expensive forms of recI cation
to which tney used to turn, end an increasing
number of serious investigators from all over
the world.
At the Public Library the rise in numbers OF
readers has been so sharp as to show an
increase of Sc per cent in book circulation
since 1929 To put the facts in the familiar
statistical form, 10000 card holders borrowed
from the Public Library during 1882 2,5O000O
books or IL books a minute Seen thousand
five hundred persons frequent the library build
ings daily, and one person registers or re-
registers for library privileges every five
minutes.
Despite the fact that economic distress might
be supposed to create q large demand for
fiction escape literature. the librarys records
show that more new readers are asking for
serious and instructive types of books than for
lighter reading. The Public Library's circula-
ton of biography to adults has increased 88
per cent that of philosophy and religion 79
per cent, history II per cent, economics and
political science 64.8 per cent, natural sciences
50 per cent, and fiction only SIS per cent
While libraries all over the country have
noted an increased use of their facilities, there
is apparently relatively larger demand for
books in Washington than in any other city
of its size, DUE as one librarian recently put it,
to the fact that the capital Is a very intelligent
community composed Of book minded people on
small salaries who 60 to the libraries to con-
tnue their education.
The Public Library recently conducted an
interesting study OF the circulation of repre-
sentative volumes in different classes to de.
termine what sort Of people are interested in
what sort Of books. It was found that Salter's
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there on November -. 1918. Mrs. Owen
passed away the following day. and their joint
funeral took place at Gaithersburg on Decem-
ber /. Vernon G. Owen then continued the
business as Thomas J. Owen q Son.
Recently the writer had a nice talk about
old auctioneers with the present Mr.. Owen Of
whom he inquired particularly as to any nota-
BILE and unusual sales his firm may have made.
After the Inauguration Of Theodore Roosevelt
as President in March, 1905, he said his
father was called upon to sell the horses used
by the cowboy contingent In the great parade
at that time and he also sold the Arlington
Hotel site for something like $850,000. 1t: will
be recalled that the famous old hotel was
razed a few years before this country entered
into the World War, and that after the foun-
dation was dug out-leaving an immense hole
it remained in this unsightly condition for
some time until 1t was finally auctioned of
and sold
When the time arrived for the sale the
senior Mr.. Owen being anxious to hold back
the bidding to await the arrival of prospec-
tive buyer from New York. resorted to an
effort to entertain the crowd, and naturally
just having been in a facetious mood, he was
not taken seriously when he offered the site
as a whole" the hole" in the ground being
the most prominent thing in the bidders'
minds-and the laugh was on the auctioneer
Up to this time MIR. Vernon Owen said this
by an auctioneer in Washington. More re-
Gently, he said, he far eclipsed this when he
sold the Washington Building for something
like s4,000,0 900.
Duncanson Brothers were for many years
located at the southeast corner of Ninth and D
streets northwest, and there were other auc-
tioneers scattered throughout the business sec
ton of the city, who no doubt will be referred
to in these columns at some later date.
An item of interest in poetic form appear
ing in the Museum and Georgetown Adver-
tiser of May 81. 1909 (but which has nothing
to do with auctioneers), shows that there were
some people at least at that time who did not
believe in too many physicians if Wash
ington did have three in his last illness.
This poem-the author Of which is unknown
is entitled "On Consultation of Four Doc
tors" and follows:
II went last night to see friend
Who lay extremely ILL.,
Soon as I reached my journeys end
Two dons were at my heel
I made inquiry who they were.
With aspect quite demure.
These said the servant, doctors are
My master came to cure!
No sooner said than in there came
third, and then fourth,
These by profession are the same
An men of tried worth
Plying my friends unhappy case,
I sigh'd and shook my head,
And sent next morning to the place
To know If he we're dead.
Answer was brought hes still alive
Strange. thought l. but civil,
Few two doctors can survive,
But four would kill the devil"
The Uriter OF these stories is going on
little udcaton but ,oiH return to his
accustomed space shortly.
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art gallery and fitted it up as his office and
auction ROOM Soon the firm became known
as Thomas Dowling & Son. and continued
as such in this location until the death OF
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dILE most Washington busi-
nesses have been suffering
from depression, the libraries
have been enjoying an un-
precedented boom. During the
last few wears hordes of new
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schools and libraries; recreation and
health expenditures by Mrs. Gardner
Jackson; Mrs. 8. H. Horne summed up
the program with q talk illustrated By
charts and tables to show the sources
and disbursements Of the District
finances for the present and years past.
Park View Women's Club held it, annual
meeting and election Of officers at the
home Of Mrs. T. H. Naylor, 1904 PARK
place, May 8. The assisting hostesses
were Mrs. Lngamfelter, Mrs. McKEy,
Mrs. Alsop and Mrs. Robbins. The pres
ioent, Mrs. p. B. Ashburn, spoke.
Mrs. Maurice Smith, art chairman.
will hold no May meeting.
Mrs. John Potts announced . bridge
luncheon at the Kennedy-Warren May
% at 1880. The retiring president, MrS.
Ashburn, will be the honor guest.
Mrs. Faris announced the annual ban.
quet at the Kennedy Warren June 13 at
GAS pm. Reservations will be received
by Mrs. Faris up to June 10. Two new
members were received, Mrs. e. Kirby
anc Mrs. E. s. Corbin.
Judges were appointed for the poetry
contest In Park View School as follows:
May 20, Mrs. Walker, Mrs. Naylor and
Mrs. Jones; May 81, Mrs. Murray, Mrs.
Dalwick and Mrs. Perkins. Auditors
were appointed-Mrs. FELTON, and Mrs.
Jonscher. A Committee on Past Presi-
dents Pin was appointed Walker
and Mrs. Faris. Ofncers' and committee
reports were given.
Ohdcers elected to serve two years
were: President, Mrs. Maurice Smith;
first vice president, Mrs. John -c,t
second vice president, Mrs. Warren
Wagner; recording secretary, Mrs. WAL
ter Sommers; corresponding secretary,
Mrs. Glen c. Leach; treasurer, Mrs. L.
p. FELTON,, and parliamentarian, Mrs.
P. B. Ashburn.
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the Summer months VIII l,nd this Sec

the summsr months viii fnd this sec.
ton picnicking.
Mrs. Cary T. Grayson will be host
ess to members Of the club and their
friends at . garden card party the
afternoon Of June 3.
Miss Alice Heaven presided at the
board meeting Tuesday evening. Chair
men whose appointments were indorsed
were Miss Jessie Lane, Newcomers"
Committee: Mrs. Caroline Stephen,
business and professional; Mrs. Grat-
tan Kerans, publicity. -.
DR.. Ada Wahlen is hostess for the
Tuesday evening bridge section for
May. The Monday bridge section, Mrs.
John H. Harwood, chairman, assisted
by Mrs. Lottie r. Senor, are taking
reservations for the annual breakfast,
May ~ at ~ O'Clock. The annual
election Of section officers and direc-
tors will be. held on this date with
bridge following the business meeting
Out-of-town guests Of the club dur
ing the week were Mrs. Charles E.
Johnston. Detroit, Mich; Mrs. Es-
telle Hayden and Mrs. Won Bruson Of
New York; Mrs. Florence B. Gibson
and o. B. Gibson, Richmond, Va: Mrs.
E. K. Mansfield, White Plains, N. Y;
Mrs. James A. Dickson, st. Louis, Mo-;
Miss Nell Walsh of New York City.
District Of Columbia League Of Ameri-
can Pen Women.-At the annual awards
meeting DR.. Frances Moon Butts, in
charge Of activities, presided.
The Isabel Anderson awards In art
were presented to Elsie Thomson Clark,
who won the first prize for a water
color picture; to Hazel Cameron Menk
for an oil painting, and to Edna Webb
Miles for water color. In the second
group OF art work Minnie L. Briggs won
first award for an etching, and second
and third prizes in this class were
awarded to Azalea Green Badgley for a
pencil sketch.
the greatest number Of votes for its
popular appeal the league annually
awards prize. This year the winner
was Dorothy Gatchell
In the features group the Isabel An
derson awards went to Margaret Bailey,
who also received first honorable men
ton for another feature story Anne
Wagenhurst Manchester,s story received
second honorable mention.
The poetry awards, offered by Mrs.
Anderson, were given to Bess Heath
Olmstead and also first honorable men,
ton. The poems submitted by Flor
ence Barnes and Maria Claeys Garzia
tied for second honorable mention.
The first award In the short story
group was presented to Frances Stuart
Kobbe. First and second honorable
mention was given to Anne Darlington.
The non-flction prize was given to
Isabel Anderson, and first and second
honorable mention was given to Jean
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mest Tuasdsy evening, when several
papers. manuscripts and recent books
will be discussed. Miss Mary L. Nc
Gee. chairman, will preside, and the
group will meet at the home of Miss
Monte DAILY, l4l1 Thirty-sixth street.
Miss Gretchen Baden, chairman OF
the music guild, announced q special
meeting tomorrow at Continental Hotel.
Miss Romona Raley entertained the
card club at . party at her home. 40
u street.
The annual communion mass will be
held next Sunday at o'clock in st.
PatrickS Church. Members are re-
quested to be present at Tenth and G
streets at 7:45 o'clock to march to the
church in . body.
: Preliminary arrangements have been
completed for the annual entertainment
and reception In honor Of Archbishop
Michael J. Curley. which will be held
In the Continental Hotel May % at
O'Clock. It viii be open only to mem
bers Of the club.
The Child Study Club met Tuesday
afternoon at the home Of Mrs. Dixon,
40 Varnum street. After the hostess,
assisted by Mrs. Lecraw, had served re-
treatments, q business meeting, presided
over by the president, Mrs Church, was
held. Papers on women In Music and
Art" were given by Mrs. Bishop and
Mrs. Frazer. Art pictures were ex-
htbited and Mrs. Frazer sang.
At the next meeting ofhcers will be
elected.
Tho Marietta Park Women's Club
viewed the painting Of the Christ by
Col. H. Stanley Todd at the Mount
na....-k (1n-.co x1oroy rhu,ch Yoter
they visited the Washington Cathedral
Mrs. I. l.. Stormont, chairman Of the
Library and Arts Committee, plans
such tours for the first Tuesday Of
every club month.
The Writers' League Of Washington
will meet Friday evening 1T the Thom-
son Community Center. The program
includes short stories by Miss willard
Howe, Miss Georgia Redway, Miss
Evelyn Crane and Mrs. lone Lee
Mooney.
At the last meeting Mrs. Irish read
a poem Clark Palmer Cole read one of
his mystery stories, Mr.. Charles Cot
tingham gave poem and M. Hugh
Irish q story.
voteIess District Of Columbia League
Of Women Voters.-Mrs. Charles l..
McMary was hostess at Q tea at her
home in the Hay-Adams House,
Wednesday At $50 pm. The program,
District Finances. Sources and Dis
bursements," was in charge Of the de-
partment on efficiency in government,
with Mrs. Edna Johnston as chairman.
Those on the committee participated in
the program. Mrs. Elizabeth Smith
Friedman discussed District taxing;
Mrs. E. w. Spaulding on expenses Of
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etsvenson. Or. Butts was the donee ee
the nor- -dcfion awards.
sade Catherine Coles gave several
selections.
The District Society q the Danes
Of Mrs. j. Jerome Lightfoot, 45Si Wis
consin avenue. Mrs. Warren J. Haines,
president, presided. Mrs. Charles 6haf-
fer presented Q report Of the annual
meeting Of the national society In
Philadelphia, to which she was q dele.
gate. The society will take part in the
ceremonies today in Arlington COM
memorating Mothers day, and will
place a wreath. on the Tomb Of the
Unknown Soldier. Members Of the So
ciety are invited to take part In the
massing Of the colors at the Cathedral
May %. The resignation Of Mrs. Sam
cepted. Miss Katherine Genella Al
word. great-granddaughter Of Gen.
Morgan L. Smith Of Civil War fame,
was welcomed as Q new member. Mrs
Lightfoot was hostess at tea, served In
her garden.
American Association Of University
WOmen.-Charles Bittinger, associate Of
the National Academy. will speak on
cAPCIil SO1Oi dllQ UluSLI8tS
his talk with slides tomorrow at the
tea at pm.
The Junior dinner bridge will be held
Thursday at $50 pm.
Club night is Friday. Bridge will be
played after dinner at 1880.
The last Of the sectional bridge
luncheons will be held Saturday at
lis.
The walk today will be from the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. v. K. Chesnut
in Hyattsville, Md, starting about 3
pm, and returning to the home for q
picnic supper. The hike next Sunday
will start from Chevy Chase Circle at
PAS and continue along the Pikesville
Pike from Rockville to the Fenning
Farm near Darnstown, Md, where the
walk will be under the direction Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Karl Fenning. A picnic
supper will be served at the farm.
The Washington Chapter Of the
Women's Organization of Retail Drug
gists will meet Wednesday at noon at
the Hamilton Hotel for the last meeting
of the season. Further plans for the
student loan fund for pharmaceutical
students at George Washington Uni
versity will be discussed.
Curley Club.-The last large card
party OF the season will be given May
10 at $50 O'Clock in st. Peters Hall,
Second and c streets southeast.
Rev. Francis x. Cavanagh, spiritual
director, will entertain members Of the
Executive Committee at the rectory of
the Church Of the Assumption. 34o5
Nichols avenue, Congress Heights,
May II.
Members of the literary circle will
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BANKER WINS PARDON

SACRAMENTO, Calf, May Is R.-
Because the President Of Mexico, Abe
lardo L. Rodriguez, indorsed his petit
tion to Gov James Rolph, jr., for q
pardon, Juan Caballero, Lower Cali
fornia banker, was pardoned yesterday
by the Governor.
Caballero was convicted of embez-
element in Los Angeles in 1927, and was
sent to San Quentin Prison, where he
served two years before being deported
to Mexico. He has a wife and three
children in Los Angeles, but could not
cross the border to see them.
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Opposes Marbles Evil.

Shooting marbles "for keeps' viii be
prohibited In Longview, Wash, II the
ordinance drafted by City Attorney L.
A. Dwinnell Is adopted by the City
Council. The measure also would forbid
other forms of peggy gambling"