Evening star., 1933-08-05
THE LIBRARY TABLE
BY SARAH 6. B0HERMAN.
DOUBLE-CROeSNd AMERICA By
MOTOR. BY Edward D. Dunn. New
YcSk: 0.sR. eutnAms Sons.

oUBlE-CHoesMo AMERICA By
Yost: Of. futnam's 81 sons. '"
Dear Jerry. ~ you requested, !
kept daily Iisissof expenses and sxpsfi-
enoss on our thur across the Continent.
Thsy VIII be1nS good news to you, for
they prove IT, motor trip you wish 70
take tax. through ~. hs West West e e b practical
and the iteuS Of cost that you were 90
interested n. (And you an artistD"
So begins Mr.. Dunn's practical account
OF his motor trip across the Continent
and bsck-And II is interesting - well
as practical. Mr.. Dunn Is an architect.
Q playwright and now writer about
travel. Five plays on which he has COL
laborsted have had successful runs on
Broadway, among them The Claw"
He plans . series Of travel books, the
second Of which viii probably be
Double -Crosstng Europe by Motor. /"
He made . short run the first day, 1853
miles. from New York to Bel Air, Nd.
HIS biggest items Of expense that day
were 30 cents for the Holland Tunnel
and $50 for the Pennsville Ferry. His
phur Springs, Lexington, st. Louis,
Kansas City, Trinidad, Taos and Santa
Re. Grand Canyon, Los Angeles. At the
END Of each day he gives the mileage
ana the altitude and the expense ac-
count. This last item Immediately gives
warning that his trip Is not one TO be
copied by . near -impecuutoun tourist.
LuncheonS and dinners at 81 so and 81
were frequent, II not customary. A month
at Cross Triangle Ranch, Simmons, Ariz.,
Is among the pleasantest memories Of
Mr.. DunnS life, though except for an
unvelcome letter giving news Of Q sub
stantial cut In income. he would "Iiaye
moved away from the ranch within q
lew Gays Tor 1t was . real ranch, not
. dude ranch. The return journey was
by San Francisco, Reno, Salt Lake City,
across Idaho. Yellowstone Park. dude
ranches IN Wyoming, the Black Hills
and Bad Lands, across Iowa, Chicago,
across Ohio and Pennsylvania, Niagara
Falls, New York City. In his conclusion
Mr.. Dunn makes some general obser.
Vatlons about the various parts of the
country, but the real interest of the
book lies In the record Of day.to-day
experiences, oil Of them, II seems, agree.
able. unless Mr.. Dunn has the gift Of
remembering and speaking about only
the pleasant things OF Life.
HENRY p. DAWSON. The Rscord os
Useful Life. BY his friend and
partner. Thomas w. lamont, New
York: Harper d Bros.
This y not merely the biography OF
. successful banker, though Mr.. Davi-
son was thinker In finance and long
urged banking reforms, some of which
were brought about by the Federal Re-
serve System. His early career was
with the Liberty National Bank, New
York City; later he was associated with
the late George r. Baker at the First
National Bank. and he finally became
Q partner In J. p. Morgan a. Co. Fol-
lowing his business life, we also follow
the financial and industrial develop
ment OF the United States during the
pre-war and war periods. During the
war he helped to unity the commercial
activities Of the allies in the United
States and to arrange credits for their
purchases Of American food supplies,
clothing and machinery. With business
interests enough to occupy the time of
several men, Mr.. Dawson deliberately
and generously gave time and money
to philanthropy. Many people remem-
Der him chiefly for his organization and
administration in connection with the
American Red Gross wor work. as chair
man Of its war council. Certainly
Davison's Red Cross work provides an
instance where the good that he did
lives after him. Seeds were sown that
have grown, flourished, and year by
year have waxed into greater and more
extensive enterprises for relief and
help throughout the world" Mr.. Davi-
sons partners were also friends and
throughout this biography. whenever
the story becomes intimate, he tS
Harry" to Mr.. Lamont.
INSTEAD OF DICTATORSHIP (Psm-
phlet). BY Henry Hazlitt. New York:
The John Day Co.
Mr. Hazlitt takes q modern business
organization as an example and recon-
mends a plan of government based
on efficiency, which would not be char.
acterized by that weakness and vacil-
lation in times of crisis that have been
leading In one country after another
to the forcible seizure and ruthless
abuse of executive power" His plan
involves dispensing with Congress and
the establishment in its place of a
board of directors or council of twelve
men. He says: 1T is interesting to
speculate upon the probable member
ship of such q council If the plan were
to be put into immediate effect. Here
we enter the realm Of pure guesswork,
but let Us put aside our personal
preferences and say that our council
in thA order Of its selection, might be
something like this: Franklin D. Roose-
welt. Herbert Hoover, Alfred E. Smith,
William E. Borah, Ogden Mills, New
ton D. Baker. Albert c. Richie, Huey
Long, John N. Garner, Nicholas Muir
ray Butler, Norman Thomas, Hiram
Johnson, George Norris" Certainly Mr
Hazlitt. If he has sense of humor,
must have been smiling broadly as he
wrote this list If he was entirely
serious, he must have unlimited faith
in the possibility Of harmonizing dia-
metrically opposed elements.
DEATH WHISPERS. BY Joseph B.
Carr. New York: The Viking Press.
Mr.. Carr joins the ranks of writer's
Of detective stories with this, his first
book. The detective of his creation
bears the name, suggestive of an In
dian ancestor. Oceola Archer, and
screens himself as an interior dec
orator. Death Whispers" opens with
q tranquil scene, tranquil and deca-
dent. far from the city haunts OF
crime. Salem Rocks is less than three
centuries old, but from its rotting tim
more ancient than Rome The only
brightness to be discerned in Salem
Rocks was the long curve of the rail-
road tracks, cleaning hvidly In the
shrouded moonlight, as, on q certain
night, the eight -forty-five from Boston
drew to Q reluctant stop before its
murky little station" So the story
Is of and mystery win soon begin, for
from one Of the coaches alightS q wom-
an shrouded In Q dark cloak and car
rying q black bag. No, she is not
the criminal. She is a trained nurse,
Miss Crump. come down from Boston
to nurse Roderick Myncheon, financier,
at his home. Lichen Hall. When she
enters her patients room she looks
straight into the muzzle Of an old-fash-
ioned breech-loading rifle. It is not
held by the patient, who is lying, a
silent figure, in his bed. An atmosphere
Of concealed horror is created In the
first chapter and gives place only to
clues and suspects and final solution