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Evening star., 1934-11-25
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ABROAD TO. PIRANDELLO
Noble Prize Winner Impressed by Hos.
pitality and Acquisitive Mental Stand
ard of America as Land for Masses.

For Pirandello at 81 is not only writ
ing plays, but is directing his own
company at Rome, starring Marta
Aba, whom he calls the greatest
actress in the world. Paradoxically,
the play he is producing at present is
d'Annunzio's Daughter of Jorio."
Surrounded by Work.
I always think of Pirandello as
knew him on that first vista man
extremely sensitive to human suffer-
ing, eager to help tormented, cropping
humanity; man who negated the
charge of destructive doubt by show
ing that what he destroyed was pre-
tense, shattered in order to construct
justice.
Pirandello at that time was living
in a villa off the Via Nomentana. The
immediate impression upon entering
his study was of being completely sub
merged in vibrating atmosphere of
work. There was nothing academic
or calmly pedantic I had expected
about the smallish, active man in
white linen who sprang from the desk,
ink still wet on a manuscript. The
gray Van Dyke beard, the thinning
gray hair seemed incongruous with
the alert, youthful manner. The
small, birdlike, all-seeing brown eyes
surveyed me amiably as he extended
a welcoming hand. With quick move
ments he took manuscripts of a stand
and made room for coffee which a
maid brought in.
YES" he said. interpreting the look
in my astonished eye, st work all the
time. I don't live; I work"
He spoke in a matter fact way Of
having written for 80 years, keeping
up his PROFESSIONAL duties at the same
time. He was, he explained, writing
q novel, "One, None, a Hundred"
when he stopped to write play in
Sicilian dialect for his friend Musco.
He had interrupted the novel, which
he would take up later, for five years.
Although his novel, 1.-THE Late
Mattio Pascal" the story of a sup
posed suicide, really. started the
grotesque movement. Pirandello OBJ
jects strenuously to having his plays
considered grotesques. The underlying
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Evening star., 1934-11-25
RY ALICE ROHE.

Although Luigi Pirandello has been
awarded the Nobel Prize for literature,
he will not lose the title of Para
doxical Pirandello."
The university professor, author OF
365 romances and essays, who turned
playwright at so, wrote % plays by the
time he was SIS, created a new Italian
theater and made question mark
a dramatis persona, Is, at ST. still
producing at top speed.
The 1884 Nobel literary prize-which
he accepted with characteristic, de-
lighted comment: There are poor
authors, too'-was awarded not for
specific work, but for his general
contribution to literature.
This Is the second time in seven
years that the Nobel literary prize has
gone to an Italian. Both recipients
are islanders, but they are striking
contrasts. Grazia Deledda is Sar-
dinian who writes elemental tragedies
of Sardinia's rugged mountains.
Pirandello is a Sicilian who writes
bafding dramas of shadowy border
lines in the human mind.
For SO long-12 years, to be exact
has America accepted the "Pirandello
conscience" that this professor
novelist-dramatist has become sort
of state of mind.
When first met him in Rome, "Six
Characters in Search of an Author"
had not begun their tormented quest
in the New York theater nor had his
first volume appeared here in trans
lation.
Already his tragedy, Henry w."
with its satiric juxtaposition of normal
people and madman, had been
called another Hamlet" His Right
You Are OF You Think You Are") =,
with its stinging arraignment of SNUG
concrete-truth seekers who are un-
able to recognize truth when they see
it; his "Six Characters" with its
ironic demand of what is fiction, what
is real, had invaded cocksure ira
ditiOns.
The point, however, which many
people accentuated at that time in
discussing this ultra-modern dynamo
Of enthusiasm "a supposed prerogative
of YOUTH, was that he was professor
OF IS! What must they think today?
Evening star., 1934-11-25

ancholy period the life of the bank
ers has been just one thing after an
other. They were dragged through
congressional inquisitions, with broken
regulations, midget shows, boarding by
the public and some highly personal
details of strictly private finance as
some of the consequences. The pur-
poses of this public witch-hunting
were primarily political, and not one
public prosecution for violation of
banking law resulted. No money
changers were driven from the temple.
But in the eyes of the public the banks
were blackened, scape-goat was Gre
ated and the ground was laid for the
subjugation of the banks.
After that the banks had their Sc
curities business taken away from
them. They had to accept regula-
tion that will restrict their profits
from loans to speculative borrowers,
if ever again that large mass of shorn
sheep should grow new coat of fleece.
They had to give up their interest
receipts from deposits in other banks.
They had forced upon them a guar
anty of bank deposits that they almost
unanimously disapproved. They had
to accept as a partner new stock
holder who was as alien and unwel-
come an intruder as a fox in a rab-
bit warren-the same being the
United States Government.
Other Wounds Accidental.
All &ho.. x,,oo- x,ara ,,;e;&al ,,o1o
them Intentionally. Far worse were
the accidental wounds they received
in the war on depression. Emerging
from their dugouts after the collapse
in the Spring of 1888, the banks were
caught in the barrage laid down by
the New Deal. The recovery program,
firing miscellaneous general bonn
bardment at depression, dropped high
explosives over the whole economic
terrain. No major industrial or
financial interest in the country es-
capped injury from this fire, but the
banks appear to have been hit in more
places than any other group.
The securities law discouraged in
vestrnent. The stock exchange re-
form diminished the sale of securities.
The A. A. A. and the N. r. A. re-
duced production. The P. w. A. cur
tailed the demand for private financ-
ing. The experiments with the
currency induced a flight of capital
and engendered a public fear that
stifled investment. The Federal Re-
serve was stripped of its power to
control credit and prevented from
initiating a revival. of confidence and
a renewal of credit extension. And
the r. F. C. went into the banking
business on such a scale that its vast
loans over the whole area of industry
and finance absorbed large part of
the existing market for bank credit.
The net result was that the most
vital function of the banks, that of
providing credit for reviving in
dustry, was destroyed. Reform and
recovery measures prevented q re-
vival of confidence, and Government
financing became a winning COM
petitor for what business there was.
The banks were ready to do business,
but there was no business to do.
Wherepon the whole administra-
ton cracked down on them. A Gov
ernment that had restricted produc-
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Evening star., 1934-11-25
BY NEIL CAROTHERS.

Professor of Economics. Lehigh University.
THIS cynical generation always
greets any reference to the
lamb that lies down with the
lion with derisive query as
to what thereafter happened to
the lamb. There is not unnatural
tendency to question the lambs good
sense. Last month that remnant of
the American people that still surveys
the passing show with a philosophical
and speculative eye was edited by the
unique spectacle of $4,000 lambs lying
down with the lion at one time.
The $4,000 lambs were the SCARED
but surviving veterans of the 10000
banks that had so blithely supported
the new economics in the jazz dec
economics which preached philos-
ophy of enonomic abundance, of end
less prosperity through endless waste.
of "excess productivity which could
be offset only by excess consumption.
The lion was the administration. The
locus of this approchement of leo and
owls was Washington City. and the
occasion was the annual meeting of
the American Bankers Association.
It is worth while to look into the
background of this reconciliation. For
a year and half the banks have been
abused, coerceds pursued, prosecuted,
regimented and regulated. They have
been described as financial leeches
draining the resources of the people,
as panderers to speculation corrupt
ing the morals of business, as conf
dence men selling blue-sky securities,
as irresponsible guardians of the Ma
tion's credit, as business incompetents
arriving at universal insolvency and as
disloyal malingerers in the grand war
on depression. At one time or another
they have been accused of causing the
depression, of prolonging the depres-
sion, and OF sabotaging the recovery
program.
Only a few days before the WASH
ington meeting, in the course of a
most startling exposition of the close
resemblance between England's eco
nomical, budget-balancing, non-inter-
ference, wage lowering, increased
production program of recovery and
our own squandering, regimenting, in
creased cost, production restriction ex-
periments, the President by radio to
the Nation made the following state
ment about the English banks: and
let it be recorded that the English
bankers helped"
Not so long before that, the Federal
Advisory Council raised its voice in
mild protest against the headlong
course now being pursued, only to be
told to hush and stay hushed. The
head of the New York Federal Reserve
Bank, travelling in Europe on the busi-
ness of his bank, was warned and
threatened by that notable authority
on international finance, Senator FL
mer Thomas. This In itself was not
surprising; but it was startling testi-
mony to the status of our banking sys-
tenn that the Senator was not told that
he has no more right to question the
activities Of the New York Federal
Reserve head than Charlie Chaplin
and probably much less competence to
do so.
But hard words break no bones. They
merely leave scars. And one moro
Evening star., 1934-11-25
British Churchman Asks
Peace Pledge by Men

LONDON.-A, call to all British
men to pledge themselves never again
to support a war, has been issued by
Very Rev. H. r. L. Sheppard, recent
ly appointed canon of st. Paul's.
He has sent thousands of letters
to. all parts of Great Britain, sue~
gesting mass meetings at which men
would vote for the following resolu-
ton:
I'VE renounce war and never again
directly or indirectly will we support
or sanction another"
Evening star., 1934-11-25
Faced by Financial Men.

ever, that some 10000 State banks.
laboring under the fundamental delu-
sion that they were wholly free from
Federal control, very suddenly discov-
cred that when it comes to banking
control the Constitution is Just
quaint old relic of the past.
But the general bank closure was
only the beginning Since that mel
Evening star., 1934-11-25

scar is hardly visible on the bankers
epidermis. Hard words have been the
least of their troubles since March 4,
1888. What happened to them in the
period of the bank moratorium need
not concern us here. 1t was time of
emergency and the first-aid treatment,
though drastic, was probably neces-
sary. It might be mentioned, how
Evening star., 1934-11-25
BY ALBIN E. JOHNSON.

- ENEVA. - They're beginning
I to quit kickin' RooSevelt's
dog around-in Europe.
That Is to saw il is hecnrn-
Evening star., 1934-11-25

oiSCs Va AsCoChSkuCAts
The result must be that the United
States by standing uncompromisingly
against Japanese parity becomes the
target for all Japanese resentments
while Britain appears as a friend who
was unhappily powerless to moderate
the intransigeance of the United
States. Yet. as every one knows, the
British are just as unready to agree to
Japanese parity as the Americans.
And if they had been brought face to
face with that issue instead of being
permitted to evade it, they would
have been compelled to share Japa-
neSe resentment with us.
Mr.. Davis, however, in London as
in Geneva-in fact, as always in the
long and unvarying list of his diplo-
matte failures-set out from the as
sumption that in poker game to
love your neighbor as yourself is the
principal rule Now. for the British
an international conference Is q
Evening star., 1934-11-25

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-27
COURMETS ATE EXOTIC DISHES
Six Walters Essential to Carry Platter Into Dining Room

Paris (UP)-French gourmets, members of the National Society of Acci!mati0n, enthusiastically partook of the following exotic dishes at their annual banquet just held in this city: {, MENU
 Salad of Squid, Stuffed with
 Cuttlefish Teho -ton-soum- -mool, sort Of |,
 Chop-Suey
 Boiled Porpoise
 (Served whole and brought in
 on silver platter)
 Roasted Antelope Hips Stewed Buffalo Garnished with Sow's Ears
 Alpine Yarrow Ice Cream
 Japanese Loquats
 Guianan Oranges A special platter had to be made for the Porpoise six feet long, and carried into the dining room on the shoulders of six walters. Por- cupine quills were used mainly as trimming and later served as toothpicks.
 The bizaar dinner was attended by several hundred members of the National Society who, having pro- vided themselves with sandwiches before arriving, proclaimed the gourmet festival highly successful.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-27
YOUR TABLE
 MANNERS
Eating SandtOiches

Although sandwiches may seem to be the simplest, most primitive of foods. there Is an art in eating them. We have only to recall the manner in which different individ- uals handle them to know that this is true.
 The open sandwich, for exam pie, sometimes presents difficulties = whether to turn one side over the other or leave the sand wich open; whether to cut 1t in half or in quarters then whether to take it up in the hand as one would an ordinary sand wich, or to cut it into small por- tions to be eaten with fork.
 The best advice is to be guided by the type of the open sandwich. There is no invariable rule. Some chiefs present even simple ham sandwich in open style-the ham on one slice of bread, lettuce with or without dressing on the other. Obviously the thing to do here is lefty to turn the two slices to- gether. cut the square sandwich in half and proceed as you would had closed sandwich been served. More elaborate sandwiches with combination filling often are easier to manage with knife and fork.
 Thin closed sandwiches should be cut or broken in half or quar- ters and taken in the fingers. If a condiment or dressing is to be applied at the table, do this unob- trusively, preferably to>> only one section of the sandwich at a time instead of spreading dressing or mustard over the entire surface.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-27
KITCHEN COMMENTS
By wlLDA HoYT

Sometimes, when you are baking bread, biscuits or cake, and appar- ently have measured out the same amount of flour as formerly, the mixture seems stiffer or dryer than at other times. Perhaps that is be- cause you packed the flour too tightly into the measuring cup. The old saying that four cups or one quart of flour equals one pound { is true only when the flour is sifted and filled very lightly into the measure. Flour packs considera bly, during transportation. Always sift it before measuring.
 Instead of melting parraffin to seal jelly, have you ever tried put ting small pieces of the wax in the bottom of the glass and pouring the hot jelly over it? The parraffin will melt. rise to the surface and seal the glass perfectly.
 Coffee and tea spots cling tena- ciously to table linens. They can be removed by rubbing the spots with glycerlne, then after about 15 min utes, washing the linen in the usual { way. For spots made by chocolate LOT cocoa, use borax and cold Wa ter. ~
 The odor of cooking cabbage can be avoided by placing two un- cracked English walnuts in the kettle while the boiling is going on. And remember cabbage is much sweeter if the water is changed during the cooking. A dash of sugar add by way of sea- soning also improves the flavor.
 If you want sour milk for your baking and have only sweet milk on hand, add 2 tablespoons vinegar to 1 cup sweet milk, let stand for Il few minutes, and you will have as good results with the baking as though real sour milk had been used.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-27

Ham Canape-Toast rounds brown bread on one side and spread untoasted side with butter creamed with Prepared Brown Mustard, using tablespoons but ter and N teaspoon Mustard in all. Cover with minced ham mixed with 1-2 package cream cheese. ham and IA cup India Relish will be needed). Garnish with slices of Stuffed Spanish Olives and serve cold.
 Tuna Fish Canape-Drain 1 T. oz can tuna fish. mash very fine and add 2 teaspoons Prepared Brown Mustard, F teaspoon salt and tablespoons Mayonnaise. Toast rounds or squares of bread on one side only and spread un- toasted side with the fish mixture. Garnish with narrow border of India Relish. Chill and serve.
 Cheese and Olive Canape-Blend 1 1z -oz. package Roquefort cheese with package cream cheese. Toast finger lengths of bread on one side only and spread untoast- ed side with cheese mixture. Gar nish with overlapping slices of Stuffed Spanish Olives.
 Caviar Canape-Toast / oblong shapes of bread on one side. Spread untoasted side with Mayon- naise, then with caviar to which has been added an equal amount of Preserved Sweet Pickled Onions, very finely minced. Garnish with slices of Stuffed Spanish Olives.
 Dexter Canape-Toast rounds of bread on one side and spread un- toasted side with Mayonnaise. Add thin slices of tomato, then slices of hard cooked egg. Sprinkle lightly with salt and garnish with a slice or two of Stuffed Spanish Olives.
 Peanut Butter and Pickle Can. ape-Spread very thin square crackers with Peanut Butter. Drain India Relish thoroughly and place a border around edges. Chill and serve.
 Stuffed Eggs-Cut hard cooked eggs in half. Remove and mash centers, adding an equal amount of Sandwich Spread. Season. Re- fill eggs, chill, sprinkle with pap rika. and serve.
 Potato Chips with Roqucfort- Mash Roquefort cheese and blend
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-27
FROZEN ORANGE SANDWICH

Cook together A cup of sugar and 2-3 cup water for about five minutes. Remove from fire and add the grated rind of 2 oranges, 4 cup orange juice and # tea spoon granulated gelatin which has been soaked for 5 minutes in 1 tablespoon of cold water. Cover and let stand in warm place for 30 minutes. then cool in a pan of ice water. Whip 2 cups of heavy cream until stiff and slowly add the orange syrup. In the bottom of refrigerator tray or mold, pour A cup of orange juice. Over the top of this pour the cream mix ture. Freeze without stirring.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-27
Appetizers For Summer Meals

weariy after willing  ing brsky into meal they are At times. sharp other food in
 
 and
 
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-27
Old-Fasl,ioned Blackberry Jam

Heat berries slowly, mash through sieve. Have sugar heated in a moderate oven. Pour black berry juice and pulp into kettle. bring to a full boil, then add the hot sugar, using cups of sugar to a quart of berries. Cook very fast and watch carefully so that it does not burn. When the jam sets or wrinkles when small portion is taken out in a dish and placed on ice it is done. Pour into small tumblers, cover with melted par raffin at once.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-27
CANNED PLUAfs

Wash 1 quart plums, pierce with fork and pack firmly into ster- ilized jars. Make a syrup by boil ing together for minutes 2 cups sugar and 2 cups water. Allow the full five minutes after the boiling point is reached. Fill jars to over flowing with the boiling syrup; ad- just new rubbers, partially seal jars, set in the oven for 45 min utes at 250 degrees F. tempera- ture, or cook for 16 minutes by the cold pack process. Remove from oven or boiler and seal at once
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-27

You can make your own mush- room powder for seasoning soups and gravies by drying the push rooms in a very slow oven until they are crisp. Then rub them through sieve and store in an air light container.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-27
TESTED RECIPES
Cheese-Tomato Rings

Scala adn peel small firm, ripe tomatoesS chill and scoop out the inside meat, leaving only the solid meat. Drain well so that all seeds and juice are removed. Cream a package of cream cheese with a few tablespoons of heavy cream. add tablespoon finely minced green pepper, teaspoon finely minced spring onion or chives, salt and white pepper to taste. Fill to- nato cases with cheese mixture, packing 1t in solidly. Set in coldest part of refrigerator to chill thor oughly. Slice and serve on lettuce with French dressing for the salad course, or arrange on a glass plate and serve as a relish.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-27
Asparagus Custards

Individual asparagus custar6s are delicious served with fish. Add a stuffed tomato salad to the menu and you have a complete and weli- balanced meal.
 Make a heavy white sauce using 3 tablespoons butter, tablespoons flour, l cup milk and seasonngs. To this sauce add 2 cups of finely chopped cooked asparagus and we'll beaten eggs. Pour mixture in- to buttered custard cups. set in pan of hot water and bake in moder- ate oven, electric vacuum cooker or top-stove oven until mixture has set. Serve in the cups if desired or turn out on a large round chop dish and use as garnlsn around the fish.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-27
Escalloped Salmon and Potatoes (Can be Baked in Top
 Slave Oyen1

Peel and slice or medium- sized potatoes as for escalloped po- tatoes. Drain i can red salmon, remove any skin or bones and flake the fish. In a buttered baking dish arrange a layer of potatoes, dot with butter, season with salt, pep per and a few drops of onion juice of sprinkling of minced chives' Add layers of fglaked salmon, then layer of potatoes. one of fish and finish with layer of4po- tatoes. Sprinkle with buttered crumbs and bake until potatoes are done and crumbs Drowned.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-27
French Fried Peaches

sift together 1 1-3 cups flour II 1-2 teaspoons baking powder IA teaspoon salt. Add l well beaten egg and 2-3 cup milk, beaten thoroughly. Peel large firm, ripe peaches, remove seeds and cut in sections about l-2 inch in thickness, having the pieces lengthwise of the fruit. Dlp in the batter mixture and fry m deep hot fat. Drain, dust with powdered sugar nd serve wl,h broiled ham, assorted cold meats or a sa dessert, if desired.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-27

2 India shipped S0I.00 pounds of
 mica to the United States in the first quarter of this year.
 Russia will have luxury trains.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-27
Frozen Coffee

Dissolve l cup sugar in 4 cups of very strong, freshly made cof- fee. Partly freeze, then stir in the stiffly beaten white of l egg sweet ened with 2 teaspoons powdered sugar. Finish freezing. Serve plieo lightly into chilled sherbet glasses; garnish with whipped cream ana split lady fingers.