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, 1935-03-03

BALTIMORE. March q. R,-A- Il.
o. Munsell. credited with giving
away a million dollar fortune so he
could know life as 1T really Is" was
q little disturbed Saturday. he SAID.
that his -educed expenditures might
help make the depression worse.
He came back here. where he once
maintained o business office, TO ad-
dress the c1ty-wide young peoples
forum at the African Methodist EpIs-
copal church. He expected to return
Saturday night to his $3.50 q week
fifty-third street boarding house In
New York.
He said that now he had to strug-
gle TO make ends meet" he was ~be-
ginning TO know what life really Is
but he was q little disturbed about
having to economic too much.
, 1935-03-03
Dry Struggle To Start

Prohibitionists and repeal cheif-
tains made ready over the weekend
20 renew their struggle In the sen-
ate ove submission Of prohibition
repeal. The prohibition bloc plan
ned a sustained drive for incorpo-
ration In the repeal vehicle Of q Sec
ton establishing q state liquor mon
opoly.
Senator Joe Hill Of Henderson.
sponsor Of the monopoly plan. said
those opposing his scheme favored
either the return Of the saloon or
O repetition Of the political fights
we had In the past over the liquor
question"
Senator Weaver Moore Of Houston
and other repealists argued control
should be left to the legislature and
that statutory law should be left out
Of the constitution.
Prohibitionists asserted q state
monopoly was the only way to guar
nntee permanent Punishment Of Sa-
looms. while repealists countered with
the prediction the state would prove
q dismal failure in the liquor busi-
ness.
A conference committee on q bill
20 issue $3,500,000 In relief bonds
hoped to agree Monday. They have
been at loggerheads over a house
provisions increasing the tax on
horse race wagers to retire the
bonds.
Sessions Of q conference commit
tee on q bill to establish q state
planning board will be resumed
Monday with the probability OF
speedy agreement the board would
investigate projects for construction
with federal public works funds to
insure Texas q share OF the huge
prospective appropriation
The house planned TO step up its
schedule next week by holding af-
ternoon meetings. The session viii
reach the midway mark next week.
Until now both houses have been
meeting only in the morning TO en-
able committees to work.
, 1935-03-03

SIAN. ShenS Province, China.
March 2.%Pl-The saying Of the
Rev. S. G. Frenchahs missing in
land mission worker, was reported
by Chinese soldiers Saturday and
Missionary searchers gave up hope
Of finding his young wife. a Lon
don girl, who set put q week ago on
foot from Nankiang.
The death Of Frenchan. a young
Australian, was reported by troops
from Nankiang, the seat OF his mis-
sion. The reports were confirmed
by two British missionaries who
set out to search for Mrs. Frenchan
and who telegraphed saying they
also had received the reports OF
Nankiang soldiers.
, 1935-03-03

HARLINGEN, March z. ~ Rev.
Mr.. Mcdonald OF Yoakum Will fiji
the pulpit at the First BayNist
church nc both services. II was an
nounced Saturday by Mrs. Wy. q.
Stringer, church secretary
Guest pastors have teen filling
the pulpit since illness and restg-
nation OF Rev. w. w. Lee.
, 1935-03-03
BRAZIL GRANTS EQUALITY

The new laws Of Brazil say women
we're created equal to men. Women
may aspire to the presidency OF the
republic. They may be paid wages
equal to those Of men for equal tasks
or equal accomplishment. They may
not be refused any Job In any walk
Of life by reason Of sex or marital
status.
, 1935-03-03
Catholics In Durango have been sub-
jected."

Government denials OF religious
prosecutions I'm Mexico have follow
cd widespread charges made Dy
Catholics both In Mexico and the
United States that priests and fol-
lowers OF the religion were being
forced out OF their offices and
churches.
Several people have lost their lives
IN acrid religious dispute In Mex
leo during clashes between anti
religious groups and church-goerA
, 1935-03-03
Texas Farm Boy
y = y '
Now Brilliant Writer,
y = y y .
Pays Brownsville Visit

From q Texas
farm TO Merary
fame In New York
and throughout
the United States
Is the achievement
OF Anderson NJ.
Baten, author OF
Philosophy OF
Of Life and "A
Complete Diction-
~ of Shake
speare." who was
q visitor In
Brownsville this
week.
I'D often heard
Of Brownsville ard
the Valley, ana
took the first OPP
~portunity TO see
your country" the
o famous writ
er said In explain
ing his visit here.
although I am
aware that you
had a freeze re-
recently, 1t Is APP
parent that you 90
have q wonderful
country" he said.
Mr.. Baten, &C
companied by MS.
Baten, remained
in the Valley only
three days. as mis-
vacation Is short
and he must e
turn TO his pub
fishing house in
New York. He Is
visiting Texas on
a vacation and at
, 1935-03-03

Although several hundred miles
farther south than Rio de Janeiro.
Valparaiso. Chile. is closer 10 New
York than Is the former city.
, 1935-03-03

Anderson WI. Baten
Behind this tremendous book Is q
rugged and brilliant personality and
a story that Is more thrilling than
fiction. 1t Is q real life story of
dreams that came true because the
dreamer had the courage. the \ Jut
arms and the will to smash ali OBJ
stacles in his path and 70 make them
come true.
Born I'm Brennan
The story. OF course, begins with
BatenS birth IN Brennan on jan
uary IA, 1888. The fact that his faith
er vas president of Howard Payne
college indicates where he obtained
his brilliant mentality. His moth,
too. was a woman OF culture and in
~tellectual attainment.
We can skip over his boyhood and
young manhood, because Baten says
mis- brilliant mentality. His mother,
in 1912 when he stepped from a train
IN Houston with the winSome wife
and a diploma. The wife was the foe
mer Miss Beulah G.. Golden. She
married Baten on a little ranch
near San Saba and they went TO
Houston for their honeymoon.
Baten found quickly that his How
ard Payne diploma Neant little TO
hard boiled prospective employers
who demanded, he says, experience"
Lacking any kind Of experience
that could be converted readily into
cash. Baten ended UP as a freight
HEAVIER In the Houston Belt and Ter
minal warehouse, where for two
years he lifted heavy boxes and
bales for 50 per week. The salary was
small and the work hard, but nine
dollars would buy a lot Of groceries
in those days for a young man and
O young woman very much In love.
Baten's fellow workers were burly
negroes who sang s%pirituals as they
worked. He learned to heave q heavy
box upward in time with the rhy-
thmic cadences Of Swing Low, Sweet
Chariot" and other melodious chants
OF the negroes.
, 1935-03-03
ALFRED WANTS
SPEED IN RACE
TRACK ACTION

HOT james ". Allred saturday insist
ently demanded prompt action In
the legislature on repeal OF the pari-
mutuel race track wagering law and
declared war On q bill proposing 10
cal option on ce-betting.
The repeal bill may come up In
the house Monday.
Il should like to see the legislature
crack down and settle this question
Immediately 10 we can get on 70
other important measures for relief
OF the people," the governor said.
The evil effects Of race-track gamb-
ling are not confined TO the county
where the races are held. Its
baneful influence Is felt throughout
the state. and particularly IN coun-
ties within q radius Of 100 to $50
miles Of the place where racing Is
carried on"
Criticises Ferguson
Governor Alfred criticized former
Governor James Z. F~eguson's refer
enc to local option as an "out"
by which the legislature could avoid
q direct vote on outlawing race wag-
ering and said It was q reflection on
the membership.
surely no member should be
ashamed to vote his honest convic-
tons. Surely he wants no out to
Eidestep the question. I should like
TO see this matter voted upon
Bquarely without further tactical
maneuvering. The party platform
demands repeal. The people want
It directly passed upon"
The Legislature held a joint ses
sion Saturday to commemorate the
Goth anniversary Of Texas independ-
ence with former Governor Pat M.
Neff as speaker.
Taxation promised TO forge to the
front next week as the most press
ing problem the legislature viii be
called upon to solve in the immedi-
ate future.
The houses viii meet In joint ses-
sion Monday to receive q message
from the governor on the all Import
ant question Of raising revenue to
meet mounting costs Of government
and to insure n start toward liqui-
dalton OF q deficit Of approximately
&15.000.000 in the general revenue
and confederate pension funds.
To Present Tax Views
Governor Alfred will present his
tax views personally. For weeks he
and his youthful tax commissioner,
II. b. Anderson, have elaborated
on recommendations they believe 90
Co the heart Of the vexatious uues-
ton.
The governor has indicated he
would request the legislature to give
serious thought to increasing levies
on natural resources. primarily gas.
oil and sulphur. TO plugging holes
In the existing system by increasing
the supervisory powers Of the secre-
tary OF state and tax commissioner.
to enactment Of an income tax. q
graduated chain store tax and revis-
ion Of the delinquent tax collection
laws.
He also was expected TO renew his
demand for submission OF a con-
stitutional amendment to permit the
legislature TO classify property for
tax purposes and. in conformity with
O campaign pledge. reafftrm his op-
position 70 o general sales tax.
Thus far only one major revenue
bill has been reported from the house
revenue and taxation committee.
It would levy a graduated tax Of
from 81 on individually operated
stores to $500 on units In chains Of
so or more stores. Bills to increase
the sulphur, gas and oil taxes are
pending. In addition TO q score or
more Of other money-raising propos-
sls.
, 1935-03-03
Aided by Wife

But life was not all hard labor for
the young man, whose head was fill
ed with grand dreams Of literary
achievement. He read everything he
could find, specializing In biography,
history and Shakespeare. He col-
ceived the idea Of compiling the best
thoughts of the worlds leading PHI
loSopherS, with his own comments,
into one volume, thereby making
available to all the best thoughts
produced by the leading thinkers OF
the world through the ages, with a
few crumbs Of his own wisdom
Sprinkled in.
It was an ambitious plan for q
youngSter, but Baten chung TO 1t. He
dug and scratched through philo-
sophy for years, nearly starved 10
death in the process But his vile
remained Loyalty with him, aided
him In every manner and encourag-
ed his studiouS habits.
The result was The Philosophy Of
Life" q volume now selling at The
rate Of 5000 copies per month. In
Houston alone 5000 Of these books
have been purchased. In Dallas, Ia
600 we're distributed. a record for
any book Of any kind. The record
month was established about q year
ago, when 10.864 copies were sold
throughout the country.
Il decided to make 1t a dollar book
TO give IL to all classes Of people who
might be interested" Baten said.
land 1t has been selling like hot
cakes"
AS he worked on the philosophy
compilation, he conceived the ideG
Of the Shakespearean dictionary.
Through the years he labored at his
trying task. reading. digging into
musty records, selecting his material.
Evening star., 1935-03-17

Death of Henry K BushBrown Sculptor Removes Pctur-
esque Fgure-Big Plans for Corcoran Gallery Bien-
nial Ezhibition-Other Art Notes.

local clubs and societies. Her work,
chiefly landscape. is broadly rendered,
fresh in color and very effective. Her
compositions are good and as a rule
pleasing She fully commands her me-
dunn.
Miss Hall belongs to the younger
group of painters fast coming into
prominence. After extended study in
New York she opened studio here
season or so ago and has produced
number of excellent canvaSes. Her
paintings are usually in a rather high
key, but she uses very simple palette
and her interest is not merely in pro-
ducing likeness, but interpreting char
acter. Her work is strong, promising.
very individual.
A LFRED HUTTY has exhibited here
= before. His water colors and draw
ings, shown a few years ago in the
Corcoran Gallery Of Art, attracted
very favorable attention His prints
have been seen in exhibitions at the
Library of Congress and elsewhere.
But they cannot be seen too often.
Born in Michigan, Hutty studied art in
St. Louis and in New York. Among his
teachers were Chase and Birge Har-
rison. For both his etchings and his
paintings he has received many
Evening star., 1935-03-17
Books Received
Non-Fiction.

Non-F Fiction.
IMITATION AHEAD, What To Do
About 1t. BY w. M. Kiplinger and
Frederick Shelton. New York:
Simon & SchuSter.
A series of IS semi-personal letters
OF guidance intended primarily for
business men, investors and laymen.
Mr.. Kiplinger is editor and publisher
OF the k1plmger Washington Letters.
Mr.. shelton Is an economist and law
yer
THE CHART OF PLENTY. A Study
OF Americas Product Capacity
Based on the Findings Of the Ma
tional Survey of Potential Product
Capacity. BY Harold Loeb, Di-
rector of the N. S. P. P. c.. and
associates, Felix Fraser. Graham
Montgomery, Walter Polakov, Will
liam Smith and Montgomery
Schuyler. With a Foreword by
Stuart Chase. New York: The
Viking Press.
HELLENIC INDEPENDENCE AND
AMERICAS CONTRIBUTION TO
THE CAUSE. BY Harris j. Booras,
LII. B. Rutland, VT: The Tuttle
Co.
PASS IN REVIEW. The Story of a
Culver Cadet. BY Kitchell Web
ster, tr. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-
Merrill Co.
SAILORS KNOTS. BY Cyrus Law
renee Day. New York: Dodd,
Mead & Co.
Over $50 knots, spices, sennit
plaitings. lashings, servings, wire
Splicings, ETC., are illustrated from
photographs and described in the
text
A RELATION OR JOURNAL OF A
LATE EXPEDITION TO THE
GATES OF ST. AUGUSTINE ON
FLORIDA. Conducted by the Hon.
Gen. James Oglethorpe with De-
tachment Of His Regiment, etc.,
from Georgia. BY Edward Kim
Der. Reprinted from the original
edition, London. 1744. Boston:
Charles E. Goodspeed & Co.
THE ILLUSION OF IMMORTALITY.
BY Corliss Lamont. New York:
G. P. Putnam's Sons.
SWORD AGAINST THE BREAST
(Verse).- BY Isabel Harriss Barr.
New York: G. p. Putnam's Sons.
ON HUMAN EGOISM. BY Charles
Henry Macintosh. Winter Park,
Fla: The Chem Press.
COMMON SENSE FOR MOTHERS.
On Bringing Up Your Children
From Babyhood TO Adolescence.
BY Mrs. John s. Reilly. New
York; Funk & Wagnalls Co.
Evening star., 1935-03-17

Mr.. Bush Brown was a member Of
the National Sculpture Society, the
Architectural League of New York, Of
the Society Of Washington Artists and
other professional organizations. He
was at one time president of the Arts
Club, and there, over the mantel in
the library, hangs an excellent por-
trait of him in working smock painted
by his wife. An artist is best memo
rialized through his work, but Bush
Brown will long be remembered affec-
tionately by his confreres-and missed
INTEREST focuses at this time in
the great Biennial Exhibition Of
Paintings by Contemporary American
Artists, which will open with private
view and reception in the Corcoran
Gallery Of Art next Saturday evening,
and to the public just week from to-
day. With prizes generously given by
the late Senator w. A. Clark and
handsomely endowed by his widow,
these biennial exhibitions have come
to be considered among the leading
events Of the year not only in Wash
ington but throughout the country.
They have undoubtedly done much to
inculcate the idea that the National
Capital should be center Of art and
Evening star., 1935-03-17

true Is Ollie's rather subtle reasoning
when she refuses to marry julie, whose
child she is to bear. She has cause
enough to dismiss julie. but her ex-
PLANTATION seems too analytical for the
girl Of few simple emotions that
she is.
Ollie comes to the cabin Of Alex, a
prosperous Negro who owns land on
which he raises cotton and corn and
employs six or eight field hands,
among whom he is benevolent patri-
arch. Alex is a fine character, ad-
mirably drawn, and his wife Caro-
line, as kindly as he, but less patient,
is almost equally well done. Ollie
seeks work and home and is given
both, plowing with the men and a
little cabin Of her own in the hollow.
She works harder than any Of the
others. refuses help and attentions,
is always polite, but never communi-
cative. The men working on Alexis
place are all attracted by her, espe-.
cially Slaughter, who becomes
"natchl'y crazy" about her and al
most sinks into melancholia when
she politely refuses all his attentions.
Only little Willie Is permitted to
dance with her at the party at LIcy's
shack and to walk with her, and the
favor to him means nothing except
that Ollie is lonely for julie. whom
she has left at the Crossroads,
days journey away. julie and his
light ways are almost responsible for
Ollie's death, when his new oman at
tackS her with a razor on a camp
meeting night. Ollie brings trouble
to Alexis place, but every one likes
her except the sour widow, Nan, who
Is obsessed with suspicion Of wrong
doing whenever she looks on a woman
younger than herself. When the story
closes Ollie has become a fixture
there, with her own piece of land to
work, provided by Uncle Alex"
WILD FLOWERS OF LOUISIANA.
BY Caroline Dorman. With Illus
trations by the Author. New York:
Doubleday, Doran g. Co.
A NATIVE Of Louisiana who has
made, with the skill of an ex--
pert, an intensive amateur study of
the fora Of her State, writes en-
Enthusiastically about her findings, for
other flower lovers and garden makers.
To accompany her text she has drawn
"a beautiful color plates and nu-
merous black line sketches. Some $50
herbaceous wild flowers Of the region
are described and illustrated, includ-
ing most of the herbaceous wild
flowers Of the Gulf States, with the
exception Of mountainous regions, and
the subtropical portions Of Florida
and Texas" The botanical classifl-
cation Of Small c'Flora of the South
eastern United States") Is followed
and both botanical and common
names of plants and families are
given. But Mrs. Dorman writes for
those to whom the finding of a new
flower is a real adventure and who
cannot be content until they learn
its name" So her descriptions are
simple and non-technical and an at
tempt is made in each case to eive
some identifying characteristic. OF
course, the illustrations, all made
from the fresh, growing flowers, are
the best aid of all to Identification.
Mrs. Dorman's book will appeal to
every nature lover and every one who
wants a small wild flower garden
as part of the larger garden, in the
South. Its appeal need not, however.
stop with the South.
Evening star., 1935-03-17

THOMAS WOLFE'S BIG NOVEL
"Of Time and the River Is Large Size and
of William Hazlitt-Letters Of
Engineers Wife.
Engineer s Wife.

Walker. brought his tea to his room,
he knew that she was what he had
searched for all his life, the idol OF
his imagination. the goddess of his
dreams" She was in reality very
ordinary and vulgar young woman,
desirous of making a good marriage,
but meanwhile willing to permit a
few familiarities to her mothers
dodgers for the sake of keeping them
contented. Hazlitt himself told much
of the story. rather too much for good
taste. of his agonies of love and
jealousy and the coquetry and deceit
of Sarah, in the book 'Liber Amoris," I"
which his son called regretted pub
lication." In orer to marry Sarah,
he persuades his wife to consent to
divorce, for which they both went to
Scotland, but when the divorce was
obtained, Sarah allowed him to dis
cover that she had never intended to
marry him.. had in fact long been
ridiculing him while she philandered
with another and younger man. In
THE Fool of Love-" Mr.. Pearson has
Evening star., 1935-03-17

culture, as are the capital cities of
other nations.
Heretofore these exhibitions have
been held in the late Fall or early
Winter. The change of date to Spring
is an innovation induced by the excep-
tionally large attendance at the P. w.
A. P. exhibition, held in the Corcoran
Gallery of Art about this same time
last year.
The record of sales from these exhi-
bitions in the past has been eXtraordi-
nary, until the last two, and it is earn
estly hoped that there may at this
time be return to the established ira
dition.
GENE HAWLEY Of this city is hold
ing an exhibition of animal and
flower studies, landscapes and local
scenes in water color, pastel and pen
and ink, in the Francis Scott Key
bookshop. Twenty ninth and o streets,
Georgetown, which will continue
through March IS. Mr.. Hawley was
one of the F. w. A. P. artists last
year and has done numerous pictures
of historic homes in Georgetown and
nearby Virginia, some of which are
included in this current exhibition.
He is graduate of the College of Fine
Arts, Syracuse University, and has
studied both here end abroad.
At THE the same time that the
biennial opens to the public, new
and interesting exhibitions will be put
on at the Arts Club and at the Smith
sonian Institution. The Arts Club
shows will consist of water colors by
Mrs. Susan B. Chase. secretary of the
Washington Water Color Club, and of
portraits by Mary Lewis Hall, pupil of
Kroll, Nelson and Anderson. and
member of the Society of Washington
Artists. The exhibition in the Smith
sonian will be of etchings by Alfred
Hutty, one of our most distinguished
American etchers.
Mrs. Chase needs no introduction
to exhibition visitors and art lovers
in Washington, or, for that matter,
elsewhere, for she exhibits quite regu-
larly with the New York Water Color
Club and American Water Color So
ciety in New York, as we'll as with our
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Continued on Page 9, Column ~
Evening star., 1935-03-17

HIGH SPOTS IN THE ANDES.
Peruvian Letters of a Mining En-
gineer's Wife. BY Josephine
Hoeppner Woods. New York: G.
P. Putnam's Sons.
IN VIVACIOUS, slangy letters to
L two school friends, Mrs. Woods
describes: with the detail that most
readers delight In, the life Of herself
Evening star., 1935-03-17

and her husband in Bolivia and Peru
during the nine years when he was
engineering and she was housekeeping
and teaching. Such unaccustomed
circumstances as she encountered she
was able to meet the more light
heartedly because for the three years
before going to South America they
had tried farming on 45-acre ranch
in a California irrigation project, do
ing most of the work themselves,
while Mrs. Woods also taught in a
country school. So the shift from
washing the separator cher especial
detestation), caring for chickens and
turkeys, cleaning house, washing
clothes and baking interminable rows
Of bread. cakes and pies. all after
school hours. to troubles with drinking
and thieving Indian servants In min
ing towns seemed no cause for
grumbling.
Mr.. Woods, known as Clarence In
his wife's letters, was superintendent
Of the mine at Pulacayo, manager at
Evening star., 1935-03-17
By Leila MechIin.

THE death Of Henry K. Bush
Brown, which occurred March
/, removed a striking person.
L ality and picturesque figure
in the art life of Washing
ton. Despite the fact that he had
been i'll for a couple of weeks with
cold, it came as a great shock to
his friends and colleagues. inasmuch
as he had seemed to be in excellent
health all Winter. Mr.. Bush-Brown
had wide interests and was continu
ally concerning himself with public
welfare problems-educational prof.
ects, civic improvement and the like.
He was an idealist, an optimist who
refused to be discouraged even when
his plans did not gain support. He
possessed gayety Of spirit as evinced
when he participated in the Arts
Clubs frolics and its Bal Boheme
year after year. He was full Of good
will toward his fellow workers. Only
a few weeks ago he attended the
annual dinner Of the American Civic
Association at the Cosmos Club, Of
which he was a member, and evinced
keen interest in the speeches which
outlined projects for conserving our
natural resources and putting them
Evening star., 1935-03-17

awards, and he is represented In the
most important public collections both
here and abroad He is very sensl-
tive and genuine artist, whatever me-
dunn he employs. For some years now
he has spent his Summers at Wood
stock, N. Y, well known as an artists
colony, and where he owns farm, and
his Winters in Charleston, S. c., where
house remodeled by himself and his