Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-01-06

hundreds Of thousands Of cases, IN
which individuals protest what they
consider the violation Of their private
rights by the Government, seem to
constitute an unnecessarily compli-
Gated and unWieldy system OF mach1n-
cry. The suggestions of the authors
for changes, after their extensive
study, are embodied in 10 para
graphs. covering both legislative and
judicial functions of administrative
agencies. The system they suggest
would still be complicated; that is
probably unavoidable, but it is more
coherent and logical than the pres
ent arrangement, which is the result
of process of accretion.
THE FABLE OF ECONOMY ISLE
Told in Words of One Syllable g.
BY Max Shoop. Paris: A Jourde
MOT children's book, though the
"one syllable" annexation might
suggest that. In fact, the statement
that this allegory is told in words
of one syllable is itself allegorical;
the words are simple and convey OBJ
vious ideas with clarity, but they are
not monosyllabic. The book is dedi-
Gated ito the idea that two and two
make four" 1t begins once upon a
time" as all fables should begin, and
tell the story of John Doe and Richard
Roe. who were chance companions in
storm at sea, managed to reach shore
in battered life boat and dropped
4.,l.
recovered some vitality. they discov-
cred that they were on a Robinson
CruSoe type Of island, uninhabited, but
fertile, and began, on opposite sides
of a river, to work out their ideas
Of a new existence. Trans-river re-
lations began when John returned
from trip into the interior and eX-
changed some nipa leaves and timber.
which he had brought for q house,
with Dick for some fish and fruit.
Later Dick rented tools John had
made, in return for more fruit and
fish.
John was energetic, Dick rather in
dolent. Results of this difference in
temperament were soon apparent. John
acquired more possessions, lived better
and had the advantage in all the
bargains with Dick. John even in
vented robots to do his work. But
when Dick began to learn Johns
economic philosophy, trouble ensued
and once or twice Dick drove a hard
bargain. Enlargement came when
Dick got into debt heavily to John,
but could find no way to pay, because
Tnh1 hod oil "a ernlH re (on1I
had been discovered and the island
had gone on gold basis. all the
wheat, tobacco, sugar, gasoline and
machinery he wanted, and refused
to take anything in payment which
Dick could produce. They arrived at
an entente by agreeing to divide
the industries so that each would
produce certain things, part of
which would be exchanged for the
products of the other. The moral
on the reverse of the last page of
the fable is hardly necessary: PRO
duce efflciently-but let the other fell
low make and sell you something in
exchanged"
SOUNDING HARBORS. BY Eleanor
Mercein (Mrs. Kelly. Illustrated
by Amy Hogeboom. New York:
Harper & Bros.
TWO harbors of the Adriatic are the
= settings for these six tales, which
have all the charm of style and
atmosphere familiar to readers Of
Eleanor Mercein's Basque stories. One
of the harbors is Corfu, where en-
tered "the first adventurous prows Of
Phoenician trading galleys" and "the
bold-questing pinnaces of the Argo-
nauts.' The other is ancient Raguso,
"called now by its even more ancient