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Evening star., 1936-05-23

one may fly a kite In our own fair
city of Washington, D. c. And so on.
Need it be said that it is funny book?
How to Run a Bassoon Factory is
collection of articles which have,
for the most part, already appeared in
Punch. 1t is typical British humor;
that is to say that it rushes bravely
on its points and impales itself there,
leaving the reader sure that something
has happened, but not entirely ready
to laugh. However, If you like the
style, the jibes at business methods
are pretty we'll taken. One can be
sure at all times, at least, that the
volume will be in perfect taste.
THE TRYAL OF CAPT. KIDD, Edited
with a Biography and photography
by Don c. Seitz. Rufus Rockwell
Wilson. Inc. New York. 254
pages. Limited Edition, IS.
THE late Don seitz, student of
piracy and adventure, edited this
handsome volume of the transcript of
the trial Of Capt. Kidd in support of
his contention that the most notorious
pirate in English annals was sadly
maligned. 1t is an amazing docu-
ment, indispensable to one who would
know the circumstances that sent the
bold British sailor to the gallows.
Before Kidd's trial such a cry had
gone up against the man who had
betrayed his King and turned pirate
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ing-not for juveniles or Victorians-
but just for the run of men and wom-
en- who are not seeking heavy literS.@
freight-but who want to pick UP a
volume and relax I. W. II.
THE WORLDS GREAT AGE. BY
Philo NJ. Buck, jr. New York: The
Macmillan Co.
THIS work is collection OF essays
designed to cover the major
changes of thought which occurred in
the nineteenth century. Each essay
centers about an individual. Begin
ming with Rousseau. Mr.. Buck ex-
amines in turn Chateaubriand, Shelley,
Manzoni. Whitman, Hebbell, Tolstoi,
Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Ibsen, Zola,
Arnold and Hardy
1t is unmistakably a sincere work,
but unfortunately marked more with
academic precision than with sympa-
thetic humanity. 1t reads. somehow,
incurably like a collection of class
room lectures. Used for that purpose,
however, one might find it valuable
material.
IT'S THE LAW. BY Dick Hyman.
Illustrated by O. Soglow. With a
foreword by Arthur Bugs" Baer.
Garden City: Doubleday Doran e.
Co.
HOW TO RUN A BASSOON FAC
TORY or Business Explained. BY
Mark Spade. Boston Houghton
Miff1in Co.
OUCH esoteric information as that
it is unlawful to catch whales in
the inland waters of Oklahoma or
to wear a false moustache in church
in Alabama is contained in the first
of these volumes of humor, which is
nothing more nor less than collec-
,tion of absurd laws actually on the
statute books. With such a theme
it can easily be imagined what o.
Soglow would do by way Of illuStra-
tions. He is as funny as his subject
matter. While Bugs Baer remarks
in his foreword that Mr.. Hyman be-
gan his researches in Colonial times
and although 1t is a far cry from
there to here laughed all the
way" 'Ir fact" observes Mr.. Baer,
''it is impossible to tell where the
law stops and justice begins"
Evidence of the truth of this OBJ
servstion may be gathered from the
following instances, all duly set down
in the book: That 1t is a felony in
Ohio for an instructor of roller skat-
ing to seduce female pupil; that in
Oregon dead juror may not serve on
jury; that any one operating still
In Kentucky must blow a whistle;
that in Worcester, Mass, the sheriff
must wear sword, top hat and cut
away coat while attending murder
trials: that Massachusetts, general law
forbids any one to lounge on the
shelves of bakery; that it is unlaw-
full to wear whiskers, complete or par
tial. or shoot hares or jack rabbits
from the platforms of trolley cars in
Los Angeles; that it is criminal Of
fense in Minnesota for a woman to
impersonate Santa Claus Oil the street;
that If, in Montana, you catch fur
bearing animal and tattoo your name
on him henceforth the animal will
belong to you; that the Supreme Court
of the United States ruled that the
tomato was vegetable, and that no
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Divine but even the wealthy and
powerful are supporting organizations
founded in the hope that some pro-
gram, some catch phrase, or some
emphasis on a particular hatred or
prejudice will produce security, sta
bility and leadership. Yet, leadership
has not appeared and stability is not
within view"
Having read SO satirical piece
about our lesser leaders, it is interest
ing to turn to Harper's and note what
that enterprising pair, Drew Pearson
and Robert S. Allen, have to say about
the President. They have the leading
article this month, entitled How the
President Works"
It is virtually character study of
Mr.. Roosevelt, making no unfamiliar
points.
OF the Presidents working methods
they do say this: IF there is any
fixed formula for the way Franklin
D. Roosevelt works, those who work
with him have not been able TO dis
cover it. 1t is a tangled catch-as-
catch-can system of personal confer
ences, of 'chits' circulated among
cabinet members, adroit maneuvering,
yielding here, soft-soaping there,
cracking down on rare occasions.
wise cracking much more frequently,
and OF consistent burning OF the mid
night oil"
Mrs. Roosevelt" says the authors,
has aided him greatly by acting as
sort of restless, rowing commissioner,
genuinely interested in a thousand
and one problems which affect the
people of the United States. She is
his most important means of main
tanning contact with the outside
world She gathers all sorts of infor-
nation which she feeds to the Presi-
dent. Some of this information is
half-baked, and on occasion has
caused trouble, but, on the whole. she
serves a useful purpose" Thus light
continues TO SHINE on the great, even
| If 1t sheds no new illumination.
WITH all the verbiage which we
w hear about "fotgotten men" and
the masses" it is quantity refresh
ing to read what Albert Jay Mock has
to say about that vast section of the
population in the June Atlantic, in his
article called "Isaiah's Job"
| Mr.. Mock is not kind toward his sub
| ject. He does not go so far in lam
baSting as does Mr.. Mencken. when
he writes about "booberia,' but he
uses a keen edge of satire in his treat
ment.
The massman," he says, rs one
who has neither the force of intellect
to apprehend the principles issuing
in what We know as humane life, nor
| the force of character to adhere TO
those principles steadily and strictly
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Former House Member Finishes Fourth Volume of His Study of
LawMaking- ng-Rosamond Lehman Devotes Exquisite Prose
Powers Tragedy-Other Recent Volumes Reviewed.

undiluted vigor, dispose of q love that
has deteriorated into the nuisance
stage. The judicious use of baby
clothes does the trick. From there on
we follow Deborah's frantic adventures
as she unselfishly tries to keep every
body's heart in the right place against
backgrounds Of the stage, the radio.
the Stavisky riots in Paris, and stunt
flying in Tibet.
Her sister Margot, q torch singer
with a throat of hot honey" is her
greatest problem, and it is not until
her fantastic amours are Strengthened
out that Deborah has time properly TO
adjust her own love life, after the
Summer hail.
The good humor OF the book Is
incredible. Although illegitimate chill
dren are occasionally referred to, such
a euphemism is never used. Yet the
hood never offends. Humor achieves
that-and hum0r Is what makes the
dialogue crackle, and the characters
stand out like that artist you met once
in Greenwich Village. or that writer
with whom you dined at New York's
''Twenty-One." Remember how he
greeted you-"Hows your sex life?"
Summer Hail is entertaining read
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NOn-Ficti0n.

Non Fiction.
THE STORY OF OUR CONSTITU-
TION. BY George L. Knapp. New
York: Dodd Mead e. Co.
An account of the making OF the
Constitution, popularity written so as
to be understandable to the young
student.
FIFTY FIVE MEN. The story OF the
American Constitution. BY Fred
Rodell. New York: The Telegraph
Press.
An Interpretation of what the
Founding Fathers intended, based on
the minutes and notes which they
kept.
SURPLUS PROPHETS. Anonymous.
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Brief Reviews of Books on Various Topics

Scholarly work on religion and
mans understanding of 1t, In terms
of the Christian faith.
TRAIL BLAZERS OF SCIENCE. BY
Martin Gumpert. New York: Funk
and Wagnalls Co.
Popular science Of the ''Micrebe
Hunters" variety. Ten biographies.
covering the time between the Renais-
sance and the present.
GAsPE THE ROMANTIQUE. BY
Olive Willett Smith. New York:
Thomas Y. Crowell Co.
Detailed information concerning the
newest paradise for tourists.
THE CAMPERS HANDBOOK. BY
Dillon Wallace. New York: Flem-
ing H. Reyeu Co.
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Detailed information concerning
equipment and technique for all kinds
Of camping out.
THE BABY AND THE GROWING
CHILD. BY Louis Fischer, M. D.
New York: Funk and Wagnalls Co.
Feeding and health care. BY an
eminent authority.
WHAT'S THE NAME. PLEASE? BY
Charles Earle Funk. New York:
Funk and Wagnalls Co.
Correct pronunciation of the names
of the great and near great of our
own times.
THE HOUSE OF GOODYEAR. BY
Hugh Allen. Akron: Hugh Allen.
Story of the rise of the rubber
barons from beginning to present.
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New York: The Viking Press.

A satirical assembling Of the prophe-
cies which have been written and ut
tered by our public men concerning
the political future Of the land. Suf-
ficiently amusing.
LOCAL DEMOCRACY AND CRIME
CONTROL. BY A. C. Millspaugh.
Washington: Brookings Institu-
ton.
A discussion Of questions re-
lating to the regional administration
of democracy in the future, with par
ticular reference to crime control.
Containing q program of reform.
THE NATURE OF RELIGION. BY
Edward G. Moore. New York; The
Macmillan Co,
Evening star., 1936-05-23
By M. G.. r.

BY NJ. e.. n.
@HE peace situation is considered
in June Harper's Magazine in
relation to the recent warlike
i developments in Europe and
Asia. The article devoted to the
subject Is called TOO Late for World
Peace?" 1t is written by Nathaniel
PETER.
Mr.. PETER says, 1.-The hope of con-
temporary man Is to prolong the in
terval in which the process of time
can work, to prolong peace, how
ever artificial and unhealthy and ir-
rational a peace it may be, by what
ever means, however illogical and
superficial they may be. One can pic
ture for oneself the world today only
as a race between the forces that
make for destruction through wars
and forces that make for a reconstruc-
tion OF society If given time. If given
time! Time Is our hope and our re-
source and political fabianism our
strategy. II we can circumvent the
specific wars that now hang over
two hemispheres we can have an
other opportunity to prevent war, an
opportunity such as we lost after
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-08-24
BYRNES, RIVALS
CLOSE HOT
CAMPAIGN
South Carolina Voters
to Decide Fate Of
New Deal Leader

COLUMBIA, S. c., Aug. "a
G.N.SO.-Running on a strictly
o-Roosevelt" platform, Senator
James E. Byrnes today completed
his campaign for reelection as the
Democratic candidate for the
United States Senate.
Two rival candidates, Thomas
P. Stoney, of Charleston, and for
mer mayor of that city, and Col.
William C. Harllee, a retired Off
Ger of the United States Marines,
had also completed their cam
paignS. Both Stoney and Harllee
have attacked what they termed
the "will-o'the-wisp" policies Of
the President.
Tomorrow more than 100000
Democrats will go to the polls.
Six members of the House Of Rep
resentatives also are to be selected.
The Democratic senatorial nom
inee will be opposed in November
by Joseph A. Tolbert, of Green
vile, former United States district
attorney.
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U.S.WITHH0LDS
8 B0MBERS

BALT1M August "a
GN.SO.-The eight bombing air
planes the Glenn L. Martin Com
pany is constructing for the Span
ish Communist government will
not be delivered on schedule until
everything is in the clear" Martin
said today.
He denied reports the Spanish
governments contract had been
cancelled and stated it was made
before the revolution broke out in
that country. The contract Speci-
fled the airplanes be delivered in
October or November.
While the American neutrality
act does not forbid shipments of
war materials and fighting ma
chimes to countries engaged in
civil war, the State Department in
Washington is bringing pressure
on American manufacturers Of
such equipment to refrain from
doing business with either side in
the Spanish conflict.
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PENSION TEST
|NCAL|F0RNIA

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. "a G.N.
SO.-The Townsend test" comes
tomorrow to the home State Of
the founder of the old-age pension
movement.
Followers Of DR.. Francis E.
Townsend, the Long Beach, Cal,
physician who originated the 5000
a-month pension plan, claim they
hold the balance of power in to-
morrow's primary election when
ballots will be cast for 129 candi-
dates seeking 20 seats in Congress,
in addition to many State con-
tests,
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President Roosevelt was to have
visited Governor Olson at Roches-
ter, Wednesday.
Shoemaker in Race
Former Representative Francis
H. Shoemaker of Duluth, has an
nounced himself candidate to
succeed Governor Olson as sena-
torial nominee on the Farmer
Labor ticket.
Being considered by the State
central committee, it was said, are
Representative Ernest Lundeen, Of
Minneapolis, and Senator Elmer A..
Benson, the party's candidate for
governor.
Should Senator Benson be Sc
lected, it was understood Petersen
will replace him on the guberna-
torial ballot. The latter is now
a candidate for railroad and ware
house commissioner.
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0LS0N'S DEATH
LEAVES STATE
IN TUMBLE
Farmer-Labor Party's
Policies Undecided
After Leader Dies

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Aug. "a
Q.N.SO Minnesota politics were
in a tumble today as the State
mourned the death of its governor,
Floyd B. Olson.
Governor Olson died Saturday
night at Rochester, Mimi, after
a lingering illness.
State funeral services will be
held Wednesday afternoon from
the Minneapolis municipal audito-
rum. Until then the body will
lie in state. in the rotunda of the
State capitol here, with military
guard of honor in constant at
tendance.
Hjalmar Petersen, Askov news
paper publisher, lieutenant COVER
nor under Olson, was sworn in as
the States chief executive today.
Although Olson had been i'll for
months, his own confidence in his
recovery was communicated to his
Farmer-Labor party leutenants
and as a result they were not pre-
PdkSN W Cd1Iy OL1'
Ruled Single-Handed
Olson, his party's candidate for
United States Senator in the No
vember elections, ruled the Farmer
Labor party almost single-handed.
The party'S State central COM
mittee will choose a successor to
Olson on the November ballot some
time this week, a task which may
involve considerable juggling OF
the State and national ticket.
Likewise unsettled is the role
Minnesota will play in President
RooSevelt'S campaign for re.
election. Shortly before his death,
Olson pledged his personal support
to President Roosevelt, but the
stand of the party which he led
to dominance was unannounced.
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New Indictments Due
In Black Legion Quiz

DETROIT, Aug. "a GN.S).
New indictments were expected to
be returned today by Judge James
E. Chenot's one-man grand jury
investigating the Black Legion.
Last week the jury indicted %
persons, including Virgil Effinger,
of Lima, Ohio, and 10 of the %
are under arrest. The % were
named because of alleged violation
of Michigan's criminal SyndicaliSm
law,
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TAKES
APOLOGY
Continued from Page II

NCOHG111uCu L @6C ~
protect British shipping by all
means at their command.
Britain has notified Madrid 1t
will not recognize territorial
waters outside the three-mile limit
although Spain has insisted upon
six-mile recognition. Whitehall is
highly gratified over Germany'S
participation in the arms embargo,
regarded here as adhesion to the
spirit of non-intervention.
The belief is growing in British
quarters that the Madrid govern
ment is not able to control the
crews of her warships, and enforce
its promise to London given only
last week that Spanish warships
would not attempt to search Bri-
fish merchant vessels on the high
seas.
Crews of some of the Spanish
ships are reported to have impri-
soned or murdered their officers.
1t was a chief petty officer who, as
commander" talked with the
master of the Gibel Zerjon.
Crews in Charge
Editors Note: On August 18
Lee Dickson, International News
Service staff correspondent aboard
the U. S. S. Oklahoma, visited the
Miguel de Cervantes in Malaga
harbor, and the Communist com
mittee of eight commanding the
cruiser described to him how they
murdered their officers. They
tried to take over the ship for the
rebels" the committeeman told
Dickson, land we had no choice
but to kill them.O
Britain was also angered at a
report that the Gibel zerjon at
fair was deliberately planned
Secret agents of Madrid at Gibral'
tar, according to Reuters agency,
tipped off the Miguel de Ger
vantes at Malaga that the British
ship was leaving for Melilla with
supplies, including fuel, and the
Spanish cruiser thereupon hast.
ened to the vicinity of Melilla
and lay in wait.
Ships Rush to Aid
Malaga was in dire need Of gaso'
line, due to the destruction of its
fuel tanks in an inSurgent air
raid.
The Gibel Zerjon was informed
by boarding party 10 miles off
Melilla that she would not be al
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Women sCibCIub
Plans Benefit Fete

Summer festival benefit plans
for the program next Saturday
by the Women's City Club de-
signed to raise funds for a new
fire escape on the clubs head
quarters on Jackson Place will be
completed today. The festival
will be held at the Marjorie Web
ster School, Sixteenth and Kali
mia Streets Northwest, Saturday
afternoon and evening.
The afternoon meeting will
feature bridge and aquatic sports
while the evening program will
begin with a supper at $50
o'clock, followed by a program
of music, dancing and a play
by the washington Players.
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lowed to proceed to that insurgent
port, but should go to Malaga
The British ships master refused
and radioed to Gibraltar to aid
Forthwith the fast destroyer
Codrington, and the destroyer
Wolsey, followed by the big battle
cruiser Repulse, rushed to the side
of the little merchant ship, theil
decks cleared for fighting.
Captain Boards Vessel
An announcement by the admi
rally in London said:
"The captain of the COdring-
ton boarded the Spanish cruiser
and protested against interfer-
ence with British shipping out
side territorial waters. The cap
tain of the Miguel de CervanteS
apOlOgized.
III. M. S. RepulSe came in
sight of the COdringtOn and the
Miguel de Cervantes about half
an hour later. After an inter-
view between the captain of the
COdringtOn and the Miguel de
Cervantes, the ships proceeded,
the Repulse and COdringtOn to
Gibraltar, and the Spanish
cruiser passing from sight.
1.-THE master Of the Gibel Ter.
jon has been informed that he
may proceed as he thinks fit"
The Daily Telegraph reported
today from Seville that one Ger
man merchant steamer discharged
a cargo of war materials, includ,
ing airplane parts, at the inSurgent
port of Cadiz, and another is re-
ported to have arrived at inSurgent
Seville Thursday.
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CONGRESSMAN
GET OFFICES
Continued from Page u

CONTINUED from Page J.
Federal building address es.
Among those who have exercised
the privilege are Representative
Edward Taylor of Colorado, for
mer acting Democratic leader of
the House, and Representative
William J. Granfield CD of Mas
sachuSettS, chairman of the House
campaign funds investigating
committee.
At least one case is known
where a Republican member of
Congress, who has bitterly flayed
the Administration, has been
given an office. No Senators, it
is said, have yet exercised the
privilege.
Policy Defended
The new policy is defended in
congressional circles on the
ground that members of Congress,
being Federal officers, should
have the advantage of a Federal
office, rent free, in dealing with
their constituents.
Many members assert that
their $4,000 salary, with the ne
costly of campaigning and main
tanning two homes, is not Suffi-
cient for them to properly serve
their constituents.
House members, in addition to
salaries, are allowed $1,000 a year
for clerk hire, $125 a year for sta
tionery and 20 cents a mile on
official trips to and from Wash
ington.
VOTE AMERICAN
Seek to Quit Spain
LISBON, Portugal, Aug. "a
Q.N.SO. Fourteen British and IS
French citizens at Granada, Spain,
have appealed to be evacuated to
safety by airplane. The French
and British said they feared pos
Sible violence should radicals OBJ
tain control of the region.
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36-H0UR STAY
HEREPLANNED
BY PRESIDENT
Tax Injustices, Euro
pean Crisis Studied
BY Executive
By GEORGE DURNO
International News Service

Returning to Washington for a
S6-hour stay, major problems OF
state occupied President RooSe-
velt's attention today.
Eradication of tax injusticeS to
business, the increasingly threat
ening situation in Europe and
drought relief were his primary
concern.
Aboard the special train which
brought the President back from
Hyde Park were Secretary of the
Treasury Morgenthau, Actin g
Budget Director Daniel Bell, Spe-
cial Treasry Assistant Herbert
c. CASTOR and George c. Haas,
tax expert.
Confer on Taxes
The presence of Haas indicated
they had been comforting with the
President on the Administrations
promise there would be no in
crease in taxation asked in the
next Congress, and also the
further promise that steps would
be taken to iron inequities and
injustices out of the present set
Of schedules.
One of the Presidents first
callers this morning was to be
Undersecretary of State William
Phillips, who was expected to
come to the White House with
latest information on the Spanish
revolution, particularly insofar as
It threatens to embroil Europe in
another general war.
Later in the day, Secretary of
Agriculture Wallace, Governor
William I. Myer, of the Farm
Credit Administration, and DR..
w. w. Alexander, Of the Resettle-
ment Administration, were to re-
port on developments in the
drought area. toward which the
President will head tomorrow
night.
Indicts War Spirit
Before leaving Hyde Park the
Executive had delivered another
strong indictment of warlike ten
denotes in Europe. Following
closely on his address at CHATEAU
qua, N. Y, in which he outlined
the Administrations foreign
policy, Mr.. Roosevelt told a dele
cation from the Peoples Mandate
Against War that:
l. Outside of the Americas,
governments generally are ignor-
ing the desire of IS per cent of
their populations for peace:
2. Certain nations are putting
the cart ahead of . the horse"
by using the need of improved
economic conditions as an ex-
cuse for going to war, whereas
bettered economic conditions so
much more easily could be OBJ
tanned by freer trade and in
ternal development.
In the few hours President
Roosevelt will be in Washington
he expects to see large number
OF Federal officials with reports on
many phases of government.
Tomorrow night he will swing
West to learn at first hand how
his drought relief program is pro.
crossing, and to meet, among
others, with his Republican presi.
dental rival, Gov. Alfred M. Ian
don.
-VnTe AuEpIcAN