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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-11
: RECOVERING
AFTER BLAZE

While five men injured in the
blaze Saturday night were recover
ing today, it was learned that the
fire-wracked plant Of the Ameri.
can Chlorophyll Company at 324O
K st. N. W., may not be rebuilt.
r. H. Van SAINT, owner Of the
building, declared he is Still un.
decided whether to repair the
plant or "find another location"
Damage to the structure, where
an explosion occurred Saturday
night. was estimated at about
$4,000.
OF those injured, three are in
Emergency Hospital and were said
to have had good or fair nights.
They are Lemuel Naliles, Harbor
precinct policeman; Lieut.. Harold
Harding and Sergeant Moral Ma
son, of No. Is Engine Company.
The others hurt are Stanley But
Ter, Of 1926 Pennsylvania Ave.
N. w., an employee Of the firm and
Private w. j. Schmitz Of No. 9
Engine Company.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-11
WOMAN AIDS LANDON

NEW YORK, May IL Q.N.SJ.
Mrs. Lawrence Morris, Of Pelham
Manor, N. Y. a former Kansan
and graduate of the University Of
Kansas, will take charge today
of women's activities of the
Observation-Disclosures Club, headed
by Brock Pemberton.
In a statement accompanying
announcement of her appoint
ment, Mrs. Morris expressed the
opinion that support of women
voters has greatly strengthened
Governor Landon's prospect for
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-11
NAVAL TREATY
IS PRESSED
IN SENATE

AMSokhAbAOnAA MOVIE service
America this week will make
q defensive move on the checker
board Of international diplomacy
Behind President RooSevelt's
announced intention to seek i'm.
mediately Senate ratification OF
the London naval treaty is an
effort by the State Department
to prevent the United States
from being made the scapegoat
by Japan or Italy for failure on
their part to adhere to the new
treaty.
The treaty. signed at London
by the United States, Great
Britain and France, represents
the foundation on which it is
hoped to build a new structure
for the limitation Of world
navieS.
Adherence Essential
Adherence to it by Japan and
Italy is considered essential to its
success.
The treaty provides that Britain
shall invite these two powers to
adhere before January /, 1887,
when it is scheduled to become
effective. However, it will not go
into effect on that date unless
ratified by the American Senate
at this session Of Congress.
Japan is known to be adverse
to adhering to it and is believed
likely to jump at any opportunity
which would provide a plausible
excuse for not adhering.
The State Department, there
fore, fears that if the Senate fails
to ratify it at this session, both
Japan and Italy may use that as
an excuse by asserting that as
long as the United States, one of
the principal SignatorieS, has failed
to ratify the treaty, there is no
reason why they should hasten to
adhere.
Act to Avoid Blame
It is with a view to avoiding any
such blame being placed on the
United States that the State De-
partment has induced President
Roosevelt to send the treaty to the
Senate this week.
The President had been inclined
to let it go over to avoid any
danger of prolonging the present
session. The new agreement limits
the size of warshipS but not the
number of hen which may be
possessed by the naval powers.
Failure to reach an agreement on
the number was due to Japan'S
refusal to enter any agreement
which did not recognize her de-
mand for the right to possess a
feet fully as powerful as either
the American or British navies.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-11

obtaining the Republican nomina
ton. She declared:
"There is something in the
record Of the Land0n admins
tratiOn in Kansas and in the
unasSuming manner in which he
presents his ideas, which appeals
strongly to women"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-11
Committee Urges
Maritime Reforms

NEW YORK. May II. - Bet
ter working conditions and in
creased pay for sailors together
with a general revision Of mari
time laws were recommended last
night in a report Of Secretary Of
Commerce Daniel c. Roper's safety
at sea committee,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-11
Girl Scouts Plan
Aladdin Pageant

Aladdin and the Lamp of
Dreams" will be the title of q
pageant, at Leland Junior High
School, Friday evening by the
Girl Scouts Of Chevy Chase. Mrs.
Walter H. Rastall is directing.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-11

And Keep You in Misery All Day
LOng-But Don't Worry
Tonight Do This

IT'S all SO simple and easy to get rid
of sore, tired. burning feet that make
life miserable.
Tonight give them a good rubbing
with Aspirub-it's pleasant, powerful,
PENETRATING and stainless and al
ways works.
Tomorrow morning get up and walk
to your work with no sign Of misery
your feet are strong and sturdy
again, Aspirub is THE rub containing
genuine Aspirtn-that's why it's won
SerfTII for muscular aches and joint
roains-a large jar for q trifle at Peoples
Drug Stores or progressive druggists
everywhere. When Aspirub gets in
aches, pains and soreness get right out.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-11
New Bridge Class

The Community Center Depart.
ment announces q new class in
contract bridge at Central High
School on Tuesday evenings at
o'clock. Due to the lateneSs of
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MitchelPs Book on Greedy Exploration
Vivid Narrative of Incredible Tragedy

lay, emaciated and helpless, in the
remnants of partly-eaten sleeping
bag.
"You are all right now, Major, I"
Mitchell quotes Schley as saying
I'VE have come to rescue you"
All of which is grim reading, but
certain to hold the attention Of read
ers who like their adventure stories
authentic and replete with raw facts.
WASHINGTONIANS, especially, will
be interested in this book, not
only because Greely and another sur
vivor, David L. Brainard (now q re-
tired brigadier general and only living
survivor of the expedition) were fellow
residents of this city, but because much
Of Greely's career revolved around the
Capital.
The volume Is not confined 10
Greely's experiences in the Far North.
The Arctic tragedy Is but one episode
in biography Of the great Ameri-
can" The author tells OF Greely's
youthful service during the Civil War;
OF the important part he played, as
chief signal officer. in the Spanish
American War; of his work in superin-
tending the laying of pioneer telegraph
lines: Of his early advancement cf
aviation and of his notable relief mis-
sion during the great San Francisco
earthquake and fire.
Mitchell dedicated the work to the
youth Of America, with the expressed
hope that they might draw inspira-
tion from the deeds and accomplish
ments Of this great soldier, explorer.
statesman and philosopher"
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processes admiration and liking on
his own account. But. he says, re-
gardless Of personal feelings. he is
impelled to write adversely about the
present trend. for the same reason
that impels you to try to flag an ex-
press train before 1t reaches q broken
culvert.' Such dsinterestedness can
only be received as truly public
spirited.
And yet one wonders II Mr. War
burg is not waving the train on,
rather than tagging it, and also one
Is in doubt as to the proof which he
brings forward Of the broken culvert's
existence. He tells US that the Presi-
dent has kept large number Of CAM
paign promises very handsomely, but
that they were not his own promises;
they, were, he says, Mr.. Norman
Thomas. Yet he goes on to state
that Mr.. Roosevelt's chances for re-
election are good.
Where is the culvert? Mr.. War
burg sees 1t in coming destruction Of
the American scheme Of life. He Is
not much more definite than that.
1t is easily apparent that Mr.. War
burg knows the weakness of his argu-
ment. for he follows 1t with a shrewd
personal attack on the President
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whom he admires so greatly as a pri-
vate citizen. And from this, once more,
the reader is drawn to the conclusion
that the Presidents opposers consider
his personal popularity their greatest
danger.
This book must arouse mixed feel
ings in friends Of Mr.. Roosevelt and
his policies. For it is unmistakably an
attack. And yet it is an attack that
shows more fear than optimism In the
opposition.
YOUTH UNCHARTED. BY Stephen
Lawford. New York: The Mac
milan Co.
CTEPHEN LAWFORD was II when
England went to war and, because
he wore glasses, he could not enlist.
The doctor who refused him was local
tennis champion. Young Lawford
challenged him to play it off-and
won. He was sent to India, later to
Arabia and finally stopped bullet
with his right hand, with the result
that he was invalided home.
In the postwar years he endeavored
to earn his living in various spheres
with varying success. He embarked
on the role Of promoter and manufac-
turer Of a cosmetic to remove wrinkles,
got Job with an agent Of the anti
Bolshevik forces, went to Russia. saw
the White Army fade away. met his
future wife in station yard Of refu-
gees looking too indescribably cute
with large kettle of hot water which
she was holding with some difficulty
over the wavering flame of spirit
lamp" worked for the British govern
ment in its efforts to help refugees
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ten under the present title historical
romance of Scotland in the Napoleonic
wars. It is considerably above the
level of light novels and considerably
below Stevenson. 1t can be recon-
mended for filling in time. 1t is a per-
fectly good story.
TRIAL BALANCES. BY Ann Wins
low. New York: The Macmillan
Co.
THOSE interested in the serious
work Of college poets-"serious"
in the sense of coming from the heart
and head, not merely the fingertips-
will find this anthology a discerning
piece OF selection. Ann Winslow. the
editor, is executive secretary of the
College Poetry Society of America.
Qualitatively and quantitatively the
volume indicates that she is very
much on the job.
The book departs from the standard
anthology pattern in that it offers not
merely selections from the works of
representative college poets, but q
critical analysis of each, by different
ones Of their elders. Moreover, the
critical analysis is not always f1atter-
ing for there are interludes which
find adolescent poet and adult COM
mentator trading verbal punches.
1t enhances the virility Of q pleas
ingly virile literary effort.
POLE STAR. BY Stewart Edward
White and Harry Devigne. Garden
City: Doubleday, Doran g. Co.
THOSE who have read Mr.. Whites
past historical romances will un-
derstand the type of book which We
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Catholicism and also in our revolution.
THE LORD PARAMOUNT. BY Will
bur Earp. New York: The Dial Press.
Study of taxation in the United States
by an eminent lawyer. Demonstrating
that representation does not always
follow promptly after.
JOBS FOR THE PERPLEXED. BY
Flora E. Breck. New York: Thomas
Y. Crowell Co. Suggestions for making
jobs out Of practically nothing. For
mula for success, and so on.
FEELING BETTER? Cornelia r.
Trowbridge. New York: Dodd Mead q
Co A book of amusements for the con-
valescent, astonishingly wide In range.
A WORLD OF CHANCE. By Ed
ward Gleason Spaulding. New York:
The Macmillan Co. Philosophical
argument to prove that we know
practically nothing. Very profound
and by . professor ct Princeton Uni.
verSity.
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the long list Of works on Soviet folly
and pretentiousness.
Fiction.
THE STARS SCREAM MURDER.
BY Arthur B. Reeve. New York: D.
Appleton Century Co. Craig Kennedy
goes astrologist.
THE PYRAMID BY Robert Hichens.
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co.
A novel of Egypt done with this
authors familiar glamour-if that
really is what it Is called.
Poetry.
FLOWERS OF EVIL. From the
French Of Charles Baudelaire by
George Dillan and Edna st. Vincent
Millay. With the original texts and
an introduction by Miss Millay. Trans
lations that are always interesting and
often excellent, representing about
one.half Of Baudelaire's published
verse,
Evening star., 1936-04-04

MAKING WORDS WORK FOR
YOU. BY Lloyd Edwin Smith. New
York: Blue Ribbon Books. How to
speak and write-in case you are curl
ox. Just how to speak and write.
That's all.
THE SPLINTER FLEET. BY Ray
Milholland. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Mer-
rill Co. Narrative Of an engineer on
submarine chaser during the last war.
Exciting stuff and well told.
LIGHT OPERA AND MUSICAL
COMEDY. BY j. Walker McSpadden.
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co. A
comprehensive study of these branches
Of musical composition, dealing with
their history in various countries. and
outlining the careers of the leading
composers in each. A valuable hand
book.
BLACK BREAD AND CABBAGE
SOUP. By Hrowuell Carr. Cincinnati:
Powell d White. Amusing addition TO
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through the League Of Nations, went
out to Bolivia to look for settling
places for refugee colonies and finally
settled in Geneva to occupy a perma-
nent post in one Of the organizations
Of international civil service.
In youth Uncharted" he tells his
story, for the benefit of Ivan, his
young son. 1t is a rattling tale. AS
personal narratives 60. it Is perhaps
more interesting than the average.
Mr.. Lawford preserves the humorous
touch throughout his pages. Yet
sometimes his adventures were grim
beyond humor. and then his debonair
manner CRATES a little.
This, however, Is about the only
criticism that occurs to one. He is
penetrating in his estimate Of people
and institutions, and his closing brief
chapter on Geneva has Its distinct
value as a picture of the inhabitants
Of the place that now seems destined
to become the capital Of the civilized
world. 1t is q book worth reading.
THE SEVEN ARMS. BY L. A. G..
Strong. New York: Alfred A.
Kpopf.
MR.. L. A. G. STRONG, whose books
seemed to be admired, has writ
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have here. 1t is based on history,
but it has a romantic plot. In other
words, it is an effort to recreate an
era, rather than to recount actual
events. In fact, only one character in
it is claimed by the authors to be
taken from life.
It is a story of the Russian occupa-
tion of Alaska. The character taken
out of history is Baranov, the Russian
manager of the fur company which
had its headquarters at Sitka. To
this remarkable man Mr.. White at
tributes the success Of the Russian
colony. He is shown to be person
of great force. patience and kindness
For the rest, it is pretty routine
romance. The book does not make
bad reading.
FATE CRIES OUT. BY Clemence
Dane. Garden City: Doubleday
Doran & Co.
CLEMENCE DANE, who can write
hypnotic prose when she sets her
mind to it, has published here q COL
lection of nine of her short stories.
They are, in the main, very good tales
indeed, although the cumulative effect
of the group is to make the occasional
trickery of Miss Danes method ap-
parent in manner which it seldom
Is when one reads single story.
The title of the volume Is explained
in Miss Danes preface. where she says
of her stories: Each one is based
upon some moment in which his fate
cried out to q real living human be-
ing" And she thereupon relates the
source material of each Of the tales,
which include such illustrious figures
as Ann Boleyn, Queen Anne, Jenny
Lind. Queen Vashti and Grandfather
Death.
Although writing stories based on
truth, Miss Dane Is mystic and
plainly uses ink from the unicorn's
horn. This requires subtlety that is
among the ultimates in prose writing,
IL it Is to be sustained for any length.
It is all a matter of style and, 1t must
be admitted. she does it well. Col
leClOTS Ol SllOlt oeOiy 'oAeASS o~6ANS
to have this one.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY. BY Sigmund
Freud. Translated from the Ger
man by James Strachey. New
York: w. w. Norton & Co.. Inc.
DR. FREUD, whose long, patient toll
~ has brought him the dubious
honor of becoming household word
and the public the dubious benefit OF
providing it with an alternative for
the harsh doctrine Of original sin,
here writes, in dignified and scholarly
fashion, the story Of his life. He Ii
almost 80 years old and he began his
studies in 1873.
It is, substantially, the autobiog-
raphy which was published in 1925.
but DR.. Freud has added . post
script" which brings the work down
to the present. It ID the first time
the autobiography has been made
available in English as an Independent
book. the original publication being
Evening star., 1936-04-04
This Is Mr.. Pickwick's Tooth
/ birthday anniversary.
It was @ round century ago,

THIS Is Mr.. Pickwick's loott
birthday anniversary.
It was q round century ago
4 In April, 1885, that Charles
Dickens began writing the adventures
and misadventures Of Mr.. Samuel
Pickwick, ESQ, and his assorted fellow
members Of the Pickwick Club.
There Is no need to labor the point
that MIR. Pickwick's centenary Is an
event Of international importance
Millions Of his devoted followers every
where place 1t first on the list Of the
years great commemorative dates.
But what really makes the event 30
significant is the fact that one does
not have to be q confirmed Dickensian
to Join In this celebration. For Mr..
Pickwick Is one Of those 1mmortals
every one knows. He Is just part Of
life and the really odd thing Is that
this is Just his centenary.
But, Of course, 1t Is not only Mr..
Pickwick who has arrived at his Tooth
milestone. Arrived with him-proba-
bly, by that capacious If slightly moth
eaten coach-are such never-to-be-
forgotten personages as Nathaniel
Wrinkle. Tracy, Tupman, Alfred jim
gle, Sam Weller, the widow Bardell,
Joe, the Fat Boy, Doddson and Fogg,
Sergt. Buzfuz, Mr.. Trundle, Mr.. Snod-
gress and the whole Wardle family,
not to mention all the noble electors
Of the town of Eatanswil.
The liveliest, the most colorful. the
most rt-warming band ever created
by the mind Of man!
Mr.. Chesterton once touched the
point exactly when he said that, in
one seose, "Pickwick" Is not a novel
at all; that it is nobler than a novel,
for no novel with a plot and q proper
termination could emit that sense Of
everlasting youth-a sense as Of the
gods gone wandering."
Mr. Pickwick and faithful Sam
Weller, Sportsman Wrinkle and Trick
ster Jingle. Lawyers Doddson and
Fogg and Widow Bardell-they all are
a century old this month, but they
might Just as well be one or q thou
sand years old.
IN VIEW Of the immortality which
Pickwick and his associates have
attained. it Is interesting to note the
rather left-handed events attending
their birth.
Dickens had been writing a series
OF sketches in the Chronicle which
were attracting some attention, and
came especially to the notice Of q
publisher who wanted to issue a serial
to be used in conjunction with comic
illustrations by the popular carica-
turist. Seymour. Dickens was then
in his early twenties and struggling
for recognition.
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Bv Rer Collier.
bD HGI COIIfHT.
S~ EVEN left-sore distress. It's
been hard Winters hard
y Winter"

W. EVEN leIU0SOrc QlSLreSS. IL
been hard Winter-a hard
Winter"
- These mumbled phrases.
gaSped by the first of the Inflated
Greely Arctic Expedition to be reached
by the Schley rescue party on June
%, 1884, constitute an eloquent sum-
mary Of one of the more tragic epics
of Arctic exploration.
That story never has been told in
more striking detail nor with greater
regard for the blunt, almost incredible
facts than by the late Gen. William
Mitchell in his book, Gen Greely-
The story of a Great American" pub
lished by Putnam.
A former subordinate of Greely in
the Army Signal Corps and an in
innate friend of the soldier explorer.
Gen. Mitchell was qualified in an un-
usual way to set down the remarkable
record Of Greely's career. Gen. Greely
himself read part of the manuscript
of the book shortly before his death
last October, at 81 years. Mitchell
died before his work had progressed
beyond proof form.
1t was, indeed, "a hard Winter" thst
Lieut.. Adolphus Washington Greely
and his death-beleaguered little band
of Army men endured just prior TO
their rescue. AS Mitchell relates it,
Sergt. Long was most conservative in
thus describing, incoherently, the
privations Of that Winter-the third
the party had spent in the Arctic.
The sergeant, Mitchell explained,
had crawled to cliff on Cape Sabine,
overlooking Buchanan Strait, to in
vestigate three blasts of what sounded
to Greely like the whistle of steamer
It was the voice of the Thetis, Schley's
flagship" signaling discovery of
Greely's camp.
MITCHELL described the dramatic
sighting of Sergt. Long by the
crew Of a small boat sent ashore.
"They ran toward the shore" he
said, land he Nong) stumbled and
rolled down to meet them. He was a
sad spectacle, with his long, matted
hair, sunken cheeks, wild eyes anj
filthy clothing.
"'How many are there ieft?' shouted
Lieut.. Colwell from the boat.
"tSeven left at last replied Long
He could scarcely talk and when he
did. his voice was thick and mumbling
and his Jaws worked in convulsive
twitches. He managed to tell them
where the camp was and repeated sew
eral times that the tent was down."
Discovering the camp . short dis
tance away. Mitchell continues, Schley
went at once to Greely, who could %
recognized only by his glasses as he
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NOn.Fiction.


FRANK KNOX, AMERICAN. BY
Norman Beasley. Garden City: Double
day Doran & 90. A short biography Of
a man who Is being talked about for
the presidency.
LIBERTY VS.. EQUALITY. BY VIII
liam F. Russell. New York: The Mac
milan Co. An eminent pedagogue
plans to save our traditions by tech
nique in administering education.
HOTEL LIFE. By Norman s. Hay
ner. Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press. A unique and readable
study Of hotels as they exist In our
country. Comprehensive and unex-
pectedly absorbing.
THE SCOTCH-IRISH IN NORTH
ERN IRELAND AND THE AMERICAN
COLONIES. BY Maude Glasgow. New
York: q. p. Putnam's Sons. Influence
Of the Presbyterians Of Ulster In the
struggle between 7Sotestantism and
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Thus, while it was made clear to him
that the text matter was TO be distinct
ly subordinate to Seymour's pictures,
he seized the profiered opportunity.
The publishers suggested that Dick
ems base his text on q Nimrod Club,
and that he should see the characters
through o series Of ignominious ad-
ventures. Dickens Immediately object
ed: frst. because he said he knew
nothing about sport; second, because
he felt that sporting sketches were be-
coming outmoded.
Dickens thereupon changed the idea
to that Of a general club for investiga-
ton, the Pickwick Club and out of the
original suggestion only the figure Of
Sp0rtSman Wrinkle remained.
Seymour and Dickens then began to
work, and seven pictures by the former.
with letter-press by the latter, ap-
peared. Before the eighth picture was
published. however, the artist COM
mitted suicide.
Later Dickens was charged by Sey-
mour's widow with having plagiarized
the artists ideas. She declared that
Seymour actually had inspired the
whole concept of the Pickwick Papers
and that he had committed suicide
through mental anguish as a result
Of the authors "duplicity."
The charges, of course. were public
ly disproved. But in 50 far as Dickens
readers were concerned-and are con-
cerned-that was not necessary.
1t matters little who suggested a
CLUB" or whether Dickens, Seymour
or the publisher outlined the general
scheme. The fact is that Dickens, and
Dickens alone. could have peopled that
club with such characters. Seymour
could no more have written "Pickwick
Papers" as we know it than Dickens
himself could have composed Para
disc Lost"
After Seymour's passing few illus
trations were made by one BuSs and
then began the association Of Dickens
with Hablot K. Brown, better known as
"Phiz." Their partnership has been
compared to that of Gilbert and Sui
livan. 1t was a perfect blending of
talents. Dickens created "Pickwick,"
Phiz visualized it unerringly.
THE first monthly part Of the Pick
wick Papers was published in
April, 1886, and it ran in 20 INSTALL
ments until November. 1887. In that
year it was published first as volume.
Its full title was THE Posthumous
Papers OF the Pickwick Club: Being a
Faithful Record Of the Perambulations.
Perils, Travels. Adventures and Sport
ing transactions of the Corresponding
Members: Edited by Boz"
Since first publication. "Pickwick
Papers" has been reprinted in literally