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Negligible and second-rate writer's
having often outranked men of lit
erary skill in the success Of their
pamphleteering, he adds.
In the case of the modern despot-
isms he observes that propaganda is
most actively applied. OF this he
says:
THAT all-powerful rulers who make
q regular use of terrorism should also
be the most active propagandists
known to history seems at first sight
paradoxical. But you can do any
thing with bayonets except sit on
them"
Discussing the results of public
augmentation as administered by
these modern tyrants, he sums up;
What are the effects of excessive
positive propaganda within the totali-
tartan state? Reliable evidence is not
available. Significant, however, in this
context Is the decline since the advent
Of Eal-ism in the circulation Of Ger
man newspapers. Protesting too much
and all in the same way, the propa-
gandists succeeded only in disgusting
their readers. Suppressio veri has one
enormous advantage over suggestio
falsi: In order to say nothing, you do
not have to be a great stylist. People
may get bored with positive propa-
ganda, but where negative propaganda
is so effective that there is no al
tentative to the spoken and written
suggestions that come to them. all but
the most independent end by accepting
those suggestions"
Mr.. Huxley. one gathers, views the
spectacle of governments hiring armies
Of writer's to body forth praise with a
lackluster. albeit philosophical eye.
A VERY pleasant little periodical
= ends the first year of its existence
with its current December number,
and deserves some words of comn1en-
dation. It is a magazine for children,
intelligent and wel!-bred children. one
gathers 1t is Story Parade and has
not only excellent contributors but
Evening star., 1936-11-21
By NC. r.

r INTERESTING to washingtonians
should be the fact that the Ameri-
can Mercury lists the work Of q
Washington author with I'VE stars
in its current Check List" Of books.
This is the recently published His
tory Of the United States Navy" by
Capt. Dudley w. Knox. The five-star
rating Is the highest which the Mer-
curry critic confers on books OF any
kind. His own definition Of its i'm.
plications Is as. follows. Five stars in
dicate book Of exceptional and last
ing merit"
In the list of 81 books on last
months list only two were given this
accolade, Capt. Knox's and The
Flowering of New England" by Van
Wyck Brooks.
A new magazine makes its bid for
popularity this month and also con-
tributes its mite to the apparently
growing stream of cooperative bus
inesses. It Is the American Yellow
Book, q quarterly. It's editors an
nounce its distinguishing features In
these terms:
"The American Yellow Book Is
to be owned, issue by issue, by those
who contribute to 1t.
The costs Of production are min
imal. The editors serve without pay.
and where an author Of merit cannot
pay for his share Of the issue in which
his work appears. the appearance OF
his work may be financed by the mag
azine. Subsequently he will share in
the earnings Of that issue, after his
share of the costs have been de-
Quoted" -
This, somehow, seems almost un-
bearably touching. Only imagine all
the little writer's, from here to Cali
fornia, sitting down and posting on
their scripts and paying to have them
published! All our little Liberal
Thinkers viii now be added to the
already vast number Of little artistic
souls and co-operatives. and literature
will clasp hands for the joint casting
of of the fetters Of economic and
artistic slavery. May their divi-
dends be reprehensibly-cap
ally-large. Butts not the rightness
of Barnum forever manifest?
The new magazine will be published
in Hartford, Conn, at Is Fales street.
Its editors are Joseph and Rachel
Baker With ominous idealism they
remark. This magazine does not look
to profits" Maybe it's just as well.
IN A mild and wisely reasoned article
in the December Harper's Maga-
zine Aldous Huxley offers some notes
on the perennial phenomenon Of
propaganda. He makes no reference to
Americas visitstions of professional
guidance. but discusses chiefly propa-
ganda through the ages, with occa-
sional references to its present dif-
fusion and effect in Europe.
He submits that, unlike the COM
mercisl propagandist, the moral,
ethical or political inf1uencer of opin-
ion has no science to guide him; that
propaganda in general follows rather
than leads sentiment, and that the ex-
cellence Of its presentation has little
or nothing to do with its effectiveness.
Evening star., 1936-11-21

writer be also a creator-that their
universally increases even as their
individuality Is made more marked.
Let this Powys, for example. repeat his
Englishman's nose, stick and life IL
lusion a thousand times, let him par
ticularize him until he Is admittedly
eccentric. He still makes of that man,
in all his special queernesses. a pat
tern of all men who hold to their
dream against the odds Of materalism.
He still makes him a hero-protag-
onist-against the antagonism Of fate.
And what else. pray. has the great
novel ever done? Or the great saga,
drama or epic? 1t is perhaps trite to
point out that that Is, after all, the
classic furmula.
Yet with all this praise the reviewer
is frank to say that she liked Maiden
Castle" less than any of the previous
Powys novels It is less clear in
achievement: its action has a certain
tangled quality. Its minor characters
seem less important to the reader and
their effect upon the life of the hero
consequently is less convincing. In
other words, it is DINNER version OF
what Mr.. Powys has done before. a
work that, on purely technical
grounds, is less distinguished.
But, be it noticed, this criticism Is
made against the standard of the same
authors previous work. Maiden
Castle" would rank pretty well beside
any other recent previous work of
prominence. The reviewer thinks, for
example, of "Sparkenbroke," which
also dealt with a mans obsession with
his life illusion. Beside the rugged
honesty and homely sorrowful detail
of Maiden Castle" the Morgan novel
becomes q slick drawing room per-
formance, perilously near cheap
Maiden Castle" is recommended, al
though not to very large public.
MOVERS AND SHAKERS. BY Mabe
Dodge Luhan. New York: Har
court Brace & Co.
This latest book of the redoubtabl,
Dodge's memories will probably arouse
feelings of living interest in thos'
whose own memories run contem
porary with hers To member Of 9
younger generation. however, her worl
is sadly embarrassing.
Mrs. Dodge-for these chapters o1
Evening star., 1936-11-21

her life deal entirely with the pre-
Luhan periods much too frank-not
perhaps too frank for whatever pri-
vate verify she wishes to serve, but too
frank altogether for good usage. As
proof, one offers the fact that to read
her book sympathetically it would be
necessary also to. have q sympathy
with her of her personal nature. To
read it coldly, with the eyes of de-
tachment, is, as has been said, to suffer
embarrassment, and to realize that
ones own reactions are not in the least
those which she has expected to
arouse. The difference, clearly, is that
which lies between writing ability and
q mere determination to do what is
called tell ALL"
And yet perhaps nothing could bet
ter point the nature of the generation
about which she writes better than her
own naive and callow manner of writ
ing For, as she sets that generation
down, it seems to have been one of an
unparalleled thirsting and itching after
naivetes. It was a worshipper, with q
slavishness of which the detached
reader can hardly conceive, Of isms.
of causes, leagues, movements, spirit
ualist revelations. psyche o-analytical
miracles, cosmic urges, reforms of any
and every thing, and, as Mrs. Dodge
says Of herself with sublime unaware
ness of the power of the language to
rebound), of Art and Nature" How
young our elders were indeedl How
dream-encircled! No wonder that.
when disaster struck, they knew moth
ing to do to keep us out Of 1t.
To be specific, the first section Of
the book deals with the habitues Of
the famous Dodge salon at 23 Fifth
avenue. That establishment has been
described before. but perhaps the most
proper description was one contained
in a mock autobiography written by
Carl Van Vechten, Peter Whifie." :"
Van Vechten, with wise discernment,
treated the salon merely as q back
ground for Whiffle, his faddist hero,
who, unable to survive maturity, died
when he had to come of mental age.
In his pages the place has q certain
charm. Would that Mrs.
Dodge had seen At to let that graceful
90 unrliassacred.
But unhappily It would sasna tiaat
Evening star., 1936-11-21
By T. E. LAWRENCE

~ 2" HE SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM
W. ~ for years has partaken of the
aS 0c sensational and legendary
Rd kG which surrounded everything
that Lawrence did. Lawrence
finished it during six months of writing
at the Peace Conference in Paris. Close to
100000 words had been written. Then
one day while he was changing trains at
Reading Station near London. he left this
manuscript unguarded and it disappeared.
1t has never been recovered.
Within a few months he rewrote a
second draft in 400, 900 words; but his
style was careless and realizing he would
never be satisfied with it, year later
Enthusiastically he burned the entire
manuscript. The third text was begun at
once and was composed with great care.
Ii is the present one. Ii was privately
printed in London and fabulous sums
were said to have been paid for the few
copies sold in England. Twenty copies
were printed for America, to retain copy
right here, and the price of these was set
at 10000 apiece. Upon his death, last
year, the unexPurgared text was given to
the world.
Evening star., 1936-11-21
NON-FICTION.

NON-FICTION.
MANS WORLDLY GOODS. BY Leo
Huberman. New York: Harper
a. Bros. Intensely interesting his
tory of the manners In which men
have earned their livings from the
twentieth century to the present.
Worth having.
OUR NATURAL RESOURCES AND
THEIR CONSERVATION. Edited
by A. Z. Parkins and J. Z.
Whitaker. New York: John Wiley
A Sons. A detailed conservation
handbook, its chapters written by
authorities in various fields covered.
Valuable information.
WHY WE WENT TO WAR. BY
Newton D. Baker New York:
Published for the Council on Fer
eign Relations by Harper & Bros.
With polite apologies to pacifist
and communist critics. the Will
sonian Secretary of War reasserts
that idealism drove America into
international conflict.
ASIA ANSWERS. BY Ralph Town
send. New York: G. P. Putnam's g
Sons. A handbook on the Far
East situation with special refer
ence to the situation of Japan.
The author believes that war with
that country is not inevitable.
HOW BRITAIN RULES AFRICA.
BY George Padmore. New York:
Lothrop Lee & Sheppard. This
work is devoted to exposing the
wrongs OF English colonial admin
istration and to showing how these
wrongs return on the English
people.
THE ROMANTIC STORY OF TEXAS
BY Peter Molyneaux. New York:
The Cordova Press. Popularity
written history Of the Lone Star
State.
FORGOTTEN TOWNS OF SOUTH
ERN NEW JERSEY. BY Henry C.
Beck. New York: L. P Dutton
Co. Interesting researches into an
old but neglected section OF
America.
MARYLAND AND FRANCE. BY
Kathryn Sullivan. Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania Press
Story Of the negotiations between
the State of Maryland and France
during the Revolution and the
period Of the Confederacy.
ART FOR ARTS SAKE. By Albert
Guerard. New York: Lothror
Lee L. Sheppard. The story oi
the attitude through history.
PRISONS AND BEYOND. BY San
ford Bates. New York: The
Macmillan Co. The United States
director of prisons gives his views
on the place of prisons in social
reform today. Very sensible.
DENMARK-THE CO. OPERATIVE
WAY. BY Frederic c. Howe. New
York: Coward McCann. More
about the cooperative movement
which has been SO successful in
Scandinavian lands.
CO. LIFE AND BUSI-
NESS. BY Harriet Bum and
Ethel Mabie Falk. New York:
Grosset & Dunlap. History Of the
cooperative movement here and
abroad. Popularity written.
ADVANCING AMERICA. BY Merrill
Denison. New York: Dodd Mead
D. Co. Popular history Of trans
portation.
Evening star., 1936-11-21

composed Of discerning but busy readers like yourself
Get of their books through the Book-of.the.
Month Club and Of these of thousands of people
q sisss isdseed 10 jois BY salesman; every
Of them joined upon his initiative upon the
ommendation of friends who members after sim
ply readne-as ask you to dothe bare facts about
the many ways in which membership in the Club benefits
you as a book.reader and book-buyer.
Evening star., 1936-11-21
Huge Road Program.

EXTENSION and improvement OF
the highway system of the United
States was greatly speeded during the
past year, according to figures OBJ
tanned by the Bureau Of Public Roads.
More than s900,000,ooo was made
available for the work. the funds COM
ing from Federal ALLEGATIONS, registra-
ton taxes, gasoline taxes and other
special levies.
Evening star., 1936-11-21
1E 9Ra

Lawrence was not writing history IN
this book. :. The stream Of explanation
and narrative is made up of many ele-
ments. There are studies of Arab history
and Arab character, the latter brilliant in
the extreme, and pen portraits of Arabs,
Turks. French and British leaders of ex-
raordinary wit, Shrewdness and power,
and these and much else are foated on
narrative of adventures that are terrible,
humorous, exciting TO degree unequalled
in our time, enriched by descriptions of
the desert, of Arab life, of the back
grounds of critical action, many of which
are beautiful in high degree, real master
pieces of English prose E.
But this is only one strand OF this
great book. =. The other is philosophical,
but in no abstract sense. 1t is the medi-
tation, often agonized, sometimes pro-
found and occasionally Petulant and de-
spairing, of leader torn between duty
to his conscience and duty to his cause,
of a Hamlet uncertain of the worth Of
his every action. -. This is the memoir
of genius recording what he believed to
be his failure as well as what he knew to
be his triumph. 1t is an inextricable mix
rure of a human document, pure litera-
ture, philosophy, adventure, history and
a confession"
Evening star., 1936-05-18
RIGHT TO A JOB
BY LAW IS URGED
Representative Lewis Is Speaker
at Pi Gamma Mu
Meeting.

Legal protection for the working
mans right to job was advocated
by Representative Lewis of Maryland
last night in an address to members of
Pi Gamma Mu, national honor So
ciety in the social sciences.
"Too much emphasis today is put
on work reduction schemes which de-
crease the number Of jobs available
to laborers," Lewis declared, land
there is need for providing the right
TO work with all the legal protection
with which property rights are now
defended" He said the social security
act should not be taken as a moral or
economic substitute for the rights TO
work.
The Maryland Representative ad-
dress was made at the society's an
nual meeting and dinner in the UNI
versity Club, where 100 candidates
from Georgetown, American, Cath
Ole and George Washington Univer-
stiles were initiated into membership
Several Government officials were
present and Rev. Arthur A. OLeary
S. j., president of Georgetown Uni
versity, was received into membership
Other speakers were Col. Raymond O
Lewis. U. S. A., who advocated mill
tary training In the college curricu.
lum; DR.. Andrew j. Kress, professor
of economics at Georgetown Univer-
sity. Senator Thomas Of Utah. DR.
Francis E. Lucey, S. J., chancellor OF
the regional province of Pi Gamma
Mu; DR.. S. Howard Patterson, ma.
Evening star., 1936-05-18
TREASURY LAGG|NG
IN SILVER BUYING
Stock of White Metal Drops
to 2O.7 Pct. of Gold on
May Ia.
nv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Treasury calculations today revealed
that instead of making progress dur
ing the last few months this country
has lost ground in fulfilling the pro-
visions of the silver purchase act.
The law decreed the United States
should buy silver until its stocks
equaled one-third of the Treasury's
gold stocks or until the price OF the
metal reached S129 an ounce.
Todays Treasury calculations dis
closed the stocks of the white metal
on May IA were only 20.7 per cent Of
gold, whereas mid-Jsnuary calcula-
tions showed the ratio to be between
% and % per cent.
AS accurately as can be estimated,
present stocks of silver amount to
$2.l39,826,0l0 as of the close of busi-
ness on MAY IA. Officials said this
figure was arrived at by assuming the
$4,000 of silver bullion, cost
value, carried on the Treasury's daily
balance sheet, was purchased at an
average price of 60 cents an ounce.
by IIl1S IL WOoANA AAcAFS q
total value of S637, ,166,379 when writ
ten up to the statutory price Of Sl.29
an ounce.
Gold stocks on May IA amounted
to $40, 1923, ,458,779, indicating a neces-
sary silver base of S3,44l 900 900,
under provisions of the silver act.
Thus. sl,302 100000 more of silver
Is needed, or 1000, 100000 more
ounces at sl29 an ounce.
The latest official announcement
by the Treasury disclosed total OF
S35,l12,O00 ounces of silver had been
purchased in fulf1llment of the pur-
chase act. This was on last January
II, when stocks of gold in this coun-
try amounted to Sl0,l54904,5l1,
Since that time gold stocks have risen
Sl69, 100000.
Present silver stocks consist of the
following S1,194,933.644 of silver
assets, consisting of silver and silver
dollars: $6,665.077 of subsidiary silver
coin, S38,146,42l of standard silver
dollars outside the Treasury, 1922
653, ,288 Of subsidiary silver outside th'
Treasury; 1851 200 of silver bullior
calculated at its recoinage value, anc
S637, ,l66,379 of silver bullion in tht
Treasury.
Evening star., 1936-05-18
CHRISTENS TRAIN

CHICAGO. May 18 tP).-MiSs Au-
drey Louise Jones. IA, of Houston
Tex, granddaughter of Jesse Jones,
chairman of the Reconstruction
Finance Corp, christened the Illinois
Central Railroads new streamline
train. the Green Diamond, yesterday
Miss Jones smashed a bottle OF
champagne over the locomotives nose
and sent the train off on its first
regular run to St. Louis.
Jones was proud watcher, as were
Audrey's parents. Mr.. and Mrs. TIL
ford Jones of Houston,
Evening star., 1936-05-18
PLAN DANCE RECITAL
Children to Be Seen in Event
Next Saturday.

More than 40 children under IA
years Of age will participate in the
second annual May dance recital Of
the Bernice Carrico Dancing School
next Saturday at 8:15 pm. in the
auditorium Of the Wardman Park
Hotel.
The program will include tap. toe.
ballet and acrobatic numbers. Each
of the students, some Of whom are
less than 3 years old, will give solo
dances in addition to the four en-
sembles scheduled. The younger
children will be dressed in rainbow
costumes, the seniors in formal dress
and the intermediate group as Irish
washerwomen. An orchestra will fur
nish music.
Evening star., 1936-05-18
THE WEATHER

District of Columbia-Shower to-
night. probably clearing tomorrow
morning; slightly cooler tonight, COOL
er tomorrow; gentle to moderate
southwest shifting to northwest winds.
Maryland-Showers tonight, prob
ably clearing tomorrow morning;
slightly cooler tonight, cooler tomor-
row.
Virginia-Showers in south portion
tonight and tomorrow; showers to-
night probably clearing tomorrow
morning in north portion: cooler to-
morrow and in extreme north portion
tonight.
West Virginia-Showers and cooler
tonight and tomorrow; generally fair
and cooler preceded by showers in
extreme east portion
nrf For O
Evening star., 1936-05-18

MARION WOLBERG,
Youngest pupil eper to receiUe
the Second-year college Ger
tifcate from the Washington
College OF Music, ,Dho 1oll be
presented in a piano recital
at $3.50 pm. Friday at the
school, 1910 Connecticut aUe-
nue. Miss Wolberg, ,Dho is
only 13 gears old, has studied
music for sir gears under Mrs.
Fanny A. Roberts, president OF
the college, and Mrs. TanarG
Dmitrief. Miss Wolberg is an
associate member OF the
Washington Pianist Club and
liueS at 1920 Vdrnun, street.
-HeSsler-Hend Photo.
Evening star., 1936-05-18
EVENING WASHINGTON. MONDAY, MAY 1886

tional treasurer; DR.. John Donaldson.
national vice president, and DR.. Wal
ter J. O'Connor, Georgetown Univer-
sity professor.
Evening star., 1936-05-18

Drought Hurts Business.
The long drought in the Dominican
Republic seriously affected business.
Evening star., 1936-05-18
r Last 4S Hours.

Record for Last I'll Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today
- Highest SIS. at 4;30 pm. yesterday.
Lowest. 81. at am. today. Year
ago 40.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 90, on May 8.
Lowest, 0. on January %.
Humidity for Last 81 Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest So per cent at 5 am. today.
Lowest, 80 per cent at 2:15 pm. yes
terday.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Geodetic SurveyD
Today. Tomorrow.
High 5:2S am. i:21 am.
Low - 1929 m
High ------- 900 pm. 6:55 pm.
Low - 12:23 pm. 1:1S pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Rises Sets.
Sun. today Abb 1:16
Sun, tomorrow ---- 4:53 1:17
Moon. today - 2.55 am. :02 p m.
Automobile lights must be turned on
one-half hour after sunset.
Precipitation,
Evening star., 1936-05-18
Germs Of Rheumutism

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your free copy Buy Weidono tobets FOR the relied
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-24
Weeks Worst Pun!

'This revolution" insists
Charlie Barnet, els Just another
Spain in the neck!"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-24
The World Of Music

With the second concert Of the
Symphonies on the Potomac"
drawing the usual large audience,
the summer series may be con-
sidered officially launched and
highly successful. Tonight, Jo-
seph Coleman, violinist and organ
izer Of the Perole String Quartet,
which is heard frequently on the
air, will be the guest SoloiSt.
Alfred Wallenstein, who has
made such a decided hit with the
summer audiences will direct his
final concert tonight with a pro-
gram Of highly dramatic music.
Mr.. Coleman will play the Men
delSsohn Concerto in z Minor
for Violin and Piano"
The opening work on the pro.
gram will be the tuneful overture
to Merry Wives Of Windsor, u
(NicolaD, followed by the violin
concerto. After the intermisSion
Mr.. Wallenstein will present the
GO4AC ROGlu9 0OA O00A4S NV
Strauss ''Nocturne," and ''Scher.
TO-" from "a Midsummer Nights
Dream" (Mendelssohn): and
"Ride Of the Valkyries" (Wag'
ner).
The tone poem don JUAN" a
theme from which appears above,
is q descriptive work that fol.
lows in spirit the doings Of the
famous libertine Don Juan. Don
Juan's exploits have been the
subject Of q number Of poets,
but Strauss gives three quota
tons from Lenau's poem.
The theme given yesterday on
a rising cadence seemed to be
one Of questioning-Don Juan
in quest Of the one woman in
whom he might find the perfect
combination Of feminine charms.
But he quickly grows tired Of
each new conquest.
My LGdy's charm today hath
breath OF spring.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-24
THE VOICE OF
Broadway
-ByLOuiS SObOl-
With Sothern Accent!

Even the most conservative OF
our stage people are not averse
a bit of tricky exploitation IL
it will swell box-office receipts.
The late E. H. Sothern made wry
faces every time bizarre press
agentry or ballyhoo stunts were
proposed to help his cauSe-yet
he admitted that there were
times when they were essential,
and told the story Of the time
he and his dad, E. A. Sothern,
were touring the provinces Of
England. They were to play
Hamlet" in Plymouth, but when
they arrived there and stopped
off at the box office they found
no advance business. 1t looked
bad. So E. A. (the father went
to the only apothecary shop in
town and rented the window. He
placed a chair in the window
and a brick upon the chair with
this explanatory sign: During
the course Of this evenings per-
Torrance Of Hamlet Mr.. Soth-
ern or his son will swallow this
brick" The house sold out to
standing room, the audien c e
shifting reStlessly in their seats
Cor on their feet) waiting for
the play to come to an end so
they could witness the swallow
act. When the final curtain de-
scended, E. A. came out and held
up q hand for silence and said:
Ladies and gentlemen, you have
Just seen an excellent perform
ance Of Hamlet I hope. You
are now waiting for me to full
fill my promise. Well, I cannot
swallow this brick-you've beaten
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