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The Washington times., 1936-11-07
Library of Congress

At the Library Of Congress, the
work of the late Walter Appleton
Clark, whose rise to fame as an
illustrator at the turn of the cen
tury was meteoric, is now being
shown from the Library's Cabinet
of American Illustration.
His illustrations have the flavor
that fingers even after the subject
matter for which they were drawn
has died. There is a distinctly
human touch about his women Of
the Gibson era that makes them
alive, though their clothes are out
moded and the tales that they
illustrate have lost their signiff
canoe. ...<.- -: -..
Even the political jibes of 1905.
illustrating Whats the Matter
With American" by William Allen
White, are pertinent in 1885, and
the skill of the artist in chron"
icling the hardshipS of the poor
during the golden age Of America
oespeaks an art to which very rev
illustrators can measure.
Included in the exhibition are a
number of preliminary sketches
that are very interesting.
In his work he is first the artist,
then the illustrator, supplemented
bv a powerful imagination and all
the technical skill that makes an
artist. =.
clark did his first Illustrations
for Scribner's in 1897 at the age
of 81. He died nine years later.
But in that short period he did an
immense amount of work.
The Washington times., 1936-11-07

Miss Covey, daughter Of Arthur
Covey, the mural painter, has
lived in an artistic atmosphere all
her life, and her flair for the
artistic is well grounded in thor
ough education in painting.
In her current exhibition are
paintings in a variety of mediums
water colors, pastels and oils,
and the best of these, it appears,
are her water colors. She has
painted a varied scene in this me-
dium with a quick and seeing
brush.
To the Washington, Looking
Toward the Arts Club" and king
Street, Alexandria, will be sono-
thing more than familiar. An
other of her water colors, winter
Rooftops," is striking example
of the effective use of white in
water colors.
In her oil studies, she has
painted several vivid portrait
studies-vivid in color and swift
in appeal.
Miss Covey is partial to por-
traits of children, and of these she
has done some in paStelS and
others in oils. Her subjects are
The Washington times., 1936-11-07

beginning of a long and lonely
road for Sister.
When questioned she confesSes
her sin and refuses to say an Act
of Contrition because, she says,
she is not sorry for it. That, then.
is a fair summary of Sisters
makeup revealing her honesty and
the core of hardness that carries
her through most of her troubles.
It leads her to refuse to marry
the father of her child, because
she cannot love him and it causes
her to refuse to marry the man
she does love because he cannot
leave other women alone. But it
does not leave her stranded,
ashamed Of her plight.
In the years that follow, Sister
learns a lot of things, including
how to. live. Her grandfather
shows her the way to "fabricate a
human life into a whole from a
sequence Of little fragments" but
later when Sister tries to achieve
g. detached picture of her life she
is still left wondering why =. de-
manding to know what all this
leads to. What it was for.
So in the end, Sister is not such
an odd character after all.
That may be her chief charm.
Certainly she makes up for a lot
Of deficiencies in plot construction
and E. P. O'Donnell's style makes
up for all the rest. That's the
reason you can't put Green
Margins" down.
"Green Margins" a character
study by E. P. O'Donnell Pub
lished by Houghton Mifflin.
The Washington times., 1936-11-07
New Horizons
In Art

"New Horizons in American
Art" a group of paintings Sc
lected from the exhibition recently
shown at the Museum of Modern
Art in New York city, will go on
exhibition tomorrow afternoon at
the National Museum.
The exhibition will show a
great number of outstanding
works in all mediums done under
the Works Progress Administra-
ton Federal Art Project, COM
bined with a presentation of
several of the technical processes
characteristic Of each art form.
Murals, sculpture, easel paint
ing, the graphic arts and posters
will be included in the show,
which will continue through No
vember 80.
The Washington times., 1936-11-07
Why Leave 1t
Unsaid?

It remained for Daisy. Princess
of Pless, to call her biography
Better Left Unsaid"-Daisy be-
ing the high-spirited lass, who
upset her Victorian forebears by
refusing to be seen and not
heard"
It was her ambition to come to
America, to bow to the Statue OF
Liberty, to climb a skyscraper. to
visit the Metropolitan Opera
House and to eat waffles. what
ever they may be-"
But in her youth various things,
including the World War, post
poned this visit and now it seems
that the fatigue and excitement
would prove too much for her
failing strength. Hence the next
best thing to meeting her is to
spend a quiet weekend with her
book, which happily has been re-
Gently reduced from SIS to 50.
Daisy demands:
- "Why should anything be left
unsaid? / was always frank by
nature anu CduAUI uhWCASS6AN
the absurd reticences which
many people consider so neceS-
sary. do not know why We
were sent into this world but I
do know we were. meant to
communicate our thoughts and
feelings to each other"
That of course, is what she
does with vigor and humor. Start.
/ ing with her life in her native
England and continuing with her
adventures in the small principal
ity Of Pless, little kingdom in
the Polish coal mining area, the
princess sprinkles her reminiS'
ences with stories about such per
Sonages as King Edward VII, King
George V, the Empress Eugenie
and the late Car and Czarina.
1t makes a lively recital.
Better Left Unsaid," in which
Daisy, Princess of Pless, remen.
bers what went before. Published
by Dutton.
The Washington times., 1936-11-07
TranslatiOns

Doubleday Doran's latest book
news contains this excerpt from
q letter from Vincent Sheean
author Of Personal History and
"'San Felice." He writes:
'T've signed contracts for the
Norwegian, Swedish, German
and Italian translations of San
Felice, but the Italian one sud
denly backed out, I suspect for
censorship reasons, but you can
never pin a thing like that
down in Italy; they always say
they have no censorship.
"They just don't publish the
undesirable books. The Abys-
sinian horrors in the last chap
ter of this book, being done by
Italians, probably did not
please"
Arrangements have been made
by the same company to publish
Tonight At $780," the one-vol
ume book of nine plays by Noe
Coward, on November "a simul
taneously with the opening Of the
plays on Broadway.
The Washington times., 1936-11-07
Current
Art
National Museum

National Museum
New Horizons in American Art"
beginning tomorrow.
The Little Gallery
1904 o st. N. w.
Paintings by Margaret Covey.
Arts Club Of Washington
Paintings by Ruth Perkins Stafford
and etChings by Louis C. Rosenberg,
beginning tomorrow.
Corcoran Gallery Of Art
Special showing of portrait Of the
late DIR. William H. Wilmer, to be
shown indefinitely.
Library Of Congress
Exhibition of drawings by Walter
Appleton Clark.
King-smith Studio House
Exhibition Of photographs by Masha
and Roy Schatt.
The Washington times., 1936-11-07
The Best
Sellers
FICTION


Gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell Macmillan
A Prayer for My Son
Hugh WaIpole Doubleday
Far Forest
Francis Brett Young Reynal
White Oak Harvest
Maz0 de La Roche Little
Honor Bright
Frances Parkinson Keyes Messner
White Banners
Lloyd C. Douglas HoughtOn
NONFICTION
The Nine Old Men
Pearson s. Allen Doubleday
American Doctors Odyssey
Victor Heiser Norton
Live Alone and Like It
Marjorie Hills BObbs
The French Quarter
Herbert Asbury KnOpf
Best Plays, 1935-36
Burns Mantle
Three Worlds
Carl Van Doren Harper
The Washington times., 1936-11-07
Recent Find

Yesterday Viking Press placed
on. the book shelves in America
Roswell's original journal of a
Tour of the Hebrides with DR..
Johnson" The manuscript was
recently discovered in Ireland and
the book was released in England
simultaneously with its appear
ance in this country.
Mr.. Harold Guinzburg, who
made the final arrangements for
the publication of this classic
after a three months visit to Eu-
rope, also brought back to this
country new book on India by
Francis Yeats-Brown, author OF
"The Lives of a Bengal Lancer" "
and the translation of French
novel of life behind the lines in
occupied French territory during
the World War. It is titled In
vasion" and was written by Max
ef1ce Van Der MeerSch.
These two books will be pub
lished this winter.
The Washington times., 1936-11-07
Famous Edifices

From across the seas has come
''~The Parish Churches of Norfolk
and Norwich"
It is an interesting descriptive
volume with illustrations of the
famous world edifices in this part
Of England, done by Claude j.
w. Messent, A. r. I. B. A.. char
tered architect and surveyor.
The Washington times., 1936-11-07
Designed to
Have Wide
Appeal

Fiction, autobiography, trav-
elogues and non-fiction Of
every conceivable character are
promised in this weeks an
nouncements from the coun-
try's publishers.
Getting as far away from
politics as possible, now that
the election figures Of Tues
day have settled all the argu-
ments for the next four years,
the literary purveyors are
ploughing away through their
winter lists promising best
sellers on every hand and
keeping a weather eye open
for interesting possibilities for
the spring of 1887.
First on the list to ballyhoo q
spring offering is Longmans Green
and Company, with a note on
Beams Ends" 1t was written by
Enrol T. Flynn, movie actor who
rose to fame in Captain Blood"
and Is being starred currently in
Charge Of the Light Brigade"
The volume is the story of Mr..
Flynn's travels from Sydney. Aus
tralia, up the inner passage OF
the Great Barrier Reef to New
Guinea.
Mr.. Flynn made the trip with
three companions. 1t took them
seven months to reach their goal.
It should have taken seven weeks.
The recital promises some inter
esting tales.
The Washington times., 1936-11-07
Biography

This week The Macmillan Com
pany published "The Man Who
Built San Francisco" by Julian
Dana, author Of "Sutter Of Cali
fornia."
It is the story of William
Chapman Ralston, banker,
builder and host. Mr.. Dana is
q newspaperman, columnist, edi-
tor, world traveller and contribu.
tor to King Features Syndicate.
The Washington times., 1936-11-07
Green Margins Is Story
That Holds Reader

'Green Margins is the Of the book which
readers unable to put down they've picked it
Green Margins gets its from the vast marshes and
fruitful lands wang the Mississippi but its story centers
around the growth of girl bred the Delta part Dalmaan
part Acadan and all wlful determination.
The Washington times., 1936-11-07
For Bridge Players

For bridge players, Columbia
University Press is presenting
''The Bissell System" The
author, Harold w. Bissell, a
New York lawyer, has followed
the game Of bridge for twenty
years. His volume presents
something new in bidding.
The Washington times., 1936-11-07
Washi17gtonArtistShows
Unusual Skill

To the little Georgetown bookshop around which gravtatO
the aspiring artists Of Washington another local artist
young Margaret Covey of Arlington Va whose varied paint
ings being shown under the sympathetic sponsorship Of
Mrs D G. Fox in the Little Gallery at 1904 st. n. W.
The Washington times., 1936-11-07
Di Medici Family

Week after next, November II
to be exact, Houghton Mifflin
Company will publish Milton
Waldman'S Biography of a
Family"
It is the story of Catherine
de Medici and her children, the
five queens and a king-a story
Of hate and intrigue.
The Washington times., 1936-11-07

beautiful cherubic creatures, with
pink-and whiteness that makes
them doubly appealing.
The Washington times., 1936-04-24
Honor Monroe

Ambassador of France Andre de
Laboulaye and Gov. George c.
Peery. of Virginia, will be prin-
cipal speakers next Tuesday at
the 17Sth birthday celebration of
President James Monroe to be
held at Fredericksburg, Va. Am
bassador deLaboulaye will talk on
the friendship between Lafayette
and Monroe.
The Washington times., 1936-04-24
SOIL CONTROL
PARLEYHELD

COLLEGE PARK, Md, April "a.
Plans for the carrying out Of a
new soil conservation program In
Maryland were considered at the
opening meeting Of the State soil
conservation committee at the
University of Maryland yesterday.
According to DR.. T. B. Symons,
head of the Maryland Extension
Service, the most important mat
ter taken up was the recommends
ton for rates of payment to be
made to farmers in the State in
return for carrying out various
soil conserving and soil-building
practices.
Members Of the committee par
ticipating in the discussions were
DR.. T. B. Symons, College Park;
Harry H. Nuttle, Denton; T. Roy
Brookes,. Bel Air; Samuel G. Lin
ton, Riverside: j. w. Jones, Olney,
and Walter e. Burial. New Mar
ket,
The Washington times., 1936-04-24
GRAVE-DIGGER
HELD IN GIRL
Staying

CHICAGO, April "a UN.S).
A hearing on a writ Of habeas
corpus was awaited today by a
grave digger who last night re-
enacted a gruesome crime and
thereby solved the nine-year-old
mystery of the murder of a Is
year-old girl.
Otto Pech, 80, took police to q
lonely suburban hillside and
showed them where he had hidden
in the tall grass as he waited for
Edna Mueller, is, to pass on her
way home.
He seized her, police said he
confessed, choked her until she
fell, striking her head on the con-
crete sidewalk, attacked her, and
went home, leaving the little girls
inert body Tying in the prairie
grass.
She was found, dead, by a
searching party about 3 o'clock
the morning Of September 10,
1927.
Pech was distantly related to
the Mueller family, it was learned,
and was a frequent caller at their
home. He sent a large wreath
to the funeral.
Pech was arrested as he quilted
his day Of grave digging at Oak
Ridge Cemetery, as the result OF
his boasts.
About a year ago, police re-
vealed, Pech boosted to Mrs.
Bertha Steinhardt, a friend OF
both Pech and the Muellers, about
"what I did to that girl across
the tracks" About five months
ago he boosted Of the crime to her
again, Mrs. Steinhardt said, but
told her if he were ever queS-
toned he would never talk. She
quoted him:
I'D be like Hauptmann."
She told police and the arrest
followed.
The Washington times., 1936-04-24
PASTOR HEADS
ROTARY CLUB

The washington Rotary Club
will be guided for a year by the
only clergyman in the organize
ton.
The Rev. DR.. Charles T. Warner,
rector Of st. Adams Episcopal
Church, was chosen as president
last night, at a meeting in the
Willard Hotel during which the
principal address was delivered by
DIR. Elmer Louis Keyser, OF George
Washington University.
other officers chosen are Rob
ert B. Swope, vice president; M.
K. Wilmerding, E. Carlyn Guy and
Roy w. Champion, members OF the
board Of directors.
DR.. Warner, who has been a mem.
Der of the club since 1914, was
formerly a practicing attorney
here. Later he graduated from the
Virginia Theological Seminary and
entered the ministry.
Speaking on the situation in Eu-
rope, DR.. Keyser told his audience
that prospects for peace and dis
armament are remote.
The Omaha guide., 1936-11-07
REVISE THE YARDSTICK

Writing in the New York Times, Arthur Krock points out
that the soealled IVA powereost "~yardstick" must be revised
# the proposed Tennessee Valley power pool in which both the
iva and private systems would cooperate to serve, IS to be sue
eessful.
Speaking of the existing yardstick, Mr.. Krock said: the
government can arbitrarily charge an unfair proportion Of cost
at dams to navigation and flood control, and the rest to power.
On that basis-impossible 0 private industry-the ~yardstick is
one which the companies cannot match. It is well known in Wash
ington that Chairman Morgan has been greatly dissatisfied with
the IVA estimates of power cost, one of the policies that has
brought the Authority into the courts
Mr.. Krock might also have said that IVA pays almost no
thing in nashville private companies are heavily taxed. IVA
i immune to state rgulahon-whne the private companies are
stringently regulated in every phase of operation. IVA gets var.
ions services free, such as matchmaking, the use of government
trucks, etc, while the private companies must pay for every
thing they use. IVA is subsidized with money raised at low in
terest rates by the government-whie private power companies
must get their money from investors in the open money market
So it goes down the line-the existing IVA "%yardstiek' is COM
pletely inaccurate and entirely unfair.
1t is rumored that the Administration now plans to correct
the yardstick, which will be a fine thing if it does. Only in that
way eanthe IVA make any pretense of being a self-sustaining
enterprise.
The Omaha guide., 1936-11-07
LOOK AT THE RECORD

A metropolitan newspaper recently stated that the railroads
had to be virtually strongarmed into introducing air brakes,
automatic couplers and devices to make their operation safer. In
considering this statement it is interesting to look at the record:
In 1887 Congress empowered the Interstate Commerce Com
mission to order any carrier engaged in interstate traffic to in
stall automatic train stop and control safety devices. The Safe
ty Appliance Act of 1898 made it unlawful after January /,
1898, to operate trains in interstate commerce without automatic
couplers, air brakes and other safety devices. But in 1870, some
II years before the government passed train safety legislation.
the Master Car Builders Association appointed a committee to
study various types Of automatic train brakes. Out Of a thous-
and patented devices, none were found to be satisfactory. I'm
provements were being rapidly made, however, and by 1874,
practical air brakes had been developed which would handle
freight and passenger trains. Since then there has been con-
tinuous improvement.
From 1869 to 1874, a committee of the Master Car Builders
Association pronounced tests Of automatic couplers a failure. By
1885 there were 300 patents for car couplers in existence, but
none of them satisfactory. Continued tests, however, had, by
1887. produced a coupler which was adopted as a standard by
the railroads and, with some modi1ietion, is the type in use
today.
By 1890, three years after the Master Car Builders Asso-
citation had approved a coupler, and three years before the Safe
ty Appliance Act was passed, 25,551 out of the 26,820 passenger
ears, and 75485 out of 91S,491 freight ears were equipped with
automatic couplers. Ten years later, out of 1,450,S3S freight cars
1,367051 had them.
1t is interesting to note that the railroads we're working on
these safety devices many years before legislation appeared on
the subject, and that when a satisfactory device was found it
was added to engines and cars almost as rapidly as it could be
produced,
The Omaha guide., 1936-11-07
ELECTRICITY-HERE AND ABROAD

Henry G. Knaf of the Consolidated Edison Company, has
made a factual study Of the retail use of electricity in Europe
Conditions in seven representative countries were investigated,
including foreign nations where electric development has been
relatively rapid, such as Norway and Switzerland.
Mr.. Knaf's survey shows that in these countries, the cost of
electric power, on a comparative basis of wage earners' pay,
averages three times as high as in our country. That IS, the cost
per klowatt hour in the United States amounts to 81 per cent
of the hourly wage paid a skilled worker. In European eoun-
tries, it amounts to almost 27 per cent.
This unusual comparison casts additional light on the old
debate of whether the L. S. electric utilities have done a good
job. In the seven European countries studied, electric develop
ment has been largely by government, while in this country it
has been primarily by private initiative and enterprise. And our
rates are not only much lower, when living standards and in
comes are taken into account, but service is invariably better
and use of power in the average home is greater.
Some critics of the private electric utilities cite cases of the
European countries where farm identification has apparently
been developed to a higher degree than in the United States.
What they don't cite is the fact that in such countries population
density is great, making the problem of building lines into the
rural areas a much simpler one. Mr.. Knaf observes that when
sections of the United States truly comparable to Europe are
examined-such as Oregon and Westinghouse rural electri-
fieation development compares f~avorably with that in any other
country and is Ear ahead Of most.
In the most advanced European countries the percentage of
a workers pay check that goes to the power company is three
times as great as in this country That striking fact alone is
enough to refute the argument that our private electric utilities
have fallen down ON the job, and should be Europeanized at the
expense of private enterprise and opportunity.
The Omaha guide., 1936-11-07
A SOUND SECURITY MARKET

No one will question the assertion that The best sort Of (se-
curity1 market TO have is the one which will absorb a vast a
mount O. hueine end selling orders without being unduly dis
turhed wrote Ralph Henderson,, financial editor of the New
York World TELEGRAM, recently. 1T is also highly advantageous
if the hid and offering prices are close enough together to ae-
commodate buyers and sellers without financial hardship. IN
fact, the presence Of these two factors made the New York Stock
Exehange what it is today.
THE Importance of such conditions is apparent in more
ways than one A bank for instance, is more likely to make a
collateral loan on a stock which enjoys a good market. The trus
tees Of an estate are apt to place considerable Importance on
STABILITY when selecting securities. And, of course, no investor
likes 10 feel that he is hung up in a stock or bond
Mr.. Henderson, also comments OF. the fact that too much
governmental interference with the stock market can impair
its functions and services. Relations 50 far between the Seeu-
rites and Exchange Commission and Stock Exchange execu-
tives have been cordial ami cooperative, and the Commission has
been cautious in issuing rulings. 1t is to be hoped that this at
ttude continuation the public can be just as seriously dam
aged by imparing a markets dehcately adjusted mechanism
as it can by financial chicneray.
The problem is to abolish dubious financial practices and
at the same time preserve the stock markets responsiveness to
trends, thereby Strengthening it as a true market place for Sc
curities. The fact that both the Commission and the Exchange
are working toward the same end augurs well for permanent
stability and protection for the public.
The Omaha guide., 1936-11-07
FOLLOW DELAWARES EXAMPLE
Delaware is ,

Delaware is a small state-but it has big and worthwhile
ideas.
One of these ideas is its annual motor vehicle inspection
campaign conducted under complete state control. Delaware pi-
oneered this idea.
During two recent weeks $4,000 cars were examined and APP
proved. Thousands of other ears were found defective and or
ders to correct mechanical defects were issued. Defective foot
brakes proved the most serious cause for rejection, with bad
lights second. In addition during last year alone the state re-
moved $50 antiquated vehicles and sent them to a well deserved
rest on the junk pile.
1t is of great interest that, according to Delawares Secre-
tary of State, there has been am almost complete right about
face in the public's attitude toward these inspection campaigns.
At first drivers were antagonistie-now the great bulk Of them
appreciate the value and necessity of inspections and are eager
to cooperate.
Every state should adopt the Delaware plan-and keep it
up year IN and year out. Some of the states have carried on spor-
adic, badly organized inspection campaigns, with inadequate fac
eilnties, and little good has resulted. Other states have conduct
ed campaigns in which drivers could have their ears inspected or
not, as they chose. Such campaigns are a waste Of time-the
drivers with defective machines stay away from the inspection
stations.
The mechanically dangerous ear is directly responsible for
hundreds of deaths and thousands of injuries annually. It's elm
nation is essential if we are to reduce the CHASTITY accident toll