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St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1936-04-20

Committee he said:
Thequestionthat was raised here, or askedof
the Governor, believeSwas as to the feeling
as to the suffrage business in the Islands.
There is a small percentage of people who
are not in favor of universal suffrage
The Chairman: But both bills are iden-
tical on that point, are they not?
Mr.. Golden: Yes, sir, except that one
proposes, the Interior Department bill, a
representative for every 1900, or major
portion Thereof of the population of the dis
tricts, and the Islands bill says 1000.
The Chairman: But the same people
would elect either one?
Mr.. Golden: Yes, sir, the same peo-
,>ple.
The Chairman: That is right. The right of
suffrage is identical very near in both bills
Mr.. Golden: Yes, sir. But the question
was asked the Governor if there was any
feeling against it, and he said if there
was t ere was avery SIN a
perez mt &c, and that is the
natural one of the yer, small percentage of
the elements who are not in favor of
change. | have said | will take chance
We have been taking chances before. and
there is no reason why we should not do
likewise as to that. But there is no general
feeling against that.
The Chairman Do you Individually
think it would be good thing to extend
the right of suffrage completely as these
bills do?
Mr.. Golden: [ think so. At least we
have got to come to it some day, and we
might as we'll start now | think
Note Mr. Goldsn's answer when asked
to give his individual opinion on complete
suffrage.
/, What is unfair, as every rational person
will admit the attack made on the dele
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1936-04-20
EDITORIAL.

In our editorial of Saturday we showed
thattthe sectionigoverning the franchise in
the islands proposed organic act was taken
FROM a similar draft framed in the Depart
ment of the Interior.
ksWe explained about the conference with
the Governor in his Office In st. Thomas
and we stated that WHEN the islands dele
gates were enroute to Washington the
Colonial Council received two copies of a
aewsdraft of organic act lfrom the Depart
ment of Interior.
In this new act the franchise prGvision
was changed.
Hear what Mr.. Arnold M. Golaen said
when asked about this new bill at the
Senate Committee hearings:
The Chairman: Have you read the draft
of the Interior Department bill az well as
your own?
Mr.. Golden: Not entirely, sir, because
the Interior Department bill only came to
my attention this morning.
Mr. Golden in his testimony complained
that the Department of Interior bill was
taking away from the people the power
they have under the Colonial Law.
This was admitted by the Governor who
had previously made his statement. He
was asked by Senator King:
"The Islands bill, however, is little
more autonomous, is it not?
Governor Cramer: Yes, sir.
Senator King: And the Interior bill con
fers greater authority and power upon
the Interior Department?
Governor Clamer: l would say that is
true.
When the Governor admits that it is
true we need not say word more on this
point.
Let us take up Mr.. Goldens position on
the suffrage question.
In making his statement to the Senate
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1936-04-20
The Value
Of Satisfaction

Satisfaction is the barometer of business.
It's presence inspires public confidence. It's
absence predic,s loss of trade. To give
satisfaction means to sell goods that are
high in quality, serviceable in wear, up-to-
the moment in style, at best value prices;
and to combine with these quick, efficient,
and obliging store service.
If YOU want to be fully satisfied follow
the many satisfied customers to
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Christiansted Theatre
Tomorrow Night BIS
"Storm At Daybreak'

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Evening star., 1936-10-24
HUWLS .
ner'S sons.

the nature of his manifold perfidies.
And SO he proceeds. And the reader
who can end his book without being
dangerously near in love with the cor
rupt old diplomat has no feeling
whatsoever for good writing, and de-
serves to be put on a diet of Soviet
propaganda from this time forward.
1t Is a book which reflects about
equally its subject and its author.
Mr.. Brinton is epigramatic in style
and thought. Talleyrand is admira-
BILE material for such mind. Grant,
ing that the prince was bribe-taker,
a server of half dozen different
political schools and a lover of women,
he makes the point-and 1t Is the
point of his entire book-that the
old diplomats life was an almost
perfect expression Of style in the
classic eighteenth century manner.
As such he examines it.
His book Is really series Of essays,
Talleyrand as priest, as revolutionist,
as Bonapartist, as legitimist, as Or
leanist. A first chapter. entitled
"PluS ca change" and q balancing
later one, called plus c'est lie meme
chose"-give us the key to the method.
It is that the ole prince was so thor
oughly himself, so complete in his
own tough integrity, that he was able
to serve all masters without being
lessened in any particular, no mean
accomplishment certainly.
The pleasure in the work is in the
pithy observations on the nature of
political pheomena which stud its
pages. MIR. Brinton is discursive and
permits himself to enter his own
Evening star., 1936-10-24
Brief Reviews of Books on Various Topics

daughter Of an army officer stationed
on st. Helena.
PUDDLE THE REAL STORY OF A
BABY HIPPO. BY Ruth Waring
and Helen Wells. New York:
Rand McNally Co.
Amusing. illustrated with photo
graphs, some Of them very good.
WIGwAM AND WARpATH. BY Isa-
bel Juergens. Illustrated by JUS
ton Lichtie. New York: Grosset
B. Dunlap.
Somewhat romantic stories Of the
aborigines.
HOW TO MAKE MARIONETTES.
New York: Grossett q Dunlap.
Pamphlet on the subject, illustrated
with pictures Of famous dolls.
MOTHER GOOSE. Rhymes collect
ed by William Rose Benet. Illus
trations by Roger Duvoisin. New
York: The Heritage Press.
"A fine, new, large collection. oayiy
illustrated -,
Evening star., 1936-10-24
SUBJECT TREATED GRAVELY
Former u Senator From Maryland Avoids Romantic Approach
to Subject Too Often Romancized-Anger and Prejudice
Find Expression in Freeman Testament-Other Reviews.

to emulate Mr.. Sheean's admirable
financial success--but he writes too
badly, too crudely, too ingeniously. His
book Is sad, II viewed as an expression
of q discontented man. It is sadder
when viewed as q commentary on the
administrations Of the late 20s. But,
simply as reading, it is funnier than
anything else. It Is that because it
is, with q completeness the Like of
which can hardly be imagined, devoid
Of humor. Its performance is like that
Of ham actor throwing his very soul
into q tragic part. Something more
than sincerity, 1t appears, is needed.
MOSCOW SKIES. BY Maurice Hin
dus. New York: Random House.
THIS is primer on the excellence
Of life in Russia today, thinly dis
guised as novel. It has all the
spirit of impartial inquiry and INTEL
1ectual detachment which character
lied Uncle Toms Cabin. 1t will not,
however, like that work, make the
best-selling lists. See the review Of
American Testament
THE LIVES OF TALLEYRAND. BY
Crane Brinton. New York: w. w.
Norton Co.
AS FAR as the reviewer is con-
= cerned, this is the biography OF
the year. So entertaining life his
tory has not come to hand in long,
long time.
Yet Mr.. Brinton really does not tell
q great deal about Talleyrand. He
begins by observing that legend has
already marked him out as q wicked
fellow and, unlike other biographers
who open their works with similar
remarks, he seems quite content with
letting the verdict stand. He applies
no whitewash; neither does he adhere
to the ruthless school, which likes
to make a bad job worse. He hurls
no bricks. Let us agree, he says
amiably, that Talleyrand was wicked.
Let us then study, dispassionately and
with q sincere desire for learning,
Evening star., 1936-10-24

alists) and Fascists under the lead
ership Of the army. The one
thing that seems certain now is that,
whether a republic or monarchy,
Spain will be an authoritarian and
totalitarian state under a dictator.
General Franco himself has gone
on record as saying that the insur-
gent movement was not an attempt
by Royalists to restore the fallen
dynasty, still less coup d'etat by a
clique of army officers. The army, he
said, only took the leadership of a
popular movement which was gladly
followed by the Spanish people, anx-
ious to hberate their country from
Marxism."
THE article stresses the fact that
leaders of the rebellion pledge
themselves to retain the republican
institutions Of the country, feeling,
as they do. that only a republic is
possible.
However, the Carlists are q leading
party among the insurgents, and they
favor restoratio of the Bourbons
QUAINT phrase) under Don Juan,
second son of former King Alfonso.
An interesting light is thrown on
the Falanges Espanols, or the Fas-
cist Youth party, corresponding to
Hitler's and Mussolini's shock troops.
Gn Spain these embattled young
mems shirts are blue.) Mr.. Elliott
says of them: "One feels that under
different circumstances they might
easily be ardent Communists" and
implies that they are on the whole
an opportunistic group.
The middle classes and the army,
he says, are the real strength OF the
revolt, the former supplying the
money and the latter the men. They
are united in hatred Of communism
which is almost frenzy.
The other article which the At
lantic gives US on Spain is called "A
Diary Of Revolution" Its author is
Megan Laird, an American woman
married to an Italian. She was liv-
ing with her husband and child in
Barcelona during the days of the
revolt and tells without partisanship
of the horrible brutalities committed
in the course Of the street fighting
there.
CTnL another article, this time
- by a Spaniard. appears in At
lantica-not the Atlantic-and offers
this explanation Of the sad trouble:
"Spain is considered a country of
Western Europe, yet it seems rather
to bury itself in the opaque atmos-
phere Of the Far East. The East is
in the air and in the souls of the
Spaniards: it envelopes the seated
Olympians of the cafes and the clubs:
1t winds itself about their slow, heavy
resolutions.
"The population and the civiliza-
ton of Spain comes from the East:
the East has intoxicated Spain for
generation after generation. The
Spanish revolution resolves itself,
thus, into an effort to throw off the
strait-jacket of the East and &C.
Evening star., 1936-10-24

ducing musical sound that delicately
mocks at meaning. The present col
lection Of his verses contains much
work that has had magazine publica-
tion. The central idea of the volume,
in his own words, Is that at attempts
to illustrate the role of Imagination
in life, and more particularly in life
at present. The more realistic life
may be-" he continues, "the more 1t
needs the stimulus of the imagina-
ton" All of which tells one nothing
about his poetry, and only indicates
that q man who can write verse of
exquisite evasiveness may also explain
himself like a pedagogue. Ideas of
Order" is a book of thought-pictures,
sometimes pointed, sometimes piff1ing,
but always done with finish. In the
uncertain sphere Of modern poetry,
some of this writer's work seems likely
to endure.
KICKED IN AND KICKED OUT
OF THE PRESIDENTS LITTLE
CABINET. BY Ewing Young Mitch
ell. Washington: The Andrew
jackson Press.
THE author Of this book Is the for
mer Assistant Secretary of Com
merce, who was dismissed from Office
after refusing to submit his resigna-
ton. He gives here Q resume of the
points which led to his dismissal, ex-
hibiting documents Of record as SUBJ
sanitation of his charges.
The greater part Of the work Is oc-
cupied with describing the state of
affairs in> the Shipping Board, where
Mr.. Mitchell charges favoritism in
Evening star., 1936-10-24

An Italian scholars account of his
penetration into Thibet. Highly in
teresting.
NEW FAITH FOR OLD. BY shailer
Mathews. New York: The Mac
milan Co.
the autobiography Of the dean
emeritus of the Divinity School Of
the University of Chicago. with his
reflections on the changing manners
of religions.
HOW TO RUN A WAR. BY Bruce
Winston Knight. New York: Al
fred A. Knopf.
A set of directions addressed to the
upper classes as to the best way to
get the country into q nice, profitable
war. BY the professor of economics
at Dartmouth.
THE THEORY OF THE LAND CUES
TION. By George Raymond Geiger.
New. York: The Macmillan Co.
A study of land in its economic,
social and political significance. BY
the author Of "The Philosophy OF
Henry George"
SCHOOL DAYS WITH KIPLNG. By
q. 9. 4e1ssford. New York: q,
Evening star., 1936-10-24

Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Boone.
Buffalo Bill, Davy Crockett, Sam
Clemens and Abe Lincoln, among 9TH
ers. They were a fine crew, and their
doings enraged the traders. But fin
ally the traders increased SO in num-
bers that there was no place in Amer
lea for a Catlum. They left the land
and went into the fabulous country
Of the Great Cave. covering the en-
trance behind them. And then the
traders were in peace.
Mr.. McHugh tells his story in Ra-
belaisian tradition. Sometimes he
strikes real heights of lyric exaggera-
ton, as in the story of Grammar
Catlum's wine well which she had
brought with her from Sicily, where
1t had been in her family for CEN
turies. reaching down under Mt. Etna
where it tapped the vineyards of a
buried city. When she emigrated to
America she could not bear to part
with it, and so she brought 1t along.
There is also the ship built by Eric
the Red Catlum which was the first
ship to have wish-bone spirit.
Sometimes Mr.. McHugh does not
come of so happily with his hyper
boles, and one feels at intervals
throughout his book q sense Of effort,
and Q realization of the fact that the
thing he Is writing about Is indeed
gone-gone farther than the coun-
try of the Great Cave, gone probably
sfrom the earth forever, so that traders
may be at peace. But the book Is
an effort worth the making. James
Stevens, publishing his Paul Bunyan
stories in book form some years ago,
Evening star., 1936-10-24

not without honor save in his own
country. Europeans might find his
book of profound significance. Il
might help them interpret America.
YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE TT. By
Arthur Goodrich. New York: D.
Appleton-Centruy Co.
Mr.. ARTHUR GOODRICH, who
writes best-selling novels and
prize-winning plays with equal facil-
ity. here takes shot at the popular
fiction plan of looking into the politi-
cal future, and gives his public
yarn about how a plain American
became President. From farming and
editing a weekly newspaper, Daniel
Lincoln Bates rises to the White
House, all in the scope Of 230 pages,
for the readers edification and, one
suspects, for the considerable en-.
hancement of MIR. Goodrich's royal.
ties. 1t Is a good pot boiler, II you
like home cooking. rural wisdom in
great undiluted masses and simple,
honest manliness triumphing over
the forces of corruption And a nice
little love story thrown In.
Evening star., 1936-10-24

contracts to the great loss of the Gov
ernment. He goes on to describe in
detail the sale of the fleet of IL YES
sells, of which the Leviathan was one,
to International Mercantile Marine
interests, in which deal he charges
maladministration.
Other sections of his book deal with
the Steamboat Inspection Service and
the Air Commerce Bureau. In Mr..
Mitchell's opinion, negligent inspec-
ton led to the Moro Castle disaster.
The Air Commerce Bureau he holds
responsible for the accident in which
Senator Cutting and eight other in
dividuals were killed, as well as for
the crash of the Sun Racer at Union
town, Pa.
TRADITION. BY George Hummel.
New York: Coward McCann, Inc.
THE author of this book is one of
those who write about America,
treating it with the pleased serious
ness of a surgeon approaching par
ticularly malignant stomach ulcer.
America shall not escape, these au-
thors seem to say. We shall operate
and get right to the heart. Then,
of course, we will know all about
America, even though it is quite q
piece of territory.
Such books cause the reviewer to
emit a slight sigh. No more. There
are too many of them to get worked
up over one more.
Mr.. Hummel has, oddly enough,
done a pretty fair story here. He
would have done better If he had
not announced himself as interpreting
the continent and race in his opening
pages, and had confined himself to
the story, which eventually engulfs
him anyhow. 1t starts out to be the
story of one Of those typical" viii
lagos, for there are none in literary
America which aren't typical" but
before long the love affair of the
pretty girl and the local athlete abb
serbs him, and he does not reassume
his prophets robes until almost the
final chapter. In the meantime his
reader will not have done too badly.
The story of the pretty girl and her
athlete husband, who was first war
ace and then a bootlegger. is fairly
good reading.
One supposes that Mr.. Hummel will
despise such praise. A prophet is
Evening star., 1936-10-24

IN THE CURRENT MAGAZINES
Glance Behind the Troubles in Spain and Where They Nj
Lead Given by Atlantic Authors-Harpers Contributor
Tells How Sweden Has Made Democracy Success.

cept the faith and belief of the
West"
The author Is Nicola Pascazio. He
seems a trifle mystic, but no doubt
he knows.
WITH all this depressing informa.
ton on hand from the South
OF Europe, 1t is cheering to pick up
the November Harper's and read
about another European land which
seems to have formula for keeping
out Of trouble. That is Sweden.
Everything written these days about
the land of Smorgasbord seems to in
dicate that its inhabitants are the
smartest people in the world. They
simply do not get into messes.
Considering them under the well-
chosen title of "The Incredible
Swedes," Hubert Herring says Of
them in the Aforementioned piece:
"The real excitement offered by
Sweden is the excitement Of a land
where democracy works"
And he adds: With the present
high death rate of democracies, Sweden
may soon become a museum set pic
turing the blessed democratic state
toward which so many men looked
with fond longing, and upon which
they were not able to lay hold"
He says that the secret of this
unparalleled democracy in the North
lies in organization. Not organiza.
tion on class lines, but on demo-
cratic lines, deliberately chosen for
the accomplishment of democratic
objectives. A little socialism, he says,
is believed necessary in Sweden to
give capitalism chance to survive.
And a little capitalism is deemed me-
cessary to keep socialism in order. A
balanced diet! Swedish hygieneI
Maybe what this country needs is,
after all a few more Swedes.
GETTING around to our own prob
lens, We have Mr.. Walter Lipp-
mann continuing in the Atlantic his
sorrowful consideration Of the way
We drift. Mr.. Lippmann seems to
make a pretty good case, too. He
is not advocating anything. He is
just trying to see where We stand.
Collectivism occupies his mind now.
1t is the great present trend. Where
will it take us?
As he sees it, it will take US back
ward. Past generations-those i'm
mediately past-have, he says, united
to throw of absolutiSm. They have
believed in limiting the power Of
governments, because they found that
governments are. after all, men, and
men are not fit to hold unlimited
authority. The collectiviSts today.
under a fanatical enthusiasm for
science. believe, however. that a
''providential state" can be created
which will be free from mortal weak.
nesses. Mr.. Lippmann does not agree
with them. He believes that whether
men manipulate power in the name of
the divine right Of kings, or in the
name of scientific benefits to society,
they will still be men. And some-
how one has to admit that 1t sounds
reasonable.
Evening star., 1936-10-24
Non-Fiction.

Non-Fiction.
VITAL PEACE. BY Henry Wickham
Steed. New York: The Macmil-
Ian Co.
A general bringing up to date Of
peace arguments and q setting forth
OF new set of minimum require
ments for q warless world. Highly
interesting.
THE MARCH OF SCIENCE. BY H.
Gordon Garbedian. New York:
Covici Friede.
A popular work ION the mechanics
Of the universe" Readable.
CAN CHINA SURVIVE? BY Hallett
Abend and Anthony J. Billingham.
New York: Ives washburn.
Two Of the New York Times Far
Eastern correspondents collaborate on
a work designed to analyze the forces
that are now trying to dismember
China. They predict that q show
down must take place soon.
sHRINEs OF A THOUSAND BUD
DHAs. BY Giuseppe Tucci and
Capt. e. Ghersi. New York: Rob-
,ert NJ. McBridesa
Evening star., 1936-10-24

Of opposites. perhaps: the very wise
have only the somewhat foolish to
love-" And that Talleyrand kept his
essence, which for lack of q better
word, we may call soul, Mr.. Brinton
attributes to the possession of a
vast uncondemning understanding of
human foolishness and a rather
finicking attachment to the rules by
which the game is played.
Such material in skilled hands OBJ
viously could not make q bad book
Mr.. Brinton's hands are skilled, rather
wickedly so.
CALEB CATLUMS AMERICA. BY
Vincent McHugh. Harrisburg:
Stackpole Sons.
THIS book can best be described as
= an elegy. 1t is an elegy for the
lost American spirit.
Caleb Catlum here tells the story
of his life. His Pop and Nom were
giants, his brothers and sisters we're
either seals or geese. It wasn't until
pigs flew through the heavens on
wings that Pop and Nom succeeded
in having human child. Then Caleb
was born, and his Pop trained the
winged pigs as carrier pigeons to take
invitations to the christening to the
Catlum's throughout America. Caleb
was then christened into the Baptist,
Congregational, Atheist, Episcopal,
Roman Catholic, Orthodox Jewish,
Lutheran, Seventh-day Adventist, Six
Principle Baptist, Fanny Wrightite,
Dunkard, Quaker, Winebrenian, Men,
nonite, Moravian, Owenite, New Je-
rusalem, Shaker, Millerist, Cambellite,
Evening star., 1936-10-24

P, Putnam's Sons.
The M'Turk Of the famous trium-
virate tells his "reminiscences Of the
Beetle. indispensable for the unrea-
soning ones who keep their affection
for the most successful poet.
Fiction.
VALIANT DOGS. Compiled by Fran
ces E. Clarke. New York: The
Macmillan Co.
Stories about great dogs in litera.
ture. A first-rate collection.
THE SUBSTITUTE GUEST. BY
Grave Livingston Hill. Philadel-
phia: J. B. Lippincott Co.
The usual.
ALL THEIR CHILDREN WERE
ACROBATS. BY Harry Hamilton
Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill Co.
Story Of q family Of circus per-
formers. Lively.
Juveniles.
BETsYs NAPOLEON. BY jeanette
Eaton. New York: william Nor.
row q Co.
Faneifu cary Of Napoleon and the
Evening star., 1936-10-24
BY NJ. C.. r.

THE November Atlantic Monthly
gives considerable space to
consideration Of the current
Il Spanish war. In fact, its first
two articles, grouped together under
the heading Spain in Agony" are
given over to reflections and reports
on the dificulties now existent in the
peninsula. Readers will find, per-
haps, more definite information IN
the second of these two pieces than
they have in many accounts to date.
The coherent stage, it would seem,
has now been reached, and articles
begin to have perspective and depth
hitherto necessarily lacking.
The Atlantic piece Is called with
the Rebels" Its author Is John FL
lott, a correspondent who intended
to cover the revolution from the
government lines but was forced by
accident into the rebel camp. Max
ing the best Of it, he proceeded to re-
port insurgent activities, see insurgent
leaders, and now he evaluates the in
surgent cause. It is a clear statement
that he makes and one that covers
considerable ground in few pages.
Taking up the hitherto little-dis-
cussed question Of what will happen
after peace, he says: 1T is not yet
certain what the new regime Of the
country will he in the event Of
rebel victory. For the present the
uprising represents a political alli-
ance struck between the Carlists (Roy-