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Fire Threat Grows
THE drought, as might be exp

THE drought, as might be expected,
has brought about a dangerous
situation in the forests Of the West.
Fires start easily enough in the for.
ests, more often through human care
lessness than not. This year. the
menace of great CONGREGATIONS Is
worse than usual with several bad
fires already having occurred.
With the hunting season not far
OF and with no signs Of let up In the
drought, the need for precautions Is
much greater than ordinary.
In Montana and North Idaho, the
weather record for So years was re-
ported broken by three consecutive
days of extreme temperatures and low
humidity. One large fire was reported
on the Lewis and Clark National For.
est, which, at the time Of the report,
I covered $500 acres. AL available fire.
fighting forces were at work controll-
ing the blaze, Forest Service ofiicials
said. A large share Of the fighting
was being carried on by several hum
dred Civilian Conservation Corps
youths from the camps on the ma
tional forests. The fire was started
by lightning.
In the Lake States. with the excep-
ton of the Nicolet National Forest in
Eastern Wisconsin and the Shawnee
and Hoosier Forests in Southern Illi-
nois, the forest-fire hazard is reported
as intense. The continued extreme
drought and hot winds throughout
Northern Minnesota made 1t neces-
sary for the Forest Service to issue
an order prohibiting camp fires within
the Chippewa and Superior National
Forests except under permit, and pro-
hibited smoking except at improved,
camp grounds and places Of habita-
ton. Violations Of such orders on
Federal lands are punishable by fins
or Imprisonment or both, under Fed.
eral law.
Similar orders were dispatched by
regional headquarters In Ogden. Utah,
regulating smoking and campfire
building on the Boise. Salmon, Challis,
Payette, Sawtooth, Idaho and Weiser.
National Forests in Idaho. 81.
The total number of fires this year
up to July 20. in all Of the national
forests, was 10,126. This represents
an increase Of more than 5000 over
the average up to the same date dur
ing the period ls3l-ls35. Control
measures have been made increasingly
effective by means of the thousands
Of miles of truck trails, numerous adj
ditional forest fire lookout houses and
towers, emergency airplane landing
fields and miles Of telephone lines
constructed during the past three
years by the. Civilian Conservation,
Corps. This has been one reason why.
in spite Of the far greater number Of =
fires reported. only 90 have been
extra period fires" fires which are
still burning after 10 am. Of the day,
following their discovery. -
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The Public Library

Deal and the more prominent Of its
sponsors, and yet, for all its caustic
ridicule. it presents an objective pic
ture, tonic in its tough-mindedness. u
w. M. Houghton.
NINE HONEST MEN, by David Law
renee. 1885. KUA.L43.
1.-The most illuminating brief expo
sition Of the purpose. the methods
and the intricacies Of the recent de-
cisions Of the Supreme Court that ]
have encountered" Fanny Butcher.
STUMBLING INTO SOCIALISM,
and the Future Of Our Political
Parties, by David Lawrence. 1895
JU83L43s.
These outbursts have as their pur-
pose the undermining Of confidence
in the New Deal and the winning OF
adherents to the old faith with new
name" John Chamberlain.
LIBERALISM FIGHTS ON. by o. L.
Mills. 1896. Hess M62sL.
"a study Of contemporary condi-
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New Deal, mentioning, as an argument,
that he Is father Of nine children.
BELIEVE TT NOT. BY Stuart o.
Landry. New Orleans: Pelican Pub
fishing Co.
Business man speaks in favor of in
dividual liberty, as opposed to the
New Deal. Number of children not
given.)
6POILsI BY Herbert 8. Hollander.
Washington: william Ullman.
A survey Of the comic corruptness
Of patronage. Non.partisan.
YEARBOOK OF AGRICULTURE.
1885. Washington: Department of
Agriculture.
A new style OF Departmental year.
book, giving not 'brief summaries Of
miscellaneous new Developments in
agriculture" Is has been the past
practice, according to the foreword,
but devoted to exploring . single
subject--the creative development Of
new forms Of life through plant and
animal breeding"
FEDERAL COMMISSIONERS. BY e.
Psndlston HGTtns. oamhrides:
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merely difficult Of administration, but
devoid Of any meaning whatever; that
it is IS complete q deiusion as per-
petual motion. >"
MR.. LIPPMANN then goes on to say
Az that this doctrine was taught by
the liberals of the eighteenth century.
only to undergo perversion in later
years until liberalism was. he says,
raised up as q barrier against every
generous instinct of mankind.
go" he goes on. I'm the second
part of this book - seek to find
out why the development of the liberal
doctrine was arrested and absorbed"
Such q work ought to be of immense
value in these times. For it is the
fact that In plain-thinking minds
there is at present q clear question as
to who deserves the title of liberal
among all our politicians and their
interpreters. Every one claims it. In our
own country the administration tells
US. through its famously vast force Of
publicity men and personal relations
counsels. that liberalism demands its
program. Enemies Of the adminiSxa-
ton, for their part, point to the grow
ing restrictions which hedge business
and the individual. and, in the name
Of liberalism, ask If security is . goal
worth the price We are being asked
to pay, and II, payment being made.
We are secure after all. II it were
an ordinary time, such questions and
counter-questions could be disregarded
as campaign mouthings. But no one
believes that this time Is ordinary.
To quote Mr.. Lippmann further:
"The programs Of reform are every
where at odds with the liberal tradi-
ton. Men are asked to chose be-
tween security and liberty. To I'M
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tions in America. insluding consid-
Grafton of the New Deal"
NEW DEAL AND FOREIGN TRADE,
by A. Z. Taylor. 1885. Hess .T2l6.
"A significant criticism Of secre-
tary Wallace's program for agricui-
tural and trade recovery, by the direc-
tor Of the Food Research Institute. !"
w. l.. LANCER.
PATH TO PROSPERITY, by g. M.
Tucker. 1896.
1.-THE greatest service OF the book
is to point accurately and poignantly
to the fallacies and impossibilities OF
the New Deal" r. B. Westerfeld.
HELL BENT FOR ELECTION, by j.
P. warburg. 1885. FS3525.Wlss.
"Mr. Warburg, who, until the Au-
tumn of 1898, was one of President
Roosevelt's economic advisers, tells in
this small book why he Is now opposed
to the President and his policies"
STILL HELL BENT carries his criti-
cism to the present.
ROOSEVELT REVEALED, by j. G.
Young. 1896. F83525.YSS.
A running commentary on the New
Deal that Is, for the most part,
severely critical.
Human Aspects.
AMERICA FACES THE BARRI-
CADES, by J. L. spivak. 1885.
HC83.Sp48.
"No one can interview all America,
but one can interview individuals to
get q line on what thousapds are
thinking. This Mr. Spivak did, and
the result is q telling Indictment Of
the social forces of America" j. A.
Fitch.
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Harvard University Press.

&@AA v0AA O1AVSAohby @A~
A study Of the ideal qualifications
for Federal appointees. Perfectly hu.
morless and apparently intended to be
taken seriously. Suggested collateral
reading is "spoilsi", mentioned above.
FIRES UNDERGROUND. BY Heinz
Liepmann. Philadelphia: J. B. LIP
pincott Co.
A German journalist writes OF the
manner In which Socialist and COM
munist organizs keep alive ana
active under Naziism In Germany.
PACIFIC ADVENTURE. BY Willard
Price. New York: Reynal and
Hitchcock.
Getting around among the South
Sea Islands, with . wary eye on the
empire building ideas Of Japan. with
photographs Of native. huts and ca
noes. grass skirts. palm trees and the
like.
TYROLEAN JUNE. BY Nina Murdoch.
New York: Funk and Wagnails
Co.
Peasants apd sastass 4 ~ Tyres.
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contemporary histories" he continues,
it was held by the trainers of the
Constitution of the United States,
though they thought of it as an
Aristocratic Republic"
1t has now given way. he says, to
a Low Democracy. which is ''its an
tithesis."
What" asks Mr.. Cram, sis this
Higher Democracy of which the cur
rent and dissolving type is little more
than a caricature?
Democracy is that form Of social
organization which endeavors to as
sure to mankind Life, Liberty and the
Pursuit of Happiness.
This sounds automatic, indeed
platitudinous, but it is worth repeat
ing here simply because it has so
completely been forgotten that all
democratic or pseudo democratic
communities have either completely
lost, or are by way Of losing, power
on the pNrt of the individual so to
live his life as to make possible the
achievement of these ends. In this
respect the United States stands on a
level with Italy, Germany, Mexico
and the U. S. S. r. ."
And he offers this warning: Every
soon it will be necessary to decide
whether we shall restore truly
democratic state Of the original sort,
or 20 on 0here is no other alterna-
tive) to the cooperative, totaiitarian
state or to that state of socialism
which Is the negation Of all democ-
racy, whether original or derivative. /"
TIMELY, thought = provoking arti-
cles, both Of these. and not the
end Of the subject, either. For the
Mercury sees At to editorialize on it
under the heading. Liberals: Model
1886"
Commenting caustically on the rush
to the liberal" banners, and the ap-
pearance of the banner over practi-
cally every political stronghold, the
editorial in question observes, 90"
1t must be doubted that this striking
gain In personnel Is In any way help
full to the progress Of true liberal
ideas. - Everybody who wants to
live on the government is ipso facto
. liberal So likewise is every sweat
shop proprietor who wishes to run his
business in defiance Of decent prac-
tice. This situation simply does not
make sense.
+" Accordingly. we propose that
the present liberal armies be disband-
ed and the fighting force reorganized
on the basis of the following quail
fications for membership:
mo citizen may officially designate
himself Q liberal who Is
1. A candidate for any type of finan-
cial aid from his government.
2. An advocate Of increased govern
mental regulation over any phase Of
private conduct or economic activity.
.. A proponent Of the relaxation Of
governmental regulative authority In
any form which does not equally apply
10 his own competitor"
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BY NJ. C.. X.

Official considerations con-
u tinue to dominate the serious
monthlies, as is demonstrated
L by their current issues, and
it Il perhaps significant that, al
though it is campaign year and time
is moving on in the campaign, our
writer's are thinking in terms Of poll
teal PHILOSOPHERS rather than election
chances. A certain bias, naturally, is
evident in most Of the leading arti-
Giles; the reader will at least be able
to say, ON finishing his piece. whether
the author favors present tendencies
or not. But the preoccupation OF the
writing men and women Is not with
the outcome Of the November ordeal.
It is with the mess in which We find
ourselves in the end, rather than the
party view, and, they ask, what can
we do2 And why did we arrive here?
And what is the pattern Of our prog
ress, II progress it can be called?
Very plainly it Is shown that our
writer's believe that these questions
are the pressing ones. and that, no
matter who goes to the citadel after
the balloting, answers will still have
to be sought.
The most prominent seeker to at
tack the mystery of our condition in
a magazine piece is Walter Lippmann,
who, in the September Atlantic
Monthly publishes the introduction to
a series of v,aners which are soon to
run in the same periodical. The
name Of the present article is Design
for a Book" The book is one which
Mr.. Lippmann has long planned to
do on political progress. 1t Is to be
in two parts and he describes it thus:
THE first is an analytical examine
ton Of the practice Of the movement.
which began In the second half OF
the nineteenth century. 1t seeks t.
organize a directed social order.
II have sought to examine this vision
Of the future not only in its Pascist
and its Communist embodiment, but
also in the gradual collectivism Of
democratic states, trying to determine
whether q society can be planned ano
directed for the enjoyment Of abund-
ance in q state Of peace. The question
was not whether this would be desir-
able, but whether it was possible. . .
I have come finally to see that such
q social order Is not even theoretically
conceivable; that the vision when an
alyzed carefully turns out to be net
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Non.Ficti0n.
Non-Fiction.
YEW TECHNIQUES IN SOCIAL
SCIENCE TEACHING. BY
u Vernon B. Hampton. Staple

Press.
Text book for teachers by the drec-
tor Of the william Judson Hampton
Memorial Teachers Institute of Staten
Island.
LABOR UNIONS AND THE PUBLIC.
BY Walter Chambers. New York:
Coward McCann.
Survey Of unions in which atten-
ton u given to the rAcketeering prac.
tees of labor leaders, Is well q to
the sins Of capital.
WASTE. BY David Cushman Coyle.
Indianapolis: Bobhs-M Merrill Co.
A pointing with alarm to the de-
probation Of national resources, and
and argument as to why the. course
should be checked.
I'M FOR ROOSEVELT. By Joseph p.
Kennedy. New York: Reyual and
Hitchcock.
Business man Dea&y cut ~ me
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THE NEW DEAL.

LIE N = w OGAAs
TINE New Deal Will be on trial In
the November elections. Bit
terly criticized on one hand,
u 1t becomes the salvation Of
the country on the other. The Public
Library presents selected list Of
books on the country's most impor-
tant question. This list supplements
the three lists on the New Deal pub
lished In these columns In December,
1884.
Problems # the New Deal.
NATIONAL EC oNOMIC SECURITY.
A. B. Adams. 1886. HC83.Adl2n.
"A valuable detailed and factual re-
view of the relief and reform policies
of the Hoover and Roosevelt admins
trations." H. N. F.
INTERPRETATIONS, 1933-1935, WAL
ter Lppmann. 1886. JU83 .L667a2
Most of the interpretations deal
with various aspects of the depression.
the Roosevelt program and In
ternational affairs"
NATIONAL A ISOLATION OF
HOUSING OFFICIALS. Housing
Oficials' Yearbook. 1886. HFz.-
SN214.
A discussion Of the accomplishments
in housing under the New Deal.
BETTER ECONOMIC ORDER, by J..
A. Ryan. 1885. HC83 R95.
1.-THE volume contains q very read
able outline Of the conflicting views
held by economists on the causes Of
industrial depression and the means
of bringing about Q recovery" Louis
Rich.
For the New Deal.
HOLD FAST THE MIDDLE WAY:
an Outline Of Economic Challenges
and Alternatives, by John Dickin-
son. 1885. HC83 .D566.
An excellent statement by the As
sistant Attorney General as to why
the middle-of -the-road policy is saner,
though not Is easily popularized.
BACK TO WORK; the Story Of
P. w. A., by H. L. Ickes. 1885.
HE83 Ic3.
"A competent, hopeful account of
what the P. w. A. set out to do and
what it has accomplished" Lewis
Gannett.
THE RAINBOW, by D. r. Richberg.
1896. HESS R39
1.-The author, one of the chief adj
vocates of the N. r. A., explains some
Of the reasons why 1t did not func-
ton for all time and some of his
hopes for the future"
BATTLE FOR DEMOCRACY, by r.
q. Tugwell. 1885. HOGS. T814b.
"An attractive presentation not only
Of the aspirations, but of the econom-
les of the New Deal" H. r. Mussey.
WHOSE CONSTITUTION? An in
quiry into the general welfare. by
H. r. Wallace. 1886. HC83.Wl55w.
1.-THE basic philosophy of the New
Deal, as refined and rationalized
against the background of constitu-
tional history" Walter Mills.
Against the New Deal.
LIBERAL TRADITION, by L. w.
Douglas. 1885. HC83.D748.
Criticisms of several of the eco
nomic policies Of the Roosevelt ad-
ministrstion, which, in the authors
opinion. are tending toward the for
nation Of q collective state"
PLATFORM FOR AMERICA, by R.
z. Flanders. 1896.
mr.. Flanders is quite frankly OPP
posed to the economic policies Of the
present administration, and Q consid-
cradle part Of his book Is devoted to
the exposition Of what he believes to
be their fallacies."
GAY REFORMER; Profits Before
Plenty Under Franklin d. Roose-
welt. by M. A. Hallgren. 1885.
ER67h.
1.-THE not very startling central
theme Of this book Is that President
Roosevelt does not think or act like
MARKHAM Socialist" r. L. DuHus.
WITHOUT GREASE. by r. r. Kent.
1885. F63525K42w.
TT strips the hide from the New
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Rivals

Continued From Page BID
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EARLY AMERICAN AND OTHER
STORIES. BY Conrad Richter.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

THIS Is . group Of stories Of wholly
conventional plots laid In the
scenes Of what u known now Is the
"old West" They deserve comnaenda-
ton for liyelinesS and picturesque
ness Of language. Otherwise they are
polite nothings.
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engage In literary work and contrib
uted articles to the North American
Review and other periodicals until
1915.
Again entering the service, Mr..
Mahin was named consul at Amster-
dam in 1915 and continued there
until his retirement.
Was Graduate in Law.
A native of Muscatine, Iowa, he at
tended Iowa Wesleyan University from
1869 to 1871. Subsequently he at
tended the Harvard University Law
School for a year and in 1878 was
graduated in law from Columbia Uni
versity.
Besides his work in other fields Mr..
Mahin was postmaster at Clinton.
Iowa, from 1890 to 1894 and was
trustee of the Iowa State Normal
School from 1888 to 1890. He also
was colonel of the LIST Regiment Of
Iowa National Guard from 1891 to
1898.
Mr.. Mahin was the youngest of his
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versity of Iowa from 1894 to 1897, was
editor and manager of the Clinton,
Iowa, Daily Herald from 1881 to 1897,
and at one time practiced law.
He was a Mason, member Of the
Cosmos and National Press Clubs here,
the English Speaking Union, of which
he was a director, and the Art and
Archaeological Society. He had en-
gagged extensively in literary work.
His last foreign service post was
that of consul at Amsterdam, from
which he retired in 1924. In 1929
Queen Wilhelmina bestowed on him
the decoration making him an officer
of the Royal Order of Orange Nassau.
Appointed to the foreign service in
1897, Mr.. Mahin first was consul at
Reichenberg. Bohemia, now Czecho-
slovakia, serving there from 1898 to
1902. His next post was at Noting
ham, England, where he served until
1910. He then served as consul at
Amsterdam until 1918.
In the latter year he resigned to
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list Of distinguished men who have
held or are holding Office when over 70
years of age. including five members
Of the Supreme Court. Another kind
Of propaganda circulated against
Borah, he said, was that he "has too
much in common with Roosevelt"
When we analyze the situation"
said Bachmann, I'VE find that the rec
ords of Borah and Roosevelt show they
present widely different kind Of lib
eralism and progressivism."
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Diplomats Asked to Speak.

DR.. Stanley K. Hornbeck, chief Of
the division of Far Eastern affairs in
the State Department, and Mohamed
Anime Youssef, Minister from Egypt,
have been invited to speak at the an
nual dinner meeting of the American
Branch of the International Law As
ISOLATION at 7 o'clock tonight at the
University Club. P. j. Kooiman of
New York and Edward A. Hartman
of this city are in charge Of arrange
TnontS
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days asking him to write the platform.
If he is not too old to write the plat
form, he is not too old to stand upon
the platform, and as the Republican
nominee, see to it that the promises
made therein are faithfully kept. He
is not too old to prepare and write his
own speeches, without the aid OF
ghosts and other writer's. He is not
too old to lead the fight to uphold the
Constitution Of the United States
whenever it has been attacked. He is
not too old to be the most vigorous and
outstanding defender of the Supreme
Court. He is not too old to be recog-
nized throughout the world as Amer
ica's leading and most influential
statesman.
Bachmanr then mentioned a long
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FRANK v. MAH|N,
EX-CONSUL, DIES
Decorated by Queen of the
Netherlands, He Had
Active Career.

Frank Webster Mahin, "a, retired
foreign service officer, who was dec
prated by the Queen of the Neither
lands for his service as American con-
sui at Amsterdam during the World
War, died today of heart disease at his
home, 1851 Columbia road.
MIR. Mahin. who had lived in this
city since 1925, was regent of the Uni
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parents IA children and at the time
Of his death the last survivor.
Surviving him are his widow, Mrs.
Abbie G. Mahin; son, Lieut.. Col.
Frank G. Mahin, stationed at the LIST
Army Corps Area, in Boston, and q
daughter, Mrs. Anna Tweedie Of Not
tingham, England. He also leaves five
grandchildren.
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bORAH'S MANAGER.
ANSWERS CRITICS.
Senator Not "Too Old" to
Defeat Roosevelt, Bach.
mann Says.

Answering criticism that Senator
Borah is too old" and too much
like" President Roosevelt to become the
Republican presidential nominee, Carl
G. Bachmann, campaign manager for
Borah, in a radio address last night
declared the Idaho Senator could de-
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feat Mr.. Roosevelt next November.

feat Mr. Roosevelt next November.
Senator Borah is 10 years DID," said
Bachmann. HE has been tried by ex-
perience and never been found want
ing, when it comes to defending all the
peoples rights.
I'm an effort to defeat Senator Borah
for the Republican nomination certain
individuals unfriendly to him, have
been circulating throughout the coun-
try different kinds of political propa-
ganda, the most insidious Of which is
that Senator Borah is too old. Too
old, for what?
He is not too old to write the
Republican platform this year, or
William Allen White would not have
called upon him within the last few
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-06
Spiders Poison Prey.

When spider catches fly or other
insect. poison flows from its fangs and
brings quick unconsciousness and
death.