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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-03

dishes, not much has been said about the return to cold weather beverages.
 Of this I was reminded as I stepped out into the chilly air this morning, pleas antly warmed by my last cup of breakfast coffee. Well do I know that to havn flaia
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-03
Cream of Temato Soup.

Two cups canned tomatoes, l small onion, 2 teaspoon sugar, l teaspoon salt, celery tops, 3 table, spoons butter, 3 tablespoons flour, 2 cups milk, i-8 teaspoon pepper, 1 tablespoon minced parsley, 8 peppercorns.
 Melt one tablespoon butter and add onion, peeled and sliced. Cook over 0 low fire for five minutes. Add
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-03

Are winter time and colds an inseparable pair in your family2 If so, improper food, ventilation,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-03

Americans are buying on unusual number of large diamonds m 5el-, uilifn. k
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-03

mixture. Beat well and pour over prepared apples. Bake forty nlin- utes in 0 moderate oven (360 de- grees F.
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-05-15
DID YOU EVER STOP TO THINK By Edson R. Waite
 Shawnee Oklahoma


 Edgar c. Harris publisher of the West Point Miss Daily Times Leader, president of the Tupelo, Miss Daily News, and chairman of the Daily Press section of he Mississippi Press Association, says:
 "Wrght A. Patteron, president of the Western Newspaper Union, touches very vital subject when he says The circulation of large city newspapers in rural communities develops among the people of these communities the city buying habit The effective ad- vertisng of the big stores attracts business away from the home town and in time the home town as mar ke place has passed out of the picture When it does the local newspaper is buried in the same grave
 "Considered from this standpoint, the regional or local daily or weekly is important to the town city in which it is published than it is to the owner or publisher, There is getting around the fact that the trade of town city follows the crcula ton of the local newspaper just as civilization follows the flag.
 Your town or city is not going to advance very far unless your local newspaper blazes the way And your local newspaper is not going to be the sort of
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-05-15

bedded in common speech, tends toward the assumption that the hard boiled state is normal, and the assumption is likely to be- come a conclusion if the thinker has travelled the rough and rug ged road that leads to middle life. Now and then something comes along that disturbs the T should worry philosophy. Up in Nova Scotia, three men had the misfor- tune to be trapped in mine. The papers were scanned morning and night for news of their plight, & when the presses were at rest. tn radio was turned on for an as- surfing word. MT. Ripley has abundant material with which to admonish us that, believe it or not, hard boiling goes no deeper than the surface.
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-05-15
WASHINGTON CURRENT
 COMMENT
Continued From Page One)

Continued From Page One)
 In l737, George Washington was toddling around under foot at the age of five. TalloW candles furnished the means of illumina- tion. The site of the present city of Pittsburgh was in the far and unknown west. The shoemaker went from farm to farm, building rugged and enduring footwear for the family on the spot Any one having even fragmentarY knowledge of history can add many details to the picture. It shows things as they were 199 years ago. Two bad men in Chi cago have been sentenced to a prison term of that duration. If they could survive the incarcera- ton, what sort of a world would greet them when they became free men again in the year 2135
 Let us not fatter ourselves into thinking that the appliances and
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-05-15
(CITY OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE

Sometimes it is just a little confusing Back in 1882 the Republican party adopted platform which, among other things, declared that "the fundamental problem of American agriculture is the control of pro- duction 10 such volume will balance supply with demand" Equally inconsistent the Democrats went record against the 'unsoud policy of restricting ag- rcUtura production to the demands of the domestic market'
 The Democrats under the outaWed farm pro- gram found necessary to restrict agricultural produc ton for which one would naturally expect the Repub cans to cheer in view of the fact that they went on cord for control of production But Rather they be- gan shouting to high heaven against the very thing they had written into their own platform. Apparently it makes a great difference just who is going to do this crop contrOIling-Exchange
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-05-15

In an address directed to the Daughters of the American Rev olution, in session in Washington, the President reaffirms his faith in the good neighbor policy and in the reduction of armaments, but adds: Defence must be ad- equate, not sectionally adequate, but nationally adequate" If there is controversy over the cor rectness of that statement, Halle SelaSSie should be called as an expert witness.
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-05-15

newspaper necessary to gain and maintain complete coverage in the logical trade radius of your town or city unless it has the wholeheared support of your chants and business men.
 Aggressive business men in many of the small cities o the country coming to understand and ap precate the importance of the home newspaper, and the day is not far distant when local Chambers of Con- merce will make of their main objectives an annual drive for increased newspaper circulation in the logical trade radius of their respective communities
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-05-15

garments of 1886 would have a value other than as museum eX- hibits, or that our customs would furnish more than ground for a good story. All that we shall re- ceive in 2135 will be indulgent credit for having lived the simple life of the good old days.
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-05-15
Weather Today (by US. Weather Bureau)

Barometric pressure is relative ly low over Alaska and the vest ern Canadian provinces. Tenn peratures continue mild in all sections of Alaska. Rain was fall ing along the Aleutians, Gulf and southeastern Alaska. Cloudy and unsettled conditions continue thru out interior Alaska.
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-05-15

Little Girl: Mother, if the Lord brings us our daily bread, and Santa brings us our toys, & the stork brings us the babies, then what is father sticking around here for?"
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-05-15

Venice is being troubled with floods. This is the time for some enterprising Italian merchant to advertise skid chains for gondo- las.
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-05-15

The firmness with which such phrases as: He couldn't take it, Let the purchaser beware, and Every man for himself, are em-
Evening star., 1936-05-16
I'M THE CURRENT MAGAZINES
Peek Writes of Dlsionment in Efforts to Administer Early
A. A. A-Nuances Of Fishing and Golf Become Subjects
of Experts Little Americas Future.
ecretary Wallace and I disagreed

Secretary Wallace and disagreed
sharply. :" -..- .-.--.
As to what the new agricultural-re-
lief bill (the substitute A. A. A. will
do, Garet Garrett writes in his Ma
tional Hill Notes In the same periodical
Is follows:
"In declaring the works of the A.
A. A. to be unconstitutional the Su--
preme Court said three things :"
and lists the now famous objections.
LIE CONTINUES, The problem was
to write a new law under which
the Federal Government could con-
tinue doing them (the unconstitutional
acts) actually. but net literally. How
was that problem solved? It was solv-
ed by saying Of each thing that 1t
was not what 1t was. but another
thing entirely. The purpose Is what
it was before. That Is to control agri-
cultural production. But is the new
law q law to control agricultural pro-
duction? Not at all. 1t Is law to con-
serve and restore the fertility Of the
soil.
And he observes satirically, Many
Evening star., 1936-05-16
WRITING GROUP KEEPS FAITH WITH PUZZLED HUMANITY
PRESCRIBES FOR ITS ILLS
Books Social and Economic Maades Leave No Word Ununed
In Effort to Find the Right Remedy-Best Short Story
Collection Reveals New Trend Among Writer'S

up--thc skull. the mask. And then.
ruthiessly. they wrench the mask
away. And step back and expect the
reader to be profoundly astonished.
The most fervid reaction possible Is.
so WHAT"
For most Of US know the facts. We
do not expect our writer's to retail
them TO us-that u not what fiction
Is for. Moreover, irony. one might
point out, is Of the writer's own mind,
first and foremost and always-if it Is
to be worth a continental in his writ
ing it cannot be donned, like q smock,
for writing purposes. Unless the
author actually sees life ironically he
cannot make others appreciate It in
ironical terms. And irony in itself Is
no end. 1t is only the medium in
which pathos, beauty, tenderness, hor-
ror and good and evil and all the
rest of the phenomena of life should
be made to appear. It should per-
meate and inclose q story. But it
should not be the story. II 1t is, the
story will be ut best an episode.
Usually 1t. will be mere mechanical
trick. s- 't
Perhaps one may be permitted the
Evening star., 1936-05-16

Jefferson and Lenin on what the
author terms the basic issues Of the
day" Lenin speaks for collectivism,
Jefferson for individualism and Soc
rates apparently for the author. There
Is q great deal more Of Socrates than
Of the other two.
And so-here we have 1t, our present
troubles as our authors see them.
Whether you be conservative, liberal.
revolutionary. New Dealer or plain
dreamer, there ought to be at least
one book to your taste in the above
group. With the exception of one,
they are all Of quite recent publica-
tion. Farewell to Poverty" one is
ashamed to say, has been on the shelf
for some months now.
THE BEST SHORT STORIES 1896.
Edited by Edward J. O'Brien.
Boston; Houghton MifIiin Co.
For a number of years the various
collections of best short stories
those gathered together cold-blooded-
ly and grimly as representing literary
achievement-have provided this re-
viewer with q source of insoluble puz-
element. But fashions have changed
Evening star., 1936-05-16
UNDER THE CHEWING GUM TREE

UNDER THE CHEWING GUM TREE.
BY Roy J..Snell. Chicago: Reilly
& Lee.
A mystery for young children-in-
volving treasure hunting in the Cen
tral American jungle.
NUMBER STORIES FOR YOUNG
CHILDREN. Book One. BY j. W.
Studebaker, w. c. Findley, F. B,
knight and William s. Gray. Chi
cago: Reilly & Lee.
An attempt to develop In young
people, by means Of stories, the essen
tial concepts of number and space re-
lations. An interesting experiment.
HEALTH STORIES FOR YOUNG
CHILDREN. Book One. BY Anna
B. Towse. Chicago: Reilly q Lee
Stories designed to make the child
health conscious. BY a former stan
associate Of the American Child
Health Associa ton.
Evening star., 1936-05-16
Brief Reviews of Books on Various Topics
Non-Ffction.

Nom Fiction.
PILSUDSKI. BY Grace Humphrey.
New York: Scott q Moore.
Biography Of the first marshal Of
Poland. Interestingly written.
THE YOUNG CHILD IN THE HOME.
A Survey of Three Thousand
American Families. New York: D..
Appleton-Century Co.
Publication of the results Of the sur
vey of conditions Of child life in Amer
ican homes made by the Committee on
the Infant and Pre-school Child In
the Section on Education and Train
ing Of the White House Conference.
Comprehensive.
THE INTELLIGENT TRAVELLERS
GUIDE TO GERMANY. BY I.
Borrows. New York: knight Pub
ncations.
Photographs by courtesy Of the Ger
man Tourist Information Once. How
Evening star., 1936-05-16

following observation-that to expect
q cultivated state of mind on the part
Of any one so ingenious as to con-
tribute seriously to current MAGAZINES
b asking too much. The require
ments Of these periodicals are not
such as attract the sophisticated
artist. Perhaps one may be permitted
to say too that the thing which the
American short story needs most Is q
new crop Of editors-men and wom-
en- not merely courageous" enough
to recognize new talent, as the saying
goes-for it takes no courage to
recognize talent-but capable of
knowing talent when they do meet it.
Until that happens-and 1t will not
happen-we seem likely to continue to
get alternating patches of convention
al themes and unconventional glib
berish to which the utmost critical
reaction can be, as noted, 80 what?"
One cannot complain about it, for
it does seem to give satisfaction to
magazine buyers. Only, one Is q little
sorry about poor Mr.. O'Brien. He
takes it all so very, very seriously.
MY GREAT WIDE BEAUTIFUL
WORLD. BY Juanita Harrison.
Arranged and prefaced by Mildred
Morris. New York: The Macmil-
Ian Co.
TUAN1TA HARRISON, q Mississippi
" Nooro dor, octir sorvo NJ NJ tho oua
of SO decided that she wanted to see
the world. With q yearly income of
5000 and two suit cases, "the larger
one with two blue dresses, two white
dresses and one black apron. caps and
references" and the smaller with her
dress up cloths and two jars of Gu
cumber pickles, which is so good to
keep from being seasick," she set out
for Europe one June morning In 1927.
From that time until 1885 she lived
in % different countries, east and
west. This book Is her Odyssey. One
could write about 1t at some length.
For Miss Harrison carried into every
act Of her varied life q perfectly un-
affected zest for sights, sounds, tastes
and people. And she writes with the
same zest and with . complete un-
consciousness Of literary convention
atty. OF royal prince she remarked,
for example, Il haven't time to write
about him he look to sleepy" When
she saw the Tai Mahal in the falling
dew, she wrote, II would just like to
put a glass over it feel I must cover
it over" And later. "Altho . Big
Grand building You feel that you
could lift it up and put 1t away in
q china closet" She had had no
schooling since she was 10, and little
before that.
When, under the encouragement Of
Miss Mildred Morris, q daughter of .
family for which she worked In Paris,
she sold her account Of her travellers"
TO- the Atlantic Monthly, Juanita was
Evening star., 1936-05-16

to enjoy Germany even under the Nazi
regime. Some travel information
combined with considerable obvious
anti-Nad sentiment.
HOW TO MAKE A GHOST WALK.
BY Joseph Dunninger. New York:
David Kemp & Co.
Simple direction for staging an
effective spiritualist seance. BY q IA
nous professional medium.
Fiction.
THE MAN CONDEMNED. BY VII
liam Edward Baubie. Boston: The
Stratford Co.
Romantic story Of love and crime in
French Canadian settings.
Feetry.
WHERE CROSS THE CROWDED
WAYS" BY Nathaniel A. Jones.
Philadelphia: Dorrance q Co.
One hundred sonnets by Q chaplain
Of the United States Army.
Evening star., 1936-05-16

from the point at which death found
hina. That point. Of course, was the
highest position attained by an Amer.
ican in the inner councils of Nickolai
Lenin and his fellow Russian revoiu.
tiontsts.
With no intention to rob Hicks of
any credit for his latest work, 1t
would be pretty difficult to write q
bad story with John Reed Is Its sub.
jest. Reed lived . good story. one
that began in an aristocratic home In
Portland, Greg, moved through
Harvard, twisted into q brilliant
reportorial career and found its end
in q typhus germ. Mr.. Hicks set it
down convincingly, with apparently
complete fidelity to the records, at
least 50 far as this reviewer IL IA.
mtliar with it. ETC.
Evening star., 1936-05-16
BYM.C. r.
@WO leading articles in the weeks
Saturday Evening Post discuss
the administrations agricul-

~WO leading articles in the weeks
Saturday Evening Post discuss
the administrations agricul-
L ture program--past and future.
Speaking Of his experience rs first
administrator Of the former A. A. A.,
George N. Peek, writing with Samuel
Crowther, says
Il entered what I thought was
Democratic administration, not be-
cause it was Democratic but because
It was pledged to q certain course Of
action. eventually found that I was
not in q Democratic administration
but in Q curious collection Of Socialists
and internationalists who were neither
Republicans nor Democrats.
They, fanaticlike, believed that
their objectives transcended the OBJ
jectives of ordinary human beings and
therefore they could not allow them
selves to be hampered by platform
pledges. or by the Constitution.
There were two broad general
groups-the socialists and the inter-
nationalists. The socialists. or more
Evening star., 1936-05-16
Juveniles.
LAWRENCE THE ARABIAN

JuVeUl10k
LAwRENCE THE ARABIAN
KNIGHT. BY Harry Irving Shum-
way. Boston: L. c. Page d Co.
The story Of the famous leader Of
the Arabian revolt told in . style suit
able for the young.
THE CRYSTAL BALL. BY Roy ].
Smell. Chicago: Reilly & Lee.
A mystery story for girls-involving
gypsies and fortune telling.
RED DYNAMITE. BY Roy J. Smell.
Chicago: Reilly d Lee.
A mystery story for boys-involving
foot ball.
CAPTAIN SALT IN z. BY Ruth
Plumly Thompson. Illustrated by
John r. Neili. Chicago: Reilly b
Lee.
A tale for the younger children,
founded on and continuing the famous
OF stories Of L. Frank Baum.
Evening star., 1936-05-16

eye for the vivid event, no matter how
small. He managed to catch these
events in a few words, giving US brief
pictures of kings, princes, common SOL
diers and colleagues. He reproduces
the life of the lines. the dugouts, the
bases. He made no effort at conti-
nuity, and so his book is only COL
lection of episodes. However, it is as
absorbing a collection as one is likely
to find.
A curious difference is perceptible
between works about the war which
were written during the conflict and
those which have been written since.
There Is little or no bitterness in the
former. The feelings of q Job to be
done is evident through them, and the
accounts Of terror are often balanced
by accounts Of comedy, while any i'm
plication Of vevolt against the conflict
itself Is generally of an objective ma
ture. 1t has only been in books writ
ten after the event that wrath against
war itself has been expressed.
This contained and concentrated
spirit is evident throughout DR.. Cush-
ing's work. It is not possible to think,
in spite Of the horrors with which he
was dealing. that he ever lost his sense
Of balance or self lf-possession. Or even,
for that matter, his sense of humor.
He was able to see the amusing at all
times. He was not only able to see 1t
but to remember it and record 1t. Such
work becomes not merely q COM
mentary on war, but an exposition of
the capacity of the human spirit to
discipline itself. 1t can be given very
thoughtful reading.
BEYOND SING THE WOODS. BY
Trygve Gulbranssen. Translated
from the Norwegian by Naomi Wal
ford. New York: G. P. Putnam's
Sons.
THIS little novel out of Norway has
a curious quality of old-fashioned
charm. without being much more than
charming. It is the mild little story
OF a man Of stern antecedents who
learned to use pity against his ene-
mics instead Of revenge. That Is all.
The very simple idea, however. is
worked out with a childlike gravity
which gives sort of fairy-tale atmos-
phere to he whole book and makes it,
while not work to be taken seriously,
still pleasant little piece. One wishes
that the author has used his occa-
sionally- -dispiiarsd talent for creating
weird and other Narldly atmospheres
more often and left his moralizing q
bit more on the shelf.
JOHN REED: The. Making of q
Revolutionary. BY Granville
Hicks. New York: Macmillan Co.
ONE wonders whether, had John
Reed lived q few more years,
Granville Hicks would have found
him 50 appealing subject for
biography. When John Reed died IA
years ago, a typhus victim, and was
burned under the walls of the Krem-
lin-the Westminster Abbey of Boil
sheviszn-he was q perfect subject for
subsequent canonization by Granville
Hicks. Had Reed lived, the restless
adventurous spirit which led him to
the side Of Lenin might have led him
away from it and the red cause. And
where would Mr.. Hicks have been
then, poor thing?
Such speculations. perhaps, are IL
legitimate. Yet one can pass re-
sponsibility for them to Mr.. Hicks,
whose recording of the restless
wanderings of Reed Is such Is to sug-
eest that he might have gone far
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says. But whatever the finding. lovers
of delicate prose and fine observation
must have this book. 1t will. one
prophesies, be read at sitting.
THE ISLANDS. BY Gerald Warner
Brace. New York: G. P. Putnam's
Sons.
THIS Is a pleasant, readable novel
about life on the difficult islands
that lie OF the coast Of Maine. Like
those Of many books Of place, its plot
is rather conventional. the authors
interest being plainly in invoking the
atmosphere of his scene rather than
in probing deeply into human souls.
This story. however, is by no means
trite, and the author, in creating his
desired local flavor. has not gone into
sentimentality and picturesqueness.
His book, therefore, makes good nor
NAL reading. For that one COM
mends it.
FROM A SURGEONS JOURNAL. BY
Harvey Cushing, M. D. Boston:
Little Brown g. Co.
IN INTERVALS while on duty as a
= surgeon at the front in the World
War, DR.. Gushing wrote journal of
. million words Bound. it fills nine
volumes in his library today. From 1t
the present volume has been compiled,
q work of some 500 printed pages. 1t
1t a rarely interesting thing, having,
as it must have, that rich quality that
comes from the writing of any person
whose mind is centered on beloved
work.
DR.. Cushing first saw service In
1915, when he was with a Harvard
unit in the American Ambulance at
Neuilly. He was at various times with
the French, the British and the Amer
ican forces. He participated in the
three major engagements Of Chateau
Thierry, st. Mihiel and the Argonne.
He was in the front lines and he was
sent to consultations behind the lines.
During the offensives, he operated for
as long as 16 hours at stretch. It
would be difiicult to imagine one posi-
ton which took in more aspects Of the
war than his. And through them all,
he indefatigably kept his journal.
It is q fascinating record, as hardly
needs be said. 1t by no means con-
Germs itself with recording the au-
thor's duties. He had at all times an
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strictly, the collectivists, seemed-for
nothing was in the open-to be head
ed by Felix Frankfurter, Rexford G.
Tugwen and Jerome Frank. The
internationalists ruled the State De-.
partment and were headed by Secre-
tary Hull and Assistant Secretary
Sayre."
He adds, Through all my life have
been steadfastly against the promotion
of planned scarcity. On this point
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acts Of Congress turn out to be not
what they seem and to do what was
not intended, but a law that was un-
derstood beforehand to be what it
seems to be not and is expected to do
what it purports to do not, now takes
its place among current political
facts; and the technique of purpose
full confusion Is raised to the rank Of
an art. This is the bill that
became a law on February 20 to sue
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-20
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