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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-04-09
Copyright by the Baltimore Sun and
reprinted in The Republican by
special permission.
Concerning The Farmers

Concerning The Farmers
Washington, April 2
1t is we'll recognized-in fact, pro-
claimed-that the base of the New
Deal confidence in the Roosevelt re-
election is the solidity with which the
farmers of the country are supposed
to be for him. They are claimed to a
man.
Concededly, the business and profess
sional classes are against him. So, too,
the polls indicate, are the clergymen,
but on the authority of no less a per-
son than Professor Tugwell himself,
we are told that a "farmer-worker"
alliance will surge irresistibly forward
in the coming campaign, destroying
"our enemies" who sinisterly stand in
the way of the "new economic era"
Quite obviously the Republicans,
wicked creatures, are trying to I'M
dermine the agricultural end of this
alliance. Later, it is likely, they may be
depraved enough to attempt the Sc
duction of labor itself. Who can tell d?
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At any rate, two recent develop
ments indicate deliberate plans to lure
away the farmer by convincing him
that he is being played for sucker by
the New Dealers. One of these is the
determination to ask Ex-Governor
Lowden of Illinois to serve as tenn
porary chairman and sound the keynote
at the Republican convention. The rea-
son for the Lowden selection is SIM
pie enough. Beyond question, the real
farmers of the country have more
confidence in him than anyone else.
His name carries greater weight with
them than any other. He is known to
more of them personally than anyone
else.
The Lowden interest in the farm
problems has been personal and keen
for thirty years or more. 1t is some
thing to which he has devoted more
intense and practical study than any
other public man. The reasons the
farmers have confidence in Governor
Lowden are, first, because they re-
gard him as one of them; second, be-
cause they are convinced he knows
what he is talking about; third, be-
cause they know his interest in the
farm question is not political and,
hence, is sincere. Most people will
agree that if Governor Lowden were
ten years younger Che is now 75) al
most certainly he would be the Repub-
lican nominee for President. If Gov
ernor Lowden indicts the New Deal
farm program as not in the interests
of the farmer, it will have considerable
effect upon the farmers because they
will realize that he means it. At least
that is the idea back Of his selec-
ton.
| **%
The other development calculated
to disturb the supposed solidity Of the
Roosevelt farm support is the painful
fix in which Senator Arthur H. Van
denberg, of Michigan, has put the
AAA by the recitation, on the Senate
floor, of certain facts, and by making
a perfectly simple request. The facts
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-04-09

week.
Mrs. Claude Hetrick and son, of near
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son.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-04-09
THE GREAT
GAME OF
POLITICS
By FRANK r. KENT,

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Evening star., 1936-12-12

drawn character sketches and anus
ing anecdotes and on the whole is
several cuts above the average travel
volume. r. c. r.
BALLET PROFILE BY Irving Deakin.
New York: The Dodge Publishing
Co.
IRVING DEAKIN, we'll known au-
= thority on the ballet. publishes here
an excellent and badly needed hand
book on the modern dance 1t is
both a history of the movement, from
its classic state in the imperial Rus
sian school to the present, and q story
of the lives, achievements and per-
sonalities of the dancers and artists
who have contributed to it. Pavlova,
Nijinski, Karsavina, Diaghileff, Fo-
kline and SO on. 1t is good factual
history, but written with color and
enthusiasm. 1t would seem to be
indispensable to ballet lovers and
students.
THE MELLOW FRUITS OF EX-
PERIENCE. BY L. M. thinner
man. Philadelphia: The United
Lutheran Publishing House.
THIS is a little book OF page length
sermons by the former minister
Of Christ Lutheran Church Of Balti-
more. They are simple, straightfor-
ward and sincere religious talks. They
have q readable quality which ought
to make them popular. DR.. thinner
Evening star., 1936-12-12
FLORIDA SUGAR

area to improve the quality and nutri-
ton Of sugar cane, and the steps taken
to control plant disease.
En- route to the Everglades the spe-
cial train stopped for about four hours
in Savannah, Ga, where members Of
the party made an inspection of the
plant of the Savannah Sugar Refining
Corp. where raw sugars are refined
and boxed or bagged for the market,
as well as the plant of the Union Bag
Co., which is manufacturing paper
bags made from the pulp of the here
tofore almost useless Southern scrub
pine tree.
But returning to sugar very little
OF the Florida product reaches the
Northern market. The States limited
production can be disposed of In the
South. and transportation costs saved.
If the Florida producers are success
full, however, and Congress removes
the quota restriction on American
produced sugar, new markets will be
sought, and the country some day
may read a new slogan:
America Sweetens Its Own Cup"
Evening star., 1936-12-12
Cattle Ticks Routed.

A FEW years ago. the cattle tick
wars of the South and Southwest
were common occurrences and played
prominent part in the news. Now,
stock raisers realize the advantage of
the dipping required by the Depart
ment of Agriculture and have Joined
wholehearteoly in the drive to elimi.
nate the tick, which not only menaces
the lives of the cattle attacked but
ruins the hides by puncturing them in
many places.
So far has the elimination program
progressed only five areas remain in
which the quarantine exists, three in
Florida and two in Texas. Louisiana
has recently been freed from all re-
strictions.
Evening star., 1936-12-12

DECEMBER Stage publishes this
account Of Noel Coward's one
act play series. recently at the Ma
tional, as 1t affected the staid city
Of Boston. Mass. James Thurber Is
the author
THE audience there on the last
night stood and cheered. ! heard a
gray-haired woman say that in 20
years Of Boston playgoing she had no
memory Of such q letting CO."
Or, Boston falls once more.
CTAGE also provides . quaint touch
this month for those who like
their touches Of quainterie. 1t in
cludes in its own slick pages a reprint
Of the January 3, 1866, issue of its
own predecessor, The Stage The
Stage was, says q note by its own
Evening star., 1936-12-12
Brief Review of Books

A statement of the church's posi-
ton in the social sciences.
JOHN L. LEWIS. BY Cecil Carnes.
New York: Robert Speller Pub
fishing Corp.
The life of the labor leader.
MEN OF CONCORD. BY Henry d.
Thoreau. Edited by Francis H.
Allen. Illustrations by N. G.
Wyeth. Boston: Houghton MifIiin
Co.
Selections from Thoreau's Journal.
Good gift book.
Fiction.
BACKwATER VOYAGE. BY Archie
Binns. New York: Reynal Ss
Hitchcock.
Limited edition Of Q tepid little tale
about two sailors and an old sail
boat.
thur. Boston: Meador Publishing
Co.
Novel of Harlem.
EXPLORERS CLUB TALES. Edited
by the Publications Committee of
the Explorers Club. New York:
Dodd Mead q Co.
True stories Of exploration, research
and adventure. Very good.
Juveniles.
STORY PARADE. Philadelphia: John
c. Winston Co.
A collection of stories by eminent
authors. Excellent.
Poetry.
RESTLESS ANCHOR. BY Wendy
Marsh. New York: Greystone
Press.
Good, workmanlike verse. Some
what on the whimsical side.
LADDERS AND BRIDGES. BY Kath-
crime Bregy. Philadelphia: David
Mckay Co.
Passable short verse.
Drama.
OUR DEPRESSION. Play in nine
scenes. BY o. w. Rethorst. Bos-
ton: Christopher Publishing House.
Poetic drama about the late hard
times.
Evening star., 1936-12-12

refOrmer, the social conscience gal,
the legitimate descendant Of Carrie
Nation, in other and unkinder words.
A writer smart enough land some Of
them are so far from smart)! to have
seen that this kind of woman was
type female" of her day, might
have been expected to have intelligence
enough to make her as mercilessly
funny and offensive as she really was.
But Mrs. Janet Aver Fairbank takes
her heroine seriously. She takes the
whole book seriously evidently. But
nothing can make the reviewer take
Mrs. Janet Aver Fairbank seriously.
And there you are.
HALF THE WORLD IS ISFAHAN.
BY Caroline Singer and Cyrus
Leroy Baldridge. New York: OK
ford University Press.
THE reader of this decorative book
will undoubtedly be surprised at
the conspicuous difference between
the concepts of Iran (or Persia) which
are set forth by the artist and the
writer Of the text. That, indeed, Is
the overwhelming impression which
arises from the whole work. For MIR.
Baldridge's sketches and illustrations,
while finely executed and reproduced,
seem made in the Paradise of the
Prophet, SO contented and well-doing
do his subjects seem. But Miss Sing
ers text tells of poverty, famine, OPP
preston, ignorance and primitivism.
Surely, one feels, looking from print
to picture, these are not about the
same places.
1t is q record of years travel about
Persia. The collaborators went into
mountain villages, desert tents. They
conversed with types Of many kinds.
Their book is unquestionably very
handsome affair, as oxford Univer-
sity Press has presented it, with full
color illustrations. deep margins, and
excellent type. One thinks Of it at
once as an inevitable Christmas gift.
But one feels, somehow, that it really
ought to be two books, so diverse are
the points of view reflected in 1t.
PARAGUAYAN INTERLUDE. BY G.
w. Thurlow Craig. New York.
Frederick A. Stokes Co.
HERE, finally, is q travel book which
= does not seek to make spectacular
the ordinary, or dramatize the business
Of making . living in q strange land.
Craig's book, devoid Of plot and chief
lily remarkable for his economy In the
Evening star., 1936-12-12
Continued From Page BID


Agricultural Adjustment Administra-
ton for crop restriction. 81. .26s ,504
Had your corporation, said its last
annual report, been free to operate
its facilities at 100 per cent of their
capacity it is probable that the earn
ings would have been as great, if not
greater, than operating at about two
thirds capacity and receiving benefit
payments for restriction"
The land around the southerly
shores of Lake Okeechobee, where the
sugar-cane plantations are located,
is under drainage control and pro-
tected by levees, locks, gates and other
structures erected for the Okeechobee
Flood Control Authority by United
States Army Engineers The greater
part Of the Everglades, exceeding
1000. 900 acres, however, has never
been placed under cultivation.
Spasmodic attempts to develop
sugar-cane culture in the Everglades
were made as far back as the middle
80s. These early efforts, however,
were unsuccessful, largely on account
Of inadequate water control
Actually, the successful production
OF cane sugar in the Everglades start
ed with the harvest season of le28-29,
when 1863 tons of raw sugar were
produced. BY 1928, despite hurri-
canes, cloudburstS, the lowest price at
which sugar ever sold on the New
York Exchange and the worst de-
preston in the history of the country,
the production had increased to 35 ,908
tons.
Probably the most interesting fea-
ture learned by the official party in
connection with the trip is that sugar
cane is one of those peculiar breed
of cats" because in some sections of
the world it must be replanted after
each cutting; in others, like LOUISE
ana, 1t must be replanted after two
cuttings In Cuba it has been known
to stand for 20 cuttings. Also in some
areas, like Louisiana, the growing
period is but eight or nine months,
while in Hawaii the cane must be
allowed to grow nearly two years.
THE entire trip had its educational
value as well as its objective to
emphasize the possibilities of the Ever
glades to become the potential sugar
bowl as we'll as the vegetable garden
Of the Nation. The guests on the ex-
pedition not only traced the Develop
ment Of sugar from the cane to the
refined state. in which it Is sold, but
they saw the experimental production
of citrus in the Everglades, the work
being done by the Government in that
Evening star., 1936-12-12
New Debt Argument.

p EVIVAL of war debt discussion
finds those seeking to bring a
resumption at least of interest pay
ment has back of 1t a more concrete
argument than those advanced on
former occasions.
Always when continued payments
have been advocated in the past,
opponents Of payment have warned
that it would be definitely dangerous
to the international exchange situation
TO transfer more funds to the United
States.
Evening star., 1936-12-12
NEW O. HENRY MANUSCRIPTS
Girls Curiosity Leads Discovery of Writer'S Articles in Files
of Texas Paper-Magazine Story of Origin Of Name.
BookIistng Business Still Fourishes.

admission, at that time the only on
cial journal devoted TO the Drama,
the Music, the Ballet and the Re-
lated Arts"
II was o four-page sheet, according
to the reprinted copy, and In the
issue in question the center section
OF the front page was given over to an
announcement Of the opening ct The
Winter Garden Of Mr.. Edwin Booths
Hamlet" Flanking this are coll
umns of advertisements. One sees
the familiar "Steinway g. Sons Grand,
Square and Upright Pianos" with i'm
mediately beneath 1t . notice cele-
brating Duplex Elliptic Hoop Skirts
80 will not bend or break like Single
Spring Skirts, but will preserve their
perfect and beautiful shape twice the
length Of any other make" The lead
ing article is devoted to Goethe in the
Role of q Theatrical Manager"
MENTION Of Stage would hardly
" be complete without a protest
against the quite hideous and unfunny
caricatures which it has recently fea-
tured for covers. This month has one
of Fannie Brice as she appears $50
they say in "Ziegfeld's Follies." This
Is the third of what seems likely to
be q series. They are done by A.
Birnbaum. They are caricatures,
right enough; they display essential
characteristics in deliberate exagger-
alton. But they have no point be-
yond that, apparently. There Is no
satire in them, no wit, no interpreta-
ton. 1t is hard to feel that they are
anything more than ugly pictures.
THE New Masses promises, in capi-
talistically verbose advertise
ments, that it will celebrate its twen-
ty-fifth anniversary with a special
issue December 10. The dead line for
Saturday copy does not allow the re-
viewer to wait for it. Readers will
have to contain their souls in patti
ence. 1t is promised for the Satur-
day afterward-if that is not too ter
ribly long to wait.
Evening star., 1936-12-12

covery of the stories published in the
newspaper"
Redbook will publish five OF these
tales, the hist appearing in January.
A s CHRISTMAS season approaches
the book listing business flourishes
wickedly. and we now have the Ma
ton coming out with a group Of
choices, according to the bourgeois
holiday this severe recognition at least.
Here are works Of which it approves.
'"The Last Puritan" by George San
tayana; THE Thinking Reed" by Re-
becca West; Days of WRATH" by
Andre Malraux; 'Eyeless in GAIA" by
Aldous Huxley; 1.-THE Earth Trembles, Z"
by Jules Romans; THE Big Money"
by John Dos Passos; "A World Never
Made" by James T. Farrell: "Absalom!
Absalom!" by william Faulkner; ''The
War Goes On" by Sholom Asch; "The
Borzoi Reader" edited by Carl Van
Doren: Education Before Verdun," I"
by Arnold Zweig: "The Works of Alex
ander Pushkin":: Stories Of Three
Decades" by Thomas Mann. and '"The
Brothers Ashkenazi," by !. j. Singer.
That Is to say, those are the works
Of fiction Of which the Nation approves.
The reviewer can concede that all
Of them are serious and that some Of
them are accomplished. None of them
is representative of its authors best
in other years, and most Of them are
banging away at thesis Of some kind.
being essentially propaganda and not
novels. This Is true Of Days Of
Wrath" "Eyeless in Gaza." THE Big
Money" "The War Goes On" "Edu-
cation Before Verdun" and THE
Brother Ashkenazi." The most per-
feet work of novel-writing art among
them Is "Ahsalom! Absaloml" 1t il
. story, pure and simple. Mr.. Faulk-
ner had no ideas to sell.
THIS month sees the 90-year-old
Town and Country issuing an an
nual In honor Of the season. It Ii
204 pages long and, according to
Time, has "a nostalgia article on old
fashioned proms by Town and Coun-
try's fashion editor, Mrs. Chester La
Roche descriptions by Sports
man Foxhall Keene OF his IL injuries
sustained in sport; and two-pege.
full-colored spread of The First
Christmas by Gentle da Fabriano
In the Unhd Gallery in Florence" De-
votees Of this most ancient Of M.
Hsarst's publications take due heed.
Evening star., 1936-12-12
N0n-Fiction.

NOn-F1ct1On.
THIS ENGLAND. BY Mary Ellen
Chase. New York: The Macmillan
Co.
Trite essays on Albion. Less than
tepid.
PRESENTATION OF THE BUST OF
LORD KELVIN TO THE SMITH
SONIAN INSTITUTION BY THE
ENGLISH SPEAKING UNION.
The addresses delivered on the occa-
sion.
THE CoNsTITUTIoNALIsT. BY
Stephen A. Day. Boston: The
Christopher Publishing House.
How to preserve the safeguards.
THE ROLE OF POLITICS IN So
CIAL CHANGE. BY Charles Z.
Merriam. New York: New York
University Press.
An examination Of the subject. Ele-
mentary.
EVERYTHING HAPPENED TO
HIM. The story of Tex Rickard
by Mrs. Tex Richard. New York:
Frederick A. Stokes Co.
The life of the institutor of the
million-dollar gate.
ACROSS THE PLAINS AND AMONG
THE DIGGINGs. BY Alonso Del
ano. New York: Wilson Erickson
Co.
A reprint of the original edition.
SECRET WRITING BY Henry Ly-
sing. New York: David Kemp &
Co.
An introduction to cryptograms.
ciphers and codes.
SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE
JEWS. BY Robert Gessner. New
York: Farrar & Rinehart.
Mr.. Gessner, who once saved the
Indians, now turns his generous pro-
fessional anguish on the Jews.
SOCIAL DOCTRINES OF THE
CATHOLIC CHURCH. BY Robert
@. Brehmer, jr. With . preface
by Rev. James M. ellis Of the
paulist Fathers, editor Of the Cath
ollie World.
Evening star., 1936-12-12

for instance, q convincing picture of
the resentment of the heros young
son to his fathers second romance,
but wipes out this deep-seated trouble
by the simple device of having the
father speak a few well-chosen words
at the right moment. One simply
can't believe things happen that way.
The hero, devoted to his wife's men,
CRY, faces the task of building another
life. He becomes involved with the
problems of others and by helping
them to q solution is freed from his
own dilemma. Mr.. Gray lets these
people think like human beings, but
he pulls the strings of his plot with
so undisguised an auctorial hand that
the story Is unconvincing. E. T.
Evening star., 1936-12-12

man has already written . number
of books on religious subjects. and is
we'll known to Washingtonians To
those who find benefit In daily re-
ligious reading, his volume would seem
to call for recommendation.
WAKE AND REMEMBER. BY James
Gray. New York: The Macmillan
Co.
THIS Is an analytical novel In
which things happen SO easily as
to strain the readers credulity. Mr.
Gray reduces every emotion Of his
hero to an analytical pulp, but lets
events fall as he wishes. He builds up,
Evening star., 1936-12-12

use Of the first person singular, Is 4
simple, rambling chronicle Of life in
South Americas toughest frontier.
Seemingly written for his own pleas.
ure, it gains thereby q certain breezy
freshness which Is entirely welcome to
one fed up with high-pressure ad-
venture.
Meandering pleasantly along, the
author sets out to tell Of his II years
in the cattle industry in Paraguay, and
succeeds admirably in constructing a
sort of autobiograp phical hash. which
is mainly interesting for its view Of
the country and its peoples. 1t is,
however, spiced literally with WE'LL
Evening star., 1936-12-12
PERSONAL STYLE AND IMPERSONAL MIND, LIFE OF BOOK
SEEKER FOR ELUSIVE PEACE
Author Gives Picturesque Record of Explorers in Midst Of
Chinese Canage-Anthology Which Overlooks America.
Novels Which Present Some Individual Ideas o.

modern. While dealing with such
. question at all seems today like set
ing up q straw man to knock over,
the work Is written with all the in
dignant feeling which feminists have
usually brought to their subject, and
will no doubt move the adherents of
the cause to sympathy. It is respect
ably written, and has some Of the
stun Of which popularity Is made, but
seems to the reviewer without signi-
ficance other than that Of setting forth
q pretty well-known case.
RICH MAN POOR MAN. BY Janet
Aver Fairbank. Boston: Hough-
ton Mifiiin Co.
THIS Is another big, thick novel de-
voted to portraying IAN era"
That means. in q reviewers irreverent
parlance, that 1t Is q book without
characters and with trumped up
issues" acting the parts. One does
not merely wonder why such books are
published. 1t Is not conducive to
sanity to wonder anything about the
publishing business. One wonders,
rather. that they are written. What
q tremendous amount of labor! And
not q spark Of life from beginning to
end. Not even good writing in this
case, but trite, stodgy, dull stun that
maunders between romantic school
girlism and the steam whistle style
Of the female cause-monger. 1t has
quite bit of marrying and remarry-
ing in 1t, however. and so may well be
popular.
The era in question lin case you
want to know is the one which be-
gan with the Bull Moose campaign of
1912 and ended in the well-known
postwar years. The heroine. rightly
enough, is the type which in future,
more discerning years may come to
symbolic pre-war America-the lady