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depend on volunteer donors. Chill
dren,s Hospital has Just short pro-
fessional list, most of its blood also
coming from volunteers.
WHAT SORT Of people are these
y" blood donors? Well, they may
be men or women. though the men
far outnumber the women. Women's
veins aren't SO good for TRANSMISSION.
according to the Emergency Hospital
laboratory. although mothers are often
used to give transflisions to their tiny
babies. The donors may be 18 or a
or As years old. They may be 200
Founders or little men who might be
jockeys. They are often students,
working their way through school.
and going back to classes one hour
after the TRANSMISSION, little weak
kneed but happy because they have
money in their pockets. They are
often internes, very occasionally
nurses.
The professional donors may be
statesmen or plumbers or government
clerks. You see, they can't make .
living y It. thsy have to have other
Evening star., 1936-01-05
Farm Income Grows.

DURING November the aggregate
income of the farmers of the
country in crop payments and Federal
benefit checks was $500 0,000, 900, a fig-
ure which was of $l36, 100000 from
October, but showed a gain over No
vember of 1884 Of about $4,000, 900.
There is usually a marked decline
in farm income from October to No
vember and the decrease this year was
just slightly greater than usual" says
the Bureau of Agricultural Economics.
Income from crops declined slightly
more than seasonally, whereas income
from live stock and live stock prod
ucts was unchanged, in contrast to the
usual slight seasonal increase"
The ore-than-seasonal decline In
income from crops is attributed mainly
to sharp decreases In income from
wheat, fruits and tobacco. Cotton in
come, on account of higher cotton
prices, decreased less than seasonally.
Reduced income from all types Of meat
animals was Offset by increased prices
Of whole milk and butterfat and
marked increase In the seasonally ad-
justed income from eggs.
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moving figure and her story must needs
be told before her son can be intro
duced. The present volume includes
the original three novels. In Players
Passed BY" the youth of the mother is
set down. In Melody of Distant
Things" we have the story of her mar
riage and the youth of her son. In
Dance Around the Gallows." the sons
life comes to its tragic end. All three
volumes had an immense popularity in
Holland.
The scene is eighteenth century Italy
-Umbria and Venice. Unlike many
writers of historical novels, MynheeS'
Fabricius has given a realistic and
credible background for his characters
without seeming to introduce the con-
tents of museums. One believes in his
inns, cathedrals and palaces without
effort. One reads the talk of his vast
assemblage of characters with no SEN
sation that their creator is proud Of his
accomplishment as research worker.
One does wonder, however. at times
why he placed his story against the
particular setting. With a few adjust
ments 1t could have been a modern
tale-and somehow the significance OF
the historical setting, subdued as 1t Is,
is not quite clear.
Again, unlike most novels set in the
past, as we get them today, 1.-The Son
of Marietta" although it may be de-
scribed as a romance, is not of the
swashbuckling manner. 1t is sad tale,
deriving its pathos from delicate
psychological nuances rather than
from violent action. The tragedy Of
the mother, for example, lay in the ir-
articulateness that existed between her
and her foster-father, who became.
briefly, her lover. A high churchman,
a man much older than herself, he
failed to understand the selflessness of
her devotion, and she, in awe Of HIM
but proud, could not make him under
stand. The result was mistrust on his
part and an unforgettable wound to
the heart on hers.
Such delicate shadowing as this
gives the tale its prevailing mood, a
mood of sorrow over the failure Of hu-
man beings to understand one another
and take the humble values that dre
to hand. Young Benedette dies on the
gallows and the author remarks simply
of him, when he Is led out to his death,
His eyes were the eyes Of one who had
spent long time in prison and had re-
tained no real conception Of the world
outside" an adequate commentary or
the imprisonment of every human
being within himself, his desires, his
loves and his hates.
1t is a great piece of work, truly. Do
not read it, though. unless you are
willing to spend a long time sitting in
Mynheer Fabricius' private theater
and to submit to his Judgment as he
moves his puppets about.
MEN AND BRETHREN. BY James
Gould Cozzens. New York: Har-
court Brace g. Co.
TT MAY be a curse to have written
greatly in ones youth; 1t certainly
Is a curse to have done so If one
writes only well thereafter. James
Gould Cozzens, be 1t said apropos Of
this, is the author of that incompar-
able tale, as. S. San Pedro" And
against that gorgeous writing, any
thing that he has done since Is only
good. If 1t were not for rs. s. San
Pedro" one might be praising this
novel fairly highly. AS it is, one just
sits back and remembers.
Struggling out of ones reminis-
cences, however, one can say that
Men and Brethren" Is interesting. It
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7 LIKEWISE, the heads of the Division

of Investigation Of the Depart
ment of Justice have followed a policy
of "see all, hear all, and write little" :"
The annual report of Director J. Edgar
Hoover is brief and to the point.
After looking at one Of these midget
reports, real contrast can be encoun-
tered by getting q good view of the
reports issued by the War Department
back in the 80s. Anybody who sees
those volumes which made their pom
derous appearances when folks had a
lot Of time for reading, can have no
doubt that they set marks which never
have been eclipsed.
The report issued by the military
in the avowedly peace-time year of
1889 now stands on the shelves Of the
Library Of Congress in all the expan-
siveness Of its eight large volumes.
Only slightly less ample are the ban
quets for bookworms telling of the
deeds of the disciples CfsMars in the
equally warless years of 1884 and 1885.
1t was that sort Of thing. continued
on quite the same great scale, that
caused Theodore Roosevelt to issue an
order from the White House, which,
for a time, throttled the official out
pouring of words. But noticeable as
was the shrinkage In the size Of the
reports following issuance of the man
date, some of them still could be seen
a block away when President Taft had
passed two or three years in the White
House.
It Is recorded that Mr.. Taft had
something to say one day after he had
been searching through one of the
elephantine volumes for some tnforma-
ton he was sure it contained. "1f you
want to hide anything" he said, while
he paused to rest his weary eyes, put
it in an annual report!"
In those days the chiefs Of each
Government bureau, no matter how
small, issued reports which were
printed separately and then were all
printed again in those great tonnages
of the time issued as reports Of the
members of the cabinet.
A member of the staff of the Library
of Congress, rather puzzled by the fact
that anybody should even think Of
those venerable Goliaths of bookdom,
acted as guide on tour of the shelves
upon which they have stood without
molestation while many fiscal years
have passed.
More than Q score Of shelves, each
Of which is about the length Of q
shoplifter's arm, are required to sup
port the War Department reports. Six
shelves for the Navy Department re-
ports and five for those of the Post
ONCE Department, with newer depart
ments In proportion, are other space
requirements.
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As such, It does not read like any
other biography which this reviewer
can remember and, far from clearing
up the mystery about the ornaments
salesman to Europe at large, sue
ceeds in making him more vague and
incredible than ever. For in most
of the important phases Of the Ia
haroff career, it develops, the facts
have either totally disappeared or
else have been made to appear In
mutually nullifying sets. In the mat
ter of birth, for example (and it seems
curious that anyone would be averse
to admitting that he had been born,
but apparently this Is not true Of the
shy Sir BasiD, there are four fairly
complete accounts, all different. By
these the present knight Of the Brit
Sh Empire may have been a Greek.
a Jew or q Russian, he may have seen
the hight Of day in q wealthy home,
a disreputable suburb or a peasant
village. and he may have entered on
his worldly career either in 1849 or
1851. At various times he seems to
have Endorsed at least three of these
versions himself as being correct.
Mr.. Neumann, pursuing this fam
tastic and, one is obliged to admit,
fascinating bogey, interviewed scores
of personal acquaintances, drawing
them from the highest and lowest
ranks. He pored over the minutes
of hearings and conferences of inter-
national import; he tracked his
quarry up the alleys Of the shadiest
quarters Of Near Eastern cities. And
he demonstrates the difficulties he
encountered by giving verbatim the re-
plies of various acquaintance Of the
man Of mystery to the same not
very complicated questions. They are
fatty contradictory and, says Mr..
Neumann, they were all made in per-
feet good faith. Just what Sir Basil
is like, the reader must conclude, is
something which the ordinary proc
esses of observation cannot take in
and that, more than anything else,
explains his career.
Yet through all this contradiction
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Tea Board Renamed.

ONE Government board has been
reappcinted to serve another term.
this board being the Federal board OF
tea experts who are charged with set
ting the standards for tea for the
coming year starting May ist. The
work OF this board calls for O MAXI
mum Of training and experience a.
well as q discriminating taste. Secre-
tary Wallace, in announcing the re.
appointment Of the board, stated that
his action was based on a desire 10
have as experienced group in charge
Of the work as possible.
The board Of seven Is composed Of
one Federal representative, three per-
sons from the Atlantic Seaboard, two
from the Pacific and one from the In
terror Of the country. Those renamed
are Edward Bransten, San Francisco;
Walter Hellyer, Chicago; A. P. Irwin,
Philadelphia; Robert A. Lewis, Bos-
ton: ]. H. Swenarton, New York City:
John w. vaux, Seattle, and Charles
r. Hutchinson. chief tea examiner.
New York CITY. =
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By Mary Jane Moore.

"A VOW is the time for all good
men to take look at their
VI country and, particularly, at
4 their country's officials. They
will find view which comes once
each year when custom lifts its head
high and calls for Government ex-
ecutives to act like authors.
More than a gross Of books contain
ing hosts of sentences and statistics
with which Federal dignitaries and
their subordinates have wreStled for
many weeks, now are coming from
the press in q mass of almost half a
million copies. These books, some
the size and shape Of brick, treat
at length of deeds and plans asso-
ciated with that contrivance Of leg
islators and auditors known as "the
fiscal year."
Appearance Of the tones marks the
end of a period during which the
country's executives have suffered Sc
verely from fits of rhetoric and their
stenographers have looked wanly at
cramped fingers. And anterooms Of
their Offices have heard the statement,
HE is working on his annual report
and can't see you today" until they
are weary of its sound.
While all this has been going on.
sordid commercialism has been sitting
at the top Of q distant hill; for no
thought Of pecuniary profit is to be
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The law has been telling him that
for decade; but he and hundreds of
his fellows who head governmental
agencies are passing right by the
kindly suggestion this year.
THE Secretary Of State Is the only
member Of the cabinet who
knows about annual reports only by
hearsay. Only once since the coun-
try was founded has person holding
that position joined the ranks Of
yearly reporters. That was in 1895
when Secretary Olney broke the re-
straints Of century.
To an outsider who never has been
burdened with the diplomatic stick
and spats, the assumption Is that the
doings and sayings Of the Depart
ment of State during fiscal year In
clude many bits that may be men
toned only behind white gloves and
must be heard only beneath high
hats. That being the case, these
things cannot be made the subjects
Of official retrospection in the man
ner adopted, for instance, for COM
pilation of treatise on the operation
Of post Offices.
So it is that officially printed pages
may tell of mines, taxes, bears, tides
and myriad other things with which
Federal minds engross themselves
during fiscal year, but must remain
quite mum about the tinctures of di-
plomacy.
A mind that finds some sort of en-
tertainment in learning about crime
and the catching of criminals very
naturally may leap to the conclusion
that there must be much Of interest
in the reports which have been issued
by the heads OF Federal agencies
which employ sleuths. Notable among
such agencies are the Secret Service
unit of the Treasury Department and
the Division of Investigation in the
Department of Justice.
Any idea that the reports of chiefs
OF these agencies contain long and
enhancing descriptions of how law
breakers are wheedled into the
clutches Of justice is speedily dis
PEELED.
Even 80 or 40 years ago, when Gov
eminent officials gave form to reports
so large they could be used to hold
any door open against the strongest
wind, the boss Of the Secret Service
was almost content to list the arti-
cles that had been confscated by his
steeiy-eyed minions, cite types Of
counterfeit coins and bills that had
been discovered. include some stats
tics on arrests, and let it 60 at that.
With these chores completed, there
was little inclination to divulge much
about sensational captures and the
unraveling Of mysteries.
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jobs. The various hospitals have diff
ferent ideas about how often donor
should give blood, but none recon-
mends more than once month and
most suggest once in six weeks. Some
youngsters think they can make their
living but find out their mistake.
Emergency reports calling one of its
professional donors for work on case
and getting the reply from a friend,
s"Oh, he's in the hospital getting a
TRANSMISSION"
And although they do not mention
1t, the professionals often contribute
their blood when regular volunteers
cannot be found. ,
Washington's volunteer donors in
.clude not only the large number Of
individuals who hear an isolated ap-
peal for help over the radio or soften
up at the sight of q sick baby's pic
ture in the paper. Groups Of volun-
teers have organized into charity
blood squads, always ready on call and
as businesslike about it Is though
they were getting pay other than
gratitude.
There Is the international Rescuse
Association. which haa . squad of ~
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donors, men and women. Organized
In 1882 by Capt. F. J. Dimmick, be-
cause, he says, he was interested in
welfare work and saw the need for
such squad, they have given 164
transfusions. Capt. Dimmick. q num-
ber one type, gave IL transfusions
last year. His squads card is kept
on hand by Emergency and Gallinger
and other hospitals. The associa-
ton also runs inexpensive anibu-
lance, disqualification and burial
services.
The squad gave 26 transfusions to
one very Ill boy. and Capt. Dimmick
gave two to q little girl, for whom 100
unsuccessful matching tests had been
made.
Policemen of the District are now
forbidden to give transfusions to any
but members of their immediate fami-
lies, but firemen or nearby communi-
ties go in for it in a big way.
Being volunteer f1remen, they are
also volunteer blood donors, at least
in Kensington, Rockville and Mount
Rainier. The Kengsington Fire Depart
ment's volunteer blood unit was or
sauyed IN April. 1888. Tcrty-two uaen
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Story Transfusion Washington Hospitals Makes Dramatic Tale

in that department were typed and
volunteered to give blood in charity
cases in Montgomery County and the
District. To date, the have given Sc
transfusions. Other fire companies
followed suit.
THE BIGGEST man In the Ken
- sington unit weighs 220 and stands
almost six feet; the smallest, weighs
110, but has given four or hve trans.
flsio1s.
If an emergency call for blood
comes to the unit at night and
the only man available of the right
type doesn't have q phone the siren
ON the firehouse goes shrieking into
the night The firemen rush out,
tugging at suspenders, and the donor
is notified. Sometimes, when they
can't get an automobile, they dash
into town in the fire truck-they did
ON q hurry call to Georgetown Hos
pital few weeks ago. However, that
isn't such good business. they admit,
because there just might be o fire In
Kensington while the truck Is away.
About the most unusual case the
CONTINUED on Tenth Page.l a
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By Dorothea J. Leu,is.
THE ambulance's siren dies away

THE ambulance's siren dies away
and the phone in the hospital
laboratory rings sharply.
The doctors voice says, Accident
emergency-blood TRANSMISSION needed
right away"
This is q rush job, but q TRANSMISSION
is one operation that cannot be hur-
ried. The patients blood Is tested to
discover which of the four general
types 1t is, for the blood to be given
must match that of the patient.
TYPE four" says the laboratory.
Now they are ready for q hood
donor. Are there any, relatives or
friends ready to give their blood? II
there are, well and good. They are
tested and if the blood matches the
TRANSMISSION Is done.
But If there aren't any relatives
and friends, can the patient afford to
pay $25 for q pint Of blood from q
professional donor. or must volunteer
donors be sought?
Professional donors are already
typed, 20, If the money is available.
. call 10 put irAyfor . number four
IL
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seen anywhere in the endeavor. Be-
fore the first sentence of the first re-
port is dictated everybody knows that
few of the documents are going to
find more than handful Of pur-
chasers. This, despite the fact that
bargain prices prevail, with most Of
the reports available at and 10 cents
copy.
The law, in its firm way, tells each
official who is in a position to write
about what he and his conferees have
done that he cannot have more than
5000 copies Of his report printed.
Nearly always the full number Is or
dered.
The law, in a more lenient mood,
also tells each official he can forego,
If he so desires, the entire business of
having his annual revelation printed.
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some controversy, too. But 1t Is a
far, far cry from San Pedro"
ZAHAROFF. BY Robert Neumann
New York: Alfred A. Knpf.
THIS book, on its authors confes-
= sion, is only an attempted biog-
raphy. Its subject, the mythical
armaments king. the reputed "rich-
est man in the world" Sir Basil
zaharoff, seems to have devoted both
his means and indubitable genius to
the bafiling Of historians-for what
reason he alone knows best. The re-
suit of his efforts has been that the
present writer, coming to his quest
has found the most fantastic material
imaginable to deal with, and his book
has become scarcely more of history
of a man than of a pursuit-his own
pursuit of subject matter.
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BOOKS RECEIVED.


JESUS AS TEACHER. BY Henry B.
Sharman. New York: Harper g.
Bros.
THE ESTATES GENERAL OF 1883.
BY Mitchell B. Garrett. New York:
D. Appleton Century Co.
THE DIVINE LAW OF DISTRIBU-
TION OF LABOR AND PROD
UCTs OF LABOR. BY Colin Nc
Larty. New York: The Business
Bourse.
AN APPRECIATION OF WILL ROC
ERS. BY David Randolph Milsten.
With Preface by Tom Mix. San
Antonio: The Naylor Co.
BACK TO THE CONSTITUTION OR
FORWARD WITH IT? Reprinted
From the Literary Digest. New
York: Funk & Wagnalls Co.
THRILLS AND SPILLS. BY Ivan J.
Stretten. Philadelphia: The Asso-
ciated Management Service.
THE STORY OF THE NEGRO RE-
TOLD. BY Carter Goodwin Wood
son. Washington: The Associated
Publishers, Inc.
FICTIONS.
TOWN GIRL. BY Elizabeth Carfrae.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
DIE SHE MUST. By Baroness Won
Hutton. New York: E. p. Dutton
& Co.
REBOUND. BY Freeman Lincoln. New
York: Coward McCann, Inc.
THE IRON GARDEN. BY Simon Blu
menfeld. Garden City: Doubleday,
Doran & Co.
POETRY.
SONGS FROM THE SLUMS. BY Ka-
gawa. Nashville: Cokesbury Press.
DRAMA.
NEGRO HISTORY IN THIRTEEN
PLAYS. BY Willis Richardson and
May Miller. Washington: The As
sociated Publishers, Inc.
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a figure does appear, II dim of out
line. still unmistakable. It is the
figure of a cynic so complete that
his cynicism has reached point Of
genius In itself. It is the figure of a
man who could traffic in instruments
of wholesale destruction with perfectly
sincere detachment. And yet, most
curiously, it is not the outline Of one
superior to human weaknesses or even
to human follies. Indeed, If one
characteristic can be traced through
out his career OF extraordinary eva
sions, 1t would seem to be the feeblest
of all our vanities-snobbery. His
secrecy as to his beginnings does not
wipe out a pretty definite suspicion
that he was of mongrel blood. humble
parentage and severely limited edu-
cation, nor conceal evidence that his
youth was spent in bitterly squalid
circumstances. And his improvisa-
tons on these themes, subsequently
modifying them to roster and roster
tones, is Of such a nature as to bring
one to conclude that the richest man
in the world" has longed desperately
at times ito belong" The combina-
ton of callous strength and callow
ambition is homehow quantity embar-
RAISING.
On the whole Mr.. Neumann has
made fascinating story of his pur-
suit of this elusive creature. It should
be read by anyone who believes that
the world is an amusing and loath-
some spot.
WILLIAM MALONE OF VIRGINIA.
By Nelson M. Blake. Richmond:
Garrett & Massie.
THIS book, by the assistant ma
tional archivist, Is described by its
publishers as comprehensive, un-
prejudiced" biography of man who
has been called the most outrageously
maligned character in Virginia his
tory" Like most biographies written
to correct popular impressions. how
ever, it bears evidence of its authors
Continued on Twelfth Page.)
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THE SON OF MARIETTA. BY John
Fabricius. Translated from the
Dutch by Irene Clephane and David
Hallett. Boston: Little Brown &
Co.
WE RECOMMEND this novel with
Nv out qualification. 1t is perfectly
readable.
To be sure, it is not what one may
call a great book. It is, however, a
great piece of work on the part of the
author. Mynheer Fabricius, in telling
his 430, ,000-word tale, has nowhere vio-
lated canon Of taste. His story, de-
spite its length, will absorb the reader,
whether or no. It is a moving tale and
contains passages Of great beauty
even in its translation. If it misses
greatness it would seem to do so
through q curiously distant quality.
One sees the characters as If they
were performing on richly-set stage.
They have recognizably human roles;
they are not theatrical. Yet they are
on a stage, and separated from us by
q proscenium. It is a drama that we
read as we turn the pages. It Is
romantic tragedy. 1t is not life, but
o reflection of life.
With this comment, however, ad-
verse criticism must end. Taken as ro-
mantle tragedy, "The Son Of Marietta"
Is a great piece of work. It tells the
story of Benedetto, son Of Marietta,
who, as an infant, was abandoned by
her actress mother and left in the care
of an Umbrian nn-keeper,s wife. Orig
inally the work was published as tril-
ogy, for Marietta hgself Is 0 lovely and
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