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ture chiefs really deserves to be added
to the already voluminous literature
of Hollywood absurdity. It came to
little, however. for, as he says, "lt
was heading for Broadway . when
a strange voice was heard-a voice
that was heard around the world. 1t
has never died down 1t was al
Jolson's voice in the movies. Sound
had arrived"
However, sound did not end the
possibilities of underseas photography
Mr.. Williamson made collections for
museums, explored the ocean floor and
did still other absorbing things. His
book is good reading. And its pic
lures are marvellous.
SPRING STORM. BY Alvin johnson
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
IN THIS book the eminent head oi
the New School for Social Re-
search has done pretty little story
about love and youth on midwestern
farm. It wavers nicely between Its
realism in treating of such matters as
getting the weeds plowed under and
the crops in, and its sweetness in por-
traying scenes Of human emotion. II
has, therefore, the sturdy qualities OF
an epic of the soil Git would be about
the hundredth epic this season. and
the pleasing optimism Of a novel Of
college love. The two are not often
found in conjunction and one cannot
but applaud the novelty Of the idea.
It is the story Of the awakening to
maturity of young man who has
been transplanted to the farm toe
late in his boyhood ever to be quite
o farmer. He is shockingly nice
person, even in his transgressions. He
steals his friends wife, but remains,
none the less, the incurable little
gentleman. AS background to his
perfections DR.. johnson has assembled
q chorus Of rude yokels who talk as
stage yokels ever do.
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essentially, the society Of the cave
man. Perhaps it has grown worse, in
steadof better.
Certainly this will be q strange
world century hence If anything re-
motely approaching the physical prog
ress of the last century can be dupli.
Gated in the fields Of life and spirit.
One mans guess is as good as an
others. Here the professor of chem
ical engineering at Yale speculates
most boldly and most entertainingly.
In spite Of all biology and psychol-
ogy can do, he points out, mankind Of
2036 will be about the same as man.
kind Of 1886. There isn't much that
science can do toward improving man
himself. There are possible tech
niques-such as eugenics and new sys-
TENS of education. Blu. there is no
goal whatsoever. Nobody has the
slightest valid idea of what sort OF
humankind will be desirable in the
future. In animals, DR.. Flrnas points
out, it requires about 80 generations to
establish a hereditary strain. Sup
posing the leading citizens OF 80 gen.
erations ago had set out to mold the
race according to the ideals Of the
time. It is appalling to think of the
sort of race we would have today. 1t
is no more valid to assume that the
present ideals will be more suitable for
1886 than those of 1900 were for 1900.
But in the organization Of society,
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dignity and their ephemeral nature
they represent men at work. Humbly,
but none the less definitely, they be-
speak the stimulus which politics i'm
parts to the publishing industry.
Topping the list of political pub
fishing in point of dignity and po-
tential profit as those books which
take as their theme land very like the
title. too), BLANK, the Man."
THESE find their subjects, Of course,
among the candidates for the
presidency. Seekers of lesser Offices
rarely are regarded. even by their
press agents, as worthy subjects for
biographical treatment which takes
the enduring form of book. But.
let a man get serious mention or con-
sideration for the honor Of repre-
senting one of the major parties, and
he qualities almost Immediately for
a life story bound between cardboard
covers.
There Is, indeed, a race between
writing rivals to see who can be first
to tell the world of-well, BLANK, the
Man." Cheering on the competitors
in these odd contests are publishers
who have possibly a considerable stake
in getting the manuscript into book
form. It does not always follow that
the loser in such a race IS entirely
without reward. Occasionally, If he
is able to convince the publisher that
the first biography is no good-the
fact of haste in its publication usually
is one Of the points cited-he can
find one to sponsor q second con-
tribution to the body politics knowl-
edge of BLANK, the Man."
There are two sides, Of course, to
every story, and that of individual
political candidates is no exception.
It has happened in every campaign
that the unflattering side of the can
didate's career lends itself to an even
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lore aggressive biographical treat

more aggressive biographical treat
uent.
Life stories of the seekers after high
est Office, therefore, can take one Of
two forms, pro or anti.
The current campaign so far finds
only one candidate having been given
both forms Of attention. That candi-
date is Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose
writing foes have sought to block his
path to reelection by volumes critical,
not Of the President personally, but
rather Of his performance and policies.
Other campaign biographies, those
Of Senator Borah, Col. Frank Knox
and Gov Alfred Landon of Kansas.
have fallen into the constructive"
category.
WHO writes the more dignified,
w scholarly forms Of campaign lit
erature?
An examination Of their works dis
closes that they fall into three groups
men with big names though not
necessarily with established literary
regulations, professional writers
with a zeal for political causes. and
professional writers with a zeal for
hitting the market at the right time
with the right story. The lines Of
demarcation are not always percepti-
BILE and occasionally the political biog-
rapher could fit into any or all three
of the molds.
Behind political biography are two
assumptions of compelling interest to
any one who examines it closely.
The first Of these is that for all the
prominence which is so large a factor
in the mere mention of Blank, the
man" for the presidency. there is a
vast, almost universal, unfamiliarity
with his career. This, too in spite of
the fact that newspapers, individually
and collectively, set their stats to ex-
ploring virtually every minute of every
candidates career, from cradle to con-
vention.
In their introductions to the public,
these volumes are exploited in the
manner of news-something fresh and
Of compelling concern which hap
pened this very day. Behind that
attitude of their sponsors, to a large
extent, is the brevity of the period
in which the majority of such books
will have a natural market. The
period lasts, of course, only such time
as it takes the books subject to appear
on the political horizon and disap-
pear again. Sometimes that period is
short, indeed.
The second assumption is that DO
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By F. Jay Carmody.

IT TAKES q great deal Of writing,
as well as talking. to make politi-
cal campaign. In all truth, the
i quadrennial political race that
holds out the White House as the
major prize gives the entire publish
ing industry q hllip that contrasts
sharply with the apathy it often in
duces in other fields Of human enter
prise.
That applies all the way from the
small-town print shop with its hand
press to the largest literature factories
Of the country. They grind out a
radically varied product, but the point
is that they grind.
Essentially, the vast body Of litera-
ture to which o presidential campaign
gives birth is Of an interpretative
character. Every candidate from the
least to the greatest, from the town
council candidate to the seeker Of the
presidency, is likely to become q sub
ject Of q written Interpretation. So,
likewise, Is every issue. from that
which is purely local to that which will
nave repercussions in the farthest
reaches Of mans world.
Hand bills and posters from the job
printing press will take care of the
vast majority Of men and issues in a
literary way, but for all their lack Of
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taking man as he is for granted. there
is plenty of opportunity for improve
ment. Just at present it seems to be
going from bad to worse, and al
ready titanic experiments have been
launched to see what can be done
about it. They are costly in money
and happiness, for the time being-but
experimentation is the only road Of
science and science is the only ve-
hicle of progress.
On the whole, DR.. Furnas has pro-
duceo as sane and fine a piece Of
prophecy as Is likely to emerge from
the present middle of mems thinking.
T. r. H.
TOMORROW TO FRESH FIELDS.
BY Mary Master Needham. New
York: Horizon House.
THIS is a bitterly wrathful book
against war, its protest being
based on what ought to be the most
effective anti-war material-that is,
the horrors of the last conflict. Mrs.
Needham recalls these horrors from
personal memory. Her husband, a
journalist, was killed while covering
Zeppelin raid. She herself worked
both during and after hostilities in
places which allowed her to see the
destruction wreaked on military forces
and civil populations. She was dec
GRATED for her services with the
Medaille de Ia Reconnaissance. She
began her work animated by the
usual energetic patriotism, and ended
it convinced that the war had &C.
complished nothing-not even its
late-avowed aim to lend future war"
As she saw it, 1t was an utter waste.
And so she writes, in wrathful Bit
terness, telling how her change OF at
titude came about as an object les
son against misguided enthusiasts in
the future. Her story covers her ex-
periences from 1914 to the signing OF
the Versailles treaty. It has, unfor-
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A "Self-Portrait" in wood Is delib-
erately elongated and SO takes on the
aspect of caricature; a Nude" in
stone. is revoltingly. and quite un-
necessarily, vulgar and ugly. Surely,
from such works the visitor can only
acquire distaste and depression.
Auriel BeSSemer to Exhibit.
AN EXHIBITION of paintings and
drawings by Auriel Bessemer will
be held in the studio Of Ethel Hoff-
man Kane. 1929 G street, tomorrow,
April 26, from to o'clock in the
afternoon. Mr.. Bessemer began his
art education in Washington in 1922,
later studying at the National Acad-
emy of Design. New York. He has
won several important scholarships
and other awards. Among the pencil
drawings to be shown will be por-
traits of Mrs. Duncan Phillips and
Miss Alice Graeme. He has pro-
duced a large mural for one of the
halls in the Museum of Natural His.
tory, New York.
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Richard r. Smith. The president Of
the American Society Of Plastic Sur
geons writes Of what can be done to
rebuild character through his spe-
cialty. Sometimes rather startling.
THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF
TYPOGRAPHY. BY Stanley Morri-
son. New York: The Macmillan Co.
Publication in book form Of an essay
which appeared in 1880 in "The
Fleuron." Called by the printer to
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STORIES OF "BLANK, THE MAN,
Are Deugng the Book Market These Days Presidential
Candidates Find Bographers, but Few Ever Make Best
Seller Lists Against Sturdy Competition.

litical biography has q potentially
large market. Did they not think
this to be the case, professional
writer's would not waste their time
in the production of such volumes, nor
would astute publishers give a mo-
ment's thought to their publication.
Rarely, if ever, however. does the
body polite show sufficient interest
to give such books more than a
negligible sale.
At the present moment there are
number Of political biographies in
the book stalls and on the stands.
but there are none on the best-seller
lists; not even at the bottom of them.
"The Living Jefferson" by James
Truslow Adams, has climbed well up
on the non-fiction list in Just a few
weeks, but none OF the life stories
or interpretations of the current can
didates for the presidency has ap-
preached doing SO well. 1t is possible
that they may. but highly improbable.
Past performance by similar volumes
makes the odds against them doing
so great indeed.
THE nearest thing to piece Of CAM
paign literature on the best-seller
list is book which deals with poll
cies rather than personalities, James
P. Warburg's Hell Bent for Election"
And. while the political pot boils
furiously in this country, the preferred
list Of non-flction shows that the
American reader-and voter, presum-
ably-is considerably concerned with
Europe, the Arctic. China and even
little Sweden. Books on all those
countries are being devoured while
those relating to subjects, personal and
otherwise, closer to home are being
sold in significantly lesser quantity.
The topical volumes which are
proving more popular than the liter
airy products of Americas political
year differs from the latter in that
they represent more careful workman
ship; in that they are more like books
and less like hastily prepared stories
which read not unlike the same stories
as told in the daily newspapers.
Your political biographer, on the
average. although there are and al
ways have been some notable excep-
tions, does not have time for a deep
analysis of Mr.. Blank. He must rush
into print with nothing more than
the facts which, he hopes, will speak
for themselves. He may do a credit
able job. but it is not of the same
order of success attained by bio
graphical works of a more painstak-
ing scholarship,
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tunately, that nervous pounding quail
ity which women inspired for cause
often impart to their writings. How
ever, If the reader can forgive that, it
is a sufficiently impressive work.
20 YEARS UNDER THE SEA. BY
j. E. Williamson. New York: Hale
Cushman and Flint.
THIS is a lively and interesting
work. It tells, as the reader may
guess, of the undersea experiences CT
the sufficiently eminent discoverer Of
undersea motion pictures. Beginning
with his initial experiment, made un-
der Chesapeake Bay 20 years ago,
Mr.. Williamson carries the account of
his research into the possibilities be-
fore the undersea photographer down
to the present time. His method is
not bewilderingly scientific. On the
contrary, he has fine fair for good
yarn Che began life as reporter. in
cidentally). He tells of fights with
sharks. of what you may expect Of a
devil fish. of how it feels to see a
diver suddenly sink into quicksand as
he walks over the ocean floor, of the
sensations of being caught in
tropic hurricane and Of still other as
poets of his career which will have
an undoubted interest for the casual
reader. And all the time, Of course,
he Is telling of the building Of an
unique profession, and of developing
that profession from nothing until he
became pre-eminent in it.
One of the high points Of his career
was the filming Of Jules Verne's
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under
the Sea-" He made his own version
Of the story first, an incident in the
making being an accident wherein ne
almost blew up the Governor Of the
Bahamas. Later Hollywood decided
to make million dollar" version
and Mr.. Williamson's weary account
of his negotiations with the great pic
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Oxford University the pocket tesla
ment Of the craft"
MARK RIGHT BY Nash Buck
ingham. New York: The Derrydale
Press. Tales of shooting and fishing,
trifie sentimental in treatment.
LA TOILETTE ROAD TO COM
MUNIsM. BY John B. Chapple.
Ashland. Wis: Published by the
author. A vitriolic attack on the pol
icies of Senator La Toilette by the
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mended by the court to support his
wife after the bonds Of wedlock are
dissolved, or by the juvenile court
to support his children, IS always
eligible.
A ND so it is you find him In the
late afternoon, after the days
work. playing a few rubbers of bridge
by the windows of the dormitory,
overlooking the river. He may read.
or listen to the radio, or play cards
in the evening, or merely sit about
discussing monogamy, polygamy,
women, love, alimony and other
allied subjects. He may attend the
movies in the rotunda about once a
month. But he may never go out
doors, even under guard.
Alirnony prisoners are inclined to
be talkative, Supt. Rives says. They'll
tell you the trials of matrimony, both
before and after. at the smallest ex-
cuse. There seems to be a consensus
among the embittered ex-benedictS
under his jurisdiction that the great.
est of these come afterward.
He appears to be happy for the
time in his womanleSs world, the
women prisoners being confined in
another section of the jail where he
never catches sight Of one. He works
all day. earning no money to pay his
alimony, but rewarded by having
roast veal and dressing for dinner.
perhaps. rather than chilli and tea.
1t isn't the money he cares about.
It's the principle of the thing.
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The Man Pays

Continued From First Page.)
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Lne grOunQ tlldI, W GuIOpcdiIo, IL cccIilo
absurd"
A benevolent-sounding theme from
which to bring forth so bloody book,
certainly. And an admirable philos-
ophy from which to develop SO 'des-
perate a game as that which occupied
Mr.. Hides. Happily, distance lends
enchantment. The reader, safely
aware that it happened thousands of
miles away. can follow the game with
no worse effect than meditation on the
inescapable absurdity of the admit
tedly human species.
THE NEXT HUNDRED YEARS. BY
c. c. Furnas. New York: Reynal
g. Hitchcock.
THE world of 1896 differs materially
= from the world of 1885 more than
the world of 1895 differed from the
world Of 1856.
How about 2o36? Dr. Furnas, in his
entertaining volume Of scientific spec
ulation, presents some conservative de-
ductions from the present to the fu-
ture.
BY and large, as has been stressed
often enough In the past few years
mankind is not much better Oh
through its mastery Of material nature
It Is, on the whole, better fed, better
clothed, better housed-but less Sc
cure and certainly no happier. So OF
late there has been an increasing de-
rnand that the methods which pro.
duced such undreamed of miracles in
the physical sciences be applied more
vigorously in the biological and social
sciences. Man has not improved in q
century, nor in o hundred centuries.
Can he be improved? Society Is still.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-12-24
BITTINGER

A considerable demand for turkeys
sprung up in this section during the
past week. Literally hundreds of the
birds were sold by the various grow
ers, mostly to out-of-county markets.
The series of services recently con-
Quoted in the Glades Mennonite church
by Revs. Leman and Metsler, closed
last Friday evening. The meetings
were we'll attended and resulted in six
accessions to the church.
Ebert Buckle, of Wanakena, N. Y,
returned to his home here last Sun
day evening for the Christmas season.
Beulah Buckle, who has been en-
ployed in Akron, o., for some weeks,
returned to her home here last Sun
day morning.
Walter Krause, Cumberland, spent
the weekend with his family here.
A surprise party was given in honor
of Mrs. Dennis Brenneman's birth
day last Thursday evening, and was
quite well attended.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clark Brenneman were
shopping in Oakland last Friday after
noon.
Oliver Beachy motored to Meyers
dale, Pa, on business last Saturday
evening.
Much to the qualification and con-
venience of the residents of this neigh
borhood, the road authorities have been
using snow plows on the main road
between this village and Grantsville
Clarence Stephen marketed a large
number of turkeys, of his own rails
ing, in Pittsburgh, early this week.
Messrs. George Stark and Robert
Brenneman, of this village, furnished
music for the Saturday evening enter
tainment at Lake Side Inn, last Satur-
day evening.
The snow fall last Saturday anc
Sunday was sufficient to block roads
with snow drifts.
Inclement weather and impossible
roads made it necessary to postpone
the bazaar and oyster supper, adver.
tised by the Woman's Missionary
Society last Saturday evening.
We extend greetings and best wish
es for a Merry Christmas to The Re
publican, to all who produce it, and al
who read it.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-12-24
Six Killed In Air Crash

Six men were killed at Dallas, Tex,
yesterday when a Braniff Air Lines
ten-passenger ship crashed and burned
half mile from the municipal airport
All victims were officials or employees
of the lines. The ship had been taken
up for a routine test after motor
replacement.
The dead were Don Walbridge, oper-
ations manager; Sterling Perry, super
intendent of maintenance; W. 7
Chambers, crew chief; Paschal Flor
ence, Hubert Dame and Fred Sleeper
mechanics.
Charles E. Hanst, Kingwood fiier
and brother of Geoge Hanst and Mrs
D. R. Sincell, Oakland, left Kingwooc
two weeks ago for Texas where he Sc,
cured a position with the Braniff lines
as plane dispatcher. He was persuaded
to go to Texas by Walbridge, with
whom Hanst had previously worked il
Kansas City.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-12-24
Ross COddingtOn, Friendsville, In
vOlVed In Fatal Wreck Near
UniOntOWn

Ross Coddington, 81, of Friendsville,
was involved in an automobile accident
at a point on Route 40, near Union
town, early this week which caused the
death of one man.
According to information gathered
in Oakland the young man was driv-
ing a truck eastward on Route 40 and
was trailing a State road truck on
which men were engaged in shoveling
cinders to the icy highway.
While attempting to pass the truck
his vehicle skidded, ramming the State
toad truck and causing two of the
workmen to fall out on the roadway
He stopped and rendered all the assis-
tance possible, taking the men to the
hospital. He was later placed under ar
rest and fined $40 and costs on a charge
of reckless driving. The next day at
his home he was informed that one OF
the two men had died.
Coddington left for Uniontown yes
terday to surrender to the authorities
1t is possible that he may be held on
the charge of manslaughter.
He is son of Marcellus Coddington
of Friendsville, and is looked upon as
being one of the most Industrious and
best behaved youths Of the community
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-12-24

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