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reliable source for the facts in small
compass.
THE LIFE OF EDGAR ALLAN POE,
Personal and Literary, With His
Chief Correspondence With Men
Of Letters. by G. e. Woodberry.
1909. E.P.753woo. v. 1.
''As an encyclopedia of the profess
sional and private adventures Of Poe.
this new memoir is. indeed, Of the
highest value."-W. B. Blake.
Criticism.
POE AND HIS POETRY, by L. N.
Chase. 1929. EP753c.
Evaluation of Poe's genius in rela-
ton to his poetical work.
LIE GENIE D'EDGAR POE; Ia
legende ct Ia verite, Ia methode
Ia pensee. Influence en- France.
by Camille Mauclair. 1925.
ZYA.P753m.
A French critics estimate Of Poe
and his influence on French itera-
tuIe.
EDGAR ALLAN POE: How to Know
Him. by c. A. Smith. 1921.
ZYAP753s.
"A detailed and informative dis
cussion. The work of Poe as a critic
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Is emphasized somewhat more than
his better known work as Q creative
artist"
Works.
THE BEST KNOWN WORKS OF
EDGAR ALLAN POE. Poems.
tales, essays. criticisms, with new
notes, special biographical intro
duction by Hervey Allen. 1891.
Y.P53a6.
THE BOOK OF POE. Tales. criti-
cism, poems, edited With introduc-
tion by Addison Hibbard. 1929.
Y.P753ah.
THE COMPLETE POEMS OF EDGAR
ALLAN POE, collected, edited and
arranged with memoir, textual
notes and photography by J. H.
Whitty. 1917. YP.P75.
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF Ed
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Of synthetic proteins. the important
feature of animal nourishinenD.
chemists and engineers can be har-
messed to the job of producing essen
tial foodstufTs from chemicals, water
and synthetic sunlight. These would
come, in tabloid form, from great
laboratories, and would render be-
sieged people largely independent in
a war emergency of bulky foodstuffs
which have to be hauled in thou
sands of ships over dangerous oceans
and unloaded at ports exposed to
aerial bombs and gas attack.
the most vital of all his war problems
would be solved.
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Shanghai is described in the fol-
foiUing story by Victor Eubank, Who
has had seperal years experience
In the Far East as an Associated
Press correspondent.
~ the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October 24.-Shanghai
IS the Paris of the Orient, sixth largest
city in the world, the home of sing
song girls. Russian fan dancers and
some of the worlds longest bars and
loudest night clubs.
In its thoroughfares more than 80
different nationalities brush elbows.
The luxurious limousine and the rick
sha run side by side, and the man.
DARN. the coolie and the white mer-
chant from the West mingle on the
Bund.
To get an idea Of Shanghai one
must remember it is not a single city
by itself, but a mixture of several.
Forming the most important part OF
the whole is the International Settle
nent, which houses the greatest cor
porations, banks and buildings in
China.
Second is the French concession.
third the old native city and last, but
hugest Of all, the surrounding uncon-
ceded territory known as Greater
Shanghai, where live more than
100000 Chinese.
Face Busy River.
The International concession and
French concession together are shaped
considerably like Manhattan Island.
The settlement faces on the yellow,
mucky Whangpoo River, on which
thousands of dingy Chinese barges in
termingle with gunboats, freighterS and
ocean passenger liners.
Coming ashore from your ship which
is anchored in the stream near the
Bund, you are reminded of American
cities by the skyscrapers which con-
front you. You are also aSSailed by
what seems like millions of screaming
ricksha boys, who will ride you any
where at any price they can .dig out
of you.
If you are an American, you prob
ably will know a Shanghailander of
that nationality or have a letter of
Introduction to the American Club.
The latter is one of the most popular
institutions of the town, where leading
business men from various nations
gather to discuss the price of silver,
cotton and New York stocks.
Here's the Longest Bar.
You. of course, later will visit the
Shanghai Club, oldest and most sedate
of the city's social centers. Here,
where ginger and bitters vie with the
ancient Scotch and soda, is what is
claimed to be the longest bar to be
found in any country.
Not far away is one of the modern
wonders of China-the Cathay Hotel,
which pyramids up 20 stories to a
tower dominating the Bund. Built
by Sir Victor Sassoon, millionaire
pioneer of the Shanghai boom, this
hostelry is one of the most luxurious
In the Far East and compares favor
ably with any in the United States
and Europe. It. has air-conditioned
ball rooms, tea rooms, restaurants
and bars at which neither New York
nor London can sneer.
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SHANGHAI OFFERS
ODD CONTRASTS.
BustIing Population and
Varied Entertain ment
Marks Paris of Orient.

Shanghai is described In the fol-,
1o,Ding story by Victor Eubank, Who
has had several years. experience
in the Far East as an Associated
Press correspondent.
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The Travellers Notebook
Talking to Ones Self Gets Results abroad.
Inyeterate Travellers List 20 of Worlds Most
Beautiful Cities, and Disagree.

ceptional architecture and unique ap-
pearance.
The choices of these two experienced
travellers coincide on Paris. Istanbul,
Rome, Vienna, Edinburgh, Nuremburg.
The Hague, Budapest, Florence,
Stockholm and Venice. Sir Michael
names in addition, Gothenburg.
Agra, Benares, Dijon, Angouleme,
Quebec, oxford, Bath and Athens. La
Prade makes these substitutions:
New York, Washington, Brussels,
Dresden, Nice. Rio de Janeiro, Naples,
Prague and Geneva.
In general planning, La Prade ranks
Paris first; for general situation, Rio
de Janeiro. AS to New York, he
says: Because of its modernistic
skyline, its magnificent towers, its
rivers and harbor, New York repre-
sents the city Of the future. Alto
gether, it Is one of the worlds most
impressive sights" The artistic lay
out of the Nations Capital, arrange
ments of the streets and the magnifi-
cent Government buildings induce him
to include Washington.
CCRIBBLINGS: While the Statue of
- Liberty, which was dedicated so
years ago this month, was a gift from
the people Of France, the 100000
fund to build the pedestal was raised
in the United States.
The chanty Fifteen Men on Dead
Mans Chest" originated in a disciple
nary episode in the life Of the pirate,
Teach. Dead Mans Chest" is a bar
rem rock in the Virgin Islands. Teach
msrooned Is Of his men there without
rum or water.
Trinidad's famous Lake of Pitch has
no bottom; at least, it has never been
found.
Germany starts its Christmas shop
ping in the middle of November, when
the Dom" Christmas Fair opens on
Holy Ghost Field, in the heart Of
Hamburg. Like every city in the
United States, shopping goes on until
the last minute. Stores remain open
on the two Sundays before Christmas
to accommodate people who cannot
make their purchases on week days.
They are silver" and golden" Sum
days.
Recently in Europe have appeared
highway lighthouses, whose beams
show the motorists the general direc-
ton of large cities. The structures
are alive with informative signs, cas-
lily read. Other types of road light
houses serve as q warning Of sharp
curves, steep hills and other trafie
hazards
One of the largest collections oi
totem poles, those armorial bearings ol
ancient Indian families, is found ai
Kitwanga, a little-known place ir
British Columbia, which may b.
reached, however, by railroad. Ths
carved cedar logs vary in height from
IS to SO feet The name of the towr
itself means People Of place Of plenty
of rabbits"
Ramps used to drive autos to upper
floors in the modern garage are az
old idea. Near Tours, France, is tn,
thirteenth century Castle of Ambois
flanking 1t are two massive towers
which were built somewhat later
Winding, sloping passages run to tn
top of the towers, and 1t Is known tina
as early as 1899, Charles v. drove VI
to the top In his royal coach. tn
niotorist Of today might do the same
except that It's against the rules.
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CONTINUED From First Page.)

tion, popular in Germany, is political
high explosive in the Britain of Bald
win. Macdonald, Viscount ("League-
of-Nations") Cecil and a strong So
cialist no-more-war party. -.
The Great War taught lis that the
modern state which does not build q
war larder and stock 1t and take
large-scale measures to replenish' it
as rapidly as the hungry maws of men
and machines empty it exposes yul-
nerable Achilles heel which a direct
thinking and acting enemy may reach
with a fatal thrust.
Twenty-Five nations battered Ger
many in fighting which involved 40,-
100000 warriors, of whom 8,000,0 900
were slain. But the German war his
torians and leaders attribute defeat
to the effect. primarily upon the civil
ian population, of the effective block
ade imposed by the British sea fleet.
1t is also appreciated by all students
of that four-year war that Germany's
submarine campaign-the final sky;s-
the-limit gamble of the desperate Ger.
man war staff-nearly knocked the
keystone from the allies arch by put
ting Britain out Of the war through
cutting of her sea-borne supplies,
starving her people and immobiliz-
ing her fleets.
Great War Lesson Pointed.
Paradoxically, peace" campaign
has lately reinforced and pointed
the Great War lesson. When the
Geneva League imposed sanctions
upon Italy, and British pacificists and
anti-Fascist elements headed a cam
paign to put oil on the prohibited list
and so paralyze the Italian attack on
Ethiopia (the desperate Fascist leader
would have retorted by attacking Brit
ain in Egypt and the Mediterranean
and attempting to explode prema-
turely the war gases gathering in
Europe: but that is by the way) an
intensification of the war larder proc
ess in every state with a war (com-
monty termed "defense") problem
was assured.
The Germans, lacking essential
metals, cotton, oil, rubber. fats and
aware that in war they will be de-
MED sea-borne supplies, have been
on the larder job for three years and
are already almost self-Sustaining in
food. They can now supply one-third
of normal motor fuel requirements
from their giant oil-from-coal plants,
and complete independence in oil is
only a matter of money and policy.
They have the raw material-coal.
But it would cost $4,000, 600. 900 to
expand the synthetic oil plants for
100 per cent output.
Hitler's claim that he is able to
make the Third Reich independent in
cotton is no idle boast Germany is
already the second largest producer
of a kind Of synthetic cotton. Her
plants have an output of 100000
pounds year. Synthetic rubber pro-
duction is being encouraged by Or
ders from all government DEPART
ments using motor vehicles Gust as in
Britain synthetic oil production has
been aided by navy and air force
orders).
The Germans conserve copper stocks
by prohibiting use of the metal in
building, and by encouraging substi-
tutes. The way in which the larder
is being stocked with manganese-a
vital armaments metal-may be gauged
by comparing the 1885 imports of the
three leading importing countries. The
United States took in 233.691 tons,
Britain, 222,681 tons. and Germany,
394,256 tons.
Italy has a tough war larder prob
Evening star., 1936-10-25
BY JACQUES FUTRELLE, JR.

- UIDE service has taken much
of the spice of adventure
from travel in Europe, and
~ even Americans who cannot
be classed as timid prefer the reassur-
ing presence of one who knows the
ropes 1t makes for speed. Guides settle
disputes with volatile taxi drivers,
pass judgment on the size of tips,
translate complicated time tables, tell
the visitor what to do when parade
of the dominant political party passes
and warn that Americans can be
tossed into Jail for exporting money.
Little things like that.
But the American still is an in
genius person; for instance, the At
lanta woman who visited Berlin. She
passes along the clever device she en-
ployed in the hope that it will stand
travellers in good stead If ever they
meet with such a peculiar condition.
THE Atlanta woman had her heart
- set on a certain concert. None of
the members of her party wanted to
go. Though she knew not a word OF
German, she struck off alone for the
auditorium, declining to employ an
interpreter for such tame excursion.
Hardly had she been seated for the
program before the audience rose en-
masse, arms raised in the Nazi salute.
Taking her cue from the adage, when
in Rome do as the Romans do, she
rose and, too, saluted.
The salute was lengthy one, and
she began to have some misgiving.
Was she, she wondered, swearing her
life away? Was she espousing some
doctrine odious to her conscience?
She began to talk aloud to herself,
loud enough for those about her to
hear. "I do wish" she said, "I knew
what I am standing for. What am
saluting?" People about her eyed her
curiously, but she continued her mon
otone in the silent, crowded hall: II
do wish some one near could speak
English and tell me why I'm stand
ing here"
From couple Of rows ahead came
the voice of a man, speaking perfect
English. "You are making yourself
very conspicuous" the man said, with
out turning to face her. II will see
you after the performance and talk
with you not only in English but in
American. Herr Goering has entered
his box. Every one is saluting him.
Be quiet"
TWO inveterate world travellers have
= compiled a list Of 20 of the most
beautiful cities of the world. 1t Is
not surprising that the lists fail to
agree, but the duplication Of II cities
goes so far to hint consensus Of ex-
perienced travellers.
The connoisseurs are Sir Michael
Sadler, recently of oxford University
and Malcolm La Prade, New York's
"Man From Cooks" Sir Michael finds
no city in the United States worthy
of mention, including this continent
with only one city, Quebec. La
Prade omits Quebec, but includes New
York and Washington.
The lists rank no one city abov'
the other, being compiled in collec.
tive sense. La Prade explains thai
he makes his choice on broad lines
omitting smaller cities that have per-
haps one or two outstanding attrac-
tive features. He considers the loca-
ton, surroundings, general plan, ex
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tine; so today hydrogenated naphtha-
lene is being produced by a new
process as substitute.
He has a new factory which will in
crease his synthetic cotton output
from 100000 to 10000, 900 pounds
annually. He is rather proud-seeing
that in 1914 he found himself with
barely enough dye to color the uni
forms of the first citizen armies-of
having built up great heavy chem
ical industry which now supplies 80
per cent of his needs in chemicals and
even outputs 100000, 900 surplus.
Looking back two decades, one per-
ceives that the money and energy ex-
pended under the spur of the great
war enormously accelerated technical
progress and brought new knowledge,
skill and methods in fields ranging
from surgery and medicine to metal
lurgy, chemistry and aviation. It was
only when they were besieged that the
German chemists finally solved the
riddle Of producing oil from coal and
of making the nitrogen of the air
available for industrial uses.
Generations to come may look back
to this time and see that the triumphs
of chemistry, which ultimately revolu-
tionized human life, were pioneered or
achieved when highly organized peo-
Piles, commanding teams of scientific
brains, set out as a matter of self
preservation to solve the problem Of
how to avoid defeat in war through
stoppage Of food and essential sup
plies.
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~ UIDE service has taken much
of the spice of adventure
T from travel in Europe, and
~ even Americans who cannot
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The energetic people crowded in this
small island in the North Atlantic
bring in now, to sustain their life and
trade, $4,000, 100000 worth of goods
and commodities annually. This stuff
is carried over 10000 miles of sea-
ways in the 10000 ships which enter
and leave British home ports in the
course of a year. Every day these
ships unload $4,000 tons of foodstuffs
and 10000 tons of raw materials and
fabricated or partly fabricated goods.
John Bull is so used to getting these
| supplies in when and as he wants
them that normally he carries only
small stocks-with the exception of
rubber, of which he carries an 18-
month stock, the worlds largest.
Half of these imports are handled
in the single enormous port of Lon
don. Sixty thousand ships enter and
leave that port in year. They dump
their cargoes over IS miles of quays.
whose warehouses have a storage ca
pacity of q million tons. The docks
spread over 1908 acres-a nice, large,
concentrated target for bombing
squadrons.
Ports Held Easy Targets.
One does not need to be war
technician to perceive that the de-
struction of London port would be q
major disaster for an embattled Brit
ain. Add the destruction of the ports
of Liverpool, southampton, Glasgow,
Cardiff and Newcastle-not an over
large war job for q big enemy air Meet
commanded by resolute chief-and
you would have an effect comparable
to the sinking of two-thirds Of Brit
tain's 10000, ,000-ton mercantile ma
rine. Ships in their thousands may
reach Britain's shores, but II they
cannot unload they might just as well
have been sunk without trace en- the
high seas.
Britain's rulers and war chiefs know
all this very well. Hence the accelera-
ton Of the war larder program and the
appointment of war larder lords. Some
things the latter cannot do. The de-
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PUBLIC LIBRARY
EDGAR ALLAN POE.

THE opening Of "Plumes in the
Dust" with Henry Hull in the
stellar role Of Edgar Allan Poe,
- In Wa ehipotnp tkn r,>>t -
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GAR ALLEN Cd POE: edited BY

y. A. Harrison. II v. Y.P753.
(Reference, does not circulate.)
POE-Man, Poet and Creative
Thinker, by Sherwin Cody. 1924.
YP753ac.
THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN
POE; newly collected and edited
with a memoir, critical introduc.
tions and notes, by E. C. Stedman
and g. E. Woodberry. 1903. 10 v.
Y.P753a8.
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May Emancipate Humanity,

It may be that out of Britain's food
problem may emerge the solution of
natures most closely guarded secret
to date, and the emancipation of man
from his present fantastically cum
berson method Of fueling the human
machine.
Up to this year Nature had closely
guarded the secret of plant life.
Scientists had tried vainly to turn
water into sugar, as the plant does.
BY absorbing chemicals from the
earth, the plant, under the reaction
of the suns rays, transforms them
into nutritious foods. Vast herds of
animals feed on the most elementary
of these plants, and transform the
nutritious substance through a rel
atively simple chemical process into
liquid and solid foods, which men in
turn feed into their stomachs to sus-
tain life.
But last Spring the biochemist.
Bayly, professor at the University of
Liverpool, succeeded in producing
sugar from water and carbon dioxide
gas in the laboratory. He used arti-
fetal sunlight and q catalyst to speed
up the chemical processes. He still
does not quite know how it happened,
and is now pursuing his experiments
and working out the mathematics of
the process.
The larder chiefs are interested.
But theirs is not the calm scientific
interest Of thinkers who see in this
laboratory experiment q first step to-
ward discoveries which may change
the whole of human life, and perhaps,
through human-machine fuel changes
the very shape and form of homo
sapiens and the course of his earthly
adventure.
/ If the Bayly experiments succeed,
and next steps can be taken in
matter Of months and years instead Of
decades and centuries (the next stage
would be the large-scale production
Evening star., 1936-10-25
Fallen Horse Hauled to Hoist.

SCOTS BLUFF, Nebr. (R.-Leo
Schumacher's 1,900-pound draft horse
fell from sugar beet dump into a
railroad car. The horse wasn't hurt,
but had to be hauled 80 miles in the
car to a hoist that lifted it out.
Evening star., 1936-10-28
FARLEY HITS LAND0N
CIVIL SERVICE STAND
Says Little Could Be Expected if
Measured by Accomplish
ments in Kansas.

d! IHt hsSOcIHttd FreSS.
NEW YORK. October 2s.-James A.
Farley. chairman Of the National
Democratic Committee. commenting
on the charge of Gov. Alfred M. Lam
don that President Roosevelt had bro
ken promises to extend the merit
system in the civil service, said today:
If Gov. Landon is not more con-
cerned about the civil service in the
Nation than he has been in his own
State of Kansas. we cannot hope for
much improvement"
Evening star., 1936-10-28

that ever assembled in Providence.
That, the Democrats insist, must
mean something. The Republicans
fear that 1t may.
The situation in Rhode Island, how
ever, Is not as simple as all that. It
was not long ago that Thomas P. Nc
Coy, Democratic boss OF Pawtucket,
was OF the reservation. Senator Peter
Goelet Gerry, who has been the angel
Of the Democratic party for years in
this State. has been sulking in his
tent. However. Mccoy is running for
mayor Of Pawtucket, and 1t is doubt
full that he can afford to do any cut
ting. 1t would be disastrous for him
If he lost the election. Gerry Is back
in Rhode Island now and may come
out for the State ticket. 1t is under
stood, however. that Gerry is of the
New Deal, and whether he will lift
a finger for Roosevelt is another
matter. The Democrats seem to have
plenty of money this year. without
any contributions from Gerry. They
levy on the pay of the large number
Of State and Federal employees. In
addition they have the inexhaustible
supply OF Federal money which con-
tinues to fall like rain on the States
in this election year.
Business in Rhode Island is better
than 1t was year ago. And here it
is having its effect and influence on
the election. However, most Of the
business men are opposing Roosevelt,
Evening star., 1936-10-28
Miss Kathryn Westoper Weds
Army Flyer in San antonio
Wedding to Lieut.. Freu.
denthal Surprises
Parents.

Kathryn Patricia Wc-.over, IL,
daughter of Maj. Gen. Oscar Westover.
chief of the Army Air Corps. was mar
ried last Saturday to Second Lieut..
wilhelm Cunliffe Prudential, 22,. at
Fort Sam Houston. San Antonio, Tex.
1t was learned here today.
The bride, who lived here with Gen.
and Mrs. Westover at the Kennedy
Warren Apartments, had been visiting
friends Of the family in Texas since
July.
The wedding came As = surprise to
her parents, who were notified after
the ceremony that the newlyweds would
visit Washington. probably next month.
before Lieut.. Freudenthal, said to be
the youngest flyer in the Army, departs
for duty in Panama.
Lieut.. Freundenthal, whose home Is
in Worcester, Mass, was graduated
from West Point last year. He is
understood to have met Miss Westover
when she was visiting the military
academy.
A number Of classmates Of Lieut..
Prudential, who graduated from
Kelly Field only three weeks ago, were
present at the wedding. which took