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Evening star., 1937-03-06
By M..C. r.

- CRIBNER'S MAGAZINE con-
- tinues to make patient bids
for what is known as popu-
~ larity, and shows a fair enter
prise in its manner Of doing so. It
has already taken up the cause Of civil
service reform, which with the ever
growing army Of Government en-
ployes Zone person out OF six being
supported by some manner Of public
money, according to Mr.. Stuart Chase
about year ago. is a subject which,
theoretically at least, ought to inter
est the Nation. 1t has likewise held
sort Of forum on the condition OF the
American male in a civilization which
(according to one school OF thoughD
is tending distinctly toward matri-
archy. And that too, OF course, was
a bid for a controversy.
In its March number 1t continues
the process by offering q QUESTIONABLE
on "How Sophisticated Are You2" The
game is to ask q question and allow
the reader his choice of four or hve
answers for checking. Your pick OF
these answers reveals whether or not
you have arrived at that enviable con-
dition (made known TO the Nation Via
HOLLYWOOD called "sophistication."
Here are some samples:
IF a man who had once given you
a dirty deal in business proposltlon
should start to shoot himself in front
of you, should you:
}. ~ k,ir ahead without lnJcE-
ference?
ASK him please to use another Of
fces
Snatch the gun out Of his hands'
Call the police and struggle with
him?
Tell him To be sure he has enough
bulletss"
And. for women TO answer, such
queries as this:
If YOU we're a girl of brilliant mind
and possessed Phi. D. in the literary
field, but were falling in love with an
uneducated truck driver. should you:
Marry him, and forget your train
ing?
Turn him down because he was not
your equal?
BE with him as much as possible
for several months to see how you got
along?
Take q position, marry him and
send him TO college?
Bury yourself in your work ano
erase love from your life?"
Who knows-it may start ne"
parlor game. Outside the restrictions
OF publication, some very lively ques'
| tions might be thought up.
| CCRIBNERS also starts new Tea
~ ture this month called American
Painters Series" This consists OF
Evening star., 1937-03-06

THE DOOR BETWEEN. BY Melanie
Harrison. Aurora: Burney Broth
ers.
Love story.
MYSTERIES.
NINE DOCTORS AND A MADMAN
BY Elizabeth curtiss. New York:
Simon e. Schuster
Mystery in a nadhouse. Solved by
a psychologist
THE CASE Is CLOSED. BY Patricia
Wentworth. Philadelphia: J. B.
Lippincott Co.
Heroine solves murder, thereby saw
ing her innocent friend.
THE CAMERA CLUE. BY George
Harmon Coke. New York: Alfred
A. Knopf, Inc.
solved by lace photographer (What
has happened to the cynical reporter?
one wonders.
ILL MET BY MOONLIGHT BY
Leslie Ford. New York: Farrar
e. Rhinehart.
Murder on the Eastern Shore
Solved by Col. Primrose.
POETRY.
ENCOUNTER IN APRIL. BY Mary
Sarton. Boston: Houghton Mif-
fin Co.
A collection of very good sonnets.
THEY SAY THE FORTIES. BY
Howard Mumford Jones. New
York: Henry Holt & Co.
A collection of very good sonnets.
THE EMPEROR HEART. BY Law
renee Whistler. Decorated by Rex
Whistler New York: The Mac
milan Co.
A collection of very good poems.
500 AM. BY Ruth Evelyn Hender-
son. Boston: Bruce Humphries.
A collection of acceptable poems.
MONTICELLO AND OTHER POEMS
BY Lawrence Lee. New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons.
A collection of acceptable poems.
THE MAD LOVER. BY Edna Dunn
mer Drake. Boston: Christopher
Publishing Co.
Doggerel
PRAIRIE TRAILS. BY Sophie Molk.
Boston: Christopher Publishing
Co.
. Doggerel.
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monthly reproduction in color of
picture by leading American artist,
the reproduction being printed on spe-
cial paper suitable for framing.
The present offering is Fall PloW-
ing" by John Costigan Accompany
ing is brief biography of the artist.
A ND before leaving this periodical
it may be as we'll to remark on
its custom OF publishing each month
story by a new writer. The reviewer
has kept no record of these. since the
practice was begun last Fall, out re-
members distinctly that in that time
there has been at least one story by
convict, while the present one IS on
hill-blllies
Apparently the editors of Scribners
are taking no chances.
IN THE March American Mercury,
and not mentioned last week for
lack Of space, is an article by Leon
Trotzky called The Real Soviet Rus
sia" In many ways 1t is sad reading,
but there are also elements Of humOr
in it which cannot fail to strike the
observant reader.
Mr. Trotzky means. in effect, But
I never knew it was going to be like
this!" He is shocked to the soul when
he looks at his Russia and sees that it
is, as he puts it, ''far closer to back
ward capitalism than to communism
even though he did bring it nice
communstic revolution. Keen and
penetrating as his mind reveals itself
TO be, his spirit shows like that Of a
disappointed weeping child. Such ILL
Evening star., 1937-03-06
Plant Explorers Active.
A MONG the less heralded but highl

A MONG the less heralded but highly
important activities of the Fed
eral Government is the constant
search of plant explorers for new types
or new strains of plant life which
might prove of value to the United
States.
Two such Department Of Agricul-
ture explorers. H L. Westover and DR..
F. L. Wellman. are now securing the
valleys of the Old World looking for
seed for experimental purposes.
A more or less primitive agricul-
ture still exists in the broad stretch
of land between the Mediterranean
and Black Seas. It isn't so thickly
populated as it was 5000 or 1000
years ago. Neither is 1t so closely
cultivated.
On the broad plateaus of the in
terror, however. where grasses, forage
and cereals are important crops, West
over and Wellman found clovers, al
falfa and other legumes growing under
climatic conditions similar to SEMI
arid areas of the United States.
Grazing is an important industry
and thousands of years of natural
selection and acclimating have de-
veloped in this section of Asia culti-
waited crops that will grow, although
the average rainfall ranges only from
to IA inches annually. Most Of the
moisture falls in the late Autumn.
Winter and Spring, and Turkish
farmers utilize the age-old Summer
ia ow to retain the little moisture
that falls
These crops were of particular in
terest to Westover, a forage specialist.
who has made previous foreign eX-
ploration trips to the interior of Soviet
Russia and Turkestan in search of
similar species and strains of forage
crops which might prove resistant 10
disease and drought.
Dr.. Wellman, horticulturiSt, was
interested particularly in fruits. vege-
tables and ornamentals of possible
value from a disease-resistant stand
point. The two scientists spent about
eight months in Asiatic Turkey, and
in this short time collected about
$500 samples of seeds and bulbs
Included were varieties and strains
of clover. alfalfa, vetches. beans, corn.
wheat, rye, many vegetables, fruits
and ornamentals.
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from the already existing patron -peon
set-up
With the development of labor or
ganization, the author says. there will
be new situation in Mexico" But
this is only his closing statement. All
the rest of his work goes to show that
a new situation" Is what Mexicans
have never succeeded in bringing
about. They have had one situation.
politically speaking. since the white
man arrived, and they still have it,
by the authors own confession, de-
spite the millions of lives that have
been poured out to change it. His
book is not optimistic reading. It
makes the glorious vision which the
painter has set down as Mexico's
future less real, somehow. than the
dreadful pictures which he has painted
of her past
PIE IN THE SKY. BY Arthur Calder
Marshall. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons.
THE author Of this novel Is syi-
IDENTIFY an admirer Of Aldous Hulk
ley, but his admiration Is more con-
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ktlNSAd dI0 6S4 ~ OIL -. ESoAAS' ASS"
York: Covici Friede.
THIS book purports to be a history
of Mexico, as MeXico's history
has been interpreted by that artist OF
appalling genius, Diego Rivera. 1t
contains 249 reproductions Of Rivera's
work, taken from the frescoes of the
Education Building, the Agricultural
School, the Palace Of Cortez at Cuer-
navaca, murals of the National Pal
ace and Health Buildings, the origi-
nal Hotel Reforma carnival paint
ings (these have recently been mutt
lated by the proprietor in the latest
of perennial Rivera squabbles) and
includes 102 easel paintings selected
by Rivera to make q series called THE
Land and the People"
The text is devoted almost wholly
to political histor-, to the subjection
Of the unhappy country to repeated
tyrants. to its endless struggles for
liberation and its regularly recurring
disappointment. This sequence, as
the writer puts 1t, began with Cortez,
Who provided the first pattern for
many military cuartelazos that have
succeeded each other with mo-
notonous regularity in the history Of
Mexico, colonial, Independent and
revolutionary; a phenomenon so
common that the shrewd Gen. Obre-
gon was once moved to declare,
There is no Mexican general that
can Withstand a canonazo (bombard-
ment) of $4,000 pesos But what
Gen. Obregon thought Of Mexican
Evening star., 1937-03-06
i'm THE CURRENT MAGAZINES
Scrbners Presents New Paror Game Test "Sophiscaon
Trotzky Writes of Russia in the American Mercury-Oher
! Noteworthy Examples of Periodical Literature.

balanced mixtures Of naivete and pre-
cociouSness have usually characterized
the revolutionist, as history is wit
ness. Reading Mr. Trotzky's piece.
one cannot help being sorry for him.
He walls so forlornlyl
THE importance OF the child who
may be England's second Queen
Elizabeth is described in an article in
the current Liberty called Coronation
Secrets" The author is Frederick l.
Collins
Since there is now no Prince Of
Wales" he writes, the first to ap-
proach the throne and offer homage
TO the new-crowned King will be the
next in line, the most colorful indi-
vidual in the new royal entourage,
11-year-old Princess Elizabeth, dear to
the hearts of loyal Britons as self
styled Lillybet.
IF this reign is to achieve the sue
cess of George VS., or the popularity
that was promised by Edward Wis,
it will be partly. at least, because OF
the impact of this girls personality
on the home loving famly-lovlrg
British heart and mind This spirited
little girl, who looks like her grand
mother, beloved Queen Mary, and be-
haves-within limits. Of course-like
her uncle, beloved and departed David,
will do much to reconcile the average
Englishman to the overnight trans
formation of his national idol into
national ghost"
One wonders Just where George '
comes into the picture He seems 4
monarch curiously without glory.
THE reviewer has lost count ot the
number of "digeStS" which are
being published, but they. unhappily.
have not lost track of the reviewer.
Each week a new one or two pops out
of the mail, brash and innocent. The
addition to the family this week is
another of that least moral kind of
them all-the book digest" 1t is
/ called Books in Brief" and offers you
on the salver of its pages the hearts
of II hapless slaughtered books. And
all for a quarter of a dollar!
/ Appropos of this current degeneracy
/ in reading habits, the reviewer offer
this: Placidly eating her dinner in a
restaurant the other evening, was sud-
denly brought to a state OF profess
sional consciousness by the intent as
pect of her fellow-diners. At eight
tables in a row eight heads we're bent
over a small pamphlet of familiar
form, 1t seemed TO merit a stroll Of
investigation and the reviewer made
it. Her fears were realized. Every
one Of the eight persons was reading
away for dear life in digest"
clerk. it should be pointed out, can
digest" an article. It requires a
writer to write one.
Evening star., 1937-03-06
Brief Reviews of Books

THE DOOR BETWEEN. BY Melanie
Harrison. Aurora: Burney Broth
ers.
Love story.
Evening star., 1937-03-06
NON-FICTION.

EON-FICT1ON.
PLUTARCH. Selected Essays. Edited
by c. B. Robinson. jr. New
York: G. p Putnam's Sons.
Nine essays, edited and arranged
for common reading.
THE AMERICAN SINGER. BY oscar
Thompson. New York: The Dial
Press.
The biographies Of our great singers
since the beginning Of opera in
America. With 100 portraits.
IF INITIATION COMES. BY Roger
W. Babson. New York: Frederick
A Stokes Co.
Well, there you are. If imitation
comes. This is what you can do
about it.
THE GLADIoLUs. 1887. Boston:
The New England Gladiolus So
ciety.
A very complete work on the va
rieties and cultivation OF this flower
THE ART OF CONVERSATION By
Milton Wright. New York: Whit
telsey House.
One of those books on how to be a
success" through talking. The art"
of conversation. indeed
HEALTH QUESTIONS ANSWERED.
BY w. w. Bauer. Indianapolis:
Bobbs Merrill Co.
The director of the bureau of health
and public instruction of the Ameri-
can Medical Association asks and an
swers common questions on health
matters.
THE INTIMATE SIDE OF A WOM-
ANS LIFE. BY Leona w. Chalm-
ers. New York: Pioneer Publi-
cations. Inc.
Feminine hygiene.
FICTION.
FRAGILE ARMOUR. BY Diana Pat
rick. New York: E. P. Dutton
Co.
The evergreen Miss Patrick writes
another love story.
WOMEN ARE BORN TO LISTEN
BY Norah C. James. New York
The Macaulay Co.
Girl triumphs over hardships.
SOME FIND A DAWN. BY Made
O'Heeron. Aurora: Burney Broth
ers.
Love story based on c. c. c.
Evening star., 1937-03-06
officers may be applied to Mexican
civil servants, Mr. Wolfe duly adds.
An accompanying political pattern

is likewise sketchee by the author of
this work-the pattern OF the promise
of distribution of land. In 1875 and
1888, he records, laws were passed
offering idle land to those who would
survey it. BY this provision enter
priSing men built up immense estates
which they operated by peon labor.
In 1910, when revolution broke out,
the land hunger of the poems was the
motive behind the revolt, and it was
those revolutionary leaders who were
shrewd enough to recognize this as
political platform who succeeded.
Land distribution was once again pro-
claimed, this time to be accomplished
by the conflscation of the estates of
the rich. The proclamation worked.
But, says the author, despite the
constant uprising of an outraged peas
antry and the grandiloquent phrases
of agrarian programs that remain
largely, though not entirely, on paper,
it is this (the old feudaD culture
that comprises in its areas the bulk
of the Mexican land and people"
OF the widely advertised program
of the agrarians, he says, "a lesser
rural area Is CHARACTERIZED py
fairly widespread distribution OF small
parcels of poorly watered and infer
tile land and village commons" The
income from these tracts. he remarks,
is generally sufficient for life, but no
more than that.
It will be seen that it is q cynical
work in so far as it deals with Mex
ico's history, but It's cynicism Is based
on fact and not on passion. It ac-
cords wen with the Rivera pictures
which show the unhappy past Of the
land. When 1t comes tn dealing with
the future, it asks auestions-how long
will the people, "promise-crammed
and phrase-fed," endure? With the
introduction of capitalistic industry.
will there not be q corresponding labor
movement, which will, in time, over
throw the very industries which have
given it birth? The reader, full of
the history which previous chapters
have presented, will probably counter
this with the question Is to how the
capital-labor situation Is to differ
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which mars other descriptions Of the
same period. One feels that these are
places and scenes for which the author
had a sympathy that sprang from his
own identification with the locations
and times. He loved them because
he knew them with the unreasoning
acceptance Of a child for his own
home and folks. r. r. r
Evening star., 1937-03-06
BEST SELLERS FOR WEEK
ENDING FEBRUARY 27.

Drums Along the Mohawk. Ed
nunds. Little Brown g. Co
Sea of Grass. Richter. Alfred
A. Knopf.
The Street of the Fishing Cat.
FoldeS. Farrar g. Rinehart.
Busman's Honeymoon. Savers.
Harcourt Brace & Co.
Gone With the Wind. Mitchell.
Macmillan.
The Late George Apley. Mar.
quand. Little Brown & Co.
Non-Fiction.
Nine Old Men. Person and AL
len. Doubleday Doran.
The Hundred Years. Guedalla.
Doubleday Doran.
The Golden Fleece. Harding.
BobbS- Merrill.
We or They. Armstrong. Mac
milan.
Beloved Friend. Bowen & Van
Meek. Random House.
Something of Myself. Kipling.
Doubleday Doran.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-20

Continued from Page D
 $53,00o New England futurity, "the most important horse race in New England from breeders point of view" :
 3. Removal of all but 3S horses from the track. s :
 4. Prediction of Lieutenant Gov- ernor Raymond E. Jordan that troops will remain at the track un- til November II.
 Await Next Move ..t
 Both Quinn and Managing Direc- tor Walter E. O'Hara were waiting for the other to make the next move. O'Hara apparently was hopeful that public opinion would force Quinn to complete demobiliza- tion of troops and permit racing 10 to be resumed, possibly through 8 compromise. But Quinn was adamant. He hoped that public opinion would force O'Hara to re- sign as president and general man. ager of the Narragansett Racing association "There will be abso- lutely no compromise with OTIara," he said. "As long as I am gover- nor, O'FIara will not open the track"
 Fast Spreading Rum0rs
 Yesterday proved day of fast spreading rumors. In rapid success sion, the governors office denied that: !
 l. A new racing commission will be appointed.
 ?, The remainder of the troops will be removed today. :;
 3. Racing will be resumed Thurs day.
 4. A guard of state troopers has been assigned to the staet house,
 Meanwhile from the O'EIara camp came the report of Public Safety Commissioner Harry F. Curvin of Pawtucket. Democratic floor leader in the House, that his move for impeachment of Quinn was meeting gratifying response"
 Talk of Impeachment
 There is an overwhelming sem timent among house members for the immediate impeachment of NAOVSNAOA 1AAAAAi AAS oAAd,
 State House sources reported, however, that. Curvin's House sup- porters, members of the Thomas P. Mccoy faction of the Democratic party. are outnumbered 44-l0, by Quinn supporetrs.
 Reduction of armed forces within a mile radius of the race track was ordered yesterday by Adjutant- General Herbert R. Dean because provisional batetry twill be suffi- cient to handle the situation"
 Guardsmen were withdrawn from entrances to the track off the main highway and stationed instead at strategic points about the fence en- circling the tracks property.
 Description of Battlers
 Providence, R. T., Oct. 20-(UP)-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-20
St. Margaret's Plans
 Annual P arish Supper
Popular Event to Take Place November II in Water bury WOmen's Club Committees Named

Under the auspices of the parish loners of St. Margaret's church the annual parish supper will be held at the Waterbury Women's club on Thursday evening, November II, Armistic day. Elaborate prepara- lions are being made for this pops ular event. Rev. J. Oliver Cronan Is honorary chairman of the com- mtttee of arrangements, while Mrs. Thomas Delaney is, general chair man,
 The various societies of the church are cooperating in the en- deayor to make the approaching af- lair one of the most successful in the history of the parish. Under the leadership of Mrs. Delaney, who is well qualified to supervise the plans, the committee feels confident that the successes of previous sup perS, admittedly gratifying in all re. spects, will be excelled by the sup per planned for next month as the workers will have the advantage of all essential facilities. The various committees have been fully organ ized and the workers have entered Into the affair with their usual en- thusiastic spirit.
 TABLE COMMITTEE
 Chairlady-Mrs. Philip Kropp.
 Hostesses-Mrs. Thomas Fiana- gan, Mrs. Margaret Graney, Mrs. Robert Berg, Mrs. John Lahey, Mrs. William CaSS, Mrs. Thomas Horri. gan, Mrs. John Joy, Mrs. William Deadly, Mrs. Leo Marshall, Mrs. John Fruin, Mrs. Eugene Burns.
 Waitresses-Ruth Deely, Mary Troy, Catherine Flaherty, Gather inc Reardon, Margaret Meehan, Margaret Real, Mrs. Edward Cava- naugh, Mrs. William Ennis, Mrs. John McHale, Mrs. T. Biron, Mrs. Joseph Conlon, Ann LeRoy, Mrs. Harold Brennan, Blanche Green- wood, Geraldine Greenwood, Mary Culhane, Rita Deconnick, Ilene Fla nagan, Mary Bowlar, Mrs. F. Good ale, Margaret Delaney, Helen Dowl- ing, Mrs. T. Martone.
 Reception
 Reception committee-Mrs. Phi lip Kropp, Mrs. Margaret Smith, Mrs. Edward Hyland, Mrs. Peter Reardon. Mrs. James Coyle, Mrs. John Finnan.
 Flowers-Mrs. James Coyle.
 UniformS-Mrs. William Meehan,
 Food committee-Mrs. George De- connick, Mrs. M. Whalen, Mrs. F. McNellis, Mrs. w. Mullen, Mrs. W. Meehan, Mrs. R. Baldwin, Mrs. M. Mcverry, Mrs. w. Synott, Mrs. T. Millerick, Mrs. J. Carr, Mrs. J. Mo- ran, Mrs. E. Kirley, Mrs. M. Lris- coll, Mrs. P. Flaherty, Mrs. w. Mc- Grath, Mrs. D. Delaney, Mrs. J. Quinn, Mrs. Fl. Murphy, Mrs. R. TrAvers, Mrs. J. Honan, Mrs. J. Lariviere, Mrs. B. Irwin, Mrs. T. Crean, Mrs. A. Roma, Mrs. A. Greenwood.
 Donation Committee
 t3hairlady-Mrs. Margaret Smith, Mrs. Hugh Murphy, Mrs. Robert Berg, Mary Culhane, Ann LeRoy, MHg. J. Hennessey, Mrs. William McGrath, Ann Kane, M. Kilroe, Ann Connors, Ann Flannery, Mrs. William Moran, Mrs. P. Flaherty, Mrs. J. Millerick, Miss K. Corden, Alice Bane, Mrs. w. Dunphy, Mrs. T. Planning, Mrs. H. Byrnes, Mrs. J. Murphy.
 Ticket Committee-Mr Michael Barrett, Mrs. Edmund Gas, Mrs. Ed ward Brennan, Mrs. James Quinn, Mrs. William Deadly, Mrs. Frank Kenney, Mrs. John Joy, Mrs. George Deconnick, Mrs. John Toomey, Mrs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-20
WATERBURY EVENING DEMOCRAT WEDNESDAY,, zv

!
 paper correspondent. He began work in the Anawan mills in Fall River, was advanced to general manager and later bought them.
 During the depression he liquid ated 18 mills in Fall River and Lawrence, Mass, and other textile centers, selling machinery and equipment at large profit. Opening of Track
 On June 3, 1884 he broke ground for Narragansett track at Pawtucket. Seven weeks later the $3,000, 900 track opened with accommoda for 5000 persons. That first year $23, O0O, ,000 was wagered on the races, in 1885, $29,000,0O0, and last year $36,0OO,O00. His salary as president
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-20

walter Edmund O'Hara, embroiled with his onetime '"dear friend" Gov Robert Emnet Quinn, in a fight for control of Narragansets park race track boasts he has made million dollars four times.
 "Three times I lost 1t all and came back again." O'Hara said. If they take it away from me this time, I'll get another" ae.
 He owns or controls II Massachu- sets corporations and several out- side that state.
 He was born 40 years ago in Middleboro, Mass, a younger broth CT of Neal O'Hara, newspaper columnist. He earned his way through Harvard college as a news
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-20

not yet been completed" the dukes spokesman said. 'The plans prob- ably will be announced in Paris.
 The spokesman refused to confirm or deny a report that the duke and duchess will visit Reno, New, on their American tour. Commenting on a London report that the Rus sian government had been attempt. ing to persuade the Windsors to visft Russia, the spokesman said:
 we have not received any invita- ton to go to Russia. No one, has preached the subject with us either officially or unofficially."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-20

of the city.
 The duke and duchess then mo- tored through the city. At Adolf Hitler Square they stopped in front of the fourteenth century church "Liebfrauenkirche" and watched the tower clock strike 12. At tha. time seven small figures, representing seven princes, emerge and move around statue of Emperor Karl ".
 The itinerary of the United States tour of the duke and duchess prob- ably will be announced in Paris soon, spokesman said. They are scheduled to leave Nuremberg late today for Stuttgard.
 Itinerary Here Not Ready
 "The United States itinerary has