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Evening star., 1938-03-06

and includes chapter on fishing, In
its utter absence Of swank, It's plain
matter of -factness, 1t is as entertain
ing thing of its kind as the reviewer
remembers.
I SHOULD HAVE STAYED HOME.
BY Horace Mccoy. New York
Alfred A. Knopf.
A BOUT two years ago peculiarly
- unpleasant novel came out, BEAR
ing the title, They Shoot Horses,
Don't They?" 1t was a nasty little
thing. but seemed to show a certain
originality In its authors mind, and
so fairness called for suspended judg-
ment. If in coming books Mr.. Mccoy
(for 1t was he) develops his slight
but perceptible talent and forgoes his
taste for pointless messiness, he may
have something. Or so reasoned the
reviewer.
Now Mr.. Mccoy has come out with
his second novel and it is another
nasty little thing. 1t would appear
that he has made as close copy
of his first work as possible and that
he has admitted now that he has only
a single string to his bow. So, hail
and farewell-one hopes.
The distinguishing features of the
productions is their method Of dealing
with what Mr.. Mccoy is pleased to
take as the younger generation Of
the present day. He chooses for
his subjects ignorant, empty minded
boys and girls whose ambitions are
centered on such clap-trap dreams
as diet of movie magazines has
developed In them. They are the
counterpart Of Ring Lardner,s ball
players as far as education, taste
idealism and honesty are concerned
but. unlike the ball players. they are
unable to find place where their
particular ignorance is useful.
They drift about. instead. living by
desperate means. without honor. with
out perspective and with firm con-
viction that they are important and
worthy. Mr.. Mccoy treats of them
with profound seriousness. He sees
in them tragic materia! and. no doubt,
q Social Problem, too 1t is hard to
agree with him on the basis of his
own work. Such young people may
be the stuff of social questions, and
they may be tragic, but. by the mo-
notony Of his style, Mr.. Mccoy shows
them tn ns as inordjpa te1v tirosou,o
The present novel deals with q
boy and girl of this caliber hunting
work in Hollywood. They drift about
and come to gray little ends. and it is
perfectly evident to the reader from
the opening chapter that they will
do so. The girl finally marries q
rancher who has advertised for =
wife; she does not meet her husband
until her wedding day The boy goes
on hoping. One understands that he
is failure and that his hopes will
Evening star., 1938-03-06
WEEKS 10 BEST SELLERS
IN OTHER CITIES.
Fiction and Non Fiction.
BOSTON

bO0lON.
Fiction-"The Citadel" A. j.
Cronin; THE Nutmeg Tree"
Margery Sharp; THE Sword and
the Rose" A. w. Smith; North
west Passage," Kenneth Roberts;
"The Prodigal Parents" Sinclair
Lewis.
Non -fiction-"The Importance
of Living" Lin Yutang; "The
Hidden Lincoln" edited by En-
anuel Hertz; DRY Guillotine."
Rene Belbenoit; "Transgressor in
the Tropics" Negley Farson;
Louisa May Alcott," Katharine
Anthony.
Fiction-"The Prodigal Par
ents"; "The Citader'; Northwest
Passage; "The Rains Came"
Louis Bromfield; This Proud
Heart" Pearl Buck.
Non-f1ction-"The Importance
of Living; 1.-THE Folklore of
Capitalism" Thurman w. Ar
mold; Madame Curie," Eve. Gu
rie; "The Tyranny Of Words"
Stuart Chase; Journalists Wife,"
Lillian T. Mowrer.
NEW YORK.
Fiction-"The Citadel; "The
Prodigal Parents; Northwest
Passage; This Proud Heart;
"The Rains Came"
Observation-Disclosures Curie";;
"The Importance of Living;
Americas so Families" Ferdi-
nand Lundberg; Hell on 1ce,"
Comdr. Edward Ellsberg; DRY
Guillotine."
SAN FRANCISCO.
Fiction THE Citadel";
Northwest Passage; winter in
April" Robert Nathan; THE
Rains Came; "The Nutmeg
Tree"
Non-fiction-"Red Star Over
China" Edgar Snow; 1.-THE I'M
portance Of Living; ''The Arts"
Hendrix Willem Van Loon; Hell
on Ice";; "The Tyranny Of Words"
f. (Copyrisht, 1881
Evening star., 1938-03-06
Brief Reviews of Books

Gambling.
TICKETS TO FORTUNE. BY Eric
Bender. New York: Modern Age
Books.
The inside story Of sweepstakes, lot
teries, prize contests and the like. How
We get taken in and made to like 1t,
in other words. Interesting.
Indians.
THE APACHE INDIANS. BY Frank
g. Lockwood. New York: The
Macmillan Co.
A history Of the famously murderous
tribe up to the present day. Not bad
reading.
LEGENDS OF THE LONGHOusE.
BY Jesse Cornplanter. Told to
Sah-Nee-Weh. Introduction BY
Carl GARNER. Philadelphia: j. B.
Lippincott Co.
A collection of the traditions OF the
Senecas told in the form of letters by
a present representative Of the tribe.
Should be excruciatinely delightful to
everybody hunting folklore.
Novels
THE STRUMPET SEA. By Ben
Ames Williams Boston: Housh-
ton Miff1in Co. Love among the
whalers. Sentimental.
CoMANCHE CHASER. BY Dane
Coolidge New York: E. P. Dut-
ton Co. A story based on the life
OF Kit Carson. Western stuff.
THE LAD AND THE LION BY Ed
gar Rice Burroughs. Tarzana:
Burroughs. Another Burroughs.
What goes on In Africa. Tsk!
Tsk! Who would have thought it?
Mysteries.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY. BY Marion
M. Goldsmith. New York: The
Macaulay Co.
A combination mystery and prob
lem novel; man serves q sentence
for crime which he did not commit
and then commits the crime. Can he
be punished twice? The author seems
to think not.
Evening star., 1938-03-06


M study of youth problems
w has resulted in growing
awareness of the needs of
young people and reorganization
of the programs of various agencies
to meet those ends. The following
references indicate recent research
into the condition of the youth of
America and suggestions for the ad-
justment of unfavorable factors. These
may be secured from the sociology
division of the Public Library, Eighth
and K streets NV.
On Problems of Youth-"The Pros
pect for YOUTH" edited by the Ameri-
can Academy Of Political and Social
Science; Youth and the Family" by
M. M. Chambers: "The Lost Genera
tion." by Maxine Davis; Much Ado
About Doing" q study Of recreational
interests and needs Of young people in
Los Angeles, by q. o. Grant; Some
Social and Economic Implications Of
the Youth Problem" by r. A. Kent:
Outlook for Youth in America;
How Fare American YOUTH" by H. p.
Rainey; "Youngville, U. 8. A. by A.
NJ Sirkin. and Youth: A World Prob
lem." by w. T. Winslow.
On Programs for Chang
ing Curriculum" edited by the Joint
Committee on Curriculum; Secondary
Education for Youth in Modern Amer
ica," by H. r. Douglass; "Present-Day
Youth and the N. Y. A." by M. H. 8.
Hayes; Co-ordinating Services for
YOUTH" by J. A. Lang; Library and
the Youth Problem" by D. M. Meal
lister; youths Work in the World" :"
by T. o. Mali; Church Challenges
YOUTH" by G. Stewart; Il Go Among
the Girls" by Joseph Thomas. and
Youth Number" journal Of Social
Hykio0e.
Evening star., 1938-03-06

full torture of being without water
for days at time in scorching des-
ert vet within sight of the ocean can
be imagined.
Individual characterizations in the
book are not sharply drawn. but the
collective picture is excellent. Us.
AMERICA ON RELIEF BY Marie
Dresden Lane and Francis Steeg-
muller New York: Harcourt
Brace e. Co.
THIS is brief study OF those va
rious agencies for dispensing re-
lief funds to the needy voters which
have at one time or another been in
existence since it became the practice
of the Government to support such Of
the populace as were not at the mo-
ment supporting themselves. 1t takes
up such sections of the alphabet as
the F. E. R. A. (Which you may re-
member), the c. w. A. (which you
have doubtless forgotten) and the
w. P. A. (Which God preserve). It
considers the history and accomplish
ments of all of these organizations
and ends with recommendations that
the Government of the country be
made responsible for the well-being
of every citizen. For those who enjoy
tatistical tables there are some rather
exceptionally dry-looking ones scat
tered through the text. No doubt
they contain information which Is as
minted gold.
THE HONEYSUCKLE AND THE
BEE. BY Sir John Squire. New
York: E. p. Dutton & Co., Inc.
CIR JOHN SQUIRE, one of Eng
~ lands best-known critics and edi-
tors, decided to take q walk from
London to Devonshire, as he had
often done in his youth. This book
is about that walk. A thousand men,
cries came back to him and he records
them. Scenes from his youth pass
again through his mind, and he is
frankly nostalgia. He recalls many
famous literary figures he has known,
and these short, casual references
are more interesting than the longer
discussions of nature and society and
politics. Swinburne is here, seen CIV
ing pennies to two little urchins.
Rupert Brooke, "a damn fine man."
he recalls from Cambridge days.
Housman, Meredith, Sibelius, Ysaye,
the Yellow Book set and many
others In literature, art and music
are glimpsed. OF politics, Sir John
seems to remember best his inter-
view with Mussolini, although one
wonders why, for it seems, as he tells
it, to have been entirely routine.
This book Of "reminiscences is
rambling and discursive, yet its al
most complete lack of details, and its
dealing, for the main part, in general
tiles gives 1t an air of formality. It
is described as q prelude to a formal
autobiography and that probably ex-
plains why the author has chosen to
hint rather than to tell of his expert
ences.-E. T.
TOMoRRoW's BREAD. BY Beatrice
Bisno New York: Liveright Pub
fishing Corp.
"TOMoRRoWs BREAD" purports
to be the history Of the rise of
the needle trades unions as seen
through the lives Of some of its most
important protagonists. While fic-
tional In character. names and historic
details, It is nevertheless true both
In character typs and genarN adhsr-
Evening star., 1938-03-06
WASHINGTON'S BEST
SELLERS FOR WEEK END
ING FEBRUARY rs:
FICTION.

TxS4 AOANs
The Citadel. Cronin. Little
Brown.
The Prodisal Parents. Lewis.
,Doubleday-Doran.
The Rains Came. Bromfield.
Harpers.
Joseph in Egypt. Mann. Knopf.
Celia. Young. HArcourt-Brace.
This Proud Heart. Buck. Reynal
& Hitchcock.
NON-FICTION.
The Importance of Living. Yu-
tang. Reynal g. Hitchcock.
Folklore Of Capitalism. Arnold.
Yale University Press.
How to Win Friends. Carnegie.
Simon Il Schuster.
Madame Curie. Curie. Double
dAy-Doran.
Persons in Hiding. Hoover. Lit
tle-Brown.
Hell On Ice. Elsberg. Dodd-
Mead.
Evening star., 1938-03-06

is the story of his developing interest
and improved technique in his chosen
career. and as such the work ought to
have great interest for the amateur
of pictures. At the same time. this
main narrative is enlivened by many
episodes of mortal danger and so it will
hardly be necessary for the reader
to have an interest in photography
In order to be entertained As said, it
is book of thrills and plain old
fashioned taste for the thriller ought
to suffice.
Evening star., 1938-03-06
Public Library

WIDESPREAD interest and
I study Of youth problems
v has resulted in growing
awareness Of the needs of
Evening star., 1938-03-06

say was publlShed last month.
Mr.. Dreher's piece Is subtitled, "A
Note From the Left" 1t may mean
something-undoubtedly it does mean
something to its author-but 1t has
that turgid choked congested style of
verbiage which generally appertains
to economic theorizing, and SO the
reviewer is constrained to say that,
after reading it, she merely has an i'm
preston that Mr.. Dreher believes that
collectivism will help us. Mr.. Coyle
held the idea that individualism would
do the same trick. No doubt the
world will continue to turn on itS
axsis whichever of the two thinkers
has accurately pointed the races way
of the future.
THE Atlantic's leading article this
month Is one deserving of wide at
tention. 1t is called Government by
Mimeograph" and deals with the man.
ner in which the present administra-
ton is usurping the functions Of the
free press. More than that, 1t also
deals with some of what the author
considers to be the reasons for this
usurpation. the chief Of these being. in
plain words. the administration de-
sire to create good impression con-
cerning its favorite measures by de-
liberate distortion Of fact if such dis
tortion is necessary. The author does
not confine himself to generalities
either, but quotes instance after in
stance in which news has either been
distorted or doctored in press releases
in order to give it trend favorable to
the New Deal. It is a shocking piece
and closes with the warning that DIR
free American press is actually IN
jeopardy. One feels that such an ex-
pose. resting Is 1t does on concrete
instances. could not be read too vi6e,v
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-22
A Today RESOLUTION
BEFORE NEW YEARS

This is the season of good will, joy
and happy family gatherings. 1t is the
one time of the year. above all others,
when tragedy should be utterly obliter-
ated It is the time when, following a
century-old custom, we begin to list the
good resolutions we will pledge on the
eve of a new year.
There is one resolution each of US
should make now, without waiting for
the whistles and bells to herald the be-
ginning of 1899. If made and kept, it
is a resolution which will go far to make
this a happy instead of a tragic holiday
in the lives of many of US.
We should resolve now that during
this holiday season we will drive safely
when we drive, and we will not drive
when we drink.
The resolve might very we'll be carried
on throughout the year. 1t is highly i'm
portant just now, however, because the
season of accidents, as we'll as the sea-
son of Christmas, is at hand.
If every person in Imperial Valley
drove for the next two weeks with
maximum of caution, depending always
on himself and never on the other fel-
low to do the right thing, there would
be no sudden, heartrending tragedies to
cast pail of gloom over festive Christ
mas gatherings.
If every man kept his head clear, his
eye on the road and his automobile under
control at safe speed from now until
New Years Day, there would be no hap
py, chattering children and smiling wives
turned in the passing of moment into
a grief-stricken family group because of
carelessness on the highways.
If every person in the United States
did the same, there would be no depress-
ing holiday headlines: christmas Death
Toll Heaviest in Years.
We in Imperial Valley cannot control
the actions of drivers elsewhere in the
nation, but we can and should control
our own. Therefore, this year, let's make
our own headlines read: Christmas acci
dent Toll Lightest in Years"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-22
Bruce Cation Says
Threat of Dietators is More Mental Than Military

The things that are happening
at Lima these days make interest
ing reading and probably will be
productive of a considerable amount
of good. But any American who
is really worried about the danger
of European tyranny getting
foothold in the New World ought
TO remember that the only real de-
Tense against that sort of thing
begins at home-and stays there.
We can build an inyinciple navy
and air fleet, cement mutual-help
treaties from Cape Horn to Hud-'
son Bay. and make it utterly i'm
possible for any combination OF
powers TO send an army or navy
into this hemisphere. But We can
nevertheless lose the battle unless
we understand very clearly just
what it is that we are facing.
For the military danger is sec
ondary. The real peril is state
of mind. a way of thinking, an
emotional response to the prob
lens of a world which has grown
almost unendurably complex and
battling. And against that peril
no conceivable international con-
ference can be of much help.
It is absurd to suppose that the
menace of the totalitarian state is
simply the familiar menace OF
militarism gone mad. The mill
tarism is there, and it is dangerous
but it is not the chief danger.
What makes this new kind OF
society so frightening is the TACT
that it represents the abandon-
ment of the old ideal by which
human society undertook to solve
its problems by reason instead OF
by force 1t stands for an appeal
to the feelings rather than TO the
mind. 1t calls on men to give up
the right to think for themselves
and demands the ruthless fencing
of all dissent.
That sort of thing can get past
any army and navy, if mems minds
are receptive to it. And if We per-
nit that frame of mind to develop
in our land we are laying ourselves
wide open TO conqueSt--not con-
quest by foreign nation, but con-
quest by way of life that 1t ut
terly foreign to everything the
word American has stood for.
Suppose, for instance, that we
dabble in that most poisonous of
brews, antiSemitism. Suppose we
permit religious prejudice to de-
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-22
A BIT TOO MUCH FEDERAL
IN THIS PROGRAM

The Congress of Industrial OrganiZa-
tions, more familiarly known as the ClO,
has proposed legislative program for
the next national congress which looks
very good on paper. To most of the points
there's very little objection. Take them
all together, however, and they present
a picture which many Americans will
find decidedly Objectionable.
Here are few of the points, in brief:
A federal health program, increased
appropriations for federal housing, ade-
quate federal aid for education, federal
arts program, extension of federal youth
aid, and federal laws governing hiring
halls, use of state troops, and such
items.
To our mind there's bit too much
federal in the program. II an item
doesn't call for increased federal spend
ing, it calls for increased federal super
vision of something. This country, we
think. has too much of spending already,
and enough of federal control in most
lines.
It's time certain classes of the Ameri-
can people stopped looking to the feder-
al government to do everything for them
and majority of the people realize
it, we believe. The minority which does
MT is likely to get the maj ority into very
bad trouble unless the majority becomes
vocal about what it likes and doesn't
like.
The first dislike which should be ex-
pressed. we feel, is that of hearing too
much of the word federal" in everyday
conversation.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-22
the FRENCH SLANT
ON FOOTBALL
{ Riverside Press)

1t is always interesting to get the 9th
er fellows viewpoint. Take football,
for instance, as played in America. We
have our notion of it, derived from long
and intimate observation We find it
great sport and also a great spectacle,
and a natural outgrowth of organized
athletics. bit rough at times, perhaps,
but fair and a wonderful sport.
Naturally the French, who are not as
athletically inclined as we are, and who
have indeed no word of their own for
sport" see it differently. The gulf be-
tween us appears prominently in French
accounts of recent football game, play
ed by American teams, before crowd of
10000 people in Paris.
The game was reported in the French
papers as "a combination of Rugby, Soc
GER, wrestling and bullfighting," and its
general effect very like collision be-
tween an automobile and bus. The hud-
die between plays, for counsel and sig
nails, says the report, fascinated and
intrigued the observers. ut is apparent
wrote the mystified reporter, that they
gather to cheer, in the spirit of true
craftsmanship, before every play"
But the play itself seemed distressing
ly rough and crude. To those 10000 on
lockers, the players "knelt down and
seemed to be trying to frighten one an
other, with grimaces." Then, they rush
ed headong at each other, arms flying.
Fantastic things took place. Legs and
arms got mixed so that the field looked
like a battlefield after the charge. When
ever the two lines charged, they left the
field strewn with wounded players"
Not such bad description of the aver
age game at that We might talk of
French duelling and not get the story
any nearer to the truth. But why bring
that up. We don't understand dueling
any more than they know our football.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-22
FEWER YOUNG CRIMINALS
ENTER SAN QUENTIN
ford Sentinel)

The contemplation of crime as a rule
is depressing mental pursuit, just as
crime itself is a depressing factor in
human life The announcement, there
fore, that there has been during the past
two years a definite decline in the num-
Der of young men who enter San Quentin
prison is one that should perk up the
spirits and raise the morale of all Cali
fOrnians.
Warden Court Smith of San Quentin
is authority for the statement that the
first term population of that penal in
stitution has been falling away at the
rate of about man day for the past
two years. In short there are less youths
who, in the parlance Of the underworld,
make the big house"
This in spite of the fact that the popu-
lation of the state has increased abnor-
mally since the dust bowlers began to
arrive and in spite of the additional fact
that many new arrivals of youthful years
have landed in prison.
Smith attributes the decline in youth
delinquency to one chief factor, the Civ
ilian Conservation Corps. This move
ment, he argues, has given adolescent
bows and young men outlet for their
surplus energies together with excel
lent training in worthy pursuits. The
CCC has aided materially in rehabilitat-
ing numerous youths who stood on the
threshold of crime, he insists, by taking
potential criminals off the streets and
into good company, giving them some
thing to do and seeing that they do it,
More power to the CCC if it can ac
complish such wonders!
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-22

rush Job and was bending every
energy to get it completed on
time.
One day he heard his name
called. There stood the building
Inspector.
Let's see your written building
permit" said the inspector.
Mr.. Larsen didn't have it, ana
answered back sharply.
Take the men off the building.
ordered the inspector.
Well, Mr. Larsen wasn't going
to do that. Words sizzled and
sputtered like firecrackers on the
Fourth OF July. No, sir, he wasn't
going to take the men off the
building.
Well, the inspector would show
this whipper-snapper a thing or
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-22
Photographs

Richard Strauss, the composer, is
"a. but has recently finished two
new operas and started a third, to
be titled king Midas
In Sumatra when an old soldier
feels his strength giving out he
climbs a tree. His relatives gather
at the foot and chant as they per-
form native dance. When the
old mans strength declines he
drops to the ground, is given a
few blows on the head and his
body is consumed 1t is thought
by eating him that his wisdom is
passed on to the younger genera
ton.
The earliest instrument used in
writing was not pen, but a stylus,
a pointed bone, metal or ivory bod
kin. It was used for making en-
graved OF incised letters.