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Evening star., 1938-12-23
Boumunn's S Late Goal
Gives Mounts Edoe

Mount Rainier Highs court team
won thrilling victory over the
Alumni, 1928, as Bauman dropped
in snowbird in the last minute of
play last night.
A preliminary was taken by the
Alumni girls over the Mount Rainier
girls. 2O-15.
Evening star., 1938-12-23
WoEwicks to Practice

Tuf1y Leemans and Ray Hanken,
coaches for the Warwick A. c.,
which meets the All-Stars in .
charity football game on Saturday,
January Z, will run their charges
through an indoor practice session
tonight at 8 pm. at the Catholic
University Gym.
Evening star., 1938-12-23
Fighter Hos Difficult
los Per Cent Problem

Dear MI. Lardner:-I have a very
deep personal problem, and my
mother-in-laW tells me I can't dc
any better than refer it to you. She
says I can't do any worse, but or
the other hand can't do any better
My mother-in-law has got very
sharp tongue, so hope you will ex-
cuse her. We call her Toots.
I am a heavyweight fighter, di-
yided up as follows:
Manager-30 per cent.
.Claffey mob-30 per cent.
Wife and family-20 per cent.
Small stockholders-25 per cent.
This totals up to los per cent, and
everybody was doing fine up till a
couple of months ago, when my
managers third wife got settle
ment in court calling for 10 per cent
of me in lieu of alimony. My man
ager is Happy Jack McSquirrel, and
ne tells me he cannot afford to pay
her out of his own cut, because he is
going to marry the former Fiji Daw-
son of the old Earl Carroll line, and
he says that Miss Dawson has got an
appetite like fish, think he speci-
fed like shark
He says his third wife's cut will
have to come out of my familys 20
Fer cent, unless 1 can square one of
,'le small stockholders. who are very
tough, especially around Christmas
time. I would write to the head of
the Claffey mob, only I understand
that he never answers letters of that
kind.
My mother-in-law claims the FAM
BY cannot afford to take another
cut because she has barely got
enough capital to keep her bowling
alley running as it is. My mother
tn-law says to write to you for ad-
, vice, what can We lose. she says,
maybe that third-rate scribbler will
have brainstorm. You must ex-
cuse my mother-in-laW sharp
tongue, we call her Toots.
P. 81 weigh 1873, in condition.
(Signed PUZZLED.
Answer-When I want any COM
nent from your mother -in-law, Puz-
zled, I will ask for it. No wonder
Eer third-rate bowling alley is COL
l"cting dust If she sits around wise
.c'acking all day. Tell her she
doesn't scare me for minute.
Evening star., 1938-12-23
Roqoski Tosses Spencer

PORTLAND. Me-, Dec. 23.-Mike
Rogoski Of Poland pinned Jim
Spencer of Boston In last uiRht's
rassling headliner here.
Evening star., 1938-12-23
D. & H. Wins in Baltimore

BALTIMORE, Dec. 23.-Delaware
g. Hudson five of Washington downed
the local Young Mems Hebrew AS
sociation basket ball team, 4O-38, last
Oiohf
Evening star., 1938-12-23
From the
Press Box
Tips for SIop-Hoppy
From Sports Oracle
From the
BY JOHN LARDNER,
Special Correspondent of The Star

NEW YORK, Dec. 23.-Advice to
the sportlorn mote to correspond
ents: All those who wish Uncle
John to burn their letters before or
after reading them should say SO in
an attached note. Your old uncles
usual policy Is to burn before read
Ing, but exceptions will be made in
special cases. These special cases
come in three different shades of
hand-tooled leather, and are very
handy for storing wood or coal
around the home after the shirts
have been used. All anonymous let
ters will be turned over to charity.
There is nothing lower than an
anonymous letter, except maybe a
elf-addressed stamped envelope.)
Evening star., 1938-12-23
Sports Program
For Local Fans
TODAY.
e--n.-A NIL

TODAY.
Basket Ball.
Ohio q. VS.. George Washing
ton, Tech Gym. $50.
Washington Brewers VS.. Wilkes.
Barre Barons, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Evening star., 1938-12-23

Totals IA 129 Totals Ia 22s
Referee-Mr. Chase.
Evening star., 1938-03-20

method Of republishins those old ar
ticles which the young free lance Bar
rie wrote, one In q chapter, and then
giving the memories which centered
around each piece as these memories
stood in the mind OF the literary vet
eran only few years before his death.
Originally the work was privately
printed and circulated only among
Sir James close friends. Now 1t Is
made available to the great public
which still finds him-well, charm
ing
And certainly there is a great per-
suasiveness about the book. Delicate.
gay, sad and-one must say it
whimsical too, it brings US once more
the flavor Of the MIND which created
Peter Pan and Sentimental Tommy
and which the most worldly Of us
found effective. Barrie lovers should
have 1t. Devotees Of the fine informal
essay, in perfect tradition, must not
do without it.
MORE OF MY LIFE. By Andrea
Majocchi. New York: Knight
Publications.
DIR. MAJOCCHI. a distinguished
Italian surgeon, wrote his auto
biography last year with deservedly
best-selling results. It was a fine tale
Of a mans rise in his profession, and
Of much Of the difficulties and joys of
that profession.
Now the doctor adds q second volume
Evening star., 1938-03-20

masters, 1DhOSe poem Lii PO"
appears in the March Asia. bv
his friend Joseph Cummings
Chase. I'd. Appleton-CenturyD
of Mr.. Hoover's definition of GRIM
inal psychology had not been mis-
applied in Belbenoits case. The re-
viewer answered that she was quite
willing to put the point up to Mr..
Hoover himself. Mr.. Hoover obligingly
replied. Remarking that he had read
DRY Guillotine" with considerable
interest" he continued as follows:
SO I would like to point out
that my conclusions on the activities
of criminals have been reached after
very thorough and close study in the
criminal histories of thousands of the
most notorious criminals in America.
I have always been hesitant in using
the word theory since believe that
practically should be paramount in
dealing with a treatment of criminals
or with any other social problem.
II have read very carefully your re-
view of Dry Guillotine,' together with
your column entitled Review Results in
Protest. which appeared in The SUM-
day Star of February ~, 1888. With
reference to your conclusions, 1T
would seem indeed that the criminal
does have psychology Of his own, a
way of thinking that takes account
of nothing but immediate desire, apart
not only from morality, but from COM
mon sense 1 am firmly convinced
that you are correct, and your views
can be substantiated by the case his
tories of literally thousands of GRIM
inals. The criminal does have a way
of thinking-a selfish one. He thinks
Evening star., 1938-03-20
WEEKS 10 BEST SELLERS
IN OTHER CITIES.
BOSTON.

Fiction-"The Dark Rose"
Maurice Walsh; Action at
Aquila," Hervey Allen: This
Proud Heart" Pearl 8. Buck;
Joseph in Egypt" Thomas
Mann; THE Citadel" A. J.. Cro-
min.
Non-fiction-"Danger Is My
Business" John D. Craig: "R. F.
D." Charles Allen Smart; "Old
Williamsburg and Her Neigh
bors," William G. Stevens;
"Transgressor in the Tropics"
Negley Farson; THE Importance
OF Living" Lin Yutang.
CHICAGO.
The Citader':
Northwest Passage. Kenneth
Roberts,; THE Rains Came"
Louis Bromfield; Action at
Aquilla";; This Proud Heart"
Non-f -fiction-"The Importance
OF Living; Madame Curie," Eve
curie; "Transgressor in the Trop-
ics";; THE Hidden Lincoln" ed
tied by Emanuel Hertz; "R. F. D."
NEW YORK.
Fction-"The Citadel. Jo-
seph in Egypt; Action at Aqii-
Ia; Northwest Passage; "The
Rains Came"
Non-fiction- "The Importance
OF Living: Madame Curte";
Hell on Ioe," Comdr. Edward
Elsberg; How to Win Friends
and Influence People,. Dale Car
negie; DRY Guillotine," Rene
Belbenoit.
SAN FRANCISCO.
| Fiction THE Citadel":
Northwest Passage; THE Rains
Came; "Witner in April" Rob-
ert Nathan; Under Capricorn"
Helen Simpson; Action ut
Aquila." ~. y.
Nom n-fiction-"Red Star Over
China" Edgar Snow; Hell on
1ce"::' The Importance Of Liv-,
ing; Madame Curie";; "Out Of
Africa" Isak Dinesen.
tcopyrfsht. 1881 .. So.
Evening star., 1938-03-20

to his story. It is much the same
sort OF material, only more given over
to anecdotes and less concerned with
its authors own career. But the
anecdotes come from the kind Of ex-
perience which gave his first volume
its title, Life and Death" They are
stories of men and women at grips
with the destroyer and of the sur
geon's part IN aiding or comforting
them. Inescapably, they are COM
pelling reading.
DR.. Majocchi has fine human per-
ceptiveness; 4 scientist, he still seems
to be Of that body of humanitarians
who have seen science only as q
weapon for the lessening of suffering
His book is view inside the life and
the thinking OF man whose business
it is, in turn, to be inside the lives
and thoughts of his fellows-and,
as such, it is valuable record. It
is not particularly cheerful, needless
to say, but it is important in that
it brings close to readers the attitude
of the man to whom human beings
must turn in much trouble-the doc:
tor. 1t seems likely to repeat the
success of its last years predecessor.
WHY NEEDLE IN THE ORIENT?
BY Boake Carter and Thomas H.
Healy. New York: The Dodge
Publishing Co.
DR. THOMAS H. HEALY, CO.
author Of this book, is dean and
professor Of foreign relations Of the
United States at the Georgetown
School of Foreign Service and has
been professor in the Academy of
International Law at The Hague. He
is . member of the bar of the United
States Supreme Court and has been
lecturer at the Naval War Col
lege, the Army War College, the
Naval Academy and the Army In
dustrial College. Together with his
well-known collaboration he sets out
here to write a guide to what We are
up against when We, as q Nation,
NEEDLE in the Far East"
The facts presented in the work
Evening star., 1938-03-20
Brief Reviews of Books

Petroleum.
THEN CAME OIL. BY c. B. Glass;
cock. Indianapolis. Bobs Merrill
Co.
The great drama of the discovery
of oil in the Middle West. Told In
lively fashion.
Hobbies and Amusements.
THE COMPLETE BOOK OF GAMES.
BY Clement Wood and Gloria
-. Goddard.
Card games. outdoor games, party
garnes-everything from old maid to
football. A lot of it reads to the re-
viewer like work, but If you are an
incurable reveler this should become
your Bible.
COIN COLLECTING. BY Joseph
Comm. New York: Coward NC
The basic facts Of numismatics.
Illustrated.
THE AMATEUR CRAFTSMAN. BY
James v. Howe. New York: Funk
d Wagnalls.
How to set up an amateur shop, and
how to proceed when you have done
20. Illustrated.
CREATIVE HAND1CRAFTs. BY Ma
bel Reach Hutchins. New York
The Leisure League.
How to 60 about such artiness and
craftiness as potting, weaving metal
hammering and the like. That is, If
you really want to.
DRAWING FOR FUN. BY Walter
Willoughby. New York: The Leis-
ure League.
What might be called basic princi-
pies, one supposes. How to be an
amateur artist. Has the reviewers
unqualified Endorsement, since its first
sentence announces that drawing is
easier than writing" May its dis
ciples number legion.
Names.
THESE NAMES OF OURS. BY A. w.
Dellquest. New York: Thomas Y.
Crowell Co.
The derivations Of a great number
OF surnames. Full Of interesting stuff
Life Insurance.
GOUGE. BY John Franklin Gaskill.
Los Angeles: Published by the au-
thor.
A study Of insurance companies and
methods. Exposures Of many alleged
misleading promises.
Ships.
The BOOK OF THE SHIP. BY G..
Gibbard Jackson. New York: D..
Appleton Century Co.
A new and revised edition of this
Evening star., 1938-03-20

" " Gulilotlne' controversy. re-
Gently carried on in these
columns now seems to have been writ
ten and comes from the pen of ].
Edgar Hoover. the Nations head G.
man. Dry Guillotine." in case you
do not remember. is book written
by Rene Belbenoit, a French convict
who completed an escape from Devils
Island; the work is descriptive OF his
imprisonment and his break for free
dom.
1t is an interesting thing, GER
tainly. The reviewer, however, writ
ing of it, called attention to the TACT
that the author, in his repeated at
tempts to escape. used very much
the same mentality as that which
had made him convict in the first
place and remarked that his deter
mination to get away seemed to be
only different version of the per-
sistence which he used in his career
as thief
The result of this statement was
protest from readers. the protesting
ones declaring in essence that the re-
viewer was hard-hearted old rleanie.
One lady remarked in her Letter that
she feared that Mr. Hoover's recent
book, Persons in Hiding" had in
f1uenced the reviewer to take so phil
istinic stand in viewing Belbenoits
dramatic adventures and questioned
whether the reviewers Interpretation
Evening star., 1938-03-20

A1A CSACASC ySe WAAeVCA.
Few can read this volume without
. better understanding of themselves
and their own hidden motives for
numbering theniselves-instantly and
conclusively or slowly and inconclu-
sively. Vast numbers Of persons the
world over are seeking and usually
finding ways Of putting an end to their
own existences. Just now, as DR..
Menninger stresses in his conclusion,
about half the world seems determined
to do 1t by means of war.
A very small percentage Of "sui-
cides" actually blow their brains out,
or jump out Of the Washington Monu-
ment, or cut their throats, or drink
some corrosive poison. There are only
about $4,000 q year in the United
States who chose such means of exit.
There are more comfortable and So
cially acceptable ways Of venting
hatred upon the self-getting into an
insane asylum or jail, getting hurt in
an accident, getting hanged at the
hands Of the law, suffering from imag-
tnery ailments, becoming q hermit,
going to the devil with drink, etc.
In other words, DR.. Menninger
stresses. suicide Is just an extreme
form OF, expressing ones hatred for
some other person identified with the
self-son1e person usually whose actual
murder, would not be socially accepta-
bic. This Is the motive for all the
paradoxical ways persons take to in
jure themselves, eliminating in the
supreme injury Of irrevocable annihi-
lation.
The chances. are . great many who
read these words are even now en-
gagged, or have at some time been en-
gagged. tn killing themselves. They will
realise Il when they read Or. Men.
nt11oe1 book. T. Il H i.
Evening star., 1938-03-20

him. and she just supposed that a
poet looked like q poet 1t took her
some days after that to readjust her
cosmos. He was very nice about it.
WELL. here Is the old masters poem
now appearing in Asia. and ded-
icated to yet older master, since its
title is Iii Po":
Iii Po, the Banished Angel,
So many centuries now lying on
The Terrace of Night,
Sees no more the moon above the city
. of Chang-an.
Nor the fair region of Yo-Yang,
Where lived his friend, Tung Tsao-
chin.
He sees no more the Yo Mel Noun
tains.
Nor the Min Mountains, far west of
the road to Shu.
Nor does he drink wine by the Yangtze
River,
Nor in Marking. nor Shanghai,
He is long q name, like the name
Of mountain.
Mountains do not grieve that war
shall never end.
He has become a height on which
The beacon fires of his songs burn
and 60 not out,
Showing wanderers the way to the
good life
OF hospitality and song.
With the mountains, he does not re-
member
When the empire was wrecked. when
the imperial army
Was slaughtered by the barbarian foe,
And the bones of the slain were piled
in the hills;
When beautiful buildings, porcelain,
jade.
Were destroyed, were stolen.
And the poetry OF an innocent people
failed to soften
The hearts of conquerors.
Lii Pc lived sixty years,
Seeing his people in fear of the hordes
NOI ItA VI VIC 1IcdC wall,
Seeing war and ruin and famine.
For more than . thousand years
He has been at one with the indifIer-
ence
OF the East Mountain, or the waters
of Tung Ting Lake
It is more than . thousand years
Since Po Chu-i visited the grave of
Ii Pc.
BY the River Tsai-shih,
There amid the pathos Of endless
grass,
Under = blue sky patched with white
clouds.
These never die, never cease to be:
Mountains, rivers and clouds from the
sea.
And songs never die:
They are as mists around the slopes
of hills.
As clouds on the peaks tinged by
the sun,
Through which armies march In vain. +"
A ND since spring is unquestionably
here, 50 that the pussy willow
which the reviewer bought from q
wintry flower cart and carried home
is now putting out green leaves and
silver root fibers, embarrassing her no
little. for she can no more throw that
trusting innocence out than she could
drown real kittens, readers will have
another poem. This one came In the
reviewers mail 1t is from q WASH
ingtonian, Mr.. H. p. stoddard. He
calls 1t Sonnet for Millay."
% sing of love in lifting roundelay,
And We shall listen to your magic
word.
But having listened, we must 20 our
way,
Alone in heart, although our heart
Is stirred.
Hymn beauty, lady Of the minstrel's
art,
And minds attuned shall stroll your
sylvan dell.
But each must walk alone and walk
apart;
Mind is fort no winged word may
fell.
Sing of the soul, and kindred spirits
here
And far away will lift In high ap-
plause.
But never, whether youth or wisest
seer,
Shall words call forth the deep which
gave you pause.
For words are merely symbols; mystic
cloak
Hides in all men . self naught can
ev9te."
Poets writing poems to poets, dead
and living; pussy willow sprouting in
the vase. And the reviewer meditat-
ing q new career for herself, as .
master -mind crime detector. Yes, 1t
may be conservatively said that spring
Evening star., 1938-03-20
handbook Of steamships. Containing


handbook Of steamships. Containing
new Illustrations.
Radio.
BOTH SIDES OF THE MICRO
PHONE. BY John s. Hayes and
Horace j. Gardiner. Philadelphia:
j. B. Lppincott Co.
How to broadcast, though not why.
which seems a more interesting FASH
ion. With list of famous radio stars
as its contributors.
Pictures.
DEATH IN THE MAKING. By Rob-
.ert Capa. Photographs by Robert
Capa and Gerda Taro. New York:
Covici Friede.
A collection Of photographs from the
Spanish front. Narrowing.
THE RIVER. BY Pare Lorentz. New
York: Stackpole Sons.
A collection OF photographs from
the motion picture OF the same name
which the author produced for the
Farm Security Administration. With
the text used in the cinema. Iilu-
strates the working OF soil erosion
and similar forces injurious to the
land.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH.
BY S. A. Spencer. With pictures
by Margaret Bourke White, Sara,
Keppler, Aarons. Rothstein and
others. New York: Dubleday
Doran.
A Photographic study of industrial
civilization.
RETREAT. BY Neonie Aminof. New
York: E. P. Dutton e. Co.
Another Napoleonic romance Deal
ing with the period between the re-
treat from Russia and the escape from
Elba. Well enough.
ESCAPE TO CAIRO. BY Henry Fill
mer. indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill
Co.
Triangle in African background.
Run-o stuff.
MANS ESTATE. BY M. E. Ince.
New York: Stackpole Sons.
A novel of life on an English estate.
Serious and worthy
THEIR SHIPS WERE BROKEN.
BY Constance Wright. New York:
E. P. Dutton Co.
Romance of the early opium trade.
Ordinary except for background.
GRASS ON THE MOUNTAIN. By
Henry and Sylvia Lieferant. New
York: E. P. Dutton Co.
Family novel about upstate New
York. Worthy and serious.
BALLADE IN G MINOR. BY Ethel
Boileau. New York: E. P. Dutton
Co.
The characters of the authors pre-
vious work, Gay Family" are rein
troduced. A work very like the first.
SNOW IN EDEN. BY I. S. Williams.
New York: Charles Scribner's
Sons.
A problem novel involving an ac-
cidental killing seen against q back
ground of blizzard in Canadian wild
erness. Light.
TO-DAY is YOURS. BY Emile Lor-
ing. Boston: Little Brown g. Co.
Problem novel about young married
people who have become estranged.
Solemn tosh but probably will be
popular.
THE DEATH OF MARK. BY r. E.
Spencer. Indianapolis: Bobbs
Merrill Co.
Problem novel about young hus-
band who is paralyzed and his wife
and brother More solemn tosh of a
kind for which there are plenty Of
readers
TIME OUT FOR ETERNITY. BY
Jane Lexington Comfort. New
York: E. P. Dutton Co.
Novel about clever but introspective
family. Well enough, but what Of it?
THE BIG FIRM. BY Amabel VIII
liams-Ellis. Boston: Houghton-
Mif1in Co.
Loves Of scientist in q great in
dustrial concern. Serious.
ABOVE THE RAINBOW. BY Anne
Strawbridge. New York: Stack
pole Sons.
Story of girls divided personality.
Rather more than average silly.
THE BEST BUTTER. BY Elinor
Rice. New York: William Morrow
Light novel of life in settlement
Of intelligentsia. So-so.
Evening star., 1938-03-20
By NC. r.

w YHAT would seem to be the
a final word in the DRY
wv Guiilotine" controversy. re-
coptJv no rrjnd nm ;o ithaca
Smyrna times., 1938-01-13
TOWN TEMPORARILY WITH
OUT GAS

The town Of Smyrna was in
darkness last night as far as gas
was concerned, much to the an
noyance and wonderment of the
people as to the cause. It took a
great deal Of inquiry to find out
what was the matter, the gas men
themselves not knowing there was
any obstruction until the time to
hghtup, and then it was too late
to remedy it until the next day.
In making gas extension in front
of the Opera House the pipe as in
serted by the plumber was left in
such way that the melting snow
of yesterday found its way down
to, and in the pipe, filling it with
water and cutting off the gas
above that point. The meeting at
Asbury M E. Church could not be
held for want of light, and the
Smyrna post office, the Times
printing plant and many of the
private residences were greatly in
convenienced by the mishap. 1t
will be remedied to-day.
Smyrna times., 1938-01-13
EASTERN SHORE OF
MARYLAND ITEMS

Cards are out announcing the
marriage of Capt. Medford M Lar
rimore, of the steamer Gratitude, Z
and Miss Florence Oman, daugh-
ter of Capt. John H. Oman. The
ceremony will take place on Tues
day afternoon, January 18th, at
o'clock, at the residence Of the
brides father, Centerville.
There are said to be in circula-
ton Oh the peninsula silver certifi-
Gates raised from 81 To S5. The
work Of raising is neatly done but
a careful examination easily de-
tects the difference. A sufficient
clue is in the vignette, which is on
the right Of S. note and the left Of
the ST. Most persons, however,
are 50 eager To get hold of a S5 bill
that they would probably fail to
notice even the entire absence Of
a vignette.
Smyrna times., 1938-01-13

by the ex-Empress Eugene. Af
ter religious services at Chisel-
hurst the bodies were conveyed in
solemn state to the railway station
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS
Jacob r. Alice has moved from
Tuckahoe Neck to Middletown, Del.
Harry Conrad is being again
doomed for the Republican May
orally nomination of Wilmington.
]. ]. Boyce has purchased the
evaporation factory and grounds of
Messrs. Hitch & Boyce of Laurel
for $1,700. He intends to continue
the business.
Lydia B. Ford, wife of Harry F.
Ford has sold her farm in Kenton
Hundred to James a. Spry, of Phil
adelphia, for $4,000 subject to a
dover of $1,000
Phillip John Satterfeld, of near
Wyoming, Del, has bought the
home farm of David Scott at Hous-
ton, for $44, 500. Mr.. Scott will
move to New York soon.
The Hon. ]. B. Pennington has
secured the appointment Of Robert
Simmons, Jr., Of Dover, as a page
in the House Of Representatives, at
Washington.
Purnal J. Lynch has decided to
again try for the Sheriffalty, and
bids fair to be a formidable candi-
date for the Democratic nomina-
tion of New Castle County.
Now that coal is seven dollars a
ton prospective fathers-in-law
should require their prospective
sons-in-law to 60 home early or
bring a scuttle of coal along with
them. Sentiment is all right, but
it wont buy coal.
Chaplain McCabe, whose fame as
a speaker and singer has become
world wide, will visit Dover on the
8th of next month, the pastor of
the M. E. Church having engaged
him to address a meeting in the in
terests of the Missionary cause.
John H APPEL, a baker of Milford,
is missing. He took a train at
Harrington on December 26 and
since then no one in Milford has
seen him or heard of him. His
home creditors had Sheriff Nc
Daniel seize his property on Tues
day. He left realeState to the
value of $4,000.