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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-08-07
Public Library
The Amateur TheateI

CROSSROADS, roadside. barn and
sylvan theaters are not only add
ing gaiety to the summer months for
stay-at-homes and returned vacation
lists, but are arousing interest in the
stage among hundreds Of young per-
sons who are inspired to try out their
own talent. Year-round enthusiasm
for the stage has probably never been
greater than at present. Therefore.
the Public Library presents short
list Of books on various phases OF
amateur dramatics. The library has
an excellent working collection in this
field, and maintains a special index
Of plays at the central building.
Amateur players will find it well
worth their while to investigate the
library's resources.
One of the latest works. just off
the press, Is E. D. Schonberger's PLAY
Production for Amateurs" Older, but
invaluable for many helpful lists, in
Guiding those of dealers and manu-
facturers Of theatrical materials, is
H. G. Heffner's Modern Theater
Practice. a Handbook for Non-profes-
sionals." Much assistance can be
found in 1.-The Play Book: an ele-
mentary book on stage technique with
nine plays Of various types and some
suggestions for creative use Of plays
and playing, by Jean Carter and Jess
Ogden.
Van H. Cartwell also gives play
for acting in "A Handbook for the
Amateur Actor, Including George a
One-act Play, with Complete Stage Di-
rections and a Running Commentary
for the Director, Together with De-
scriptive Glossary Of Stage Terms"
Leslie Crump has written Directing
for the Amateur Stage" and "555
Pointers for Beginning Actors and
Directors" by J. L. Latham, covers
the dos and Dont's Of Drama"
drama"
Back stage work is covered In such
volumes as: "Costuming the Amateur
Show, Handbook for Amateur Pro-
ducers," by D. L. Saunders; Paint.
ing Scenery, . 'handybook' for ANA
teur producers" by L. A. Jones, and
Noises on; q Handbook Of Sound
effects" by Frank Napier.
The play itself is the subject Of
How to Write q Play" by no less
an authority than st. John IRVINE.
An excellent photography is given in
plays for Schools and Little The
aters, a New Descriptive List" by F.
H. Koch, Betty Smith and Robert
Finch, published by the University OF
North Carolina.
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fifths have been Negroes, Of whom
less than one-sixth were accused Of
criminal assault. Mississippi leads the
dishonor roll with total of SOL.
Following in close order are Georgia.
Texas. Louisiana, Alabama, Arkansas
and Florida. Only four States-New
Hampshire, Vermont. Rhode Island
and ssachusetts-have been free
of lynchings. Virginia has total Of
100 and Maryland 20.
Mr.. Shay calls the roll State by
State, case by case. and the summing
up represents as black page as can
be found in American history. He is
free with his indictments of mobs, Off
GERS who were corrupted or negligent,
communities and States, but lynching
is a subject about which it is i'm
possible to write impassionately. The
innocent have paid with their lives
along with the known guilty. The
most minor crimes have been made
capital offenses. Some men have been
lynched through mistaken identity,
some have been lynched for no known
offense, and some victims have never
even been identified. The barbarities
practiced upon some of Judge Lynch's
victims surpass the widest dreams of
the sadist.
This study of mass viciousness has
long been needed. E. T.
CHARACTERS IN ORDER OF AP-
PEARANCE. BY Romilly Cavan.
New York: The Macmillan Co.
THIS is another muddling, incon-
elusive novel by another young
English novelist-all about young
married couple who worry and worry
and do nothing about the cause OF
their worry, which never is clear to
the reader anyway. There is a young
playwright whose success is not as
sured and his dress designer wife,
whose success is assured And there
Is jealousy, that horrid monster. And
a great deal of conversation and de-
scription of emotions and tea and
darling-do-you-li ke-me and so on.
And champagne. And by and by a
baby. One is sort of sorry for the
baby.
CAsTAwAY BOATS. BY Capt. Vic
tor Slocum. New York: Lee Fur
man, Inc.
COME Of the outstanding romances
~ Of the sea were written by cast
Always. Among the greatest feats of
seamanship in marine history are the
small-boat cruises Of the survivors of
vessels lost at sea.
In this book Capt Slocum, himself
hero Of an outstanding small-boat
cruise resulting from the sinking of
his ship off the South American coast,
has collected the worlds greatest sto-
ries of such events. His stories have
to do almost entirely with those men
who have been castaway as a result
of shipwrecks and who have been
forced to make long cruises in small
boats to survive.
The author collected material for
his book through the greater part of
his life as sea captain. He ques-
toned, wherever possible, survivors or
relatives Of those who survived the
adventures Of which he writes. Many
Of the scenes he has visited in person.
He has taken great pains to verify
historical facts.
With his own experience as q casta-
way In mind, he tells with Hvidness
and wealth Of color the stories Of
others who have lived through like
adventures. The resulting stories are
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-08-07

traveller, and his old understanding of
the natives, and his love for the frozen
wastes of the Arctic comes out once
again in picturesque and dramatic
style This part of his book is full
of anecdotes and tales which are ex-
cellent reading.
For the rest, it is easy to see that
Peter Freuchen bore with civilization
as with necessary evil. He writes
with a good deal of bounce and ego
tism, but SO naive is he about it that
one will hardly find it fault.
NEW CREATIONS IN HUMAN BE-
INGS. BY Louis Berman. NJ D
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co
A NY one who has rested uneasily in
smoke filled rooms while talk OF
Communism, Fascism. right, wrong
capital. labor. war and peace has
burned the atmosphere. murmuring
human nature" when forced to state
an opinion, had better read this book
at once.
DR.. Berman, the author Of several
popular volumes on people. their be-
havior and glands, Is devastating. He
never gets cause mixed up with effect
With Voltaire he would doubtless
agree that people get the government
they deserve. He points out the re-
current illusions of progress in his
tory. But because they (civiliza
tions) made no provisions or could
take no steps to change for the better
the human stuff which was their sub
stratum, they possessed no last vital
ity," he writes.
Its 1.-The human stuff" he's interested
in. He actually achieves making any
other concern look pretty silly. People
who are really alive, who want to
live-this is the material he knows
would solve all the problems Of the
world.
1t is possible that the first part Of
the goth century will be remem-
bered in future years as that time
when experiments in and the study of
endocrinology began-that the World
War, the War in Spain and the inva-
sion of China will be quite incidental
to the work of scientists quietly study
ing glands while these conflicts were
in progress.
Strange things are being done each
day. Have you no imagination? A
gland has something to do with it.
The experts can help you acquire one.
Are you too short? That, too, can be
corrected. THE Elasticity of the fig
ure remains almost unlimited" says
Dr. Berman.
It's little hard to face-this fact
that even free will" is controlled by
the glands and that the things we
think" may be changed by mystic
rious injections. But there 1t is. And
never let it be said, even with the
pitutiaries with which we were born,
that we cannot recognize and face q
fact. DR.. Berman concludes:
THE chemistry of personality can
and will transform the inadequate and
interiors Of societies-and who Is
there among us not in some way in
adequate or inferior-into the mate
rails of the durable civilization upon
which mankind can build its way to
the stars" It's a book none should
miss. v. K. c.
JUDGE LYNCH: His First Hundred
Years. BY Frank Shay. New York:
Ives Washburn, Inc.
THIS is a true horror story. Since
1882, when lynchings were first
recorded Systematically, 5.ll2 persons
have met their deaths ut the hands
Of bloodthiYsty naobs. More than four.
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Brief Reviews of Books

MURDER IN NEWPORT. BY Gerard
B. Lambert. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons.
Amateur detective with yacht solves
killing Of millionaire against back
ground of great expensiveness. Pretty
fair.
Old Poetry.
THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET. A
critical edition of the Second
Quarto. 1864. with introduction and
textual notes. Thomas Marc Par.
rott and Hardin Craig. Prince.
ton: Princeton University Press.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-08-07
Best sellers for week ending

Best sellers for week ending
July "a:
Fiction.
The Yearling. Rawlings. Scrib-
ners.
My Son, My Son. Spring. Viking.
The Dark River. Nordhod and
Hall. Little Brown.
Day Of Battle. Shean. Double
The Citadel. Cronin. Little
Brown.
Mortal Storm. Bottome. Little
Brown.
Nom Fiction.
Fanny Kemble. Armstrong. Mac
MILAN.
Insanity Fair. Reed. Civici
Friede.
Master Kung. Grow. Harpers.
Across the Frontiers. Gibbs.
Doubleday Doran.
The Importance of Living. Yu-
tang. Reynal Hitchcock.
Woman On Horseback. Barrett.
Stokes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-08-07

as thrilling and exciting as any tales
Of the sea you are apt to ind.
The volume Is amply illustrated with
color plates from paintings by the
noted marine artist, Charles Rosner,
duotints, sketch maps by the author
and black and white drawings.
A very worthwhile work for those
who love the - and good sea yarns.
J. 8. Z
The times-news., 1938-06-29
Automobile Wreck
It Fatal For Miss
Julia {. Spratt
Charlotte Girl Sister Of
Miss Francis Spratt
Well Known Here

Hendersonville friends of Miss
Frances Spratt, former home eco
nomics teacher in the high school,
have learned with regret of the
death of her sister, Miss Julia
Caldwell Spratt, in an automobile
accident near Charlotte. The fol-
lowing account of the tragedy is
taken from the Charlotte Observ-
er of yesterday:
Carroll Conrad, "a year old
Greensboro man and former star
athlete at N. C. State college,
gave $1,000 bond here this after
noon Immediately after his arrest
on charges of manslaughter and
drunken driving in connection
with the highway death of Miss
Julia Spratt, 22-year-old girl of
Charlotte and Mount Holly.
Miss Spratt died in City hos
pital here shortly before noon to-
day of injuries received about a
o'clock Sunday morning when a
car, officers said was driven by
Conrad, got out of control on a
curve on the Gastonia Kings
Mountain road in Love Heights
near here, and crashed into tele-
Continued on page three)
The times-news., 1938-06-29
Roosevelt Studies Pay-As- -You-Go
Policy For Federal Public Works

tious development in the years
1933-'34 and '35 but did not liqui-
date.
Discussing the general domestic
and international economic situa-
tions. he observed that there is
more unemployment over the
world than at any time in its his
tory and that no country as yet
has devised permanent solution
to give work during depressions
as we'll as in boom times.
Many governments, the United
States excepted, he said, were
meeting the crisis by going in for
ornaments building, a program
that produced goods of no perma-
nent capital value and which do
not reproduce wealth.
In some nations, he went on to
say, As to so per cent of the ma
tional income was due to arma-
ments construction while he doubt
ed that more than from Is to 10
per cent Of Americas national in
come could be attributed to the
same cause.
He remarked, moreover, that
this country's arms program was
not to be compared with the eco
Continued on page three)
The times-news., 1938-06-29
ASK SUNDAY
MOVIEHEARINC.
Second Resolution Adopted
at Tent Meeting; Mayor
Makes Statement

A second resolution. requesting
that the board of city commission
ers hold public hearing on the
matter of open" Sundays and
Sunday movies, was adopted last
night at the tent meeting being
conducted at the corner of Church
street and First avenue west, by
the Rev. j. Harold Smith, Green
vile, S. c., evangelist.
The resolution followed one
adopted at the tent meeting on
Sunday night requesting city Of
ficials and II. E. Buchanan, city
theatre manager, to close picture
houses on Sundays.
Indications were today that no
special meeting of the city board
would be called to consider either
of the resolutions. Mayor A. v.
Edwards stated this morning that
the next regular meeting of the
board would be held on the night
of July 7. !
ANY citizen is free to attend
this meeting and present any subj
iect," Mayor Edwards said. He
added that any citizen was free to
attend any meeting Of the commits
sioners and to consult with the
commissioners on any subject.
The resolution adopted last night
charged that city commissioners
intended to ignore the wishes ex-
pressed in the resolutions, and at
tackled the fairness Of the adop-
tion of the open" Sunday ordi-
nance.
The resolution last night was
read by Rev. George PenneH, pas
tor of the Calvary Baptist church.
Relative to the resolution, Rev.
Pennell today made the following
statement:
"It has been said by one OF the
councilmen that there have been
threats made. We wish to deny this
emphatically, and say that we are
petitioning in the spirit Of humble
prayer. We would be glad to get
down on our knees before anyone
of the council or the council as a
whole and beg that the doors OF
theaters be closed on Sunday.
"The body last night was esti-
mated to be between $500 and 5000
people. We asked that no one vote
save the residents Of Henderson
Vile and Henderson county. There
were no scalawags in this vote
from South Carolina, as 1t has
been reported. 1t was a vote OF this
nature on Sunday afternoon.
"We were trying to get the voice
of the people registered in this
matter, as the good people OF
Charlotte have done in regard to
this same question. 1t is striking
that they have won the victory for
Sabbath observance for them"
Mr.. Pennell did not amplify his
statement relative to commits
sioner declaring that threats had
been made.
Speaking to the resolution last
Continued on page four)
The times-news., 1938-06-29

WASHINGTON, June 20. CUP
Treasury statisticians today pre-
pared to close the books for the
1888 fiscal year which began with
a few weeks of recovery and
slumped into almost | l months OF
acceierating depressions.
The treasury will report the
smallest net deficit of any year OF
the New Deal and the greatest
federal revenue since President
Roosevelt first took office.
The current fiscal year ends at
midnight tomorrow.
But back of those flgures are
facts which foretell the end OF the
downward deficit trend and cause
some unofficial estimators to be,
lieve that the 1889 fiscal year viii
turn up with the largest net dencit
of the depression-recovery perlod.
That record now is held by the
fiscal year 1886 when the treas
ury went into the red by $4,36o,-
100000.
Mr.. Roosevelt, however, feels
that treasury prospects are much
more hopeful than do those who
believe a humping deficit next
year will boost the national debt
The times-news., 1938-06-29
WV PLANNING
JULY FOURTH
OBSERVANCE
East Flat Rock Post Will
Stage Dinner; All Vet
erans Invited

East Flat Rock post, No. 1861,
Veterans of Foreign Wars, at
their regular meeting June 2s,
voted to have q chicken supper
July 4 at 8 80 p. m, at the town
hall in East Flat Rock, and invite
all veterans who have had cam
paign service In any war or on
hostile seas to join them, Thomas
B. Lockaby, post adjutant and
quartermaster, announced today.
E. e. Petit, commander Of the
department Of South Carolina and
from post 2889, Rock Hill, s. c.,
made . brief talk urging all vet
Grams to organize, and q visiting
comrade, F. D. Hoadley, from the
department Of Florida, post 1927.
st. Cloud, Fla, also spoke briefly
of the activities Of the Veterans
Of Foreign Wars and what they
have done in time Of distress in
Florida.
A. G. Brumbeloe, council MEM
ber Of the department Of N. C..
post S91, Asheville, congratulated
the comrades on organizing q
post in Henderson county and the
work they have accomplished.
Senior Vice Commander Joseph
v. Pace presided in the absence
Of Commander Osee C. Orr.
"On this independence day,
1888, in observance Of one of the
greatest events. in the history of
mankind, the Veterans of Foreign
(continned On pays thrssl q
The times-news., 1938-06-29
ALL MOTORISTS.
TAGGED MUST.
co into COURT.
Mayor Makes Statement as
IS Violators Are
Reported
LIMIT PARKING AS
TRAFFIC INCREASES

Motorists who get red tags for
violating the city's traffic ordi-
nances relative to parking of au-
tomobiles must appear in person
in city court and in the future will
be subject to minimum fines, May
or A. V. Edwards stated this morn
ing.
The mayor made this statement
as some 35 violations were report
ed this morning by police officers.
He stated that his residence and
office telephone had been ringing
almost constantly since officers
started tagging cars. II am glad TO
talk with any people about the
tags" the mayor said, "but the
tags must be presented in court at
the proper time"
A total of 35 violations yester-
day were reported by; officers this
morning and yesterdays report
showed % violations on the pre-
vious day. Most Of these offenders
reported or called the mayor to
make arrangements to appear at
later times.
i. Officers are keeping records Of
ali cars tagged. ana n the offsndii
ers do. not appear they will be
summoned before the court.
Practically all of the violations
are for overtime parking, and
Mayor Edwards stated this morn
ing that it was imperative that the
public cooperate in this matter.
Due to the increase in automobile
traffic in the summer months 1t
is necessary to have time limit
on parking in the business dis
trict. "If the law is good one,
we intend to enforce it by the i'm
position of fines Mayor Edwards
said. "If the law is not good, then
we will have to take down the
signs and allow indiscriminate
parking"
The mayor stated this morning
that he believed the public had
sufficient notice that parking laws
would be enforced, and declared
that in the future violators would
have to appear in court and pay
fines.
The times-news., 1938-06-29
Treasury Closing Books For Year
With Smallest New Deal Net Deficit
over $4,000. 100000.

well over 100000 100000.
"You may get all kinds Of i'm
ppressions," Mr.. Roosevelt said on
April ID in a freside chat outlin-
ing his lending-spending plans, "in
regard to the total cost OF this
new program, or in regard to the
amount that will be added to the
national debt.
"The net effect on the debt Of
the government is this - between
now and July 1, 1939-15 months
away-the treasury will have to
raise less than $1,500,000,OO0 OF
new money"
The current 1888 fiscal year
will end at midnight June 30th.
When it started one year ago the
recovery movement still was gen.
eral along the economic and in.
dustrial front. But by August OF
last year there began q slump
which by late autumn, was devel.
oping into the most precipitous in
our business history.
As this year ends the stock mar.
ket is bouncing out of the depths
under impetus of q variety OF con.
troversial factors, including the
CONTINUED on page three.l
The times-news., 1938-06-29
By FREDERICK A. STORM
United Press Staff Correspondent

HYDE PARK, N. Y. June %
UP)-President Roosevelt reveal
ed last night that he was studying
the pay-as-you-build plan for pub
lie works. demonstrated so sue
cessfully by Sweden.
While pointing out that the
Swedish experiment was carried
forward by nation much smaller
and more compact than the United
States. he indicated that he feit II
was worthy of emulation.
According to Mr.. Roosevelt
Sweden, which embarked on d
building program to stimulate EN-
ployment about the same time that
a large-scale one was launchea Ill
America. set aside in the ensuing
prosperous years sufficient nation
al revenues to pay off the COSTS
Now that country. should an
emergency arise, will be able 10
initiate a new program nnencum.
bered by the debts growing out Oh
loans for the former program.
The president contrasted the two
programs. ours and Sweden's and
said the difference was that this
country carried forward an ambi-
The times-news., 1938-06-29
pressure Will
|BEBR0UCHT ON
REBEL Chief
Will Not Involve Admission
Italy Controls Spain's.
Nationalists
WOULD SAVE BRITISH,
ITALIAN AGREEMENT

LONDON, June 20. (UP)-
Premier Mussolini today agreed
to use his influence to persuade
Spanish nationalists to stop bomb
ing British ships, the foreign Of
fce was informed today by Lord
Perth, British ambassador to
Rome.
Perth messaged Foreign Minis
ter Viscount Halifax after confer
ring with Italian Foreign Minister
Ciano.
Mussolini's pressure, according
to Italian sources, will not be for
NAL and will not involve any ad-
mission that Italy controls the
nationalists.
Nevertheless, pressure, It was
believed, will 60 q long way to
save the tottering negotiations
for the British-Italo agreement.
The times-news., 1938-06-29
CHAMBERLAIN DUE
FOR INTERROGATION
(By United Prsss)

The British government, hound
ed by its opposition and even by
certain members within its own
ranks, last night made desper-
ate effort to stop the bombing of
British ships in the Spanish civil
war by appealing to Premier Mus
solini.
Mussolini was asked to put
pressure on the Spanish nation-
alists, his allies, to stop the bomb
ings. ~ . - -,
ened Britbh-Itelo concord might
be saved. -. es :
It was reported that Il Mus
solini agrees, he would demand
that nationalists be recognized as
belligerents with such rights un-
der international law or else that
Britain promise to restrain its
ships from any but non-military
traffic with the loyalists.
Mussolini also was expected to
support the nationalists' sugges-
ton that "safety ports be desig-
mated to which British ships might
20 safely under supervision OF
neutral observers.
The Duchess of Atholl, who last
year sponsored q blockade-run-
ming venture Of British freight
er carrying food to beseiged Bill
bao, charged in the British house
of commons yesterday that Span.
ish nationalist guns are pointed
menacingly at Gibraltar.
The duchess, first woman to
break Scottish tradition by enter
ing public office, served notice
that she would ask Prime Minis
ter Neville Chamberlain today
what he intends to do about the
threat to Britain's fortress at the
western entrance to the Mediter-
ranean.
In recent weeks the duchess has
been a sharp critic of the govern
ments foreign policy.
The times-news., 1938-06-29
BREVARD MAN
CAR FATALITY
Floyd Youngblood Is Held
Blameless in Death
of c. Gravely

BREyARD. June % (SpeciaD-
Clifford Gravely, 2S. employe of
the Clemson theater, died at mid
night Tuesday night from injuries
received in an auto-truck collision
at Nicholson's bridge, one mile
south of Brevard on highway 64,
about $50 p. m. Tuesday night.
Floyd Youngblood of Fletcher
was held blameless by coroners
Jury Wednesday morning.
Evidence was to the effect that
the truck. driven by Youngblood
and headed north collided with the
car headed south just as the truck
was leaving the bridge. The car
was completely demolished.
Young Gravely suffered frac-
tured skull. a broken left arm and
chest injuries.
Miss Mamie Reynolds, riding
with Grayely. had severe cuts
about the head and body but was
released from LYDIA Memorial hos
pital Wednesday morning after re-
ceiving treatment.
Funeral arrangements have not
been made.
Surviving Mr.. Gravely are his
mother. Mrs. D. Clark; two sisters,
Miss Gertrude Gravely of Brevard,
and Mrs. Ethel Brown of Miami;
four brothers, Dewey. John and
To- craveIy of Breyard, and Bry-
an GrayeIy of Greer. 5. c.