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Evening star., 1938-06-05
Novels.
Novels.
SEVEN AGAINST REEVES. BY Rich
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Novels.
SEVEN AGAINST REEVES. BY Rich
ard Arlington. New York: Double
day b Doran. ..
The humorous story Of q mans ef-
forts to get along after retiring from
business to have q good time. Light.
DEATH Is SO FAIR. BY Louis Lynch
Dalton. New York: Doubleday
Doran Il %.
A dramatic thing about the Easter
revolution IN ireland. High-fiown but
entertaining.
THE NAKED BLADE. BY George
Challis. New York: Greystone
Press.
Romantic thriller about pirates in
the Caribbean In the days Of swords
and sinfulness. All right for what
IL ID.
OKLAHOMA WILDCAT. By Augusta
"A. B." Weaver. New York: The
MAcAuley Co.
Novel OF the oil industry. Ordinary.
Reprints and Collected Works.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY,S MAG
NUM-. Philadelphia: J. .. Lip
pincott CO.
A 1,150-pAse volume Of selections
from the prolific pen OF the perennial
youth. Morley fans take notice.
The Circuss
THROUGH TEE BACK DOOR OF
THE CIRCUS. BY George Brinton
Beai Springfield: The McLough-
lin Bros.
All the questions about the circus
you can think Of answered. And then
some. Illustrated with photographs.
Labor.
THE POSTWAR HISTORY OF THE
BRITISH WORKING CLASS. BY
Allen HUT. New York: Coward
McCAr1n 4 90.
what the name implies. Complete
and well documented but . dun style.
War.
COOPERATION OR CoEEC1oNa
~ IL z. Jacks. New York: T. 2.
Duttoa Of.
An argument for insernationalisa.
Evening star., 1938-06-05
By NC. X.


THE. fare offered BY the period
icals this month seems to be
fairly meaty. Conspicuous
~ among the serious articles are
two BY Eliot Janeway. one appearing
In Harpers Magazine and one in Asia
Mr.. Janeway's subject In both pieces
Is the same; indeed, he virtually re-
peats himself. and his preoccupatso
Is Japan's dependence upon American
goods for her continuance Of the war
In China and for her future as mili-
taristic power.
The sum Of his story in Asia is
that the United States could stop the
Chinese war ut any moment simply
by curtailing or forhidding sales Of
machinery and Mbricating oils. These
are commodities, he says, which, un-
like raw materials. only the United
States can furnish Japan, for jap
anese heavy industry Is geared to our
products. Out OF from our exports,
she would not be able to carry on,
says Mr.. Janeway. How does the neu-
trality bill stand on this? That is a
question which will probably occur
to any reader.
In Harpers Mr.. Janeway goes into
the subject Of Japan's need for our
products somewhat more in detail and
with the broader intent Of showing
how America might control Oriental
militarism through our exports. As
he sums 1t up:
Japan is the one nation In the
world whose aggression We fear.
The Japanese menace is made possi-
BILE by American exports. Because
Of the Japanese menace our Govern
ment is building battleships with
money which might otherwise, 60 for
housing or to ease the tax burden
Of our people. What is to be done
about this situation Is up to the
American people. Here are the facts. {"
And A. he presents the case 1t Is
pretty well open-and-shut. 1t is. in
ded, too reasonable-a set OF osninous
conditions and an obvious remedy.
1t Is too much to be expected that the
remedy will be adopted. It is prob
ably too much to be expected that 1t
would work II 1t were, for that mat
ter. We live in an age Of feverish
fantasies. Plain common sense has
quite generally come to be suspected
just on Its own recognition.
7 Asst week in these columns the re-
viewer mentioned An article writ
ten by Lawrence Dennis and published
in the June American Mercury, the
subject Of which was the real Com
munist menace" in these United
States. Mr.. Dennis made the state
ment In his piece that the real hold
which Communism has gained in this
country has been through its false ap-
peal to honest liberals, and most GER
tainly not through the mouthinss Of its
rabid professional martyrs.
Those who hold that the Dennis
piece is only an expression Of the Mer-
cury's well-esta blished Anti-radical pol
icy and that it may be discounted As
holding an authors independent view
point, may be interested to read an
article on the same subject which ap-
pears in the June Harpers. The au-
thor Of this piece Is Lillian Symes and
her title is Communism Twenty Years
After" She has been for some time
. student Of radical and liberal move
ments in America, and, significantly,
she holds the same view Of Communism
Is Mr.. Dennis, or even harder one.
Says she, "The courtship Of democ-
Evening star., 1938-06-05
BEST SELLERS IN WASHING
TON WEEK ENDING
JUNE 3. 1888.

Fiction.
THE YEARLNG. Rawlings.
Scribners.
THE MORTAL STORM. Bot
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ACTION AT AQUILA. Allen.
Farrar A Rinehart.
FREE LAND. Lane. Lonsmans.
THE CITADEL. Cronin. Little
Brown.
MY SON. MY SON. Spring.
Viking.
Nom Fiction. -
MASTER KUNG. Grow. HArpers.
EVOLUTION OF PHYSICS. Elm
stein and Infeld. Simon b.
Schuster.
IMPORTANCE OF LIVING. Yu-
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WOMAN ON HORSEBACK.
Barrett. Stokes.
FIFTY YEARS A COUNTRY
DOCTOR. Mccartney. Dutton.
GLASS HOUSES. Beals. Lippin-
colt.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-23
One Way Ticket Only

The Carriers Joint Conference Com mittee, Eighteen Railway Labor Organ izations and the Brotherhood of Railway T-ainmen, have been comforting with the National Mediation Board to secure an agreement by mediation to settle the dis 'pute involving the request of the rail- roads, made last May to reduce wage rates of all employees 15 per cent
 .8 :. The result of the conferences is that the railroads are willing to submit this controversy to arbitration under the pro- visions of the Railway Labor Act. Repre-. sentatives of the railroad unions have refused to agree to arbitration. The Ma tional Labor Relations. Board has, there fore, been forced to notify the railroads and the unions that its services have been terminated under provisions of the Rail- way Labor Act. Briefly that is the his- tory of nearly three weeks of attempted mediation that dealt with problems af- fecting the welfare of every man, woman and child in the nation.
 It is hard for the average citizen to understand why the employees of railroads refuse to submit their side of the case to arbitration, as provided for under the Railway Labor Act, Is orderly, collective bargaining in the railroad industry to be : wrecked? Is the country to be demoral- ized with threats of strikes, or actual strikes on the railroads, because arbitra- ton of differences is refused by the work CTS when the railroads are willing'to sub- init their side of the case to arbitration? Railroad employees have enjoyed the ben efits of the Railway Labor Act and the orderly processes of collective bargaining under 1t, when they sought wage in- creases. Do they think they will gain public favor by refusing to arbitrate their differences of opinion with the railroads, when the machinery of the Act is sought to consider reduction in railroad wages, at a time when they seem necessary, based on other economics and wage conditions in the nationp
 Wise counsel should caution railway labor organizations, which have stood high in the opinion of the public, against rejecting an arbitration and mediation policy, which, up to now, has given the railroad industry an enviable reputation in the settlement of wage questions, com pared with the turmoil and strife to which other industries and other labor organ izations have been subjected in similar controversies. Don't make farce of the Railway Labor Act.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-23
A Sane and Safe Plan

When the next Congress meets, it's Omenbers will doubtless cast a weather seye on Europe and start talking about -ways and means of keeping America out of war. .... They won't be able to give us 100 per cent protection, of course. But If the con gYessinen could find simple and certain way of taking the financial profit out of war, this country would not be likely. to. fight again except for the most pressing reasons of self-defense.
 This idea. of making war profitless has been in the air for a long time now, and some pretty elaborate schemes to accom- plish 1t have been suggested. The trouble dle us with govefnment-by-d decree.
 There is, however, one very simple and straightforward plan awaiting Congress attention. It is the plan presented last spring by the Veterans of Foreign wars, introduced in the House and Senate-and left hanging when Congress adjourned without acting on 1t.
 This plan would set up no elaborate systems of control over industry, finance or manpower. It would not turn the pres- ident into dictator the moment war was declared; 1t would not create an omni- potent bureaucracy which would try to perpetuate itself when peace returned.
 Instead, 1t would simply boost the l1v- ing daylights out of the income tax sched- ules. Under this bill, wartime income taxes of 10 per cent would be levied on all individuals personal and de- pendents' exemptions that run to per- haps $1200, on an average. In addition, there would be surtax rates running from 10 per cent to .93 per cent on incomes above $20,000.
 Corporations would be taxed 15 per cent on net incomes not in excess of per cent of their adjustd declared value, 25 per cent on net incomes not in excess of 6 per cent of their adjusted declared value and 100 per cent on net incomes above that level ''
 That bill would quite literally take the profit out of war No one would get rich out of the war; on the contrary, everyone in the nation would have direct finan- scial stake in seeing that we kept the peace. And if we did get into war, those taxes would come close to enabling Us to pay as we go.
 The scheme has at least the virtue of simplicity-so much so, indeed, that wary citizens may want to study it with es- pecial care, on the theory that anything so beautifully simple must have a catch int somewhere Tn any case, it should set us thinking whether we really have the hardihood to go ahead and literally take all of the profit--every last dime of it. nlft of war.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-23
The Floods Mounting Toll

Little by little more complete check ups from in and around the state begin to bring to us here in hill-sheltered Waterbury news of the utter devastation and destruction that was accompanied by this weeks rains and hurricane. Pictures carried elsewhere in today's Waterbury Democrat perhaps best convince one of its terrific proportions, which in several sections including Hartford, New London and other eastern towns of the state has not yet abated. =.
 Next to the wholesale loss In property damage is the great amount of suffering that. the storm has brought to thousands of Connecticut's and New Englandls people. In many instances homes have been completely wiped out while thousands more have been compelled to evacuate their homes in case of further destruction. Such is the case even now right here in Connecticut, at Hartford and New London, where every effort is being made to cope with the disaster
 At such a time we here in Waterbury should be more than thankful for the natural protection we enjoy, but not to the exclusion of the fact that, while we may be more fortunate, there is nothing left to dol but impart a fervent amen. There always Is plenty for the more fortunate to do In any major catas- trophe, namely, come to the assistance of gkhose stricken areas as quickly as possi- fle with all our physical, financial and moral support. Waterbury has always come to the front in every emergency and we know 1t will again in the present one. Let us offer our assistance now when 1t is most needed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-23
Auto Styles

Interesting changes are shown in the new 1859 automobiles some of which are being shown in "previews. The industry as usual will beat Father Time by three months. The changes are mostly stylistic rather than structural or functional. They might be compared to changes in women'S clothes, which proceed gradually from year to year. So style-conscious, however, has the American people be- come, that even trivial changes in form seem important. @
 Some are announced as "completely restyled." Headlights and tail lights Are "streamlined into the lenders" and total car-length is extended More important matters are the further adoption of Ire mote control gear shift" and, on some cars, a safety signal that flashes the speed rate to the driver with colored lights. Not much seems to be done yet for more fundamental safety measures, such as providing better visibility of the road for ward and on the driving side, and in the rear for backing, and easier ways to get under a car for tinkering
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-23
ssslsRubbles

Bubbles have always seemed beautiful but simple things, playthings for chil.' dren. They were Just thin shells of liquid filled with air, that made wonderful little mirrors with an iridescence that gave them an ever-changing charm. Like everything else, they grow more compli- cated when science starts studying them, as 1t has been doing lately. No longer are they trifling toys, but subjects of serious work in costly laboratories manned by sayants, using mile-a-minute films that make 2,000 pictures second.
 Bubbles are not the simple things they appear to be in bubble gum or com ing from soapsuds pipe," says pr. Gus taVus J. Esselen of Boston, telling the American Chemical Society about them. "They are complex worlds in themselves in which tiny fragments of liquid shoot around inside like particles whirling around the nucleus of an atom" This is true of the tiniest as well as the largest bubbles, and has not been known before.
 So this very complicated world grows more intricate and puzzling than ever. A pipe-bubble may be as much worth studying as sun. In the smallest things as in the biggest, we find incredible activ-' ity and evidence of tremendous forces in operation. And the more we know the more there seems to learn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-23

selves a little puzzled and confused, 1t will, at least, not be for the first time. They have, besides, the dis tinction of sharing post-election be- wilderment with the presidents $ forecast. Mir. Roosevelt guessed wrong on every point that he con- sidered. He thought that Mir. O'CoFi- nor would win the Democratic nom- nation and lose the Republican exactly the reverse of what hap pened. g@5tt. .es s- te.
 The fact remains that after losing nine senators the president at last ptirged somebody. The ptrgee, to he sure. protested his fidelity to the New Deal, and 1t was good old-f fashioned Tainmany regulars who turned the trick. But the medicine finally worked on somebody. A famous vic- tory, obviously. ilSa
 Among the Republicans, MT. Ken- meth Simpson traded blows with his local opponents. His admirable can- didate for congress, MT. Allen Dulles, took wholly unmerited beating. It seems certain that this belated can- didacy would have fared far better for an earlier start, and the mistake in judgment Is to be deplored. On the other hand, Mir. Simpson won handily in his fight with young MT, Trevor for the leadership of the 18th assembly district. Any other res suit would have been Q tragedy for the party.
 The congressional choice left to the voters is not Q pleasant one. Ii they vote for MT. Fay they will be voting for one of MT. Roosevelt's very best rubber stamps. If they vote for MT. O'Connor they cannot be certain just what they will get. The one thing sure is that the Republi- cans who so gaily and with such good intentions grabbed MT. O'Con- nor for their ticket have successfully kicked him of the rules committed of the house and every other post oi importance which he held by virtue of his long service as Democrat.
 If as a result of all this muddlins Mir. Fay is elected the flnalconfusion will have been achieved, For by the primary vote one thing is at least clear: Counting the Republican votes and the O'Connor Democratic votes as anti-New Deal, the 18th district recorded itself as iinmistak- ably opposed to the president. So MT. Roosevelt may well prove to be entitled to the last chnckls which no one, after the nine purges that abysmally failed, will have the heart to begrudge him.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-23

IT
 order to oppose the cn-nlArch- ing NaRis. The French did not
 know that the Germans AMn two
 sets of orders, or that Hitler was 30 nervous he required q
 morphine injection. VI 7 Like the British, they consid- cred the risk Of war too great so ONCE AGAIN HITLER PER- F.ECTED THE TECHNIQUE or GETTING WHAT HE WANTED; {; Spanish Mistakes
 Third decision, in reality a series of decisions, came in Spain. When the civil war first broke out, 1t was quite apparent that Gen- eral Franco was financed and equipped by Italy and Germany. So in an effort to head this, off, France mace some feeble threats to open up sher border t0 an avalanche of supplies and volun- teers to Loyalist Spain. This would have ended the war almost. overnight. "A
 But the British delnurred, and the French hesitated, and the war dragged on = dragged on until thousands of men and millions of rounds of Fascist-Nasi munitions had been sent into Spain.
 Later Franco's airplanes
 rained death and destruction
 upon scores of British ships, sank 70 of them. And the Bri- tish, whose proud boast foe 200 years has been that "Britaunia
 rules the waves" took this, the
 most unprecedented bombing in
 history, end said nothing.
 As Hitler talked to Chamberlain there must have flashed through his mind the British fleet mos bilizing uselessly in the Mediter- ranean in 1895, the intellectual French protests over the occupa- ton of the Rhineland in 1886, the Anglo French vacillation over Spain in 1887. And so he knew that the mobilization of British men-of-war in the North Sea in 1888 was, like all the other ges- lures, pure diplomatic bluff.
 ADOLF HITLER, A HOUSE. PAINTER, BUT A STUDENT OF HUMAN NATURE, LOOKED AT NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN THE ARISTOCRAT, AND KNEW THAT WHATEVER HE. HITLER, DEMANDED, GREAT BRITAIN WOULD SURRENDER. J-
 Copyright. 1888. by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-23

meeting his responsibilities very well when he shirks the formal schooling in favor of the social life.
 The premier seems not to have been angry, however. He has made the young man his official secretary and daily gives every appearance of enjoying his sons breezy ways and his American clothes and expressions Perhaps, after all, young Konove was not expected to concentrate on scholarship but to learn western man. ners and ways of thinking Japan needs accurate reporters of American opinion
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-23
A Book a Day;
She Found Her Own Solution

Ten exceedingly active years in the public fife Of St. Louis, as col. iege lecturer, social worker, club leader. and citizen, put Fannie Cook in the front ranks of those women who have managed somehow to combine home making and mother. hood with career. s@
 So Mrs. Cook holds some very definite ideas about the realities of playing this dual role. and she seems to have conveyed them well in capable first novel. 'The Hill Grows Sleeper" tG. P. Putnanh's Sons: s25O. M t
 The hill had been growing steep CT for Harriet Andrews almost as long as Harriet could remember. It began with an overbearings father and weak mother. SO that at the rrst taste of independence Haryles was logged for moment, almost lost herself in marriage to Rae streator. But something stopped her. On the eve of her wedding she packed her bags, walked out on the bridegroom. started lie anew ln the city. lsss. Ss
 Afterward, Harriet thought she knew what she had wanted 1t was life, a career. equality with men. the ability to stand on her own feet. And she won just that. She became a leader with an office in the nae tion's capital. And then she met snaye Paul Kramer and the old question blazed again with taii ip- tensity- career or lllarriage, jnb 6f home and motherhood. Harriet answered 1t, but how would be tel ling the story.
 Women who must face Harriets choice would do well to read this penetrating novel--P. G. ?. M
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-23
A Prince's Education

| Prince FumitAka Konoye, son of the Premier of Japan, is not exactly prodi- Ral son. although he flunked all his majors at Princeton University last year. Ife told reporters in this country before he vent home that his father '.might be rory angry" After all, when young man
 4 sent thousands Of miles and to for ziRn land to obtain au anncation, he isn't
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-23
Press Comment
1. OUR GOOD COOKS
lRosson Postl


 Duncan Hines, author of "Adven- lures in Eating" who spends all his time touring the country sampling eating places and lists 1a00 superior restaurants and tea rooms in his book. declares the best cooking in America can be found in New Eng land. He scoffs at the Southern cooking" tradition.
 Mir. Hines is no New Engiander, His home is in Chicago. For 90 years he has actively pursued his search for commerdabie eating places. His praise of New England is unbiased.
 This expert has confirmed what we have long eontended= that the stan- dard of good living is higher in New England than elsewhere. due to our greater variety of foodstuffs and the skill of our cooks. The product of a good New England home cook cane not be surpassed anywhere.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-23
Selected Poem
RIVER IN WISCONSIN

(By Jessica Powers in the New York Times) Water and sky are resolutely blue
 The birches. gathered in white groups along The bank. look down into the Lemonweir And preen. or stand indiferenty and stare. Or restless, whisper the same sibilant tongue They spoke when the Americas were young Here In these miles the New World still is new. almost see a shadowy' canoe kt Slip by. and if I turned from here among The green growth standing. I might peer Into Eyes of Winnehago or e Sioux.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-23
Questions and. . Answers
ey Frederick M. gerb,

Enclose Q three-cent stamp soF reply when addressing any ques. ton os fact or information Q the Waterbury Democrats Service BU. reau at Washington. Legal and medical advice cannot be given nor can extended research Dc un. dertaken. Be sure all mail is ad. dressed tO the WATERBURY DEMOCRATS SERVICE BU- REAU, lO13 Thirteenth Street, WashlngtOta. D. 0. 's'',1{, Se 's' < " THE EDITOR
 e. Where did the Jeffersonian Democrats hold their convention 1T,
 A. Rlascn. co. X ;,..3 ;ss. x
 e. If caught in . thunderstorm, away from shelter what is the saf- est thing to do?si1 ] gf3yj.s ls.e5 A. Lie fiat on the ground. ( z
 c. What was the title of the first woman's magazine published by Bernarr Macfadden? 7SftfG,s
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-23
Who Guessed Wrong?
The O'Connor Purge" in New York Leaves Both
 Sides Wondering Who Benefited
Most by the Primary
NEW YORK HERALD-TRIBUNE

With that ingenious perversity to which the direct primary is SO free quently addicted, the local primaries handed both bouquet and a brick bat to almost everyone concerned. 1T, as a result, the voters find them-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-23

cd for a nickel cigar that lay there, rescued 1t from It's cellophane wrap per, bit the lip and asked for q light. Then he settled down to smoke the Sc stogie and in tho process, fell asleep. We'll. that's one instance of Teddy Hargs vagaries, His friends say thers are a thou sand.