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Public Library
Child Health Dav.

THE health of the individual child
has its foundation in various fac
tors existing before birth. and after
birth is continuously Influenced by
environmental conditions as we'll Thus
the health of the child is concern
not of any one age period. but of the
entire span of childhood. The United
States Childrens Bureau is emphasiz-
ing the Importance Of care and hy-
giene at the various age levels in the
program for the observance Of Child
Health Day in 1885, The following
books are particularly helpful in Civ
ing guidance in such health practices
These may be borrowed from the CEN
trail building of the Public Library. at
Eighth and K streets, or its branches.
Getting good start: Approach
ing Motherhood" by G. L. Broadhead;
Maternal Deaths-Ways to Preven-
tion," by Iago Galdston. NJ D.: Into
This Universe; the Story Of Human
Birth" by A. F. Guttmacher; Pre-
natal Care" by U. S. Children's Bu-
reau: Getting Ready to be Mother
by c. c. Van Blarcom; and so You're
Going to Have Baby" by Helen NJ
Washburn.
Health and care of the infant and
Soung child: Infants and Children
Their Feeding and Growth" by F. H.
Bartlett; The Baby and Growing
Child: Feeding and Health Care
by Aouis Fischer; Modern Ways With
Babies" by Elizabeth B. Hurlock;
"Your'l New Baby: How to Prepare and
Care Hor IT, by Linda M. Woods;
"Mothei\ and Baby Care in Pictures"
by Louisa zabriskie
Health &f the older child: "Chil-
dren in the Family by H. H. Ander-'
son; Caring Nor the Runabout Child"
by Rhoda w. Racmeister: Child Care
and Training" by University of Min
nesota Institute of Child Welfare,
Marion L. Faeger 4 ind John Anderson;
"4oooo,ooo GuineaN Pig Children by
Rachel L. Palmer and "Fee1ing ONS
Children" by F. H. Richardson.
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MAGAZINES
Most of the Dozen Being Published Today
Are Doomed to Extinction, Current
Magazine Contends.

to make 1t satisfactory reading. Seen
singly. instances of shameless frantic
tactics on the part of public servants
are funny, or at worst fascinatingly
grotesque. When one considers, how
ever, that the system extends over 50
vast an army OF men ana women
"one TO every seven workers in all
other fielGs"-the outlook is not 80
amusing. And when one adds to this
consideration the memory that TO-DAY,
as never before, Government ap-
pointments are tied up with the
phraseology OF "ideallsm," ones
stomach is apt to weaken.
THE leading article in the May At
lantic this month is by Virginia
Woof. Its title is Women Must Weep
or Unite Against War" Mrs. Woolf
sets out in it to state what powers
she sees in the hand of women to stop1
militarism. Her piece Is not complete,
but will run one more installment next
month. What she says so far is, in
essence, this:
That men, not women, make war
and that men have always made war,
while women have always hated it.
That women. by virtue of their CEN
turies OF underprivilege, have a free
dom which men do not have-a free
dom from unreal loyalties," loyalty
to old schools, old colleges, old
churches. old countries" That the
women who, In the days Of their un-
derprivilege. truly developed their per-
sonalities did so under the hard tute-
lage Of poverty, chastity, derision"
and the aforesaid freedom. That, If
women are to continue to develop
themselves, now that the privilege OF
doing SO has been conceded them as
a right, they must by no means cast
aside these old teachers and adopt the
education which for centuries has been
given to men, but must go on in the
path of freedom which they marked
out in their subjugation. That thus
they may make worldly influence
out Of their fundamental love of peace,
which is so different from mans fun
damental need to fight.
1t is written in a mystic vein and
is somewhat involved as an argument.
But that is the center OF it. Well.
Of course. the plan would work if
women would adopt it. So would
Christianity make us perfect world
If We were all good Christians. There
seems to be no more to say to it than
that. 1t is another idea. No one can
quarrel with it.
TWO articles dealing with the prob
lem of the German population
in Czechoslovakia appear in the cur
rent monthlies. One is in the Atlantic; 1
its author is w. w. Fodor, who re-
Gently published the book PILOT and
Counterplot in Central Europe" The
other is in the Mercury and Is by .
Erich Posselt. Both strongly stress
the point that the Sudeten Germans
have been badly treated by the Czech
government and would welcome a
change in masters. Mr. Posselt con-
centrates his article into an attack
upon the unloved treaty of Versailles.
saying that the unhappiness among
(See MAGAZINES, Page F-5.)
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Roeves Collection of Turns Be His
AdmstaionDe Krif again Invests Material of Science
in Writing o Diseases.

he Is interested in the welfare of chill
dren. Is it still not poor taste to make
boast of the matter in a volume
avowedly given over to state papers?
There is also included in the same
volume a letter to Mr.. Philip Slomo-
vitz, editor of the Detroit Jewish
Chronicle, dealing with the religion
Of Mr.. Roosevelt's ancestors. The only
possible purpose for the inclusion Of
this piece of correspondence is to
refute the whispered story that the
Roosevelts stem from Jewish stock,
and that story has no importance to
reasonable people, one way or the
other. The family is American, which
is all that concerns us. It would seem,
therefore, that this collection is de-
signed to reach the unreasonable/a
we'll as the intelligent, and that the
President is not unaware of the fact
that there is prejudice against the
Jews in some Of the heaviest voting
Democratic districts of the country.
Butts this q collection of public
papers? Or is 1t piece of persuasion
to build up the damaged Roosevelt
prestige? There are, unfortunately,
many bits of such material slipped in
among the serious documents, and
the conclusion is inevitable that they
are there for a purpose. Indeed, in
practically every case, the purpose is
plainly evident.
One cannot go on listing these
lapSes, for space does not allow it.
Mention may be made, however, of a
matter which seems distinctly open
to criticism. and that is the publica-
tion Of certain press interviews from
the minutes. The Presidents habit
of addressing the reporters by their
first names. his one-sided jokes with,
always, the parenthetical note that
Laughter" followed these sallies-all
this, while well enough as a practice,
is, when put down in print, tiresome
and not without its taint of COM
placent egotism. 1t strikes badly on
the sensibilities of those who, from
long habit, take democracy in America
for granted. Why work so at being
democratic? Is that ever a sincerely
democratic attitude? The questions
are apt to occur to all dispassionate
readers.
The inference, therefore, from this
collection is that it is not meant
merely to serve as a record, but is
primarily an effort to sway opinion
by deliberately persuasive means.
The effect is of a noble and resound-
ing shallowness. Random House an
nounces that it is the Presidents plan
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life into which her mother takes her,
clearly destined for disaster
The pair live, Miss Breuer tells us,
in one hotel after another-sometimes
on the Riviera, sometimes in Paris,
here and there. They have no real
home. no real roots, no real friends
Now they are in Florida and they meet
young bounder and the girl has
an affair with him. When, too late,
she finds out that he is no better than
a gilded bum, she wants to die
naturally. She tries suicide. loses her
nerve and rushes to the hospital. She
is saved and with her mother packs
up once more, this time to go to
Spain. And that Is all. AS said, what
of it?
Well. nothing-except that Miss
Breuer happens to write pretty well.
She has loping sort of style that
shows a competent hand. She sets
down good prose. But the. sharpness
of her eye is devoted entirely to see
ing those common petty frailties
which are the daily bread of all hu-
man intercourse. And the goodness
of her writing is given to proclaiming
these most ordinary finds as if they
We're significant discoveries. If she
wrote badly, one could put her novel
down to sense of personal incompe-
tence and forget it. But she does not
write badly. It is all very annoy
ing 80.
YOU HAVEN'T CHANGED. BY Mar
garet Culkin Banning. New York:
Harper g. Bros.
A s COMPARED with Miss Bessie
= Breuer, whose novel is reviewed
above, Mrs. Margaret Culkin Banning
Is q conservative. She does not carry
her feminine characters into any such
primitive kinds of disaster as does
Miss Breuer; hers are always nice
girls, anyway. But in her way this
lady author also administers beat
ing. Like "The Daughter" her novel
is concerned only with women, and
in it they demonstrate that they are
Of no remarkable gifts.
MILO. 0d4ALlulB, 4OWcVcA, 10 Aloe oS-
liberately cruel, and such subcon-
scious cruelty as she exhibits Is less
that Of an author than that of a
nice, charming woman whose atti-
tude toward all other women is, be-
yond any nationality, disparaging. She
writes of her heroines much as some
women, in perfect sincerity, tell their
husbands what Mrs. So-and-so wore
at the club today and how astonish-
ingly unbecoming it was. To such as
these, Mrs. So-and-so's frock will
always be q ,nonstrosity, even II de-
signed by Schiaparelli. hersef-unless,
of course, there Ii that other delight
full possibility. to wit, that Mrs. 30.
and-so has bad meeab. In that case
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to bring out volume year from now
on while he remains in Office. One
trusts that this means until January,
1941.
THE FIGHT FOR LIFE. BY Paul de
Kruif. New York: Harcourt
Brace e. Co.
THIS is one more volume of Mr..
de Kruif's familiar indignation
over the fact that, at present at least,
human beings die. In it he takes
up the most recent advances made
by science against maternal mortality,
venereal disease. tuberculosis and in
fantile paralysis. And these discov-
cries make interesting reading. OF
the large number of authors who
are turning out books of popular SCI
ence, Mr.. de Kruif is one of the
most successful in investing his ma
terial with immediate, first-hand in
terest. Only, at times, it does seem
that he protests too much. He tears
his passion to tatters; he outherods
Herold. An when that happens his
wrath over the fact that man is
mortal takes on sudden fiat sound,
gathers professional ring. as it were,
and makes the reader remember sales
talks that he has heard. And so it
happens that the reviewer, while genu-
inely interested by Mr.. de Kruif's
narratives of sciences fight against
death, was just as genuinely irritated
by the banner-waving, cheer-leading,
sob-sisterish tactics of his method of
writing. A good story tells itself.
The book, however, can be read
with a good deal of profit. The fight
against each Of the aforementioned
maladies Is treated separately, in
step-by-step method which piles up
suspense and makes the reader iden-
tify himself with the various re-
searchers. When. finally, Mr.. de Kruif
reports victory, you are apt to feel
as II you yourself had been a witness
OF the heart-breaking labor. And,
moreover. you will have acquired much
information. It seems unlikely that
many people outside the medical pro-
fession are aware of the advances
made by such men as Charles Robert
Elliott in treating childbed fever, OF
Edwin w. Schult. Charles Armstrong
and w. T. Harrison in devising pre-
ventive means against infantile paraly-
sis, Of Fred K. Kislig. Walter M. Simp-
son and o. c. Wenger in fighting vene-
real disease. To read of the indefati-
gability and ingenuity of these re-
searchers in their pursuit of numbering
germs is. to the reviewers mind, in
finitely more entertaining than to 60
through the best Of our iictional detec-
tive stories.
So. In spite Of the irritation Of Mr..
de Kruif's style, the book Is recon-
mended. Both - entertainment and
- instruction Il deserves 0 high place.
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WEEKS 10 BEST SELLERS
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BOSTON.
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Non-flction-"The Importance
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Culture Of Cities" Lewis Num-
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THE DAUGHTER. BY Bessie Breuer
New York: Simon & Schuster.

THE reviewer has for a long time
had a quarrel with that school of
feminine novelists which takes for q
subject some utterly abject and ordi-
nary human being and then, as If in
exultant sadism, tears the poor crea-
ture to bits and tramps up and down
on the remains-all according to the
best principles of psychoanalysis as
that science is popularity understood.
Granted that work Of this sort may
be relentlessly true, may show the
futility OF its subject with complete
ness and may even rise to the great
height of demonstrating that certain
members Of the human race are not
heroic, intelligent or noble. What OF
it, when it is done, if that is all that
is done? Why be ruthless with the
defenseless? Why make demonstra-
tion Of futility out of subject born
to be futile? Why, in other words,
show that water runs downhill?
For some reason, women do this
sort of literary rending and tearing
AAOAC VAAoA4 I1C1l, dud ~ II Atd UllC
reviewer. 1t seems to speak Of some
subtle need to triumph over some
thing, and that is no reason for any
one becoming novelist. If you have
a hateful subject, you may write of
him with hatred, but it must be on
his own merits and not for your sake.
1t is hardly necessary to add that the
best novelists are those who have
neither hated nor loved. but have been
concerned with telling story. Now,
these laboratory demonstrations of
human ineptitude are seldom stories;
they are hardly ever more than epi-
sodes. There is no point to them,
therefore, except an authors Joy in
the vicarious destruction of a fellow
being. And generally, when woman
writes such book, the character dis
sected is also woman. 1t leads one
along curious mental paths. AS said.
the reviewer does not see much merit
in the school.
The present novel is very pure
example of the type. It is the story of
two women. mother and daughter,
who have nothing whatsoever in their
foolish lives and hardly more in their
heads. The mother is one whom you
have met in many books and seen in
many plays-the divorce aged 40
who fears to grow old and turns to
light love affairs for solace against
reality. The daughter is the intro
spective, ineXperienced young thing
lust out of school and, in the silly
The Washington times., 1938-03-23
90 Slow
Meter Parking Issue
Parked OUertinle

1t wasn't the parking problem,
but the parking meter problem
which had Congress stopped in
it's tracks today.
On the historic question
historic now for three years, ever
since the Oklahoma delegation
first tried to bring the gadgets to
Westinghouse to whether the
meters shall be placed on the
capitals streets, there was still no
agreement.
The House said mo" The
Senate said Eyes" Then the
House said mo" again, and the
Senate said "hell yes-sure we'll
have them"
And that is precisely where the
issue stood today-at the con-
gresSional curb, parked overtime,
with congressional conferees
wrangling as to who's right and
who's wrong.
All Washingtonians knew about
it today is that the city either
will or won't have parking meters
very Soon.'
The Washington times., 1938-03-23
Charles E. Smith
Gets D. Oil Post

Returning to the scene of earlier
activities, Charles E. Smith, for
mer head of the U. S. Naval Acad-
envy Athletic Association, and later
identified with the Shell Oil Co.
here, will be due in Washington
this week to become manager OF
Shells central division, which also
includes Baltimore. He succeeds
Sandy A. Flint, who becomes man
ager of the New York division at
Syracuse,
The Washington times., 1938-03-23

William E. Odom, the accused, is
charged with stabbing John A.
Metcalf on March 10 after Met
calf is reported to have upbraided
him for tardiness. Both were en-
ployed in a pastry shop in the
$500 block of Colorado Ave. N. w"
where the killing occurred.
MOTORIST INDICTED
George w. Oglesby, who is
alleged to have used two names
on separate occasions when he was
arrested by police, was indicted
for perjury.
On trial March 8 under the
name of Thomas H. Stewart for
failing to give the right of way,
Oglesby is said to have testified
under oath that he had never
been involved in a traffic case be-
fore. The probation officer then
pointed out to Police Court Judge
Hobart Newman that Oglesby
under his right name, was at that
time under investigation for q
prior arrest on charges of leaving
after colliding and failing to ex-
hibit a permit.
OTHERS ACCUSED
A total of % indictments were
reported by the Grand Jury today
including the following others:
Willy Jones, Walter Young, Raymond
White, william H. Martin Bruce A. Tre-
vathan; joy-riding and grand larceny.
jr, Robert Fountain, Melvin Carroll,
Herbert v. Johnson, George Weaver,
James f. Clark; grand larceny.
George H. Royal; receiving stolen
Clifford f. Lee. Joseph L. Mundy,
James Brown; housebreaking and lar
ceny
John J. Keane, Leonard W. Beatley
Lillian S. Kean: robbery.
Frederick Nash, Ward Flowers, Minnie
N. Carter, Hayes j. Fisher, Lyman d.
Strong, Gregg Robinson. Lide Owens
Walter williams, William A. Winston,
Charles p. Dasch; larceny after trust.
Ralph J. Callagan, jr.; violation ma
tionaI motor vehicle theft act.
Albert Ballard; rape.
Lorenzo Fels; second-degree murder.
The grand jury refused to indict
Phoebe e. Carr, who had been accused
of violating the gaming laws.
The Washington times., 1938-03-23
Thieves Get
$500 in
District
By HARRY E. GABBETT

~ AAA1ASAS@ ASs N1A~AAA =
Sneak thieves were nearly $500
richer today as a result of house
breakings and raids on parked
autos throughout the District last
night.
Margaret Skinner, of 1906
Tenth st. N. W., reported the theft
of $50 in bills from a bureau
drawer in her apartment.
Sally Walls, of 1850 C st. N. E.,
told police that thieves who
smashed her dining room window
stole $45 in belongings and $40 in
jewelry belonging to Kenneth Dur
ham, a roomer at that address.
Leo Sturgeon, of 1921 Madison
st. N. w., lost 36 old foreign coins
to footpads who entered through
his kitchen window.
Clothing valued at $43 was taken
from her apartm. It at 1725 Seven
teenth st. N. W., Irene M. Mcneil
told police.
Frank c. Smith, of $40 Otis St.
N. W., said his auto parked at
Eighteenth and Church Streets
Northwest was rifled of $163 worth
Of clothing and jewelry.
Frances SproSser, Of Silver
Spring, Md, said someone
Snatched her purse containing $40
in cash from the counter of a
downtown Washington drugstore
at which she sat eating lunch.
DR.. Arnold McNitt, of 1910 Co
lumbia Rd. N. W., reported the
theft of his physicians bag con-
tanning 500 worth of instruments
and drugs from his car. which he
parked in front of George Wash
ington Hospital.
The Washington times., 1938-03-23
RONN|E CEDEON'S
FATHER FREED

NEW YORK, March % (c.T.
PSI. - The law gave Joseph
Gedeon, father of Ronnie Gedeon,
slain artists model, a berak yes
terday. Arraigned for possession
of a pistol, found after the triple
Staying last Easter tide, he was
given g suspended sentence in the
Court of Special Sessions because
he had suffered enough"
The Washington times., 1938-03-23
Plane Co. Revives
AirWays Charter

ALEXANDRIA, Va, March %.
The Virginia Corporation Commis-
sion announced yesterday that the
charter of Mount Vernon Airways,
Inc, located at Hybla Valley, near
here, has been revived.
The corporation is authorized
to conduct and maintain a flying
field and airport with a maximum
capital of $250,0OO. E. w. Robin
son, of Alexandria, is president.
The Washington times., 1938-03-23
Bishop Moore
Speaks Tonight

Bishop Arthur j. Moore, Of the
Methodist Episcopal urch,
South, will speak at a meeting to-
night Of Randolph-Mac College
alumni and friends at the Mount
Vernon Place Methodist Church.
The meeting is one of q series
being conducted within the Balti-
more and Virginia conferences of
the church to increase public inter
est in the school and raise funds
for new campus buildings.
The Washington times., 1938-03-23
The Weather

District of Columbia Showers
tonight, probably clearing Thurs
day morning; lowest temperature
tonight about go degrees; colder
Thursday and Thursday night;
moderate south and southwest
winds, shifting to northwest Thurs
day morning.
Maryland and Virginia-Show.
ers tonight, badly ending
Thursday morning; colder Thurs
day and Thursday night and in
extreme west portions late tonight.
TIDE TABLES
High tides today at 1851 a. m.
and at Ill p. m.
High tides tomorrow at 1:45
a. m. and at 2:09 p. m.
Low tides today at 1882 a. m.
and at $40 p. m.
Low tides tomorrow at 8:29
a. m. and at 9:06 p. m.
SUN AND MOON
The moon rose today at 1852
a. m. and sets at 1914 a. m.
The moon rises tomorrow at
1:37 a. m. and sets at 1887 a. m.
The sun rose today at $50 a. m,
and sets at 6:33 p. m.
The sun rises tomorrow at 5.59
a. m. and sets at 6:33 p. m.
TEMPERATT1RES
The Washington times., 1938-03-23

to strengthen you. Mrs. w. Williams, l03
Preston Ave, Salisbury, Md, says: IT
would get acid Indigestion and heartburn, al
so belched gas frequently. I never had an
appetite and felt weak and tired. After
used DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
/ felt like a different person. My appetite
was much improved and / was able to eat
D liSp;d sr tablets from youE druggiSt today.
The Washington times., 1938-03-23
Bakeryman Indicted
On Murder Charge
After Only 4 Days
Periury Laid to MOtOrist Accused of Using
TUO Names in Traffic Cases

The Grand Jury moved with breaking rapdy today
ndict 2yearod coored bakery helper for the second
degree murder of fellow worker Just four days ago.
The Washington times., 1938-03-23
HOW'S YOUR STOMACH ?

IF your stomach
gives trouble with
gas, heartburn. or
a cid indigestion,
take DR.. Pierce's
G o1den Medical
Discovery. 1t stimu-
lates the appetite
and increases the
flow of gastric juice
and thus aids in improv-
ing digestion, and helps
The Washington times., 1938-03-23
WOmen's Crepe Gowns

Windsor cotton crepe; -
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no ironing: tie at waist;
sizes Is and II.
The Washington times., 1938-03-23
TEMPERATURES
DEPARTURES

DEPARTURES
Accumulated excess of tempera-
ture since January l. 1898, 378.
Excess of temperature since
March /, 1898, lat.
Accumulated deficiency of pre-
cipitation since January l, 1888,
286.
Deficiency of precipitation since
March /, 1888, los.
Temperature same date last
year-HigheSt, SO; lowest, SO.
TEMPERATURES
The Washington times., 1938-03-23
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for 66S just to make three or four
cents more. Customers are your best
asseta; lose them and You lose your
business. 66s is worth three or four
times as much as q SUBSTITUTE.
The Washington times., 1938-03-23

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The Washington times., 1938-03-23
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The Washington times., 1938-03-23
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The Washington times., 1938-03-23
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