Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-08-07
PHOTOS COMMERCIALIZE YOUNG
Madamoee Designed for Smart Young Women Runs Pictures of
Those Who Go to College to Sell to Those Who Don't.
Strangest Profession Explained by Coronet.

n1gNCnL Lney make . zeal VIII MI
Urquhart to act for them Is their
publisher? To put their works on the
shelves Of the rich libraries Of the
world, gorgeously bound at last? The
reviewer herself has sometimes had .
favorite title in her mind for days
for which nobody ever wrote q book.
Maybe Mr.. Urquhart now would buy
really good titles.
He might sell his volumes to hos.
pitfalls for mental patients. where there
are fellows trying to write books. For
don't be nervous-lunatics try to
write books, too they could be shown
their published works then, and they
might get well. Unemployment being
what 1t Is, however, perhaps they had
Just better stay where they are. Oh.
we'll
7 EFTOVERS from August maya
zines: The article by Ralph Adams
Cram in the American Mercury (re-
printed from the September. 1882,
issue Of that magazine) called "Why
We Do Not Behave Like Human
Beings" 1t was worth reading in
1882 and still seems to apply. 3. The
leading story in the Atlantic Monthly,
called Moses" and written by Walter
D. Edmonds. It's for dog lovers, and
simply one Of those things An
other story, this time in Harpers: it
Is called prelude" and is by Albert
Halper. It deals with persecution Of
the Jews in the United States by in
cipient Nazis and is extremely foolish,
for the Jews will not be prosecuted in
the United States and there are no
incipient Nazis here either. A story
in Asia describing the spread Of COM
munism in China since the japanese
war, informing us that the Reds are
now the active savers of the nation.
This is sharply in disagreement with
the statements in the recently pub
lished official biography Of Chang
Kai-shek which are to the effect that
communism has virtually disappeared
in China since the war began. Pay
your money. take your choice, but
remember, taking it, that Anna Louise
Strong, author Of the Asia piece, is
violent Communist partisan and has
worked for the party. 1t might have
some bearing. ;. The news in Scrib-
ner's that Boake Carter's name used
to be Harold. The information in
Commentator that in 1885 there were
only Al people in the United States
with annual incomes of million dol
lars, and that, If their combined In.
comes were appropriated it would be
less than half a cent for each dollar
which the Government is spending.
-. The highly intelligent statement
in the American Mercury (appearing
in letter to correspondent that
the Mercury does not publish much
| fiction any more because it cannot
get much that is worth publishing. -.
! A LETTER from correspondent ex.
presses amazement that the re-
viewer can read all those books"
| and wants to know if she does not find
her job monotonous-two questions
that are asked her and, she dares to
say, every book reviewer in the world
at least three times week. Do you
really read all those books? Don't you
find it awfully monotonous?
So, since they are asked 50 often.
1t may serve to answer them publicly.
And all those who want to know
please note.
The reviewer reads the books. That
Is the answer to the first one. How
can she do it? Well. she could not
sit all day at an adding machine, or
operate typewriter doing somebody
elses letters, or sit behind q re-
ceptionist's desk eight hours daily and
be pleasant to all kinds Of people, or
keep q set Of books or file cards.
Those occupations would drive her
mad in no time. Nor could she OPP
crate on you for your appendicitis.
for the sight of insides makes her
terribly sick, and she would not know
whether you had appendicitis or not.
anyhow. Nor could she do anything
with what is called the law; just
once in her life she tried to read a
bill illegal, not from q shop and she
went to sleep over 1t all afternoon.
So she does not think she would make
much of lawyer. But she can read
all those books-oh, yes! She can
read them without opening the COW
ers or picking them on the shelves:
she can read them with her eyes
shut, by the use Of a sense Of touch
or smell. She can read them. She
can read all those books-yes. And
she does read them. So that answers
that
And does she not find it very monoto-
nous? Well, the last person who asked
her that was an elevator operator
who had been running the same ma
chine up and down in the same
building for % years. He wasn't being
funny, either He Just wanted to know
if the reviewer did not find her Job
awfully monotonous. ..