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travelling throughout the Nation
will let every one know they come
from Americas Dairyland"
Here is a piece of news destined
for the improvement Of pan-Amer-
ican friendly relations.
Completion of the pan-Amerlcan
highway by october IL, 1942-the
450th anniversary of the landing of
Columbus-is the objective of a
number Of special committees that
have been set up In many Ameri-
can nations, according to Washing
ton I. Cleveland, manager, District
Of Columbia division of the Amer
ican Automobile Association. Many
OF these committees" Mr.. Cleveland
said, "are provisional In character,
and their first job is to set up per-
manent commissions to engage in a
cooperative program designed to
speed up construction Of the high
way and to stage mammoth inter-
national celebration when the last
segment is completed.
"The Pan-American Highway
Provisional Committee in the United
States is headed by Russell E. Sing
er, general manager of the Ameri-
can Automobile Association, while
other groups represented include the
Highway Education Board, the Au-
tomobile Manufacturers Associa-
ton, the American Hotel Associa-
ton, the American Petroleum In
stitute, the American Road Build
ers' Association and others.
Present plans call for a spectac-
ular road race and reliability run
over the finished highway. The
race would be run over the South
American sections of the highway
possibly frfom Buenos Aires, Ar
gentina, to Bogota, Colombia, while
over the northern sections, where
speed limits and other factors make
road racing out of the question, the
cars would compete under the relia-
bility rules that governed road
events back around the turn of
the century. The project is being
sponsored particularly by the Auto
mobile Club of Argentina, whose
officials feel that by planning a
special event in the fall of 1912
governments of nations along the
route of the highway will be IN
duced to complete their sections of
the road"
Other news Of highway develop
ment and of nearer geographic i'm
portance shows the necessity of con-
tlnuous planning to relieve present
and future traffic congestion.
Metropolitan New York is the
Evening star., 1939-12-17
In Local Bridge Circles
Stone and Perkins in Pittsburgh Finals
Bv Frank B. Lord.

James g. Stone and Perkins who carried the Washington coors
18th
Pittsburgh
Capital The championship
played
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American Contract Bridge League,
but last year the Old Dominion
event was conducted by the North
American Bridge Association under
the direction of r. E. Needham.
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Stockvis and Mrs. w. Van Daventer.
In the second priority contest for
the right to challenge the winner
the team of 1t. Comdr. w. A. Cor
ley. DR.. c. C. Mcdonnell, D. c.
Elliott and Mark Lake defeated the
quartet of Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Gard
ner, Rush Buckley and Joe Granger.
They will play the Clifford team
next.
In the first priority match the
team of Tom Hamlin, DR.. E. B.
Conolly, Gene Herman and LIE Roy
Thurtell won from the team of Lewis
Tubbs, Evelyn Woodside, Mrs. Ruth
Kavanaugh and Mrs. w. de st.
Aubin. The team of Louis Newman,
AL Roth. DR.. A. j. Steinberg and
Paul Kibler won from John D.
Mothershed, Mrs. w. S. Athey, Tom
Flood and Mrs. N. T. N. Robinson.
The last game before the holidays
in the National Press Clubs series
of duplicates will be played tomor-
row night. Following the schedule
in alternating for selection of part
ners, members will select those with
whom they will play by lot, each
man drawing for a woman guest
This method Of playing is calculated
to equalize the chance of winning
among the advanced players and
the novices.
The Northern Virginia tourna-
ment, heretofore held at the George
Mason Hotel in Alexandria during
the first week of May, has been ad-
vanced to January IL 13 and IA at
the same place. This has been done
because the Old Dominion tourna-
ment, also to be held in Alexandria,
has been set for the last week in
March, and officials desire as much
time intervening between the two
meets as possible.
Both are now sponsored by the
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Mr.. Stone in South was dealer
with none vulnerable. The bidding
went
South. West. North. East.
Pass 80 Pass
3 Pass 40 Pass
a. Pass Pass Pass
West opened small diamond
which the declarer won with his ace
and led the ten of clubs to his sin
gleton in dummy. West won with
the jack and returned the king of
diamonds which South trumped
and then led another club which
he trumped in dummy with the ace
and proceeded to discard two other
clubs on the ace and king of hearts.
After that he trumped third dia-
mond in his own hand and took out
all the trumps leaving himself with
only the king Of clubs. which he
surrendered to Vests ace, thus
making five odd. II West had led a
trump and taken out the ace in
dummy, the declarer would have
been held to four spades, but be-
cause he did not, Mr.. Stone made an
extra trick which gave him top on
the board.
Nearly 200 friends Of Follow Me"
Post. No 1890. of the Veterans Of
Foreign Wars turned out last Tues
day night at the Wardman Park
Hotel to participate in the posts
Christmas bridge party for the
benefit Of children. After Depart
ment Comdr MacLeisch had well
coined the guests, they were of in
spirited contest for the prizes. The
play was In three sections of dupli-
cate with an added section of rub
Der bridge. Paul E. Golden of the
Federal Bridge League, which do
mated its headquarters for the party,
acted as director and scorer.
In section A the North and South
winners were Joe Granger and Karl
w. Greene. first; w. A. Bolinger
and Miss Kathleen McNutt, second,
and H. S. Kline and P. w. Shepard
third. East and West. Robert G.
Pierce and Mrs. Glascott, first: r. E.
Muller and j. L. Roster. second, and
w. B. Golfer and G. B. Gresham,
! third.
In section B North and South
winners were Max Kessler and
Louis Fruitman, first; E. F. Flock
and R. H. Higgins, second, and
George Hill and DR.. K. S. Gibson,
third; East and West, H. R. King
and A. I. Westrich. first; Paul Phin-
ney and George H. Folsom, second;
Miss Edith Cooper and E. A. Perkins,
third Section c was a special sec
ton, in which the players were Fed
eral workers. The winners were j.
B. Latte and Miles E. Myers.
The Washington Bridge Leagues
trophy for the pair making the
highest average was won by Louis
Fruitman and Max Kessler. The
cup offered by DR.. and Mrs. Stein
berg for the highest score made by
a veteran in any division was taken
by Joe Granger. His partner was
Karl w. Greene. These prizes will
be presented to the winners at the
meeting of the Washington Bridge
League Wednesday night The Capt.
tai City Chess Clubs prize to the
pair making the second highest
average went to Robert Pierce and
Mrs. Glascott.
In the contest for the Clifford
Challenge Cup held at the Ward
man under auspices of the Wash
ington Bridge League, Col. Edward
Clifford, donor of the trophy, won
it for the third time with his team
of himself, o. L. Veerhoff, c. w.
Stark and P. w. Shepard. They
defeated the foursome of j. H.
Lemon, L. r. Watson, Mrs. A. p.
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These fine old property of the late Reu
Dr. Thomas Spencer Chds Episcopal of
ingt9n preserved by his aniy they ere auconed BY Morton
Hotel Mayouer Wednesday evening" proceeds D 90 to
charity Nathan ~ Walack 1888 Military NV, the
purchaser. Star STAFF Photo.
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In the contest for the Clifford
Challenge Cup held at the Ward
man under auspices of the Wash
ington Bridge League, Col. Edward
Clifford, donor of the trophy, won
it for the third time with his team
of himself, o. l.. Veerhoff, C. w.
Stark and P. w. Shepard. They
defeated the foursome of J. H.
Lemon, L. r. Watson, Mrs. A. P.
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Cubbage, Atlantic City, N. j.; Cor
don Harmer, London. England, and
Miss A. Viola Smith, Shanghai,
China.
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According to an official announce
ment from DR.. L. S. Rowe, director
general, six Latin American coun-
tries-Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba,
Honduras, Panama and the Do
minican Republic - already have
agreed to issue commemorative
stamps for the golden jubilee Of the
Pan n-American Union next year.
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Russia, it is reported, is prepar-
ing to issue set of stamps to cele-
brate the conquest" of Poland, but
the Soviet postal authorities have
not yet discovered ways and means
to force American collectors to buy
the labels publicizing their "vic-
tory"
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From Stockholm it is reported that
Sweden probably will issue COM
memoratives next year for the BIZ
centenary of the birth. of Johan
Tobias Sergel, sculptor.
Evening star., 1939-12-17

Harry A. Axelson has been re-
elected president Of the Stamp Col
lectors' Club of Hartford, Conn.
Evening star., 1939-10-22
ural love of mother for her sons.
Ard flora 1rnll hoao Il

ural love of a mother for her sons.
And there you have it.
Briefly, the young married couple
come to live in the home of the
bridegrooms mother, where. under
the domination of the old lady, there
live three men-the two sons and a
stray bachelor friend. The beauty
of the bride arouses these creatures
to revolt and they do so, each ac-
cording to his fashion. Then the
old lady seeks revenge by trying to
burn her daughter-in-law's face with
hot poker. But she is thWarted Of
this very disagreeable intention.
Poor Herr Freud is worked pretty
hard in the execution of these ma
neuvers. We are told that the old
lady is herself the victim of daugh-
ter complex: she has been in love
with her father all her life and so
is incapable of other emotion. Her
(subconscious) revenge has taken
the form of subduing the men Of her
family to state of childlike depend
ence on her; she enjoys male COM
pany, but she wants 1t to be sexless
in its attitude toward her. The
daughter-in-law introduces, we are
told, the sexual element" And the
matriarch goes down before the wife
But, lest these acknowledgements of
darker side of human nature be
taken amiss by his readers, Mr.. Wal
pole has put into his tale some very
fine sentiments, indeed, concerning
integrity and courage and what have
you
So it is just his old pattern. Back
in Polchester, too, or in the near
neighborhood.
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ing and training, and as your bag
grows heavier and heavier to have
the noon bell at the farmhouse in
vite you to come and get it?"
On conservation. definite ideas
are expressed and the view frankly
taken that what sportsmen want is
plenty of game, with opportunity
for full and larger bags. Yet this
should not be interpreted to mean
that Mr.. Sands is against game
protection. He is for it-along the
lines of conservation with use and
here his stand is on all fours with
far-seeing sportsmen as distin-
guished from silly sentimentalists
on the one hand and the outlaw
fringe on the other, the latter
usually finding means to circumvent
both State and Federal regulations.
Now we come to the CANNES.
Battles have been fought, friend
ships severed and homes broken up
all over a dog" AS good a way as
any to introduce a touchy subject
before proceeding to indicate why
one type is preferred over another
Frequently, the ornithologist
supersedes the sportsman; indeed,
the book is not all hunting and
shooting. A pair of pintail ducks
and a green winged teal stage what
appears to be a speed contest over
an ocean-bound marsh and the
reader feels the touch of solitude
Evening star., 1939-10-22

How can l overcome q feellng OF
shyness in a group?
What is a simple way to introduce
a subject?
Is gossip conversation?
How can I improve my speaking
voice?
The reader usually wants some
thing practical that will really help,
not merely essays on the subject"
One of the most widely used and
most helpful books on the subject is
Milton Wright's The Art of Con-
versation and How to Apply It's
Technique" written for those who
feel lack of conversational ability
and who wish to put forth effort
and little study in order to learn
to talk entertainingly and easily.
The author discards all prelimi-
naries and begins with an object les
son in which an intelligent but
rather timid husband who, in the
absence of the boss, must entertain
the firms best customer, is shown
by his wife not only how to keep
conversation going but how to make
it interesting to the guest. Helps
for improving conversation. develop
ing repartee, telling story, and for
talking tactfully are given also
Various points in the discussion are
illustrated from masters on the sub
ject and actual conversations are in
cluded and analyzed.
Loren CAROLS Conversation
Please" is brisk, humorously writ
ten book which describes the manner
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and methods of those who know how
to converse successfully and shows
how to improve ones conversation,
even capitalizing in ones handicaps,
explains how to avoid being wall
flower, discusses causes and cures Of
bores, and with the aid of drawings
and case histories to illustrate, gives
working ideas on talking, finding out
what people are interested in, and on
listening constructively.
Practical suggestions for self-in-
struction on how to make conversa-
ton spontaneous, informal, and
friendly are offered in How to I'M
prove Your Conversation, by Gren-
vile Kleiser. A discussion of the
part the voice and manner play is
included and brief "don'ts" for the
successful talker are listed.
In Speak for Yourself, a Guide
to Civilized Conversation" Alan
Marshall cautions us against letting
our conversation become monoton-
Gus monologue to be reeled off in
the manner Of phonograph record
and suggests methods of improving
both conversation and the manner
and tone in which to speak it.
Brief, concise, condensed chapters
giving the very essence of the best
suggestions on the subject can be
found in The New Book of Etiquet-
te." by Lillian Eichler, and in Eth
quette. the Blue Book of Social Us
age by Emily Post.
Evening star., 1939-10-22
1917 Made Vivid Story of Cree Committees

Clean Bill of Health Given
On Record; Other Volumes
In Output of Literature
By Mary.Carter Roberts.
Words That Won the War
By James r. Cedric Larson Princeon Princeton
Two IS! ten sss 5 %s s %,e s
double of moDng America to support the conflict and familiar r.
M and nns e s very M tale 70 read to- to 60
@ @ & m eu s
when believed Ts n9a & o
notion mind
@ @ sigh over m the M hss % Ss
r dee % S @ bring us Wsrng the future
ce Con they say be en the the hss
they point out possible sn for bsr u do of 9
similar questions at this particular time Praise be- howee is not
the " amazing freshness with which the spirit of 1917 is
called Public Information and
makes startling VesSns
m not inform US that big manipulated
o nst S ms pa nh % @ PrG @ due BY
gand into giving free rein to our patriotic feelings or that we were kept
COMMITTEES thought , ~ , w
honesty dssm plain that George c EEL was the
p the M @ @ ss ns ss
in Wilson's and The reviewer mentions
largely Wall Street
Mr. creel at the time
s He
New Freedom ideals and he meura ingenious and enthusiastic
Navy But he
between the powers Of light and the powers Of and have
thrown himself into his Job with the zeal and good cheer OF champion
who that he the side of right.
!fsu'! sfs ts s,in"s Gsss' Men," st
He deuged the country with his His organization included
which made poster history He devised the corps Of
reminders the country He
the ] and i'd @
the He labor unions
these
authors he never & @ M used ed THIS III M authority sny snd 6 n
to educate and inspire the negative pres-
his job apparently interested him but little
country did he loose his exlberan zeal He
borders Mexico and Latin
Startled wastes of dispatched
the the day Of 5 Ta nT o @ but % n that m
have been or less personally interested than
this provincial editor who like Adolf Hitler spent some time in
his youth shover of snow
m The book all these nob nene OF he b Se
that considerable of the records have disappeared simply tells us
difficulties problems along the
Actually tells little which any one who has M lived long enough ugh does not
very timely 1917 with the tgeist
CONTRARY Notwithstanding the first World War was
of ideals creel and his crew dealt slogans to be sure v But
That why they successful But what the ideals in
themselves that only the
sm are now TO sns the 0n pp fs vo @ @ se0
the dctatos who dealing missions to elevate humanity
dared to deal high
thought either too ashamed or too weary to speak
approaching its fortiss where 2s
np @ he mood Of it's Youth You will read very much as read
yourself
planned rather arroganty to remake stupid world
Christmas Holiday
Evening star., 1939-10-22
Brief Reviews
|Of New Books

Places.
KENTUCKY. Compiled and written
by the Federal Writer'S Project
of the Works Progress Admins
tration for the State of Ken
lucky.
Another volume in the American
Guide Series.
INVITATION TO FUN. BY Harold
Hart. New York: Frederick A.
Stokes Co.
A large volume of puzzles. BRAIN
teasers, cryptograms and the like,
put up in humorous form and illus
trated with pen-and-ink sketches.
Worried hostesses could note.
Art.
BENS: PAINTINGS AND
DRAWINGS. Introduction by r.
A. NJ. Stevenson. New York: OK
ford University Press. Phaidon
edition.
A rarely fine volume containing
critical and biographical essay on
Rubens and 232 reproductions of his
work, many in color. Distinctly a
treasure.
Photography.
FACES WE SEE. BY Mildred Gwin
Barnwell Gastonia: The South
ern Combed Yarn Association.
The owners side of the cotton mill
workers question. A book of pho
tographs and descriptions of the
lives of the discussed workers
homes, recreations. working condi-
tions and so on. taken from life. The
effect would contradict the FREE
quently met insistence that these
people are downtrodden victims of
conscienceless exploiting class. On
the contrary, you are apt to start
hunting a mill job yourself, when
you have finished going over the
volume.
Nature.
THE PRIVATE LIVES OF BIRDS
BY Henry Smith Williams New
York: Robert M. Mcbride g. Co.
Bird book which combines study
Of what may be called, one supposes,
bird psychology" with useful in
formation as to habits, appearance
and so forth. Really entertaining
reading.
OF Supposedly Feminine Interest.
QUESTIONS GIRLS ASK. BY Helen
Welshimer New York: E. P. Dut.
ton Co.
Terribly funny stuff, but not in
tentionally so. How-can-I-win-his-
love-and- should him good
night sort OF thing, solemnly asked
and, If you can believe it, just as
solemnly answered.
Evening star., 1939-10-22

is given picture of his background.
Then, as the hero's strength in
creases. these memories go on
through the years of his youth and
maturity and we learn that his one
love has been a little girl whom he
met as child and his one hate
a little boy who dates from the
same period. The little girl is now
a great actress, and it was the lit
tie boy. now great captain sf
finance, who gave our hero his
wound, that being accomplished in
the said little girls apartment. But
what might seem to be the three
grand old points of the literary tri-
angle get badly mixed up at about
this point through Mr.. Houghton's
insistence on bringing in all the
devices which make modern novel
a possible best seller.
He psychoanalyzes. He also SYM
bolizes. And he neglects not the class
struggle either. for we learn that
the captain of finance typifies greed
and tyranny. In a sort of nightmare
he wrestles his Marx, his Freud
and his Poe from one scene to the
next with the chief casualty the
readers interest. Then, finally, the
actress falls into the hero's arms
or at least starts for him as if she
means to-and Mr.. Houghton calls
it a day. But the reader still does
not know what happens, for though
he has been told by this time that
the hero symbolizes the road of
truth while the actress symbolizes
the road of emotion, he has not
been informed as to what may be
expected when two such highways
intersect. 1t is all, as said, very con-
fusinQ,
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The Road to India

Nilla Cram Cook. New York:
Lee Furman.
This is truly an amazing book
and not the least amazing part of
it is the youth of the author. How
a child of her years could have gone
through the emotional crises she
went through is incomprehensible
to the average human being. That
she did not 60 through unscathed
is self-evident. There is no doubt
that her experiences made deep
and disturbing impression on her.
Nilla Cram Cook would seem to
be the result of an unconventional
and disorganized upbringing, added
to a brilliant, mental heritage. Eru-
dition, mysticism and sensudusness
mingle in her. She is set mad by
color and form and sound. Having
had very little discipline forced upon
her In childhood and adolescence,
having been biased by her family's
habit of delving into strange relig-
ions, having had little of the dis
cipline that life and the need for
earning living force upon most of
us early In maturity, she uncon-
sciously seeks self-discipline. Like
most of the undisciplined, she car
ries her quest too far, and her very
acts of self-discipline are undisci-
plined and wander of into self-im-
posed ecstasies and distractions.
Her picture of India is one sell
dom found in other works on the
subject. Life in the villages, at court
and in the places of worship is shown.
1t is a colorful, dream sort of world
that is portrayed. AS Miss Cook con-
fesses, she spent her life in the
cities without ever seeing the slums.
When she became conscious of the
latter she Immediately tried to close
her eyes to the things she had there
fore seen exclusively, and for while
she could see nothing but the slums.
So intense are her reactions to every
thing of which she becomes con-
scious, that one is sure of receiving
vivid picture from her, although
one must allow for Q lack OF bal
ance In Ill she describes.
r. r. T.
Evening star., 1939-10-22

Deeping, Kathleen Norris and Hugh
Walpole are always typical perform
ances.
Mr. Walpole, as you undoubtedly
know, writes for strictly middle
class public. And that is to say that
he gives you a sweet story bulwarked
by respectable platitudes and spiced
with rather timid nastiness. He fol-
lows this formula faithfully here.
He gives us the sweet story of a
young married couple who are very,
very much in love. He demonstrates
that goodness wins out over badness.
And he brings In such unpleasant
overtones as sadism and an unnat-
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Hudson Rejoins the Herd
Bv Claude Houqhton. Ne1u Y,


The Macmillan Co.
When you have read this rather
highly-touted novel. you may be
able to tell what it is about and
why. But if so, you surpass this re-
viewer in perspicacity. For, though
she took the work up with some re-
spect, having been duly informed
by various Of her colleagues that
Mr. Houghton is very swell writer
indeed, and though she read it to
the bitter end, she is still unen-
lightened on either point. She does
not know what the thing is about,
and she can see no reason for any
writer putting so many turgid words
together. Yet she is obliged to add
that there is certain momentous
| quality to the work, a certain air
Of deep import, as of a volcano about
to erupt or smoke screen about to
lift; she felt all the time she was
reading, in fact. as if Mr.. Hough-
ton was going to give his secret away
sooner or later. This is, indeed, very
perceptible. The catch is that the
promise is never fulfilled. Mr..
Houghton is grand, gloomy and
vague to his last syllable. And so,
you will understand, the reviewer is
trifle handicapped in making her
report. But she will do the best
she can.
The book, then, begins with a
man who is recovering from a seri-
Gus wound writing his memories of
his unconscious moments, from
which exercise he establishes q con-
nection with his memories Of his
childhood and goes on to write about
that. Thus. elaborately. the reader