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municipalities where the two
price system of distributing food
to reliefers will first be tried.
Almost every mayor and common
council, together with their con-
gresham. have insisted that they
be permitted to lnaugurate the
experiment.
Only community chosen 40
fart Is one unit-are
Allentown and Bethlehem,
Pa. Two will be located in
the south-probably Texas
and Georgia-one In Cali
fornia, another in the middle
west and the last in the
Northwest, with Tacoma and
Spokane being considered.
The ideal size Is about 1O0,-
900.
RISK -- One reason why top
flight New Workers refuse to
take war-scare headlines seri-
ously is because they cannot see
how either Hitler or Mussolini
could benefit by precipitating
war with major powers.
Astute observers contend that
they would be taking a fearful
risk for very dubious gain by
starting armed hostilities now.
The chances are overwhelming
that war involving the axis
states with Britain and France
would be a long drawn-out af-
fair, ending in exhaustion and
serious prospect of revolt against
existing regimes.
AMBITIOUS - Elliott Roose-
velts ardent interest in Vice
President John n, Garner as
presidential possibility is as
cribed by insiders 10 Elliott's
personal ambition to be elected
governor of Texas in 1910. Gar
ners support would be a very
potent asset in the Lone Star
state. The presidents son has
serious backing to date, but he
definitely has ambitions.
Copyright 1897
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KEEPING UP TO DATE

II is no easier TO swim IN deep
water than IN shallow water.
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HIT THE JACKPOT
Hours between a. m. and
a. m. OF June Is, 1918. were
narrowing for w. A. Horn,
Clairmont Springs. Ala. His
wife gave birth to a son, his
mare had a colt. his SOW had
eight pigs. his COW had calf,
his cat Uttered six kittens and
his dog gave birth to eight pup
pies
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Only 10 years old, Virgil
Fire" Trucks, pitcher for An
dalusia, Florida league
baseball club. last season struck
out AIS batters in 273 innings.
In one l2-inninG game Trucks
famed % men, in two no-hit
games he struck out 10 and Is
men. or the 81 games he
started, Trucks failed to finish
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WEIGHS LESS WHEN FULL
Strange as it seems. a tank
car full of helium gas, at or
slightly above atmospheric pres
sure. weighs less than when it
is empty. This is because the
density of helium is only about
10 that of air.
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WEIGHS LESS WHEN FULL

only one, and then because of a
blistered finger.
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To receive attention In this col
umn letters must give name and
address OF writer Only Initials
Will be published when requested.
Evening star., 1939-08-06
Deafening Chorus
Says Roosevelt"

.yst"sae Says Roosevelt" sr'
Small wonder too that having
necessity in case says Mr. Lyons these
voices not hard In fact he implies that
oes holders he remarks have always fought
Never before however have there been of them they
D M % hold fact G continues Lyons
hauled to speak of the doubt of hen Gsa
believe in the New Deal but being and
Of all to survive in Washington.
For the third similarly the
neS ee ana ds S bed @ @ In os most dg n % force in III
stamp then
anything Only
pressure drafting President again
% % ASKS M M Foss m @ nted the oSnu. S Deal b p p
White His is a negative
philosophy
snd e onV can a o the e" work s m @ % na
Ss % s right 10 talk nn about e social 1 new Of life
SYMBOL repository philosophy they
and
RI: s,:1s:;s S:;;; Exercises
E on vo % h stotee the % sv M H nsn the h Sos % M
first place he says encoragns not concerned with
the hands the
s M So all In
s1 dnt a 9 5 We Of Get So Be
that he will be nice one
pointed every country
s add None of the ruled
popular not mean
% but @ m to n1w Just sh that the
seg T 0v o that
that dictator cannot arrive in America that happen
The which Mr. Rchberg
Tanna hg ne esu could
our vast territory into independent and
He admits then that there
exercise vast influence
adds perpeuaon any political
e1s Rsn Ss %
refusing to seek re-eection % VINO '0uo De
Nominations .aas son..! May ,,N Not
The question curiously possibly know
nens ana h % be nox mot At
es rene s the e a r even in party The only inference
the where I ts him for candidate third
hin taken by Large number citizens indication
with slightly ~ " ''' p
posed On s Hn % hs n us s % two
gao @ asss1 war & MI RhDsfs says 1T not difficult for
the 5Iaen sspV IT. in
VOWED even as neutral in the issues of foreign conflict
Mr. Lyons the subject sabotage bv
its opponents well its bund Deal Since
diversion Of puOo stnton mt nsss sn
the opgda to s make 1 the mos Of it. Unless
grous orng power IN the direction American
Europssn pear struggles tss4 les. for 3. power ss ,,
attract writer's until such time it definitely settled
Graham Hutton who in the July Atlantic Monthly on 1he
Next War writes this month
Peace II you who likes to think may again
comfortable place to live will
findings outcome wheh.r
actually armed conflict "A~"AeA
His prophecy that avoided Britain and Franc.
must government and sbn n +.
to totaiaranism he saws becauss |
reach reasonable with Germany money and colonies
perhaps ships and materials their
down that only totaaa measures hold together He
this necessity and toward its sud-
how to adjust their positions change in such
preserve themselves
article presents revolving is more realistic
The Atlantic contains should
est to physicians They written
the number pen of DR. Henry iosr
director OF the Institute History at Johns
contention was that azed medicine in many
European countries would be American neoe
Haven Emerson DR. Roger sidda and Joseph smith now write
objection to this claim pointing
favoraby with that of the countries
and presenting American system Of nrvate
practice should be nterered Emerson chsr
acterises the Wagner bill as fantastic and "exayasant"
Evening star., 1939-08-06

clarity of Hugo are lacking and in
their place is something perilously
near ponderousness. Withal, the
book is a work of genius and de-
serves the reading of any one who is
concerned with the current develop
ment of the novel form.
The portrayal of Henry as an en-
lightened monarch is the theme of
the work. Herr Mann sees the little
son of Navarro as a man of rare
spiritual gifts, as one who visualiZed
government as an instrument of
service to the people and who de-
manded that justice be distributed
with an even hand to high and low
alike. Along with these formidable
virtues, however. the author places
less Weighty qualities: he makes his
hero gay of temperament, fond of
jest and amorous The famous af-
fair of Gabrielle d'Estree comes into
the story, of course 1t is shown as
Henry's great passion, but is not pre-
sented too Realistically either.
AS said, the book is a true literary
achievement. Even if it does con-
tain passages which make you look
at the ceiling, you cannot lose by
reading it.
Evening star., 1939-08-06
Hay Fever Victims Will Enjoy This

present some striking facts demon
strative of relation between
changes of temperature and acute
suffering on the part of the hay
fever patient.
He points out that severe symp-
toms have quite generally been no.
ticed to develop after sufferers from
the disease had engaged in some
activity which caused a sudden or
prolonged lowering of the tempera-
ture-as driving in an open car,
sleeping under an electric fan, drink
ing cold drinks, sitting in air-cooled
theaters, exposing themselves in
scanty clothing and so on. He then
describes the physiological manner
in which temperature change affects
the mucous membrane of the allergic
individual and advises hay fever vic
Tins generally to keep warm inside
and out" This apparently is the
most comprehensive counsel which
medicine is at present prepared to
give on the subject.
The book contains much addi-
tional information, such as facts per-
tanning to diet for the fever victim,
description of skin tests for protein
sensitization, the use of pollen filters
and pollen counts and the location
of hay fever resorts. 1t would seem
that sufferers from the annual tor
ment," as one medical man called it,
could find considerable comfort in
the work, while those who just love
to read about diseases should enjoy
1t to the top Of their bent.-M.-C. r
Evening star., 1939-08-06
The Captains Wife
By Storm Jameson. NeD York
Macmillan Co

MuCUtlItuH ~.
1t is hard to say whether this
book is story of Illustration or
whether it dipicts the rounded life
of a self-Willed, stubborn, rather
hard woman, who, in spite of her
circumscribed life, still manages to
wiring the finest flavor out of it.
The book opens with the birth of
her first child and closes with her
death. Between the two episodes lie
many years of domination over her
three children, contempt for her
elderly and uncouth husband, ha-
tired and emulation of her dominat-
ing mother.
While there is no strong drama in
any of this, or rather while these
themes are not artificially drama
tized, the character of the woman
is forcefully brought out in the in
cidents of her daily living. The
seeds of her character are all i'm
piled in the first chapter of the
book. AS the book progresses these
seeds unfold and flower, not chang
ing but developing according to
their predestined plan.
There is much to be said for the
clarity and ease of style with which
this book is written. Each event
grows naturally out of the last,
with no unnatural straining after
effect or contortion of time or mo-
tive. R.R.T.
Evening star., 1939-08-06

we are moving, only the magazines
and newspapers can keep us on top
OF the situation. there are six or
eight books which any one interested
IN our national defense might well
consider If he would have its back
ground and present situation. Our
Maginot Line" is the Navy, as Liv-
lngston Hartley in his book of that
title implies, with one end of the
line in Buenos Aires and the other
IN the North Sea. And to know the
place OF the Navy in our national de-
tense one should become acquainted
with the principles set forth by
Capt. Alfred Mahan. His own books.
especially The Influence of Sea
Power Upon History" and THE In
terest of America in Sea Power,
Present and Future" are eminentlv
readable, but If one hasn't time for
those, Capt. w. D. Puleston's Ma
han" just published, is excellent tor
essentials. Full credit is also given
Mahan in THE Rise of American
Naval Power" by Harold and Mar
garet Sprout, a 1889 book which is
proving to be an outstanding history
OF American naval policy.
The most popular books of the last
two years on national defense have
been three of which Maj. George
Fielding Eliot has been author or
co-author. If War Comes" written
IN 1887 with Maj. r. Ernest Dupuy.
describes the games and calls the
moves; The Ramparts We Watch" I"
1888, deals with Americas strength
and military position in case of
war; Bombs Bursting in Air" 1899,
is sane analysis of world air power
with special attention to Americas S
position and needs. Eliot is our out
standing military writer and sooner
or later he will be required reading.
All these books give us a sense, not
of false security, but rather of
watchful courage.
Evening star., 1939-08-06
Henry, King of France

By Heinrich Mann. Trans
lated from the German by
Eric Sutton. NeW York: Alfred
A. Knopt.
This long novel is the sequel of
Herr Mann's earlier work, Young
Henry of Navarro" a best seller of
several seasons ago. 1t takes up the
history of Henry w of France where
the previous book left it and carries
the narrative on to Henry's death.
There is, indeed, little differentia-
ton between the two volumes. They
might quite we'll be published as a
single novel-though, if this were
done the resulting work would Ger
tainly be of overwhelming proper
tions. But, as far as treatment or
quality goes, the two novels can
truthfully be rated as whole.
That means that the present vol
ume alternates between scenes of
majestic vitality and strong inspira-
ton and long passages in which the
mystic concept which the author
holds of his material intrudes be-
tween the reader and the tale and
creates murky and troublesome at
mosphere. In the scene of Henry's
recantation, for example, there is a
magnificent piece of writing-one
sees the creased faces of the me-
dieval throng, one smells their
smells, one feels with Henry the very
pressure of the cathedral stone on
the soles of the feet. But, only a
little way beyond this splendid pas
sage, one comes on other passages
which are obscure and difficult.
There is, indeed, certain Hugonian
immensity in the scope of the work,
but the technique is definitely Teu-
tonic. The fire, the fuidity, the
Evening star., 1939-08-06
Hay Fever
What to Do About 1t!
By Harry S. Bernton, M. D..
F. A. C.. P. washington :

F. A. &. +. washington.
RansdeU, Inc.
The author of this very useful
little book, a Washington physician,
has made special study of the sub
ject of allergy. He is at present
professor of hygiene in the George
town University School of Medicine,
allergist to Providence Hospital and
clinical specialist in allergy in the
Bureau of Chemistry and Soils OF
the Department of Agriculture. He
is also past president of the Amer
ican Society for the Study of Allergy
and has served as special expert in
hay fever with the United States
Public Health Service. Before COM
ing to Washington he was bacteri-
ologist to the City Department Of
Health of Albany, N. Y, and to the
Health Department of New York
State; was professor of pathology
and bacteriology at the Albany State
Medical College and pathologist to
the State of Rhode Island. His book
on the ticklish subject of hay fever
is obviously authoritative, but it also
has the merit of being quite under
standable to the layman and even
amusing reading.
1t makes the point that there are
three kinds OF hay fever-the vernal,
Evening star., 1939-08-06

down until 1918, when Denmark Of
dcially recognized the political and
economic separateness of the island.
In all the centuries of bondage,
however, as DR.. StefansSon makes
clear, the Icelanders themselves
never admitted that they were legal
ly bound to the European power.
They lived in state of mental
reservation, as it were, waiting for
the time when they could safely
assert their liberties. 1t s~"'ns a
long time to hold an single =
even for Scandinavians!
The book is not solely history,
however, but deals informatively
with Iceland today, its government,
its social organization, its trade and
its educational institutions. In these
chapters the author by no means
paints northern Utopia; he freely
admits much shortcoming. But he
maintains that the modern Iceland
ers are progressive in temper and
only need time to solve their prob
lens. They have one Of the lowest
Evening star., 1939-08-06

death rates in the world and have
wrought vast improvement in hous-
ing and general living standards.
- incidentally, DR.. Stefansson
mentions that the young people who
live in the south of the island do
not learn to skate because the ponds
there seldom freeze over long
enough. But in the capital city, he
continues, there is an artificial rink.
Well, that is something-the re-
viewer is not certain what.
Writing of Belgium, Mr.. Gibson
adopts less historic vein and con-
Germs himself almost wholly with the
present. What he has written, in
deed, is guidebook, very civilized
and very charming guidebook, but
a guidebook nonetheless. When he
deals with Belgium's history it is in
terms of some monument now stand
ing and visible. But-the storied
country that he makes of the little
low-lying kingdom! Apparently it
is difficult to look il. any direction in
it without seeing a reminder of past
romance, and with these reminders
Mr. Gibson is admirably familiar
He writes not only of towns but
of streets and houses. He tells his
readers where memorials of national
and European history are to be seen,
and also directs them to points from
which the best vistas and vantage
points may be had for beholding
Belgium's scenic and architectural
beauties. An intimate guidebook"
is term used so commonly today as
to be oftentimes misleading But it
is the exact description of Mr.. Glib
sons book He tells us about Bel
gium much as gardening en-
thusiast tells his friends about his
flowers and plants. If the reviewer
were going to visit that country, she
would assuredly take a copy of the
work along That is the best COM
mendation which she knows how to
give work of its particular purpose.
1t may be mentioned too that it is
illustrated with very handsome pho
fogranhc
Evening star., 1939-08-06
| Brief Reviews
IOf New Books
Reprints.

nSpIuIS.
Under the imprint of Pocket
Books, New York City, nine good
books and one ridiculous book ap-
pear this week in paper-back edi-
tions, selling for the price of Is
cents. The nine are as follows:
Lost Horizon" by James Hilton;
a volume OF Shakespearean trag-
edies including Hamlet" King
Lear" Romeo and Juliet" Julius
Caesar" and Macbeth; Topper"
by Thorne Smith; Enough Rope"
by Dorothy Parker; "Wuthering
Heights" by Emily Bronte; "The
Way of All Flesh by Samuel But
ler; 'Bambi," by Felix Salten; THE
Bridge of San Luis Rey," by Thorn
ton Wilder; and 1.-THE Murder of
Roger Ackroyd," by Agatha Christie.
The one ridiculous book is, the re-
viewer regrets to say, the success
text by Dorothy Brande, wake Up
and Live" You can, however, buy
any of the 10 separately. To get the
others, Mrs. Brande is not obligatory.
MySLer1eS.
A WELL-BORN CORPSE. Edla
Benjamin. New York: Random
House.
One of those mysteries which open
with a very swell party in the course
of which somebody is killed. One of
those mysteries, also. in which the
affairs of a fine old wealthy family
come in for some airing. One of
those mysteries, in other words. But
entirely readable. 1t is up to you.
COLD STEAL. BY Alice Tilton.
New York: w. w. Norton Co.
A chatty sort of murder tale, done
in the homely vein with a pickax)
and solved by one of those benevo-
lent models Of detectives. Not Dad
at all, really.
Evening star., 1939-08-06

questions at the information desks
OF the Central Public Library, Eighth
and K streets NV, and its branches,
in this year of 1899, are reminiscent
OF those Of 1914, but they carry an
emphasis that was not in evidence
a quarter of a century ago. Although
inquiries as to the military, naval
and aviation situation in Europe
are fairly common, questions such
as the following take precedence:
In another world war will our chief
naval force be in the Atlantic or
the Pacific? What bases could be
used by an enemy power in an at
tack on the Panama Canal? How
big an air force do we need?
Although, at the pace at which
Evening star., 1939-08-06

Third Terms and Termites
Considered by Magazines
Hutton Views the Next Peace
With as Much Alarm as
The Next War
By NC. r.

That third term presidency United States which
frank Delano Roosevelt not try Of
two leading articles this month in the American
IN the Forum and Century Eugene
piece Donald Rchberg writes the Forum Mr.
hd term principle he definitely
Tor his position Mr. Rchberg is in
personality though unlike declare his stand
directly but only endeavos
resistance to the idea by not?
That indeed the gentle coaxng title No Third
Iem Against this the name Of Mr. Lyons grievouy
Tsck What horrid connotation-realy
The merits Of the matter authors are as follows
Mr. Lyons that he
matter who runs for because it is blow fexy
ent which part Of American system
wod dictator but ne does say that the third
dea democratic
lis its exaaton
identification Of that State with
Leader And he
civilized nation outside the anywhere
much the American
mo British French Premier" fraction Of
the real authority exercised by the President
Except and extreme
problems, demonstration
for popular WILL bulge him from
limited British French Premier
for four miracle political
almost nconcevab Small wonder
who had got this his
to it!
Evening star., 1939-08-06
Best Sellers
Washington.

VdSHluS tOHs
Fiction-"Grapes of Wrath"
John Steinbeck; "The Web and
the Rock" Thomas Wolfe;
Teller of Tales" Somerset
Vaughan; "The Brandons,"
Angela Thirkell; Next to
Valour," John Jennings; THE
Yearling," Marjorie Rawlings.
Non-flction - Inside Asia"
John Gunther; Reaching for
the Stars" Nora VAIN; Wind,
Sand and Stars" Antoine de st.
Exupery; THE Hudson" Carl
Cramer; America in Midpas-
sage" Charles and Mary Beard;
Days of Our Years." Pierre Van
PaasSen.
Boston.
Fiction - THE Grapes of
Wrath" ""Next to Valour," Capt.
Horatio Hornblower," c. S.
Forester; The Web and the
Rock THE Brandons."
Non-fiction Inside Asia"
Autobiography With Letters"
William Lyon Phelps; Reach
ing for the Stars Wind, Sand
and Stars" Days of Our
Years"
Chicago.
Fiction - The Grapes of
WRATH" THE Web and the
Rock" Next to Valour," Capt.
Horatio Hornblower," THE
Brandons."
Non-fiction - Inside Asia"
Reaching for the Stars" "Ad-
ventures in Good Eating"
Duncan Hines; wind, Sand and
Stars, America in Midpassage."
New York.
Fiction - THE Grapes of
Wrath" THE Web and the
Rock" Next to Valour," "The
Brandons," Capt. Horatio
Hornblower.'
Nom -fiction-"Inside Asia"
Days of Our Years." wind,
Sand and Stars" Reaching for
the Stars" America in Mid
passage"
San Francisco.
Fiction-"The Grapes Of
Wrath" The Web and the
Rock" Black Narcissus,"
Runner Golden: Capt. Horatio
Hornblower," Next to Valour."
Non-flction - Inside Asia"
"Tintypes in Gold" Joseph
Henry Jackson; Reaching for
the Stars" America in Mid
passage" Literary Frontiers of
San Francisco Franklin
Walker.
Evening star., 1939-08-06

Trade, Poetry and
Literature Flourished.
With such bits of colorful history
as the above, Dr. Stefansson shows
us vivid picture of Iceland's S golden
age, when not only trade but poetry
and literature flourished and when
the form of government adopted by
the islanders was constitutional
republic with local and national
parliaments elected by the people.
He then comes to the darker period
when Norway and Denmark sue
cessively took possession of the coun-
try, exploited it as a colony and
suppressed its free native institu-
tions. This uphappy time lasted
Evening star., 1939-08-06

the summer and the autumnal-
and that a patient may have any
or all kinds. Irritation of the mu-
cous membranes by pollen is the cause
of the disease. it continues, with the
allergy of the subject in turn the
cause Of the irritation. DR.. Bernton
does not offer any cure but he does
Evening star., 1939-08-06
National Defense Interests
Patrons of Public Librorv

e years ago today the warhe first World
Gays oo 1t bit early for Il Accuse
o. Saam by Owen Wls Guy Empeys Over Top
apulted into the best sellers
~ F' "NA "AA"AA" navy
Evening star., 1939-08-06
Iceland the First American Republic
By VHhjamur Setansson NeD York: Doubleday Doran CT
BeIqium, the Country and Its People

By Hugh Gibson. Ne1D York: Doubleday Doran & Co.
weestabished
of the
Polar Gibson from 1927
Ambassador Belgium is the
Legation Beum-a time study
which
with the
from of writer's These
had, unfortunately
literary hapess
rulessly "pctueque
this unscrupuous tendency before.
writing of Iceland has lot We thanks
which within
nation thousand
island of indeed realize that Christian community
clergy
realize that Iceland played important
the Middle And probably
North secondar between Iceland
Vikings little eggshen
of maker opening the
it that They needed timber their
hher
they would the
which, badly the
primitive community than its
vikings
the The
Stefanon highly
much did oriental think the Arctic
the
crusadng
the valued birds the
do; the Saracens were particular about it,