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air power and mechanization Is
most improbable"
The conclusion he draws Is that
the world has entered upon a period
OF wars with limited objectives un-
dertaken with limited means. It
Is, he reasons, day Of undeclared
and "camouflaged" wars, because
the nations engaged are fearful of
precipitating type of warfare
which might lead to universal dis
aster.
If this is truly the German mill
tary viewpoint, and it seems not
improbable that it is, then France
and Britain may draw some measure
OF comfort therefrom. If 1t is ac-
knowledged that even an air force
the size Of that reputed to Ger
many is not adequate for indis-
criminate use against all objectiyes.
then it may be hoped that aerial
warfare between the powers will
be confined chiefly or exclusively
to military objectives, and that the
western European allies may hope
to escape the destruction suffered
by Polish cities and civilians and
the necessity of retaliating in kind
against the German people.
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Mystery in Deorth of Aerial
Combat May Soon Be Solved
Both Sides Have Good Reasons to Avoid
Lurge-ScoIe Plune Operations Now

squadrons and overwhelmed. France
had no wish to suffer q similar fate
French Decentralization.
For France, however, this situa-
ton has now changed, according
to reports received here. Within
the last few days the French air
force has completed its "decen-
tralization," and its combat squad
rons now are said to be on camou-
tagged temporary airdromes widely
scattered and concealed from air
observation. It is in a position to
meet the great Nazi air force with
the least possible risk to itself.
Should the next few days con-
vince the German Reich that it
cannot hope for peace with France
and England unless it gives up Po-
land, then the world may see finally
that dreaded moment when the air
powers will be fully unleashed.
1t is regarded as unlikely, how
ever, that France or England will
feel the terror or aerial warfare as
have the Poles, simply because Brit
ish and French air power is in q
position to wreak upon Germany
just about as much destruction as
the Nazi bombardiers are able to
inflict upon allied cities and COM
munities.
The Germans undoubtedly are
coming to realize that even their
great, thoroughly modern air force
Is not a decisive agent in the war
against France and Britain. There
has been translated from the Ger
man a new book by a German su-
thor, S. T. Possony, Tomorrow s
War;" in which he estimates not
less than 10000 bombardment air.
planes and 10000 of other types
would be required annually for a
total war against first -class DOW
ers like France and Britain on q
1,000-kilometer (621-mile) front
which is about the length of the
total western front.
Comfort for Allies.
The author points out that 1t is
not likely that any nation today
could man more than 10000 to
10000 airplanes and tanks because
of the exceptional types of men
required and the exceedingly heavy
losses. For this reason he argues
that decisive" war based upon
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Hull Denies U. S. Seeks
Colombo Nuzi Pilot Bon

Secretary of State Hull yesterday
denied that this Government had
initiated any diplomatic negotiations
with Colombia in an effort to remove
German pilots from service on the
Scadta airline in Colombia.
1t was learned, however, that Co.
lombia is exercising close super
vision over all airlines in the coun-
try and that some of the German
pilots have returned to Germany. 1t
was understood that they had been
called back for war service, but it
was not known here whether they
were recalled before or after a re-
cent Colombian decree giving the
government considerable control
over the airlines.
Secretary Hull's comment came
when he was asked about story
appearing in a New York newspaper
to the effect that the State Depart
ment mad opened diplomatic nego-
tiations with Colombia to eliminate
the German flyers from service on
the line near the Panama Canal.
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BY JOSEPH S. EDGERTON.

| The role OF aircraft in the present
European war, still, after three
weeks of conflict, one of the great
est mysteries of the conflict, soon
may become more clear.
What aerial activity has occurred
so far on the German-Franco-Brit-
ish front has been confined scrupu-
lousy to military objectives-and
there has been very little activity
in the air against even such targets.
The German air force was used
freely against Poland, apparently
after speedily destroying the Polish
air power, for there has been little
evidence of much Polish aviation
activity even with her national ex-
| iStence at stake.
The air force Of Soviet Russia,
today one of the worlds outstand-
ing unknown quantities" both as to
size and efficiency, apparently has
had little to do in connection with
the conquest" of East Poland,
chiefly, of course, because of lack
of opposition.
The policy of the three great pow
ers now locked in battle along the
French-Ger border so far has
called for only the minimum en-
ployment of the air arm. 1t has
been employed by both sides for
observation and battle reconnais-
sance and for neutralizing air OBJ
servation activities, There has
been no authenticated information
of any deliberate large-scale bomb
ing or ground straff1ng even of
enemy troops or other purely mill
tary objectives by the contending
forces.
Fear Of Retaliation.
Military authorities here believe
that the obvious reluctance of the
Germans to employ the vaunted
German air force against France
and Great Britain is due to some
hope still. entertained by the Reich
that some way may be found even
yet to retain Poland and still make
peace with the Allies. The Nazis,
it appears, are hesitant to do any,
thing which may lead to retaliatory
air attacks by the French ard Brit
ish behind the Siegfried Line. They
apparently are entirely willing to
let sleeping eagles sleep, at least
for the time being.
French reluctance to stir up the
German air power during the early
stages of the war also is quite un-
derstandable. Despite the fact they
have long faced the Nazi menace,
the French had not placed their
air force on a war footing. A great
bulk of her combat squadrons were
concentrated at permanent air
dromes-and there is no first pri-
ority objective for air lombard
ment which outranks an enemy air.
drome with air units on the ground.
The destruction of the Polish air
force appears to have been due to
the fact that it was caught on the
ground at prepared airdromes by
Nazi bombardment and attack
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from Oslo, Norway, where, with q
number Of other members Of Con-
gress, he attended a meeting Of the
Interparliamentary Union.
'The President has made splen-
did efforts to avert war, but these
efforts were made strictly on his
own initiative as President Of the
United States" declared Mr.. Ken
nedy. "At no time has he had the
reinforcement Of formal congress
sional action. Up to- now, the
people Of the United States have
not been actually aware of what
the war In Europe may ultimately
mean to us. All of our own people
are intent on peace. The people
Of Europe, terrified by war, are
blindly cropping for peace. With the
Congress of the United States taking
this formal action, I believe our
President would succeed in bringing
about peace"
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New U. S..Japanese
Trade Treaty Sought
By Horinouchi
Tokio's Envoy Asserts
ItWouId Be of Benefit
To Both Countries

A new trade treaty between Japan
and the United States would be to
the mutual benefit of the two coun-
tries, japanese Ambassador Kensuke
Horinouchi said yesterday.
He discussed Japanese-American
relations briefly at a late after
noon press conference called pri-
marily to declare that it is grossly
misleading" to attach any deeper
significance to the Japanese-Rus-
sian truce in their outer Mongolian-
Manchukuo frontier fighting.
The Ambassador said no negotia-
tons or even preliminary talks lead
ing up to negotiations for a new
commercial treaty between his
country and the United States had
been started yet, but added gen.
eral discussions were useful" and
that he had had two general talks
with Secretary of State Hull re-
Gently.
Old Treaty Abrogated.
His remarks were in reply to
questions concerning Japan's known
desire to replace the commercial
treaty which the United States
abrogated earlier this year, effective
next January.
Japan's agreement with Russia
to cease hostilities on the outer
Mongolia -Manchukuo frontier was
prompted solely by her basic policy
of concentrating all efforts on set
ting the China affair."" Mr.. Hori-
nouchi said.
There is no reason to regard 1t
rs preliminary to non-aggression
pact or to any move towards close
association OF Soviet Russia and
Japan" he emphasized, adding that
'there is no foundation whatso-
ever" for a rumor that Germany
had a hand In arranging the agree
ment.
He said he was issuing his state
ment on his own initiative in order
to correct what had appeared to
be widespread misinterpretation OF
the border truce.
Japan Wants to Stay Out"
The major part of troops will be
Withdrawn from the frontier tc
other parts of Manchukuo, he said
Commenting on the European
war after emphasizing that Japan's
policy is to stay out of it, he said
his information indicated that Rus
sia had been planning to send
troops into Poland for a long time
and had acted under an agreement
with Germany.
He said Japan had officially "ad-
vised" France and England to with
draw their troops from China
because of japanese fear that pres
ence of armed forces of the bellig-
erent powers in China might cause
some trouble involving japanese
forces.
A similar suggestion was not
made to the United States and
Italy, which also have troops in
China, since they are neutrals, he
added. He said the question of
troop Withdrawals was being dis
cussed with French and British rep
resentatives III the Orient now.
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Grotto's Muqic Show

A magic show, sponsored by Kali
lipolis Grotto, will be presented
October 4 at Masonic Auditorium,
Thirteenth street and New York
avenue NV. william the Great"
will be star Of the performance.
Proceeds are to be given to the
Grotto's humanitarian fund.
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Supper Planned

SUNSHINE, Md, Sept. 81 (Spe-
ciaD The Ladies' Aid Society Of
Mount Carmel Church here will hold
a supper tomorrow from 4:30 to 8
pm. The Montgomery County Band
will play at 7 pm. The Commit
tee on Arrangements includes Mrs
Franklin Cashell, ST.; Mrs. Ell
Leishear and Mrs. Simon Craver
Evening star., 1939-09-21

Pedestrians crossing on the green
light have right Of way over automo-
biles.
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Eichelberger, chairman Of the
American Union for Concerted
Peace Efforts, will preside. ~
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ings in the New World, without any
clear understanding of just why
such suspicious should be enter
tanned.
Aside from being a very enter
tanning travel book, Miss Fergusson's
story Of Venezuela is rich in cul-
tural and political background. She
makes it only too clearly apparent
why the citizen of Venezuela and of
many a sister Latin American re-
public should be suspicious of our
intentions. Ground under the heels
of dictators through generations,
they have come to be wary of all
about them, and not, least of all, OF
the North Americans, whose repre-
sentatives among them seem more
interested in exploiting them and
their resources than in aiding them
for sweet Christianity's sake.
She also discloses something Of
the extent Of European inf1ltration
into South America and Of the COM
petition we must face If we are to
make real headway among our
neighbors.
All Of this is done very adroitly,
however, without losing the sense of
moving which q good travel book
should convey. The result is that
Miss Fergusson's volume never be-
comes heavy or tiring, even in its
most profound moments. Very much
worth while. j. s. E.
MARRIAGE IS so FINAL. BY
Winifred Halsted. Philadelphia: !:
Dorrance & Co.
Not even one snort of real life
warns the pages Of this novel. All
the characters are beautiful, or at
least charming, and they all talk
like the people in the screwball
movie comedies. A girl who holds
down q good Job (not because she
has to earn her uving) has two
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suitorS. Both unWavering. The
courtships take. place against the
background of the depression days
of 1882 in New York, President
Roosevelt's first Inauguration, and
the bank holiday. It's all too, too
amusing, even opening dime banks
for cash.
The honey-color haired heroine,
Miranda Wyck, is wooed by one fine
looking and prosperous man who
represents stability, and another
utterly fascinating young man, Bar
ton, who represents, as far as could
be made out, whimsy. He delights
in, the unexpected. He travels. He is
likely to return or depart at any
moment, leaving brightly worded
messages in his wake. He believes
one shouldn't be earnest about hav.
ing job. The purpose of life is liv-
ing. He intends to write a novel.
But lest the reader worry about
Miranda, even he has an income Of
81 1000 q year. which Is coffee and
hamburgers in anybody's language.
OF course, Miranda selects the
latter. Never for a moment was the
reader in doubt. One is only asked
to view the galantry Of a woman se-
lecting "life" rather than security.
They marry. Miranda has to cook
and wash dishes, having consider
ately quit her job. Barton has gall
lantly accepted one. It's hot in a
small apartment in New York in
summer. There isn't much money,
Miranda thinks of getting her job
back. Miranda's mother snaps her
up. Miranda takes up French and
tap dancing SO that her husband
can write his novel and she won't
be unoccupied. VI
They. are, they decide, going to
rise above marriage" That's all
v. z. G.
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WEEKS 10 BEST SELLERS
IN OTHER CITIES.


Fiction "All This and
Heaven, Too" Rachel Field;
"Rebecca,' Daphne du Maui
rier; Three Harbours," F. Van
Wyck Mason; The Yearling."
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings;
MY Son, My Son." Howard
Spring.
Neutrality-suspicious." Richard
E. Bryd; Fancy This" Jack
Frost; Benjamin franklin"
Carl Van Doren; Listen, the
Wind" Anne Morrow Lind
bergh; With Malice Toward
Some" Margaret Halsey.
Chicago.
Fiction "All This and
Heaven, Too" "Rebecca," "The
Yearling," my Son, My Son."
"Wisdom's Gate" Margaret
| Aver Barnes.
Non fiction - Listen, the
Wind,"' Benjamin Franklin"
Alone" With Malice Toward
Some" I'm a Stranger Here
Myself" Ogden Nash.
New York.
Fiction-"Rebecca," "All This
and Heaven, Too, Three Har-
bours," "The Yearling," Royal
Regiment" Gilbert Frankau.
Non fiction - Listen, the
Wind" Benjamin Franklin"
with Malice Toward Some"
"The Horse and Buggy Doctor"
Arthur E. Hertzler; 1--WE Saw
1t Happen, by 13 New York
Times correspondents.
San Francisco.
Fiction "All This and
Heaven, Too," Rebecca, "
Mans Hope" Andre Malraux;
THE Long Valley" John Stein
beck; Dynasty of DEATH" Tay-
lor Caldwell.
Non fiction -" Education of
an American" Mark Sullivan;
With Malice Toward Some,"
Listen, the Wind" Leonardo
Da Vinci," Antonina Vallentin;
I'm a Stranger Here Myself"
tcopyrisht. 1939.)
Evening star., 1939-01-15
Magazines Supply Answers
To Public Library Queries

are special reviewing periodicals.
such as the Saturday Review of
Literature, the New York Times
Book Review, the New York Herald
Tribune Books, and the Times Oon-
dom Literary Supplement, in ad-
dition to the book reviewing Sec
tions of newspapers and magazines.
The Book Review Digest indexes
the reviews of important books.
For women whose interests are
centered largely around their homes
and families, the reference room has
Good Housekeeping, the Ladies
Home Journal, the Pictorial Re-
view and the Woman's Home Com
panion. The art division has mag
azines on interior decoration and
the technology division has various
titles on gardening, cooking and
other phases of home-making.
Vogue and Harpers Bazaar are of
perennial interest to almost every
woman.
The travel lover can spend many
pleasant hours with the files OF
Travel, Asia, the National Geo.
graphic, the American Travellers
Gazette, and the magazines pub
nshed by individual foreign couh-
tries. ILLUSTRATION, Illustrirte lei
tung, and Italia are written in their
own languages and offer excellent
practice in reading for the student
Of foreign languages.
Many other subjects are repre-
sented In the periodical files of
the reference room. Poetry, re-
ligion, the theater, natural history
journalism, and psychology all have
their own magazines. In addition
to the titles in the reference room
collection, each of the special SUBJ
ject divisions Of the library main
tains files of the periodicals in its
field.
The Readers Guide to Periodical
Literature and the indexes to the
special subject fields are invaluable
tools in bringing to light the wealth
Of Information that is included II
the magazines.
Evening star., 1939-01-15

Answers to numerous questions
asked at the reference desk of the
Public Library, Eighth and K streets
NV, are found in the many peri
odicals filed and indexed there.
Washingtonians, apparently in
search of more information than
any group of persons in the world,
have asked and received answers to
questions like the following Of the
Public Library recently: What were
the terms of the Munich pact?
What progress has been made re-
Gently in the control of marihuana?
What was the cause Of the explo-
sion in New York harbor in 1916?
What are the provisions of the new
trade agreement with Canada? How
can locate story that ran serially
in the Atlantic Monthly about 10
years ago?
In the field of current affairs va
rious weekly periodicals often used
for reference are Time, News Week.
Nation, New Republic and the
United States News.
The disturbed condition of foreign
relations brings many questions that
can be answered from the files OF
Foreign Affairs, international Concil-
iation, Foreign Policy Reports, Pa
cif1c Affairs, Far Eastern Survey,
Central European Observer, or Cur
rent History.
For the reader who wants schol-
arly treatment of economic and po-
ntical subjects there are the Amer
ican Economic Review, the Amer"
ican Political Science Review. the
Quarterly journal Of Economics, the
Annals of the American Academy
of Political and Social Science, and
the Journal Of Political Economy.
Among the magazines for general
reading, the Atlantic Monthly, Har-
pers, Fortune, American Mercury
Forum, North American Review
Scribners, Yale Review and Readers
Digest are outstanding.
Reviews Of new books are always
in demand. To MI this need there
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OF today. The world is going some
where at top speed. The familiar
landmarks of life and thought grow
dim behind us. We know not where
We are going.
Plenty Of thinkers have their own
ideas about it-leaving the majority
of their fellow passengers in as much
maze as before. In this volume 26
eminent American scholars and
sociologists give their opinions as to
our destination and the best of the
many roads leading to it. All want
to get to some sort of Utopia. Nor
man Thomas, of course, thinks the
broadest and smoothest highway is
that of Socialism. w. P. AS Jacob
Baker thinks there is a lot to be said
for cooperative enterprises, upon
which he is an expert. Another OF
the contributors thinks that Fascism
is the shortest and pleasantest way
into the future. Still another thinks
there is something to be said for
the Communist way. None has the
nerve to suggest that We follow the
NaZi boulevard.
In the final analysis the reader
will have to look over for himself
the various road maps they present
and make up his own mind. One
part of the book about which there
will be very little disagreement is
the eloquent and scholarly opening
chapter by Prof. Harry Elmer
Barnes, iconoclastic historian who
thinks that human civilization now
is passing through its fourth great
cycle Of change and concludes:
If society wakens in time and
closes the gulf by bringing our insti-
tutions up to date We may literally
inherit the earth. If we proceed
as we have since the turn of the
century there is not even a gambling
chance of preserving civilization
much longer T. R. H.
WHY HITLER CAME INTO
POWER. BY Theodore Abel. New
York: Prentice-Hall.
Millions of Americans these days
are asking how great Nation made
| up, for the most part, of decent,
kindly individuals, could have gotten
itself into such mess as Nazi Ger
many presents to the world.
Outside of the Reich, and espe-
cially on this side of the Atlantic,
Hitler is an incomprehensible
phenomenon. DR.. Abel, professor
of sociology at Columbia University,
tries to throw some light on it by
compilation of the life stories of
900 of the mans followers-those
who put him in power and who
some of them at least-are helping
keep him in power. He presents
in full the story of laborer, a
farmer, a soldier, a typical youth
of the middle class, a bank clerk
and an anti-Semite.
Three thousand miles away it is
easy enough to see the fallacies in
the thinking of these simple people,
but the apparently hopeless poverty
and dismal future of the German
middle classes before the Nazi move.
ment hardly constituted an environ
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by the man who now is Duke of
Windsor was in the mind of the
average Englishman a crowning
calamity. The bitterness of British
feeling over the event is reflected
even today in the governments
treatment Of the still exiled duke
and his American duchess.
Mr.. Frankau's novel is essentially
a protest against Edwards renunci-
alton Of his crown. 1t is the story
Of Maj. Thomas Rusty" Rocking
ham, British officer and gentleman
who, like Edward, falls in love with
an American woman, Camilla, the
wife of his colonel. The affair par
allels that of the King and Mrs.
Simpson and finally, at the same
time the King announces to the
world by radio his abdication Maj.
Rockingham renounces in the name
of duty, his love.
The book is essentially British, in
tempo and in flavor. One cannot
escape the feeling that it is done
with just little too much care and
perhaps just bit too little dash.
Nevertheless, it is politely entertain
ing; quite good character drawing
and an Illuminating glimpse into the
mental workings of our brothers
across the water.
Those who like Mr.. Frankau's
earlier novels should have no reason
to be disappointed in this. J. Sc.
SONS OF THE SWORDMAKER.
BY Maurice Walsh. New York
Frederick A. Stokes Co.
This is romantic novel of ad-
venture in Ireland 1000 years ago.
1t tells of the five sons of Orugh,
Swordmaker in Baravais, south of
| the Four Seas. 1t is in reality TWO
stories. The first concerns the love
Of one of the sons for red-haired
Alor, the woman who stayed in a
mans mind" This son met death
at the hands of rival, and to
avenge him one of his brothers died
and another came home without his
right hand. The youngest brother,
Maur, went away to fight the enemy
and with him went loving
Selgaun. This time the sword wen.
home in triumph, leaving the hot
headed Maur safe. One look at Alor
had convinced Selgaun that here
was something worth fighting for
After this story of valor Mr.,
Walsh turns to the life of Flann, who
lost his right hand, and how he
helped a king to throne and
bought, for band of gold. rare
good woman who was to share all his
life.
Mr.. Walsh, as his previous books
have shown, is story-teller of un-
commonly high talent and poetic
style. His emphasis is rightly on
presenting picture in bright, shim-
mering colors. Men were fiercer in
those days, it seems, and heroism
has a slightly different meaning in
1889 A. D., so perhaps it is better
that the stories of such remote an
cestors be told by unabashed ro-
manticistS.-E. T.
THE FORMATIVE ERA OF AMER.
ICAN LAW. BY Roscoe Pound
Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
The United States was born with
the great heritage of the Englisl,
common law. This had to be adapt
ed, laboriously and painfully, to the
conditions of a new country and ar
essentially new kind of society. Ou
of this adaptation grew the basic
law of the land. 1t was nodded by
the practical settlement of actua
legal problems.
The story is fascinating and col.
orful, as is any story of the progress