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consultation between the two men
on the eve of Gov. Roosevelts in
auguration the biographers tell an
interesting story. throwing an odd
light on Mr.. Roosevelt. Roosevelt
and Glass were together in a room
at the Mayflower. The telephone
rang, The secretary who answered
announced that President Hoover
was on the wire. Mr.. Roosevelt took
the phone, listened, and said:
II understand, Mr.. President. SEN
ator Glass Is here now. We are dis
cussing the banking situation .. I.
No, he does not think 1t is necessary
to close the banks-my own opinion
Is the Governors of the various
States can take care of the bank
closing whenever it is necessary =. =
No, I prefer that you issue no proc
lamation of this nature"
THE conversation ended" the
book relates, land Roosevelt turned
to Glass.
1.-The Federal Reserve Board tel
ephoned the White House this aft
ernoon with a request that a proc
lamation be issued tomorrow morn
ing, closing all banks before they
could OPEN
"'What did Mr.. Hoover say to
this request?'
"'He told me he told the Federal
Reserve Board he did not think such
step was necessary. Thinks most
Of the banks that are still open are
solvent. I told him, as you heard
me say, that you thought the same
way
Glass grunted.
"'This is the second time the
Federal Reserve Board has made
that same request within the last
three days Roosevelt)
"'Yes, I know (Glass.)
"'The previous time I sent Wood
In (Roosevelt's choice for his Sec
retary of the Treasury to Mills
(Secretary of the Treasury to tell
him I would not give my approval
to such a proclamation
"I see. What are you planning
to do?' asked Glass.
Planning to close them, of
course answered Roosevelt"
For six years now Senator Glass
has been publicly and privately dis
agreeing with President Roosevelt.
He is an old man but fighting
man, still revering Bacon, Jeffer-
son and Wilson, defying those whom
he considers their detractors.
B. B.
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attendant expertism in the question
of currency is the source of much
of the running dispute between
President Roosevelt and Senator
Glass, which is almost as old as Mr..
Roosevelt's occupancy of the White
House. Other considerations, indeed,
contribute to the distance between
the men. Glass came to mistrust
Assistant Secretary of Navy Roose-
welt during the Wilson days. And
Glass went to Chicago in 1882 hop
ing that the Democratic convention
would nominate Newton Baker, or, If
not Baker, then Harry Flood Byrd.
When Roosevelt won, the Virginia
delegates were the last to cheer.
Despite Senator Glass refusal Of
the Treasury secretaryship in Mr..
Roosevelt's cabinet, the President
elect in 1888 often sought the Vir-
ginian's advice about the banking
and currency matters in which he
was the Democratic party's acknowl-
edged conservative authority. OF a
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The Prisoner Ate q Hearty
Breakfast
By Jerome Ellison. NeD York.
Random House.

By Jerome Ellison. Ne1p York:
Random House.
The answer to this book is simply
no. 1t would seem to mark a young
authors amazed discovery of the
fact that life is not all beer and
skittles and his consequent deter
mination to write devasting trag-
edy to set forth this awful news.
You can be good at heart, he in
forms us in shocked tones, and hon.
est and full of love for your kind
in this wicked world and still come
to grief. Yes, says Author Ellison,
it is as bad as that. Readers are
therefore warned to brace them
selves. 1t would never do to expose
a placid ong-established optimism
to such a revelation suddenly.
The story is of a young fellow
who comes up from social dregs,
gets an education, becomes an avia-
tor and an artist (too), and then
gets entangled in confidence game
which results in his sudden death
at the hands of gangsters. While
he is doing all this he is thinking
fine thoughts and loving his sweet
heart but-these things happen
the sweetheart dies and his heart
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sitivity and general exquisiteness
but fails to make the character do
anything whatsoever to prove the
glittering claim. In other words it
is practically an editorial novel, The
Characteristic is the heroine
bounces around great deal, to be
sure, but without once convincing
the reader that she is anything
but silly bore. Notwithstanding
we are asked to believe that she
is woman of fateful quality. whose
emotions are profoundly interesting
and important to large numbers of
brilliantly intelligent people.
She is one Verona Foster who
marries for love, is left a widow,
then marries for convenience, is di-
vorced and then embarks on career
of emotional adventures; sort of
Camille combined with the erst-
while desperate heroine Of The
Green Hat is what she is obviously
intended to be. Well, there you are.
II being an English novel every one
in it addresses every one else as
darling" or sweet all the time,
everybody is unhappy but terribly,
terribly brave, and long, long para
graphs are given over to describing
elaborate emotional backgrounds for
completely tepid conversations. AS
said, there you are.
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will be signed in some such manner
as Feminine Reader" or Justly
Aroused Mother and Wife or Re
sentful Working Girl or so on.
Esquire's editors will then publish
these letters in the forepages of
their periodical, and yet other read
ers will write to object or approve.
and there will be a nice little battle
waging for some time. If you don't
think so. watch it for yourself.
The points. incidentally, on which
the masculine public is supposed to
disapprove of womankind are con-
cerned with correspondence and are
as follows:
That women expect too much in
letters, that women won't excuse a
mans delay in replying. that they
catch men in small innocent lies and
make great deal of the matter, that
they write letters on dreadful sta
tlonery and put foolish dates on
these same. that they write super
llllterate" English, that they add
postscripts on the outside of en-
velopes, that they write asking for
money, that they keep all the letters
which they receive, that they make
men pay for things and that they
are so devoid of the fine feelings
which distinguish the male that they
can be quite rude at times without
even knowing it. And so on.
All this is plentifully silly, but only
for one reason. There are plenty of
women, certainly, who do those
things, but they don't often do them
to men who object. A fellow who
falls in love with a girl whose Eng
lish is super -illiterate can hardly
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en- down into so many angles to
fit the individual taste. Those in
terested in photography may be
interested in photographing bird
life. Gordon c. Aymar's book, en-
titled Bird Flight" will prove ex-
tremely interesting. The book is
made up principally of photographs
of birds from all over the world. The
running text includes evolution, BIZ
ology, migration and aerodynamics.
Those who are musically inclined
may wish to study bird calls. "A
Guide to Bird Songs" by Aretas A.
Saunders, seems to be one of the
best that has been done in recent
years. Naturally it is not a complete
guide, for l doubt if any one has
been able to indentify all birds by
their calls. 1t does. however, in
clude most of the common birds of
the United States.
The Birds of the Ocean" by w.
B. Alexander, will prove interesting
to all those nature lovers who do
ocean travelling. The book contains
all OF the blrdS OF the sea. their
habits, and guides for their identifi-
cation.
Those who are still dreaming of
the colored plates of Rex Brasher
in the National Geographic Society
exhibit last fall will be interested
in book made up of selected
plates from Thomas S. Roberts
Bird Portraits in Color" It is a
list of 80 color plates representing
the work of such bird portrait artists
as Fuertes. Brooks, Sutton and
Jaques. The title is 1895 American
Birds OF course, the most interest
ing collection of plates are the ones
by the greatest of them all, Audubon.
The book has been titled Birds of
American
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What Is Being Read odoy?
Best Sellers in Washington and Other Cities
CHICAGO.

FICTION-"The Grapes of
Wrath" "Wickford Point" wine
Of Good Hope" David Rame; THE
Patriot,v "All This And Heaven
Too"
NoN-FIcT1oN-"Days of Our
Years" Reaching for the Stars"
"Mein Kampf," Autobiography
With Letters" Designs in Scar
let," Courtney Riley Cooper.
NEW YORK.
FICTION-"The Grapes of
Wrath" "Wickford Point "All
This And Heaven Too" Here
Lies" Captain Horatio Horn
blower"
NON-FICTIoN-"Reaching for
the Stars" Days of Our Years."
Autobiography With Letters"
"Mein Kampf," "A Peculiar
Treasure"
SAN FRANCISCO.
FTCTION-"The Grapes of
Wrath" "Wickford Point" Cap
tain Horatio Hornblower," "Har-
lequin House." Margery Sharp;
"All This And Heaven Too"
NON-FICTION-"Mein Kampf,"
Through Embassy Eyes," Martha
Dodd; Designs in Scarlet" Days
of Our Years" champagne Days
In San Francisco" Evelyn Wells.
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Carter Glass, a Biography
By Rirey Smith and Norman
Beasley. NeU York and To-

Oy ntLSy oHttLt ufCu NU1 nun
Beasley. Ne1D York and To-
ronto: Longmans, Green G. Co.
When the Civil War was scarcely
over, little Carter Glass, aged 7,
defied a troop of Yankee cavalry.
In those days he was known as
pluck" Although later they called
him Poke" and, during his first
years in the House of Representa-
tives, 'the taciturn gentleman from
Virginia" the first nickname fits the
whole career of this little Roman
from Virginia. He has been a bold
editor and bold statesman; a bold
politician, too considering that he
has always scoffed at politics.. He
is courageous friend and courag-
eous enemy. Perhaps occasionally.
or often, he is mistaken, but during
all his 81 years Carter Glass Of
Lynchburg has been brave. Some
consider him great. Certainly, he
remains deflant-defiant of men to-
day, and when he was young he was
defiant of the accepted point Of
view.
The new book. of which the senior
Senator from Virginia is the hero,
was written by his secretary, Rixey
Smith. and a collaboration, Norman
Beasley, who worship their subject.
Their book is an interesting ex-
position of life which Is remarka-
BILE for, among many reasons, its
having bridged a wide ravine in
our civilization. Mr.. Glass was alive
when Douglas and Lincoln were
debating. He saw the Civil War,
Reconstruction (when Virginia be-
came Military District No. y, the
Towering of our industrial civiliza-
ton and the whitening of some
limbs of that civilization. A future
generation may understand whether
he was correct in his insistence that
the limbs be repaired with ancient
remedies.
Carter Glass was born in 1858,
the son of newspaper-editing
Methodist Virginian, Robert Henry
Glass. He left school at 13 to de-
liver his fathers paper. At % he
was the clerk of the Lynchburg
City Council, at % the editor of
the Lynchburg News, at 80 its owner.
At 80, too, he took up Baconism as
sideline to editing, the result of
years of reading Shakespeare and
speculating on the origin Of the
Evening star., 1939-05-21
Study of Birds Pursued With
Aid Of Public Library Books

Many questions about birds are be-
ing asked at the central library,
Eighth and K streets NV, and at
its various branches, representative
ones being: Is the scarlet tanager
the same bird as the cardinal? To
what family OF birds does the red
bird belong? What Is the fastest
birds can fly? Do blue jays stay in
the vicinity of Washington all
winter? How far south do birds
migrate?
Who can listen at night to the
clear call of the whip -poor-will with
out deep emotional feeling: or who
can listen to the angry chatter Of the
jay without being highly amused?
The birds are with us throughout the
year. and such being the case they
are fertile ground for study. More
sheer enjoyment can be packed into
an afternoon of bird watching than
in almost anything else you can do
The love the parent birds share for
their young and for each other.
their constant struggle against the
elements, and their seeming Joy OF
living is stimulating after the heart
aches and tolls of our own weary
world. Perhaps they could teach us
much If we were to observe them
more closely.
Much has been written about birds
and bird life and there is much
more to come. We are constantly
learning more about their habits
because of the sanctuaries that are
being erected for them, and through
those sanctuaries we will be able to
preserve species that would other
wise, like the passenger pigeon, pass
into memory.
The study of birds has become
one Of mans most popular hobbies.
especially so because 1t can be brok-
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such, which died at about the time
the first volume was published, un-
doubtedly deserves the review space
which an entirely new book of this
type would merit.
The Van Doren book includes all
too short, yet keenly critical estimates
of those American, English and Irish
authors who have been writing since
1890 and who seem destined to sur
vive as the literary representatives
of this era. Each writer is accorded
a brief review of his chief works, an
analysis of his style and popular
appeal and an estimate of probable
survival value The book is as read
able as a work of fiction. and should
make a valuable addition to any
library OF literary pretensions.
r, r. r.
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News and Reviews Of Latest Books and Comments Leading
Brief Reviews of New Books

Places.
CONNECTICUT PAST AND PRES
ent. BY Odell Shepard. New
York: Alfred A. Knopf.
A well-written guide to the Nut
meg State, attractively illustrated
with photographs.
Your Mind.
THE RHYME OF REASON. BY
Roger w. Holmes. New York: D.
Appleton-Century Co.
A highly entertaining book on the
method and philosophy back of puz-
zle-solving and riddle -unriddling
Worth getting.
Digests.
THE WORLD OVER, 1888. Edited
by Joseph Hilton Smyth and
Charles Angon. New York: Har-
rison Hilton.
A month by month and country
by-country account Of world affairs
during the past year, condensed and
well written.
The Language.
COMPOUNDING IN THE ENG
LISH LANGUAGE. BY Alice
Morton Ball. New York: The
H. w. Wilson Co.
A study of the rules for COM
pounding words, together with an
alphabetical list Of words which are
really compound.
VictOrians.
HOME: A VICTORIAN VIGNETTE.
BY Robert Harling.
A brief study Of the material and
spiritual aspects Of home life in the
reign Of the so great queen. Amusing.
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be very sensitive on the point Of
word usage and syntax himself.
Similarly, If man gives his heart
to a woman who has it for a habit
to ask for money. why he should
give it to her. for what other reason
does he suppose she tolerates him?
The accusations are all right, in that
women could be found to fit them
all-yes. But the assumption that
there are no males of the caliber Of
these ignorant females is putting it
on rather thick. There ane plenty
OF heavy Romeos who think nothing
in the world is more delightful than
note from the girl friend in which
they are called sweetie pie. And
there are plenty of boys who put
postscripts on envelopes, too.
Xxx
In the June Cosmopolitan Mr..
Henry Ford talks about the future.
And what does he say? He SAYS,
greater progress lies ahead of us in
the next so years than we have had
in the last thousand years" That
sounds interesting, to put it mildly.
Mr.. Ford's idea is that we are now
approaching the end of an epoch,
but he does not talk of capitalism
and socialism and such well-worn
ideologies. He says the new age into
which we are moving will be one Of
"agrindustrialism.' BY this he
means an age of increased agricul-
tural production and also of in
creased industrial production, with
scientific cooperation between the
two fields and closer relationship
between urban and rural existence.
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History.
THE NEW DEAL IN OLD ROME.
BY j. H. Haskell. New York: AL
fred A. Knopf.
The story of how the Romans in
their day tried to cope with just
such problems of government as
plague us In our own.
Yachting.
THE OFFsHORE NAVIGATOR. BY
Capt. Warwick M. Tompkins.
New York: John F. Winters.
A book for beginning navigators
With problems and diagrams.
Music.
THE SOUTHERN HARMONY AND
MUSICAL COMPANION. BY
William Walker. New York:
Hastings House.
An old songbook containing
tunes, hymns, psalms, odes and
anthems" first published In 1854 and
now reproduced with explanatory
prefaces by the Federal Writer'S
Project Of Kentucky. An interest
Lib Jul AOoAtys
Drama.
NO TIME FOR COMEDY. BY S.
N. Behrman. New York: Ran
dom House.
A current stage success now in
book form.
Relief.
RURAL FAMILIES ON RELIEF
Works Progress Administration
Division of Social Research.
A monograph on the subject
covering wide number of aspects
CHANGING ASPECTS OF RURAL
RELIEF. Works Progress Ad-
ministration, Division of Social
Research.
A study Of rural relief from 1882
to 1895.
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American and British
Literature Since 1890

By Carl and Mark Van Doren.
Ne10 York: Appleton Century.
While this is a revision Of a for
mer edition. book that is revised
after IA years and that has been
changed and expanded to the ex-
tent this volume has is practically
a new book. Moreover, a book that
has all the elements of college
text book, yet succeeds in reviving
an academic interest In literature as
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With Malice Toward All
By TUing D. Tressler. Ne1U
York: Stdckpole Sons.


Irwin D. Tressler is the man who
earned Nations gratitude by de-
bunking some months ago that
radiant text on how TO turn human
virtue into cash, Dale Carnegie's
How to Win Friends and Influence
People" Mr.. Tressler apparently
read the thing and then responded
in a fine vein with a book of di-
rections on How to Lose Friends
and Alternate People" 1t was a
blow struck in the direction of good
taste and common sense and ever
since that time the reviewer has
had tender place in her memory
for the champion. She is, there
fore, sincerely sorry to be obliged
now to abate her enthusiasm a
little. Mr.. Tressler has written
again, once more taking a para
phrase of another authors title.
But his present book is not as
funny as it's predecessor. Alas that
it should be SO. but unhappily it is
With Malice Toward All is an
account of motor trip to Florida
made by Mr.. TreSSler and his wife.
1t undertakes to debunk all the
legends about motor travel and life
in the famous resorts of the Orange
State and to do so by the use of
eXaggeration. Well, ITO pages of
extremely bright exaggeration can
be monotonous, and that is just the
trouble Mr.. Tressler's book is
either too bright or too long. The
reviewer does not know which, but
1t is one or the other.
Washingtonians may be inter-
ested to know what the bright
young man thought about the Capt.
tai as he rolled through. Here it is.
He says:
Washington, D. c., is a screwy
city. You either like it or else you
haven't a fat job. If you know one
pair Of friends there you can pick
up more useless and idle gossip in
one evening concerning Govern
ment personalities than Walter
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by sentiment for his mothers grave
after the other inhabitants have
ned the impoverished soil. He be-
comes practically savage in his lone
illness. Then arrives a young wom-
an, the pair fall in love, the crudity
departs from Pantrule's bosom. the
soil is miraculously enriched again,
and families begin to settle once
more in the old village That is all
there is to it, unless one mentions
a little passing witchcraft worked
by an old crone who loves Pan
trule. 1t is her charms, we are
told, which bring the life-giving
young girl providentially to the
hero's doorstep.
The writing is in manner of
self-conscious paganism. 1t is not
without beauty, certainly, but it is
f1amboyant, and the tale is longer
than its material requires.
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Is quite permanently broken. He
has an affair with another girl-it is
disillusioning. Death-death-that
is the solution. And so up come
the gangsters. All hah! Mans fate
Is settled ruthlessly for him-or
something of the kind. one gathers.
The reviewer is trying to indicate
that the novel in question is wholly
callow. So it is. If that point Is
clear there would seem to be nothing
more to say on the subject.
Evening star., 1939-05-21
Home Life of Windsors
Is Subject of Article
Miss Fishback Warns Average
Woman Against This Years
Little Girl Fashions
Bv NC. K.

There is in the Ladies' Home
Pratt The piece given over to describing the home Life the
happy face says has it's former ME lines
of the Duchess
sides has helped to create in the former British
ccrtenment which is apparent in many
Of the recent photographs is said by velnomd Bhers
the much harassnen at
health actually much on-
services" " ~ ~ ~ ' "
The does not know whether funny
%fss a seem to the critical that they are perhaps just the least bit hare
m s Of % BRITISH s paD Haga5d bs ;s s ea with
has 5 to o6 people pos to know the facts the Duke
England without his wife And further
Margaret Fihbak in the June American writes pertinent
9i; getting
the piece clear through for it will do her heart good
1T doesn't seem possible that
ments on the would
built like angels
to their girlsh practically business uniforms
But when who Deths take our
2ssss Rs until IN
Well fashion pifuly few things
which can be done to change dress designs and naturally
wastnes as they called
designer to do3 Miss Wou abs bsvs
hardly expects an take place o " m part
devoted tn the he u. June s,E,s Eu sn the first Of
the joint work of Morris Iindev
article
books from the 1868
censorship sometimes
n he courts have exhibited considerable
SONS authors
Huxley Theodore Dresser
Russell H. G. Wells
Ernest HemlngUa
OF all hngs-Wawick various decisions
represented by these the
Flaubert have been
Sumner had for him.
st. Anthony" -
The article closes Ulysses Pre-
smaby the battle fought
number Of the ~'
The reviewer has often
o-caed magazines
means and she that
mas IN Its June issue piece which could
reason IN the and
this piece will show how obvious that Like
ABOUT women Would do
you uppose Do have
really
chUilh
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The PerpIexed Heart
By Angela Du Maurier. Ne

oy AfSctu Du NhuUf tcf. NCU
York: Doubleday Doran & Co.
Angela Du Maurier is the sister
of Daphne Du Maurier and Daphne
Du Maurier is the author of the
best selling novel, "Rebecca. The
large section of the public which
found that quite meretricious work
magnificent reading will therefore
probably feel a family interest in
the present volume. The reviewer
is not one of that throng, she is
obliged to confess. She found Re
becca" tiresome STACEY clap-trap
and had hard struggle with her
self over the matter of finishing it.
And she does not find The Pre-
picked Heart" a whit better.
1t is one of those unfortunate
things in which the novelist assures
her readers in repetition ad absur-
dunn that a certain character is a
creature of great vitality, fire, sem
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Writer'S Project Publishes
Case Histories of Poor
Book Points Out What Every One
Knows, and Does 1t Without
Skill or Beauty
By Mary.Carter Roberts.


North Carolina Tennessee Georgia. Chapel H Unuer
sity OF North Carolina Press.
various types forgotten men and women will be from the
herefore learn that Aforesaid
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st Writers
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will hs hssd stir any Sns u, @ s Gs
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p a 9sso s s yoas " Ss
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born to work hard heavy tasks and to receive little & and to know know
SINCE en ene Doe men rst Began to write this
haVe drawn Of their richest AS far as the
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selves aes0dng @ ms to an outline n or sTnea a"n up IN that same
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ruhe applied
h se au o dokng and
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items religion and sleeping @ ba
One finds list of to be dan an
O he fairly complete
researchers which evidently been
reicen scrup
find One could wish however that added to their
Fos as they stand the heavy they
being
h s' % p @ % 5 S
als a of really
It's approached human types rather than human
a individuals
the part of the writer point
a of skill is needed
investigated instruction should be
reported
dispatched to find But their only
without
impossible pretend that the book literature 1t is actually
is histories
politics.