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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-05-29

man doctors do by listening to their
patients.
remember a patient we had once
IN the clinic, & very stubborn in
Glvidual, who readily submitted to
taking off all his clothes but would
not tell us one thing about where he
had pain or what he was suffer-
ing from. All he would say was
Find the sickness" and we finally
had to do it just as the veterinary
docs it.
| know a teacher in the medical
school who has a clinic every once
II a while which he calls the "Vet-
Urinary Clinic" He doesn't tell the
class anything about the patients
symptoms but makes them decide
what is the matter, simply by look
ing, feeling and listening. 1t is very
good discipline.
Some of DR.. MacKellar's stories
remind us of our own patients. He
tells story which he calls the
broEen Back Story" A woman
came in with her cat and said, "Oh.
Doctor, Pm afraid she's broken her
back. She just lies on her back and
rolls and rolls" "Ycur cat hasn't
broken her back" said DR.. Mac
kellar, "Thcre's handsome gentle
man-cat out on your back fence
curling his mustachc&. MiLty's be-
ing coy and girlish."
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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-05-29

DR.. ClendcniHg will answer
questions of general interest
only, and then only through
his column.
Evening star., 1940-06-23
Library Recommends Life
Stories of News Writers

Although it was said newspaper
work does not hold the excitement
and adventure which once called
young men and women to follow
in the footsteps of Richard Harding
Davis and others, the writings Of
present-day columnists, reporters,
foreign correspondents and editors
prove the contrary. These biog-
raphies or eyewitness accounts may
be obtained at the Public Library,
Eighth and K streets NV, and its
branches.
Before Webb Miller met his un-
timely death in England last month
he had found time to add to his
many daring newsbeats a fascinat-
ing account of 20 years as a foreign
correspondent in his "I Found No
Peace" OF the same nature is Vim
cent Sheean's Personal History"
and his latest work, Not Peace But
Sword"
A composite picture of many cor
respondents views may be found in
the book edited by Hanson w. Bald
win called I'VE Saw 1t Happen ~
Douglas Reed, in his Disgrace
Astounding" carries out this same
point of view. Inside Europe" by
John Gunther, is a clear analysis
and exposition of present-day con-
ditions in Europe
But all interesting newspaper
work is not confined to foreign fields.
Jonathan Daniels has written two
books, "A Southerner Discovers the
Evening star., 1940-06-23

South" and "A Southerner Discovers
New England" which reveal condi-
tions in our own country. Stanley
Walkers City Editor" is a graphic
account Of the life on the staff of
a large city daily. The famous
liberal editor. Oscar Garrison VIII
lard, has recently published his
autobiography. Fighting Years"
That newspaper work is not car
ried on entirely by men is proved
by Irene Kulins Assigned to Ad-
venture" Among others is a new
book by Anna Strong, Il Change
Worlds" Isabel Ross, a newspaper
woman herself, sums up the con-
tributions of the women in the field
in Ladies of the Press"
The columnists furnish as wide a
divergence of interests as of opinions
in their books. Dorothy Thompson
has written Let the Record Speak:
Frederick w. Wile's new book is
News Is Where You Find It."
Westbrook Pegler has gathered to-
gether a number of his columns and
titled them Dissenting Opinions.
In the political field Frank Kent
has written Great Game of Poll
tics" A good picture of America
is furnished by Mark Sullivan in
his Education of an American. I"
Something entirely different is
offered by Franklin P. Adams
cF. P. A) in his DIARY of Our
Own Samuel Pepys" Walter Lipp-
mann rounds out the work of the
columnists with his "Interpreta-
tionS"
Evening star., 1940-06-23
Best Sellers

The following list of best
sellers is compiled weekly from
information obtained in Wash
ington by The Star and in New
York, Boston, Chicago and San
Francisco by the North Amer
lean Newspaper Alliance:
Fiction.
How Green Was My Valley"
Richard Llewellyn; Night in
Bombay" Louis Bromfeld;
"Stars on the Sea-" F. Van
Wyck Mason; Kings Row"
Henry Bellamann; Chad
Hanna" Walter Edmonds;
Native Son." Richard Wright;
kitty Foyle," Christopher
Morley; The Bird in the Tree"
Elizabeth Goudge; Mr.. Skef-
fington.' Elizabeth; This Land
Is Ours" Louis cara.
Non-Fiction.
American White Paper"
Joseph Alsop and Robert Kint-
ner; II Married Adventure,
Osa Johnson; Failure of a
Mission" Sir Neville Hender-
son; How to Read a Book"
Mortimer Adler; This War"
Thomas Mann; This Is on Me-"
Katherine Brush; The Voice of
Destruction" Hermann Rausch-
ming; Isolated America" Ray
mond Buell.; Polish Profile"
Princess Paul Sapieha; Ethan
Allan" Stewart Holbrook.
Evening star., 1940-06-23
This Is on Ne
BIZ Katharine Brush.

By Katharine Brush. NeD
York. Fdrrdr e. Rhinehdrt.
This blithe autobiography of a
successful commercial writer is going
to delight many people.
Mrs. Brush has been a commercial
writer for 20 years. She has turned
out short stories to order, and like
wise novels. She tells us, for ex-
ample, of the order given her by
the editor of College Humor Maga-
zine for her first novel-it was to
be like" Scott Fitzgerald's This
Side of Paradise" the editor told
her, or like" Dorothy Speare's
Dancers in the Dark" One pro-
posed model is a classic; the other,
pure ham. But this did not bother
Mrs. Brush. She knew that the
editor was talking about super
fatalities, and she wrote to his speci-
fications. 1t was all as cut and dried
as if he had ordered timber for a
chicken coop. Her book is record
of 20 years of this sort of thing.
It is also a record of her personal
life-her marriage, her experiment
in living in small town and coping
with its busybodies, her successive
homes in the big town, her friends,
her servants, her thrills, her moods.
She makes no attempt to separate
professional and personal existence,
but puts in anything that seems
bright and cute-a gag to every
three lines. She also includes, from
time to time, some of her stories.
NC. R.
Evening star., 1940-06-23
Brief Reviews

A MATTER OF IODINE. BY David
Keith. New York: Dodd, Mead
& Co.
Prize-winning mystery about re-
venge wrought by Frenchman on
Germans. Pretty good.
AS GOOD AS MURDERED. BY
James O'Hanlon. New York:
Random House.
Hollywood murder in ironical vein.
General
GARDEN NOTEBOOK. BY Con-
stance Spry. New York: Alfred
A. Knopf.
A month-by-month book on gar.
dens, vegetable and flower. Much
valuable information and advice.
HOW TO ATTRACT MEN AND
MONEY. BY Rosa Lee Hill. Mer-
iden: The Ralston Society.
A book which attempts to give in
struction as its title indicates-to
those who would be interested. Very
vulgar trash.
FUR, FEATHERS AND STEEL. BY
Reuben r. Cross. New York:
Dodd, Mead g. Co.
A book which claims to be a COM
pendulum Of all the information
about "all the materials that any
sane fly tier needs"
AN ATLAS OF CURRENT AZ
FAIRS. BY J. F. Horrabin. New
York: Alfred A. Knopf.
A revision Of this valuable work
which takes us up to the invasion
Of Poland. With II new maps.
Revised Editions.
THE NEW OXFORD BOOK OF
ENGLISH VERSE. New York:
oxford University Press.
The old classic brought up to date
with additions from such moderns
as Joyce and Gogarty. Edited still
by Sir Arthur Quiller Couch.
Criticism.
THE AMERICAN NOVEL. BY Carl
Van Doren New York: The
Macmillan Co.
New edition Of this book, enlarged
to include the contemporary crop
Of fictioneers. Solid Van Dorenian
criticism all through.
Evening star., 1940-06-23
The Best Short Stories of
1910

Edited by Ed1Dard J. O'Brien.
Boston: Houghton, Mi61in Co.
The indefatigable Mr.. O'Brien
continues his annual practice Of
sorting out the years short stories
and choosing a group of 'bests." :"
To the reviewer, his task seems as
thankless as If he had elected to
sort out pebbles or peas. The pres
ent fiction product is standardized,
even as are automobiles and electric
refrigerators. If there be a tale Of
superior excellence, as sometimes is,
the circumstance can be explained
on about the same grounds as are
brought forward to account for the
fact that your neighbor's car, Of
the same make and model as your
own, has cost less in repairs. The
reviewer would say that the limits
of standardization allow for excel
lence, but do not demand it. Most
of what passes merely meets the
pattern That is all.
In the present collection there are
a few tales which rise above the re-
quired level, but nothing that is
genuinely memorable. Due also to
these requirements, there is little or
noJhing that is out-and-out nom
sense. The reviewer recommends
"The Fall of Machine Gun Nc.
Gurk," by James T. Farrell, and
Roof Sitter" by Frances Eisenbury.
Both are beautifully plain.
MI p
Evening star., 1940-06-23

All But Forgotten Literary
Figure Is Brought Back
To Life in Biography
Woman OF Great Vitality and
Color Emerges From New
Book on Margaret Fuller
By Mary.Carter Roberts.
Margaret Fuller
By Mary.Carter Roberts.


By Mason Wade. NeU York. The Viking Press
This is biography
IN her occupied honoed
Onpans OF New Engandand recognized
ecuas both OF
TO OF
Margaret herself The that
living quality;
rather than
brightly in conversation Though gained recognition
chief editor of their
her far exceeded those of her At
rate whatever little much of
her has survived Wade brought forward
an image of a woman of great vitality and color
His Interpretation of somewhat honored
convenonthe father
wanted it girl he
reacted to the disappointment it. He treated Margaret
destined responsibilities;
England youths the deliberately masculnzed
Mr. Wade puts it,
Had she been might
have been tragic AS Margaret genius trove
intellectual
formed the ectred edited
her undertakings Abroad the Italian
unlikely formed
would have been changed considerable degree.
Mr. Wades book strictly speaking piece popular"
biographical writing dignfed style devoid of uperfay
qualities
mended.
Evening star., 1940-06-23
On the Trail of the Eight
Pointed Cross
BIZ Elizabeth Wheeler Scher-
merhorn. NeU York: C. P.


By Elizabeth Wheeler Scher-
merhorn. Ne1D York: G. P.
Put7adm'S Sons.
This is a partial history of the
order of the Knights Hospitallers, or,
as they are variously called, the
knights of st. John or the Knights
of Malta. The author has spent 10
years on her subject, which she de-
scribes as "protean." A full history
of the order, she tells us, has never
yet been written. Indeed, she says,
the records could hardly be explored
in a ifetime-"a mass" she calls
them, "of charters, DEGREES, bulls,
memorials, chapter reports, cabreos,
visits and correspondence that piled
up during centuries, and that, on
the suppression of the Priories at
the end of the 18th century were
jammed heller -skelter into commu-
nal and departmental royal archives" !"
- About her own decade Of ex-
ploration into this vast accumula-
ton, she is extremely modest; yet,
while freely admitting her limita-
tions, she contrives to give her
readers an idea of the tremendous
strength, usefulness and influence
enjoyed by the Hospitallers in the
period of their greatness.
Her book takes up only certain
definite aspects of the order-its
organization, its administration, its
duties and its distribution through
out Europe and the Near East. There
is great charm in its manner of
presenting this history. The author
has drawn directly from the archives,
and she has fine sense of the pic
turesque. 1t is no dry bones, there
fore, that she reconstructs for us,
but highly colored panoramic view
of an organization which stretched
from Scotland tc Jerusalem, which
controlled immense wealth and
welded unquestioned power over
mems consciences, which limited its
membership to the sons of the fami-
lies of highest rank, which acted as
international police and standing
army for all Europe-and had for its
creative impulse simply the service
of "Our Lords Poor The very
essence of the Middle Ages seems to
be concentrated in the intricacies,
contradictions and paradoxes which
necessarily arise from such a growth,
and this essence Miss Schermerhorn
has captured very well, indeed. With
quaintness, humor and appreciative
sensitiveness, she has selected her
examples.
NC, r,
Evening star., 1940-06-23

Mysteries.
MR.. SANDMAN LOSES HIS LIFE.
BY Eugene Healy. New York:
Henry Holt & Co.
Murder in Brooklyn with the po-
lice not too innocent. One Of those
brilliant private men solves the
crime. Fair to middling.
DEEP VALLEY. BY Wilder An
thony. Philadelphia: Dorrance
& Co.
One of those mysterious old re-
cluses who has discovered mys-
terious new scientific formula by
virtue of mysterious researches in
his mysterious home-gets killed.
Laid on with trowel.
THE MAN IN THE MOONLIGHT.
BY Helen McCloy. New York:
Morrow Mystery.
Murder on university campus.
Solved by psychology. Pretty good.
THE ROLLING STONE. BY Patri-
cia Wentworth. Philadelphia:
]. B. Lippincott Co.
Picture-thieving gang thwarted by
daring young man In disguise. With,
of course, lovely gal in background.
Trifling.
BLUE MASK STRIKES AGAIN.
BY Anthony Morton. Philadel-
phia: j. B. Lippincott Co.
Jewel thieves thwarted by daring
young man disguised in blue mask.
Average.
THE WEDDING GUEST SAT ON
A STONE. BY Richard Shattuck.
New York: William Morrow &
Co.
Murder, and marriage closely
mixed. A mystery in the wise
cracking vein. Pretty good.
BREATHE NO MORE. BY Marion
Randolph. New York: William
Morrow & Co.
Murder in one of those mysterious
old country houses. Pretty good.
FINDERS KEEPERS. BY Geof-
frey Holmes. New York: Will
liam Morrow &. Co.
Crime centering around great
riches of sinister old man.
MURDER IN MARBLE. BY Judson
Philips. New York: Dodd,
Mead & Co.
Assorted crimes In a Vermont
marble quarry. Average.
Evening star., 1940-06-23
By the Waters of Babylon
Bu Robert Neumann. Ne1


eloquent novel the of the Jewish people
their their whole
long history is Mr. Neumanns best vein and he fine writer
novel, "A
political
his of
pithi
expressed
deep emotion, but instead accenuates its intensity.
Babylon told old fctonal device
other
but motive In this the people modern
shown the approaches the frontier bus then
individual
holy sharp trader English lord kings mistress third
Catholic
typif
Of
It's wandering When all their tales
drectness easily
all pilgrims killed
himself
fathers Before this
his attitude toward modern
merely position but his poten
problem
currently appeared but has the quality of study it is highly
Evening star., 1940-06-23
The Valiant Heart
DIoLo Moan vorL.. 1froI

by-poducts, grief
vivid realism by
Scottish town the
of the action takes place during
world state of uphaval much today
Cumming of Cumming Co., shpowners is Of fine
call for military
his beloved "Territorials" becomes a hero
which had been declining
fc fails completely His wife habtu cmpaner insane and
Meanwhile his
eventually achieves
ambition to become musical comedy star in America.
With the Cumming returns the little Scot
sh The world he had known before has from him entirely
happnesa happnessis still to be his He live
his cousin friend Will
Warden different life from
before little garden watched with infinite
tenderness becomes world hau the world that ever could
be desired by one of a heart
The book does heights but without being preachy
this reviewer thesis that the moving
rama OF lie enjoyment than does the strdess
character GLADYS W. DANIEL.
Evening star., 1940-06-23
Youth-MiIIions Too Many?
By Bruce L. Melvin. Neu York:
The Association, Press,

4ItS ASSOCIuL1On FTeSS.
This is a book Of statistics and
case histories designed to show
that the youth of the United States
faces a hopeless future unless by
some means it is assured q living
readymade. Or, in other words, this
author believes that the modern
generation of young people is unique
in the history Of the world in that
the world owes it living. A reader
who holds with this sort of thinking
will find much to grieve over in
Mr.. Melvin's book and will certainly
brand as inhuman any one who sug-
gests that 1t Is both dangerous and
demoralizing to encourage young
people to professionalize their youth.
Yet, for those who would make the
suggestion, there is also consider
able corroborative material, particu-
larly in statements made by the
young people themselves, self-pitying
and of a self -dramatizing tendency.
If the reviewer remembers, this
"lost generation talk has been
going on now for some 20 years-the
war generation was "lost" first; then
the postwar crowd came on and
was also lost" because it drank
prohibition gin and bobbed its hair;
it has been 10 years now since the
depression arrived. and all that
time we have heard of the new
fosters, who did not have to make
their gin, but could not get mar
ried as soon as they wanted to
because times were hard. Maybe
the reviewer is mistaken, but people
have been living all the time this
dirge has been sounding. And
those who have backbones have been
using them, and those who haven't
are not a new phenomenon. Mrs,
Franklin Delano Roosevelt con-
tributes foreword to Mr. Melvin's
book. Mr.. Melvin sometimes uses
youth" with a plural verb and
sometimes with singular.
NC. r.
Evening star., 1940-06-23
Stars on the Sea
BIZ F. Uun Wick Ma,

By F. van WICK Mason. Philadelphia j. B. Lppincott Co.
between nations
shut OIL supplies he its foe United States today its
existence the that the exception the
British control seaway the
rebelng
British
ships Colonial warshps
home waters and the high
defenseless
nation mighty his Mason created
that ability
breathe
tale of the victims coas-the
hostile raid against left
the of Sam Hgy feman who scornd discipline
fight; Boston
privateersman scholarly Coffin of Nantucket fell at the
Of
pages-for
history weod
passion, conflict and life. S.
Education and Economic WeI|-Being in American
Democracy
Washington: Educational Policies Commission
Policies Commission appointed
comprehensive expanding edu
cational opportunities.
commission primarily concerned with the
standpoint vocational training
citizen
economic status the individual the national income produce
tvity.
reports oppor-
including compulsory schooling additional
for dn persons akns qualified beyond and
tonal "retraining and other adult educational work.
BAINBR1DoE cR1sT.
Evening star., 1940-06-23
Two Books Are Devoted to
Survey of Past, Present
And Future Of Virginia
One Discusses Commonwealth
AS 1t Is Now; Other Traces
'Aristocratic' Families
By Edwin 7ribble
Virginia.: The New Dominion
By Agnes Rothery illustrated by E. Suydan NeD York.
D. Appleton Century Co., Inc.
The First Gentlemen of Virginia
By Wright. San Marino CaAt: The Huntington
Library.

Virginia present future In for reexamnaon In
these Miss Roherys full discussion Of the Common
wealth today while Mr. Wrghts dwel those qualities in its
earliest settlers which become part of the Virginia. Mother
of States" tradition.
Rothery vignan,
vle globe Of
travel book admirer Of the Old Dominion She
mainly
with the She cites with pride achievements
Virginia describes its cities industries and politics.
accomplishments "Virginias
always fouhed through tangible mediumthe art OF
feeling through book She
poke gentle fun the hosey Northern Virginia but can't
help adding that the first that Kentucky
Virginia
She picture Of the State
although there undoubtedly will fail
enthusiasm political which balanced the
In seeking explain why vgnians have taken than the
discussion Of the origins of craftsmanship Old
Dominion early Cavaliers
land and their authority hundreds developed the
OF decision and she writes which make
them the natural leaders the Nation early
This training for leadership the Wrights
scholarly
with carefully English
countryside civilization the
the variations
Virginia tradition he is devoted first
facts He the first settlers aocrac"
has been claimed but tademen the Byrd
He make
more emgrants Of gentle birth than other colony.
Selecting families intellectual
and accomplishments show
at estimate Of their mental quotent
public problems and they
leaders In the Nation He makes bte
pishments but slyy didn't
gentleman must preserve his amateur standing in learning
Evening star., 1940-06-23
Forty Years a Country Preacher
By George B. Gilbert. Nep Yor

B. II
vtaly interesting
IN County
make people instead
people fit the church"
Convinced that long the church
comunysuppying everything from cooksoves
feeding
suppers finding
troubles with
church, of his work
recognized vdeso much that he after speaker
conventions city clubs with evident pleasure
his resulted Congregational
missionary check $lO0
shingles a Methodist Church
ceeds but deeds"
summing philosophy religion.
their the Christian m notice that speaking
had clothed those who ragged and sverng had
something eat those whether
persistent helping often think people
studied of what Himself said instead
they little
perfection
charm whatever I'll thank
fer hungry children get theirs here below"
GARNETT HORNER.
Evening star., 1940-06-23
Extro-Sensory Perception After Sixty Years

EXNo-oeHs07Y PERCEPTION ATteT SXty Ye0Ts
By J. B. Rhine c. E. Stuart j. G. Pratt B. Smith ,vh J. A.
GREENWOOD New York: Henry Holt & Co.
perception is the given by psychologists
recent all that kind mental phenomenon
loosely called epahy second sight clairvoyance simply "a
feeling Scientifically
Quoted the this
authors this
members of the faculty University
notably Prof Rhine published findings
the they all studies Of
perception made scientific these beginning
about the time OF the foundation of the Society Psyca Research
1882 The great part their work however devoted to
made the recent they tell conditions equipment
scientific methods
a Is
rather cique of findings
authors evidence provided with
the end Of determining whether existence
established After analysis
methods of objections raised scientists the opposing
school thought conclude that they proved that extra
faculty half
knowledge qualities OF
established remarkably
little that would
Evening star., 1940-06-23
!, Mary MogdoIen
Bu Juliet Thomson Ne,D York: Delphic Studios


addition the body creative literature which
the history of Christ 1t simple eloquent little
tale Mgdalen
the first deep sincerity OF emotion and
The Interpretation she a
the honoed
the
Messiah her but later converting
With her then undertakes the introduction
the faith in Rome
This plot of quiet simplicity gains
emotional fastdous and charming
conventional for Miss Thompson emphasizes
rather than his human attributes and makes Him god
followers
Bethany Vasht
carried with fu brevy
welknown portrait painter her
the fruit of the Holy
Paesnan country knowledge
Polish Profile
resulting capture
responsible for this the work of
husbands interesting work ITSELF
doubtful it would
publishers attention Now however
history.
presents simply
Modernity had
mentality either the high low station
them Peasants still bowed their feudal
we'll tiny kissed the hands of their elders
of good family had prospect but frankly
conversation There elaborate
dinners which the rounes
but with absence sparkle
author it, Pudsks Poland depressing
ideazatn which,
Beauties the princess frsthand
mended reading