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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-03-15

both expositions. Once again Scouts
will be accepted for the New York
Worlds Fair Scout Service Camp
during school sessions in May, June,
September and October, only where
they have the approval of local school
Evening star., 1940-03-31

and fruits for any season and
locality. For the beginner and one
intending to beautify small grounds
there is the beautifully illustrated
-Four Seasons in Your Garden" by
John C. Wister. A charming book
which includes pools, paths and
rock gardens is Margaret o. Gold
smiths "Friday-to-Monday Gar
dening."
Those wishing to 60 about their
arrangement in scientific manner
can read Color and Succession of
Bloom in the Flower Border" by
Henry S. Ortloff, or The Garden in
Color by Louise B. Wilder. After
the garden is in bloom the ambitious
will try the flower show, and will be
helped by Victor H. Ries' Flower
Shows, Their Organization. Man.
agement and Judging" and "Har-
mony in Flower Design" Then
there is the practical soul who will
want to raise his own vegetables.
Edward Farrington's vegetable
Garden" is suggestion.
Ihere are many books on special
lied gardening and flowers, such as
herb gardening, rose culture, lily
raising, bulbs and wild flower culti-
vation. Garden pests and insects,
birds in the garden, are all branches
of the profession to be studied.
Closely related to all this is the care
of the lawn. Charles w. Parker's
THE Lawn" covers all steps in maxi
ing and keeping it. Another inter-
esting book is Donald Wyman's
Hedges. Screens and Windbreaks." ="
Recreational reading offers an
added interest, especially when night
falls. Reginald Arkell's Green
Fingers presents amusing drawings
and light verse about gardens and
gardening. Beverley Nichols ram
bling pleasant essay, Down the
Garden PATH tells of his own Eng
lish garden. Richardson Wright,
editor of House and Garden, has
written The Gardeners Day Book .
which is collection of short stories,
strange anecdotes and humorous
gardening advice.
Evening star., 1940-03-31
Follow the Drinking Gourd
By Frances Gather. Ne
York: The Macmillan Co

YIN. He MuCWNtuU 20.
Life on Hurricane Farm in Ala
bama, prior to the Civil War. is the
subject of this dramatic story. 1t
deals with a little known phase of
plantation life in the old South-ab-
sentee ownership. not the romantic
manor life so often the theme of
books with settings in the South.
In this book. each character. as
brought sharply to life by the author,
reveals the common tragedy of fall
ure confronting both master and
slaves. and the helplessness of the
socially aware owner to prevent the
oncoming ruin, brought about by
system which victimized white and
black.
Follow the Drinking Gourd" is
the name of an abolition song from
which the novel gets its title. The
Drinking Gourd" was the Negro
name for the North Star, which
slaves were told to follow as a guide
to freedom. Hurricane Farm was
not bothered by work of the aboli-
tionists at first. But at the death
of Mas Robbie Austen, owner of
the farm. the bank foreclosed and
changed the policies from kindness
to harshness. The slaves soon
learned not to trust their fate to
the hands of their new owners as
they had to the Austens. their for
mer owners. Fear of being sent
down the river to be sold drove
them to take charge of their own
lot, and unaccustomed as they were
to assuming this responsibility. they
chose the underground railroad to
escape from the worry suddenly
thrust upon their shoulders.
Mrs. Gather, in this book. has
presented an important study in
Southern history. for every page
speaks with authority in recon-
structing period in the past of
the Southland. She reveals true
novelist's talent in this narrative of
moving incident and solid details.
FRANCIS G. KNIGHT.
Evening star., 1940-03-31

''We smile now when we talk
about Hitler, mother and I, because
Hitler has hurt us very much, even
though we are not Jews. But we
are not afraid of him now, not here
in America"
After Hitler obtained control of
the German government the
Ziemers received a letter from rela-
tives in Minnesota. The envelope
bore the slogan, Eat more butter"
and everybody thought the Ameri-
cans were making fun of Germany.
When Patsy and her father ex-
planned that some of the United
States had more butter than they
knew what to do with, nobody be-
lieved them.
Loves Many Things.
Toward the end of her 312-page'
book Patsy says her father asked
her to write down what I love best
in America" And this Is how she
does It,:
"' love lots of things, but
the one thing that love best, I
think, Is that I don't have to be
afraid anymore. And things are
not 'verboten,' that means forbidden,
and we can read newspapers and
listen to the radio, and we can 20
to church and I can 60 to school,
and nobody comes to the door and
knocks at 6 o'clock in the morn
ing. =" ="
Patsy tells her story simply, as
you can judge from the passages
quoted here. But simplicity has
seldom hurt any book and it GER
tainly does not hurt Patsy's. On
the contrary, It probably helps more
than any other single thing to make
it the refreshing and human docu-
ment that 1t In.
PHILIP II. LOVE.
Evening star., 1940-03-31

madam waters. 1t was the be-
ginning of a fascinating career of
absolute independence They grad
uated into larger boat, and for
one stretch of 500 days never slept
ashore. For seven years they
roamed the magnificent mountain
girt waterways of the Pacific Coast.
This volume is the story of wan
derings which will make any ad-
venture loving human squirm with
envy, and will make those to whom
a settled life and a fixed abode are
essential to happiness wonder and
marvel. Here is an extraordinary
adventure in living, told with
charm and great good humor.'
JOSEPH S. EDGERTON.
Evening star., 1940-03-31
Best Sellers

The following list of best SELL
ers is compiled weekly from in
formation obtained in WASH
ington by The Star and in New
York, Boston, Chicago and San
Francisco by the North Ameri-
can Newspaper Alliance:
Fiction.
Kitty Foyle," Christopher
Morley: "How Green Was MY
Valley" Richard Llewellyn;
THE Nazarene," Sholem Asch;
Native Son." Richard Wright;
Portrait of Jennie" Robert
Nathan; The Grapes @
Wrath" John Steinbeck; "A
Sea Island Lady," Francis
Griswold; Moment in Peking,'
Lin Yutang; The Eagles
Gather" Taylor Caldwell; The
Trees" Conrad Richter.
Nom Fiction.
"A Smattering of Ignorance"
Oscar Levant; Since Yester-
day Frederick Lewis Allen:
Land Below the Wind" Agnes
Newton Keith; Wind, Sand and
Stars" Antoine de st. Exupery;
inside Europe" John Gun
ther; How to Read a Book"
Mortimer Adler; The Well
Tempered Listener" Deems
Taylor: Chip OF My Shoul.
der" Thomas l.. Stokes; Days
of Our Years" Pierre van
Paassen; Happy Days" H. l..
Mencken.
Evening star., 1940-03-31

this primal urge. The Pinkertons,
writer's both Che is Robert P. au-
thor of adventure tales, appro-
priately enough, are not ordinary
people. They have done some
thing to satisfy wanderlust which
urges them to adventures in the
relatively little-known waterways
of the British Pacific Coast and
Alaska.
In the pre-depression days, when
the friends of the Pinkertons were
buying homes and settling down
amidst accumulating possessions
and families, they purchased a So
foot motor cruiser in Seattle, and
set out with their young daughter
Bobs on a cruise into nearby Ca
Evening star., 1940-03-31
Bouquets and Bitters
By Julian Meade. Illustrated
By John O'Hdra SoSgrnue, I'd.
NeW York: Logmdn's Green

6y JuLuU w euUS. lLuSLTULCu
By John O'Hdra Sosgraue, 3D..
New York.: Logma't's Green
G. Co.
Mr.. Meade, the popular Virginia
writer, gives us here another book
on gardening. In Adams Profess
sion" he undertook year or so ago
to talk of mans pleasure in digging
and planting. and to poke fun at
the foolish efforts Of womankind to
gather fashionable credit from
seeming to follow the gardening
fad. It was a very pleasant book
and established Mr.. Meade as a
writer of genuine talent in the field
of light and spooting non-fiction.
His present book is in the same
vein, as we'll as on the same theme.
It tells of Mr.. Meade's temporary
desertion of his own borders and
cold frames in order that he might
visit, in truly large way, the gar
dens, as it were, Of America. Leav-
ing Virginia bereft for a spell, he
set out for Boston, and thence for
points North, West and South. In
the course of his journey he visited
the gardens of New Orleans, WASH
ington, Los Angeles. ST. Augustine.
Memphis and New York And he
visited yet other gardens, too. He
got around. in short. in gardening
sense. and here is the record of the
going 1t is witty, if somewhat ten
uous stuff, and readers will not need
to share the hobby to enjoy the ac-
count of it.
Mention should be made, however,
of the circumstance that persons as
we'll as plants entered into the
Meadeian pilgrimage. Edna st.
Vincent Millay showed the author
her garden. So did Ellen Glasgow
So did Myrna 10y. So did Joan
Bennett, Bette Davis and Jeanette
Macdonald. And they, even as
their plants, are turned into copy
by Mr.. Meade's ingenious pen. So
there is something in the book of
human interest as well as vegetable
&C r
Evening star., 1940-03-31
Brief Reviews

fOetry.
THE COLLECTED POEMS OF A.
E. HOUSMAN. New York: Henry
Holt Il Co.
The Shropshire Lad" Last
Poems More Poems" and other
verses hitherto unpublished, as we'll
as translations from the ancient
Greek dramatists. Obviously a VOL
ume to be had.
WOVEN OF THE SKY. BY Sister
Miriam. Introduction by Odel
Shepard. New York: The Mac
milan Co.
Poems of religious mysticism.
Accomplished.
NO SPECIAL PLEADINGS. BY
Mary Ballard Duryee. New York
G. P. Putnam's Sons.
Mainly light verse, neat and ac-
complished.
Planning Yearbook.
AMERICAN PLANNING AND
CIVIC ANNUAL. Washington:
American Planning and Civic As
sociation.
Proceedings of the National Con-
ference on Planning held at Bos-
ton May 1877, 1899; the National
Conference of State Parks held at
Itasca State Park. June 4-7. 1899;
and the Third National Park Con-
ference of the American Planning
and Civic Association with the ma
tional park officials held at Santa
Fe October 8-10, 1899.
Biography.
OF1E READ. BY Maurice Elfer.
Detroit: Boyten Miller Press.
"reminiscences of the onetime
popular novelist by one of his
friends. Interesting to the student,
but amateurish in quality.
Evening star., 1940-03-31
American Faith: Its Religious, Political and Economic
Foundations

6y ernest sutherland Bates. Ney York: w. W. Norton & Co.
Inc Cvn War; says Mr. Bates liberalism and
sh4Sa be preserved manned indeed
transmitted 10 the future as the main articles
Mr. Bates who died before his published American
as handmaiden
dng Roman Catholicism with lighting Reformation one
OF n great periods human culture
New World
OF church and state free
in short most of the
is the impression left by his book ~ '
Whe does not actually
seems to try to get across the
changes IN America have always paaeled the
colonies Threw on the British yoke politically
were members OF the various Protestant thing with
regard ehelon While the States
union bound together by the Constitution the American
IN the midst somewhat similar
more liberal politically its religious progvis Of much
the ON -'NNA
That seems to be Mr. Bates theory religion and it makes
interesting agree with on All
r.
Evening star., 1940-03-31
Library Has New Books
On Art of Gardening
Annual garden week is here again

Annual garden week is here again,
and book stores and publishers are
bringing to public attention new
books on the art of gardening One
need not urge those interested in
garden books to read them, because
there has been a demand at the
Central Public Library, Eighth and
K streets NV, and its branches,
since the first burst of sunshine.
Already plans are being made for
flower shows. and the Botanic
Gardens have had the annual
azalea show Current horticultural
and garden magazines are also
featuring timely topics. Seed cata-
logues, of which the technology
division of the Central Library has
a large supply, are available for
home use.
Interest in the culture of plants
without soil, known as chemicul-
ture, or tank farming. has increased
greatly. Carleton Ellis "Soilless
Growth of Plants" and David R.
Matlin's revised edition of Growing
Plants Without Soil" are both good
books. propagation of Plants" by
Maurice G. Kains, is a complete
guide, with chapters on nursery and
greenhouse management. One of
the neglected fields is treated in
Harriet Morse's Gardening in the
Shade"
There is a wide variety of the
general type of books. Louise and
James Bush-Brown's Americas
Garden Book" is complete and
authoritative Liberty H. Bailey's
Gardeners Handbook" and Edward
Farrington's "Gardener's almanac"
are good reference books, the latter
being valuable reminder to keep
the expert as we'll as amateur from
making possible mistakes. Kath-
crime Storm gives information for
the suburban owner in The Small
Garden" Frederick F. Rockwell
has just brought out a new edition
of his Around the Year in the
Garden which takes each month,
week by week. and covers flower and
vegetable gardening. shrubs, berries
Evening star., 1940-03-31
Bolero: The Life of Maurice RoveI

By Madeleine Goss. NeO York: Henry Holt
1t is fact
from the Flatbuh Philharmonic
investigation of great
will find justify
immortal Miss
the excellent
appreciation of the his artistic expression.
Maurice relatively
reading Miss
sc.able his friends although
mutually Ravel
lies combined with fresh originality characteristic
all his musical works down to the smallest Unusty
despite prominent wispy qualy-speaks
of Achie
might well find interest in his of the jazz form
works.
artists standpoint Ravels o
tragedy Not indicated but afflicted with
ordination happened experienced
creating would
Twentieth Century Warfare
By M Linpus NeD York: E. P. Dutton Co..
mechanical armies of Western begin
artillery the American
a
descriptions which
comprehensive.
of killing
time to the fantastic $50O00 before
outline
ntegrad military machines
This little
ntegeny
cREsTON B. MULLINS.
Evening star., 1940-03-31
Two Thousand and Ten Days
Of Hitler

Of Hitler
By Patsy Ziemer. Nep York:
Harper & Bros.
Nearly everybody else has written
a book on Hitler, so why not H.
year-old American girl?
Well, little Miss Ziemer is the
girl, and 1.-TWO Thousand and Ten
Days of Hitler" the book. Her father,
who was head of the American
School in Berlin until last sum-
mer, acknowledges authorship Of
rather extensive supplementary por-
tions of the volume, but how much
he helped her beyond that is any,
bodys guess.
Patsy begins with the question,
Can you remember the first time
you were ever afraid? I mean really
frightened, so you could not sleep
at night?"
First Fright.
Her first big fright occurred in
Germany in April, 1882, when she
was only 4. Hans, the son of the
janitor of the Ziemer school, ap-
peared dressed all in brown" with
"a red band around his arm" After
clicking his heels, raising his arm
in the Nazi' salute and shouting,
Hell, Hitler" he said: "Amerikaner,
raus. Deutschland erwache. Ameri-
kaner sind Juden."
Which means, Patsy explains:
Americans, get out. Germany
awake. Americans are Jews"
Hans Nazi ways frightened Patsy
so, she writes, that II got out of my
seat and ran to mother" Later,
she learned from her daddy, that
Hans and some other Nazis had been
in = fight with a group of Com
munists the night before and that
11vs persons had been killed.
Evening star., 1940-03-31
Three's uCrew
Bu Kuthrene Pinkerton.

BIZ Kdthrene Pinkerton. Ne1D
York. Cdrrick & EudnS, Inc.
Most normal human beings dream
of adventuring. of cutting loose
from the everyday routine of life
to wander the earth in search of
strange sights, new scenes, unusual
people. Few ever do anything about
Evening star., 1940-03-31
Authors Make Searching
Interpretation Of Many
Changes in Business
Find Much Common Ground
After They Disregard the
Excesses of the Past
By Raymond p. Brss1k
Orqonized Labor and Production

Organized Labor and Production
By Morris Llepellyn Philip Murray. Yoks
Harper &
democracy comparatively
popular thinking Until the enactment of the National Relations
voluntarily shared with their
profits of management
The Labor Relations Act precisely the affirmation the
consitona by the Supreme the beginning
In business
change contained "Oganzed
OF the study is Next Steps in Industrial Democracy"
The authors represent supposedly conflicting
being of the authorities scientific
Murray chairman Organizing
president OF the Congress Industrial
contrasting
possibilities
collective bargaining
No Rigid
For Peaceful Cooperation
The authors eecting
operation they describe Collective bargaining
white picture they is misleading picture
There should be in each they
all the
management anords
resenaie of
ea problem at different levels the
employers arrangement could
problems that
trial relations solution
would then be organized
declares human security
dulon "Organzd cooperation
crease in production higher standard of living
the
democratic techniques
leadership suppantng the battling"
ected in the right organize the
they participate thinking breaks
all human institutions.
Evening star., 1940-03-31
And Noev 12>Year>Od Girl Writes Book OF, Hitler

II remember how frightened I
was" Patsy repeats. II asked
mother, Who is Hitler, mother?
Was that Hitler?'
Evening star., 1940-03-31

"And mother said, NO, that was
not Hitler. Don't you worry about
Hitler. He's never going to hurt
u.s.
Evening star., 1940-03-31
Safety.

THE STORY OF HIGHWAY
TRAFFIC CONTROL. BY Will
liam Phelps Emo. Emo Founda-
ton for Highway Traffic Control.
The history of the beginning and
development of the modern move
ment to bring about orderly condi-
tions on the worlds highways. Cow
ers the period from 1899 to 1898.
Evening star., 1940-03-31

By Walter NeIes Ne,D York: w. w. Norton &
Albert De Silver widely
he known he made deep
His first American in
by name Portuguese from Madeira succeeding
OF Colonial English of Welsh
blood and when Albert De Silver born
awaiting Education
and in conventional New York "a
But there something
which led
lie than was the with of those had walked beside
early the
been catalytc which kindd ferce
liberties of
And Albert Silver
life
ated in his disbelief
"ho he defended he uncompromng
10 say ana think as their consciences directed
remember
individual freedomof democracy if-beame
The which Albert OF life
HENRY
Evening star., 1940-03-31
Bethel Merridoy
Ri Sinclair Le,Dis Mem York Doublednu DOrnn

By Sinclair LenDs New York Doubleday, Doran & Co.
what erstWhi Nobel
life theatrical
thoroughly something
And conclude that when he not mad he
the sight of the birds nesting the Unfortunately
old
Bethel Merriday
Lewis modern girl of mddeca family though
the
eventually
attached little
into stock marmony small Broad
Through
young
combined Brothers Cheruhyle indeed.
The Art of Living
Andre Maurois Translated from the French by James
WhitaU Ne1D York: Harper & Bros.
this ingenious Maurois
human relations the art
of friendship of family life thinking working of
leadership old
about what would expect the ingenious Maro That
all the which he Mauroi well
described the of sopstatn middle
produces public trick
the old ideas alring
them fascinating wisdom
But when beyond dazzling surface
finds nothing that hadwokng comnst the might
not tossed of daily forbearng
understanding good So much and does the
polished Fencfman
doubt No pebbles appear
a
Evening star., 1940-03-31
An Old Captivity
BIZ NeUil Shute.

By NeUH Shute. NeD York: William MorroU & Co.
Some books have
Old Captivity far this particular
be that kind OF book The difficult
the title the jacket the
with considerable reluctance Reviewing would
the sooner it was with, the better.
Alas for such first mpresons For An Old Captivity"
be line novel, magnatey conceived sky
nrse-class job OF writing that
Donald Ross fy scientist
and the aters daughter aerial
survey OF the lost colony of Left Ericsson The
ure who at first make
possible for the pilot
develop from such situation as story
teller. " " ~ W. " 'o'-
interviewer with the story an earlier love af.
H deafness involving Ericsson set ashore at
Cape Cod This explains the title AN more
Wouo oe 10 give the plot Let
even though fetched and artistry pro-
ouces from tale that should
previously mentioned repelant best seller lists
Evening star., 1940-03-31
The Literary W0rd-ReveWs of Current Publications
New Wilde Biography Is
Rich in Background of
The yellow Nineties'
Sinclair Lewis Devotes New
Book to Life of Young Girl
Seeking Stage Career
By Mavy.C Carter Roberts.
Oscar Wilde and the Yellow Nineties

By winwar Ne,U York. Harper Bros
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and dreamed the pale twilight Gothic things
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she him snob She considers his comedies
for Though little that he has than curiosity
value today, still. "the lord language"
Wilde
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that there too much irony in societys destruction of him.
solid admirable thing
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Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-20
CaIexico Youths
ToAttend School
OF Church Group
CALEXICO NOTES
(By Mrs, r. L. GlaSby)

Friends have received word from
Mrs. E. E. Kelso, president of the
Woman's improvement club, that
her father is better but there is
little hope of an ultimate recovery.
katherine Willingham, bookkeep-
er, arrived home Sunday from an
extended vacation in Texas and
Oklahoma.
Rev. and Mrs. Roy Tucker left
Saturday for Green Valley near
Descanso where an institute of re-
ligious education is held each year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tucker are on the
teaching staff.
Mrs. B. F. Kearney will act as
councillor. EpWorth leaguers attend
ing from Calexico are Mary Kin
caid, Virginia Kearney, Glenys Maui
pin, Joan McCampbell. Bette Ruth
Brown, Constance O'Connor, Mar
gree Stinson, Joe Cole, Bill Nc
Campbell, Bob Candland, Oscar
Kemp, Vernon Rood, Charles Cash.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. v. Ellis and child
rem left for Heavener, Oklahoma,
Monday evening Mr.. Ellis is from
the immigration service and Mrs.
Ellis is president of the Wo-
mans improvement club. Mrs. Ellis
father and mother are both i'll.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-20

Mr.. and Mrs Merle Hartsock and
their three children left last week
on motor trip to Lincoln, Nebras-
ka to visit Hartzock's mother, who
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-20
Wallace, Johns
Return from
Business Trip
DIXIELAND NOTES

F.. H. Wallace and Kenneth
Johns made business trip Tuesday
and Wednesday to the Tuormatine
mines, returning with some very
good specimens of material, also
gem material.
j. r. Haley and Emmett Mccain
are the new members of the West
side Dixieland school, to replace
Mrs. Potter and Nick HayhurSt.
Many electors came from north end
of Dixie district to vote.
The Emmett McCains are enter
tanning the Dixieland Bridge club
this Saturday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. R. Haley attend
ed the Julian Pioneers Reunion
Saturday and Sunday.
The Jack Ingles went to Kingman
Ariz., for a weeks visit
Sid Trammell moved his family
from Westside to one of George
Campell's houses in Seeley last
week.