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Fun for | rave|ers
By Dorothy Curew
Associated Press stan Writer

the same program and some might
not want to listen at all"
gram. is the designers answer, with
the receiver couched in wing OF
each chair, the radio need not dis
turb the passenger in the adjoining
seat.
Radio Is more complex prob
lem in air travel where reception
is more difficult, There programs
may be recorded in advance of q
long hop and be made available to
passengers through wire recording,
he said.
The traveller who wants to read
may do, so without fear of incon-
veniencing his neighbor by using an
individual reading lamp set into the
wing of his coach chair.
Trains and Planes
To Have Telephones
Refnements of traditional equip
ment and a variety of new conven-
fences are in store for the traveller
all along the line.
Telephones will be installed in
trains and planes for passenger use.
Bus drivers will be able to telephone
ahead to stations and thus eliminate
many time-consuming stops.
New reclining coach chairs are
designed scientifically for comfort
and allow more footroom. F1uores-
cent fixtures will give softer light
and some coaches are being made
with individual fluorescent lamps
above each seat grouping.
Plane passengers will have space
beneath their seats for small hand
luggage so the businessman need
not waste time waiting for baggage
to be unloaded.
New ideas in dining cars are fol-
lowing a less formal trend. Not only
snack bars, but lunch counters COM
plete with stools have been installed
in some Dreyfuss- designed diners
for the Santa Fe railroad.
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its tree lined boulevards, Rome has
It's Vatican and the grandeur Of St,
Peters In city of magnificent
vistas. Brussels has its medieval
main square; Milan its snow-white
cathedral; Cairo its Citadel and the
mysterious but muddy Nile; Athens
It's unsurpassed ruins of the Acrop-
oils; Capri its picture-like garden
of San Michele and its cobbled
streets. But Washington, without
the old and mellowed quality OF
these others, has a majesty which
embraces within its quiet stride most
of the charms OF all of them.
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Baseball Has Me
Under Its Spell

Since my childhood days I have
been fascinated by American police
men. I made point Of seeing
nearly every gangster film I could
get to and little did I think at that
time that the fanfare Of cars with
screaming sirens, badge -bedecked
representatives of the law armed
with revolver and truncheon would
become part Of the scenery Of my
everyday life. British policemen
are much less showy and do not
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education and possibly with less
strong ties to the parents, as result,
but feel that their respect is fully
as great Many times more COM
panionable relationship develops
between parents and children when
the former do not have to fill the
role in earlier years of being stern
disciplinarians.
On the political front, as reflected
in American newspapers, there is a
turbulence here hardly matched in
England. While freedom of speech
and opinion are traditional there,
there is an overall stolidity and
calmness about political and philo-
sophical differences. Much of this
may be traceable to the crown, the
symbol of British rule. l am con-
vinced that the insistence of the
King and Queen in maintaining
their residence in London during
the war years and the constant
sight of the Union Jack flying
In Residence over Buckingham
Palace contributed much to the
British courage in those days.
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80 Vendors Indicted
In One Month

Now, they say. there Is evidence
that the old mob Is back in opera
ton in New York. They have OBJ
tanned indictments against 80 mar
cotics vendors in the East in the
last month.
The undercover men who posed
as addicts and bought from such
seasoned narcotics traffickers were
almost killed by vendors when po-
lice closed in for the arrests.
For 40 years the United States
has led a world movement to limit
narcotics to medicinal needs. There
have been repeated attempts to en-
force international control agree
ments. 1t seems there now is over
production of opium in war I'M
poverished Oriental countries. The
United States, being the worlds
richest country, is the sales target,
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Washington Boasts
Visual Treats

From the Capitol to the Potomac
River Is a visual treat unsurpassed
In any Of the European capitals
Partisan atmosphere is along the
Mall and the tree-llned avenues
architectural grandeur equal to that
of Rome and the sense of solidarity
and permanenCe that character1zes
London. The bridges of the Poto-
mac, the Cathedral commanding the
heights of Wisconsin avenue ana
the steep river front Of Georgetown
contribute much local color. In
none of the other great capitals Is
there such natural retreat as ROCK
Creek Park, winding its picturesque
vav from the downtown waterfront
for miles through the heart of the
CITY. 1t is as though you were to
place the Forest of Compeigne in the
heart of Paris.
The climate? Let some of those
who complain so glibly about the
Washington climate do a turn in
sunless without central
heating. Or let them sample
summer In Cairo or in Khartum,
II could be better, but what climate
could not? The Washington win
ters are more than adequate to
pick me up from the sultry summer
DAYS.
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About Sixty-Thousand
Ouestionnaires To Go

The problem was referred to
Henry P. Chandler, director OF the
administrative Office OF the United
States Courts, and Elmore White
hurst, assistant director. They
quickly authorized the employment
Of additional clerks. The staff now
numbers six.
Other Improvements were made.
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49, Justice Bolitha j. Laws Of the
United States District Court
had an exasperated caller.
The visitor in Chief Justice Laws
chambers was Vincent Saccardi,
manager of the Washington Office
of the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Co, and man with a highly de-
veloped sense of civic responsibility.
On that day it was apparent Mr..
Saccardi was exasperated both as
a citizen and an employer. The
cause was, that over period of
years Mr.. Saccardi had seen the
same group Of employees summoned
from his staff for jury duty. It
occurred about every IA months.
Mr.. Saccardi had noted that out
side the one group no others were
summoned from his Office. He made
inquiries. He found other COM
panies where one or more persons
were summoned regularly while
others never were called. Also he
found companies and organiza tions
whose members never were sum-
moned,
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a daily visit to the nearest drug
store where the teen ayers in odd
est types Of clothing, adorned with
most mystifylng badges, signs and
other marks of identification mill
oro,lt,S
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That, he said, Is how peddlers
contact such girls as Susie" and
her boy friends. Arrests are espe-
cially difficult because the ped
dlers are inconspicuous, furtive,
small operators and the rug-cutters
are alerted to spot narcotics agents
and signal the peddler.
1--WE Dives Bear
Careful Watching
The bureau, headed by H. J.
Anslinger, pretty well knows the
sources of supply for confirmed mar
cotics addicts. 1t seems the habit
forming peril Of the trsfic has
moved from well-known criminal
channels to these jive dives where
unrestrajned youths think 3
"thump" Or two will send them.
and hot horns" in the bands use
the stuff to stay hot"
However, agents recently have ar
rested 26 peddlers In the Times
Square, SIND street and Harlem
areas of New York. They arrested
Is in Rochester and Buffalo.
In 1945 narcotics agents made
/ Ala arrests and seized 5,052 ounces
of narcotics and 1850 ounces OF bulk
marihuana even while there
was a relative scarcity Of the Illicit
products
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Vincent Saccardi chairman of the Jury Commission
after first breaking the SEAL the key to open the
containing the OF prospective jurors The bor is
opened in the presence of Mrs. Eunice Blake Thomas
member OF the Jury Commission and Col EdUard Goring
Bliss, commission Secretdry The bOr has used for
almost so gears and contains than $500
the greatest in its history. Star Staff Photo
Naturally number for
limit
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Makes Wandering
Fathers Pay Up

He figures he has saved New
York State more than a million
dollars in charity checks by making
wandering fathers pay up.
Frequently reconciliations occur
when Mr.. Lamb brings back hus-
bands. But more often, the men
simply prove-usually by posting
bond-that they will support their
children, all that State law requires.
George Lamb has earned his nick
name, The Bloodhound" again and
again by outwitting men who
changed names, switched occupa-
tions, Travelled thousands of miles
and even faxed suicides.
Miles mean nothing to him. But
for long trips, to California or to
Evening star., 1946-07-28
By CorIe Hodge
Assoeioted Press stoff Writer
NEW YORK.

IF HOLLYWOOD were casting
new movie sleuth. probably the
last man it would look at is
George Henry Lamb. Yet Lamb
is one of the most uncannily apt
detectives in the business.
In the % years the nervous, be-
spectacled little man of so has been
the boss and one-man posse of the
Queens County IN. " Abandon
ment Bureau, he has tracked down
more than 1000 fathers wanted for
deserting their children.
He has pursued them in 4S States,
Cuba, Canada and Mexico. Several
surrendered as soon as they learned
that he was after them.
Bloodhound" Lamb, wiry and
little more than feet 4, looks and
talks like clerk or a village Sunday
school teacher. He virtually COM
mutes to California-which seems
to attract family y-deserters like sirup
does flies-and has just returned
from there with his record one-trip
catch, nine straying fathers.
Sixteen others settled by handing
over enough money to support their
children, an arrangement that Mr..
Lamb prefers over arrest; "a father
in the clink is worse than no father
at all is his philosophy.
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carry weapons, or no visible one. at
any rate.
Every country has It's national
sport and accompanying fans. In
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Corner Drugstore
Missing in Europe

Even in the days OF transition
from the Churchill government to
that of Atlee there were few
evidences Of such outspoken po-
litical assault either in the press
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- ASSENGER entertainment
~ has become an integral part
of new plane. bus and train
= nj u nHairar IrH1istrial DESIGN
Evening star., 1946-07-28
By Francis P. DouqIus

s EVERAL years ago Chief
- Justice Bolitha J. Laws of the
J United States District Court
had an eXasperated caller.
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6See JURY, Page C-3l
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But History Did Not Toss Them All
Into the Limbo of the Forgotten
LOST MEN OF AMERICAN HISTORY

By Stewart H. Holbrook
The title of this book is hardly
borne out by the text. Avowedly
the work is a rescuing from oblivion
of certain Americans who have not
received the fame due them for
their part in Our Nations growth.
And in part the avowal is kept.
The case of Sergt. Ezra Lee, for
instance, who, in 1776. attacked the
British fleet single-handed in a
motorless submarine. is not one
which is reported in the average
history text. Nor is that of Fred
eric Tudor, who first thought OF
storing ice for summer use and
built up a business with world divide
ramifcations. Nor that of Hilton
Helper, who wrote an anti-slavery
book far more realistic than Uncle
Toms Cabin" Nor that of Andrew
s. Rowan, the man who really car
ried the message to Garcia. Nor
that of Christopher Ludwick,. the
Philadelphia German baker, who,
with George Washington's approval,
set out on a one-man campaign
against King Georges Hessians
that caused a startling number of
them to desert. Yet all these cases
are the stuff of which our history
is made and deserve history's honor
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Macmillan; $780,
Mr.. Holbrook gives them recognition
| in a popular form at last and 1t Is
more than commendable of him to
do so.
When, however, he lists among
Americas "lost," such figures OF
renown as Samuel Adams. Daniel
Shays, Noah Webster, Dorothy
Lynde Dix, Horatio Alger, jr.: DR.
Harvey Wiley and Thorstein Veblen
I take issue with him. myself am
no specialist in historical obscurity
but I knew of Sam Adams and
Noah Webster when I was of the
age to read Onward and Upward
behind my geography, and I did not
have to come to Washington to
know that DR.. Wiley fought for
Pure Food. I don't know when ]
heard about Miss Dix-it was SC
long ago that I have forgotten
Thorstein Veblen, however, is a
later acquisition with me. I am not
making anything of it. Anybody
who wants my share of him can
have it-and welcome. Even so, ]
wouldn't exactly consider him in
the category of the "lost."
Mr.. Holbrook's book takes in doz-
ems more and there are many pic
turesque characters among them
It is good popular history, even il
its title does seem to be more de.
signed for selling than for &C
curacy.
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Europe Remains
Quite the Same
FERDINAND AND isabella
By Hermann KeSten. "A. A
WU1l. SRI

Wyn; $3.)
AS a historical novel, this work
suffers considerably from the violent
emotionalism of it's author. 1t pur-
ports to show us a portrait OF the
famous pair of sovereigns who
brought Spain to her age of great
ness. BY modern standards much
that the two wrought is held in low
esteem-the expulsion of the Jews,
the encouragement of the Inquisi-
ton. No one defends either of those
courses today, though. when one
views the recent conduct of allegedly
civilized European nations, one is
forced to conclude that. whatever
standards it may proclaim, Europe
remains the same. We have seen in
our time Jews expelled from coun-
try which had repudiated Chris
tianity. We have also seen political
imprisonments and purges which far
exceeded those carried out under the
Inquisitors. Nonetheless, Herman
Kesten, in depicting 18th century
Spain, rises to a state of hysterical
bitterness against Christianity as
a unique instrument of intolerance
He sweeps aside the claim made
by historians that Isabella, however
terrible her deeds, was conscien-
tiously convinced that she was
carrying out Gods will, and charges
that she used the Inquisition cyni-
cally. 1t is a point which might be
made, too. But Mr.. Kesten is too
heavy-handed for the making. He
seems to think that he alone has
the irony of persecution in
the name of God of Love and he
labors the obvious accordingly. His
novel has the eloquence of an out
ragged scream, but it does not have
the conviction of a work of litera-
tIIra
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Brief Reviews
RUSSIA

RUSSIA.
Glass House of Prejudice, by Dor
othy E. Baruch. (MorroW0 The
author warns us against disliking
people because of their race.
NOVELS.
Do I Wake or Sleep? by Isabel
Bolton. tScribners.) Novel of the
emotions of two women and a man
in New York just before the out
break of World War II. One o1
those tense things
Bullet Breed, by Leslie Ernenwein
| (McBride.) Western thriller.
High Pockets, by Herbert Shap-
piro. (McBride) Western thriller.
PSYCHOLOGY.
Hindu Psychology, by Swami Ak
hilananda. (Harper.) An effort te
present the tenets of Hindu psy.
chology to the lay Western reader
in a mature but at the same time
understandable manner.
Evening star., 1946-10-27
IMr. Mencken
Reports on
Religion
TREATISE ON THE GODS

By H. L. Menchen. REFUSED
and reDritten. (Knopt; $500
The first edition of this book
came out in 1880. 1t has had
nine printings since and now it
appears revised and rewritten,
with a new preface and much
new matter" 1t remains pretty
much the same old treatise
With what we may call his
Justly famous virtuosity of style
and scholarship, H. L. Mencken
celebrates the discovery which
customarily bursts on the citi-
zen of a questioning turn OF
mind in his undergraduate years
man invented religion; reli-
gion rests on mans faith; there
lis no absolute proof, then, that
mans faith is not misplaced.
And why does man hold to this
faith so tenaciously? Because,
says Mr.. Mencken, he Is afraid.
Religion is the old panacea
against forces which man can
not control.
There is, then, little in the
treatise which has not been said
before. Doctrinarily speaking
it is the case of the skeptic, bril-
liantly stated but arresting only
if one has not thought Of it
before, which surely is a condi-
ton that will apply to few peo-
pie. Historically speaking it is
a report on religions develop
ment from simple propitiation
to a moral code. In this aspect
lit offers much interesting mat
ter which the reader, left to
himself, would have to dig out
|of abstruse volumes on an
thropology and history. Mr..
Mencken, a mastery synthesizer
puts enough relevant matter
together to make a presentable
case.
SNlistically he'is more urbane
than has sometimes been his
wont. Those picturesque bursts
of verbal huorescence with
which, at his most character
lstic, he dramatizes his points,
are almost entirely lacking here.
For my own part I missed them.
The Sage, to me, is the peren-
NAL enfant terrible, not the
passing polished scholar. In his
own erstwhile phraseology I
always liked his bounce and
IgaudineSS,
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reFlcWcu NY ~
Leaving aside the controversial
political elements, the life Of Frank
lin D. Roosevelt is one of the most
inspirational human stories OF man
kind. Endowed with physical and
mental vigor considerably above the
average, he was cut down at the age
of 80 by infantile paralysis. Not
only was much less known about
that dread disease at that time
192D but he was likewise at a
time of life when most persons
would accept prospects Of invalidism
more easily than they would bring
themselves to supreme effort.
For Mr.. Roosevelt, however. the
tragedy was a challenge not only to
him personally but through him to
the medical profession. In 1924 he
wrote history of his own case and
his developing treatment Of it that
Admiral McIntire, author Of this
book, describes as lone OF the
famous case reports of medical his
tory" His subsequent achieve
ments in public life despite the
lingering handicap are too momen-
tous and well known to need re-
peating here.
A Notable Case History.
DR.. McIntire's intimate associa-
fior, u;fI Mr Poocevalt ho0or In
1882 when he was appointed per-
sonal physician to the President
elect. His book is something Of a
clinical history of his patient from
that date until Mr.. Roosevelt's
death in April, 1945. In large degree
it is q reiteration of his frequent
statements to the press with regard
to the Presidents health, docu-
mented in several instances by the
textual reports prepared by himself
and by consulting physicians.
1t establishes anew that the tre-
mendous physique of the Chief
Executive stood him in good stead
until such time as the crushing
burden of his duties as wartime
Commander in Chief prompted him
to neglect the repeated adyices Of
his physician to guard against over
fatigue. And even though signs Of
this toll became evident to Admiral
McIntire at the time of the Yalta
Conference in January-February,
1945, the doctor emphatically dis
putes all rumors that any organic
failing had set in at that period.
Fatigue, however, was cumulative In
its effect and after some tough
talking" to his patient the White
House physician sent the President
to Warm Springs In late March with
a promise that he would be a good
patient, neither playing hooky nor
running out on single rule" Early
reports from the Georgia retreat
were favorable and the very course
of events at that time bears out
Admiral McIntire's statement here
that there was no expectation or
warning of the cerebral hemorrhage
which caused the Presidents death
on April IL.
DR.. McIntire's recording Of his
White House term is told simply
and forthrightly. He held Mr..
Roosevelt in warmest regard and
quite obviously felt proper concern
at all times for the physical condi-
ton Of his patient. There is no
reason to believe from this book or
from the physicians earlier pro.
nouncements that he was overly
optimistic about the Presidents
health. In its frankness and OBJ
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A Clear and Sharply Revealing Picture
Of Franklin Roosevelt by His Doctor
WHITE HOUSE PHYSICIAN
Bu Vice admiral Ross T. McIntire.
(G. P. Putnan's Sons; S3J

reuieued by John C. HENRY.
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Continued on Page C-5)
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TheBiogrophy
Of Amozinq
SpirituuHst
PRIESTESS OF THE OCCULT:
MADAME BLAVATSKY

Il
MADAME BLAVATSKY
By Gertrude MarDin Williams
(Knopf;; $500
Most adults today have hearG
of Nine. Blavatsky but, think
1t is fair to assume, few, unless
they have made an appropriate
study, know anything definite
about her. She is name which
brings up associations of spirit
ualistic Seances and charges anc
countercharges of fraud. I have
come upon references which paio
tribute to her as a great per-
sonality," whatever that may
mean. But in the main to me
she was an association of table
rappings and cabinets, some
where in the pre-ectoplasm
period. I sat down to read hel
biography with genuine interest
1t is an amazing story. Ger
trude Marvin Williams is with
out reverence in her telling of it
She holds that the record shows
that Madame was a charlatar
from first to last. She allows
moreover, that Madame's char
latanry was of the crudest
variety. Against these facts
however, there stands the other
fact that Madame had a world
wide following and that today
IS years after her death, the in
credible woman is revered by a
numerically substantial group
the Theosophical Society. In the
early years of the present century
an effort was made by Annie
Besant to root Madame's name
and teachings out of the Society
doctrine. Today, however, the
members reject the Besant
"heresies" and subscribe to a
"back to Blavatsky'' movement
Charlatan or no, Madame made
her mark and that is beyond
any question.
OF Russian Nobility.
She was born in 1881, daughter
of a Russian family of noble con-
nections. At the age of II she
married Gen. Blavatsky, aged 40,
and almost Immediately deserted
him. For the next Is years little
is known of her history. She
wandered about Europe, lived for
a time with a well-knoWn opera
singer, bore an illegitimate child,
was reported as performing in a
circus and practiced as a very
small time medium in Cairo. Her
own accounts of these years are
altogether contradictory and in
later life she greatly resented
any effort to get at the facts of
the period.
In 1878 she came to New York
where she made drive for
publicity which was startling
even to case-hardened Ameri-
cans. She was then striving to
establish herself as a genuine
medium and no tactic was too
crude for her if only it got her
some notoreity. The press of
the period responded in a 1ocular
manner which would have been
intolerable to any woman not of
CONTINUED on Page C-5D
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"A Gold Mine
OF Mexican

MEXICO SOUTH
By NJ igu e !
IKnopt;: $780,

By Miguel CoUarrubias.
(Knopt; $780,
In this large volume, Miguel
Covarrubias undertakes to do
for one section of his native
Mexico pretty much what he did
for Bali in a preceding work.
The section Is the Isthmus of
Tehauntepec. Mr.. Covarrubias
reports on its geography, its
history, its resources, its people.
He illustrates his reportage with
many drawings. some paintings
which are reproduced in color
and a collection of photographs.
It all makes a rich mine of in
formation, clearly written and
easily read.
Historically, the work does not
represent any original theorizing
on the part of its author, but
merely sets down the findings of
other investigators. Most inter-
esting are the accounts of recent
archaeological discoveries on the
isthmus, many of them made
under the direction of Matthew
w. Stirling of the Smithsonian
Institution. These finds, Mr..
Covarrubias reports, have made
a new estimate of Mexico's pre-
Columbian history necessary
Unlike the historical sections,
those which deal with the pres
ent day lives of the Tehauntepec
Indians are clearly marked with
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Dr. Ross r. McIntire is s7own exchanging greetings
NTH President Roosevelt the grounds OF the Warm
Springs Foundation, the day of his appointment
Surgeon General of the Nauy oit the rank of rear ad
nra December l. 1888 At the left is the late Marun
McInture presidential secretary. -Ap Photo
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jectivity this book should stand as
one of the worthwhile contributions
to the written records of the life of
Franklin Roosevelt.