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to representative Latin American govern-
ments to cooperate with him in the pres-
ent Cuban situation.
Altho the preeldent did not go that
far, he might well have extended his Invi-
tation beyond diplomatic cooperation to
include military cooperation if necessary.
It is bad enough for any nation to in-
terfere in the affairs of another sovereign
nation at any time for any cause. But in-
ternational action of that kind often can
be justified. International action here
means Pan-American action.
This is no mere academic question. It
is this crux of the very practical and very
critical problem in Cuba today and in our -
entire Latin-American relations.
Seems To 1
1 SUBSCRIPTION RATES NIRA
By carrier per week 10c. or 4o per C
month. Single copr st newsstands and
from newsboys, 26. Mail rates on re-ecel
quest. Snoon
“Give Light and the People
Will Find Their Own Way"
A Thought for Today
TOR I will give you a mouth and wis-
T dom, which all your adversaries shall
not be able to gainsay nor resist.—St.
Luke 21:15.
The God, 0 men, seems to me to be
really wise; and by his oracle to mean
this, that the wisdom of this world is
foolishness and of none effect.—Plato.
HUEY’S NEW SHINER
THE shiner that an unknown wash-room
I hero pinned on the Hon. Huey Long’s
optie is not a patch to what the patron-
age bosses of his own party seem to be
preparing for him.
The other day at Milwaukee the
Kingfish was quoted as saying in his own
eharming, but wayward way that "They
ean take their patronage and go to hell
with it." Strangely they are taking him
at his word. So far the administration
has named five men to Louisiana federal
posts, and not one was an outspoken
Huey-man. One was assayer for the New
Orleans mint. If they didn’t go to hell
with this plum neither did they go to
Louisiana, for the appointee bailed from
far-off Utah.
In a week or so the administration
will name two appointees which the King-
fish doubtless would love to call his own.
One is federal district attorney, the other
collector of internal revenue. Our scouts
toll us that neither will be an ardent
partisan of the Gentleman from Louisiana.
Now, this is serious. A political boss,
if he's tough, can survive a punch in the
eye and efen come out of it a bit of a
hero. But show us a boss that gets glory
or anything out of being shoved from
under the plum tree by his own party.
NO SHORT CUTS
SENATOR COPELAND, Ignoring the Con-
D stitution and the police power vested
in the 41 states, urges a federal Scotland
Yard to combat the crime army.
Governor Alfalfa Bill Murray of Okla-
homa, New York grand jurymen and
others demand the return of the whipping
poet. Missouri has legalized the death
penalty for kidnapers, and Illinois fol-
lows suit by demanding that the abductors
of aged August Luer be sent to the chair.
Chicago embarks on the highly dan-
gerous course of sentencing its public
enemies on their general reputation and
imposing sentences of 199 years.
There is nothing new in all this in-
effective hysteria. Always when crime
becomes baffling unthinking people forget
the lessons of history and cry out for
more punishment, torture and death for
the criminals.
—Such reformers should—go-to London
Tower and other museums to see the
rack, wheel, thumb-screw, Spanish collar,
and similar discarded refinements of tor-
ture by which society used to try to scare
bad people into becoming good. They
never worked any better than the whip-
ping post or electric chair works today.
The road to crime abatement has no
short-cuts. When we drive out politics,
graft and inefficiency from our police
departments and courts, when we make
justice swift and certain, when we abol-
ish poverty, crime will become rare.
Treating the symptoms and ignoring the
causes will not cure the disease.
The government can not cure lawless-
ness by becoming lawless, nor society
cure crime by becoming savage.
FROM ONE WHO KNOWS
T)EOPLE always react to General Smed-
E ley Butler. They like him very much,
or hate him a lot. When he is not in
action, which is most of the time, he Is
usually talking. Sometimes he pontifi-
cates on subjects of which he is not mas-
ter and makes a fool of himself—not a
unique distinction among our great and
near-great. V
But if there is one thing bls bitter
critics and equally extreme admirers
would agree on, it to that he knows the
game of military intervention. He ought
to. Instead of "the Marines have landed
and have the situation in hand," it might
have been said during the last 30 years
that Butler had landed and bad the situa-
tion in band—in China, Haiti, Santo
Domingo, Cuba, Panama, Colombia, Mex-
ico, Honduras and Nicaragua.
He led the Marines—not only in
bravery, but also in being highhanded and
bard-belled.
Now the general gives us the low-
down. "I know that many of these ex-
peditions were nothing but collection
trips for the bad debts contracted by the
Wall Street bankers," he says. There is
nothing new in that. But it is news com-
ing from the commanding officer who has
done more intervening for imperialism
than any Marine alive or dead. And,
speaking of courage, it probably required
more bravery for the general to make
that statement than to win the many
medals he neglects to wear.
Butler now opposes future American
intervention of the old type. He has found
a better way. He explains:
"1 certainly hope that it will never
again be necessary to land American
sailors and marines in a soverign coun-
try on this side of the world. But if it
becomes necessary to preserve law and
order, then 1 think the president of the
United States should ask several of the
Central and South American republics to
cooperate In the expedition by contribu-
ting warships and men. That would re-
move any stigma that intervention was
BLUE EAGLE PRICES
THE Agricultural Adjustment Adminis-
I tration is ready to go to "consider-
able lengths to prevent" price-gouging.
This declaration should hearten consumers
who are asked from all sides to "Buy
Now!” as a part of the recovery cam-
paign.
If consumers know that the federal
government is ready to exercise its great
powers to stop profiteering they will
naturally be more ready to spend their *
dollars. .
Profiteering is a two-edged sword.
Prices that are unreasonably high drive
away purchasers; less buying means lower
industrial and farm prices. Enlightened
selfishness dictates that the Agricultural
Adjustment Administration, whose task
is to raise farm prices, sees that con-
sumption is not decreased by profiteering.
This price question is a controlling
one in the present effort to raise mass
purchasing power.
N. R. A. officials have appealed to
manufacturers to hold off price increases
as long as possible. Triple A officials
say they will countenance only fair in-
creases. In this situation it Is the house-
wife, naturally, who holds the big stick.
She is the biggest buyer; she knows when
prices are rising. She will be advised by
Consumers' Counsel of N. R. A. and
Triple A, when price increases are un-
reasonable.
Her complaints, if any, will get a
hearing in Washington. Guarding her-
self, she helps guard her fellow con-
sumers and the producers of the things
she buys.
And in protecting her, the government
is helping the farmers, the industrialists
and their workers, and fair competitors
who are living up to the spirit of the
Blue Eagle.
Heywood Broun
(Copyright, 1933, for The Fort Worth Press).
TIM a sucker for parades.
A That is a weakness, because march-
men may seduce the spectator out of all
reasonableness into, an enthusiasm for
wretched things and tragic consequences.
---------------------I admit all that. I can
, be seduced.
cooiii When bands go by
1 and blare I weep
mnil copiously. It happens
even when the proces-
JIMCY sion is promoting
. something which I op-
aftt pose on some net re-
• suit concerning which
uS I am positively neu-
‘ tral.
Who, What and Why In
Washington
By S. H. BURROW
Four-Headed Monster
(ENERAL JOHNSON is playing with
U the idea of abolishing N.R.A. after the
whole country is coded, probably this
winter, and turning the administration of
the act over to the Labor and Commerce
Departments, and the policing over to the
Justice Department and the Federal Trade
Commission.
Critics of the plan, and there are
many, claim that the setup would be a
four-headed monster which wouldn't know
which way to turn. Commerce Secretary
Roper and Labor Secretary Perkins, they
say, aren’t good teammates, anyway.
This proposal and Budgeteer Lew
Douglas, together with some internal
disturbances, are causing much unrest
among the 1100 N.R.A. employes.
There is a general "What the deuce”
attitude among the N.R.A.ers, especially
since Douglas sent two investigators, a
man and a woman, around the fourth
floor of the Commerce mausoleum to ask
every one what they did with their time,
it happens that nearly every one of them
has been working from 10 to 20 hours
a day, and to have efficiency experts come
around and check up on college degrees,
proficiency, etc., is disturbing. The
N.R.A., like any emergency setup which
is running a revolution, is wasteful. But
so far it has run on enthusiasm, and the
insiders are accusing Lew's experts of
draining the last gas-tank. '
Pass the Scriptures, Please
THE religious frenzy of Johnson, Rich-
1 berg and the rest of the N.R.A. outfit
in promoting their cause has broken out
repeatedly in Johnson's language. The
General is a lawyer and a soldier, and his
father was a lawyer, but some of his
speeches sound like sermons. His two
high points to date are: (1) a crack at
a press conference, known now as "the
chalice remark," expressing hope that
"that cup will pass from me,” in regard
to a particularly difficult job, and (2)
his recent allusion, in referring to the
resignation of one of his officials, to the
fact that even the Lord lost one out of 12,
The General’s speech Labor Day also
created wide gossip. He departed from
his prepared text, listeners say, to go
down the line of his setup to praise all
his chief aides, Richberg, Green, Wolman,
Stettinius, Lewis, McGrady, etc., giving
each a brief tribute. As to John Lewis
of the mine workers he uttered this
cryptic comment: "Whenever I see him I
say, there but for the grace of God goes
John Bunyan.” As to Don Richberg, gen-
erally regarded as No. 2 N.R.A. man, or
better, on policy, Johnson remarked that
he knew a lot of lawyers and that Rich-
berg was to him a "justice of the Su-
preme Court." Some wonder if Johnson
was giving F.D.R. a hint.
KA Once in watching
) Elks on parade I
Peel found myself all
choked up. There was
aonnia no good excuse. If
— ------------there is anything con-
Broun . earning which I am
wholly dispassionate it is the Elks. I feel
the same way about Shriners and Odd
Fellows. I wouldn’t mind if my sister
married one, and it would leave me equal-
ly cold if she didn’t.
I Had a Grand Time
THIS long preamble is a necessary pref-
A ace to the statement that,, in my
opinion, New York's NRA parade was the
most exciting thing which has happened
in the big city since the morning of the
premature armistice. In between comes
Lindbergh’s return.
A band played "Sall Navy Down the
Field” and a sign announced that some-
body's installment furniture house was
doing its part, and I found myself sud-
denly at 52nd St. and Fifth Ave. crying
my heart out.
Naturally, I asked myself just what
sort of a fool I might be. And after
thinking it over I decided that what I felt
was wholly justified.
I am aware of the fact that the big
show must have represented a great deal
of mean coercion in many shops. And yet
I think the net result was swell. After
the last brigade had swung by shortly be-
fore midnight, nine of us had an argu-
ment. I found myself surrounded by in-
tellectuals who said—"Don't be a little
more screwy than usual. This was the
bosses' show.. You don't think all those
people got out on their own, do you?
Don’t be naive, Heywood.”
A Swig to the Swatted
TF IT is true that the whole impetus
A came from- the top, then the sitting-
pretty classes are greater fools than I took
them for, which is a fairly large order.
When 250,000 people begin to march they
are going to get somewhere. And when
a million watches, notions vague but very
heady begin to operate.
When ten, or twenty, or 200,000 fall
into step and come striding down the
avenue, that old devil rugged individual-
ism scampers back into his crack in the
woodwork. Nobody could look at them
as they came by—the butchers, bakers
and candlestick makers—without feeling
"Here is power." They could have tramp-
led down walled cities and smashed a way
thru jungle tangles.
All the people who take things Into
their hands and fashion them. Those who
build towers. Those who build railroads.
Those who made them run. Swinging
down Fifth Ave. like water over a dam.
Water seeks its own level, and so must
those who make the things by which man
lives. Somebody will have to love the
common people because there are so many
of them.
You Can Change Human Nature
Thinks Welfare Orders Should Be in Cash
_______WHAT OUR READERS SAY-
Editor. The Press:
I notice thru the preee that Dr.
Flickwir who has recently been ap-
pointed director of the welfare
along with his many other offices,
is insisting thst no cash be given
on welfare orders. It strikes me
that this is autocratic.
In the case of a family where
there are young babies needing
A NY bets? It has succeeded. This Is
A not a matter of figures and graphs ______, _
and charts. Very possibly NRA is no more Attention I
than the first feeble flutter. It isn’t
Utopia. Not by a long shot But from the
northwest corner of 52nd St. and Fifth
Ave. It looked to me very much like Man-
hattan Transfer.
Ahead are the banners and the bugles.
And we are all marching, marching away.
The swing of the rhythm has caught us
up. Lay on! And damned be anybody
who first cries, "Hold, enough!"
---— AS ONE WOMAN BEES IT -----
Chastity and Hunger
By MRS WALTER FERGUSON
TT is by no means true that the protected
1 girl is always a good girl, but we can
not ignore the fact that the one who is
forlorn and hungry finds it harder to be
Mrs. Ferguson
good than she who is
well fed and decently
housed. ’
In spite of this, how-
ever, our welfare socie-
ties keep repeating that
thousands of young
women are now tramp-
ing the national high-
ways, subjected to the
temptations that such a
life is certain to offer.
If they came unscathed
out of this fiery furnace,
they can indeed qualify
as feminine Daniels,
paragons of strength
and courage.
This condition, more
The Daily Nosegay
Hon. James E. Ferguson,
Governor of Texas, de facto,
Austin, Texas.
Dear Jim:
I see that functions Investigatory
Occupy the House and the Senate too.
You're not in the picture, at least for
the present,
But/ you might as well smooth down
your hair and look pleasant,
For sooner or later they'll swing the
spotlight on you.
Whenever you're round, with your ear
to the ground,
As is your politically profitable habit.
Your pose gives a chance to blister
your pants,
And I fully expect there are those who
will grab it.
Yours, etc.,
LESTER, (Just call me Les).
than any other phase of the disastrous
depression, will prove the costliest in the
long run, because the welfare of a na-
tion depends largely upon the virtues of
its women and the integrity of its men.
Nor can the one long survive without
its complement. When men have little
integrity, women usually lack chastity
of body and nobility of mind.
• • •
OR the past four years, starvation
P wages have been doled out to women
and girls and in a good many instances, by
men who regard themselves as upright
leaders of their communities. But I say
to you that they are the very fountain-
heads of vice. The employer who can af-
ford and yet does not pay a living wage;
the housewife who hoards her funds to
adorn herself while her servants are un-
derpaid and without comforts, are both
assistants to Satan and promoters of vice.
The fact is that economics and re-
ligion are Siamese twins, a truth too
often overlooked by our most excellent
people. No country can be said to be
either civilized or Christian so long as a
larger per cent of its worthy citizens are .
jobless and in want. The church falls
in its highest duty when it neglects to in-
corporate this doctrine into its teachings.
When the morale is low, men make poor
citizens, and women have ever found it
impossible to live on a good reputation
alone. ,
fresh milk every day, just how can
that be had without a little ready
cash? Again, in caae the milk is
to be had, a small piece of ice will
be necessary to keep it fresh. Just
how is thst to be had without cash
or an order on the ice company?
The men on "made work” as-
signments put in eight hours a day
at hard labor and receive a grocery
order for two dollars each day
worked.
I should also like to stats that
Mr. Harry Hopkins, national relief
director, has come out openly
against paying the men in groceries.
Hs recently said: "I think it is ab-
surd to ask a man to go out and
do a day's work and then hand him
a grocery order. He's been buy-
ing food for over 20 years—has hs
changed over night so he Is not
competent?"
I believe the unemployed or-
ganizations should band together
and protest this ruling to the na-
tional body and I am sure they
will receive relief from such a
ruling.
THOS. B. BURNS. Sec.,
Socialist Party Local, Ft. Worth,
1020 8. Lake, St.
memorate the visit of the Zeppelin.
Some of the stamps will be used on
mail placed on the dirigible after
it arrives in the U. 8.
Those who want to send letters
to Germany or Brazil, to be mailed
backed via the Graf, may write to
F. W. Von Meister, 354 4th Ave,
New York City. He is the Amer-
ican representative of Lufoschiff-
bon Zeppelin, G. M. B. H.
This trip should be of great In-
terest to all stamp collectors in
the U. 8
J. E BRADLEY.
Justin, Tex.
Asks Amendment
Of Home Loan Act
Editor, The Press:
A major portion of all real sotate
in Texas la subject to foreclosure
because of various obligations rest-
ing against it, dus or past due.
A large per cent of said real
estate consists of homes or home-
steads.
The American home to the major
hope of the state, church, and so-
Thinks Police Should '
Be Courteous
Editor. The Press:
It would truly seem since public
officials are paid thru taxation,
that those who are appointed to
fill these offices should act with
common courtesy and decency in
the time of emergency toward the
party at fault, as well as ths party
offended. -
What Cuba * * * needs
is a greater degree of
mass prosperity.
----By M. * TRAOY_____
CUBA’S trouble is chronic rath-
V er than acute. The aggra-
vated by depression, the restless-
nose and discontent from which
it springa are bound up with the
poverty and inexperience which
the island has not been able to
overcome.
It takes years if not centuries
of popular education to fit people
for self-government, and it takes
mass prosperity to support pop-
ular education.
Democracy can not be imposed
from above or the outside. Ex-
cept it growe naturally from the
bottom, it is bound to fall. We
had democracy in our towns and
villages long before we had It on
a national scale. Our forefathers
had been trained in It for genera-
tions before this republic was es-
tablished.
That is not true of the people
of Cuba or any other Latin-
American country. They had
not been permitted to practice
democracy under Spanish rule, aa
our ancestors were under British
rule. They know nothing about
the privileges and responsibilities
of self-government from a com-
munity standpoint
CUBA was changed from a
U Spanish province to an inde-
pendent republic overnight Her
difficulties were not lessened by
the shadow of American Interfer-
ence. Her successful administra-
tions have been more or lees
despotic.
Russian leaders were wise in
not trusting mass rule under
quite similar circumstances. They
could not have done what they
have if they had.
Democracy requires something
more than paper constitutions.
We do wrong in assuming that
people who have served no sp
prenticeship In popular govern-
ment can adopt our system sue-
cessfully, or that the violence by
which they often change admin-
istrations means what it would
here.
Machine Qu
Press Co
At Okla
Stamp Collectors.
Editor, The Press:
I just received word today from
New York that the Graf Zeppelin
is to visit the Century of Progress
in Chicago in October. Word was
sent to me by a syndicate that
handles the mail for stamp collec-
tors and as I am an amateur stamp
collector and have a few covers
from former Graf Zeppelin trips,
they sent me rates and schedules
of the trips.
The Graf leaves Friedrichsafen,
Germany, Oct. 14; arrives at Rio
De Janerio the 19; arrives in Mia-
mi, 23; Akron, Ohio, 24; Chicago,
25: In Akron once again, 26: Se-
villa, Spain, 30; and back to Fried-
richshafen 11.
The U. 8. Postmaster General
has authorized the issue of a spe-
cial SO cent air mail stamp to com-
ciety.
The Home Loan Act Is falling to
bring any effective measure of re-
lief to homesteads encumbered with
debt, and threatened by creditors
with foreclosure.
Creditors are refusing to accept
the so-called federal bonds offered
to creditors in lieu of mortgages on
homesteads held by creditors be-
cause of their unsalability and low
rate of Intereat.
The 40 per cent in cash of the
present appraisal value of these
homes, offered the distressed home —
owners by ths Federal government •
is not sufficient to meet the Indebt-
The people who violate traffic
rules are not criminals In the true
sense of the word and should not
be treated as such. The every day
citizen should have justice at the
hands of the law.
I have reference to the police
force.- It has always been a well
known fact that a man in uniform
has considered himself a little su-
perior. In the daily papers If a
member of the force is at fault in
the public’s eye, he is upheld to
the last degree by the lieutenants
and captains. Perhaps they too
need a lesson in the courtesy of law
enforcement.
1 liked the story In last week's
Press in regard to the visitor at
the Worth Hotel. These instances
happen many times and the man
in question is usually put behind
the bars or made to pay a fine
I would like to say that law must
be enforced but we should demand
a courteous, efficient, and respec-
table corps.
to
• S •
WHAT Cuba and all other
W Latin-American countries
need as a basis for improved gov-
ernment, and what we could help
them to get, is a greater degree
of mass prosperity.
Their immediate problem to
economic rather than political.
They need markets more than
they need intervention, need the
implements, methods and knowi
edge of modern life. Without
these, modern government is Im-
possible.
Our attitude toward Latin-
America and especially toward
Cuba, has been more meddlesome
then helpful. We have been far
readier to spend money on ex-
peditions than for improvements.
ELIZABETH TRAMELL.
Fort Worth.
This Is Life
Ask The Press
You can get an answer to any an-
swerable question of fact by writing
to Frederick M Kerby Question Mi-
ter. Fort Worth. Pro’s Washington
Bureau. 1322 New York Avenue. Wash,
inston, D C.. enclosing three cents in
stamps for reply Medical and legal
advice cannot be Eivep.
A Only marimber .
Q. What is a marl?
A. A deposit of a certain Mas of elee
and sand in various proportion.
Q. Which countries of the
world have the largest active
armies?
(Starts
army rifles an
guns. Most of
bad pistols in tl
With Marsha
back to the hol
shal rapped on
hold-over ante-
opened by a De
tice agent. All
identified we we
to the barred d
into the long
which held but
Bailey and Bate
up with them
guard from the
Justice.
Bates lay on
door, his face
with his arms <
Concerned Ab
Bailey, dresse
derwear. was on
end of the roon
When be was
sound sleep yes
secret removal
jail, he had a
grouch. He cu
Herron when th
| clothes for the
| weeks and heli
The clothes wer
I shoes Bailey w
caped from the
"I won't wea
court," Bailey
have to take m
they don't ;
clothes.”
Bailey’s attori
corn over his cll
pearance but be
anything about
Bailey Gre
Further conce
pearance was
Bailey when he
and inquired, "C
comb before I
merely grunted
As Bailey am
ed by 25 officer
of their county
turned to R. G.
mon Shannon, a
$200,000 ransoi
sald with a smil
China."
The Shannon
federal building
heavily armed g
uty Sheriff Bill
none bad been 1
jail.
Besides the
building, the st
patrolled by wa
handle any ana
strange arrive
against another
such as that in
cently. Bailey,
a suspect in tha
No detail to
livery or massac
looked.
The tower of
ing, bristling
court room snd
for the notorloi
By JAC* MAX WELL-------------A. China.Ruin,”n4rAn
edness on these homes.
Therefore, the Home Owners As-
sociation of Fort Worth has resolv.
sd to petition our Federal govern-
ment to recall the Home Loan Act
and amend it so as to make sale-
able the bonds offered creditors for
these home mortgagee, and also
make available cash for 50 per cent
of them, and saleable bonds for 10
per cent. We are told that this
will be acceptable to building and
loan companies, land loan banks,
and other creditors.
We individually and collectively
protest all homestead foreclosures
at this time, and until this depres-
sion passes, and, where necessary,
appeal to the courts to stay threat-
ened foreclosures.
HOME OWNERS ASSOCIATION,
J. W. Newsom, Secy.-Treas.
SIDE GLANCES — By George Clark
save
“But we sent presents for her first four babies. We
can’t just stop now.”
ITELLO, and howdy-do!
The other day 1 read the fol-
lowing: “No one can tell another
what is RIGHT: or just HOW to
play the Game of Life."
Well, maybe not: I cannot say.
However, 1 sometimes think (all of
which la WHT !'m afraid of squir-
rels) mankind la too prone to hand
out unsolicited advice concerning
everything, from why It takes a
han 21 days to hatch an egg (may-
be Ita' a chick), to why a bullfrog
haa gotta sit down every time he
makes a JUMP.
Q. In what division of states is
Kentucky included in the U. S.
census?
A East South Central.
• ••
Q. Who was author of the quo-
tation: "What you are speaks so
loud I cannot bear what you
say?”
A Ralph Waldo Emerson.
• • •
Q. Is flint a variety of quarts*
SECOND
PERIL
Downpours ii
New Cres
To Rio
By United Press.
M’ALLEN,
-------------------- BOOK REVIEWS -------------
Bradford Writes Lovely Novel
_ By BRUCK CATTON----------
"TZINGDOM COMING," by Ro-
liark Bradford, is one of ths
most appealing and completely
beautiful novels written about the
Civil War.
The story begins more than a
decade before the war, when Mes-
senger, negro slave. Crimp, bis
wife, and Telegram, their little
son, are being transferred from
their owner's New Orleans home
to his Red River plantation. It
is Telegram’s growing awareness
and understanding of the life
about him that gives us our pic-
ture of slave life. -
It was an odd life, hard to
characterize in a few words; by
turna brutal and kindly, heedless
and thoughtful, a tapestry of sun-
light, melody and laughter on a
background of resigned misery.
All the slaves dream of free-
dom; some try ths underground
railway at the risk of their necks;
others, buying their freedom out
of their savings, stay right on the
plantailion.
Andeanderneath it all is the un-
spoken conviction that real free-
dom only come with death
when a slack coachman can drive
God’s carriage down golden
streets and the earth’s disinherit-
ed enter ueir kingdom beyond
the sky. 1
This conv
the war com
quite believe
ion remains when
1 The slaves never
at the men in blue
are going to fuse them. Freedom
is a dream, substance of
things not seencht It can’t come
on this earth. The old planta-
tion life is broken up; that the
freedom which follows northern
triumph is only a mockery does
not surprise these Negroes. Their
deepest belief is that to find their
lives they must lose them.
It is a long time (since I have
read so tenderly and sympathet-
ically lovely a book as this. To
my notion it might (well be the
1938 Pulitzer novel. 1
Harpers is the publisher; the
price is $2.50. -
"WONDER HERO," by J. A.
” Priestley, is a gay and sa-
tiric comedy—blit it baa a savage
bite in it, down toward the bot-
tom of the glr 4
It has to 4o with a young me-
chanic in an English factory whs
gets cav,ht up in the frenzied
publicity machine of yellow jour,
nalisr..
There is a fire in the factory
where this lad works, and thru
an odd little mistake he emerges
as the hero of the occasion. A
London newspaper, addicted to
“stunts,” immediately makes a
national hero out of him. Be la
Uken to the metropolis, given a
check for SOO pounda, wined ana
dined, put into the newsreels, led
up to the microphone in a broad,
casting studio—and, in abort,
thrust into the limelight in every
way possible.
Naturally, there is no sense to
any of this, and the young man
has a lever enough head to real.
Ise it perfectly well. Presently
chance yanks him out of London
and takes him to a manufactur-
ing town in the midlands; and
there he gets a look at the ob-
versa side of the shield.
This town has been ruined by
the depression. It contains thou-
sands of skilled workmen who
have not had jobs for five years
and probably never will have any
again; factories that are eternal-
ly still; young men who have
never worked for wages in their
lives. In this town there is the
extreme of hopeless poverty; in
London there was a spendthrift
madness which . could spend a
small fortune making a herd of a
chap who didn't really deserve it.
And Mr. Priestley suggests
that a society which presents
these extremes is fundamentally
so cock-eyed that it is almost be-
yond hope. ,
The book is offsred by Harpers
for $2.50.
now flood was
Lower Rio Grai
day.
The Rio Gra
tary, the San Ji
ing after torren
ico. The down
the wake of a
dipped down or
ico, and then
the mountains t
At Rio Grand
Juncture of ths
San Juan, the rl
25.2 feet, a rise
during Sunday,
crest had not
Grande when
made. Aldama
City are about :
it was expected
crest would rea
at mid-day.
River engine
able-bodied me
and floodways,
probably equal
week, it was sal
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