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The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning:, October 25, 1936 -jr.- ! ; . ovel Pathways' of Tlioiiiglit Imvilte Tlbroinglli. Feature JLes PAGE SIX A A Artie Large Primitive Area Established 2900 Square Mile Portion of Idaho and Montana Will Remain Wild' By VERN H AUG LAND j . SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 24.-JF The forest service carved 2900 square miles oat the heart -of the wildest west thi3 summer to keep it forever wild. Sprawled along the top of the continent in Montana and Idaho, a wilderness area larger than the state of Delaware was set aside as a permanent primitive region. The new sector doubles the ex panse of the Montana-Idaho prim itive areas to give them a size of 3,360,000 acres or 5250 square miles greater than the area of Connecticut. ; Embracing 1,870,000 acres, the new primitive area extends from western Montana's magnificent Bitterroot mountains into the re mote Lochsa-Selway-Salmon re gion of north central Idaho, Ma jor Evan W. Kelley of Missoula, Mont., northern Rocky mountain regional forester, announced. It includes parts of the Bitter root, Nez . Perce, Clearwater and Lolo national forests but excludes the highly mineralized sections of the Salmon mountains within the Nei Perce forest. Game Plentiful Nowhere in the nation, within an area of equal size, are the va riety and numbers of big game ex ceeded. Major Kelley said. The rugged forest-clad region Is popu- lated by thousands of deer and -elk, by many bear, moose; moun tain goats. Big Horn sheep, cou gars, coyotes and, though their number has been depleted by trapping, numerous beaver, mint and otter. , i - Streams are well stocked with trout. Bird life abounds. So that the region may remain forever in its natural state, only a mini mum f forest trails has been cut those needed for fire protec tion. A modern touch is the con struction of three fire-control landing fields at strategic points in otherwise Inaccessible centers. The forest service is determined to protect the area not only from civilization' hut from destruction by fire. AH visitors to the area will travel by horsebacks packtrain or on foot. A patchwork of moun tain valleys, timbered buttes and knife-like ridges, at altitudes from 3000 to 10,000 feet, the vast, lonely area also has much his toric interest. Lewis, Clark First Lewis and Clark were the first white men to penetrate the re eion Tracers for the Hudson's Rav comnanv followed within a4 few years. After them, to and from the roaring gold camps of . Montana. came miners, road agents and vigilantes along the glamorous old Nez Perce trail. A rich field for the study of botany, dendrology, biology and geology, the area will serve the scientists as well as the sports man and outdoor enthusiast, for est officials said. Tourists who decline to leave "civilization" will be able to get an outsider's view along two high ways.'now under construction, which will skirt the region toe Lewis and Clark highway along the Lochsa river on the north and a Salmon river road on the southern boundary. In Montana a modern highway through the apple orchards of the Bitter Root valley provides a It Can't Happen Here" By SINCLAIR LEWIS (Continued from page 4) him Doremus knew nothiag save . that he was not named Bailey. "Morning," snapped Mr. Cail ey whose name was Elphrey, if Doremus guessed rightly, and who was the son of a millionaire private banker, the brother of one explorer, one bishop's wife, and one countess, and himself a former teacher of economics in the University of California. Doremus tried to explain him self to", these harH-eyed, quick glancing plotters of ruin. "Are you " willing to become a Party member, in the extremes ly probable case that they accept you, and to take orders, any or ders, without question?" asked Elphrey, so suavely. "Do you mean. Am I willing to kill and steal?" "You've been reading detective stories about the 'Reds'! No. What you'd have Jo do would be much more difficult than the amusement of using a .tommy gun. Would you be willing to forget you ever were a respect ' able newspaper editor, giving or ders, and walk through the snow, dressed like a bum, to distribute seditious pamphlets e v e n if. personally,, you should believe the pamphlets were of no slight est damn good to the Cause?" "Why, I Idon't know. Seems to me that as a newspaper man like Trowbridge, that are doing of quite a Httle training " "Hell! Our only trouble is keeping out the 'trained news papermen'! What we need is trained bill-posters that like the smell of flour paste and hate sleeping. And but you're a lit tle old for thi3 crary fanatics that go oat and start strikes, knowing they'll get beaten up and thrown -In the bull pen." "No, I guess I Look here. I'm ' sure Walt Trowbridge will be Joining up with the Socialists and some of the left-wing radical ex-Senators and the Farmer- Lab orites and so on Bill Atterbury guffawed. It was . a tremendous, somehow terrifying - blast. "Yes, I'm sure they'll join up all .the dirty, sneaking, half headed, reformist Social Fascists the work of - the capitalists and working for war against Soviet Sage of Salem Sb eculafces By D. H. ONE DAY'S HEADLINES Nineteen men drowned in Lake Erie. S Twenty-five die E urope Quake; i Spokane woman, of life weary. Suicides in Portland lake. -' ' . I 1 -;. "Baby left by worried mother "Mother leaves, does not come -back; 1 Four men, killed somehow or other. 1 Piled up in Nevada shack. Six killed on Ohio crossing Anto on train's right of way; From a ship, on wild waves toss ing. I Dead consigned to Depoe Bay. ! And an item, somewhat tearful Good friend gone on Death's long cruise; Sometimes makes one right on cheerful V -To glance o'er the dally news. But "days differ one from an other, and we accept some days cheerfully, which, were there ne gloomier days with which to com pare them, would make us miser able. And it Is due to this. I think, that most of us find in life more brightness than gloom. An Oregon doctor says the com mon pain in the neck is due to the sinuses. Mebby some of it is, but I suspect opposition campaign speeches have something to do with it. I said chirpingly to Cud Curdle one day this week that we'd had a lovely fall, and Cud said yeah. Rome had one, too. Grouch! We must overlook many things during the final days of a presi dential campaign. It will soon be over, thank goodness, and the ab normal ones will get back to nor mal and the normal ones will be come happily abnormal again. By the way of a news Item-of general interest, it may be stated that Judge L. H. McMahan attain ed the age of 70 last Friday, Octo ber 16. i - A Sunday paper last week car ried a story under the heading, "What Will the World Be a Mil lion Years Hence?" Didn't read it. Flggered it! was some sort of political propaganda. LIVES AND PINE TREES Lives are like pine trees, straight and tall. Tiny' shoots of hope and faith spring forth for men; little branches and roots for the tree. splendid view i of the primitive area's mountainous eastern bor der. Other primitive areas in the Montana-Idaho region: Absaroka, 64,000 acres; Beartooth, 230,000 acres; Cabinet mountains. 119, 000 acres; Mission mountains, 67.000 acres; Pentagon, 95,000 acres; south fork of the Flathead. 625.000 acres; Spanish peaks. 50,000 acres; Sun river, 240,000 acres. Russia without; even having sense enough to know : they're doing it and to collect good pay for thjjir crookedness!" (is "I admire Trowbridge!" snarl ed Doremus. I i "You would?" -Elphrey rose, almost cordial, and dismissed! Doremus with, "Mr. Jessup, I was brought up in a sound -bourgeois household ' myself, unlike these two rough necks, and I appreciate what you're trying to do, even if they don't. I image that your rejec tion to us is ieven firmer than our rejection of you!" "Dot's right,' Comrade Elphrey. Both you and dis fellow got ants in your bourjui pants, like your Hugh Johnson vould say!" chuck led the Russian Mr. Bailey. "But I Just wonder if Walt Trowbridge won't be chasing out Buzz Windrip while you boys are still arguing about whether Com rade Trotzky was once guilty of saying mass facing, the north? Good-day!" said Doremus. -. When he recounted it to Jul ian, two days ! later, and Julian puszled, "I - wonder whether you won or they did?" Doremus as serted. "I don't think anybody Won except the ants! Anyway, now I know that man is not to be saved by black bread alone but by everything that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord our God . . 4 Communists, in tense and narrow; Yankees, tol erant and shallow; no wonder a Dictator can keep us separate and all working for him!" Even in the. 1930 s, when it was radiantly believed that mov ies and the motorcar and glossy magazines ' had ended the pro vinciality of all the larger Am erican villages.) in such commun ities as Fort Beulah all the re tired business men who could not afford to go to E urope cr Florida or California, such as Doremus, were las aimless as an old dog on Sunday ! afternoon with the family, away. They poked uptown to the shops, the hotel lobbies, the railway station, and at the barber shop were pleased rather than irritated when they had to wait a quarter-hour tor the tri-weekly share. (To Be Continued) v TALMADGE And as time goes on, after we have both absorbed the sunshine, the bleakness and the glory of life and weather, both lives and pines become gnarled and bent. : Then life for them both is done! Pines are cut for firewood. The good pieces are separated from the knots, and are used first. Then the knots are painfully split and burned. The tree has returned to its original elements. ; But what happens to lives? Are hthe knots of our lives separated from the good pieces? Are the knots the little deceptions, the heartbreaks, the temper uncon trolled and nnconquered? Who knows? Maybe God. Anyway, pine knots burning make a lovely smell! - BERYL GRACE, Salem. - When Alderman Harry Olinger stated at a meeting of the city council Monday night that the toots and puffings of locomotives are music to his ears he started a discussion. Or, perhaps, not so much a discussion as an expression of likes and dislikes. Some of us are In accord with Dr. Olinger in the matter and some of us are not. Alice Brady says in "Lady Tubbs" there is no music quite so sweet as that made by a railway loco motive at night, and Edna St. Vin cent Millay has written "All night there isn't a train goes by. t Though the night is still for sleep and dreaming. But I' see its cinders red on the sky. And hear its engine steaming. My heart is warm with the friends I make. And better friends I'll not be knowing. Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take. No matter where it's going." The manager of a hotel in an Iowa city, which hotel was loca ted very near a railway passen ger station, once told me that less than five percent of his guests complained of the noises madeeby trains and by switch engines be tween trains. Just another case of if you do you do and if you don't you don't. Scandalous report promulgated by New York papers: Professional performers are being hired to till out amateur hour programs. LOVE POEM I love thee, dear one! Clasp me close, And shield me from the winds that fain would hurt! Cool days have begun. So clasp close But not too close, O winter under shirt! "A small deposit will hold any article until Christmas". Sign in Salem Hardware Co. window. Time gallops on! Imagination is a fancy or in vention of the mind, and worry is Imagination with a stomachache. It is not much of an exaggera tion to say that Tom Davies, on State street between High and Church, is a humanitarian. He has a place by the side of the road and is a friend to man, pretty well in keeping with Sam Walter Foss's Idea. (By the way, I wonder whe ther or not Mr. Foss ever got any further along on the way to his idyllic house by the side of the road than in writing of the poem?) Among Tom's other manifesta tions of friendship ; is a radio, which at this season of this par ticular year nightly gives out the efforts of the leading political spellbinders and great men of the nation. You simply stand on the sidewalk and take it as it comes out, and sometimes you get one thing and sometimes you get an other, and nobody is asking you to stick around if you don't like the flavor of what happens to be served when you happen to be there. A few days ago a party of men were standing there listen ing to General Johnson, who had been announced for a speech on behalf of the administration.' and after a time the men went into a huddle with a view of determining what administration the general was giving a speech on behalf of, but they didn't arrive at any very satisfactory conclusion. The gen eral is a fiery orator red fire and white fire and blue fire, with an occasional burst of backfire. and he is.the nearest approach to the old time political ripsnorter now on the so-called stump. A select party, most of whom were fairly familiar with English history, saw Wednesday night thanks to Manager Lewis of the State theatre the much talked of Gaumont-British film, "Nine Days a Queen." originally released un der the title of "Lady Jane Gray". There were those in the party who had no hesitation in declaring at the conclusion of the showing that the film was the most satisfying historica feature they had ever seen, and was, furthermore, thor oughly entertaining. It fills us with a sense of something like shame that we have complained of present-day political methods when we are shown what was go ing on In England during the pe riod covered by this picture. ' 20th Century-Fox ia now send ing out stars in showers it seems. "Ladies in Love", shown' at the Grand during the week, has on its cast of talent, Janet Gaynor. Con stance Bennett. Loretta -Young and Simone Simon. Tug Tump says he hadn't saw so many stars all at I once since he fell off the windmUl. I Which was quite a good quip, and ; aroused a great laugh from Tug. Seriously, "Ladies in Love" is good" entertainment. Defining the word "vital", a Sa lem boy says it's something a but ton oft your coat ain't and a hut- ton .off your pants is. Smart boy. Many changes have been made in Salem buildings in recent veara. but there is none of a more strik ing character than the front at the Grand theatre, Just completed, Dramatic Qub Is Formed at Turner TURNER. Oct. 24. Turner high school activities were sup plemented Thursday by the or. ganization of a dramatic clnb and orchestra. Arrangements were also made for the customary fall car nival to be held Nov. 20. Pro gram committee: Jannita Parrent, Ernest McCully, Aleta Bones, Eu gene Harrison and Mrs. Edna Al len, teacher. Business manager, Geneva Barber; advertising, Fran ces Clark. . The dramatic club held Its first meeting and elected officers: president, Leland Greenlee; vice president, Varnal Denhem; secretary-treasurer. La Verne White head; stage manager. Keith Ball; business manager, Dorothy Mc Cully; advertising, Aleta Bones and Frances ClarTc. Lower class men admitted to the club are Dor othy Bower, Louise Pemberton. Eugene Harrison, Lester Bones and Lois Cheney. The largest group of recent years signed up for orchestra practice. They are Ruth Rawllngs, Varnal , Denhem, Lois Cheney. Kenneth Barber, Alice Fowler, Charlotte Parr ,LoIs Gunning and Lester Bones. Miss Margaret Smart is the director. Mission Worker Talks at Pioneer PIONEER. Oct. 24 Miss Grace Farnham, of Tokyo, Japan, spoke at the schoolhouse Tuesday after noon and at prayer meeting Wed nesday night. Miss Farnham is a missionary of the Christian church'and has spent 11 years at the mission work among the Jap anese. . At present she and Miss Ruth Schonover, another American worker are doing Independent work in their new home with school and church every Sunday and conduct a kindergarten dur in the week. Miss Farnham was dressed In a Japanese costume and told of many interesting things in her work. She showed many curios and explained their uses. Miss Farnham came home ,on the Empress of Japan and was on the Pacific 12 days. Her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Orville Wagner and son, and Mr. and Mrs. Delbert DanteU of Sa lem met her at Victoria, B. C, and brought her back to the states. C. T. Gilbert Patient In Hospital Here; Shaw -Sewing Circle Gathers SHAW, Oct. 24. C. T. Gilbert, sr., underwent a major operation Tuesday afternoon at the Salem general hospital. He is getting along as well as can be expected. Many friends attended the fun eral services Tuesdar for Clare I McCormick who died October 17 in the Veterans' hospital in Port land. The first meeting of the Wo men's sewing circle met on Wed nesday in the schoolhouse with Mrs. A. C. Burghart as hostess, assisted by Mrs. Mary Schmitz. Women Hold Style Show I MONMOUTH, Oct. -24. A charming social event of antnmn, was a tea and style show spon sored by the Associated Women students and Staff and Key, in compliment to the junior women student, at Jessica Tood hall, Thursday afternoon. Exhibit of Communist Propaganda in Rome Is Arranged by Gonzaga Jesuit i To Reveal Red Menace Through World By ANDRUE BERING ROME (AP) An American Jesuit priest. Father Joseph Ledit, of Gonzaga university, Spokane, Wash., has just inaugurated here the most -amazing exhibition modern Rome ever has seen.- j . An unwarned visitor would say on going; through the ex position that it was the most complete communist exposition outside of soviet Rnssia. It showsO the development of communism throughout the world, including the United States. : The walls are draped In red. They are ornamented with hund reds of the communist symbols, and carry portraits of Lenin and Stalin. : At the entrance to the exposi tion is. a rostrum, with a life-size cut-out painting of Lenin, in an oratorical pose, behind It, below it. In large letters, are Lenin's words: "Every Tellgious idea, all conception of a good God. is an inexpressible abomination.' The exposition halls are filled with tables and stands on which are literally thousands of com munist publications, newspapers, magazines, pamphlets and books. The walls carry paintings and lith ographs. - But It Is not a communist ex position. It Is. In fact, an anti communist one. Father Ledit, who is editor of the review, "Rome Letters of Modern Atheism," got it together to show a class of ed ucated persons, mostly clergy, thi spread of communism. A special permit is required to The Safety Valve Letters from -Statesman Readers OCTOBER A Sonnet -By EMMA WHEALDON .October is an artist of renown. And, as a prudent matron, thrifty wise, !. : Upgath'rlng all the spilling sun v. set dyea '." Into the fulness of her russet gown," s She goes her woodland way, up hill and down, . And plies her brash before our ' ,P wond'ring eyes. Those pigments, mixed In flaming evening skies, (Deep reds and orange, gold and golden brown) The maples and the twining pois on oak, Are wearing, made into a golden cloak. ; What matter if November's wind and rain ; Shall fling and trample all Oc tobers gold? 'Tis fairy gold and will appear again In daffodils that pierce the earth s dark mold. PROPAGANDA To the Editor: , I am juct wondering: Are the American people supposed to pay the postoffice expense for carting the "New Deal" propaganda? In the last few days I received at different times a pamphlet laud ing the performance of the New Deal for not keeping its cam paign pledges, and one purporting to show that Gov. Landon at heart is in full sympathy with the doing of the "New Deal." Ne one probably said those things. If he didn't he is an ex ception among governors tor the New Deal saw to it that every- one of them had occasion to say such things. And why for in stance should not Oregon take all the New Deal money she could get seeing the states around her making regular grabs so should Kansas. x Now as regard their cam paign pledges. I don't know of but one they ever made and I most certainly give them credit for keeping that one to the letter and in full. But it is the' only real promise I can bring to mind and considering aver y thing I guess, it is O.K. Now right here I have some thing to say to the church peo ple: If you had not wanted "beer" and the repeal of the 18th amendment to the constitution of the U. S., the rest of the people would not hare to put up with it. So I for one am without any sym pathy for you and though I have at every- opportunity voted for prohibition and hope to continue so to do, it really makes me tired the way you blatt about condi tions as you have made them. Oh, yes you did. You know and you know you know, there are enough votes on the rolls of the churches to swing any election as they choose. Mr. Editor Please tell us if it is lawful to avoid postage on their propaganda and if so why not let the government print It also! J. W. Bolding, R. 4, Box 297, Salem, Ore. (Editor's Note Government departments use the malls for strictly government purposes without charge. Where "govern ment purposes" leaves off and propaganda begins is sometimes hard to say. Senators and repre sentatives have the frank under which they -may send out political matter without payment of post age.) ANSWERS NELSON Editor Statesman: Thanking you for space to make a correction in the letter appear ing in The Statesman of October 21st, where C. J. Nelson quotes me as saying in The Statesman of October ISth. "the GREAT minds of the country Bay the Townsend Plan will work." If he will read the article a little more carefully he will find that Instead of saying "the GREAT minds," I said "MANY OTHER GREAT visit the exposition. There is a special hall for the United States, another for England, another for France, another for Germany. South American countries, par ticularly Uruguay and ChUe, are in another room. U. 8. Publications Shown The United States room con tains hundreds of publications, from newspapers to pamphlets. They are written for all classes, beginning with children. Specially written publications for the child carry elementary points of com munism and anti-religion. One such appeal is to "Mr. and Mrs. Worker for your children who hare red blood in their veins." : The pictures revile religious ef fort. That a communist newspaper syndicate exists, is Indicated by the similarity of articles, photo graphs and drawings in publica tions from England to the United States, from Chile to 'France. The fascist states of Italy and Germany also have communist publications, clandestinely printed Inside the country or smuggled in. MINDS.- This gives It a differ ent meaning.-,. j I do not object to being quoted, but I dislike much to be quoted incorrectly.- - t - -v - : Mr. Nelson says, "the President we have has at least the. discre tion to hot commit himself," when speaking about what he hinks about the Townsend Plan. But although he has not committed himself erbally to the public, he surely has In his actions, and has lost no time nor energy to try to KILL THE TOWNSEND PLAN! And furthermore I hve proof that he has said "it would only bring disappointment" etc., in a letter to myself. In March, 1935, I wrote him concerning the Town send Plan, and received an ans wer the same .month, written by Edwin C. Witte, which letter was dictated to him by the president. Mr. Witte was appointed by the president for the express purpose of giving false information to oar congressmen, in order that the bill In question should not be passed. This I can, prove also. Here Is a part of what the president dic tated to Mr. witte to write me: "The president has concluded its enactment Into law would not only bring disappointment to the hopes of its advocates, but dis aster to the economic structure of our nation." Then in April In answer to an other letter to the president, I got the following in a letter dictated by him, from James A. Farley's office. He said. In remarking about-the "pauper" security bill, (which secm-3 one in poverty), "we feel sure that the final legis lation will provide SUBSTANTIAL PROTECTION TO HE OLD PEO PLE DESERVING ASSISTANCE." these letters are direct from the president's mouth and is proof contrary to what Mr. Nelson says concerning the president "not committing himself?' Mr. Roose velt has shown he does not care for the people as a whole , or he would have influenced congress to pass the McGroarty bill. Those whom he did help with the four biUion dollars - were those who had a residence established, and a vote, and used this method to get their rote, but did not care for, nor try to help the 12,000, 00" 0 unemployed who had no es tablished residence, therefore no vote. No Mr. Nelson we do not want an "ignoramus in the White House.' But even if Mr. Landon is an "ignoramus" such an one who would be. honest in his opin ion to the people, would be much better than, one who used four billion of the taxpayer's money to get into office again, ven if he did help a fifth of the unem ployed, WHILE THE OTHER FOUR FIFTHS STARVED. B. I. PLUMMER. A VOTE FOR DEMOCRACY To the Editor: Many voters at election time say: "I believe In your platform but your candidate for President has no chance, of being elected, therefore, I do not want to throw my vote away. In this election a vote for the Communist Party is not a "wasted" vote. In fact. it Is the only vote which will richly repay the voteis in ' serv ice rendered." It will be a vote for the only clear, uncompromising and satis factory answer to the needs of the overwhelming majority of people. both today and tomorrow. Every Communist vote is a vote for the building of a national Farmer-Labor Party. The Com munist Party has put this issue foremost in this campaign be cause the chief issue before the American people lis fascism vs. democracy. This lays the foun dation now for the American Peo ple's Front in the fight against reaction and war. Every Communist vote Is a rote against fascism and war. The cap italists and their political agents slash relief, break strikes, and curtail civil liberties when they think they can get away with it A large Communist vote will be a standing warning to the reaction aries that the American people are alert and vigilant in defense of their rights, that they will not be passive in the face of fascist minded reactionaries or broken liberal promises. It is the best guarantee that the fascist-minded reactionaries will be beaten back and that a Farmer-Labor Party will be formed really to work in the interests of the masses. When ydu vote for Earl Brow ser for President and James W Ford for Vice-President you vote for the following program briefly stated;: 1. "Put America back to work provide jobs and a living wage. 2. Provide unemployment in surance, old-age pensions and so cial security tor all. 3. Save the young generation. 4. Free the farmers from debts, unbearable tax burdens and fore closures. Guarantee the land to those who till the soil. 5. The rich hold the wealth of the country make the rich pay. 6. Defend and extend demo cratic and civil liberties. Curb the Supreme Court. " 7. Full rights for the Negro people. 8. Keep America out of war by keeping war out of the world. Mr. and Mrs. Voter, the above program deserves your most seri ous consideration. It is a rote for a better life, for a free, happy and prosperous America. S. B. DODGE, Route, 1, Salem, Ore. Clara Keber Hpstess at Bridge Party, Mt. Angel MT. ANGEL. Oct. 24. Miss Clara Keber entertained, with bridge and a late lunch at the home of her father Wednesday night. The high score prize went to Mrs. Jos. L. Wachter and the cut prize to Miss Gertrude Bart- nik. Bidden were Mrs. Leonard Fisher, Mrs. Jos. L. Wachter, Mrs. William Fessler, Mrs. Wil liam Worley, Miss Terese Ficker, Mrs. Alexander Scharbach, Miss Gertrude Bartnlk and Mrs. Law rence Zeis. Statesman Book Nook Reviews of New Books and Literary News Notes J - By CAROLINE C. JERGEN The Need We Have. By A. Ham' ilton Gibbs. Little, Brown. 1030. fJWSO. This Is not a story to read when you may wish to whip op your Intelligence or sharpen your wits. It is a smoothly running, pleasant Irish story, full of Irish philosophy and with a dash of Irish humor; "Humility may be a fine thing to read about In a catechism, but isn't that ' the only place it be longs? ... Though there may Be moments when ' man's weakness would make you shed tears of agony, 'tis not by the way of hu mility that he become strong again ... 'wonder,' thought the doctor, 'what it is In a man that makes him look for changes. Is it the vanity he has that tells him the world can't get on without him? . . . Here I thought I was aU mixed up in it, a part of it and at this minute I am high and dry ... Important I thought I was and nothing but a fork be ing rushed down ttream. thinking all the time itwas making the splashing. AtHTnow it's whirled to the bank, and the stream goes on . . . But it was worth it. It was a touch -of life .again. . That life should be taken a little more slowly and much more calmly. Mayor Gibbs indicates throughout the tale: . "The doctor sm.iled, shaking his head, 'Yon read the Scriptures, Mrs. O'Hara. Will - you not re member the words of Saint Thom as Aquinas! Never be in a hurry. Always be of a calm and equable tempermenl "And again when Tim Sheahan had been nnable to pursuade Miora that she loved him, Tim, more than she did her husband, Jim O'Hara, the doctor said. "Tim Sheahan's a fool! Nev er forget this, that speed is the curse of our time! If Tim Shea han had not been in 'such a tem pestuous hurry he could have been finding the way to the Garden of Eden now Instead of going back defeated to Athmel." Perhaps these brief quotations have given you a little idea of thestyle and philosophy of "The Need We Have." - As to the story, it is simply that of a young Irish farmer who brings his gentle bride home to the cottage of the widowed moth er, whose love for her son is man ifested in jealous hatred of the younger woman. When the home is broken, the loveable Tim Shea han and the philosophying doctor enters the picture. Before the story ends each character in turn has his great moment which he meets with more noble traits than we had perhaps noticed in him earlier. Sentimental? Yes, very much so! Improbable? Very likely. Bftt you read it for what it is, and you don't mind it finding such para graphs as this, which rather, I fancy, explains the author's own idea of his book: - "As one of the Intelligentsia you would probably have raised a forced eyebrow," sneered at the childishness of the idea, dropped a few caustic remarks as to the manifestations of the sex urge . . . But if you'd be coming out of your shell for a breath and admitting the pleasure you got from the great poets, intellectual, of course; or the wave of emotion that yon keep prljrate at a great symphony ..." Coming into the hands of many people at this time is George N. Peek's (with Samuel Crowther) 'Why Quit Our Own, published (1936. 10.50) by the Van Nos trand company. . The author, in a preface, insists the book "was conceived and written not in a partisan spirit, but In an effort to remove the question of national prosperity out of the realm of partisanship and to discuss it on the assured basis of facts." Even if we belong to the same Lparty beg , pardon, we mean. even if we have many of the same opinions as those of Mr. Peek (with Mr. Crowther) we have to admit it seems to us we caught a glimpse of presidential-election- day peering around , the pages. Says the opening sentence: Fastest Auto Driver Never Competed In Race; Ab Jenkins Holds Most of Records But Likes Wide Open Spaces By CLAUDE WOLFF INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 24. ( AP) The man who holds more automobile speed records than any one else in Ihe World is an unknown on race tracks of the country- He is Ab Jenkins, whn rfvpntlv w - ' m w a -v v is v oaib uvuo at Bonneville. Utah, shatterinsr virtnnllv one to 48 hours driving:. The roar of the crowd. theO- thrills of competition in the turns of the sneedwava -and thn narrow er ones of the smaller dirt tracks hold no allure for Jenkins. The hard, nnfenced .sand a for. nace-hot by dav and chlllv at night, are -his race course. His audience for the most part con sists "of mechanics, officials and a lew of tne curious. Jenkins never has raced in a 400-mlle classic in Indianannli nor has he matched his stamina, daring and skill in the ol,i nH saucers of California. TTa likM th -place where his giant cars can be turnea loose in one. mad triumph of sheer speed. The Utah man has heen shifter. ing speed records for ten years and said some time ago he might take a shot at the one-mil mrv of more than 300 miles per hour next year. The first martr nr anv Mn. quence he set was in li?ft tin he sped across the country from Newyork to San Francisco in S( hours, 20 minutes. The following vaar rlnAil the time to 77 hours. 40 minutes "I went into the Roosevelt Ad ministration because -1 saw a chance to do something for ag riculture I got out when I saw I had no chance to do anything either for agriculture or for the nation." Other pertinent sentences might be quoted to bear out this theory of ours, that while the author (with Mr. Crowther) may not come right out and say he is for such and such a party, he cer tainly isn't tooting fcbe horn of the other: "Certainly no one could quar rel with the volume of cotton ex ported ia 1932, but only the handlers and shipping men have benefited from that trade. The cotton farmer had , not received enough to cover his expenses . . . There Is a pending tobacco act in which a plan Is et out to restrict tobacco production through inter state compacts. . . It is the A. A. A. regimentation wearing false wis hers. . . Put an embargo on all competitive farm products or lim it them by quota to actual re quirements. 1 The American home market belongs to the American farmer . . . Shall we take advan tage of our position of geograph ical and economic security and contribute to the world' peace and prosperity by developing our own country and by attending to our own affairs?" Not partisan? W e 1 1, perhaps not. But we just can't imagine any good republican objecting to a voter who is on the fence, reading it before he Jumps.. . All of you who have a small daughter, a niece or a little friend to whom yon would like to give a delightful book could choose no better than "The covered Bridge' by Cornelia Meigs (The Mac mil Ian company. $2.50. 1936.) The book Itself is attractively put up and illustrated. Its con tents will not bore those adults who are in the habit of reading aloud to the younger members of the family. It has to do with Con stance, a little girl from Glou cester who goes to spend the win ter in Vermont with Sarah, her aunt's old housekeeper. With Peter, Sarah's grandson7 as a playmate she found much of ex citement in the rough Green Mountain country of 1800. In "The Kidnap Murder Case: A Philo Vance Detective Novel" by S. S. VanDine which Charles Scribner's Sons published October 15, Philo Vance for the first time in his distinguished detective car eer is forced to use firearms. In all previous books his deductive powers alone have been adequate to handle any situation, but in "The Kidnap Murder Case" he reveals a remarkable skill in the use of an automatic. Followers of Will James will welcome the news that he had an other book off the press the mid dle of this month, "Scorpion: A Good BimI Horse." Zane Grey's "The Last Wagon Train", is a considerably better yarn than has come from the author's pen for sometime (Har per. $2.00. 1936). Richard Blaker followed "Here Lies a Most Bea tlf ul Lady," right on the heels with "But Beauty Vanishes." It haven't read the latter yet but intend to do so. I liked the for mer very much. "But Beauty Van ishes" is said to be a. sequel to the first, but both are complete stories in themselves. The End. Sophomores Entertained By Independence Rooks x INDEPENDENCE. Oct. 24. The freshman class entertained the sophomores Friday night in the high school gymnasium. Jessie Jones was chairman for the occa sion. Other committee members were: Mildred Gorsline, Maxine Hansley Bill Berry, Harold Sneth eni and Joe Violette. They were assisted by Miss Anita Boley, freshman advisor.' and set a new record for 500 miles on the Atlantic City speedway, averaging 79. miles per hour. Sets Distance Mark; In 1928 the one-man, one-day driving record ' fell to Jenkins when he averaged 84.15 niiles per hour for 24 hours. By 1931 Jen kins had reduced the time of driv ing from New York to San Fran cisco to 54.1 hours. Then in 1332 Jenkins went In for 24-hour racing records again, his new average being 112.91 miles per hour. Two years later he averaged 127.219 miles per hour over the route and last month made that look bad by av eraging 153.76 miles per hour. - Jenkins roared on through day and night for 48 hours, with a final average of 14S.626 miles per hour. " Of the 14 or 15 world's records he holds. Jenkins prizes especially the one-hour mark, made last month when he averaged 170. 9997 per hour. The old mark was 187.C9. made by John Cobb of London, England, several months go.