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What Makes the Wheels Go Round? HEELS that grind flour for products that we need. Electricity our bread, saw lumber for has reduced the cost of these prod Wour houses, shape steel for our ucts so that the average person automobiles; that weave cloth for can now afford those things which our coats and dresses, make our only the rich could enjoy a few paper, printournewspapers. Wheels years ago. on which we depend for the every General Electric engineers and day necessities and comforts of life. scientists-the leaders in the appli What makes these wheels go round? cation of electricity to industry Today the answer is electricity. have helped to raise the standard Electricity has speeded up the op of living in America. Their work erations of all industry, has enabled has resulted in more things, better it to produce-in millions instead working conditions,greaterleisure, of hundreds-the manufactured and a richer life for all. G-E research has saved the publicfrom ten to ooze hrmdred dollars for eVery dollar it has earnedfor Gelreral Electric GENERAL~ELECTRIC USTEN TO THE G-E RADIO PROGRAM. MONDAYS. 9:30 P.M .. E.S.T.. NBC RED NETWORK A. advafttag.• that nevel' -' e." ......r. fe Dadl in this sensible dental health routine. Gum massage is a practical need in this day and' age. Our tender, welI cooked foods do not give· our gums the exerCise they need for hardness and health. Gums grow flabby, tender. Some times that tinge of "pink" appears on your .tooth brush - a signal that your gums need prompt attention. Don't Ignore "Pink Tooth Brush" Scarcely anyone is immune to "pink tooth brush." If you notice that tinge of "pink".on your' tooth brush-see your dentist immediately. He alone should de cide whether grave disorders threaten or whether yours is simply a case of underworked gums, gums that need HEN DAD was a boy nobody used more exercise - gums that will respond W',' the word "vitamin." The family to the healthful stimulation of Ipana 'physician didn't inoculate against such Tooth Paste and massage. minor ailments as whooping cough. It Ipana has worked closely with the was .only a few short years ago - still dental profession for almost two decades. science had yet to discover many of its If you are not now using Ipana, get a most important contributions to child tube today. Brush your teeth with it health. massage it into yourgums.You'll notice a No teacher stressed gum massage in new brilliance in your smile--a sounder, those days. But today, in classrooms all healthier tone to your gums. over the country, many modern teach ers preach the health of the gums as REMEMBER - A good tooth paste, like well as the teeth-and drill their pupils 'a good dentist, is ne'Vera luxury IPAIIA tooth paste THE AMERICAN MERCURY ~~~~~mit~~~~mit~~~~mit~~~~m~ @ VOkBitE TABLE OF CONTENTS N~:ER ~ ~ January Paul Palmer, Editor 1938 ~ ~ No Third Term for Roosevelt '" Frank R. Kent ~ f'~ Have You Had Your Appendix Out? Martin O. Gannett 10 ~ ~ The Triumph of the Have-Not H. L. Mencken 16 ~ ~ Russia Prepares for War Moscow Correspondent 23 @ ~ When Sullivan Kayoed Kilrain Oland D. Russell 30 ~ ~+ Cohen and Corcoran: Brain Twins " Blair Bolles 38 +.~ ~ How To Be a University President , Herman G. James 46 ~ Radicals in Our Churches Harold Lord Varney 51 ~.J ~ ~~:~,::·;:;~:~e~L~~:r~al~s~~~ · J~~~~dM~~ ~~ ~~ ~ Editorial: ~ The Overprivileged. ................................ .. ...... 89 ~+ Americana 95 ~ The State of the Union: ~ . What the Republicans Won't Do " Albert Jay Nock 98'~" ~ Poetry: ~ m 1. Advice to a Sculptor Garrett Oppenheim 104 ~~ ~ II. The Dreamer Helene Mullins 104 ~ III. Portrait From a Feast John Ritchey 105 ~ IV. Mood Dorothy Kissling 105 ~ ~ V. Barter No Bay Eva Byron 106 ~ f'~ The Library: ~" ~ The Conquest of Pain John W. Thomason, Jr. 107 W m The Open Forum '" , .. 114 ~ ~ The Check List. ............................................... iv ';'-dI ~ The Contributors ; ......... xii ~ ~ Recorded Music Irving Kolodin xiv +~ ~ Gordon Carrol1~ Managing Editor; Albert Jay Nock, Contributing Editor ~ m~~$~~;;;~S~;;;;;~~~®~$J Published by The American Mercury, Inc., monthly second-class matter at the post office at Concord, on the 25th of the month preceding the date, at 25 N. H. under the Act of March 3, 1879. Five weeks' cents a copy.· Annual subscription, $3.00 in U. S. advance notice required for change of subscribers' and Possessions, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Spain and addresses. Indexed in The Readers' Guide to Peri Colonies, and the Republics of Ce1'ltral and South odical Literature. No reproduction ofcontent allowed America. Foreign subscriptions, $4.00. Publication office, Concord, N. H. Editorial office. Ridgefield, without written permission. The American Mer Conn. General offices, 570 Lexington avenue, New cury, Inc., accepts 1'l0 responsibility for submitted York City. Printed in the United States. Copyright, manuscripts. Address all editorial correspondence 1937, by The American Mercury, Inc. Entered as and manuscripts to Ridgefield, Connecticut. THE LONG CRUISE DE LUXE DISTINCTIVE SHORT CRUISES AOUITANIA TO RIO GEORGIC. BRITANNIC VISITING NASSAU COLON LA GUAIRA TO THE WEST INDIES-Two short Georgie TRINIDAD BAHIA Cruises: Jan. 7 to Nassau, 6 days, $80 up; RIO DE JANEIRO BARBADOS BERMUDA Jan. 15 to Nassau and Havana, 8 days, From mid-February through all the rest of $105 up. Britannic Jan. 21 toNassau, Haiti, winter ... in the Aquitania! Aptly do the two Jamaican ports, Havana-12 days, lights of Rio suggest...but onlysuggest... $157.50 up. Others in March and April. the brilliance of this cruise. For brilliance WEST INDIES & SOUTH AMERICA-18-day is a word of social import...as is the name Georgie and Britannic cruises Jan. 26, Feb. 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I~ ~~~ID~+~t!Z~~ID(~~~~ID{~t!Z~~ID~~~~ ***** indicate a book of exceptional and lasting merit. **** a distin guished and valuable work. *** a readable and engaging volume. ** a fair performance. * an unimportant book, but possessing some characteristic of value. The absence of stars may be taken to mean the absence of merit. FICTION Mr. Cloete's The Turning Wheels is unfor tunate but inevitable. Mr. Young writes as ****THE CHUTE, by Albert Halper. though he had seen that episode, but Mr. $2.50. Viking Press. One of the best of all Cloete writes as though he had lived it. proletarian novels, done with vigor and clarity, not bias, and therefore the more HEARTS TO BREAK, by Susan remarkable. The life of the Sussman family, ***NO Ertz. $2.50. Appleton-Century. Once upon and of Paul Sussman, who works in a a time there was a Baltimore girl who Chicago mail-order house, and of the other wanted to be a queen, and bedded with workers there, a band of idealists, malcon Napoleon's young and foolish brother, tents, heroes, and knaves. More of Mr. ]erome, King of Westphalia. Miss Ertz tells Halper, and less of his iinitators, would be the story, and you conclude that what Miss a boon to the current school of rugged Patterson got out of life was in a measure literature. satisfying to her. A sound and well-done narrative. **** THE" TURNING WHEELS, by Stuart Cloete. $2.50. Houghton Mifflin. A *** HOME IS WHERE YOU HANG fine story of the Great Trek of the Boers, in YOUR CHILDHOOD, by Leane Zugsmith. 1836, when that stiff-necked, hardy people $1.50. Random House. Slices of .life, very abandoned their Cape Colony to the English well done, for those who do not get suffi and struck north across Africa to carve a cient life-slicing out of subways, tabloids, home from the Transvaal wilderness. Mr. and automats. Stuart Cloete's Voortrekkers are after the Old Testament pattern, with their love and ** THE RAINS CAME, by Louis Brom their hate and their anger, their Bibles and field. $2.75. Harpers. A novel of India that their black concubines. Not since Olive owes nothing to Kipling; not at all a Schreiner's time has such a book come out of Sahib's tale. Indeed, the sahibs and the Africa: it has beauty and pity and terror: memsahibs of his pages are. not admirable there has been no better novel this year, folk in their general run. A practiced master and not more than one as good. of the mystery, Mr. Bromfield assembles all the requisite ingredients: high life and hell *** THEY SEEK A COUNTRY, by fire, flood and plague and heat, sluttishness, Francis Brett Young. $2.75. Reynal & and something" of beauty. His surfaces are Hitchcock. Another novel of the Boer Ir admirably done; yet it may be suspicioned reconcilables who pilgrimed north into the that under his slick exteriors there are im immensities of Africa, seeking a country free mense things passed over altogether.