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chairman of a committee to draft a program for unified action to maintain Current Events peace. Max Reinhardt, Austrian stage and mo­ tion-picture director, announces inten­ tions of establishing an academy to train young people for stage and screen. Six hundred insane are led from the State Hospital at Weston, West Vir­ ginia, as fire destroys the left wing of the building. The Rt. Rev. T. F. Gailor, Dean of Episcopal Bishops, dies at his summer home in Sewanee, Tennessee. Big arms-manufacturing firms deny spurt in war-implement sales; New York City Germans want Reich and America to keep out of war. October 4—Riots and individual fights be­ tween Negroes and Italians over the Italo-Ethiopian War make necessary the posting of 1,500 policemen on extra duty in the Harlem section of New York City. Chicago business and civic leaders launch drive to bring both Democratic and Republican National Conventions to Chicago in 1936. Kansas City, St. Louis, and Atlantic City are also bid­ Into tne Jaws of Death ding for conventions. —fereira in the Philippines Free Press (Manila) Several independent negro stevedores in­ jured at New Orleans, as their tug-boat September 30.—The Commercial National A forty-hour week for Post Office Depart-. is stoned, allegedly by union workers, Bank of Bradford, Pennsylvania, fails ment employees goes into effect all in the first violence of the longshore­ to open after the suicide of the bank's over the United States. men's strike affecting the ports of New cashier. Federal Deposit Insurance Farmers numbering between 100 and 125 Orleans, Gulfport, Mobile, and Pensa- Corporation will cover $4,200,000 de­ dump out 30,000 gallons of milk from cola. posits. railroad-cars on a siding of the Chi­ With eleven States represented, the West­ cago and Northwestern Railroad at The Rotterdam, a 24,000-ton liner, runs ern States Republican Convention Genoa City, Wisconsin, in effort to aground on Morant Cays, forty riiles opens at Oakland, California, to map raise prices. east of Jamaica; 460 passengers and plans for 1936. part of crew rescued by the liner October 2.—President Roosevelt, speaking Ariguani. to 45,000 at the San Diego Fair, pledges Vast rail empire rewon at auction by the to keep the United States "unen- Van Sweringen Brothers, who pay tangled" in the foreign crisis. What's the Name, Please? $3,121,000 for control of the $3,000,- Dr. Kirtley F. Mather, a Harvard Pro­ Clerk—new British Ambassador in 000,000 system. fessor, states that he will refuse to take France—you guessed it: dark. an oath under the new Massachusetts President Roosevelt, in his address at the Holger Cahill—Federal Art Director Teachers' Oath Law. dedication of Boulder Dam, in Nevada, (p. 24)—as if spelled hall'ger urges industry to take the responsibil­ Officials in Washington announce relief cay'hill. ity of speeding employment; he states costs for August were 8.3 per cent, less that the credit of the Federal Govern­ than for July. The number of families Delano—of Atlantic Coast Line R.R. ment is the strongest in six years. on relief fell off 4.7 per cent, from and others—accent the first sylla­ Gang of nine bandits wound five persons July. ble: del'a-no. while making escape after an atlempt Maj. Gen. Malin Craig, a native of St. Gest—impresario— to hold up a Chicago bank. Joseph, Missouri, is appointed Chief Said Morris Gest to Edgar Guest, head of Staff of the United States Army "sometimes tlie best October 1.—Gen. Evangeline Booth, Pronounce me jest; of the Salvation Army, returns, after succeeding Gen. Douglas MacArthur. But wliat I am—well, you have traveling more than 50,000 miles since More than 130 ships of the United States guessed." Lauck—economist—rimes with dock, last December. She opens a new cam- Fleet are reviewed by the President as mock, rock, or just lock. paign against sin. Her slogan is "The they engage in tactical exercises off the Melchior—heroic tenor of Metropoli­ World for God." California Coast. tan Opera—chi as in Chicago: taring Six sculptors to offer designs for a Lee- Huge swarms of grasshoppers apps mel'she-or. in many parts of Kansas and W stern Jackson memorial, to be erected in Missouri imperil crops. Baltimore, commemorating the last Pusey — cartoonist — rimes with neivsy: peiv'zy. Three men experimenting with I new meeting of Gen. Robert E. Lee and type of explosive for blasting were Lieut. Gen. "Stonewall" Jackson at Schuette—news correspondent and killed at Baltimore, when the blast Chancellorsville. lecturer — rimes with booty: went off prematurely. October 3.—The Dollar Steamship lines shoo'ty. Plans being made to speed work [jn the announce that their President fleet Suckow—writes of country folks— trans-Florida Ship-Canal by the will omit three ports in Italy and Egypt rimes with shoe-toe: soo'koe. priation of $20,000,000 more for the due to war-risk and increased insur­ ance rates. Thalberg—movie official and direc­ first year's work. tor—th as in theme, al as in all: A cosmic ray is used to turn on the switch Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of thall'burg. that projects the 9,000 stars an the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, takes first steps to mobilize Vezin—artist—as a compromise he ceiling of the new Hayden Planetarium uses vezz-ann'. of the American Museum of P^atural peace organizations of the United History in New York City. States. Newton D. Baker is elected

PRODUCED BY UNZ.ORG ELECTRONIC REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED October 12, 1935 The Literary Digest 41 Fill a nee and Industry ill a New NRA Be Bom? Major Berry, Industrial Coordinator, Queries Industry on Its Attitude Toward Voluntary or Legal Code Regulation

Lfo you seriously think industry wants a in effect." President Roosevelt pointed out continuation of the National Recovery Ad­ that tlie present NIRA permitted "agree­ Prospectus on request trom ministration, or any similar body?" report­ ments (1) putting into effect . . . mini­ ers asked George L. Berry, new Coordinator mum wages, maximum hours and prohibi­ your investment dealer for Industrial Cooperation, last week. tion of child labor and (2) prohibiting "That is an exceedingly difficult question unfair competitive practises which offend to answer," Major Berry replied. This against already existing law." week he sent several thousand letters to Industries seeking agreements may file Just Published industrial and labor leaders. Did they de­ with the Federal Trade Commission, which sire voluntary codes? Did they want per­ passes on trade-practise provisions. Labor manent legislation to replace the emascu­ provisions must get NRA's and, finally. lated NIRA, which expires on April 1? President Roosevelt's approval. 25,000 WORDS A labor leader, Major Berry has presided President Roosevelt, in a bitter mood last Spelled, Divided and Accented over the International Pressmen's and May, implied he might seek a constitutional amendment to overcome the Supreme By LOUIS A. LESLIE and Court's decision. Late in September he CHARLES EARLE FUNK surprized his press conference by definitely In nine cases out of ten when you / indicating he might not attempt to revive go to a dictionary, it is to find out the old NRA. Surveys, he said, disclosed how to spell a word or how to divide industry had generally lived up to old code it at the end of a line. This book was S standards. But "chiselers" must go. devised as a short cut for nine of those ten dictionary trips. ^1 "Since making his 'horse and buggy days' comment last May in revealing his nettled Includes Useful Words Only feeling over the outlawing of the NRA," the Because it concerns itself only with spell­ ing and syllabication, it can safely omit Newark Evening News (Ind.) observed, unnecessary words of two classes—thousands "President Roosevelt has experienced a de­ of short easy words that present no conceiv­ able spelling difficulty and the many archaic, cided change in attitude." obsolete and obsolescent words included in the ordinary dictionary only for the sake of vif** In ••-».* The Charlotte Observer (Dem.) decided lexicographical completeness. Restricting the "business can write its own ticket" on fu­ list to the words actually needed by the user p^i^"i of the book makes these words easier to find. i.?'^ • J ture legislation of the NRA vintage. "That Moreover, it has made it possible to employ large, readable type and, at the same time, '-k I is the gist of what President Roosevelt told to keep the book itself down to a small and : i. his press conference. What he means, of very handy format. course, is that if business that is legitimate i£i will restrain business that is not legitimate, Indispensable To there will be no occasion for the Govern­ Stenographers ment to slip its authoritative hands into the Here is a volume that will be received George L. Berry, spear-head in drive to with open arms by the great army of stenog­ affairs of business." raphers, students, correspondents, proof­ push voluntary codes readers, printers, and authors whose daily contact with words gives rise to many prob­ Assistants' Union for twenty-eight years. lems of spelling, word division, and accent. His interests include bank directorates and Empire Recaptured Price, $1.00; by mail, $1.10 farms, altho he did not learn to read or write until he was sixteen. He gained his r ruit jars made by G. A. Ball, Muncie, At All Bookstores or from military title and a decoration by War ser­ Indiana, manufacturer, fill the pantries of FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY, Publishers vice in France. America. Steamships operated by George 354-360 Fourth Ave., New Yorl<, N. Y. A. Tomlinson, of Cleveland, Ohio, make up Spear-Head in Drive the largest fleet on the Great Lakes. Ball President Roosevelt recently designated and Tomlinson dollars, plumped into Mid- Mr. Berry as supervisor over labor, indus­ america Corporation, new Van Sweringen CREATIVE WRITING ^^ A Guide For Those Who Aspire To Authorship ^^ try, and consumers in meetings to accelerate holding company, last week helped the Van By William Webster Ellsworth The former president of the Century Company industrial recovery. Major Berry also ap­ Sweringen brothers. Oris P., and Mantis J., tells what his long experience as a publisher taught iiiin about the things that make for success in pears as spear-head in a drive to persuade to regain control of their railroad empire literary work. He analyzes the success of more than ninety authors; covers the question of college industry to embrace voluntary codes. at a New York City auction-sale. training and the occupations that help toward In the Schechter case last May the United Through Midamerica, the Van Swerin- authorship; etc. Cloth. $2.00; hy mail, $2.1^. States Supreme Court struck down the sys­ gens paid $3,121,000 for 2,064,492 shares FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY, 354 Fourth Ave.. New York tem of NRA codes. In June a joint resolu­ of Alleghany Corporation, common, and tion of Congress extended NIRA in skel­ other securities, held by J. P. Morgan & THE NEW etonized form. Paul H. Hayward, in the Co., as collateral for defaulted loans ARCHEOLOGICAL October Nation's Business, described the amounting originally to 139,500,000. For DISCOVERIES new set-up. "Briefly, it embraces continu­ the Alleghany stock alone they paid By Camden M. Cobem, D.D., Litt.D. ance of the Federal Trade Commission and $2,803,000. Supplement by Professor George W. Gilmore exemption from the antitrust laws of trade The pick and spade of the archeologist havne un- Control of Alleghany assures control of . earthed amazing documents written, most of them, agreements approved by the President, in­ the railroad empire, including the Chesa­ more than igoo years ago. High taxes, graft, and sofar as they relate to labor relations and peake & Ohio; Nickel Plate; Pere Mar­ burglarieshave come to light in the deciphering of competitive practises that are already these ancient records: together with petitions to quette; Erie; Chicago & Eastern Illinois; Kings, reports of strikes, kidnappings, etc. unlawful." and the Missouri Pacific and affiliates. This ninth edition contains the results of recent research and discovery, clarifies many previously Last week the White House released the One hurdle remained. In Washington, doubtful dates, and sheds light on a number of obscure periods about which little or nothing has been known. procedure for "voluntary" agreements officials of the Interstate Commerce Com­ The 113 illustrations are excellent reproductions which can "do much to preserve the very mission said the sale of Alleghany stock I of photographs. substantial gains made while the codes were required Commission approval. I Cloth bound, 782 pages. $4.00; $4.18, post-paid. ^FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY, 354 Fourlh Ave., New York

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