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THE SUNDAY ST AR, WASHINGTON, D. OCTOBER 19¢ 31—PART T'WO. America A meeting of the Veterans' Preference Committee of the American Legion was held at department headquarters, Transportation Building, Tuesday evs ning with Department Comdr. Fraser presiding. The committee is soliciting the aid of other departments in a na- tional campaign toward the objective of ‘effective veterans' preference. The officers of the Lincoln Post of the ‘American Legion were installed by the department commander and his staff Monday evening at Hillcrest Manor, Co- lumbia Heights. g A committee representing the Ameri- ean Legion, the Eight and Forty and the American Legion Auxiliary attended a reception for Mme. Schumann-Heink on the occasion of her arrival in this city at Union Station on Sunday after- noon. She was presented Wwith a bouquet of flowers by Miss Helen Mur- phy, national head of the Eight and Forty. Flowers were also presented by the department commander of the American Legion, Ferdinand G. Fraser, who welcomed the famous singer in a brief informal address. Mme. Schu- mann-Heink was escorted on Friday afternoon to Mount Alto Hospital by the department commander of the Ameri- can Leglon, accompanied by Watson B. Miller, chalrman of the National Re- habilitation Committee of the American Legion, where she gave a group of songs | to the disabled veterans, who are p tients in that institution. The regular meeting of the Depart- ment Executive Committee of the Amer- fcan Legion was held Thursday eve- ning with Department Comdr. Ferdi- nand G. Frase: in the chair. There was presented for discussion on this oc- casion the applications for charters by the Brookland-Woodridge Unit, pro- posed in the application as the Bunker Hill Post. An application for a charter was also made by the Stanley Church Depue Post and there was also dis- cussed the matter of a Public Utilities Post, which has been proposed On Friday evening the Department Commander addressed a meeting of the Forty and Eight held in Alexandria, Va.. on the subject of membership and national preparedness. ‘The regular meeting of the Locale Volture of Forty and Eight was held Saturday evening in Woodmen of the World Hall, 935 Grant place. This ‘was the first meeting of this internal organization of the American Legion for the season and “A Night in Paris” | featured the entertainment for the evening. Francis F. Miller, Grand Chef de Gare, presided. Announcement has been made by the chairman of the Dance Committee, Capt. Daniel H. Pratt, that the judges, who will select the most originally and Anterestingly costumed couple at the Costume Halloween Dance to be given by the Sergeant Jasper Post. No. 13, ‘The American Legion. at the Hamilton Hotel, October 30. will be Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Jarnagin, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Bishop and Department Commander Ferdinand G. Fraser. There will be no_admission charge. The next regular meeting of the t will be held November 5 at the mas Circle Club, 1326 Massa- chusetts avenue, when the annual election of officers will be held. Comdr. Willism A. Kehoe will preside. The Vincent B. Costello Unit, No. 15, held a business meeting Tuesday at the Cairo Hotel. The unit discussed the card party at the Thomas Circle Club November 2 at 8:30 pm. t> ‘which the public is invited. The guest of the evening was Mr. Speegman of the Hollis-Bellaire Post of New York Miss Irene Sheehan spoke. The next meeting will be held No- :emher 10 at the District Building at pm. At the meeting of the Vincent B. Cos 4ello Post in the board room of the Dis- trict Building Tuesday evening the fol- | m new members were accepted Daum, Willlam J. Knott, Joseph | G. Beattie. William Thornton, Alfred V. MecLoughlin, Frank P. Harbin. Rich- ard M. Bante and Julian C. Foster. | Comrade Grant, director of the Drum and Bugle Corps, requests the members | to turn out for the parade Halloween | night. Post members are invited to fall in. The new organization, “The Imps ©f Hell," will also be in line. Edward McCabe is the emblem offi- | cer. Comrade Tatspaugh was appointed | uniform officer. The post will, in the near future, appear in the official uni- | form adopted by national headquarters | nd by the District of Columbia De- mx;\:cm. Comdr. Cipriani appointed a tive Ceremonial Committee con- sisting of Arthur Thomas, chairman: | Vernon Daly, M. G. McIntyre, Owen Jackson, Joseph B. Haviland and Elmer Reynolds. Thomas will act as bugler for this committec. The Thanksgiving Turkey Committee was also appointed. Gerald Shiely, chalrman; Edward R. Kelly, R. A O'Brien, Vernon Daly, Thomas A. Cos- tello, Arthur Thomas, Joseph Stein and Maurice McDonald. Comdr. Cipriani made the following appointments: National convention of- ficer, Vernon Daly, and employment of- ficer, Joseph G. Beattie Committee appointments are: M bership—Gerald Siely, chairman: Ed- ward R. Kelly, Thomas A. Costello. Ed- ward P. McCabe and Joseph B. Hav Jand. Resolutions and Legislative—Jacob N. Halper. chairman: Norman R Grant, Frederick A. Thuce, Dr. Daniel J. Borden and Albert P. Tatspaugh Entertainment—Rev. Francis J. K v, chalrman: Joseph Stein, Elmer vnolds, Harry Smith and John McCabe. Publicity and Publications Dopp. chairman: Elmer Harry Smith, Frederic and Thomas J. Daly Welfare and Relief—Charles Kohen chairman; Meyer Taske and Harry Cedar. 6 Auditing—Daniel J. Donovan, chai man; Curtis A. Jackson and Art Thomas Athletics —Jos: man: Maurice Jackson Hospital-—John Taske, G. B. El ton, Harry Cedar George H. Goetting, Edm J. G. Beattie and J Salon No. 14 des Huit Chapeau Quarante Femmes held its ar quet honoring the newly ele ment omeers of (h the “Forty and Eigh: passe_of the salon October ihe Washington Ho Le Departmental _Willette P National Pouvoir Represe Edna McIntosh were the f cers Among the distin, Mrs. Ethel Chapeau Na A of Virginia. Le Demi C Richard English mander F. G. Fraser Sprague. second vice dep: mander: Grand Chof de Miller and Mrs. Miller; Gr: Gare Passe, J. V. Byrne; Ge Harris, national director ‘education of war orphans, the American Legion; L. T. Faulconer, department vi mander of Maryland; Father Hurney grande l'aumonier; Mrs. Joseph Mimd, president Federation of American Legion Auxiliary Units of the District; Mrs. Jennie Knight, presice Unit; Mrs. Marion Mar! Victory Unit; Mrs. Clara Humphries president. Sergt. Jasper Unit; Thomas J. Pratley, Legion department publicity officer, and E. E. Corwin, Legion de- partment uniform officer 8 Virginia Hutchins, Helen Louise des les Dernicr, Distric pants in World War orphan ships, were also guests Representatives of the silon p; pated in the welcome given Schumann-Heink by the Americin Le- £lon at Union Station last Sunday. Le Chapeau National Mrs. Murphy pre- sented a boquet of roses to the distin- uished Gold Star Mother with greet- B Trom the Boutiqus National. The business meeting of the salon m- R E Llovd H R. Reynolds William Wile ph B. Havil P. McGrath nd, ch: and the offi on n Legion 1was held Wednesday evening at the ‘Washington Hotel. Chairmen of stand- ing committees gave reports. Partner Lois McRae, chairman le chapeau fund, announced plans for a dinner dance to be held at Forest Glen Club, Novem- ber 25. A meeting of the advisory council of U S. 8. Jacob Jones Post was held Monday evening at the home of Comdr. Tatspaugh. A membership drive is planned, with Beulah Phoebus in charge. Past Comdr. Eunice Dessez of this post has been ap- pointed by Department Comdr. Frazer to be chairman of the World War Or- phans’ Committee The national organization has sent out a call to all departments to have their 1932 membership peid up by Armistice night. The executive board of the Henry C Spengler Unit, Nq. 12, American Legion Au , met at the home of Dr. Laura S. Brennon, 1102 Fifteenth street, Mon- day at 8 pm. with the president, Mrs Jennie Knight, presiding. Ratification of the following appointments was made: Mrs. Stephan, chairman of the Bicentennial Committee; Mrs, Cham- berlain, chalrman of Membership Com- | mittee; Mrs. Clara Sonneman, chairman |of Rehabilitation Committee; Mrs. | Lightfoot, ~assistant chairman; Mrs. Fawcett, chairman of Sick end Flower | Committee:, Mrs. James O'Conner Rob- | | erts, chairmsn of Education of War Orphans Comrsittee; Miss Reagan, chairman of Progrsm Committec: Mrs. Lightfeot, chairman of Legislation Ng- tional Defense Committee: Dr. Laura S. Brenncn, assistant chai: ; co.or bearer, Miss M. Isely. The Jane A. Delano Post, No. 6, met at the Harvey School of Music on Kanawha street, the studio of Alice B. Harvey, Following a brief business meeting, a musical program was given by Comrade Harvey, panist, assisted by Miss Ber- nadette Berard, violinist, and Miss Anna Ulke, cellist. Miss Mathilda Kolb, con- | tralto, rendered several solos. |~ Department Commander F. G. Fraser and his staff installed the officers, as | follows: Commander, Anne D. Pryde; | senior vice commandey, Phoebe Life: junior vice commander, Marie M. Owens; chaplain, May Lee Reinoehl; | adjutant, Marjorie D. Woodzell; finance | officer, Ada W. Duncan, and- historian, Maricita Plerson. Brief addresses were made by Comdr. Fraser, First Vice Comdr. Richard | O'Brien, Second Vice Comdr. Helen Sprague, Third Vice Comdr. William | McGrath, Past Department Paul McGahan and Department Child ‘ Welfare Officer Mrs. Annie Humphreys. | Distinguished guests included Past | Department Vice Comdr. Emily Carey, | Past Post Comdr. Jane Breen of Jacob | Jones Post, No. 2; Comdr. James Kehoe |of Bureau Engraving Post, Comdr. Browning of Victory Post, Comdr. John Scott of Police Post and Past Comdr. Warren Miller of Stuart Walcott Post. who made the presentation of a gold Legion pin on behalf of the Delano | Post to Comrade Nellie Rothwell, in | recognition of her distinguished service | a5 color-bearer in carrying the post col- ors in five consecutive National Con- vention parades, including the one in Paris. A past commander's badge was presented to the retiring commander, | Mary Hawthorne. Comdr. Pryde has appointed the fol- lowing officers and chairmen of com- mittees: Quartermaster, Bertha Me- Afee; sergzant at arms, Alma Louthan; color-bearers, Nellie Rothwell, Mary Knight; Welfare, Mary Hawthorne; Legislative, Alice’ M. Prentiss; bership, Marie M. Owens; Ways and Meens, Mabel Day; entertainment, Mary Hawthorne, and Publicity, Pauline M. McCarthy. ‘ Disabled American Veterans At the last meeting of the Executive Committee of the Department of the District of Columbia the plan for co- ordination of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion and Disabled American Veterans in the collection ;’nd distribution of clothing was rati- ed. of clothing for the use of the Veterans' Clothing Committee. Department Adju- tant and Welfare Officer, George W. Phillips, who is also serving as chair- | man of the Clothing Committee, stated yesterday that, while the response of the families who have thus far been contacted by the laundries has been generous in volume, the clothing con- tributed does not meet the require- ments—what is needed mostly is heavy winter garments, especially overcoats and shoes. Commander Lee T. Turner has re- quested every member of the D. A. V. in the District to assist by turning over to the Clothing Committee, Transportation Building, such warm articles of clothing for which they have no further use, and to also request their friends and neighbors to do like- wise, The committee in charge of arrange- ments for the Annual Department Con- vention Banquet. which will be held January of which Joseph Ashi, commander of Ace Rasmussen Chapter, is chairman, reported the engagement of the Raleign Hotel ballroom for the occasion. The next meeting of the Department first commander of the post. | Comdr. | Mem- | Twenty of the largest laundries | in the ecity are now making collections | 230 |, | terior Building this week. This is lhe‘ | first meeting of the sort of nearly 60! heads of the offices of the administra- tion throughout the country, and the general purposes are to improve ad- ministration through standardization and co-ordination National Com- mander E. C. Babcock of the D. A. V. will speak Monday morning. Conference was held last week be- tween national representatives of the D. A. V. and the American Red Cross looking toward a co-ordination of the efforts of the Red Cross to assist in the national employment campaign sponsored by the organization for 75.000 men throughout the country who are partially disabled, but employable and still out of a job. The campaign has the active support of the Veterans' Administration and the Department of Labor, through the U. S. Employment Service, directed by John R. Alpine, assistant to Secretary Doak. Wiliam Wand. one of the national | rehabilitation officers in Illinois, was | in Washington last week conferring on | plans to handle the unprecedented de- mands for assistance from veterans in | that state before the Veterans' Bureau. | In planning extension of the D. A. V. in North Carolina W. E. Fasnacht national representative of the organiza- tion in the Tarheel State, was in Wash- ington last week. One of the decisions made during his visit was that within the next month John N. Egense of the staff of the Washington office will go to North Carolina to assist in the liaison work there for a short period. MARINE CORPS NEWS | Brig. Gen. John Henry Russell who has been ordered to the Quantico base troni San Diego, Calif., has the distinc- tion ol being the only commissioned officer in the history of the corps who, for a period of over eight years, repre- sented the State Department as Ameri- | can high commissioner to a foreign | country” (Haiti, 1922-1931). Lieut. Col. Howard W. Stone, who re- cently arrived on the West coast, has been ordered to corps headquarters tem- porarily for further assignment. Capt. Willlam W. Rogers, heretofore attached to the Marine detachment of the President's camp, Criglersville, Va., | has been ordered to duty at the Marine barracks, navy yard, this city. Capt. Henry F. Adams has been de- tailed to stafl duty in the Quartemas- | ter's Department as an assistant quar- ermaster. Chief Pay Clerk Clinton A. Phillips, heretofore “ordered to the Quantico base, has been ordered to Marine bar- racks, navy yard, Portsmouth, N. H., instead. Col. Constantine Marrast Perkins, re- tired, heretofore residing at Platts- burgh, N. Y., with his family, will take up residence in Washington approxi- mately November 1. Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, retired, now a resident of Philadelphia, has been approached by veteran Marines with & view to having him as their guest of honor at a banquet in this city prior to th» holidays. It is stated that | Gen. Butler is under contract to deliver |a series of lectures throughout the country. However, it is expected that he will be the veterans' honored - guest within the next six weeks. | W. C.T. U. News Cleveland Park Union will Monday at 2 pm. at Mrs. O. G. Christgau, 3733 Yuma streets, assisted by Mrs. Herbert Walthers and Mrs. J. B. Harry, ) meet the hcme of ‘The October meeting of the Mount Pleasant Union was held at the Friends Church, Thirteenth and Irving strects, the president, Mrs. E. C. Stan- (ton, presiding. Mrs. B. W. Andrews | led’ the devotional period. | " Annual reports were given by the | corresponding secretary, Mrs. Burt An- | dews; the treasurer, Mrs. M. C. Ben- | the recording secretary, Mrs. C. H. Hall, and directors of depart- ments, Mrs. John W. Gregg, for evan- gelistic and Sunday schools; Mrs. A. B. Carty, for flower mission, and Mrs. E. C. Stanton, for international relations. Mrs. J. A. Edgar gave an account of the meeting of the Gospel Mission Union. | ~Mrs. James M. Doran spoke esses were Mrs. Mrs. Doran. The Chevy Chase Union will meet Wednesday in the Presbyterian Church House, 5838 Chevy Chase parkway. | The president, Mrs. E. L. Eaton, will preside. Canon Chase of the First Episcopal Church of New York City and superintendent of the National Reform PFederation, will be the speaker. Mrs. H. L. Shrader, contralto, will sing, accompanied by Mrs. J. W. Milburn. There will be election of officers. Luncheon, which precedes the business | meeting, will be at 12:30 o'clock, Mrs. Charles Schafer in charge. The Capitol Hill Union met Wednes- day afterncon. The president, Mrs. Bixler, was in the chair. The devotions | vere led by Mrs. Holsopple. Mrs, | Stevenson was the new member secured | this month. The following were delegates to the annual convention: Mrs, M. H. Irish, delegate at large: Mrs. Meyers, Mrs, Moore, Miss Tilton, Mrs. Bier, Mrs. Leonard, Mrs. Fernsner, Miss Bass, Mrs. Baer and Mrs. Hughes. The following officers were elected President, Mrs. Bixler; vice president, | Miss Anna Tilton; recording secretary, | Mrs. Muffiy; corresponding secretary, | Mrs. Church; treasurer, Mrs. Host- William Linder and H.| Executive Committee will be held at % the Department Transportation budget for' the coming p.m. October Welfare Building. The year will be ta a toker 28, Office in 28 en up. of appreciation affording entertainment at national convention: talized men the ve! for w rans last McLean, . 5 cently for $7.500 her the ell as ted an elaborate basket of schedule by all jame gton office natio ization and assistants will partici- the we e of reg! t at i Service the French Legion s a member of the been officers pre of deliberations of a* nal managers of the the Schumann-Heink the Belasco made s the of the pared this In- John Drinkwater’s collection of United | States stamps was sold in London re ANSWER TO YESTERDAY'S PUZZLE. | TAKE i YOUR | AUTOMOBILE | NORFOLK va. RECARDLESS OF SIZE OR WEIGHT Experimental Automobile Rate Eifective October 20 to December 31 Cheaper Than Driving Drive l 7th Street Wharf or Phone Dlstrict 3760, Br. 3 NORFOLK AWASHINGTON LINE: 200 MILES (¢} K228 OLD POINT va. A delightful break in your Southern tour. Avoid the strain of driving and road risk—no gas, mno oil, no dust, no wear, no trouble and no better way to go. Each car must be accompanied by passenger holding regular adult ticket for passage. Transportation of car subject to limit of space available on steamer. | The Heroes of Our Youth ‘ (Continued From Third Page) | Arthur” T am told, too, by some of the dealers that more coples each year | are sold of the Iliad and Odyssey for boys and girls than of all the adult translations combined. Another classic the children are keeping alive. Perhaps it is only natural, because the child’s imagination is not so af- fected by changing styles and customs You might think, for example, that the tales by Jules Verne would be out- moded. “Around the World@n Eighty | Days,” indeed! Why now we do it in eight (or is it five?). But not at all. One of the recent successes among juveniles has been an “omnibus edi- tion” of Verne, containing.“The Myste- rious Island” “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea” and_*‘Around the World in Eighty Days.” His sepa- rate titles, too, in many editions are always in print, and always in stoc piles of them—in the juvenile depart- ments. | list of animal cla Still Respond to Lure. The real children tocay respond to Jules Verne just as they always did. They respond, too, to “Treasure Island” and, to a less extent, to “Kidnaped.” | Nobody can say how many coples of the former have been sold—in America | at any rate—because it has been free | picking for many publishers. But it is | certainly up in six figures, more prob- ably in seven. Kipling, of course, like Stevenson, still sells in sets, but among | all his works “The Jungle Book” is beginning, 1 am told, definitely to emerge as the best seller of the lot, be- cause of its appeal to children. And the time may not be far off when he, | too, will be & classic kept alive by the | very young. “When We Were Very Young'— | there’s another. It sold more the sec- ond Christmas after it was out than it did In the entire first year. It is still selling, as are the Milne books which followed it. Most novelists—even the | authors of best sellers—would be glad | to swap the royalties from any one | of their books for Milne's from “When | We Were Very Young. And who | wouldn't like to get: royaities on all the | thousands and thousands of coples of | Jobanna Spyri’s “Hejdi” sold in Amer- | ica alone? There are at least five dif- | ferent_editions of it. | If “Lewis Carroli” and his heirs could have collected Toyalties on all | the copies of all the editions of “Alice | in Wonderland” sold since that work came out, their income tax would bal- ance the British budget. And think of the poscible income of J. R. Wyss and his heirs under a_perpetual inter- national _copyright! Who was J. R Wyss? Fancy your not knowing! You know his book well enough, but you | read it at & time when an author's | name meant little to you (the way the | majority of adults stiil read books). Captures Childish Imagination. He wrote a work entitled “The Swiss | Family Robinson.” It was full of utter impossibilities, but it was also full of | that something which captures entirely | the imagination of the child. There | are at least three illustrated editions of it in print from American publish- | ing houses alone. How many there are in England and Europe I know | not. But when you reflect that a much less famous book, James Otis' “Toby Tyler,” has sold 250,000 copies and is | still_selling, without an international | market, you can gain a glirimering idea of the staggering number of “Swiss Family Robinsons” which have been printed and sold. | “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm” has probably sold as many copies as “Toby Tyler,” 2nd is still in demand. But a more remarkable sale is that of John Fox's storles of the Kentucky moun- tains, which have sold, they say, over a miliion coples. You would not suppose them to be juveniles, but that depart- ment is where you now find them at Brentano's, for instance. Thelr senti- ment and color, it appears, appeal to adolescents. Young folks in their teens are kéeping them in print. Boys like to keep up-to-date, not in their imeginations, but in their ac- quaintance Wwith practical things. Books on popular mechanics and on things to do and things to make with the hands come out successfully at periocic intervals, brought up to date. The airplane, for example, has made a great sale for books of instruction in making model flying machines. But even in this practical field, the boy or | girl is concerned largely with timeless | things, such as scoutcraft and dolls— | the hunter and the home-maker. | Dan Beard's Handy Books for boys | RESORTS. _ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. SaCAROLINAAVE. 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Long distance _phone Luray For Literature W PANORAMA, Luray, Va. * | in Norway, Maine are still best sellers; camping appeals | more than mechanics, and a boy would | rather make a hut than a radio. By the same token he would rather read about animals than the kind of people and adventures found in madern real- istic and psychological fiction. He | doesn’t want to fish in the stream of consciousness. but in the Scurdnahunk. | Ernest Thompson Seton built a beau- tiful estate in Darien on the proceeds of his animal stories, which are still in demand. “Bob, Son of Battle,” by Alfred Olivant, is still selling. Ho many copies of “The Call of the Wil have been sold probably nobody can say. It is a juvenile now, and hun- <reds of thousands of people are grow- ing up who will known Jack London merely as that of the author of this story. A" recent animal story, “Bambi” translated from the Austrian writer, Felix Salten. bids fair to go into this s, and, of course, e_animal stories for litfle children by Thornton Burgess go on and on sell- ing. as does that genuine classic, “Uncle Remus.” Your “Old Creole Days,” your Thomas Nelson Pages, perhaps your Roark Bradfords come and go, but Br'er Rabbit goes on, apparently, for- | gver. The children are making it the | enduring classic of the South, just as | it is the juvenile department which | keeps “Uncle Tom's Cabin” on the shelves. Of course, there are juveniles which, though best ' sellers in their day, do not | endure. When I was a boy there were several writers whose works were enor- mously popular, but who today 'm to be forgotten. One of them was a ' man named Cbarles Stevens, who lived (and may still, for they live long up there), and wrote delightful stories about the Maine wil- derness, about hunting moose and pull- ing vast fishes out of wilderness lakes. | 1 think he must have mentioned Katah- din, because all my life I cherished a | desire to climb that rugged and lonely | summit. When I stood upon it at last, | and looked over the green wilderness dotted ~ with quicksilver ponds, I seemed to be coming back home. I was fulfilling a desire roused in me years before by Stevens' stories. Another writer of my boyhood, . to whom I owe most of what little mis- information about history I possess, was G. A. ‘Henty. He wrote a long series of historical storles, such as “The Young Carthaginian,” which were very popular. Horatio Alger is still sold, but | only on the 10-cent counter. I never read him, however. I was much more inclined to the classic, and among my | favorite boaks were Hawthorne's “Won- der Book” and ‘“Tanglewood Tales, which, of course, are still in demand— | much ‘more in demand than his adult novels, though Hawthorne is by no means one of those authors who is kept alive only by the children. There are a great number of new juveniles published every year, graded all the way from picture books for in- | fants to stories for boys and girls of high school age. Most of them, of course, are negligible, and perish, even as the books for adults. Many of these books trade on the curious idea of | some adults that, because it is for young people, a juvenile ought to be cheaper than'an adult story. It costs, alas, as much to print it, and it ofte costs the kind of author who should be | writing for boys and girls as much labor to write it. They Come in Series. Some of the new juveniles, of course, will go on a long time, and a rare one may become a classic. For instance, how about “Hitty, Her First Hundred Years,” by Rachel Field? This story of a doll, which won the Newberry | Medal, has charm, dramatic story- telling quality (Miss Field is also a | dramatist) and historical interest. It ! This New Secretary | | in_ series. | acters (characters you have quite for- | publishers don't seem to think this | larly. proved ;opuhr at once, and appears to be headed for indefinite life. One thing about juveniles everybody bhas noticed is their tendency to come Once you Write & juvenile story and it catches on, your publisher is never happy till he has chained you 10 a galley and made you produce book after book with variants of the same title. (Witness the Dr. Doolittle series) He has a good reason for this. When a boy or girl reads a book and Jikes it. he or she immed!ately wants more of the same. As there is a new set of juvenile readers coming along every year, it is essential to have a new book for their parents to buy them, so that after they read it they can clamor for the older books by the same author. In other words, to keep selling your older juvenile stories, you have to keep procucing new ones. And don’t T know it! Far back in the mists of history. in 1912 (or was it 18122 Either year seems equally far away now) I wrote a book called “Boy Scouts of Berk. shire,” in which I put a lot of my experiences as a Scout Master. Tre book sold, and I was persuaded to write a second. Then a third. And so_on. apparently ad infinitum. Having started with a definite lo- cality, which was not only featured in | the title but used to give some interest | in the story, definite localities seem to | be demanded in succeeding stories. As these books strive to be accurate, I have to go to the localities, and I have to do a lot of the things the bays subse- quently do in the stories. I have been up high mountains, I have descended into deep canyons, I have paddled a dugout canoe in the waters of the Dis- mal Swamp, I have toted a pack on the Long Trali in Vermont. Makes Sales Perk Up. When T stop writing, the sales of the old books drop off. When I pro- cuce a new Boy Scouts somewhere-or- other, sales of all the past books in the series perk up. None of them has ever sold like a best seller, but when & book written in 1912 keeps on selling, even in small amounts, in 1931, and you keep on getting letters from small boys about it, who discuss its char- gotten) as if they were living people— as indeed to the small boy they are— it gives you a queer feeling. Not un- pleasant. It is even more pleasant when & small boy arrives with his| father at your house, and he gazes at you much as you once gazed on Charles Carleton Coffin and then produces a copy (very dirty) of your book, for you- to sign. It almost reconciles you to the mecessity of packing up again and going to some far place, there to shin up _and down precipices, and com- ing klxr{e and spending two or three montMs going back over your tracks in imagination, with whatever Boy Scouts you think could safely make the grade. Of course, what I'd like to do is to write a “Boy Scouts in a Corner of the Library,” to be followed by “Boy Scouts on the Sitting Room Couch.” but my smacks sufficiently of adventure. I shall probably die of old age at the bottom of the Grand Canyon or on the glaciers of old Rainier. Come to ;hlnk of it, I guess I'd rather die that vay. Won't Spoil Memory. The cther day I read in some lit- erary supplement a criticism of Cooper, of his style and his women rticu: Evidently it had occurreg-w th critic, perhaps as a result of growin interest in all things early American, from literature to warming pan and lecoy ducks, to reread “The Spy” and “The Last of the Mohicans.” I sup- pose that’s all right, but not for me! I have no intention of spoiling what is, 1 suppose, the happlest memory of my childhood—the hours I spent with Hawk Eye and Unca: What did I care for the style? What did I care for the psychology of the women—if any? Here was a book of adventure by a man who knew what he was talking fil?ut, knew how to tell a story and could fire my imaginatien till the old frontier of my native land became a part of my living conscious- Winthrop Desk— $34.75 —It is a beautiful, use- ful desk in mahogany or walnut finishes with such notable new fea- tures as four ball-and- claw feet—center draw- er guides—secret letter compartments — auto- matic lid supports—ad- Justable book shelves. Yet it is most modestly priced. Fourth Floor. —_—— = e ness, and has remained so ever since And_ when I see a stack of “The Last of the Mohicans” in a bodk store, in two editions at least, nicely illus- trated, shd still being sold to boys or for boys, I don't think that Cooper's psychols of women matters. The boys will mever know the difference The book is authentically releasing their imaginations into an earlier America and that is a fine and an im- portant thing to do. 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