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THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D.-1C; AUGUST 18, 1935—PART FOUR. NEW BOOKS OFFER WIDE VARIETY—JUSTICE AGENTS o WORLD FLIGHT WITH LINDY| Bnne Lindbergh's Delightful New Book Takes the Reader Over Far-Flung Skyways With th: Colonel—Herrmann Deutsch Visits Mexico—QOther New Novels. / o heal | Even though somewhat slight, this book is worth the reading. PETRONIUS IN MOTLEY. “KING LEHR” AND THE GILDED AGE. By Elizabeth Drexel Lehr. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co. ITHOUT doubt this is one of the mo-. unpleasant books that has come to hand in a long time. It pur- ports to be a delineation of what may be called the best New York soclety, from the late 90's until, approximately, the end ~f the World War. | was a daughter of the Drexel family of Philadelphia. In 1901, a young widow, she married Harry Symes Lehr of Baltimore, a champagne salesman and penniless enturer who had %hu an interest in which disgust and | As most readers will know, Mrs. Lehr | By Mary-Carter Roberts. NORTH TO THE ORIENT. By Anne Morrow Lindbergh. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co. NNE MORROW LINDBERGH, whose refusal, or inability, to do any vulgar thing has for some time made her a sort of mystery to many of her countrymen, appears clearly in this book for the humorous, civilized, sensitive woman that she is. She has great claims on all of us to become a type of perma- nent first lady (the remark has noth- ing to do with politics). She has,| certainly, the regard of a numerous| public. Those who, apart from the| fanfare and noise, would like to form an idea of her, cannot do better than read this book. For it is ostensibly | an account of her flight to Asia with | & her husband, made in 1931. But lt‘ ) 5 is really a personal document. | / \,\ W For she has not concerned herself | with any kind of record that cou]d‘( ¥ ™~ conceivably be called “data.” Her| ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH, husband, she remarks, was scientific enough for two. She was interested in people, in the whimsical nuances of human individuality, and she was enormously aware of the romance of her journey—her journey by air into| Asia. These things, remembered over | the years and miles, make up her book, “North to the Orient.” She is a charming writer, her charm being an altogether individual one. And clearly does she stand revealed here as the daughter of a diplomat. Her appreciation of the common | humanity of the peoples that she met—Esquimo islanders, Russian vil- lagers, the Japanese fisherman (he It is not devoid of interest; that is makes one of the most delightful | not what is implied by the term “un- chapters), rings delicate and true. Her | pleasant,” used above. On the con- respect for the customs of other lands | trary, it is highly interesting. But it was instinctive, and so, utterly courteous. She writes of these peoples | embarrassment must mingle, if the with affection. It is unthinkable that | reader is to accept the story which Mrs. they do not remember her in theilehr sets forth. #ame manner. She tells, to be more exact, two These, it would seem, are the es- | stories. One is of the course which sential aspects of her book. However, | society (monied American society of it may interest the reader to learn| New York, Newport and Paris) took also that she admits a fear of flying—i during the years in which its orna- at times. She graphically describes | ment, amusement-maker and occa- her terror as she watched her husband | sional dictator was her husband, the hunt for a landing in the fog off an| “King Lehr” of the title. The other unknown island of Japan, suppmz‘ is the account of her private existence down again and again, “like a knife as this man’s wife. going down the side of a pie tin, be- The latter tale, it would seem, being tween fog and mountain. Will he say | private, has no business in print. How- afterward, ‘It was nothing at all>’”. | ever, there are certain sociological And there are very few who will| justifications for the extraordinary read her book who will be able to note | revelations contained in the narra- her passing mention of a certain|tive. These justifications lie in the Japanese poem with eyes that are circumstance that an individual, of entirely dry. She is sitting in the tea Such standards as those which Mrs. house with a friend, “We * * * listened | Lehr attributes to her late husband, to the * * * cries of boys in the park | could for years have been regarded below us, chasing dragon flies with | 8s the flower and ornament and, lJong pointed bamboo sticks. generally, the’ perfect expression of “‘Do you know the Japanese poem | the Nation's society—not merely the (Hokkn) about the mother whose little | soclety which Americans accepted as boy has died?’ My friend repeated it: | their most brilliant, but that which “How far in chase today, | was considered representative abroad. 1 wonder, But without these justifications, it Has gone my hunter must be said, the account would be in Of the dragon fiy?” unpardonable taste. Just that. But of it one would rather not think. Anne Lindbergh is too brave & woman. POET OR PROPHET. PIER 17. By Walter Havighurst. New York: The MacMillan Co. TH’IE is the story of a strike. Many such books have been written, and the present time, with its restless- ness, seems destined to call forth even more. The essence of such works be- ing unvarying, it becomes the author’s problem to give life to his particular story by his method. ‘The present work is an example. The laborers, with which it is con- cerned, are seamen and longshore- men. Realistically, the scene is Seattle. The story portrays, as usual, the futility of the strike and the varying moods—desperation, exalta- tion, patience and brutality—with which varying types of workmen re- spond. This has all been done before. It is the author’s approach which gives “Pler 17” its individuality, an approach based on the plan of taking the officers and crew of a single ship and tracing their movements, from the walkout to the inevitable “settle- ment by compromise.” It is & moving story, chiefly because of its author’s obvious sincerity. More- over, having been a seaman and long- shoreman himself, he knows his ma- terials. (He is now a university pro- fessor.) But, taken all in all, it would seem that he is a poet rather than a novelist. And & poet may often write & very fine prose work, but seldom a great novel. That is the trouble here. Mr. Havighurst has taken too great care for form. His work is neat; there is no splendid masterly disorder in it. There is only fine feeling and meticulous fitting together of sections of material, into a whole that be- comes too smooth to have any sur- prises. Perhaps the most significant pas- sage in the book is the speech of the captain of the vessel whose crew has struck. He is an old man. He is trying to handle the situation in all fairness. He says: “Take this strike. It's a hard busi- ness. The men have got their union telling them what to do. And who have they got to deal with? They don’t know any more than you or me. ‘There aren’t any owners nowadays. It's all corporation. If you want to know who owns this ship, just try to find out. You go up to the offices and you don't see any owners. You see managers and directors and agents, but you don't see any owners. ‘Who are we working for, mister? I don’t know. And those fellows up there don't know either. It’s just a name, Lampson Line. Old man Lampson died 20 years ago. Now ‘when there’s trouble you can't find anybody to straighten things out with. I can go down and talk to these men in the pickets. But what good will that be? Behind them is their unicn, and behind me is the corporation. It's all impersonal. The sense and the manhood have gone out of it. We work for something we don't even see, and I don’t even know what it is. Statistics—a i system—most likely. * * * You can't talk to a bookkeeping system. » * *” From this it will be seen that Mr. Havighurst, whether novelist or not, has brought vision to his problem. ‘That is & pretty fair statement of any routine labor trouble today—“the sense and manl] have gone out of it.” It is now in ¢he hands of clerks. the expedient of pure effrontery. He was presented to her by Mrs. George Gould. Their acquaintance flowered | under the combined sanctions of Mrs. | William Astor, Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs and Mrs. | Oliver Belmont. On the evening of their marriage (solemnized in St. Patrick’s) Mr. Lehr informed his bride that he had mar- ried her only for her money and that he wished no association with her whatsoever—beyond, of course, the as- sociation of permitting her to support him, On this basis they remained in holy wedlock for 28 years. Mrs. Lehr could not seek for divorce because of her mother’s prejudices. This would seem to be a sufficiently unlovely narrative in itself, but no reader can escape further implications as to the pecullarities of this man who became an international figure in American scciety. Indeed, such im- plications are strewn thickly through- out the book. This is the personal narrative. The other narrative, the delinea- tion of our social customs as worn during the period, follows the course of Mr. Lehr’s triumphs. He was leader of cotillions in New York and Newport. He designed the favors for the brilliant balls, he consulted with the great hostesses on all types of parties, he advised them about their gowns. When Mrs. Astor, in Paris, discovered that two of her hats were unbecoming, it was to him that she wrote for his “ready sympathy.” It was his boast that he began where Ward McAllister left off as arbiter of taste for the Four Hundred. He was the accepted. playboy of so- ciety. To him the Emperor of Ger- many remarked, “I am told that you are the man who makes America laugh.” And Lehr himself said of his successes, “Sampson’s strength lay in his hair . . . mine lies in the favor of women.” 2 It would seem to have been true. The great part of the presen‘ book is made up of accounts of the pranks with which he amused the ladies of his crowd so delightfully that they found him indispensable. And the question arises from this— what was the reason that women, in whose hands lay the wealth and power of empresses, should have found their true level of pleasure in undergraduate type of practical jokes? For while Mrs. Lehr reiterates that her hus- band was a brilliant man, she gives us no example of his wit that proves the statement. On the contrary, he Solution to Yesterday’s Puzzle. G/AFF RS IC[UIPIISTAICIK] AILIAIEMIVIERINJACIUIL AIR] [EMARIEIAMILIIAN] [JIOIL ITRDIY| IATIEISENEIVIOE] ) IS ESHRNEISIS] | scaled New York's social fortress by | emerges from her book a‘stuffed and mechanical buffoon, shrewd, to be sure, but within the narrowest limits. One cannot but worier why those women were content merely with an endlessly repeated routine of display. For their brilllant society, unlike other brilliant societies which have come and gone, seemed to have neither a taste for wit, nor concern for the arts, nor care for education, nor sense of class responsibility. Its purpose seems to have been spending. Its manners emerge as rudeness, its standards as an ignorant aping of Europe. Yet the men of that generation were among the most forceful that America has produced. They were the great buccaneers of our financial history. They had vision to see vast | possibilities and the unscrupulous energy to seize what they wanted. What accounts for the gap between | the spirit which accumulated the for- tunes and that which spent it? One hates to summon up once more the battered scapegoat of Victorian standards, but one feels that the an- swer is in it, just the same. The gilded age was one of the deification of the “good” woman. All that was required of any woman then was ob- | servance of the conventions, Beyond | that she might be stupid, unedu- | cated, dishonest, selfish and cruel, but she was not called to account for it. All that was asked of her was that she be conventional and female. Automatically, that made her sacred. That was enough. It makes an unpleasant picture— | the conjuring up, through the pages of | this book, of the spectacle of men | whose names are synonyms for force and vision, amassing such private wealth as the world has not often seen, while their wives created a so- iety which crowned “King Lehr.” It has passed now. Perhaps the page had better be turned down. As ! has been said, Mrs. Lehr's history | holds an interest for sociologists. One cannot but think that, had the standards of the gilded age included | @ place for a sense of class responsi- bility, the state of the country today vmlzht be very different. It makes an | interesting speculation, aryway. | UPHEAVAL IN MEXICO. THE WEDGE. By Hermenn B. Deutsch. New York: Frederick A Stokes Co. THIS novel purports to be an ac- | | count of the gradual growth of the revolutionary spirit in Mexico. For, according to its author, that spirit| was not a sudden flaming out, but a fire of the slow, creeping sort. de- | pendent not upon any leader or lead- ers, but upon the awakening of the peoples’ minds to what revolution promised them and an acceptance of | the responsibilities of independence., | It is discursively told, through the life story of a boy—a child at the time of Madero, 12 when he first | rode as banner boy with a detach ment of Villa's followers, in his teens | when he carried revolutionary dis- | patches and was taken into the studio | of “Arroyo, the great mural p.inm'."1 to develop his artistic talent, and still | | @ youth when he is executed as a| Spy by the government of Carranza. The author's purpose plainly is to give a broad picture of Mexican so- ciety throughout the period, and the ‘render's interest will be in this aspect | of the book rather than in any one character. Notwithstanding, the boy, as ‘well as the other figures of the |story, are all excellently human and one reads without any sense of a | mechanical symbolism. The dialogues | of the soldiers, the discussions of the | | rural gentlemen, the fairy tales of the | | old shepherd are wholly realistic: It is, on the whole, & superior piece of novel writing. One may fed] that perhaps the author’s account of the revolution is a trifle roseat; one may consider that the execution of the hero at the end is theatrically out of }key with the rest of the book, and not necessarily indicated. But one must enjoy the story anyway. A sort of leisurely, noisy, sunny spirit in- | | | | | | occupled with recounting horrors, so that, one feels, if Mr. Deutsch wanted first of all to catch the spirit of his land and people, he has accomplished | his purpose. For the rest, he has written a highly readable book. TYCOON—MIND AND SPIRIT THE MAGNATE: Willlam Boyce Thompson and His Time (1869- 1930.) By Hermann Hagedorn. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock. 'HIS biography of William Boyce Thompson might almost be taken as a (ypification of the American superman, provided, of course, that supermen are trammeled by any such limitations as nationality. For it is, first of all, a glamorous success story, such as all Americans sentimentally love, the tale of the rise to riches in its most spectacular vein. And after that it is an account of & man of great practical sense and forcefulness, groping in the dark to find his soul, asking himself, beyond his riches, what, in general, it is all about anyway. Surely there is something uniquely American about the combination of force and futility. The success story occupies a con- siderable portion of the book, de- tailing the operations on the stock market and in the mines by which Thompson amassed his millions. The psychic probing comes later, when Mr. Hagedorn describes Thompson’s en- thusiasm over the Russian experi- ment, his resolution to back Theodore Roosevelt for President in 1920, his founding of institutes for scientific research and his effort to give ex- pression to himself through the vari- ous elaborate homes which he built. He was not successful in any of these less material undertakings. President Wilson refused to recognize Russia, Roosevelt died, and, after building his final dream home at Picket Post, in Arizona, he left it to live in a plain frame house with a single bed room, sleeping porch, bath and kitchen. He did not lose his sense of the world's essential comicality, however, for, after yearn- ing after greater human freedom un- der Wilson, he was able to remark, in the days of reaction, “I am per- fectly willing to have Cal Coolidge for King and Andy Mellon for Queen to the end of my days.” It is a curious picture of force and simplicity that comes out of this book, byt perhaps not more curious than would come from & o BONAPA RTE FOUNDED G-MEN As Attorney General Under Theodore Roosevelt, Napoleon's Grandnephew First Organized the Force of Special Agents of the Department of ]ustice. By Don Bloch. NE of the most picturesque figures in American politics, described as “a sort of com- pound of Sicilian bandit and Scotch bluenose” and actually the grandnephew of Napoleon, first or- ganized the “detective force of special agents” of the Department of Justice now known as G-men. This was Charles Joseph Bonaparte, Becretary of the Navy and, later, Attorney General, in the cabinet of Theodore Roosevelt. He was a grand- son of Jerome, the younger brother of Napoleon I, who married Betsy Patterson of Baltimore, and the only authentic member of royalty who ever | entered politics on the American | scene. Known nationally as the "Impeflnli Peacock,” and more intimately as “Souphouse Charlie,” Bonaparte wrote prolifically—articles, speeches, essays and books—against public and private sin, on political and social subjects, for the magazines of the early 1900's. He was regarded as one of the sharpest | wits of his day and yet was one of the most humorless of men. He was by instinct a reyalist, by profession a democrat and a reformer. his three score and 10, and died childless and poor, June 28, 1921, already long forgotten. He lived DAVID D. CALDWELL. | Baltimore, then provided private tutors for him. departments of the Government have ing detective forces. It is certain, also, that not a few of them were impressed from the Treasury Department’s se- cret service branch, but being paid by the Department of Justice out of special funds appropriated for this usage. Organized Own Bureau. By act of Congress in 1908 this practice was forbidden. The Attor- ney General was forced to organize his own Bureau of Investigation. In 1906 the Attorney General had reported that criminal identification records were accumulating at the Fed- eral penitentiaries. He recommended that Congress authorize the collection and classification of those records and their exchange with the States. In 1908 he announced that arrange- ments were being made for exchange. The following year, the records which | had been transferred to Washington the year before were all sent to Leavenworth Penitentiary, in Leaven- | worth, Kans. There the first Bureau of Identification was set up. It was —— | not until 1923 that this bureau was again moved to Washington and made | @ part of the Bureau of Investigation. ¢! Before 1908 the Department of Jus- At Harvard he was a brllhg:\ scholar, graduating in the class of '12. | 'C€'s group engaged in collecting evi- Two years later he had completed the | dence of Federal law violations then work in the Cambridge law school and | ¥8S 2 mixed group hired from other September 1, 1875, married Ellen | d€Partmenw. but paid for from dif- CHARLES JOSEPH BONAPARTE. Wed on Christmas Eve. While on a yacht trip in 1803, the 19-year-old Jerome had met the | than slap-stick humors. forms the pages, even when they are P similar probing of other of our great money kings. For the desire to ac-| cumulate is, itself, essentially a child- ish thing. A man with whom it was ever the ruling passion could not be expected to develop great subtlety of mind, or even a secure maturity. Such monuments as en- dowments for welfare and research must needs do his philosophizing for him. Shall we weep, then, for our wistful millionaires? VILLAGE REVISITED. MY OWN, MY NATIVE LAND. By Thyra Samter Winslow. Garder City: Doubleday, Doran & Co. N/IISS THYRA SAMTER WINS- low, who writes a slick journal- istic prose and does have a rudi- mentary sense of irony, is a trifle diffi- cult to catalogue in the ranks of our pepular writers. For her rudimentary sense of irony (aforesaid) ralses her above the forthrighi hacks, and may even have created for her (we do not know) a public which believes her to be a brilliant and penetrating writer. | On the other hand, she is perfectly mechanical, a formula writer as truly as is Roy Octavius Cohen. The differ- ence is that her formula makes use And some- times, although probably by accident, using her faithful prop, Miss Winslow makes a real effect. So one hardly knows what to do with her. In the present volume she has set dowrl stories of her girlhood home, | satirizing small-town characters in her obvious way, aiming for a point | in such a manner that, after one page, the dullest reader could tell what she SUNDAY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE| ACROSS. 1.Standing with all feet on the ground: Her. . Adjudged. . Father or mother's father. . Siren who lures boatmen to destruction. . Alleviate. . Tibetan re- ligion. . Insnares. . Oily beech-tar compound. . Pertaining to | Edessa. i Small bay. | . Loss of feeling . A hall: Fr. . Web- footed birds | In no manner. . Massachusetts | cape. ! Slashes. . Possesses. . The birches. . Most painful. . Egyptian weight: var, . To scuffle, . Root out. . Willow plantation. . South Ameri- can country. . Flow forth. . River in Hun-| gary. 57. A medicine. 61. Suitsbly. | 62. Department of| France, fa- mous for its truffies. 66. Period of time. 67. Thing present. 69. Golf mound. 70. Elegant. 71. Téwn of Ju- dah: Joshua xv, 21. 72. Samoan sea= port. 73.0ne who looks carefully in & given direc- tion. 5. Divides. 76. Stoul, cord. 717. Righteous. 78. Purely specu- lative. 80. Offenses against the 53 55. 56. | 88.Consumed. 89. Powcered: Her. 90. Upper tor old Greek music. 91. Make longer. 93. Last king of , _ ancient Troy. 95. Said. 97. Put down. 98. Punty in glass making. 100. Tidy. 101. Scatlered. 104. Animal collec- tion. 106. Fantasies. 110. Hawaiian octorus. 111. Feminine name. 113. To release, as a claim. 115. Corded fabric. 116. Deck of a ship. 119. Constellation. 120. Anger. 121. The poplar, 123. Threefold. 124. Elucidates. 130. Re-encoune tered. 131. Horse driven in law. 81. Daughter of Euryuus. 8Z. Rocky sea- shore plant. 83. Smash into bits. 85, Cooled. 86. Largest con- 87. m‘w&. moneyed, year-younger beauty, Eliza- beth of Baltimore. On Christmas eve Channing Day of Newport, R. L began to practice at once in Baltimore. | | Having money, he put himself on the | side of justice. Public cases appealed ferent appropriations by the Depart- ment of Justice. They were called an office of examiners, and subdivided | into seven services—for land and tim- to him, €0 he allied himself with the | D¢F frauds, peonage, etc., investiga- these two were married. Napoleon | let “My Own, My Native Land,” pass. | is coming to. Yet, with all this (and her slick journalistic prose) contriving to be, sometimes fairly amusing. No— one simply does not know what to do about her. Certainly she is not more obvious than at least one other writer who has had an gnormous success— Miss Edna Ferber. Aware that many people will think | that we are uttering praise, we ‘-m{ There seems to be nothing else to do about it. Books Received NON-FICTION. THE CONQUEST OF DEATH. By, Annie C. Bill. Boston: A. A. Beauchamp. YEAR BOOK OF 1935. Carnegie En- | dowment for International Peace. | Washington: Published by the| Endowment. | A DRAMATIC SERVICE OF WOR- | SHIP. By Catherine M. Conradi. Boston: The Beacon Press, Inc. MAKING A BETTER NEIGHBOR- ! HOOD. By Thelma J. Burdick | and Josephine Gifford. Boston: The Beacon Press, Inc. | EARLY HEBREWS. Ellis. Inc. Boston: The Beacon Press, FICTION. SECOND GROWTH. Pound. Hitchcock. By CAP'N BODFISH TAKES COM-|out of the pride parade which he MAND. By Edith Austin Holton. § | New York: Thomas ¥. Crowell Co. 14. French teacher, 15. Reaps. 16. Propused pho- tometric unit. 17. Amice; var. 18.0f the nose. 19. Repugnance. 20. Book of¥ Psalms. 21. Pardon. 30. Short letter. 31. Arrow poison. 38. Flat caps. 39. Tibetan monk. 40. Arranger. 41. Weighing ma- chine. 42.Like oats. 43. Straight be- tween Aus- tralia and New Guiana. 46. Having an ex- travagant style. 47. Hawailan wreath, 49. Exciting curl- osity. 81. Capuchin monkey. 52. To cyuse to sprout. in a gig. . To enter when not wanted. Food. Not perceived by the ear. Robber. Match unsuit- ably. . Irritates. . High silk hats. . Feminine name. DOWN. . Dexterity. . Rear part of an automobile. . Unaffected. . A round muscle. . Winged. . Catnip. . Medicated de- coction. . Small arcade. . Form of “to be.” 10. Beverages. 11. Tumult. 12. Region: E. I ndia. 13. ?fimfl.‘ Arthur | gilt-edged real estate. New York: Reynal & | was furious at his younger brother and refused to recognize the union. He suggested forthright desertion. ‘Two years later Jerome and Betsy went back to Europe on the yacht. But they parted at Lisbon, Portugal. Betsy got 60,000 francs a year as settlement; Jerome married again, and took up the busines of being King of Westphalia. son, Jerome Napoleon, was born, to be legitimatized later by Napoleon IIL Not until 1815 did Betsy get her divorce from Jerome. Then, using her settlement money, she traveled about and lived among the society of the Continent until 1840, noted for her beauty, caustic wit and her lavish expenditures upon her son. up to call himself Jerome Bonaparte- Patterson, married Susan May Wil- liams of Baltimore and in his turn became the father of two sons. One of them was Charles Joseph; the other, Jerome Napoleon, distinguished himself as a roving soldier in various campaigns abroad. | Then Betsy's | He grew | local reform rings. He became a mem- | ber of the Baltimore Reform League | and helped found the Civil Service Reformer, organ of the Maryland Civil Service League. Earned Sobriquet in 1884. It was at this time,’1884, that he earned a sobriquet which followed him all his days thereafter. As a Catholic who was never absent from his pew in Baltimore Cathedral on Sunday mornings, Bonaparte was vio- lently opvosed to the public schools system, just then getiing on its legs in America. « “As ridiculous the State should pro- | vide free schools,” he argued, “as that it should supply free soup houses!” A newspaper wit took up the phrase, and a descendant of the American line of a reigning royal family in Europe became “Souphouse Charlie.” ‘Through his civil service reform ac- tivities, Roosevelt heard of him. They | met first in 1889, while Roosevelt was 2 member of the Civil Service Com- mission. Both Harvard men, they worked together Later, as President, Left Grandsons $1,500,000. Betsy, now returned to Baltimore, ' died there at an advanced age in 1879. During these last 18 years in Baltimore she lived obscurely in a small boarding house, plodding about | of the stage prop of cynicism rather | THE LIFE AND REUG‘ONBOFET"{IE the town in rain or shine, collecting | y Emily | her rents. She took charge of the education of her two grandsons, sent Charles up to Harvard and, when she died, left the two boys $1,500,000 in Charles, horn on June 9, 1851, was taught early ty his mother to keep might have marched in because of his royal biood. She sent him first to a French school near his birthplace in 54. Unfastened. 56. Honorable men. 94. Simple. 96. Etruscan title. 98. Bicyclist. 57. Proverbial: | % Things which rare, Temek |101. Firearm. 58.Indian infant. 102 Soup tureen. 59. Yellow form |103. Rekindle. of chlorophyl. |104. Fertilizer. 60. Draw 105. Ireland. tighter. 107. Inhabitant of 62. Published biblical Aram. without per- |108. Souvenir. mission. 109. Private detec- 63. First barbarian tive. ruler of Italy; |112. Scotch land- 476-493. lords 64. Full. 65. Fearrd. 68. Bundle of straw. 70. Correct state- ments. _ 74. A fox. 75. E. Indian starch root. 79. A sphere of operation, 82. Painting. 84.Go back. o 114. East Indian herb. 117. Attack. 118, Flower leaf. 121. Get up. 122. Propasition assumed to be tiue. 125. To. 126. Stride. 127. Snare. 128. Dominion. 129. Son of Beriah: | he gought Bonaparte's services on the Board of Indian Commissions, then as special counsei to pfosecute alleged frauds in the postal service. These offices lasted from 1902-05. In 1905, with the expectation of suc- ceeding (o the Attorney Generalship on the retirement of William H. Moody, he accepted the portfolio of Secretary of the Navy in a long- winded letter to Roosevelt. At the time there was great news- paper raillery directed at him: “The grandnephew of the Little Corporal 8s head of the United States Navy.” But, then, as all his life, he was in- different to newspaper comment. He Wwas probably one of the most indolent Secretaries the Navy has ever.had. For weeks running his sttendance at his office was limited to an hour a day. He still kept his residence in | Baltimore and, leaving there by the 11 o'clock train daily, he got to Wash- ington at noor. dashed to the Navy Department and then caught the 1 o'clock train back to Baltimore. He | lingered Tonger in the Capital only_on cabinet-meeting days. Became Attorney General. In December, 1906, when he was 45, he became Attorney General. This office suited his abilities better. He appeared before the Supreme Court cumbency and delivered 138 opinions through the Department of Justice to the President and heads of depart- ments. Only three of these latter were not completely his owm He argued 49 cases orally before the court and submitted seven on briefs. | Twenty of these cases came under the | anti-trust laws, helping to dissolve the American Tobacco Co. and earning |him cnother epithet —the “trust buster"—which only amused him While in this capacity he aided in the organization of the body of special agents which in later days have come to be known as “G-men.” They gained no great reputation during his regime, it is said, because, wishing “to make his own mistakes,” Bonaparte kept such close check on his detective force that he left little room for in- itiative. An interesting sidelight at this point would reveal the origins of this force of men, about whom so much has been in print lately, but about whose be- ginnings little has been told. Contrary to prevalent opinion, the G-men are in no sense § recent gov- ernmental development. A specific act of Congress of May 27, 1908, is responsible for their establishment, and J. Edgar Hoover, far from being their first head, is their sixth. Archives Aid Story. Pieced together from interviews with two men—David D. Caldwell and Stanley Finch, both still active in the Department of Justice—and old rec- ords from the archives of the Attor- ney General, the story, briefly, is this: Part of the reason Bonaparte had been appointed to the office of Attor- ney General by Roosevelt was to give over his special talents to the prose- cution of offenders in the vast land fraud activities going on in the West at that time—1905-10. When he came into office the newspapers were also carrying frightful stories of timber frauds, peonage and crimes against the Treasury laws of one sort or an- other. As far back as 1878 the reports of the Attorney General had called to the attention of Congress the fact that he had really no force for the investi- gation of “official acts, records and ac- counts” of district attorneys, marshals and clerks. The following year a small appropriation was provided for such a group of examiners. The re- port for 1884 shows that the Attorney General was using examiners to look up the accounts of the court offices in the fleld, where there was also much Chrone viti, 15, 132. Before. 1135. Pocketbook : Gypsy term. 88. Operatic solos. horse. corrupt practice. Records then become vague for & time, but 1t is certain that these e: aminers were being hired -from personally in 560 cases during his in- | tions. Executive Force Lacking. Then came Bonaparte. His first report, for 1807-8, says, in part: “The attention of Congress should be called | to the anomaly that the Department of Justice has no executive force, and, more particularly, no permanent de- tective force under ‘ts immediate con- trol. This singular condition arises mainly from the fact that before the office of the Attorney Gereral was transformed into the Department of Justice a highly efficient detective service had been organized to deal with crimes against the Treasury laws, which force has been in effect lent from time to time to this department to meet its steadily increasing need for an agency of this nature, without, however, being removed from the con- trol of the Treasury Department.” He further suggests that if the De- partment of Justice “had a small, carefully selected and experienced force under its immediate orders, the necessity of having these officers (le. the mercenaries from the Treasury Department, etc.) suddenly appointed special deputies, possibly in consider- able numbers, might be sometimes avoided, with greater likelihood of economy and a better assurances ot | satisfactory results.” But behind this recommendation there had been an inter-office memo- randum from ore David D. Caldwell, then a young attorney in the office of the Assistant to the Attorney General | Bonsparte. It had suggested, in the | early months of 1907, that this force of hired men from the Secret Service and elsewhere, who had been doing the criminal investigation for the De- partment of Justice, be made & per- manent part of the office of the At- torney General, under the head of one man there. These Secret Service men, loaned by John E. Wilkie, then | their chief, were doing good work— riding bumpers and rods on trains out West, gathering information and ar- resting their men at straggling village water tanks. But they were not un- der the control of the Department of Justice. Caldwell, now attorney with the Department of Justice, saw this as a situation likely to need correc- | tion. He is perhaps the first man | who planted the seed which later grew into the Department of Federal Investigation. Finch Headed Examiners. Within the Department of Justice at this time, as nominal head of the | examiners, was Stanley W. Finch, now | attached to the Accounts Division of the Department of Justice. He had | been connected with the department since 1893, and by 1908 was chief | bookkeeper in the division which took | charge of investigations. He, too, saw the great need of or- | 8anizing this heterogeneous group of examiners under one head in the De- partment of Justice. Therefore, with | the advent of Bonaparte, he prepared (Continued on Page | No long waits for the Book You Want! 2 books, 1 week 25¢ No Deposit Required The HECHT Co. RENTAL LIBRARY N Rots 1> —and Un-Tax = Industry SAFEGUARD PRODUCTIVE CAPITAL A new approach to the susi- ness problem. A unique and startling book by LOUIS ‘WALLIS. 75 cents From your bookseller or Douunév DORAN ity. c“-“