Evening Star Newspaper, October 25, 1935, Page 30

B—10 U.S. GUIDE BOOK RESEARCH BEGUN 5,000 Experienced Authors Writing Five-Velume Work for W. P. A. The Works Progress Administra- tion's branch of intellectual endeavor | today put its spotlight on long-hidden secrets of American lore and history, buried for years in dusty documents and the memories of remote peoples, | as it set 5,000 experienced authors to | work gathering material for a master guide book of the United States. The destitute writer, dependent on the work-relief program for food and shelter, will scour every nook and cranny of the country to produce the five volumes of 600 pages each which will make up “The American Guide.” Henry Alsberg, director of the Writers’ Division, professional and service projects section of the W. P. A, with $3,000,000 to spend, remarked: “No section of the United States is to be neglected by the guide, and it will give special attention to all cxties; of 10000 or more. These cities num- | ber roughly 1,000, and each will be| the center of activity with an office and with investigators who will oper- | ate within its borders and search its surrounding neighborhood for color | and information.” | No Thorough D. C. Guide. Even Washington possesses “no| thorough guide,” according to Alsberg, once a foreign correspondent for New | York newspapers and later a play- wright and director of the Province- town Theater in New York's Green- wich Village. “The workers will do more than prepare articles for “The American | Guide,” Alsberg continued. *“Original | reports, maps and illustrations will be | left with each city, county and State for use in preparing local guides, “The local guides will supply a need that has not been adequately met by existing compilations even in the older communities, where much has been done to interest outsiders in scenic wonders and historic sights.” Alsberg has been organizing this | project for two months. Relief ron‘1 writers not employed in gathering | material for the guide will devote | their attention to drafting semi- monthly feld reports on the activities of the W. P. A, to be used as a gen- eral report to be made to President Roosevelt on all undertakings of the relief program. The writers will also compile an | encyclopedia of Government functions and engage in a number of other re- earch projects. Alsberg’s super index of Amerca, | vhich “the writers will prepare as painstaking and accurately as they | would if they were writing their own books over their own signatures,” ex- | pects to cover thoroughly & long list | of subjects from the general topog- raphy and flora and fauna, to neigh- borhood architecture. Price Not Yet Announced. Although Alsberg has made no an- nouncement concerning the price of | the guide, it is expected each volume | will cost between $1 and $1.50, with a special rate for the purchased com- plete set of six. It will be many months before it is available. The many results of the work, ac- cording to the W. P. A.. will include: 1. Rediscovery of many forgotten facts about American shrines and the | Nation's great dead; ! 2. Enable the sightseer, “whether bent on a day’s excursion or an ex- tended tour,” to find fresh scenes to | entertain him and to promote his| knowledge of America as a whole; 3. Reveal “the distinctive cultural, | historic or economic _traditions” of | hundreds of communities known only | to & handful of people; ; 4. Give descriptions of sections of the United States that remain prim- itive wildernesses; 5. Describe festivals such as the Portland, Oreg., rose festival; the New Orleans Mardi Gras; the Santa Fe| fiesta; the Bethlehem, Pa., Bach music | festival, and various Indian ceremonial dances; 6. Provide school children with a useful source book. The guide will also help the foreign visitor, according to Alsberg, who said of the travelers from abroad: “Of course, all desire to visit New York City and Washington, D. C.; they have all heard of Niagara Falls, the steel mills of Pittsburgh, the stock- vards of Chicago and the automobile plants of Detroit. | “Unfortunately, the belief is current in some places abroad that the red skins still haunt the primeval forests | supposed to be just north of Yonkers, | N. Y., and that the traveler in America | is constantly exposed to the danger of | peing scalped.” Many Contributing Causes. NEW CASTLE, Pa. (#)—This is how the fire started in Joe Frengel's iiouse: An automobile hit a pole. A power line fell across the feed wire to the | house. All the fuses blew out and so much heat was created in an electric | iron that it set fire to the family wash | near the ironing board. Railway Electrified. ‘The Filios-Breli Railway line on the Black Sea is to be electrified by Tur- key, which owns it. | DAILY SPECIALS SATURDAY, OCT. 26TH SUNDAY, OCT. 27TTH PURE CANDIES (Made without Glucose) Double Cream Wrapped Caramels 60¢ Value—fall pound 29¢ ssorged Chatelaine 70¢ Value—fall pound 39¢ Milk Chocolate Covered Evangeline Milks olate Covered Fruits and Nuts $1.25 Value—olipoand 19¢ AT THE FOUNTAINS Strawberry Sundae regaler 15¢ 10¢ e THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, BECK GIVEN REGIONAL RESETTLEMENT POST D. C. Man Will Be in Charge of Relocating Families in Five States. By the Associated Press. CHAMPAIGN, IIl, October 25.— Appointment of P. G. Beck, Washing- ton, D. C., as regional chief of the Resettiement Section of the Division of Rural Resettlement was announced Smith, director. 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Starnes Homann of Omaha, Nebr., and Wil- liam Jay Gold of McKeesport, Pa. These applicants must appear be- fore State committees and later be- fore district groups, which ~ill make | a final seceltion of the men who will | go to England to study at Oxford University. D. C.. FRIDAY, 'OCTOBER 25, 1935. SCHOOL BUSSES HIT FOR OVERCROWDING East Silver Spring P.-T. A. At- tacks Conditions in Trans- porting Pupils. Special Dispatch to The Star. SILVER SPRING, Md., October 25. | —Overcrowding of school ~busses carrying pupils to and from outlying | districts to the East Silver Spring School was assailed by its Parent- Teacher Association at a meeting Monday night. The busses now carry approximately 125 pupils to the East Silver Spring School and the Takoma-Silver Spring Junior High School, it was said, often crowding in as many as 50 and 60 children on one trip. A special com- mittee headed by Guy F. Mclntyre was appointed to confer with the County Board of xducation regarding | | the matter. 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