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B—2 THE EV. G_STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1936. LITERARY BELITTLING OF AMERICA CONDEMNED BY SELDES < POLITI CAL RESULTS SEEN What Country Is Better Situated Than Ours, Critics of U. S. Democracy Are Asked—Handbook Explains Spanish Revolt — Novel Satirizes New Deal By Mary-Carter Roberts. . By Gilbert Seldes. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. new work of Gilbert Seldes’, given to evaluating America today, is laid out by his own statement, in “four general di- visions.” These are, still in his own words: “First, countercharge: That the in- tellectual attack upon America has been ill-natured or ignorant or both; that the literary belittling of America has carried forward a propaganda for the destruction of the American politi- cal system and the abasement of the American standard of living; that the intellectuals have made no effort to understand and preserve the variety and excellence of life in America, and that their constant attack has left Americans helpless before the im- pact of hostile European systems. “Second, the event: This is a brief statement of the formation of Amer- ica * * * an attempt to discover what has always been ‘American.’ « “Third, the straight line: The com- | Ing struggle for American independ- ence from the Fascist and Communist systems * = * “Fourth, the huntsmen are up in America: An epilogue, possibly rhetori- cal. The three fundamental require- ments of the average American citizen and the possibility of gaining them by making, more earnestly than ever, the tremendous effort required to create & democracy.” These, certainly, are respectably large objectives to cover in a single work, but Mr. Seldes gives them all due attention. He is wordy and at :imes involved, and between the fist section of his book and the last there seems to be no inescapable relation, st least not as he presents the mate- rials. But he makes some first-rate points, notably in the first section, and his whole thesis is devoted to the practical solution of American difficulties—not to the “practical” so- | lution of the economist with a ready- | made plan and blueprints, but to that | practicability which lies within the | natural capacities of the American | pecople—as, of course, Mr. Seldes sees them. ‘Works on the trend and state of pub- lic affairs are so numerous today that any of them must be extraordinarily | sensible or extraordinarily smart in order to stand out from the ruck of the rest. Mr. Seldes’ book is not at all times extraordinarily sensible nor is it at all times extraordinarily smart, but it contrives to be one or the other much of the time, and, for the rest, | a certain element of suspense will keep | ihe reader going. The reviewer is frank to say that | she liked the smart parts best. They | are chiefly to be found in the first| section, “Countercharge,” where Mr. Seldes examines the critics of Amer- ica who were eminent in the twenties, and takes them for a ride. He pro- | ceeds in this entertainment by the| device of publishing a paragraph of a given critic's accusations and then demonstrating the essential falseness of the thinking behind the attack. ‘Thus he holds up to polite ridicule some highly revered gentlemen, such undisputed leaders of American in- tellectual opinion as H. L. Mencken, Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, George Jean Nathan, Van Wyck Brooks, Granville Hicks, Harold E. Stearns, Ludwig Lewisohn, Sherwood Anderson George Santayana, Ernest Hemingway, Stuart Chase, Deems ‘Taylor, Edmund Wilson, Harry Elmer Barnes and James Truslow Adams, Obviously an examination of so large 2 number of Eminences will involve a wide sweep of subject matter, and Mr. Seldes is easily able, in the course of his swing around the intellectual aisle of a decade ago, to take up criticism of the stage, the movies, literature, the radio, the plastic arts and religion. Indeed, he manages to get pertty well over what was called, in those vanished days, the “American scene.” ‘When he is through he has shown us an America almost completely under the domination of a self-imposed pessimism which ran sometimes to the vein of pure vitriol and sometimes expressed itsclf in tones of philo- sophical indulgence. That he con- siders all this mass of adverse opinion | of ourselves definitely passe, and never | more than a fashion of the times he makes clear in a mildly apologetic paragraph: “The intellectuals set the style,” he #ays, “and it is worth an examination even though, like all styles which do not correspond to the modes of a Nation’s life, it seems absurd after a few years and has now been aban- doned. Mr. Sinclair Lewis has dis- covered a few things about America which are not Main Street: Mr. Ludwig Lewisohn has found a river he can cross, and need not swim upstream:; Mr. Mencken has definitely abandoned the indoor sport of boob-baiting; Mr. George Kaufman has become an ex- pert at the great American art of revue, and the entire field of criticism has shifted so that our social crimes mre now ranked as misdemeanors, easily forgivable if they weren't symp- toms of our serious disease—that we are in the last fever of finance- capitalism. Yet the decade of derision had an effect upon us, and we can throw off the effect only if we knmow the cause.” And what is this effect? As we emerge from the “decade of derision” where do we stand? Mr. Seldes con- siders the business depression ended: in his mind it seems to have been a material debacle capping our era of self-proclaimed gultural inferiority. As we eome out of both our intellectual and material crashes, what have we left and what can we expect of our- selves? These are the questions that he undertakes to answer in the latter sections of his work. We are, he says, thanks to our long {gnoring and belittling of our own genius as a people, pretty nearly wide open to European political systems which have no intrinsic relation to us. Talk of fascism and communism— once fantastic doctrines if considered as possibilities in America—is com- mon and growing. We ere beginning to have a right and a left—and these two were once words which had no American significance. Both the Fas- cists and Communists are studying how they may bend American forms to serve their philosophies, and certain elements in American society are lend- ing them thoughtful hearings. * * * But, says Gilbert Seldes, the genius of the American people is located plump- ly in the middle class. He outlines the three things which N the strictly average American would not give up—they are national inde- pendence, civil freedom and private prosperity. He notes that we have he says, is capacity to change. essence of communism and f: that they are static. They make their appeal to the terrified, whether it be the terrified rich or the terrified poor. Democracy must needs stand on its record, and Mr. Seldes reiterates that under a democratic system Americans have come to a point where they re- gard the three civic virtues listed above as their indisputable rights. Mr. Seldes is considerably meore subtle in his reasoning than a limited review can indicate and he calls preity impressively on the evidence of events to sustain his points. He treads & nice path between a too-patriotic na- tionalism on the one hand and a too- disapproving criticism on the other. As has been said, his book seems a genuine effort to sum up our position and future in terms of reality rather than in terms of desire or arbitrary “pianning.” And, as one looks about the world today, is there really muci unreason in the question which his book so strongly implies—what people is situated better than ourselves? We have not done too badly, with all our follies, says Gilbert Seldes. We can face the future with a hope of do- ing somewhat better, too, he feels, as long as we keep our traditional adapt- able form of democratic government. KIT BRANDON, A PORTRAIT. By Sherwood Anderson. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. In this novel of the life of a Tennes- see mountain girl—poor white—Mr. Anderson attempts to set forth the idea that human integrity is an inborn and ineradicable thing, and endures, if it be there at all, through whatever vicis- situdes its possessor may suffer, no matter how extreme they may be. It is an excellent thesis and one which is almost out of fashion today, with most of our novels so preoccupied with groups—families, social classes and so on—that the creation of individual character is definitely a secondary con- sideration among them. Mr. Anderson, however, goes into his theme with courage. He makes his heroine belong to one of the very groups—the mountain white group— which has lately drawn from a number of our novelists group treatment— either romantic or sociological—to the almost complete exciusion of consider- ation of individual characteristics. And he chooses—note—a heroine too, rather than a hero. Thus, by loading his character with group qualities and the additional conventionality of feminin- ity (for women are almost always con- ventions in novel writing) he assumes | a substantial handicap against making her live as an individual. But he works it off to admiration. Briefly, he tells of Kit Brandon's ad- ventures from the time she left her father's cabin until she felt herself a free soul, in which interim she had been a factory worker, a five-and-ten- cent store clerk and a bootlegger queen. Nothing which befell her, he says, touched her essential self—and that is all. The novel is redundant and some- times tiresome, but it stands a record of character drawing worth noticing. GREEN MARGINS. By E. P. O'Do; nell. Boston: Company. This novel, which won one of Hough- | ton Mifflin’s fellowship prizes last year, is a book about a country. It has, to be sure, a fairly large selection of char- acters and they engage in fairly lively action, but action and characters both are plainly subordinate in the author’s mind to the charms and wonders of the scene where he has set them—the | country of the Mississippi River Delta. As to the merit of such a work, it naturally resides a great deal in the accuracy with which the country of its choice is depicted. Mr. O'Donnell’s book, therefore, seems reasonably safe from the nefarious detractions of re- viewers, for few of them have investi~ gated his scene very extensively. What a reviewer can say with certainty, how- ever, is that he writes with verisimili. tude. n’ml Delta, he has given us a concept of it which has reality for the of his book. Y PR As to the plot of the work, it deals in love and intrigue among the Cajuns and their neighbors without distinc- tion or offense. It can be commended. THE BAD PARENT'S GARDEN OF VERSE. By Ogden Nash. Illus- trated by Reginald Birch. New York: Simon & Schuster. That Ogden Nash is getting sweeter cannot be overlooked by readers of his present volume, but if anything can be done about it it has not occured to the reviewer at the present writing. That the author of “Hard Lines” is not anesthetic to the touch of little hands or the smile of a little face is clearly evident from more than one of the verses in the present collection. Some of these are child verses in as pleasant a vein as anything written by Eugene Fields. And then the familiar discontent .of Manhattan’s favorite bard crops out, and we have h_im} viewing offspring in a less spe- cialized manner than that of parent- hood. The volume is indispensable to Nash fans, and the illustrations by Reginald Birch are sometimes, though not always, pat. THE OLD ASHBURN PLACE. By Margaret Plint. -New York: Dodd Mead & Co. ‘This is another $10,000 prize novel. It is not anywhere near as terrible as the opus which received a like award from the Atlantic Monthly judges some weeks ago, but it is far from being worth & small fortune, in the judgment of the reviewer. It tells about a group of farmers who live on farms in Maine and unremarkably marry, beget and die. Somehow, $10, 000 seems a lot of money to hand out for a record of vital statistics. But The Old Ashburn Place is sweet and cheery and no worse reading than 50 others now on the stands. And no better. SEVEN RED SUNDAYS. By Raman J. Sender. Translated from the Spanish by Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell. New York: Liveright Publishing Corp. This is & novel on revolution in Spain—not the current revolutién, but one of the many which have been directed sgainst the re- b3 public in the past few years. The protagonists are anarchists and com- munists. They are represented as involved in a general strike which they have called when troops killed three of their comrades at a political The book is written with unmis- takable genius—a thing whicn the reviewer hesitates to say because the young author, in his preface, indig- nantly repudiates the idea that he is an “intellectual.” But, who knows? There may be some connection be- tween intellect and genuis in his mind. The theme is non-political, although the action is entirely so. ‘The author says simply: “The people too full of humanity dream of freedom, of the good, of justice, giving these an emotional and individualistic significance. Carrying such a load an individual can hope Houghton Miffin | If he has not presented the ac- | for the respect and loyalty of his relations and friends, but if he should hope to influence the general social structure, he nullifies himself in he- roic and sterile rebellion. * * *” And that is what he undertakes to show in his book. It seems unlikely that it will crete much interest in this country. It is, however, a book which any lover of the novel will ap= preciate. SPAIN IN REVOLT. By Harry Gannes and Theodore Repard. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. ‘This purports to be a sort of hand- book on the current Spanish trouble. It contains lists of the parties—there are nine Leftist, three Center and eight Rightist, as well as several trade unions. It outlines the action of the revolution up to the date of the book's publication and is only mildly partisan—that toward the commu- nists. Bias aside, however, it is as good a work as the reviewer can think of for familiarizing yourself with the outlines of the struggle now going on. WASHINGTON JITTERS. By Dalton Trumbo. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. ‘This is a satirical novel on New Deal follies, centering around a sign painter who got himself appointed “co-ordi- nator” in one of the alphabets and then played hob among the professors and their political friends generally. | It is an extravaganza, but sufficiently | within the limits of ligitimate satire to be entertaining. THE WAR IN OUTLINE. By Liddell | Hart. 'New York: Random House. | The author of this book is also the | author of “History of the World War,” | conceded: generally to be a masterly | work. The present volume is sub- stantially a condensation of the earlier one. It presents accounts of the various campaigns on the various fronts, gives an explanation of the objectives involved and describes the consequences of the action. It is en- tirely understandable to a reader not versed in military terminology and is interesting from start to finish. A particularly commendable feature of it is its maps which are, unlike most of those purporting to show military movements, completely comprehen- sible. | SEEDS. By Vernon Quinn. York: Frederick A. Stokes. IN THE foreword the author justly remarks that the world is full of books, stories, poems and songs ded- icated to trees, flowers, shrubs, plants and vegetable matter of all kinds, but singularly little space has been de- voted to the embryo of all plant life, the seeds. Yet he claims, and proves, that seéds are a fascinating study. Their infinite variety of shapes and forms, their modes of dissemina- tion, their uses and misuses and the countless legends and superstitions that have grown up around seeds of different kinds are the subject mat- New ter of a very interesting little book. ¢t worsYhe .o MARGARET FLINT, Author of “The.Old Ashburn Place” (Dodd, Mead & Co.). SHERWOOD ANDERSON, Author of “Kit Brandon—A Portrait” (Charles Scribner’s Sons). | “Seeds” is divided into eight chap- | of one period and lived through sev- ters. The first describes many strange | eral others. There are stories of other shapes and forms of seeds, the next i lives which began at subsequent dates two are devoted to the curious ways | and some of which, supposedly, still in which seeds are spread. These are followed by two chapters on strange and common uses of seeds and then comes a startling chapter on poison- ous seeds—startling because it lists 50 many common garden and wild seeds as definitely poisonous. The last two chapters are devoted to edible seeds and’ superstitions about seeds. ‘Throughout the book there is a mingling of fact and fancy, due to the author’s method of introducing the opinions and lore of the ancient herbalists. While the last chapter is mainly concerned with superstitions, there is a liberal besprinkling of old wives’ tales throughout the book. FAIR COMPANY. By Doris Lesslie. Published by MacMillan Co., New York. “FAm COMPANY” is a thoughtful novel. Its chief four characters, whose life spans over a century and a quarter, epitomize the England of their periods. In the lives and char- acters of these women we see the strength and weakness of England, we trace the development of & nation both industrially and intellectually. There is no more plot to the book than there is to the pages of history, if plot is thought of as a rounded and artificial scheme with a begin- ning, an end and a middle. Yet there is plenty of story, the story of a life which began during the ending continue and will influence lives and stories to come, Sabrina is the first heroine. Her conscious life began in the first decade of the nineteenth century, when Eng- land was still under the influence of the mad George III. It was a period of excess, of lewdness, of vulgarity. But it was a dying period, a period that was soon to merge into the rigors and bravery of the Napoleonic wars. Sabrina started her social career at a licentious mask ball and reached the climax of her life as one of Flor- ence Nightingale's gallant company. Clare, the second character, the daughter of two flaming idealists, is the personification of the Victorian era, with all its silly pruderies, its flounces and furbelows and all its strength and tenacity and core of fundamental greatness. Charlotte is a reincarnation of Sa- brina. She rebels against the arti- ficialities, the restrictions and the tyrannies of the Victorian era, and finds herself in the turmoil of the suffrage cause. The fourth and last heroine is Gil- lian Rose, characteristically called Jill. Here is, perhaps, the saddest story of all, for she never found her metier at all. Her story is the story of that swift-moving period of change be- tween the last Edward and the present Edward. It is still tdo close for us to judge it comfortably. IN THE CURRENT MAGAZINES Stage Discovers a Faculty Member Who Feels That There is Much Merit in Burlesque—Studying Present Background of ; the Mation’s Police Force. By M.C.R. | HE October issue of Stage is to hand, bearing on its cover a caricature of Gertrude Lawrence which looks like a gooseberry far, far from home. The chief news of this lively and some- what overloaded periodical at present seems to be that “Winterset” will be made into a motion picture and that Guthrie McClintic's production of “Hamlet” is as incredibly good as English notices have reperted it to be. Standing out of the purely timely articles which fill most of Stage's pages, however, there is an intereste ing piece on burlesque—as a ritual, The author is Prof. John Erskine. Prof. Erskine admits a liking Jfor the burlesque performance, provided that it is burlesque pure and unde- filed that is set before him. He does not like interruptions of moving pic- tures; he does not like acts which alm at “artistic excellence”; he does not like fine scenery. He likes bur- lesque reduced to its elements—for in them, he says, he sees living before him one of the “oldest forms of drama.” It was undoubtedly the fa- vorite popular entertainment of the sncient CGireeks and Romans, he ob- serves; it was the reliance of the vagabond players of the Middle Ages, and anthropology finds its ancestral traces in even older peoples. The “elements,” as Dr. Erskine in- terprets them, are mental and physi- cal cruelty. Burlesque is not, he in- sists, an appeal to sex. but an anpeal to sadism. The case which he builds up for his idea is, as might be ex- pected, ingenious. THI troubled American Spectator, which changes its form so fre- quently as to keep reviewers in a state of constant polite expectation, emerges for October in a new dress, discarding its Readers’ Digest sil- houette for something like an under- fed New Republic outline. It is the Spectator still, however, growling at everything and failing, somehow, to carry any Editors of the attacking press too frequently seem to fail to understand that an attack, much more than de- fense, must needs have style. De- fense can rest on its foundations— the fact that a thing is solid enough to invite attack speaks for security and attainment, of some sort or other. But attack is mobile and con- spicuous, his toe funny. fatal. And so on. IBERTY appears this week with a leading article on the Nation's most conspicuous G-man, Mr. J. Edgar Hoover. It would seem that being a nationally admired figure is not altogether a bed of roses. Indeed, the article, by Will Irwin, asks eloquently, “Are They Putting J. Edgar Hoover on the Spot?” And the “they” of the question turn out to be rival | Federal police forces, politicians and, of course, the underworld. Mr. Irwin speaks pretty plainly. He considers that the trouble began when the reporters played up the activities of Mr. Hoover’s force so dramatically, for publicity to Federal police has been banned for a long time by un- written rules, accepted by all depart- ments. It began to be whispered that Mr., Hoover was a “press hound,” he says, and that naturally caused hard feeling. But he goes beyond that in declar- ing that certain members of Congress resent Mr. Hoover, because he does not let down the severe requirements of his force to admit political ap- pointees. These are hard words, cer- tainly. As for the underworld’s discontent with Mr. Hoover, it would hardly seem to require elucidation. Yet Mr. Irwin writes that it is not entirely Brief Reviews of Books on Various Topics Non-Fiction. NNE DOUGLAS SEDGWICK; a Portrait in Letters. Chosen and edited by Basil De Selincourt. Boston: Hough- ton Mifin Co. 2 Collected letters of the late author of “The Little Prench Girl,” prepared for publication by her husband. OUT OF THE WEST. By Rufus Rock- well Wilson. New York: Wilson- Erickson, Inc. A revised and enlarged edition of this work on the emergence of the States beyond the Mississippi, first published in 1933. CIVILIZATION. As told to Florence Drake by Thomas Wildcat Alford. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. The story of how an American Indian progressed from tribal life to the white man's way of civilization. GLORY ROADS. The Psychological State of California. By Luther H. Whiteman and Samuel L. Lewis. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co. An examination of the social and economic fads recently visited on the Nation from our Western center of optimism. Fiction. BUT BEAUTY VANISHES. By Rich- ard Blaker. Indianapolis: Bobbs- Merrill Co. Some of the characters of “Here Lies a Most Beautiful Lady” revived and carried through fairly interesting Mysteries. DEATH IN THE BACK SEAT. By Dorothy Cameron Disney. New b York: Random House. Murder in-a Connecticut shore re- sort. Pretty good. UPPER CASE, By Mollie Merrick. New York: Ives Washburn. Murder of & show girl, solved by a reporter. DENMARK CARAVAN. By Ruth Bryan Owens. Illustrated by Hed- “vig Collin. New York: Dodd Mead & Co. A motor trip through Denmark, by the former American Minister to that country. based on the uncomfortable feeling that the G-men always get their quarry. It results more from the big- time ‘criminal's belief that such effi- ciency is not really necessary. Or, as the article has it, “What they want in Washington is g politically minded police force that will listen to reason. And any American who does not be- lieve that the organized underworld has political influence is ffulling the ‘wool over his own eyes.” Incidentally, says Mr. Irwin, it was the reporters who made the name “G-men” famous. The force itself “seldom if ever uses it.” as set forth in the monthly anthology magazine, Piction Parade. Be it said now that the disenchantment ex- pressed at the time was entirely with the story and not with PFiction Pa- rade’s efforts to assemble some good ones. In so far as there are good ones to assemble, this little monthly seems to get them. There will be one or two in every issue. And Piction Parade also assembles cartoons, in which endeavor it obviously has a | more fruitful field to go to. As good jn collection of humorous drawings as you will find are to be discovered be- tween its covers ordinarily. So much work as it represents, in so thankless OME time ago the reviewer had occasion—or took occasion to deal harshly with the American short story an endeavor as “best” story selection, fseems to deserve a hand, somehow. | So get it—and look at the pictures. conviction Wwhatsoever. | And an attacker stumping | And funniness is! HOCKEY T (Continued From Page B-1) they will engage the Philadelphia club at the Merion Cricket Club. ‘The Welsh, here for the first time, played ia Pittsburgh Wednesday and today are in St. Louis. They have an engagement in Wichita, Kans., Tues- day, and will stop in both Iowa City and Chicago before returning East. Both the English and the Welsh will participate in the series of round- robin matches at the Philadelphia tournament before leaving for home November 4. UPON arriving in New York the girls from the British Isles were met by numerous sport lovers, includ- ing Miss Gertrude Hopper of Boston, president of the United States Field Hockey Association; Miss Anne Town- send of Philadelphia, secretary of the federation, and Miss Suzanne Cross of Philadelphia, head of the Finance Committee. The Australian team will cover the | sports pageant, playing in Milwaukee, | Wis., today; Madison, Wis., tomorrow, | and Detroit, Mich., next Saturday, on their way from the Pacific Coast to the hockey fete at Philadelphia. On their way home they have three games scheduled in Los Angeles and three around San Francisco. Members of the Irish team have | their complete schedule other than conference games in New England and Eastern States, having engagements at Smith College, Worcester, Mass.; New | York, Providence, R. I, and Boston, | Mass. The South African delegation | will be seen only at the tournament and at the Montclair Athletic Club in New Jersey, Adelphi College at Garden City, Long Island, N. Y, and at the Greenwich Academy at Green- wich, Conn. The Middle West will be stormed by the hockey lassies of Scotland, who play at the University of Cincinnati, | Earlham College, Richmond, Ind.; | ‘lchlcsgo. 1, and Cleveland, Ohio. | Among the events planned to amuse { these traveled hockey-stick toters from | other countries, other than hockey matches and the tour of Washington, | is an all-day trip to Princeton, N. J, Saturday, October 24. They will, per- haps for the first time in their lives, watch an American rooting perform- ance at the foot ball game to be played there that day between Prince- |ton and the United States Naval | Academy, and are being entertained at a luncheon. | The American countryside will be | offered for their inspection on Mon- day, October 26, when they will make picnic lunch there. That T evening | giving in their honor at his farm at Phoenixville, Pa. A woman'’s college in America will be visited by the ladies from across the seas when they are the guests of Bryn Mawr College Thursday, Octo- ber 29. In the afternoon informal hockey is planned. and in the eve- ning they will watch American col- lege women present an amateur night lprogmm at Goodhart Hall, after sup- per on the campus. A banquet will be held in their honor at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Philadelphia on Saturday, October 31, | the night before the conference ends. 'HE American team to meet the foreign squadrons at Philadelphia is the group of 18 players chosen last year at the 1935 national field hockey tournament. A first-string eleven will be lined up by the National Selection Committee during the coming week, but ncne of the Washington players on the field this afternoon is on that list. To carry the United States’ attack in Pennsylvania the Selection Com- mittee has the following forwards to select from: Elizabeth Toulmin of Philadelphia, member of the all-America team of 1935; May Howe of Philadelphia, all- America 1935 and 1934; Anne B. Townsend of Philadelphia, captain, all-America 1923-1935; Mrs. Catherine Kendig Clegg of Philadelphia, all- “Rivets your attention through 1,000 pages! After many glorious hours, you'll lay it down with a sigh!” most territory among those in the | a trip to Valley Forge and have a| y will be the guests of Frank B.| | Foster at an informal supper he is | EAM HERE America 1935; Helen Howe of Phila- delphia, all-America 1934 and 1935; | Betty Richey of Pleasantville, N. Y., all-America 1933 and 1931; Virginia Bourquardez of New York, all-America 1934 and 1932: Mrs. Kitty Wiener Du Boise of Philadelphia, all-America 1934 and 1930-1932, and Suzanne Cross of Philadelphia, all-America 1929-1932. For the defense, America’s outstand= ing department, two goal keepers, five | halfbacks, and three fullbacks are un- der consideration. They are Helena Wheeler of New Rochelle, all-America 1935; Betty Taussig of Philadelphia, all-America 1935 and 1933; Helen Libby of Cambridge, Mass., all-Amer= ica 1935; Barbara Strebeigh of Phila« delphia, all-America 1934 and 1928~ 11932, and Anne Pugh of Baltimore, all-America 1932-1934, 1929 and 1930, | all halfbacks; Barbara Black of Stam- ford, Conn., all-America 1935, 1931 and 1932; Frances Pierce of Northe ampton, Mass., all-America 1934, ard Mrs. Geraldine Thaete Shipley of Philadelphia, all-America 1935 ard | 1931-1933, the trio of fullbacks; Bar~ | bara Crowe of Boston, all-Ameria 1934 and 1935 and Frances Elliott «f Philadelphia, all-America 1931-19.3 | and 1928, the goal keepers. | Thirteen of these queens of Amere | ican hockey sticks were members cf the 1933 touring team that faced the last international federation array in | Copenhagen. The Misses Townsend, | Howe, Taussig, Black, Pierce, Richey, Bourquardez, Strebeigh, Pugh, Elliott, Cross, Mrs. Du Boise, who was then | Kitty Weiner, and Mrs. Shipley, who was then Gerry Thaete, all contributed | to America's string of nine straight victories in the Danish capital. The Americans, however, were never matched with the English at that time. Unfortunately, according to women interested in the sport, the associa- | tion is still English-speaking except for Denmark, and they hope that nu- merous other countries will be added to their athletic sisterhood before the | next conference. This is due chiefly to the fact that on the continent of Eu- rope women's hockey is controlled by men, and that the continental clubs, which include both men and women, are organized in the Federation In- ternationale de Hockey. They, it seems. do not want their women to join the women's interna- tional organization as well. It is hoped that in time European women will run their own hockey teams, and it has been indicated to officers of the International Federation of Wom- en’s Hockey Associations that when that happens they will become mem- bers of the federation limited to fem- inine membership. N WHAT country the 1939 triennial conference will be held will be dee cided at the Philadelphia conclave. | It is thought, however, that with all member countries clamoring for the honor, it will be more than 15 years | before the international tournaments are given to the United States again. ‘Women hockey players, it seems, will not only engage in that spirited game, | but will see Australia, the South Seas, | and South Africa as well. By the time the eyes of the hockey world are fo- 1 cused on the United States again it is | most unlikely that a single player on | the present all-America team will still be in the lines. “Polo afoot” is what field hockey is sometimes called, hockey players at National Cathedral School Field explained today while they wére test- ing their sticks before the game. It is, however, more likely that polo is | “hockey on horseback.” France gave to it the name hoquet, and the Eng- | lish, adopting the sport, pronounced |it the same, but gave it the present spelling. Women, rather than men, first | played field hockey in the United | States, they proudly explain. A | group of English women exhibited at Staten Island some time just be- fore the turn of the century, but lit- tle is known of their activities. Kansas State College has developed an air-conditioned new brooder house |to maintain comfortable conditions |all year round for 3,000 baby chicks. 21st Printing 526,000/ (Including Book-of- the-Month Club)

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