Evening Star Newspaper, August 8, 1937, Page 70

N\ Pre-Views & To most of us white hair is a rather unwelcome sign of declin- ing years, but to Dr. Emil Leng- yel it once meant life itself. Dur- ing the war he spent two years in Russian prison camps and suf- fered such privation and cruelty that his hair turned white. As a result, 2 Red Cross medical com- mission at Tozkoe took compas- sion and sent him as an exchange prisoner to Norway. Hardly had he left when a horrible typhoid epidemic arose and wiped out 6000 of the 7000 prisoners. Dr. Lengyel, born in Budapest, was a newspaperman in Vienna until 1921, when he came here for the Disarmament Conference. He liked America so well that he has stayed here ever since, lecturing and writing on European politics. He became a citizen in 1927. Today, with dictatorship the style in Europe, he says he is doubly glad he stayed here, for he likes.to “write as he pleases.” He writes to please you, too. Watch for his topical, colorful article in an early issue: “GYPSY CRISIS” oo e Look back over the history you have lived through. You’ll recall several times when the fate of thousands — sometimes millions — of people has hung on how just one person in a key position met the challenge of a fateful hour. Was he calm, disinterested, far-seeing, brave? Or was he im- pulsive, petty, reckless, gambling with tremendous stakes? Such a great moment of deci- sion may come to the man who least expects it; or to the woman who never thought she would be a history-maker. In a thrilling serial which begins next week, Talbot Mundy, prince of story- tellers, tells of how a beautiful girl suddenly found herself hold- ing the fuse to a powder barrel — which no one but herself could put out. The author of “King of the Khyber Rifles,” “Tros of Samothrace” and many other best sellers has written another thriller in £, THE TREACHEROUS ROAD’’ THIS WEEK The Right to Fail by GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY HESE days, when men talk of new rights, I want to discuss a very old right — the right to fail. The right to be wrong. The right to pursue what appear to be silly ideas. It is that right — more than any other — which made it possible for the inventor and philosopher to dream about the horseless carriage, about daylight at night, about cities that rise into the clouds. Nobody could stop them from dreaming and thinking. But there have been times in human his- tory when such men were imprisoned and even burned at the stake — be- cause they were “‘wrong.” They had no right to be wrong. However, in the United States, a news butcher on a railroad could work his way up to experimenting with an idea. He failed. He failed perhaps a hundred times. But he went ahead be- cause he had a nght to fail. And he gave the world the electric light, the phonograph, the motion picture and countless other benefits. The world is really full of Edisons and Fords, men working on the impos- sible. Think of the centuries that alchemists put into changing baser metals into gold. All the scientific text- books said that they were wrong, that they were fakers and charlatans. Yet, they were rnight. We can change baser metals into gold. It can be done by smashing atoms. It has been done. Don’t you know the little machinist in your home town who is always turn- ing out a gadget here and there. He might become a Walter Chrysler — who knows? I met the inventor of the windshield wiper— why didn’t we think of it years ago? Or the zipper? Or the shower bath, a century ago? Those are the people who make our lives comfortable and cheerful. Not the wise men who know why everything is all wrong. No! They seldom do anything constructive or of permanent benefit. But the inventor who dis- covered the clothes wringer and his successor, who worked out the washing machine — they are the true saviors of human life and of civilization. And do you know how they did it? Most often, they went to see a friend or the village banker or. a brother-in- law, and in almost melodramatic secrecy uncovered the model and said, “Here’s your chance to make a mil- lion.” And some men put their hands into their pockets and pressed their lips hard and said: ‘“You can’t get me to put my money into any fool contrap- tion of that sort.” But there was always the risk-taker, the man who was not afraid to fail. That man was willing to take a chance with his money and his friend’s ideas. And in the United States, that sort of enterpriser had the money to do it. Out of every dollar he earned in 1890, the government took only five cents in taxes. Other governments were then taking about one third of every dollar. So the American had plenty of money to put into new ideas that might suc- ceed or fail. That is why, from 1900 to 1930, three billion dollars every year went into the creation of new industries and the expansion of old ones. People had the money and they exercised the right to fail. That is why we developed the highest standard of living on earth. THIS WEEK FICTION VICTIM NUMBER SEVEN A Smoll Here Faces Public Enemy Nember One . WMiustroted by Jereme G. Rezen THE THREE BROTHERS The Drometic Seo Stery of ¢ Desperate Hewr MARY HEATON VORSE Mlestrated by Asten Otte Fischer CHILD VIPER A Ledy Is Driven to Drepping Hor Digalty . . . Mustrated by Leslie L Beasea . PATTERSON DIAL ARTICLES & FEATURES THE RIGHT TO FAIL Lesers Semetimes Become Victers MILLION DOLLAR MITES SHANGHAI BANQUET Anns Mey Weag Likes the Feods of Chine . HERE'S WHY: “Toy* Fish Are Big Business Now . Mere College Girls Are Merrying . GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY WILLIAM BRIDGES GRACE TURNER IRA S. WILE, M.D. FOR SNAPSHOOTERS How te Toke Pictwres in the Meenlight . SHENT ANewloem . . . . . BEAUTY BREVITIES Core of the Honds in Summer Is imperfont . STRANGER THAN MAN Seme Odd Focts en Birds ond Beasts. ANIMALGRAMS Wiy the Bluefish Stays Bive Cover Design by Edgar Franklin Wittmack Copyright, 1937, United Newspapers Magazine Corporation Magoazine Section Snatches Tuere is a secret, unorganized, but strong brotherhood — “The Victims of Naggers.” The bonds are almost as strong as the ties of a fraternal order. Witness this incident: Recently a man we know drove from his home in the Middle West to New York. Arriving in New York, he had some difficulty in finding the ad- dress he was seeking. Finally the Lady in the Back Seat said, “I know you ought to turn east.” He did so. It was a one-way street — for westbound traffic. . A policeman stepped up: “Hey . where you going! Pull over tc the curb!” Before the driver could say anything, the Lady in the Back Seat began: “Give it to him, officer. You ought to arrest him. He has been speeding all day. I knew he was going to be arrested sooner or later. It serves him right.” The officer looked sympathetic- ally at the driver: “Your wife?”” The man nodded. “Drive on, brother,” said the policeman. Tuoucu far behind America in - her recognition of and awards for women, Italy had a woman radio announcer before the United States. The lady was Lisa Sergio, known on two continents as ‘“The Golden Voice of Rome.” Signor- ina Sergio is half American; she belongs to the handsome Fitz- gerald family of Maryland, but speaks English with an ultra- Oxford accent. She is one of the few women to have held office w under Mussolini’s government; ° she was attached to the Stampa Propaganda, and not only broad- cast in various languages, buf translated official documents. She has come to America by easier methods than her country- man, Columbus, in order to dis- cover the land of her mother’s birth. Says she wants to see America with her American eyes (Her Italian eyes are beautiful.) 2 Phete by Renato Toppo LISA SERGIO