Judge — May 28, 1932 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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JUDGING THE BOOKS RAYER meeting opens this week with a questio s any place on earth left unexplored by white man? If not, what was the last place he charted?” Since we see by your empty faces you're yoing to say something about Byrd and his Poles, we'll spare you your dumbness and spill the answer. No, there is no place the white man hasn't pene- trated, unless it’s the art of women write And the last place to be knocked off was the South Arabian Desert, known as Rub‘ al Khali, or the “Empty Quarter” of Arabia to you unintelligentsia. Further, it was Bertram Thomas who did the penetrating, at that. A young man of solid English rootage, sifted with a vast expanse of brow, young Thomas didn’t waste his time at college drawing Machamer yirls in his notebooks. Instead, he built himself into the tradition of the Burtons and the Col. Lawrences. He filled his notebooks with what it takes to pursue such a career, and, for the benefit of you who just came in, that means he became an anthro- pologist, an arab lingu a topo- yraphist, a geologist and also the makings of a couple of other Roy: Fellows. Thus he emerged from hi student days, not ready for apple selling (until things picked up when he would sell bonds) but a thoro Arabian scholar. And, if you top this off with a few years of good, hard field work among chosen people, will get rough idea of why “Arabia Felix, which is the lox of Thomas’ expedi- tion, is such a wonderful book. In fact we'll yo further and point it up as the best book of its kind we've ever read—this side of Lawrence, of course. Lawrence is without ques- tion the head tycoon of the sandy wastes—a poet rather than en- tist. Tho just twisted around the other w His passion for the facts, the scientific data, comes first. oR the moment, Edmund Wilson, who, even tho he writes below Twelfth Street, New York, is tops in this country as critic of the literati, has put aside his thoughts on pure literature, and turned to the world outside his library window. A libe by nature, with flair for strict realistic reporting, Mr. Wilson can- not help but see things outside in a pretty headachy condition. Come to think of it, there is some trouble around about money or banks or jobs or something isn’t there? In any case “The American Jit- ters,” a collection of stark photo- graphs of the meagrims brought on (Page 25, Please) ON AMERICA’S INDUSTRIAL FRONTIER Within 36 hours, by rail, of the Atlantic seaboard, and only 12 to 24 hours from intermediate cities . . . Anim- portant jobbing and concentration center for an area leading in the production of Cotton-Clay and Wood Products-Coal-Peaches-Strawberries-Poultry-Rasp- berries-Tomatocs-Bauxite-Oil-Marble and Lime. There is ample supply of natural gos and hydro-electric power for unlimited industrial expansion. In Little Rock is the largest single line passenger term- inal in the country, operated by the Missouri Pacific whose freight and passenger service radiates abe Cost EAST—To Memphis with connec tions to the south SOUTH —To Houston the RioGrande Valley, W San Antonio, Menico. MISSOURI <. PACIFIC DEPENDABLE a : 9 : LINES FREIGHT AND PASSENGER SERVICE MISSOURI PACIFIC STAGES AUXILIARY TO MISSOURI PACIFIC LINES comicbooks.com