1939-10 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents 1939/10 — Old People: A Rising National Problem by Roy Helton Roosevelt, the Rich Man’s Alibi by Elmer Davis “The Strange Noise of Dr. Beldoon” — A story by Morris Markey “Lost World” — A poem by Hermann Hagedorn How the Wright Brothers Began by Fred C. Kelly “Surmise” — A poem by Roland English Hartley The Future of the British Empire by C. Harley Grattan Why Can’t We Have Perfect Teeth? by Walter C. Alvarez, M.D. Conscience in Wartime by Lucille B. Milner and Groff Conklin Great Hawaii by Leonard Bacon Why Slum Clearance May Fail by Alfred Rheinstein and Henry F. Pringle Music in Aspic by Oscar Levant In Defense of Ghost Writing by Seneca Johnson The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge by Abraham Flexner One Man’s Meat by E.B. White The Easy Chair by Bernard De Voto Personal and Otherwise Where to Shop The New Books by John Chamberlain Steamship Sailing Dates