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Evening star., 1939-03-01
Reversal Of Ban
On Anderson Concert
AtCentra| Sought
Committee, Armed
With 1000 Signatures,
To Appeal to Board

Armed with more than 1000 sig.
natures, the Marian Anderson Cit.
liens Committee was scheduled tt
appear before the Board of Educa-
ton today to seek a reversal of the
boards previous decision to bar the
use of Central High School audi
torium for a concert by the colored
contralto.
The delegation was to be headed
by Charles Houston, former member
OF the board and now legal counsel
for the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People.
d. A. r. Silent.
The Daughters of the American
Revolution, other focal point in the
Anderson controversy, maintained a
strict nothing to say" attitude to-
day toward both the singer and Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, who an
nounced Monday her resignation
from IAN organization whose &C
tions she opposed.
The office of the president general,
however, broke the silence long
enough to state that the president
general, Mrs, Henry Robert, jr., of
Annapolis, would not return to
Washington until sometime in April
and no statement would be given
until then. The date sought for
the concert in Constitution Hall was
April 9.
Protests Pile Up.
Meanwhile, protests from musical
groups, religious and civic leaders
against the actions of the D. A. r.
and the Board of Education con-
tinued to flood the Citizens Com
mittee. Copies of all letters and
resolutions were to be presented to
the board.
A resolution unanimously adopted
by the Philadelphia Symphony Or
chestras 10l members 'deplored the
barring of Constitution Hall to
Marian Anderson
Such a discriminatory act" the
resolution stated, lis contrary to
the musical and cultural life of
America and is not in the spirit of
fairness"
From Mayor La Guardia of New
York City came letter protesting
that no theater or hall is too good
for her to sing in in his estimation.
The Rev. j. Hillman Hollister,
pastor of the Chevy Chase Presby-
terian Church, directed his criticism
against the action of the Board of
Education which he said gave him
the deepest concern"
Such an act is not, in my
opinion, the way to promote the
spirit that safeguards democracy
and all that democracy holds dear"
he declared. 1T represents an atti-
tude I thought we had outgrown."
Criticized by Gavagan.
The D. A. R. was criticized yes
terday by Representative Gavagan
of New York, who asserted that
the action of the D. A. R. in ban
ming Constitution Hall for the con-
cert was 'consonant with Nazi and
Fascist philosophy"
The Representative, in letter to
Mrs. Robert, said that it was shock
ing" to find such a stand taken
by an organization supposed to pre-
serve and foster American princi-
piles of government.
"Perhaps,' he added, ''the pur-
poses of the Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution have changed and
today the association is ready to
foster and maintain the principles
of the Feuhrer and II Duce"
Mrs. Robert, attending a confer
ence at Phoenix, Ariz. told the AS
sociated Press 1t was contradictory
to our policy" to discuss "the resig-
nation or the acceptance of any
member"
Evening star., 1939-03-01

The United States, United King
dom and Soviet Russia are the lead
ing tin consuming countries, accord
ing to the Hague Statistical Office
OF the International Tin Research
and Development Council.
Evening star., 1939-03-01
Mrs. George Guernsey,
D. A. R. Figure, Dies
nv the As.oc;.tad pr... D..

6y inc ASSOclALeo 1reSS.
INDEPENDENCE, Kans., March
Mrs. George Thatcher Guernsey,
ST., 78, president-general of the D.
A. R. from 1917 to 1920, died here
last night.
Evening star., 1939-06-04

the formerly popular song in which
the emancipation of the colored
people was celebrated in modern
terms-"Once We lived in cabins,
but now we live in flats; once we
were Republicans, but now we're
Democrats" Communism, indeed.
There is also the paraphrase of the
MARKHAM manifesto come to mind at
the moment-"You have nothing to
lose but your change"
So much for the news in the West,
From the Far East the magazine
Asia brings us less gloomy prophe-
cies, but, one gathers, only because
things are so bad there that no.
body would attempt to say that they
could get worse. Mr.. Haldore Ham
son even has the termerity to hint
that they may get better. The gen.
eralissimo, Chang Kai-shek, he
writes, is still there, despite his re-
cent Disappearance from the head
lines. He is still there and still in
command of his enormous army, a
force, according to Mr.. Hanson, of
100000 men, against which Japan
can oppose no more than 600 900,
Unhappily, in Mr.. Hanson's iudg-
ment, the officers of the Chinese
force are badly trained and of du.
bious competence. but, he adds, with
time Chang will whip them into
shape.
Evening star., 1939-06-04
Dos PassOs Does One More
Lost Generation Novel
Author Uses Story to Express
Opinions on Radical and
Liberal Organizations
By Mary.Carter Roberts.
Adventures of Young Man

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young Glenn belevngy world full
Of such mental toee and he never gets over from the time
his hgh-minded credo.
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would do with it fine
and working in midst.
Evening star., 1939-06-04
Dialect Used in Writing
Will Rogers Biography
Ny Cousin Will Roqers
By Spi M. Trent. Ne1U York:
C. P. Putnam Sons.

C. P. Putndnl's Sons.
This book belongs to the Omigosh
schools of literature, heretofore
mainly confined to fiction about the
backwoods, Maine forests, hill-billies
and other rural phenomena. This
is probably the first instance of the
style invading the field of biography.
While it may be style particu-
larly appropriate to the subject, the
reader brought up in the notion
that biography is and should be a
serious, literary endeavor is likely to
find the volume disconcerting.
There is no doubt that viii
Rogers spoke in a peculiar dialect.
His daily newspaper column was
written more or less in the same
dialect. Both were Illuminated by
his own personality. Even the writ
ten word carried overtones and
memories of his spoken expression
and was benefited by it, To carry
this dialect into serious biography
of the man is ridiculous, since
biography written by somebody else
is patiently an imitation of his own
works and rings obviously false.
There is no particular sense, for
instance, in spelling ito" differently
every time it is written, even to the
extent of using the figure %" at
times when "to' or "too" should be
used. When man can spell con
vention" correctly it seems rather
far-fetched that he should have
difficulty with hadn't" And a.
though 1t may be expecting too
Evening star., 1939-06-04
Wheat and Soldiers

By Corpl. Ashihei Hino. Trans
lated from the Japanese by
Baroness Shidsue Ishimoto.
Ne1D York: Farrar e. Rhine
hart.
This book. widely advertised as
"the All Quiet on the Western
Front of the Far East" is the work
of a corporal in the Japanese Army
now fighting against China. 1t is
made up partly of letters which the
author wrote to his family and
partly of excerpts from his diary.
1t has already been published in
Japan and has had great popularity
there, 100000 copies having sold in
a short time, as We are told by the
American publisher. 1t is now
offered our public as common SOL
dier's view of the war, unbiased and
unmilltariStic, the reactions of a
simple man set down simply without
thought for literary effect or pub
lication.
Unfortunately, this concept of the
book does not hold up under exami-
nation. 1t appears that the author
was writer of some accomplish
ment before he was called to army
service; he had published number
OF short stories, some of which had
won prizes. He kept his diary as
siduously while he was at the front
and it seems unlikely that the pol
ished phraseology which he uses in
both it and his letters is the spon-
taneouS writing of a simple man.
Simple the narrative is, to be sure.
But its simplicity is that of the self
conscious artist and no one can
read this book without feeling that
it was written with publication in
mind. So much for it as sponta-
neous expression of the humble
views of the soldier in the Japanese
ranks.
AS to its content, it is rather dis
Evening star., 1939-06-04
Educational Fascism
Is Another Charge.


distinctly bad form. So the faculty
was tolerated and the students grew
up into perfectly representative
Rabbits and their wives.
Today, the reviewer can see real
reason in her classmates horror OF
intellectual exercise. She believes
that they all secretly realized that, if
they tried to develop along those
lines, they would come to bad end
in the endeavor, because there Just
wasn't intellect enough in the whole
place to make a team. So maybe
Mr.. Hutchinson's worry about pri-
vate colleges is well taken. For, as
the reviewer sees it, they are pretty
sensible institutions. Oh, Alma
Mater, dear!
But to get back to the various
crises which are written in our
stars and see what further disasters
overhang our country. There is a
very eloquent piece on the next war
in the Atlantic; it is called Neutral
ity or Bust and is by Mr.. David l..
Cohn, who writes very we'll indeed.
Mr.. Cohn is not generally an alarm
ist. Instead, he commonly writes
in a gently forgiving vein of irony
and humor. But now, in this piece,
he joins the jeremiah chorus
though to be sure he still writes
much better than his colleagues in
despair. AS he sees it, our foreign
policy is so confused at the moment
that with the best will in the world
for peace it is still pushing us in
evitablY toward war This is un-
necessary, he says, thereby repeat
ing what good round dozen of other
writers have said on the subject
before him. But there is eloquence
in his putting of it-"however much
the wings of our hearts beat against
the cage of the world into which
we were born, and through whose
bars we shall escape into death, we
shall never escape in life. Only the
high heart and the hard mind can
save us now" The high heart and
the hard mind. How excellent a
combination.
Clean of Cheer.
In all this gloom there is one mag
azine, however, which allows itself
gleam of cheer. This, of course, is
the American Mercury, a periodical
noted for its dependable perversity.
1t takes up the subject of war this
month and expresses the view OF no
less an authority than Maj George
Fielding Eliot. And Maj. Eliot says
with the most delightful f1atness
in the world that Germany could
not win that war that everyone is
looking for, and that, knowing this
perfectly, Germany's ruler is not
going to fight about anything. Well,
three rousing cheers.
There is also a piece in the Mer-
curry by George S. Schuyler in which
we are brought the news that the
long efforts of the Communist party
to win the Negroes of the United
States has come to little or nothing.
The Negroes, says Mr.. Schuyler, are
not going to rush into party which
is so very unpopular with the white
people. AS he puts it, it is trouble
enough to be black, without also be-
ing red. And the Communists. of
course, have had little to offer those
whom they sought to proselyte. The
New Dealers have far outshone them
there. One remembers the words Of
Evening star., 1939-06-04
Sea Duty

By Yates Stirling, Rear Ad-
miral, U. S. N. (RetJ. NeU
York: G. P. Putnan's Sons.
This book is searching commen-
tary on our system of naval admin
istration and doctrine, as we'll as
the story of an adventurous life.
1t cannot be said of the gallant re-
tired admiral that he is a man who
doesn't know his own mind. He not
only knows what he thinks but he is
entirely fearless in saying so. With
such equipment the authors naval
career was bound to be, and was, ex-
citing. Now and then he got into
trouble, but not enough. fortunately,
to prevent him from becoming an
admiral.
Admiral Stirling regrets that a
naval officer must play the political
game to obtain position as bureau
chief or an important fleet COM
mand. He advocates naval general
staff, divorced from civilian and po-
itical control, to remedy this sit
uation, suggesting that such a staff
be headed by an admiral elected by
his brother admirals. This question,
of course, is for the experts to de-
eide.
His anecdotes about famous peo-
pie include one concerning Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, when the
President was Assistant Secretary of
the Navy. She once climbed a bat
tleship mast in dungarees to witness
a target practice.
Admiral Stirling was commandant
in Hawaii during the Massie trag-
edy, possibly the most difficult de-
tail of his entire career and one
which he handled with skill. His
version doesn't tie up with others
printed, but then no two interpreta-
tions of this famous case have ever
been identical.
1t is lively book, one that will
interest Navy folk and civilians
alike. 1t is, primarily, the record
of a career. The reader learns what
it is like to assume the enormous
responsibility of being in command
of ship at sea; how an officer feels
when he leaves ship upon which
he has served, and a Navy officers
Interpretation Of several stirring
fracases of the past few decades.
The Navy tradition sparkles bril-
liantly on each Of its pages.
". K. G.
Evening star., 1939-06-04

this sketch Of the royal family of
Great Britain will perhaps serve to
impress the American mind with
certain facts and factors that are
essential for an understanding not
only of the King and Queen but of
the British plan of democratic
monarchy.
Written by an English newspaper
man. the synopsis of the back
ground and lives of the royal couple
is as encompassing as it is terse.
And Mr.. Baxter, not only just to his
subject, is fair to the reader, for
he flies no glorify ing fight of idol
airy in his book but contributes a
frank and solid appraisal of two
fine people and their exalted sta
tion-or plight, if you want to con-
slider the restrictions placed on their
lives.
Devoting most attention to the
King, the author tells of the great
struggle that the second royal son
Evening star., 1939-06-04
Brief Reviews
Of New Books
The Mind.

Hc NllHu.
THE MENTAL HYGIENE MOVE
MENT. New York: Published by
the Department of Philanthropic
Information, Central Hanover
Bank & Trust Co.
A statement of the history, the
present condition and future needs
of the mental hygiene movement.
Informative.
THE HUMAN HOUSE. BY Dorothy
j. Field. Boston: Houghton
Miff1in Co.
Detailed advice on the selection
and planning of homes from $4,000
to $4,000. With plans and illustra-
tions Should be helpful
DESIGNS FOR SIXTY SMALL
HOUSES FROM $4,000 TO $10,-
000 BY Samuel CHASER. New
York: Coward Mccain.
How to buy and finance houses of
four kinds-American Colonial, Eng
lish Cotswold, French provincial and
modern. With plans and illustra-
tlonS. Should be helpful.
Jobs.
MEN WANTED. BY o. G. H. Rasch.
New Orleans: Pelican Publishing
Co.
Where and how to get a job-even
in these bad times. Should be en-
couraging to the job hunters.
Verse.
WIDE COUNTRY DUSK. BY Lulu
Minerva Schultz. Atlanta: Ban
ner Press.
Sentimental verse on popular sub
jectS.
Evening star., 1939-06-04

maying. 1t is so in its complete
lack of any sense of right and wrong
or of any questioning of the au-
thority which sent its author forth
to slay his fellowmen in their home
land. One can only conclude that
Corpl. Hino has been completely
indifferent to any such aspects OF
the war in which he has been taking
part. The kinder thought-that he
feared to put any doubts of the i'm
perial rightneSs into words-must
be dismissed For again and again
throughout the book he positively
affrms his unWavering patriotism
expresses indignation at the anti
Japanese attitude of the Chinese
rejoices proudly in victories and
states his hatred of the enemy whose
defense takes the lives of his own
friends and comrades. He is not
jingo-no. He does not have the
enthusiasm and bounce that go with
jingo1sm. He simply takes the moral
aspects of the war in the matter
of-fact manner of a robot. His
fatherland is fighting, he seems to
tell us, and has called him to the
colors. That is all there is to it,
as far as he is concerned.
Beyond this depressing acquies-
cence in dictated policy, however
the book contains very living pic
ture of the existence of the soldiers
of Japans Army today. 1t describes
the landing of the troops at Hang
chow Bay, the long march to Kai-
shan, the hunger, the surprise at
tacks, the WEAKNESS, the dirt, the
comradeship and the sorrow. 1t. tells
of the authors feelings under fire
and of his rage and grief at seeing
his men killed. 1t also tells OF the
matter-o -of-fact plundering of the
countryside for food and of the
smashing up of the furniture found
in Chinese homes to make firewood
to supply the Japanese camps.
It gives, further, an unfattering
picture of the Chinese Army and
displays only theatrical sympathy
with the non-combatants whose
homes and property the author as
sisted in destroying-as when, for
example, a group of refugees was
shot down between the lines and a
baby cried all night there beside its
dying mother. Then the author, up
set by the walls, climbed out of his
trench, crept to where the child lay
and dramatically placed it on the
breast of its mother, who was by
that time dead. Just what good this
strange maneuver accomplished a
reader will be puzzled to see, but the
proud author records that, when he
marched by the next day. the baby
was still there and that it smiled at
him! One gathers that, to his mind
he had committed an act of great
mercy.
On the whole, the book will hardly
win any sympathy to the Japanese
cause, nor will it be likely either to
arouse popular commiseration fol
Evening star., 1939-06-04
News and Reviews Latest Books Comments Leading Magazines
Week s Best Sellers
WashingtOn.

Fiction-"Grapes of Wrath"
John Steinbeck; Capt. Horatio
Hornblower," c. S. Forester;
"Wickford Point" John P. Mar
quand; "The Tree of Liberty"
Elizabeth Page; "All This and
Heaven Too" Rachel Field;
"The Yearling," Marjoria Raw
lings; "Piccolino," Marian King.
Non-fiction - Reaching for
the Stars" Nora Vain; Garter
Glass" Rixey Smith and Nor
man Beasley; America in Mid
passage" Charles and Mary
Beard; "Huntsman, What
Quarry?" Edna st. Vincent
Millay; "Mein Kampf," Adolf
Hitler; Autobiography With
Letters" William Lyon Phelps.
Boston.
Fiction - THE Grapes Of
WRATH" "Wickford Point" "All
This and Heaven Too" Three
Harbors," F. Van Wyck Mason;
'"The Patriot" Pearl S. Buck.
Non-fiction -" Reaching for
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With Letters" Take 1t From
Me-" Neal O'Hara; "A Peculiar
Treasure" Edna Ferber; "Mein
Kamnf"
Chicago.
Fiction - 1.-The Grapes Of
Wrath" "Wine of Good
Hope" David Rame; "Wickford
Point" 'The Patriot" Here
Lies" Dorothy Parker.
Nom -flction-"Days of Our
Years" Pierre van Paassen;
Reaching for Stars" 'Mein
Kampf," Autobiography With
Letters" You're the Doctor"
Victor Heiser.
New York.
Fiction The Grapes of
Wrath" "All This and Heaven
Too" "Wickford Point" Here
Lies" 'The Tree of Liberty"
Non-fiction Reaching for
the Stars" Days of Our Years"
Autobiography With Letters"
''Mein Kampf," "Huntsman,
What Quarry?"
San Francisco.
Fiction - The Grapes OF
Wrath" "Wickford Point"
"The Patriot" Capt. Horatio
HornbloWer," "All This and
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Days of San Francisco" Evelyn
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and Out" Malvina Hoffman;
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Evening star., 1939-06-04
The Essence of Tragedy, and
Other Footnotes and Papers
Bv Mar1ueH Anderson. Wash

By Mar1ueH Anderson. Wash
ington: Anderson House.
This is a slender volume of essays
by Americas playwright number
one-or two, according to how you
feel about Eugene O'Neill. The pa
pers cover a variety of subjects, as
the composition of dramatic trag-
edies, poetry in the theater and the
future of the American people. But
in every case Mr.. Anderson takes
playwriting as his starting point.
He seems to tell us, therefore, that
a playwright is by no means work.
er in an ivory tower, but is con-
cerned with many aspects of the
contemporary world and obliged by
his very trade to hold practical
opinions. These same opinions,
however, he indicates, will be col
ored in their turn by the play
wrights special vision, and so he
conducts us to tower after all-if
not an ivory one, at least one in
which workaday realities are seen in
their relation to the ancient veritles.
He tells us that these verities are
found in the arts and that mankind
must come to them through a
heightened appreciation of the arts
which if it be realized will result
in nobler art than we can at present
produce, but which the race has
brought forth in such past centuries
as those of Pericles and Elizabeth.
Not bureaus for distributing old
age pensions, says Mr.. Anderson, nor
any other mechanism for bringing
about universal virtue through uni
versal security can ennoble the
humankind and fire it with passion
for justice and beauty, but only i'm
provement within the minds of men
themselves. Or, in orther words
you can only improve the breed by
improving it. Legislation of per-
fection will get you nowhere-un-
less perchance you happen to be
running for a political Office.
Well, it is perfectly sound. And
everybody seems to know it-except
the politicians. Mr. Anderson Is
eloquent on the subject. He writes
a flowing and beautiful prose and is
we'll worth reading, for music as
well as for words.
Evening star., 1939-06-04

much to expect an Oklahoman to
pronounce the "g" in an ing end
ing, there is no reason why he
should not write one.
Aside from these idiosyncracies,
this biography of Will Rogers is
amusing and probably authentic.
While it does not throw much new
light on this we'll loved character, it
does add many new anecdotes and
tales about him which round out
the man. r. r. T.