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Evening star., 1940-02-25
After Many Summer Dies the Swan

A0ohS
Huxley again of the two preoccu
paon which chiefly its
the ns with @
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by m That aef @ m 9 Man With # the the Sea @ e sn 1
composed mechanically acting
reading matter 10 q" D''' 'N' "'"'' s''o
m For ven than in his other novels Mr. Huxley peoped
cognizabe human character generally This
II sse
like the old morality plays His Eyeryman has generally
m either su m ne
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@ hc % M mnes d a in a nd the sussn has to o @
Ps Pse ss 9ns 4na THs 1 Rsan sas What did you
Hires Scientist to Seek
Secret of Life.
In the present novel however
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unpleasant materials
m on @ epy o M M rich msn W he s
% se that @ a yed ns m m s ao h. almost to
s fs %s! n I m s % %
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accordingly sets out for
asa nos @ es9 % o % s as os 5 % % % nossu
alas human his
sa does noe r n hs has Sa time e.
the and the
Likewise the companion
such fate the venang diet
with wondering
al"n
entihc laughter. =
Thus the outlines Huxeys
work, is the least important the
Not affecting this grotesque tale but offering Mr. Huxeys
prescription the uiy which
pid sought life Prop
has function in the except talk Readers will
old
he has uttered wisdom young
yearnng romancis
author saying Just about what Mr. Huxley said in Ends and Means
preceding
human personality that the
the chance that accept the attitude devoid
all
Mr. Prop the for the book Unfortunately he also
will
too wnded He holds forth in virtual monoogue for almost
and the gst Of his speech that Mr. Huxley believes
Evening star., 1940-02-25

emcacy OF myStlclSm-1ndeed, that
he sees no other possible help for
the constantly increasing terror of
human life. Being asked where good
is to be found, Mr. Propter answers:
"On the level below the human
and on the level above. On the
animal level and on the level =
of eternity, the level, If you don t
object, of God; the level of the
Spirit - =. On the lower level
good exists as the proper function
ing Of the organism in accordance
with the laws of its own being,
On the higher level 1t exists in the
form Of a knowledge Of the world
without desire or aversion; it exists
as the experience Of eternity, as
the transcendence OF personality,
the extension of consciousness be-
yond the limits imposed by the
ego. Strictly human activities are
activities that prevent the mani
festation of good on the other
two levels. For insofar as we're
human. we're obsessed with time,
we're passionately concerned with
our personalities and with those
magnified projections of our per-
sonalities which we call our policies,
our ideals, our religions. And what
are the results? Being obsessed
with time and our egos. we are
forever craving and worrying. But
nothing impairs the normal func-
tioning Of the organism like craving
and revulsion. like greed and fear
and worry. And, mutatis
mutandis. the same thing is true in
regard to the sphere above. 1nso-
far as we're human beings we pre-
vent ourselves from realizing the
spiritual and timeless good that
we're capable of as potential in
habitants of eternity, as potential
enjoyers of the beatific vision. We
worry and crave ourselves out Of
the very possibility of transcending
personality and knowing, intellec-
tually at first and then by direct
experience, the true nature of the
world"
40 C0AN, VIC AoSCl ID PCROSVCAOuS
as novel. It Is full of technical
absurdities and the brisk activity
which has enlivened most Of Mr..
Huxley's earlier moralities Is lack
ing in it for long passages. These
negligences call to the reviewers
mind the fact that, after the ap-
pearance of "Eyeless in Gaza." she
ventured the statement that Mr..
Huxley would write no more fiction.
It seemed to her then that he had
gone in his thinking beyond the
limits of any conceivable novel.
Ends and Means" strengthened this
notion. It stated plainly authors
acceptance of mysticism as a prac-
tical-though certainly not a prob
able-cure for the ills of war, i'm
perialism and capitalism, and from
such a point of view it was difncult
to imagine that a novel might be
composed. After Many a Summer"
would simply seem to indicate that
the author has decided that fiction
is the best means of preaching his
message. It has the marks of a
tour de force. 1t lacks spontaneity
and will therefore probably fail of
the purpose for which 1t was de-
Evening star., 1940-02-25

still are vivid. For the rest, the
book is just a record of brutalities
done by the whites to the blacks. A
good example of the type" novel, to
be sure, but type, nonetheless.
Look at the Law
By PerciUal E. Jackson. Ne,o
York: E. P. Dutton e. Co.
The legal profession is getting q
lot of criticism these days, and Mr..
Jackson,s book merely adds more of
the same. Delving into every con-
ceivable phase of the subject, he
attempts NO moral, but simply states
the facts as he sees them. Many
readers will disagree with some of
his findings, but they probably will
enjoy his manner of presentation,
just the same. For he writes calmly
and clearly, and with just enough
Evening star., 1940-02-25
Best Sellers

The following list of best
sellers is compiled weekly from
information obtained in WASH
ington by The Star and in New
York. Boston, Chicago and San
Francisco by the North Ameri-
can Newspaper Alliance:
Fiction.
THE Grapes of WRATH" John
Steinbeck:: Kitty Foyle," Chris
topher Morley; "The Nazarene. "
Sholem Asch: After Many a
Summer Dies the Swan" Aldous
Huxley: How Green Was My
Valley" Richard Llewellyn;
Moment in Peking." Lin Yu-
tang: "The Eagles Gather" /"
Taylor Caldwell: Portrait Of
Jennie" Robert Nathan: THE
Star Gazer." Zsolt de Harsanyi;
Gone With the Wind" Mar
garet Mitchell.
Non-Fiction.
"A Smattering of Ignorance. !"
Oscar Levant: Land Below the
Wind" Agnes Newton Keith;
Since Yesterday" Frederick
Allen; Happy Days" H. L.
Mencken; Inside Europe-l940
Edition." John Gunther wind,
Sand and Stars" Antoine de St.
Exupery; Country Lawyer. !"
Bellamy Partridge; Days of
Our Years. Pierre van Paassen: !:
THE Well-Tempered Listener" i"
Deems Taylor; I'm Place of
Splendor.' Constancia de la
Mora.
Evening star., 1940-02-25
James Joyce Biography
Reveals Human Side of
Great Literary Figure
Story of Author of Ulysses
Tells of Early Struggles;
Huxley Novel Reviewed
James Joyce
By Mary.Carfer Roberts.

By Herbert German. NeD Farrar & Rinehart.
The author of Ulysses forth his thicke
sure to extent in spite Of Mr. Goman who him
ediorzes
this estimate That Joyce genius will doubt
no. With the most auatory Mr. German does not succeed
IN making him member Of thaafer all rather duousbreed
He shows him. instead individual
efeuay with teaching
schools cerking
for his works i'll much the time
hdnce of his fellows Indeed the wears of ovc life I'm to tn. bc
ton of Ulysses uninterrupted disappointment
and Illustration Nor there much
belief himself during this
consisted only Young
liners and small volume of But the the he
persisted suffering
Into
HI story Mr. Mr. G0man writes it. closely s 70 the history
literary
@ the y and the @ nsv n m the vo hoy
Irish letters the attempt
the tine believe
the singular
three weapons-"sience exile and cunning
s, s,rss Mother: hs%' D:.:s. sss% France
When he not @ than a he made his rs in exile
studying and absorbing the buy
sa @ ssst sn rs
the with Of
ne and For eens es h ef Rom a sn & 1 paid
interchange required
certain changes to be made the of Dubne most
agonzingy trivial
guardian Of public morals and he kept Joyce waiting literally for
promises which, him,
Removal another publishing house brought satisfactory
results Meanwhile the artist with family
tongues 1t is heart breaking record certainly.
Joyce retained his determination fight back with his
however and by the time Dubners last print he
had conceived of Ulysses In this wokindeed
Mr. German nprets himDubln the inspiration
OF that city, its fantastic mnng Christian and
unending bloody his
German, though
in mind repopuaed
genius with figures gathered from all time.
conflicting
the foundation
old mother of Joyce"
Joyce living man to its readers in his background 1t
does spite of its authors occasional tendency dea
who will never through Fnnegan Wake and vino
Ulysses
of the mysterious James surprisingly ordinary
ordinary fellow seated genius which has arrested
world
Evening star., 1940-02-25

signed. People coming to see a
play-even a morality play-expect
to be entertained. And Mr.. Huxley
here offers entertainment only for
those who probably know already
what he is concerned with putting
down,
Evening star., 1940-02-25

OF an anecdotal touch to get his
points across in an entertaining way.
j. A. K.
Evening star., 1940-02-25
Other Gods

~ Pe1TL ). BUCK. Ne1D YORK.
John Day.
Mrs. Buck writes here the story
of an American public hero-a sort
of glamor man No. l, young chap
who climbs an hitherto unscaleu
peak in the Himalayas and finds
himself promptly lifted to an even
higher peak of prominence and pop
ularity. 1t is tale which might we'll
have been made the vehicle of a
hearty satire. but unfortunately
Mrs. Bucks talents do not lie in
the satirical field, and she tells her
story, instead. in terms of the suf-
ferings of the herois wife, to whom
vulgar adulation is unpleasant. The
result is a humorless, pointless and
pontifically written tale which is
of no Importance to any one what
soever.
Evening star., 1940-02-25

the young fellow comes to a point
where his memory of his crime be-
gins to corrupt his thoughts of his
sweetheart. Here. when all seems
lost and reader can imagine no
fate for the unhappy couple except
a pair of adjoining cells, the origi-
nally morbid aunt-now trans
formed into q good old scout-steps
in and effects reconciliation. The
young people adjust themselves to
the fact of the murder, and in spite
Of this depressing marriage portion,
seem in fair way to live happily
ever after. Readers who are in
clined to be a bit sorry for the
stranger have their feelings as
suaged by knowledge that, though
handsome, he is what used to be
called a bastard.
1t is just respectable little book
1t lacks the hypocrisy and vulgarity
necessary to a huge trade success,
and it is a long way from being
literature. Had plain John Smythe
presented it to a publisher one feels
that it would still be going the
rounds. But the Van Doren name
IS not without magic. Even a mere
ly respectable little book gathers
some glamour from its indubitable
prestige.
Evening star., 1940-02-25

War>Mindedness Abroad
Is Held to Be Contrary
To Spirit Of Population
Leader of South Americas
Struggle Painted as Heroic
Figure; Tariffs Discussed
War in the Twentieth Century
War in the Twentieth Century

War IN the twentieth Century
Symposium Edited by Willard Waller. Ne York Random
House.
the established that nations
indung that strange defiance civilization the
beyond the Of the bgerens wonder
conflict about Here book which tells about well
Great Britain France Germany and Poland mention Finland
the point November 1882 they
went to
general question of time Then,
the involved going the old World
its
between political
communic the fascic Diplomacy morality inherent
Var-mndedness Of Europe In 1899.
Hope Away
From -Mindedness.
Fortunately Waller and his fellow authors attempt mphca
on the But do hold after all
world be moving Whether this just
the want
people Britain recoiled
thought of folkways certainly
to democratic nations relationships
THE flaming protest against the 20 the wide
lary books All Quiet
rha the apologzed
unknown soldier supporting English
Oxford oatthese things
disappeared
that the world has changed
stubborn resist changes in the fokways will shortly
as an instrument Of national policy B. B.
Evening star., 1940-02-25
The Protection Of American Export Trade

By Francis B. Sawe Chicago: University OF Chicago
Press
damnng the trade the opponents
Hull usually raise
American
inspires These critics protectons
lean nsethoe believe
High Commissioner the Philippines
retary OF State charge of trade
tectionists to his believe
promote the sale Of American goods abroad
is wise method selling the trade agreement system the
country The book in which it Is developed
Just another step the DEVELOPMENT Of the Roosevelt
argument for the universal adoption this
trade AS such valuable 1t the publication Of three
lectures made Mr.
in the John Findley Gree Memorial
One interesting
system with its provision for reciprocity benefits
OF general and brings
long President Benjamin Harrisons time BIB
Life's Circus
BY Lady Eleanor Smith, York Doubeday Doran g. Co.
The author of this autobiography
Lord Chancellor Of England the following World
War She abandoned the British aocacy
among gypes to travel with ccusto
called
Her procvty for wandering she attributes to the fact that
grandmother was Inspiration earlier
Wage Flamenco and The Spanish Houevas
her native England in the Balkans
she became civil refugee Lady Eeanor handicapped
crawling
passages well worth reading
Evening star., 1940-02-25
Man of Glory: Simon Bolivar

By Thomas Rourke. NeW York: William MorroW & Co.
Simon Bolivar the nbeaor
that
He fought IS directed 500 battles
miles territory and in the accomplished his
military objectves
Yet the of South Americas greatest
to North American readers
usually mispronounced.
Bolivar than revolutionary
ton brilliant strategi
mating them by sheer strength Of personality.
Born wealthy and arisocratc Colonial family
duced the decaden Spanish H.
Napoleon the height
Italy that he free South America
Mr. Rourke Bovars path glorybaes
bitter brutal a with
ton of Peru at Ayaeucho
Five later his South
shattered
in exile at A.
Why had he failed? Mr. Rouke
pie that the beator himself
that becomes in times trouble
Of despairng asc narcotic relieve his
tired with the unaccusomed effort struggle"
Is there message for today this tendency thinks
there Is But regardless Of written thoroughly
able biography heroic
North America C.B.F.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-01
JAPAN ABAND0NS
KWANCSI PROVINCE
1000
Troops Have Sailed From
Haiphong, Indo-C China

HANOI, French Indo-C China, Oct.
81. - Up - Japanese troops have
abandoned Kwangsi province, in
Southern China, and nearly 1000
already have sailed from Haiphong,
Indo-China, to a destination that
was not disclosed.
They retired by way of the north.
ern border of Indo- China, into which
other Japanese detachments had
marched more than a month ago to
gain a Judgement in French terri.
tory and a new position from which
to strike at China.
(The japanese withdrawal from
Manning, the capital Of Kwangsi,
has been described by the Japanese
command as voluntary, with the y.
PLANTATION that the city was of no
essential value now that Japan has
bases in 1ndo-C China.
cThe Chinese claim that it was
anything but voluntary; that the
Japanese campaign in Kwangsi pro.
vince notorious for it's epidemics -
cost the invaders "a, 900 men through
death, injury or illness; that the
whole affair was a heavy bloW, to
Japanese prestisel
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-01
DRAFTEES TO GET
QUESTIONABLE
Work OF Mailing Them To
Local Men Is Expected To
Be Started Next Week

Young men in Wilmington and
New Hanover county whose num-
bers were called in the army draft
lottery in Washington Tuesday will
probably begin receiving their
questionaires about the middle OF
next week, Glenn j. McClelland,
chief clerk in the city draft board
office here, said last night.
No missionaries will be mailed
out to draftees until the official
list of order numbers for the draft
have been received here.
Upon receipt of the order list,
the numbers will be assigned to the
registration cards of the men they
have on file here.
On receipt of the official list, it
was said, draft office workers will
begin assigning the order numbers
to the cards in the files of the two
boards, after which the sending
out of missionaries to all regis
trants will begin.
Questionnaires will be sent to
registrants in the order in which
their numbers were pulled from
the goldfish bowl in Washington
Tuesday and will be mailed out at
the rate of about Is per day.
At that rate, Glen Nc Clelland,
Continued OH Page Twelve, Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-01
F. D. R. DELEGATES
HEALTH INSTITUTE
Declares Government Does
Not Intend To Socialize
Medical Practice

BETHESDA, Md, Oct. 31.-R-
President Roosevelt declared to-
day that neither the American
people nor their government in
tend to socialze medical practice
any more than they plan to So
cialize industry"
This pronouncement was made
in an address delivered at the died.
ication of the new 81, 900, 900 plant
of the National Institute of Health
a government research a 6 e c y
near this suburb of the national
capital. The institute includes the
national cancer institute.
Speaking from the high portico
of the administration building to
federal and state officials and a
crowd seated in lows below him,
the chief executive held up the
family doctor as a bulwark of the
nation and espoused "a partner
ship" of federal, state and local
health and medicine"
"In American life," he d,
''the family doctor, the general
practitioner performs a service,
which we rely upon and trust as
a nation.
mo n has a greater appre-
CONTINUED on Page Three; Col. p
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-01
Methodist Conference.-The
OpenTIereO nNOvember
PLANS UNDER WAY
Bishop Clare Purcess Will
Preside; Approximately
700 Persons To Attend

Plans for the second annual SEES
sion of the North Carolina Confer
ence of the Methodist church, which
will be held at the Fifth Avenue
Methodist church here Thursday,
November z through Sunday, No
vember 10, are now under way, local
Methodist leaders said last night.
Bishop Clare Purcell, recently as
signed to the leadership of Metho'
dism in Eastern Carolina, will pre-
side over the conference as presi-
dent.
700 To Attend
Approximately 700 members of the
conference are expected to attend
the annual session of the body,
which comprises the New United
Methodist church in North Carolina.
This session represents the 104th
annual session of the former North
Carolina Conference Of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, South. At the
last session of the body in Fayette-
vile November S-12, 1899, the body
was united with the Protestant
Methodist conference and the Meth
odist Episcopal Conference. The
Wilmington meeting next week there
fore is the second annual session.
The Rev.. C. D. Barclift, pastor of
Fifth Avenue church, is the Confer
ence host pastor and the Rev. W. A.
Cade, for the past five years district
CONTINUED on Page Three; Col. q
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-01
BOARD INSPECTS
T0OMER'S CREEK
Survey Preliminary Move
Toward Study OF Pro-
posed Pipe Lines Course

Continuing their efforts to give
Wilmington a new and permanent
supply Of fresh water, the city
commissioners yesterday travel
ed up the Cape Fear river for an
inspection of TONERS Creek and
the river generally.
They left at 10 a. m. from the
loot q Grace street on a boat owned
by Dr. W. T. Smith and during the
morning made a thorough study OF
l%oofler's Creek, which is being re-
pared so that when fresh water is
available in the river it may be
useo again until the new pipe line
u Inc new source of water is ready.
II will take months to complete
NontInued on Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-01
ITALYSAYS ADVANCING
Claim Gains Beyond Kala.
mas River Despite Rain,
Mud, Stiff Resistance
FEW ROADS AVAILABLE
Fascist Planes Reported To
Have Bombed Troop
Transports At Patras

ROME, Nov. 1.-(Friday)-LR-
Italian troops have penetrated
Greece from the seaside as well as
from the Albanian land frontier, the
official Italian news agency Stefani
reported early today.
Other reports from the front said
that in four days Of war against
Greece, the Italian army had ad'
vanced beyond the Kalamas river,
five miles from the Albanian border,
despite rain, mud and stiff Greek
resistance.
Aided By Aviation
stefani's frontier correspondent
also mentioned inclement weather
and difficulties Of terrain, but sale
the Italians were pressing ahead,
reinforced by aviation.
So far, the correspondent report
ed, only the Greek rear guard has
been encountered in territory favor,
able to Greek-laid ambushes. He said
the Greeks were also blowing VI
bridges as they withdrew.
In general, however, he said the
Italian-occupied area was a rugged
land having mo trace of roads,
necessitating transport of every
necessity on foot or with long strings
of pack mules.
Augmentng a high command an
nouncement that Fascist forces had
reached the Kalamas river "at va
rious points," the newspaper Lavoro
Fascista's war correspondent said
troops which jumped off from the
border towns of Kakavia and Petrat
had crossed the stream.
The main force apparently was
moving down the highway which
th1 eads through the mountains from
Kakavia to Ionnina (Janina), indus
trial town on a lake of the same
name 80 miles south Of the border.
The Greeks are resisting "in some
correspondent of the Turin news
paper Gazzeta Del Popolo reported,
but generally are falling back to
their main prepared positions and
combining their activities to harass-
ing Italian communications.
In addition to the land operations,
the high command said its air force
flew through dirty weather to bomb
loaded troop transports at the port
of Patras and the Lepanto naval
base on the Gulf of Corinth, a bar
racks at Metzovo pass, in western
Greece, and highway functions in
the Kalamas valley.
The identity of the troops aboard
the bombed vessels was not disclos-
ed. (Salonika dispatches said British
transports were reported authorita-
lively to have landed troops on un-
disclosed Greek islands.)
In the air operations the high COM
mand reported several ."enemy'
planes were shot odwn and that one
Italian craft failed to return.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-01
LEARNS
OF HIS NO. l5S
Seaman Returns To City
X And Finds He Was First
Man Drafted In County

Harold o. Wilson,, of Whining.
ton, route two, learned last night
for the first time that he was the
No. l man drafted for army serv.
ice Tuesday from New Hanover
county.
A seaman, Wilson was en- route,
to Charleston, S. c. aboard the
State Port when his number-15e
was pulled from the bowl in
Washington by Secretary of War
Stimson.
It was not until he got back into
Wilmington last night and called
his father that he discovered he
held No. l honors.
George Swinson, of Castle Hayne
was the first man to be drafted
from Wilmington.
Wilson will be aboard the State
Port locked at the foot of Ann
Continued on Page Twelve, Col. .6)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-01
Continued on Page Three; Col. p

WASHINGTON, Oct. 81 R -
Stephen Early, secretary to Presi-
dent Roosevelt, issued a statement
tonight apologizing to a New York
negro police officer and the police
commissioner there "for having
had any part in what he de-
scribed as a 'regretable" alterca-
ton Monday night.
The presidential secretary pre-
faced his apology with the asser-
ton that 81 do not believe that
I did anything wrong in this Incl
dent"
Early encountered a police de-
tail in a lower level of the Penn
sylyania station. in New York while
attempting to gain permission for
a group of White House employees
and newspapermen to board the
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-01
Stephen Early, Secretary To F. D.. r.,
Apologizes TON. Y. Negro Policeman

train on which they had to return
to their places of duty in Washing
ton. I showed my credentials. All
of the people in the group also
had official credentials to board
the train. 1t was essential f r
them that they get on that train
before it left. Unfortunately the po-
lice had received instructions to let
nobody pass under any circum-
stances. I was doing my best to
identify this group ,-ad to convince
the police that it was imperative
and proper for this party to pass
through the police line before the
train left.
During the discussion there was
a great deal of jostling and SHOW
Continued on Page Eight; Col. s.