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Evening star., 1941-11-26
Agencies Preparing 10 Put
Ramspeck Act Into Effect

Preparing for the inclusion with
in civil service on January ! OF
thousands Of positions covered by
the Ramspeck Act, the Civil Service
Commission today issued instruc-
tionS to departmental heads, advis-
ing them of the steps to be taken
to permit the incumbents of the
positions to acquire classified status.
About $4,000 positions are affected
by the law, but there will be a large
bloc of exemptions, where for some
particular reason it is not feasible or
advisable to recruit personnel by
open examination.
For the employees to get status.
the commission reminded the de-
partmental officials, it Is necessary
that they be recommended for civil
service. Otherwise, they are con-
tinued In their positions, but will
not be eligible for promotion or
transfer after December 81 of next
year.
They must also occupy . perna.
nent position on January !. next,
and b on active dv1 s>aeAs.
Evening star., 1941-11-26

be bound by any award which is
confined to the coal industry?
That's very doubtful proposition.
So it may be that Mr.. Steelman will
grant the closed shop and then and
thereafter the President will pro-
claim his opposition to any more
closed-shop controversies, attempt
ing instead to freeze the existing
status for the duration of the emer-
Evening star., 1941-11-26

a II o I II { I I o
make promises
and then re-
pudiate tn e m.
So successfully is
this done in
these days that
the stage has
been re a c h e d
where a mans
word no longer
m e a n s Ver Y
much. Whether
he keeps it or
not appears to
make little diff
Evening star., 1941-11-26

behlnd the &C
ceptance by Mr..
Lewis Of tn e
arbitration pro-
osa ! W h i C h
stopped the coal
strike was a vir-
tu al certainty
that the closed
shop would be
granted.
Inc report IS
that on Satur-
d ay morning,
when the Policy
Comm it tee of
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ton OF the
Neut raj lit y
Act. But the
Pre- S i d e n t
probably was
I emembering
the observa-
ton of Plato
that the Gre
ii | lOll vi Tie
world : the
V l C t ory Of
perS u a S ION
over force.
The PreSi-
dent by his
Evening star., 1941-11-26

gency. 1t may be that the Presi-
dent would ask Congress to declare
all strikes for the closed shop as
illegal hereafter. II such a result
ensued. the practical effect of the
victory won by Mr.. Lewis would be
of less importance and future in
terruptions to the defense program
would be cut to the minimum.
Reproduction Rights Reserved)
Evening star., 1941-11-26

Buddy Baer, uo
vast hulk who
operates out OF
Livermore, Calf.
is going to fight
Joe Louis for
nothing for the
benefit Of q Navy
relief society.
If he does he
will automatic
cauy join Sergt.
York as one Of
Americas great
heroes and the
Evening star., 1941-11-26

THE opinions Of the rters this page their not
necessarily The Stars Such opinions presented IN The
effort to all sides OF questions OF interest to its
readers although such opinions may be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars
Evening star., 1941-11-26
By FRANK r. KENT.

One of the most distressing things
in our country is the ability of
public men to face both ways with
impunity: to say one thing and do
Evening star., 1941-11-26
McLemore
Buddy May Be Hero
Of 'Seret. Boer
By HENRY McLEMORE.

Hollywood might as well go ahead
and make q picture called "Sergt.
Baer."
It seems almost certain now that
Evening star., 1941-11-26
On the Record
Labor Legislation for Long Range Common Veal
Instead of Specific Crisis, Is Recommended
BY DOROTHY THOMPSON.

Had the President been willing
to crack down" on the coal
miners he probably could have
added so votes for the modifica-
Evening star., 1941-11-26
Closed Shop
Victory Seen
For Lewis
Captive Mine Award
Might Be Prelude
To Freezing Status
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

A circumstantial story is going the
rounds here which in effect says
President Roosevelt surrendered to
John Lewis last Saturday and that
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-07

battleaxes, arrows and spears. Creasy's Decisive
Battles of the World might well have included that
one, because it is the only time modern man met
ancient woman of the neolithic age in a pitched
battle-and modern man was defeated.
Of all the mysteries of South and Central Amer
lea, none is deeper than the habit of abandoning
magnificent cities that must have been built, like
Leningrad, ION the bones of a million workmen."
The key, at least to some of these desertions,
may be found in the ancient Amazons. In Europe
and Asia, cities have been destroyed often enough.
Others have been captured, more less intact, and
occupied by their conquerors. The Nazis for in
stance, could drive out or cXterminate the native
Parisans but the city would still go on, inhabited
by Germans.
In previous articles have undertaken TO show
that vast upheaval of the South American con-
tincnt made the sites of many of the abandoned
cities no longer desirable seats of empire How
ever, If the cities were not destroyed by the Cata
clysm, neither was much of the surrounding terri
tory, which must have been populated with peas
ants, as ii is now with Indians.
These could hardly have Joined in the great
trek. Such mass migration would have meant
mass suicide by starvation, not to mention hostile
natives, in their path. If it did not occur what
to prevent the peasants from moving into the city
palaces, vacated by their former masters?
One may well believe that they tried it, only to
find the cities golden death-traps. To run city
requires knowledge, experience and organization,
without which the population must soon be de-
stroyed in series of pestilences, caused by its
cumulated filth and ignorance of sanitation
In a gynaecocracy, government of women for
women, all such knowledge and skill would be mys-
tic secrets, held exclusively by the women, power
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-07

old Inca Empire of Cuzco. The Guiana Indians
have no doubt of their existence and call them
"Aikeambenanas" (women who live alone)
Are these and statements of-many other tribes
to be considered myths mere transplantations
of the classic European about the Amazons
defeated by Theseus? In my opinion only partly
and in the same class as the traditions of the Tro-
Jan war and even Troy itself, which were consd-
cred myths until Schlemann uncovered the actual
site of Troy.
This writer has examined the available evidence
from other sources, old Colonial archives in Madrid
and Spanish America and even far older records to
compare them with what modern Indians say
Men famous as well as the great mass of unre-
corded ones have died for and in the belief of these
women warriors Soldiers priests, missionary
monks martyred preaching friars, god-hunters,
frontiersmen, adventures, explorers pioneers and
even airmen and scientists of our own twentieth
century have believed in it enough to lose their
lives seeking the answer during the last four hun
dred years.
Many Of these were men Of bad character,
ready to butcher the Amazons to the last woman
if they resisted and having only passing interest
in their customs, except a means TO plumber
them But this is not sufficient reason for throw
ing out their testimony.
a They were scheming, treacherous adventures
but hard-btten practical men, experts in getting
the truth from the natives. There was no more
motive for inventing the Amazons than for modern
polar explorers to invent polar animals Good.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-07

TOR new light on the prehistory of human civil
- zation look to the Old World which, in some
ways, is not Europe, Asia and Africa, but
South America.
There, as l have written in previous articles for
The American Weekly, lie the lost dead cities with
their vast treasures of gold which the Spanish
conquistadors sought in vain and their strange in
scEiptions, in alphabet curousy close to Greek
and Phoencian
In the Matte Crosse of Brazil stand age-old
towers still cleaning with an incredible eternal
engineers.
Perhaps most fascinating of all, there now
moving into focus far up the river of time, ma jes
tic figures Of true Amazons, race of women rulers
and conquerors the peak Of the matriarcha era
when the state was a gynaecOcracy.
These mighty women whose mouths have long
been stopped with dust, beckon impcriOusly to mod
crn man to come and see what they achieved
Never mind the gold, which will probably be mis-
spent hope 70. live TO see that summons obeyed.
In this, their last stronghold the gynaecocracieS
had evidently declined from their zenith when the
so-caled Old World rediscovered the New" but
some of them were still going pretty strong and
believe they still exist History records that in
1911, an army Of conquistadors, thirstng for gold
but at the moment hunting cinnamon, the precious
spice which could be sold for gold marched against
republic Of women" and met the Amazons on the
bank of the Rio Maranon (Amazon River) Brazil.
The invaders, Spanish hidalgos and infanteria,
at that time the best soldery Of Europe. They
had steel arms armor, terrifying horses and thun-
dering firearms.
The Amazons fought naked with stone-age
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-07

life IN trying to do it. called "the abominable z
woods in order to study those monuments I'M
to the rise and fall of womanhood.
To do this right they must first make an
equally difficult and dangerous crossing of
the green hell which has prevented all at
tempts at exploring the hinterland of Peru
and British Guiana. There, have the best of
reasons to believe, still live what remains of of
the latest of those Amazon mgrations.
Little doubt that some are degenerate descend
ants of the once mighty, for theirs trek of
white Northern-type women from healthy cities
mountains and cool pateaus to much less favorable
country.
Nevertheless, it is surely worth the gamble that
some still cherish the ancient learning If once
friendly relations are established, they might act
not only as guides to the abandoned cities and
translate the inscriptions but perhaps also unfold
the whole lost history of Neutrality-suspicious. women
won and lost the mastery of her species.
In my opinion the most practical and econom-
zeal way is with an airship of the Zeppelin type
which could leave one of it's gondoas and return at
intervals with supplies and achievements.
What hard-headed reader will want to know
first is whether there is good evidence that the
gynaecocracies existed then or now-also if they
had this habit of walking out of such splendid
homes
Let me say that their bold footsteps have been
traced over thousands of miles of the Americas, as
far into North America as the Mississippi River,
and even to Africa and Russian Georgia. where the
male ancestors of Dictator Stain at one time, must
have had precious little to say about anything of
Importance.
Colonel Fawcett who tried to make contact with
these most inaccessible ladies in the world believed
that one of their republics existed somewhere in the
East Andean foothills beyond the bounds of the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-07

mightier than their stone weap-
ons for keeping the men in SUBJ
lection as Helots.
Mere man may have done the
ck-breaking labor and the
drudgery but the knowledge
which directed the work was all
in the minds of the Amazon
women. Theirs were the only
schools, and if a woman wished
to betray her sex for love, she
could no more have done so than
could modern engineer whisper
into his sweetheart's ear the
secret" of building a bridge.
When the women walked out
of one of those cities. the "eter-
nal" lights in the towers may have
burned on, but the light of knowl-
edge which alone made the cities
habitable for man, went out with
them.
My dearest wish is to have an
expedition surmount the barriers
of the jungle which Colonel p. H.
FaWcett. d 6. O.. who lost his
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-07

DEADERS of The American Weekly will remember
Harold T. Wilkins extraordinary and popular articles
on the Of the wicked old pirates
interesting articles by him which have appeared
exclusively in this magazine.
Mr. Wilkins author Of Panorama of South American
Treasure Hunting" South America, the Mysterious Con-
tnent etc. explorer and student of ancient legend
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-07
BY HAROLD T. WILKINS

merican weekly Inc Great Britain Rights Reserved.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-07

TOR new light on the prehistory of human civil
lizaton, look to the Old World which, in some
ways, is not Europe Asia and Africa, but
Evening star., 1941-09-07
Country Schooimo om
BU Della T. LHteS.

By Della T. LuteS. Little,
BrOlUn & Co., NeU York.
On the heels of Country Doctor"
and Country Lawyer" by other au-
thors, and The Country Kitchen"
by Mrs. Lutes. comes this auto
biographical tale of rural school
teacher in the l880s 1t is the story
of a girl who. at l6. was given
small school in a Michigan farm
district-a school where some of the
pupils were nearly as old as she.
1t is a tale of bluff country hos
pitaity and stern rural moralities.
From the point of view of authen-
tic recording of the country school
teacher and problems of rural edu-
cation, the book may have personal
appeal for those who have attended
or taught in similar institutions
or are curious as 10 what they were
like. For the casual reader, the
tale is on the uneXciting side.
fact which even Mrs. Lutes rare
descriptive pOwers-particularly OF
food-and a slender romantic thread
cannot entirely overcome. It is a
homely. wholesome story contain
ing the most succulent description
of strawberry shortcake. this review
er has ever read. and the added
piece of information. for city
dWeller. that all rural schoolhouses
are no. red. The first schoolhouse
in which the author taught was
painted white.
JOHN w. THOMPSON, Jr.
Evening star., 1941-09-07
The Literary WordRevews of Current Publications Various Fields
When the Nations Capital
Was a Country Town
Washington of Civil War Days
Described Brilliantly in
Entertaining Volume
ReyeiIIe in Woshinqton

By Margaret Leech. Harper Bros Ne1 YORK
The Presidents Mansion had it; adj
mrerS but bno could understand why-n malaral
streets NV for the Patent Once and the General Post once &
list of sights Otherwise the
Policing low ebb
unprotected There were few eompsnies they
gton down the potomac was theoretically military outpost
with bottle of whisky for the lone bbuous old
rapidly
serbes brilliantly Reveie in washington an informal but com
save the Union It is naturally
thrilling even to constant during year
when it filled with tourists sdmng its beauty and app appalng 1t.
the blue clad soldiers through
tn th c1e e tas s's smso 1nl 'e' necessary protect s ' "n
of Youth Energy Inexperence.
a symbol those
border town Of @ and Dns ann "s @ confuse e x o % s
capitals Its defects these OF youth and energy and mex
Old Gen Winfield Scott in military command,
ineffective Gen Mcclellan called in after it became apparent that
hold the the first of long line of Northern
sdmnstation The North was to wait until
enough hold the command Of its
Early could marched from Silver Spring he had not de-
hours enabled Grants from Virginia
Picture of City Is Rich and Full
Capital shadow about its city divided
wounded fighters coming sympahzers
%e and Te6e mot even % mGe There we're m oeau % T9men % P
all kinds the lowest thief who the
be DeGmg a Peden dde5s 10 the n00 man IN S On0n VINO also
broad outlines @ has M pee sna % s 6 n 5a M picture ah h m %
democracy under the stress Of war 1t packed with items Of less mo.
live Washington of only 80 in time but one Of
her material:
temporary mainly The STAR magazines old and books
biographical sketches of the leaders the
is equally important it piece
ing. EDWIN TRIBBLE.
Evening star., 1941-09-07
By Jean K. White,
Readers Adviser. Public Library.

Readers Adviser. Public Library.
American democracy, which, from
the Nations beginning, has been
not only form Of government but
way of life, is the subject OF
many books in the Public Library,
Eighth and K streets NV, and its
branches. These books are par
ticularly significant today. when our
national civilization is threatened by
the forces OF totalitarianism and
their standardized form of living.
Waldo Frank. in Our America"
explains the background which has
produced the American people, and
the influences which geographical
conditions, circumstances and en-
vironment have exerted in shaping
a second book, The Rediscovery of
America" he sets forth an Amer
lean philosophy of life
The Living Tradition by Simon
StrunSky, is a survey OF the perma-
nent things in our national life,
those which remain a part of us.
mistaken by various periods Of tram
sition. America as Americans See
It. edited by Frederick J. Ringel,
contains chapters on different
phases Of our civilization by we'll
known American writers. 1t is COM
piled by foreigner for other for
eigners who misunderstood the sig
nificance of some of our customs and
Evening star., 1941-09-07
Books on American Life
Are Listed by Library

institutions. but its interpretations
are equally interesting to Ameri-
cans.
Intimate glimpses of American
character are found in Roots OF
America" by Charles M Wilson,
an account Of different types of
personalities and the work they do
and in The Road in Search of
America" by Nathan Asch, who
tells how American life looks TO a
foreigner travelling over the Coun-
try by bus.
Fiction offers many pictures of the
country and its inhabitants. Louis
Bromfield's The Farm describes
family life on a farm in the Mid
die West; Dorothy Canfeld'S Raw
Material" is a collection Of short
stories of Vermont life and char
acter: Ellen GlasgoWs novels of
Virginia present a pageant of
Southern life in such titles as The
battle-ground" Virginia and The
Vein of IRON
1t. has been said thai if America
had a national poet it would be Walt
Whitman. The sweep and power of
the verse in his Leaves OF Grass"
are typical of the land of which he
writes. New England has its poet in
Robert Frost, whose North Of BoS-
ton" epitomizes the effect OF climate
and spiritual repression on Charac-
ter in that section. and the Middle
West is represented by Carl Sand
burg in his Good Morning. Amer
/ lea" and other volumes of verse.
Evening star., 1941-09-07
Brief Reviews
NOVELS.

NOVELS.
The Stars Give Warning, by
Brenda Conrad (Scribner 's1-Spy
story centering in Panama. Lively
commercial fiction.
Faye's Folly, by Elizabeth Corbett
appleton -Century)-Nove Of Civil
War in Illinois. Good commercial
tale.
Fortunes Cup. by Gordon Nal
herbe Hillman tCroWeln-Novel OF
a modern family touching on college
life and newspaper work. Some
what better than commercial stuff.
A Lady Named Lou, by Donald
Henderson Clarke Vanguard
Story of the rise of a smart ad-
ventures from obScurity 10 fame
Amusing.
Destroyer. by Steve Fisher CAp-
pleton-Century) STORY of United
States at war and the adventures of
an obsolete submarine manned by
brave young officer and a love story
thrown in. A good deal like war
movie.
$50 to Midnight, by Ruth Wilcox
HarperJ Novel of a group of peo-
pie from the advertising department
Of a big store. Clever writing.
The World in His Heart. by Jose
phine Dascom Bacon (Appleton-
Century - Sentimental tale Of
young writer tossed TO the sophis-
tiCates of New York and how ne
found happiness at last with his
little childhood sWeetie. For the
infant class.
Revelry by Night. by j. Lawrence
Barnard Doubleday, Doran)-Story
capitalizing the idea OF the world
on the edge Of a crisis. but just the
same old commercial love interest
under the Weltschmerz trimming.
POETRY.
Golden Treasury of Scottish
Poetry, compiled by Hugh Mac
diarmid Macmillan - Scottish
verse from the 18th century to the
present. A good collection.
THE WAR.
Ernie Pyle in England (McBride)
The collected columns OF the we'll
known reporter written from Eng
land Largely the human side of
the blitZkrieg
ANTIQUES.
Living With Antiques, edited by
Alice Winchester CIcBridel-A book
on the practical use of antique furni-
ture in the modern home. Illustrated
with photographs. Helpful.
GARDENS.
BY the Light of the Sun, by Elsie
Symington (Putnaml "A book on
the philosophy, as well as the prac-
tice. OF gardening. Illustrated with
woodcuts by Glare Leighton. Should
be a delight to the confirmedly
garden minded.
PLACES.
West Virginia (OXford University
Press One more III the series of
State guides compiled by workers in
the w. P. A. Writers Project. The
usual contents.
Evening star., 1941-09-07
Pattern of Conquest
BIZ Joseph C. HdrSch

Joseph HarSch Doubleday, Co. NeU York
Correspondent appraisal
should
prod
The Mr. Hasch depicts nation unstarvd
good morale with real doOde will there
however, Harh convinced. He
ability distribute the
finally. the
bitter World War
of the United
will overhaul military and
will
furnish the tools the blow blow
of
1886 Mr. Hah apparently kept his and mind wide during
his NH Sooun As result the discerning
achievement considering the wells duphy and walls
placed BY the NaZ authorities between foreign
and the real Germany He tells the special tours arranged
whereby carefully
beyond sight of hotels where only the
The author explains the Reh highly workable financial
Through the courtesy of those bayonets He
effect popace of the Of
Der Fuerer of the widespread dissipation moral fiber throughout the
finally Mr. Hah adds his the chorus that the
sky the limit to Na ambitions The regime gain world DOM
sanguaion j. w. STEPP.
Evening star., 1941-09-07
Leaf Gold

By W. w. Chamberlain.
BobbS- Merrill Co., Indianap-
oils.
When Bert Perkins first came TO
the Parks place, in the Pennyrile of
Southern Kentucky, he thought it
would be no more than another job
in his yearly trek from farm to farm.
But something about the tobacco
country where he was born crept
into his blood. and Mr.. and Mrs.
Parks treated him very kindly; so he
stayed on. He married Nolie, wise
cracking girl from a hot-dog stand
in a nearby town Living in a shack
on the edge of the Parks farm, they
worked together on the corn harvest,
raising the hogs, and on the princi-
pal crop. leaf gold" Despite hard
times. drought and dust storms, they
went through it all and raised their
children. Eventually, they gained
what, in their minds, was the highest
measure of success by owning their
own land.
This novel, like many of those
written by young authors, lacks a
consistent style, and the plot tends
too much to be merely a sequence
of events. Yet no reader can fail to
be deeply impressed by its acute re-
Election of life. The chapter dealing
with the honeymoon trip to Louis
vile, which was to Bert and Nolie
almost like a trip to the ends of the
earth, is one that can be long re-
membered. Besides, so much has
been written about the utter poverty
and Generalization of Tobacco
Road" that it is relief to see the
other side of the picture. Bert Per-
kins, despite his ignorance and his
lack of wealth, has in his character
the spirit of the American pioneer,
a zest for life, a love of the soil,
certain get up and CO.
TEMPLE HOLLCROF.