Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-09
Birth Records
Keep Citizens
From Jobs
It's Easier for Aliens
to Get Defense Work
By BENJAMIN DE CASSERES
NOTHING is more absurd than
IN tho refusal IF q defense lOi.

cate.
The census bureau estimate
that some 100000 American
born in this country have no
birth certificates or other docu
mentary proof of the place o
their birth. At the time many o.
today's adults were born recorGs
were not kept as fully as the.
are today.
Now see that steps are TO be
taken 10 do something about this
matter. The suggestion is that
persons without proof of their
American birth should submit
such prescribed evidence as doc
tors records, hospital records.
records from a federal or state
census. family Bibles. baptismal
or confirmation certificates.
school records. insurance policies
drivers licenses or marriage
licenses.
We let into this country all
sorts Of undesirables. who even
-Ae4efe- HEY gget their naturaliza-
ton papers air their theories
about how TO destroy our insti-
tutionS and yet a native Is re-
quired to show paper that he
could not possibly have anything
10 do with.
Seeing that he was only a
minute old when he was born.
he was in no condition to yell
out. doc, don't forget my birth
certificate, | must have some
proof that ! have been born,--
and born in America!"
Seriously. | sometimes wonder
about thar much-vaunted com
nonsense" of my countrymen.
WANT TO get away 10 a place
w where taxes cease from
troubling and the voices Of our
SpellbinderS are az rest7
It's a place right under the
top Of your head-your brain.
And the fairy coach and four
that will lead you TO that land
Of delights is books, particu-
larly rafting good books OF
fiction. where YOU enact vicari-
ously all the roles you dream OF
acting out but that YOU cannot,
for there are the job. the baby
the wife and what Dudley
Digges in "Lihom' calls "thc
damned police"
Here are two omnibus en-.
chantments that l can recon-
mend 10 you with very little
hemming and having this is
not my critical day). They are
Great Short Novels" edited by
Edward Weeks doubleday
Doran), and Three Famous
Murder Novels" BRANDON
Housed.
THE first voIum e contains
l. stories by land / give you
these names in the order in
which they rate with me as
story tellers) Joseph Conrad,
Henry James. John Galsworthy.
Laurence Sterne (the grand old
rascalD. John Steinbeck. DuBose
Hayward. Herman Melville. Nir-
gina Woolf. Conrad Richter,
Jean Mackenzie. r. II. Mottram
and Thornton Wilder2who. 10 4
me. is the most bloodless story
teller in America. ODrat! / broke
my word about not being criti-
CALI
The second book, the murder
opus. contains Francis lies
Before the Fact" +. c. Bent
leys "Trent's Last Case" and
A. f. w. Masons The House
With the Arrow"
Bennett Cert. the publisher Of
these "creeps," says they are
the best murder stories he ever
read, and in the case of Mason's
novel he has the late Havelock
Ellis TO back him up. I'm in
clined 10 yes-yes both of these
connoisseurs of mysteries.
Anyhow, these two books will
send you travelling in make
believe land for at least month.
I'VE been reading about Napo-
L Icons attempt 10 invade Eng
land way back in the beginnings
OF the nineteenth century.
of I caa only be master Of
the sea for six hours, England
will cease TO exist" the Corsican
exclaimed.
But he wasn't master Of the
sea" so he built 1900 hat-bot-
toned scows 10 ferry 10000
soldiers across the channel. The
scows never sailed. but England
was thoroughly frightened C"Be-
ware" says Bernard Shaw. of
an Englishman who is fright
ened").
A circular issued at that time
in London asked the English not
to believe that Napoleon had
given up the idea of invasion.
The English were armed to the
teeth then as they are now.
If Germany ever gets over, Il
will mean that the grand fleet
has been sunk. And IL may also
mean that the Germans will be.
prisoners in England. For
doubt whether England will ever
surrender to an invading army.