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Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-02-06
Victory Garden Is Based
On Patriotism, Economic
Needs, HEALTH Leader Saws

The victory garden campaign,
% l.. launched in Vance county and
throughout the s'a,c during the WccN
beginning February s, Is b scd on
J.,r.atIsm. economic needs. and
ncalth,' Il was stated today Cy on
Jl ;ne Ieaucys OF the Agricultural
workers Council. which is sponsor
ing ,he drive in this county.
coal of the campaign IS that there
udll be a victory garden" as part
81 tat farming operations OF every
.u.al Vance county family. ana such
a garden Is described as "onc III
WI.ru Il sufficient quantity OF dlI-
.cr..t vegetables are grown to feed
al, fanny. Normally. this requires
One-,entn acre for each member OF
the family, with ten or more dit
I,rent vegetables grown
The "vIctory garden campaign,
however, is no radical departure
from the agricultural program winch
HAS Dtc!l GiN pOdltt btitNl IN th-h
farm program and through the Ia
tension Service, 1t was pointed OF
This agricultural program CONSIST
Dl. 81 u pldl tor producing the lopd
iur tnc family and feed tor the lIVr-
stock; CD cropping systems and
iertlLlsr practices that VIII mann
tim tft soil in a highly productive
condition. and CD the production
of such cash crops combined with
so.nd livestock, dairy and poultry
activities in such degrees as VIII
supply the cash needed by the family.
Added emphasis, in this years
farm program, has been given the
"victory garden program because
of the necessity for producing al
home all possible food for the farm
family. Advanced prices for food,
shortage of containers, and Incrcas-
ing wal demands all point 10 the
practical necessity as we'll as the
patriotic duty of participating in the
"ViCtory garden program, it was
declared.
BY raising a year round garden,
1t was pointed out, less canning Will
have to be done, and less cans and
jars and rubber rings viii be need
cd, thereby releasing valuable ma
terials for defense and otfscttlng the
shortages in these items
During the next week, members
of the program planning committee
throughout the county Will hold COM
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-02-06
Musicians
To Grecn\llle

Eight members of the II nderSon
high school band, accompanied by
W. T. Hcarne, bandmaStcr, and ;.
M. CroWdcr, dean Of boys at the hlg'
school, went today to GrcrnNIilc +
play in the All-Eastcrn North Caro-
lima band and attend the band clinic
which will be held III re today. to
night and tomorrow morning.
Band members making the trio
include Bill WeStcr. French born. IL"
Mayo, French horn; NJ. W. Wester,
trombone: Thad Wester, clarinet,
George O'Lary, bass. Steve Flanna-
gan. trumnct Gloria NanDyke, bas-
soon: and Della Dixon. oboe.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-02-06
MORE AAA HICKS
ARRIVE IN COUNTY

ScNcntv-tiNe checks aggregatmG
>4.5O&l0 and representing payment;
on 80 applications for agricultural
conservation payments and cotton
and tobacco parity payments were
cccircd today at the office of j. ".
Sanders. Vance county farm agcl,
for distribution among Vance county
farmers.
The consignment brings to Sli,-
958.G3 the amount received this year
for compliance by Vance county far
mors in the 1871 AAA program. Two
other conSignmentS of checks We're
received earlier in the week.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-02-06
Instances
OF Restrictions on
Sugar Are Listed

One specific instance in which
4 food store would sell sugar
only on condition. that a mini
mum Of a dollars worth of other
groceries WAS bought at the >amc
time was reported by a Iiender-
o lady today. She said She was
told the usual sugar quota could
be obtained only if a minimum
of a dollars worth of other food
were bought.
\ few da,S ago the office of
the Federal district attorney in
Greensboro issued a statement
saving that the practice is a
violation of law and those
gagins in it were liable to pro-
Sccution under Federal statute.
There had been reports before
this th2t tie restrictions were
being imposed by some dealers
in Henderson, and touaN's in
stance was a concrete example of
the illegal practice.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-02-06
DRUNK AND SPEEDING
ARE HEARD

DRUNKENNESS and speeding charges
were heard in two cases before NaNor
Henry Powell in municipal court to-
d;'y. Both defendants Wcre white
men.
Tommy Smiley wa let off With the
costs on a speeding charge. and VII
liam Short. CHARGED with being drum.
was let off with payment of the
costs and prayer for judgment was
continued. 22
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-02-06

Late this afternoon, %Supcria-
tr.Erut +. VI Rollins announced
that waite schools of Henderson
would switch to daylight timc
uc>t Monday. but that white
schools III the county and CoiOrcu
schools in the city and county
" uld remain on standard time.
Evening star., 1942-09-13
India Without Fable
Bg Kate L. Mitchell. (KnoptJ

BIZ Kate L. Mitchell. (Kn0p1J
This is study of India, economic
and political. 1t is almost entirely
factual work, limiting itself to fig
ures and to history. If the author
has a point of view, it is taken on
the ground that the Indian sub
continent is too rich a reservoir in
human and material stuffs to be as
signed it's hitherto subordinate role
in world affairs. But, for the most
part, she simply states what is to
be found there.
Politically, she goes into the his
tory of the emancipation movement,
bringing her record up to the Cripps
mission, of which she says that the
failure lies on England's doorstep.
Looking into the future, she utters
a. warning:~ Leaders of the United
Nations have said, again and again.
that this is a peoples war, yet the
Indian people have not been given
an opportunity to fight as such. IN
like the Chinese they are not fight
ing for their country or their inde-
pendence. If statesmen'S promises
are not to be made general laugh
ing stock, this condition, thinks Miss
Mitchell, should be changed.
Her book is a veritable mine of
facts. To any one looking for
text on India today, it deserves to
be recommended. NC. r.
Evening star., 1942-09-13
Brief Reviews

SOIL.
This Land We Defend, by Hugh
H. Bennett and William C. Pryor
Oongmans)-The story of the vast
age of our natural resources, chiefly
Of our soil, told by the head of the
Soil Conservation Service.
RELIGION.
The Christian and the War. by
Charles Clayton Morrison (Willett,
Clark-The editorials written by
the editor of the Christian Century
since the attack on our country by
the japanese. Outlining the posi-
ton which a Christian realist," as
distinguished from a pacifist, must
take when confronted by the fact
of aggression.
Christian Europe Today, by
Adolph Keller Harper)-A survey
of Christianity in Europe today,
both in its open existence and its
forced underground position in Nazi
territories.
DOGS.
Dogs Against Darkness, by Dick
son Hartwell (Dodd, Mead The
story of the Seeing Eye Institution.
Moving
Jim, the Wonder Dog, by Clar-
ence Dewey Mitchell (Dorrance)-
The biography of a real dog. Some
what sentimental.
Evening star., 1942-09-13
Thinking for Every Man
By A. Gordon MeIUin. (John Day.

When professor the
colleges writing of the that title
second Dale Carnegie telling how
people" AT least the Arthur
standing pioneer in the field education
much than treatise
he has done rather subject the
the thought searching
ton experience that
North America
Melvin done graduate Columbia
He known principally by his work the field of education where
has long advocated the activity method which emphasis off
subject matter sc and put the individuality of each student
Besides his this field
mysteries OF the East through travel and study and this has had great
influence on his philosophy and the
In addition to being attempt to bring to the public of the
things
Man is an extension of the lectures he times the history
education sympathetic understanding
Orient brings to the reader something with which he yet too
amllarthe OF thing
not enough appreciation of the strange world that wan Pekng
India Melvin feels lines of
quotes often the world is too much with US We rushed
the habit OF meditation meditation
the Dr. Melvin gradual bettermen
OF peoples OF earth
For present. America!
he experienced in the lives the Saka
the Wds of H.
Evening star., 1942-09-13
Compoiqn of Treochery
BIZ Henry Torres. (Dodd, Mead /

relieves his feelings
which, welesabished aided
wennoWn of
conspiracy
the traitors book when he became
the Needless he accomplished
nothing He refugee in America definitely in the bad
Vchymen.
press large
hire. discusses
highly officials likewise played the German sometimes
plain
about their work with little
of these gentry
establishes deliberate collaboration
of
travel
refusal French
authorities to take decisive the ground that international
which particularly Haunting style. his
sersaonasm would make
believe
wealthy
bit
his book is much the thing
already.
his experiences Dalader
he tells had infor
could
valuable counteracte He his
directing
the work from that city carefully
effectiveness
he
loyaties making
the government to Africa
His book will be valuable historians
Evening star., 1942-09-13
A Doctor Carries On
By Thomas A. Lan1bie, NJ.

By Thomas A. Lambie, NJ. D.
(ReDeHJ
Medical missionary to Ethiopia,
personal physician to Emperor Halle
Selassie-that is the story of DR.
Thomas A. Lambie, who went to
spread health and spiritual COM
fort among people untouched by
the good or the bad of science.
Ousted by the Italian Army in
its victorious advance into a land
in which it was unwelcome, but
where it met little resistance except
from the elements and the heroic
handful equipped to fight, DR.,
Lambie returned to the United
States only to find himself unable
to go without the work for which
he had heard the call. He returned
to Africa, this time to to the Sudan,
to await the eviction of Mussolini's
hordes.
The book describes his life from
the time when he was bombed by
the ItallanS-Who had been in
formed of his humane work and
therefore should have spared him
until the present. Containing much
of the ferver he feels for his mis-
sion, the work is written evidence
OF the devoutness of a man of
type OF which there are all too few
left in these days of world trouble.
E. II, e.
Evening star., 1942-09-13

Some one quoted Jan Struther as
saying that people in America
family resented her because she was
not Mrs. Miniver. This may be true,
for Americans who did not know
Miss Struther have taken Mrs. Mini
yer to their hearts. To many of
them she has come to represent, not
only herself, but thousands of
women, some richer, some poorer,
who are making the home front in
England today. Women whose lives
have revolved around their family
and their homes, but whose gaiety
morale and perception have made
them able to face what England is
now going through.
Mrs. Miniver likes the little things
Of life, the honey, familiar scents
and tastes. She likes the raw wind
in November and spending her
spring holiday grubbing briars from
an old orchard. There are countless
American women who love just the
things Mrs. Miniver delights in
women to whom the bits that make
up their lives are precious and worth
making sacrifices for. One of these
is Susan Lester Warner, who in the
"Unintentional Charm of Men," eX-
plains that she never finds man so
engaging as when he is busy at some
absorbing, irrelevant job. She goes
to the Washington Zoo for inspira-
ton for cookie cutters and runs all
around Center Market before she
starts to buy.
Enchanted Ground.
Sara Orne JeWett, in the "Coun-
try Of the Pointed FRS discovers
there's no such pennyr'yal as this
in the State of Maine" and, at the
same time, learns to know the peo-
pie. Anne Bosworth Greene
watches the year turn at "Dipper
HILL" as does Zephine Humphrey in
her Beloved Community" Young
Elizabeth Etnier first knows she
wants to live "On Gilbert Head"
when she and her husband sail by
it. To each of these women, her
Evening star., 1942-09-13
Americas Mrs. Minivers
By Louise s. Shepard,
Librarian, Southeastern Branch, Public Library

spot of earth is enchanted ground
where every sprig Of green holds the
secret of life.
Perhaps the nearest American
counterparts of the qualities that
make Mrs. Miniver so memorable
and so quotable are found in the
work of some of our women poets.
One turns first to the collected
Poems" of Sara Teasdale or Elinor
Wylie for sensitiveness of spirit and
the knowledge that little things
form the pattern of life. You find
Mrs. Minivers quick ear and warm
heart in Rachel Fields lovely poems
in Fear Is the Thorn" Mrs. Mini
ver's gaiety, intelligence and her OBJ
serving eye are rivaled by these
same qualities found in Husbands
Are Difficult" by Phyllis Mckinley,
or Time For Quick One," by Mar
garet Fishback.
Pleasant Companion.
London finds its Park avenue
counterpart in Cornelia Otis Skin
ner's Soap Behind the Ears" Miss
Skinner proves a pleasant compan-
ion whether she is describing a chill
dren's party or trip to a throat
specialist. Louise Andrews Kent,
writing of Mrs. Appleyard's Year"
has a witty and tolerant approach
to family difficulties or pleasures.
Mrs. Miniver is very much of our
own time. but her spirit is timeless.
One finds it in Bertha Damon's
Grandma Calls 1t Carnal," or in
K h crime Fullerton Gerould's
Modes and Morals" even though
they were written of another gen.
Grafton. Ruth McKenney's My Sis
ter Eileen" Sally Benson's Junior
Miss and Rose Franken's Claudia
are all young people finding their
way around, but the spark is there
and will spread. One feels conf
dence in the survival of a nation
whose women have humor, intelli-
gence and determination. All these
books may be borrowed from the
Public Library, Eighth and K streets
NV, or its branches.
Evening star., 1942-09-13
Stump Ranch Pioneer
By Nelle Portrey DaUiS.
(Dood, Medd.)

by Nette FOTLTeg DuOIS.
(Dood, MeadJ
The Davises are hardy folks, but
the Colorado Dust Bowl was too
much for them. They finally said
good-by to it, not without some
sadness, and headed for the PAN
handle of Idaho, near the Canadian
border. There they made down
payment on partly-built cabin in
40 acres of woods and settled down
to hard work. They had only $50
in cash and trailer that contained
their few belongings.
While father chopped trees and
blasted stumps, mother built a sofa,
table and medicine cabinet, and
the children made toys. They were
real pioneers, though the year was
1896.
I'VE have no regret" nellie Portrey
Davis writes. Had we stayed on
the plains, and Weathered the dust
and the drought, y = we would not
have missed the kindly gifts of
nature we have learned to depend
on here, for we would not have
known them. Now this has been our
home, and we cannot go back
The story of the Davis family is
interesting, and Mrs. Davis tells
it we'll. P.H
Evening star., 1942-09-13
With Love for France
By Helen Mackdy.
(Cnrihr, or,n

tOCTEOHeT 81
One can almost feel the tears and
the suffering that went into the
pages of this brief and poignant
memorial to the country where
Helen Mackay lived and worked for
more than score of years. Simply
and with restraint, she has remem-
bered and put down the little things
of her last months in France, from
the beginning of the war, when the
men of Anjou went off to do battle,
to the German occupation of Paris.
There are also scraps of recollec-
ton of Mrs. Mackay's work in 'the
Zone" of Paris, where gypsies lived
in careless poverty and she brought
packages of medicine. She tells of
the "grands mutiles," the soldiers
wounded in the First World War,
with whom she worked as volun-
teer aide in the French home for
incurables, Les Invalides."
In the beginning, the British
troops came to the village where
she lived in the chateau, and the
villagers turned to her as they
always turned toward the lord of
the chateau. In the end, there
were the German soldiers, at Dinard
and in Paris. At Dinard the Ger
mans were supposed to "be joyous"
on orders, but she did not find
them so. She tells of one of them
who explained through gestures
that he wanted to buy a soft toy
for his baby back home, and here
she cries: God, make the world
understand that it is big enough
and with enough in it for every
one to live on. And make it count
for something that all over the
world there are men who want to
give their babies soft little toys"
Toward the end she went back to
silent Paris, to a woman who denied
her son was dead, though she knew
it; to hear an old man on the street
cursing the Nazis and wishing his
son were dead; to her own concierge,
who escaped death and then hated
Mrs. Mackay for intervening, for
humiliating herself before the Ger
mans. In the dark train leaving
Paris she summed up in French all
the little anecdotes, all that she
mourns for: "Oh France, without
you, how lonely the world will be-"
MIRIAM GUTENBERG
Evening star., 1942-09-13
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Warning 20 CONTEMPORARIES.
The Stones Begin to Dance
BIZ Aben Kandel lDueH. Sloan & Pearcel

.
the field
with the
with humble people who caught
events smile
surface humor he along but end with gentle in his
i
Williamsburg
tiny market patroned by buyers its sellers but
cultured benevolent
citizen who that harmony rules in the little community Comes
leads delegation the Mayors office He makes
the headlines friends saved have pahos
Mr.. himself dies. neatly handled
Evening star., 1942-09-13
The Drums of Morninq

By Philip Van Doren Stern Doubleday DoranJ
novel the movement
side
answer
describing
brothers
the pahos and grandeur of the lost
The vo Civil War had the satisfaction Of knowing they
nothing exciting
ideals and
Jonathan Bradford
killed defending Elijah Lovejoy and his Abohonst
Bradford adopted
family of ardent Abotonis and put into training at to help
he made OF
eventfu incredibly
family Chambersburg helped them
operate underground fugitive
the history check in the
history
The hand coincidence often Badfords
Andersonve reasonable
creduity
the history which
feeling
urgency fight EDWIN TREBLE.
Evening star., 1942-09-13
For the Mystery Fans
Brief ReUieWS of Current
Detective Fiction.

Brief ReUieUS of Current
Defective Fiction.
The House With the Blue Door, by
Hubert Footner (Harper) Terror
comes to home for the rehabilita-
ton of eX-convicts, but Lee Mappin,
private detective, knows how to cope
with it. Excellent.
The Private Eye. by Cleve F.
Adams (Reynal & Hitch 1.-TWO
copper magnates mix murder with
mining, and with very exciting
results. Very good.
Only the Good, by Mary Collins
(Scribner' 's)-Murder in a big Cali
fornia country house, narrated by
the principal suspect, who has to
find the criminal to clear herself
The best of Miss Collins three
mysteries.
Handsome, But Dead, by Alberta
Hughes Wahl (Howell, Soskin)-A
charming weekend party is dis
rupted by a battling murder, and
then as the saying has it. the fun
begins. Good.
Evening star., 1942-09-13
They Made the Japs Pay
But the Men of MTB Squadron 3, Like
Their Equipment, Were dependable
BY Mary Carter Roberts.
By Nary
They Were ExpendobIe
By w. L. White. (Harcourt,

6g W. L. Wh1te. fHGrcoWt, BrdceJ
the Nav Bukeev Kelly Ake and Cox are
by now known thing
of their herosm has
pamo OF the performance OF our armed forces in the present
claiming that the dash initiative distinguished
fighters in all lacking
soldiers very
sve Just the 1t time they rebuttal the cold
phc facts Nothing could serve the purpose better than this story
historic ms navy demons as som Cushing Decatur or even old
Buckley Kelly Cox more formally known It. John
Buckley Che lieutenant commander 1t Robert Boiling Kelly,
Ensign Anthony Ake Bulkeley
left of Motor Torpedo which stationed
oave when the japanese attacked His description
Last fall there six little boatsand about dozen to
three Packard which can send her roaring the top
% n m war o0 as fast as 5 Paed s S ever o gets onsn haf ee to
and four 5ocalber machine gnfrng in pairs from each side
zggng to dodge the shells *"'
Little Eggshels" Dealt Systematic
q COMMANDING the every
days perhaps only
The only thing that surprised that Pearl Harbor that got
the the fighting until the three boats
Australia these little egghes dealt systematic grief to the Japs
The initial Jap air attack the which should
They they
@ peer m Saoosq & 10 cog 1 engne mes @ Ine mad haa ne UNI Ine
Jap cruisers taker destroy landing barges and planes right and
and machine the soldiers. They used
enemy pay with interest To quote Buckley again:
"% We had probably hundred combined
later and all boats but the almost the
For adtch fight under hopeless conditions they turned
performance which American
ITSELF military
exploits.
story largely
anything magnificent plain
the emphasis speakers that their
record to the world
and the American people We unpreped they
millions
these the holocaust
the lesson is still mlearned. AS of them puts it:
1--WE expendabe anything be expendabe
gasoline mostly They expendng
time
there until killed holding
few minutes quarter of
Kaleidoscope of
Terror and Greatness.
situaion-hat those
the life your
sometimes when
friends their lives minutes "
aconic
watched Finos col
pulling
rolling like
threatened ship
Wobbhng like
horse and jammed the of the propeller stopping it
his japanese landing Bukeey
about 20
the with Bulkeley Keys
the of McArthurs obliged
the
generals
found that very hard to understand
which delay politics
hard the warning when from whose lives have
they it, "expendable"
Evening star., 1942-09-13
George SpeIyin, American, and Fireside Chats
Bg Westbrook PegIer. (Scribner'SJ

By WeStbrook Pegler. (Scr1bnerSJ
Peg professional
Occasionally
sublime
with himself
essays|Behnd the Pleasure Coasts
of benhted the United States which,
distance
degraded poverty is only 20 cents by taxi"
if
Evening star., 1942-09-13
Germany's 'Ofticer Clique
Its Members Sought War to Maintain
Class Privileges, Says Expatriate
The Guilt of the German Army
By Hans Ernest Fried. (MdcmtHanJ


Ernest Fried more exp-
mH e the Tp May AS he the
deliberate which was started as early as Noem1er
involved complicated and passed before
an m m m We so aH e I DR.
oce clique trimmed to the various political winds
b 3 that mase 5 x % % oncf m sd in
deed that he downright soporhc s But so important his
spite CONTRARY ''''
appeared
did the itarv CLIQUE sdop the M ea s trbe6 to Hitler M that
not deserve the stigma Of the war guilt and that the destiny Of the
officers Fried skill and
Systematically and finally
advantage opportunity spread
and the spirit Of alive shsiF
Fried it They had no higher motive than blind resolution
contemplate the light of the which Fried
economically group peo
pubc oa But the long ON Of he a a M @ s SUPERIOR aS 9
its aim form other they determined mill
took which brought the old level mtar
the was the rise Of the free corps and VOL
nteer which recruited from the picked shock
nique of sudden attack and fighting the
were never assigned the grim labor simply holding line They
Naz hoodm bands
military qualities tradition galantry
by the To f n fsf %
entering
they might their Hitler worked
thing from the political end and eventually there came about
the wedding of minds
Fried this theory
of his
Coming conclusion against
tempting Germany the Allied
allow method Disarmament would most
conspracies Policing
international would that tendency
recommends instead that after the Germans be allowed
conrasted with the astocrac armies regimes Only by
the
aistocratic military spirit.
faith this
his anything
convincing.
writing of the past however he solid ground So
far o future. NC.