Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-02


lasted.
Do you remember the delft
crate propaganda that Japa
used to send out of Toxic?
We were told for years Ear,
how we ate il upD that Jazz
was starving, that she W;
bankrupt, that she was alive
on, the brink of a revolutla'
that she was about to go Cor
munist, that her oil, her ire
her steel were depleted, that E..
rice crop was a failure tths
was fed to us every year,.
In a word. Japan was so weak
that we could take Toxic with
bows and arrows. As a matter
of fact, Japan was secretly
building herself up TO be one OF
the most powerful countries in
the world.
Now we know why she lasted
with China and how she took
all the ground she did in three
months from the United Ma
tons. The word that describes
this technique is a word 81
American origin. and, like all
that is modern japanese, Japan
borrowed it. That word is bluff
but bluff in reverse sense.
And it Is because she Is.
fundamentally. all bluff that she
will be annihilated. She will,
eventually, fall apart like one
of her cardboard houses.
7 KNOW I'm in for a grand
i intellectual treat when an
other book in the living biogra-
plies series by Henry Thomas
and Dana Lee Thomas is an
nounced. / have already given
YOU in this column summaries
of and extracts from their vol
umes on great painters. famous
rulers, great poets, great COM
posers. great philosophers and
great scientists.
Now comes a volume from
their pen that you should have
above all. Living Biographies
of American Statesmen Gar
den City Publishing Company.
Here are the living" life
stories. in about 20 pages each.
OF Washington, Roger Williams.
jefferson Jackson. Grover
Cleveland. Henry Clay. Daniel
Webster, F. d. r., Theodore
Roosevelt, Madison, Hamilton,
Lincoln and others.
r l give you a taste of the fas-
cinating way the ThomaseS
begin their stories. Here's
Washington:
Washington has been riding
furiously all day. A lashing
rainstorm has arisen. wash
ington has taken shelter In
farmhouse. He n about 20
change into dry clothes when
the farmer knocks Mt the door.
Pardon me. sir, but would YOU
mind stepping into the parIor
when you are ready: My little
daughter II anxious for q peep
at our great visitor.
"'Glad to oblige,' laughed
Washington. And without wait
ing to take of his rain-drenched
clothes ne proceeded to present
himself TO the little girl.
"'Well, my dear he said, you
see a very tired old man In a
very dirty shirt"
1t is such anecdotes that bring
a famous dead man right before
you in the life.
Here's a glimpse of Lincoln.
Have you ever read more about
him in fewer words p
"No playwright has ever ere
ated a more dramatic plot than
the life of Lincoln. Like the
hero In an ancient Greek
tragedy, he failed In almost
everything he undertook; and,
when he did succeed, he found
success more bitter than failure.
He lost the only woman he
loved; and the women he mar
ried was more anxious TO see
him famous than to see him
happy. He entered business and
failed. He ran for the United
States Senate and was defeated.
He applied for an appointment
to the United States land Of
fee and was rejected. He ran
for the vice presidency and lost.
"When finally he was elected
to the presidency, II was In sor-
row rather than In triumph that
he rode into the White House.
For, though passionately devoted
to peace, he found himself COM
PEELED to plunge into war.
"Tenderest of fathers, he
twice had to bow his head In
mourning over the untimely
graves Of his children. Gentle
toward every living thing, he
was again and again called upon
TO sign the death-warrants of
runaway soldiers who were
afraid to die. He was soul
attuned to the daylight yet
forced to live In the night.
and at last, when the dawn
of victory arrived after the
night Of despair, Lincoln did not
survive to see the day. His as
sassination came less than
week after the surrender of
General Lee.