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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1942-06-20
NINE OF HEART BRIDGE

Members OF the club met at the
home OF Mrs. Helen Green, 1913
Scotch. The meeting was opened.
All members were present. After
the meeting and business, lovely
luncheon was served by the hos
tess. The president, Mrs. Helen
Green and Mrs, Lillian Melitor will
be in Lansing Mich, TO attend the
Elks' convention. The next meet
ing will be at the home OF Mrs,
Lillian Mileton, 5e7 Holbrook. Hell
en- Green. president; Irene Vincent,
reporter.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1942-06-20
BROWN MODELS

On Sunday. June 7. the Brown
Models entertained with a sport
dance at the beautiful Tropical
Gardens. Jimmy Davenport and his
orchestra furnished music for the
affair. A gala time was had by
all. The event proved to be quite
a success and the Brown Models
wish to thank their friends and
members OF various clubs for max
ing it so, The club held its regular
meeting at the home OF Mrs. Cas-
sye Rankins, Thursday evening,
After the regular business session,
the hostess served a delicious salad
course. A gay social hour followed,
after which the club adjourned 10
meet at the home OF Mrs. Leila
Radcliffe. Rose Densley, reporter.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1942-06-20

WHUOT EE UIhINo
The Whoopee Girls had a call
meeting at the home OF Mrs, Hattie
Mae Salters. 1888 East Forest street
The meeting was called to order
by Mrs. Alberta Brown. Prayer
was led by Mrs. Grace Ivory. Roll
was called. Those absent were Miss
Sallie Coleman and Miss Ruth
Goodwin. Old and new business
was called for. Dues were paid.
The Whoopee Girls gave their par
ty Saturday, June 10. The girls
wish to thank all the clubs that
helped make their affair a huge
success. Ruby Gilbreath, reporter.
Evening star., 1942-12-06
The Single Woman

BIZ Ruth Reed. (Macmillan.) }
This book is dedicated to the sim
gle woman. Her career, her social
adjustments and how she looks at
her problems are the subjects more
generally discussed.
The author is striving to famll-
iarize the single woman with her
social problems and offers sugges-
tions which may help in her con-
tinued adaptation to the single
mode of existence. Why she never
married, any thought she may have
gwen to her status and any ideas
that might be impaired to similar
women have, by interview, study
and compilation, been considered in
detail. One reads Of the self-made
woman and her chances of the sue
cess she seeks. A distinction is made
between the woman who devotes her
life to business and social gain and
the woman who devotes her life to
marriage and the raising of a fam
lily. Her personal contentment is
characterized by her. success in her
professional and civic endeavors.
The general appeal is to young
women throughout the various sec
tions of the country, and mention
is made of the marriage chances Of
women now because of the central
lied industrial districts and the nu-
merical ratio of men and women
in different localities. The book is
particularly opportune.
ERWIN BROWN.
Evening star., 1942-12-06
The SeIf-Betroyed

BIZ Curt ReSS fPutndm 81 -,.. l.. .,. ..
This is one the origin OF Germanys plot to take over
blame the German generals
Who survived World War and not primarily on Adolf
Mr. R but the generals
had would have arrived nowhere That
with both sides thinking
was sartng When the was counted up
had believed that he Just their
that they shockingy mistaken
of World War taking
Vaccinations consisting Of Won Sekt Won
Groner Won Hndenbeg Won Shleher Won eeb Won Rnd
Brauh Won Keist and Won StupnageEastP Pruans
whole knowledge the world contained in the strange
world
their privileged military leaders article
philosophy reminds that there people
soldiers (ofcers and swine.
He describes step by step the training of these gentry and the life
conceived before the They betrayed their Kaiser
time they pledged support the republic earnestly
violating the Versailles
stipulated They kept the old
sbterfuge than change stole
the staff almost Immediately after the Amstce order the
benefit OF those documents their planning
power within the and no dared them much
less touch them They organized the
effort overthrow the republic subsequently
Kuein and Munich Cellar Ptsches They up
Mehr Of provision
Evening star., 1942-12-06

book relates the history Of the coun-
try's leading financial family, the
Furenos, from 1888 to Pearl Harbor,
it is not a story of one family alone,
but of an entire race whose leaders
have, for generations past, been
busily planning world conquest. The
family took as it's crest the insignia
of the Three BambooS because one
of its ancestors was said to have
lashed himself and his family to the
base of a bamboo tree during ty-
phoon and thereby survived,
Soon after the arrival or Aumlral
Perry in japanese waters, the elder
Fureno sent his three sons out OF
the country to learn the secrets OF
the white barbarians." The journey
took the three to Germany and
England. They studied all there was
to be learned about the Westerners,
their language, ways of conducting
business and their thought processes.
Years later, they returned to reform
their country along western lines
and to prepare for ultimate world
domination.
AS a story, "The Three Bamboos'
is fair, exciting in parts, confusing
in others However. the author has
done an excellent job Of helping the
white races to realize how the Jap
anese mind works. On that score,
he has succeeded admirably. 1t is
a book that deserves to be read.
]. VIM. RUPPEL, Jr
Evening star., 1942-12-06

the idea that they were being pre-
pared for offensive warfare. Liter
ally, says Mr.. Riess, there was nc
peace. The German generals were
immersed in the next war before
the old one ended.
He then follows the tortuous
course of the maneuvering by which
Hitler coaxed various members of
the clique to their self-betrayal
broke their solidarity, attached
them to himself and corrupted their
aristocratic Prussian tradition. 1t
is a vicious story.
All that remains before the gen.
erals now, concludes Mr.. RieSs, is
to start a revolution against Hitler
in the hope of taking over his power
by force. He does not expect this to
happen, however, for he considers
the solidarity of the generals too
badly broken. And if it did hap
pen, he says, it would not end as
the generals hope; any revolution
in Germany today, if it once got
started, would take popular course
and sweep all protagonists of dicta-
torship and militarism away before
it. So, as he sees it, the once
irreconcilables+the petit bourgeois
Hitler and the Prussian nobles-are
in the same boat, headed nowhere
They can only win together, and If
they lose, both are finished He
inclines to think they will lose, too.
Evening star., 1942-12-06
Members of the Family
By Frederic F. Van de Water.
(JOhn Ddul

By Freder1c +. van de wafer.
(John Day.
In this book, Mr.. Van de Water
again essays to make all the world
envious of his lot. Two previous
volumes described the many delights
of life in the country la Van de
Water. In both books, the Vermont
farm was merely background for
the Van de Water family who
wished no part Of real farming. In
this book, the Van de Waters, as
most city farmers do eventually,
have succumbed to temptation and
are actually engaged in rehabilitat-
ing their rundown farm.
First step in the process is the
acquisition of animals. Then, by
logical steps, come the growing Of
crops to feed the animals, attempts
to sell the surplus, etc, etc. How
ever, Members of the Family" tells
only Of the animals. The four dogs,
three Scotties and Newfoundland,
were briefly mentioned in the former
books. In this book, each one has
chapter to himself, as does each
of three horses, a COW and the
wild birds. Each chapter has its
own, special interest, but the re-
viewers favorites are the chapters
on the hired horse and Molly, the
COW. Only another city farmer will
appreciate the solemn truth con-
tanned in these chapters.
r. r. TAYNTON.
Evening star., 1942-12-06
China's Westward Migration
BY Nancy NJ. Haynes,
Mount Pleasant Branch, Public Library.

|
The opening of ANOTHER great west
Is epic in the history of mankind.
To the more than 100000 square
miles of Free China west of the
Yangtze River have come between
100000 and 6O,0O000o people since
! the opening of hostilities with Japan
in 1887. To this wild, rich and un-
developed country, which extends
from the Cobb Desert in the north,
by way of the Himalaya mountains
to the jungles of Burma and Indo-
China in the south, the people Of
Eastern China have brought their
culture of thousand years,
With this migration of people have
also come the factories and indus
tries from the eastern cities. From
Canton alone, 100000 spindles were
iismantled from the cotton mills and
transported to SzechWan. In 1889,
400 factories and their equipment,
weighing more than 10000 tons, were
moved from the east to the west,
carried by boat, rail- plane and upon
the backs of coolies.
In exchange for the industries and
culture which these pioneer refugees
brought with them, the west has to
offer natural resources and beauty of
landscape. To the known resources
of coal, copper, lead, salt, oil, gold,
tin, zinc and antimony, government
scientists have added the discoveries
of asbestos. phosphate and bauXite
Along with these contemporary
scientists of China must be remem-
bered Ii Ping, who in 300 BIC. de-
vised the irrigation system in the
Rcd Basin area of Chengtu which
is used today. The fertility of this
valley is now feeding most of China
In this treacherouS country of
gorges and rivers, China had its be-
ginning. Little did Japan realize
that here China would be reborn to
Evening star., 1942-12-06
Popular Mathematics
'y Denning Miller. &

7lGm'S.)
This reviewer never thought that
she would be sitting down to write
a notice of a book on mathematics
Not even a popular mathematics"
Her opinion, indeed, up to a very
short time ago would have been that
there is no such thing as popu-
lar mathematics. Popular with
whom?" she would have asked in a
chilling tone. Speak for yourself,
DR.. Einstein.
Recent events, however, have
obliged her to change this comfort
able point of view. She reads lot
of books, you see. And there is
always-alWays-that book about
the air force. About that Raj boy,
for instance, the one aged 10, who
goes miles up in the air on dark
night with a mission to meet and
welcome an incoming Heinkel. This,
the reviewer understood, is done en-
tirely by mathematical protocol.
Reading it over and over again,
she began to feel guilty. Years of
counting on her fingers, or just not
counting at all, stared her in the
face as perhaps indicative of mental
sloth. Sloth is a deadly sin. Re
pentant, she bought little book on
mathematics and stocked up with a
protractor, compasses, slide rule and
aspirin. In deadly secret she began
to make timid overtures to her long
neglected logarithms. So now she
has something to tell you.
You could do a lot worse on long
winter evenings, when nightly sings
the staring owl and the gasoline
rationing sets in in earnest. You'll
be surprised at what your creaking
brains can accomplish.
This, however, is because. mathe-
matics now is being made truly a
popular study. The old texts which
specialized in encouragement are
definitely out. The new crop which
has sprung into being since the war
approaches the subject in manner
calculated to make it alive. Denning
Miller, author of the present book
for example, uses such headings as
these for his chapters: Pick En-
Up and Lay En- Down" Much
Ado About Nothing" THE Eternal
Triangle" Music of the Spheres, ~
and so on. Fearlessly proclaiming
the good tidings that arithmetic is
not mathematics, Mr.. Miller charges
the dark mathematical mystery, a
Childe Rolande to the Dark Tower.
And it becomes miraculously posi-
Evening star., 1942-12-06
Brief Reviews
WORDS OF WISE MEN.

WOhDS OF WISE MEN.
The Basic Teachings Of Confucius,
edited by Miles Meander Dawson
(New Home Library great
sage streamlined for the modern
reader.
George Washington's Rules Of
Civility and Decent Behaviour in
Company and Conversation, edited
by John Allen Murray putnam 81
The guide which the Father of Our
Country composed for himself when
young. Amusingly illustrated.
SCIENCE.
Science Remakes Our World, by
James Stokley (Washburn)- The
story Of the new industrial and
commercial materials.
Mental Illness, by Edith M. Stern
Commonwealth Fund-What to do
when there is mental illness in your
family. A practical book.
Men Against Madness, by Lowell
S. Selling-Story Of the fight against
mental illness, to date.
ADJUSTMENTS.
Magic, by Barrows Mussey (Barnes)
How to perform sleight-of hand
tricks of various descriptions.
HISTORY.
Decisive Battles of the U. S. A., by
Maj Gen. j. F. c. Fuller Harpers)
Descriptions of % fights, from the
taking of Trenton to the Argonne.
A History Of Social Thought. by
Paul Hanly Furfey CMacmillan)-
The author traces human thought
fashions. beginning with ancient
days in the Orient and coming down
to the present.
Flush Production, by Gerald
Forbes university of Oklahoma
Press)-History of the oil industry
of the Southwest.
Transportation, by Labert st. Clair
(Dodd, Mead)-A history of modes
of travel from sledges to plane.
America. by Allan Nevins and
Henry Steele Commager Gittle,
Brown-A one volume history OF
our country.
Men and Ideas, by Lin Mousheng
Day)-Informal history of Chinese
political thought.
THE WAR.
Air Of Glory, by Cecil Beaton
British Ministry of Information) -
Mostly photographs of the English
people at war.
Flying Furies, by Keith Ayling
(Nelson)-A book on the different
types of fighting planes. Written
in a technical simple style IL
| lustrated with color pictures by
Wallis Rigby.
He's in the Submarines Now, by
Henry Felsen Mcbride The
training and the fighting of a boy
who enlists for submarine service.
Illustrated with photographs.
HUMOR.
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
by Cornela Otis Skinner and Emily
Kimbrough, with drawings by Con-
stantin Alajalov (Dodd, Mead
Story of trip abroad made by the
two authors back in their salad days
Customary wheezes.
Insides Out, by John Mason Brown
Oodd, Mead)-Another funny story
Of sick spell. Illustrated by Hirsch-
field.
Memoirs Of 4 Guinea Pig, by
Howard Vincent O'Brien CPutnam's 81
A nowspaperman tells of his expert
ences in search of health. Custo-
mary wheeZes.
Evening star., 1942-12-06
America s First Winners
Japs Suffered Singing Defeats
At Hands of Chennaults Men
By Maj Donald ". Dresden,
The Flying Tigers The Story of the American VoIuntee
Group in China
By Russell Whelen. (Viking PressJ

By Russell Wheen. Viking PressJ
This the story Of the
10 nsh the japanese Air Force Burma road and the surrounding
country special unit the Chinese by
brilliant American aerial taician, l. Chennaul
The author Radio Director United
statements about flying and air fighting
by pilot
with this limitation in mind
group known have its work well
chroned Its record Of victories striking
that % s I'M @ @ M % the the s s 1
credited with 2 japanese planes DESTROYED There propab
o on be Only & IL AVG M Were killed or missing in action and
The FLYING Tigers the that moved the
n ea @ shn p M w hs h esn h % 1n
land link with the Western world agreed with Lin Yu-tanss de-
in the the this Highway some
Gen Chennaul trained his at Toungoo Central Burma 1t
his opportunity the tene aerial combat he
s @ with %s the ras as
combat unit provided from surprise attacks At
time permitted the employment maximum fire
which attacks
intelligence
n sa aaa es @
Finally the
sound If students had learned their lessons.
al and the two o4sr 1osa cn owe n Cumming protect the
blood the contingent Running chennauls
cable We first six pigeons to nothing tells the story That
Initiated into the he'll battle
encounters va defeat for the easy appe
a
of
force of planes and only nvs Of
Mr. When continues the story and individual exploits that
pictures happened
good the latter
McCary Of the outstanding killed. but
AVG the art rahng
| a. aerial combat.
responsible
Of pilots and ground
crews the
suffered triumph
pilots and Japan could produce the knowledge
little credit in this work to the father OF the Flying
Similarly feels for
leading characters which
might space quoting speeches and
dispatches.
difficult to obtain great deal Of nfoma
after completed but
Flying Tigers and their leader Claire L.
their history recorded brilliantly they fought
Evening star., 1942-12-06


fulfill and carry on its great destiny
as nation.
What this new China is doing Is
clearly told in Nine. Chang Kai-
sheks China Shall K;se Again"
1t includes statistics on education,
industry, mining, religion, medicine
and other vital phases of the present
government.
The following titles are descriptive
of the land and people of China's
west: Nine. Chiang's This Is Our
China" Eileen Bigland's Into
China" Lady Hosie's Brave New
China" Adet, Amor and Meimei
Lin's Dawn Over Chungking," Ed
gar Ansel Mowers THE Dragon
Wakes" Graham Peck's Through
China's WalI' and Yifang Wu's
China Rediscovers Her West"
Nowhere is the spirit of fighting
China better portrayed than in
Suyin Hans moving story, "Destina-
ton Chungking." The same personal
style is found in the realistic picture
of the common soldier given in T'ien
Chun's Village in August" The
courage of these soldiers and OF the
people left to tend the farms also is
depicted in Pearl Bucks new novel,
THE Promise" which began serially
in the November issue of Asia Mag
azine.
One OF the best recent articles,
China Opens Her Wild West" by
Owen baltimore, is in the September
number of the National Geographic
Magazine. Twenty-one excellent
pictures accompany the article.
There is also a fine series Of articles
on China in the November 16 issue
of the American Observer.
These books and magazines may
be obtained at the Public Library,
Eighth and K streets NV, and its
~ brorCi1ec
Evening star., 1942-12-06
All Night Long
BIZ ErSkine CdldlUell. Il
Sloan & PPdrce

By ErSkine Cald1DeU. (DueU,
Sloan & Pedrce)
This book is a sad example of
what happens to novelist when he
turns propagandist. 1t is Erskine
Caldwells fictional version of the
German attack on Russia and is in
spired by feelings which every one
can understand-detest of the
Germans and admiration for the
Russians. But the warmth of his
zeal for our ally has made Mr.. Cald-
well protest great deal too much.
His story of the adventures of Sergei
the guerrilla read like a new addi-
ton to the bang-another- Indian bit
the-dust type of fiction.
Sergei is a brave young collective
tractor driver whose happy collective
village is destroyed by the invading
Huns. He has been instructed at the
collective political school as to what
he should do. He joins his collective
guerrilla brigade in a marsh where
equipment has long been assembled
and waiting-radios, guns, ammuni-
ton, gasoline, grenades, food shelter.
From this base, he sallies forth to do
highly individualistic destruction on
the foe. His daily score is something
like so and, though Germans shoot
back at him from dawn to dusk, no
bullet of theirs ever scathes his
courageous chest. Sergei Is simply
tremendous.
The Germans whom Mr.. Caldwell
has described are, on the other hand,
distressing fellows. His picture of
the invasion shows us a great many
soldiers surging across the land
zealously shooting civilians and
burning villages, but paying very
scant attention to military objec-
tives. The German sentries of his
story are always looking the other
way, the German soldiers are always
bewildered, the German officers al
ways in rage. In fact, the whole
German setup, as Mr.. Caldwell
shows it, is just pie for lively young
guerrilla. In justice to the Rus
slams. one cannot think the grand
thrashing they gave their enemy was
so extremely easy.
Evening star., 1942-12-06
The Three Bomboos
By Rotert StandiSh.

By Rotert StandiSh. Mac
n,illan.)
Dedicated to the gentle, self
effacing and long suffering mothers
of the cruelest, most arrogant and
treacherous sons who walk this
earth-the women of Japan--who
will. as always, reap the richest
harvest of suffering as their re-
ward" this factual novel is the work
of a man who has lived most of his
life in Japan. 1t is book that
sheds clear, cold light on the COM
plexities of the Japanese character,
the fanatical hatred of the Japanese
for the foreigner and their bound
less ambition.
While the main portion Of the
Evening star., 1942-12-06
Beneath the Nnzi Veneer
Berlin Writer'S Pre.War Diary
Throws Light on Personalities
BY Mary Carter Roberts.
Blood and Bonouets
By Mary Carter Roberts.
By Bella Fronan. (Hurper.J

with nn :nS yos will nH ns and arm
g5cial and md diplomatic journalists privilege
people ana events her sharp speculation eventuai Then
usual tangled web of government
Il charming so sinister background
can age her coming home her desk after
M peen png be s to tom murder m have flavor Of this
Zetung and prominent Berns society,"
It was written simply private record 1hn when the Nau
plans began to show themselves Mrs felt
ons of Jews became agant
pouches friends in the diplomatic and ounalie corp In
1883 she fed herself she had been forced of her job
but had been permitted life
privilege gave her opportunity to
assist when ana warn honSs victims sra of sssag Naz plots
Jewish attacks she Welded to the
police saved her. that the Bella M Fomm e M
papers spies captured when the FBI smashed the
Naz Whst 11hs 1 couple % Of years 1 ago ~ 49, - -
history told entirely diary
journalistic politically significant
happening at each evenhe particular interchange
then with womany sharpness describes
that already personal history
Magda Gobbels women
zo labor leader Robert Ley getting permission from Hitler drop
ptane by arriving late at dinner parties Won Tndenbg his
n flirting with Goerngs Papens living
ae x % :e Frau m Won her
Brown 81 SHIRT thugs as n NOR Hitler quimng and
sDle Adolf Hitler 's Sir ala ohn Simon
English Ambasssdo to % avns na % an 6
sleeping opera and Goebbels choking him to
Shirt composed ~ '"''eO "
Of her book B 6 and MRS r0mm M herself @
up after page records of dignity good
long time of regime was MADE Ms nnp
that stuff has been covered. ~ '0 ~ '~
Evening star., 1942-12-06
Best Sellers

Compiled from information
obtained in Washington by The
Star and in NeW York, Boston,
Chicago and San Francisco BY
the North American Newspaper
Alliance.)
FICTION.
Signed With Their Honor, by
James Aldridge.
Crescent Carnival, by Frances
Parkinson Keyes.
The Song of Bernadette, by
Franz Werfel.
The Prodigal Women, by
Nancy Hale.
The Robe, by Lloyd c. Doug
las.
NON-FICTION.
See Here, Pvt. Hargrove, by
Marion Hargrove.
Last Train From Berlin, by
Howard X. Smith.
They Were Expendable, by
w. L. White.
A Time for Greatness, by
Herbert Agar.
From Suez to Singapore, by
Cecil Brown.
Evening star., 1942-12-06
Torpedo Junction
(BobbS -MerriH.)
By Robert J. Caseu.


lis Is the Nays book all bv
10 cate Its author
ne Cnago News Pearl
TACK From then Marshall Islands
Soes Marcus the Coral Sea Midway.
since IN sea battle there
nehng Ship His advice Forget
doing -' -
His book is delight to read for
humorous and content let his their
he 1acts He propagandize
that
OF free Nation making
now his narrative
forced
demon
superior Of its
this bombs
fell round him and occupied his mind about polish
sailor His accounts of the fights which he witnessed
In to delight editors mindminute
records coked from the the closing could
hardly ask for painstakng reporting
He found the
tradition in
mind Pearl Harbo had shaken him. shaken
demoralized?
anything
going to be pleasantly surprised"
Marshall Islands however all
ipbod with Navy under fire and out day after day convinced
him. before the Midway the Americans
TO nicely So he the advice Forget Pearl Harbor
fit
all.
Evening star., 1942-12-06
For the Mystery Fans
Brief ReDieDs of Current

DetectiDe Fiction.
The Crimson Thread, by Lillian
Lauferty (Simon Schuster)-Mur-
der and scandal disrupt the quiet
life of a small Connecticut beach
community.
The Fourteenth Trump, by Judson
Philips Dodd, Meab-Danny
Coyle, gambler, sets out to clear the
finance Of . Congressman OF the
ugly suspicion Of murder.