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Detroit evening times., 1943-11-23
Dance 10 Benefit
Officers Club

The United Nations Officers
Club. forced by lack of funds TO
close it's cluhrooms in Detroit
hotel last September after play
ing host for l3 months to L. s.
commissioned officers and Off
GERS from Australia. New Zeal
land. Canada, Britain and the
Free French forces. is determined
that these visitors TO the arsenal
OF democracy shall not become
the forgotten men of Detroit.
So the club has decided to hold
a benefit dance in the Spanish
Room Of the Fort Shelby Hotel
Friday night, Nov 26.
In announcing the dance, the
clubs calls attention 10 the fact
rhaf There are SIX clubs Tor Allied
officers in New York. one in BoS-
ton. two or three in Chicago ard
eight or nine in Denver.
Detroit evening times., 1943-11-23
X N OCk ACUT (
CONSTIPATION
RIGHT NOW

When ynn feel legy and too fail tag eeta-
tort blame yourself IL YOU let II go All
night Pour yourself little mild PLUTO
WAT Err in glass, add water and drink.
You II have amazing relief, usually within
M hour gently pleasantly. PLUTO
Is a saline mineral spring water concen-
trated . fortified . and scientifically
stabilized e.. with All minerals and salts
in complete solution. II acts by osmosls.
creating fund bulk in the colon swiftly and
gently flushing digestive waste. Try Pluto
" ater today, Caution-use only as directed
on label Get comforting relief from acute
constipation in one hour ~ money back.
In 35 and 50o economy <zes also l0c sSe
Detroit evening times., 1943-11-23
Yule Workers Need
Social Security Cards

All persons accepting employ
ment during the holiday season
must obtain social security num-
berS if they don't already have
them. Benjamin d Waechter De-
troit social security manager said
today
Social security field offices in
this area are al S037 Harper;
14246 Michigan, Dearborn; l4l3l
Woodward. Highland Park and
$40 Lafayette Building.
Detroit evening times., 1943-11-23
Jews in Service
To Be Honored

Special Thanksgiving services
for 200 men from theIB'nai David
Synagogue now in the armed
services will be held at II a. m.
Thursday. II was announced
today
Special prayers for these men
in service will be given and their
mothers also will be honored with
flowers songs by Cantor Irving
Ringel and the sermon, War and
Thanksgiving" by Rabbi Joshua
s. Sperka.
Services will conclude with
prayers for Thanksgiving and a
decentralization of the holiday by
students of the religious school.
Detroit evening times., 1943-11-23
Rites ID Honor
War Dead

Memorial services in honor of
men killed IN this war will be
held at s p. m. on Pearl Harbor
Day Tuesday, Dee T. in St
Paul'S Cathedral under sponsor
ship OF the Veterans of Foreign
Wars
The public is invited to partici-
pate IN the patriotic tribute, which
Will be nondenominational and
nonsectarian in nature a high
light of The service wilA be the
reading of the following pledge.
prepared by the AmcrlCaniSm
committee of the VIEW:
AT this moment, pledge
myself to he strong in faith
and for country"
Detroit evening times., 1943-11-23
Detroit Filler Wins
Oak Leaf Cluster

FIRST 1t Erick w. Kyro.- 1899
Pasadena, has been awarded an
Oak Leaf Cluster 10 add TO MS
Distinguished Flying Cross As a
mcmher of the Fifth All Force.
1t was announced today by 1t.
Gen George {. kenney, Allied
air force commander in The south
Pacific.
Detroit evening times., 1943-11-23

has appealed 10 the county audi
tors for assurance against a coal
shortage at the institution, which
houses approximately $4,000
persons.
In case Of a cold spell. DIR.
Grtber said the hospital has only
about 20 days. supply.
Detroit evening times., 1943-11-23
Mrs. Roosevelt Doubts Tale

NEWARK. n. j.. Nov, % (INS)
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt said to-
day she has taken with grain
of salt" the German report that
one of her sons was shot down
over Germany and is a prisoner of
tho enemy A----.-
Detroit evening times., 1943-11-23

yTFOOT SfH0tHtS.
l., Who signed the Dcclar-
8t6n of Independence aS
president OF the general cont
grcSS
Was Thomas jefferson
among The Signer~'
3 From which colony did
iWo Adams sign
: Which state did Button
GVInnett represent
= From which state did
TWO Lees sign .
(An~NerS
Detroit evening times., 1943-11-23
ARGTMENTS PLANNED

Henry a Montgomery legal
counsel for The Michigan ConSoll-
dated Gas Co. one of the firms
affected by the tax. sand he would
appear a The hearing 20 present
arguments
Leaders high IN the labor move
ment are also expected TO attend
and argue IN behalf of the tax.
The proposal is looked upon as a
victory for organized labor be
cause u is a substitute for the
previously proposed pay roll de-
duction tax which was unani-
mouSly opposed by labor circles,
Detroit evening times., 1943-11-23
History Quiz

The Detroit Times crcrg day cccCpt Saturday pub-
LEhcS 10 questions American history IN connection
U1th the Hrorst cqmpctio1 t7r S. soc pr-rSt high
Detroit evening times., 1943-11-23
Lee fdvOrS Tax
Is Alternative
To Lower Rate

14mr~ lI lee veteran assistant
corporation .c0{WScl WHO has
FOUGHT a l5.ycu battle Tor lower
IIrt rates, today termed The
opposed public Wlil'.cs iaN an
effort hy the ciiysfo 'co m husl-
uo-s with the utilities
leo however >1I0 hC favorcd
tne Tax hl1 only 9s an alternative
io rate reduction
In ordinary circumstance"
he -aid Il think II II the duty
Of the city 10 seek lower public
utility rates. rather than to 20
In business with the utilities,
such a. this tax proposes, in
order 20 share an utility profits.
CASES PENDING
We have two cases now
pending in the higher courts,
one on gas rates and the other
'on electric rates. " the courts
should decide against ~, ! am
In favor OF the proposed tax to
the extent that excess profits nt
these companies can then be
turned 10 good public purposes.
The taN proposal appears al
least temporarily headed ioW ard
passage. The common council
planned 20 put IL ON the order of
FIRST and second reading az to-
nights formal session II IS then
10 boz tabled until next week S
session
a public hearing viii hc held
on Tho question next Monday
morning. al which time MAYOR
tCnTIcS is expected home from
his Florida vacation lie VIII dis
CISs the question with the council
Detroit evening times., 1943-11-23
EIoise Hospital Asks
Assurance Of Coal

DR. T. Gruher medical
superintendent of EloiSe Hospital.
Detroit evening times., 1943-11-23

~ Rb ttNN fft bft-i n -i y ~! y ~
s Was Benjamin Franklin
among The SlgnerS ?
: Which state did ChafleS
Carroll of Carrollton repre-
sent?
s Was Benjamin Harrison
among the SlgncrS?
9 Which state had the
largest number of SignerS?
10 Which state the small
est number OF slgnerS
PAGE ~
Detroit evening times., 1943-11-23

We well know the fun of telephone reunions with
friends and family at holiday time. But please don't
do it this year War needs the wires never before
and you know that WAR KNOWS NO HOLIDAYS.
Detroit evening times., 1943-11-23

+. No BETTER
BUY IN
THE WORLD
Detroit evening times., 1943-11-23

tAnswers on Page ~
Evening star., 1943-01-03
The Vineyard
By IdUal Jones. I

By IdUal Jones' (DueH Sloan Pedrce)
Regobg beautiful Napa
Valley California the setting for that rich
good telling.
people whose lives
that the precious vines alive
ter well drawn vivid
OF wine the story at end closing what
1dwal Jones his Of thu
the red
seed and given all the thrill Of the cultivation
growing ~, "
wonderful grape they sharply the simple
people OF the valley
Tortla Flat
that
day routine than there the life ranher
interest In prize fight contests Ia nne
ooe that these valley dwelers exhibit something pcay
Best Of ALL there
considered fault by purs thar
virtue OF pleasant country hills rood
wins ana nne men and women EUGENE EHRlicH
The u. S. Navy Fights
BY W. Adophe Roberts, (Bobbs-MerrtH)
The glory strength fighting American Navy has
Interestingly
an method of narrang the history
service each OF the
Starting with the doughty with the
Drake the Revolutionary
gagements history
presents OF
the author continually
He leads the reader wooden
from sail to steam, and to Midway
must IN the library followers OF the
hcers viii md 1t excellent information too
MALCOLM D. LAAIHoRNE,
Evening star., 1943-01-03

with so summarily. A word of
definition must be used with each,
for they approach their subject from
very different directions.
The outstanding three devoted to
strategy so far seem, by authorita-
tive consent, to be Victory Through
Air Power" by Maj. Alexander P.
de Seversky; THE Coming Battle
of Germany by William B. Ziff
and The Fight for Air Power" by
William Bradford HUE. All these
are by eXponents of all-out mech
anized war; they represent the De
Gaulle point of view, one might
say, as opposed to the older school
OF strategical thinking. The re-
viewer is not so brash as to offer
any opinion on military theory. She
gives you the titles of the books
which, to date, have aroused the
most general interest and comment.
Another work on strategy for
victory which attained prominence
is 1t. Col. w. F. Kernan's Defense
viii Not Win the War" It is de-
voted to the idea that a European
front must be opened in Italy by
the United Nations.
An excellent review of the naval
action of the first two years of
war is to be found in Gilbert Cants
The War at Sea" Unforgettable
pictures of the action of our own
Navy in the Pacific make up w. L.
Whites They Were dependable"
and Robert Casey's Torpedo
Junction"
Personal "reminiscences Of war, or
the approach of war, in the various
countries of Europe are numerous
beyond listing. The reviewer gives
you these: The Last Time I Saw
Paris" by Elliot Paul; Return to
the Future" by Sigrid Undset, and
Dialogue With DEATH" by Arthur
Koester. An unbiased picture of
Russia's preparation for industrial
independence in case Of war is to be
found in John SCOTS Behind the
Urals," an account OF the develop
ment of the great Magnitogorsk
steel plant by an American who
worked as laborer on the job al
most from the beginning. OF the
many volumes on the various un-
derground movements against Ger
many, Rene Kraus' Europe in
Revolt" may be put down as repre-
sentative.
About the Enemies Of the
United Nations.
On the subject Of the enemy
countries, there are these: People
Under Hitler" by Walter Deuel.,
an analysis Of the restrictions put
by law on the lives of the Ger
man citizens and astonishing even
after these many years of news
OF the same sort; The Guilt of
the German Army" by Hans Ernest
Fried, and The Self Betrayed" by
Curt Riess, two works which def
nitely fasten the plot of World
War II on the old German high
command; THE Year OF the Wild
Boar" by Helen Mears, and "Gov-
ernment by Assassination" by Hugh
Byas, a pair of volumes on Japan
which strive to bridge the gulf be-
tween Japanese and ordinary
human thought processes, and sue
coed fairly well In the attempt, too,
and Balcony Empire" by Reynolds
and Eleanor Packard, m hilarious
account Of the Duce's efforts to
Evening star., 1943-01-03

is the volume called Fiesta in No
vember," which consists of the work
of modern Latin American writers
It is recommended, not because of
the present political tendency toward
cultivation of Latin Americas good
graces, but because almost all the 19
stories and noVelettes which the
volume contains are excellent. The
reviewer is obliged to observe that
this collection, put beside any Of the
regular anthologies Of our own short
story is immensely superior. The
Latin American writer's, in the short
story field at least, have not abdi-
Gated their artistic freedom in favor
of some theological slavery, as has
commonly happened in the United
States. but have kept alive the old
concept of the story-it should tell
something and tell it well. You have
no idea how refreshing it is to read a
tale that has been written in that
spirit until, for change, you try it.
Another work out of Latin Ameri-
ca which the reviewer holds to be
very fine is The Knight of Ell
Dorado by G. German Arciniegas
1t is a history of the Alfonso de
Quesada who explored and con-
quered the region which is now
Colombia, an area as great as that
conquered by Pizarro and as rich as
the conquest of Cortez, but unre-
Warding to its conqueror in either
wealth or fame. Mr.. Arciniegas has
done charming book on the matter;
little is known, AS he admits, of
Quesada's actual history, and so he
has taken that very obscurity as his
text and has produced wise and
delicate commentary on the folly of
human ambition generally. This is
another minor thing, but weu-nigh
perfect within its admitted limi-
tationS.
The last book on the reviewers list
is thing out of the war, not marked
by any notable literary quality or
strategic vision, but plain tale of
human courage, so stark and so
unreasoning in the face of all the
odds as to move the reader to awe
before his kind. This is the book
called THE Raft" by Robert Trum-
bull. 1t is the story of the 200 mile
voyage made by three American
seamen last winter, when their plane
crashed in the Pacific and left them
with fragile rubber raft for all
their resources-no provisions, no
water. no implements, no compass,
no chart, no rudder, no sail, no oars.
And in that state these three Ameri-
cans set course and navigated their
boat by it and arrived at where they
meant to 60. 1t took them 30 days,
and they got pretty hungry, but even
when they were light-headed from
weakness, they navigated that old
craft. 1t Is wonderful tale, though
Evening star., 1943-01-03
The Best Books of 1912
A Critic Looks Again at Some
Of the Works She Enioyed
By Mary.Carfer Roberts.

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up before ths o
answer 1t obligatory to state that questions the
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less less 1T their does not mean
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and with viands lavish than
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the brought Success un n e @ thev Sa sas seb
1ns n po e.sm6 of o @ The m fashion
pie Were writing their life histories they had bought
ne5sns ne5ma oondod o syntua s the
.bd7 mh bS same nnnv hns happens
nc commercial success Every publisher something
our e come have their being always spoken
M @ The publishers forth public merely picks
In the past tVevemon been noticeable lack
fg amy o t ne CUSTOMARY fashions Nineteen
eh every one tremendous interest early definite
have been written to- conforms to o Hay M
points s %. view na which themselves wholly
their }h sss % alt citizens TsTs to tho
comparatively finally finished There the
There memoir There is the ANALYSIS
the h am n0 Sn so on One m book within type like all
not see far enough into the them
will be read ' '@'''s' " @''i'
Evening star., 1943-01-03
Brief Reviews
POETRY.

POETRY.
Song of Peace and Other Poems,
by Bessie M. Chadwick (Fox)-A
collection of religious poems by a
Washington poet. Inspirational.
CITY PLANNING.
Can Our Cities Survive? by J. L.
Sert (Harvard University Press)-
An illustrated text on city planning
with a study Of the past in civic
growth and outlines of future needs.
Valuable.
HOME STUDIES.
The Amateur Machinist, by A.
Frederick Collins (New Home Lii
brary) - Practical instructions in
how to use tools and how to make
what. Illustrated
Mathematics for Mechanics, by
William l.. Schaaf Garden City,
The essentials of mathematics for
the shop worker. illustrated with
diagrams
An Outline of Political Geography
by j. F. Horrabin (Knopf)-Small
but very practical text explaining
why who wants what. Timely.
Getting Acquainted With Chem
istry, by Alfred Morgan (Appleton-
Century)-Elementary text for the
adult as we'll as the student. Prac-
tical
Essential Mathematics, by H. M
Keal and c. j. Leonard (Wiley)-
A brief popular text relating math-
ematical principles to airplane con-
struction, machine shop work and
the radio.
MUSIC.
Symphony Themes, compiled by
Raymond Burrows and Bessie Car
roll Redmond (Simon & Schuster)
The leading themes of various pop
ular symphonies. In musical nota-
ton.
Our Land of Song (Birchard-
A book of songs with music. For
children.
America Sings, collected by Carl
GARNER (Knopf)--A book OF songs
with music on folklore themes. The
source entertainingly told and illus
trated in full-page color pictures.
A nice gift volume.
Evening star., 1943-01-03

re-enact the grandeur that. for
quite a spell now, has not been
Rome.
The blueprints of the new order
are, 1t seems to the reviewer, still
too vague to be accorded more than
symptomatic interest. No one can
imagine what the world will be
when the war is won; therefore, to
attempt to plan how that world
shall be treated is more ambitions
than sensible. Two hard hitting
works on the present which throw
valuable light on the possibilities
of the future have appeared, how
ever; they are both economic sur
veys, and they attack the isms
which, for the past decade, have
plagued economic policy. One is
This Age of Fable" by Gustav
Stopler, and the other is Time
to Inquire" by Samuel Crowther
Astringent commonsense combined
with special knowledge make the
pair heartening in these particular
times.
The outstanding history of the
year seems to the reviewer to have
been Douglas Southall Freeman S
Lees Lieutenants, a combined
biographical account of the leaders
of the Confederacy and strategical
history of the Civil War. 1t is the
first volume in projected trilogy,
monumental in scope and brilliant
in treatment.
Finally. there Is always the years
new book on Washington. In 1912,
there can be no doubt about its
identity. 1t is w. M. Kiplinger's Is
washington Is Like That" an en-
cyclopedia Of our city In contem-
porary terms that are also clever
and entertaining.
Evening star., 1943-01-03
Books About Australia
BY Margaret Fl. Coulson,
Southeastern Branch, Public Library.

practice OF hunting with camera
instead of gun has saved much
Wildlife indigenous to Australia and
furnished his book with some ex-
cellent photographs.
One of the earliest and most au-
thentic histories of the land down
under, Australia and New Zealand" )"
was written by Anthony Trollope
in 1873. Like his novels, it is witty
and penetrating. A book of travel
that is the essence of adventure is
Ernestine Hills recent Australian
Frontier" which portrays the life
and dauntleSs courage Of the
pioneers with humar and a depth
of first-hand knowledge. Another
is "Cobblers," by Thomas Wood, a
kindly observer and critic who writes
as he feels, and misses none of the
charm and wisdom of the byways.
Paul Mcclure, in Australia: Her
Heritage, Her Future" has achieved
wider range of information, but
has unwittingly tempered it some
what by the bias of personal
OpIlIlOll
Australia and the Australians, y
by H. J, Timperley, one of the
America in World at War" series,
is but. one of several pamphlets from
authoritative sources that are in
formative and useful to students.
The most distinguished of the
novels laid in Australia are Henry
H. Richardson's Fortunes of Rich
ard Mahoney'-a triology first pub
lished under the separate titles,
Australia Felix" THE Way Home
and Ultima Thule"-and D. H.
Lewrence's Boy in the Bush"
All these books may be found in
the Public Library, Eighth and K
streets NV, and in most of its
/ branches
Evening star., 1943-01-03
Best Sellers

Compiled from information
obtained in Washington by The
Star and in Ne,D York, Boston,
Chicago and San Francisco BY
the North American Newspaper
Allidnce.)
FICTION.
Time Of Peace, by Ben Ames
Williams.
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 K. Smith.
They Were Expendable, by
w. L. White.
Our Hearts Were Young and
Gay, by Cornelia Otis Skinner
and Emily Kimbrough.
From Suez to Singapore, by
Cecil Brown.
Evening star., 1943-01-03

Until year ago, when war broke
in the Pacific, American eyes were
riveted to Europe and a strip Of
North African desert. The island
continent of Australia, thousands of
miles away down under" was
hardly more to us than name. It's
Importance as a selfgoverning do
minion in the British Common
wealth Of Nations was but remotely
realized. Today it has emerged as
a land of the profoundest signifi-
canoe. one touching our lives di-
rectly and intimately, since it has
become the temporary home-and
hope-of vast part of America S
fighting forces. In speech de-
livered in February, 1912, Prime
Minister Curtin said: Whatever
America does in the Pacific war is
Americas affair, but I do point out
that the battle for America may
we'll be won or lost by the way the
battle for Australia goes. Ameri-
cans can and will save America if
Australia is saved =" This
opinion is shared by many military
experts.
The many questions crowding the
minds of many people may find
their answers in c. Hartley Grat-
tan's Introducing Australia 1t
would seem almost perfect timing
that a book so adequate and so
thoughtful should appear now He
writes with a deep understanding
of the Australian scene, its instltu-
tions. society and politics, and Of
especial value are the chapters on
the present war. In another vein,
but no less interesting, is "Koon-
warra' (meaning black swami, by
Charles Leslie Barrett, an informal
and rather rambling account of the
adventures of a naturalist, whose
Evening star., 1943-01-03

told in words of one syllable, and If
you want an antidote against the
clustered despairs of our theological
poets, you can hardly do better than
read how the Navys Dixon, Pastula
and Aldrich pitted themselves
against the ocean and came through
1t is cleansing record and, if
Aristotle was right, then, be it ever
so artless. it is literature.
Novels Head List
OF Secondary Books.
This makes round dozen of books,
unclassified except that they seemed
to the reviewer very good. If you
purchase the group you will have a
sound addition to your library,
though you will not have added the
titles of many of 1925 best sellers,
And now the secondary list.
Novels being absent from the
dozen named above, they will receive
first attention here. 1t has not been
a memorable year in fiction, certain
ly, but some few works stand above
the general low level and deserve to
have their names called for the
achievement. They are:
Dragon Seed" by Pearl S. Buck;
The Song of Bernadette," by Franz
Werfel; The Gates of Aulis," by
Gladys Schmitt; THE Just and the
Unjust" by James Gould Cozzens;
The Seed Beneath the Snow" by
Ignazio Silone; Dragons Teeth,' by
Upton Sinclair; "Josephus and the
Emperor" by Lion Feuchtwanger;
"Only One Storm" by Granville
Hicks; You Can't Be Too Careful u
by H. G. Wells; Follow the Leader"
by Claude Brion Davis; "Islandia, "
by Austin Tappan Wright: Friends
Of the People" by Alfred Neuman,
and River Rogue" by Brainerd
Cheney.
One characteristic marks all OF
these-they are immensely serious
Humor is almost completely lacking
In the group. You Can't Be Too
Careful" is done in a vein OF comedy,
but brutal comedy. Follow the
Leader is satire of the kind known
as deadpan; it may possibly amuse
you, but amusement is not its
purpose.
A mature technical competence
also characterizes these books. The
impressionistic and class conscious
novels-refugees of the unsure writer
are not to be found in the number
and, In general, well-designed solid
fictional structures have pretty much
supplanted them everywhere. And
what has become Of the impression
ist and proletarian writer's? Where
do you md them now? That's easy
They are all joining Joe Doakes
among the Tough Immortals.
Among biographies not on the
preferred list above, the following
seem to the reviewer either meri-
torious or important:
Billy Mitchell" by Lester Cohen
and Emile Gauvreau: "Mr. Church
ILL.," by Philip Guedalla; admiral
Sims and the Modern American
Navy" by Elting E. Morrison; "The
Man Who Made News" by Oliver
Carlson; "G. B. S." by Hesketh
Pearson; "Rainer Maria Rilke." by
=. M. Butler; "Cordell Hull" by
Harold H. Hinton. and Frederick
the Great" by Pierre Gaxotte.
War books can hardly b dealt