The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-06
Observations
Authors Dilemma:
What to do About
The War of 1912
BY Helen ESSary

There's a lot OF talk everywhere
you 20 about the race problem
c. NJ. Forester, who has been writ
ing about Capt Horatio Hornblow-
err, that irreconcilable old salt, for
many a cheerful year, says he
first began 10 think personally OF
the race problem when he learned
that every third child born is a
Chinese.
When Forester made this pro-
found discovery he already had
two children. This made the flu
ture seem confused. For nobody.
especially an Asiatic, welcomes an
Eurasian into the family OF nations.
And it's very hard on an Eurasian
10 be one.
Forester is mild, completely
English person with a devastating
wit. He announced TO some friends
that he was going TO kill Horatio
Hornblower of Poor old fellow,
ne had lived through serials and
short stories and volumes and lee
lures, and now he had come face
70 face with the War OF 1912. He
simply had 10 die with the typhus
fever or something.
Let the poor fellow live on,
roared the friends. he's such q
swell chap. You ought 10 be able
10 think OF some way OF getting
him through 1872"
Not a chance" said Forester. 81
simply can't have him come TO
Washington and attack the capital
and burn the White House-not at
this time. And ! can't have him
defeated ANONYMOUSLY. No. my
friends, Horatio Hornblower has
simply got 10 die"
Forester has been in Washington
writing a magazine article on the
technical side OF the Navy. He
hurried back to his present home
in Berkeley. Cal, in order TO see
his wife before she left with a
group OF small boys 10 pick prunes
in Southern California.
Forester is seriously considering
becoming an American citizen.
Many Britons are planning TO take
out United States papers after the
war, so a British embassy attache
told me.
FROM TINE TO TINE this
thoughtful and all seeing depart
ment will call attention to certain
problems which the postwar plan
ners had better be brooding over.
Todays problem is taken from
life in Washington, which, in this
case, is Conversation in Taxicab'
To begin-the taxi was whizZing
around a corner on two unrecapped
tires when a woman started across
the street ahead. The taxi driver
honked and honked his horn. The
woman did not change her pace OF
leisurely ambling.
Looks like you can't do any
thing with women nowadays" said
the driver TO the man passenger
on the back seat.
IN say you can't" agreed the
passenger. They 20 where and
when and how they please. Maybe
its because so many OF them have
Jobs"
Brother. you said something.
called the driver as he gave his
cab the red and yellow light hurdle,
Just between us. what do you
think OF women making so much
money You think they'll give the
Jobs back to the men when the
war is over?"
The passenger said he thought
they might. but II had been his ex
perience that whenever women
seemed 10 be up TO good works
like helping out, there was a catch
somewhere.
That's the truth" said the tax
driver, grinding his brakes sorrow
fully. That's what's worrying
me. In my case. there In a catch
You wouldn't believe what is hap
pening in my family. Listen:
MY wife has got a swell Job
Makes more money than do. An'
what do you suppose she does will
IL?
she says, Dear, | don't want Il
deprive you OF the pride you natur
ally take in being the family bread
winner. We'd better go on as be
fore. Then she banks her none
in her own name, mindja, and m
poor say that | am pay tn
bills, L. there CATCH I'll sa
there's catch Look out for
woman when she's purring"