davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26
he Gentlemen
7 ak Of Peace
By William B. III. fMacmil-
Ian. So

Ian. So
Reviewed by JOSEPH H. BAIRD.
Here Is one OF the most extraordi-
nary and penetrating books yet to
appear in the ever-growing library
devoted to the political and eco
nomic ills Of mankind and how they
may be cured in the postwar world.
The two adjectives used here are
selected advisedly. Mr.. ziff's volume
Is extraordinary in the vast wealth
of historical, geographical, military
and technical material he has as
sembled in the space of one book.
It is penetrating in that it throws
a searchlight on the weak spots of
many currently suggested Utopias.
And his own solution of the great
postwar enigma is startling in its
scope and daring. But more of that
later.
The gentlemen" referred to in
Mr.. ziff S title are the diplomats and
statesmen of the conventional world.
And their talk of peace, he con-
cludes, Is full OF sound and fury,
signifying nothing. Such plans of
international organization as that
worked out recently at the Dunn
barton Oaks conference Mr.. Ziff dis
misses as doomed to futility in ad-
vance because, he maintains, they
take no cognizance of the funda-
mental economic ard social strug-
gle among countries, creeds and
races.
To attempt any adequate, outline
|of the radical plan of world reor-
ganization advanced by Mr.. Ziff
would be impossible within the brief
scope Of this review. can only give
a hint of it by saying that he advo-
Gates the division Of the world into
five major states-a union of the
West, including all the western
hemisphere, Great Britain and Aus
tralasia; a European union, CEN
tered around the Mediterranean and
including North Africa; a Soviet
Union, including not only the U. S.
s. RS present territory, but also
parts of Eastern Europe, the Near
East and the East Indies; a union
of the East and finally a union of
Africa, which temporarily would be
an international mandate.
These vast states would be repre-
scented in World Union having no
Legislative or judicial powers, but
serving as a forum for discussion
OF global problems.
A world SO organized, Mr.. Ziff
maintains, could keep the peace be-
cause its constituent states, being
almost entirely self sufficient eco
nomically, would have no incentive
to make war.
So daring and unorthodox is the
plan here presented that this re-
viewer would be presumptuous to
offer an opinion on its feasibility
Let each reader decide for himself.
At any rate, the main value of the
book, it would seem, is the detailed
picture it presents of the world
today and the problems that vex it.
The reviewer knows of no other
volume that approaches it in doing
that very worthwhile job.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26
Frances Willard
By Mary Earhart. ~

By Mary EGrhart. UNIVERSITY
OF Chicago Press. $3.75.J
The object Of this scholarly and
well-written biography Is, as the
author says, to free Frances Willard
from the legend which, ever since
her death, has been kept up around
her name. Miss Willard has been
arbitrarily nominated the saint of
the temperance movement and,
while her biographer confirms her
tremendous services to that move
ment, she objects to the sainting.
Miss Willard was woman, she
reiterates, very human person.
She attributes the sanity concept
to Anna Gordon who, coming in
charge of Miss Wizards papers after
her death, burned basket after
basket" Of letters. choosing, pre-
sumably the letters which showed
her idols humor, wit and breadth
of interests. Fortunately enough
records remain for Miss Earhart
to be able to sustain her case. She
rescues Miss willard from her
ascetic tradition and presents her
as a plausible, great woman. Her
book Is a first-rate piece Of bio
graphical writing. NC, r,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26
How Author Solved
Cigarette Problem

Autograph hunters helped
solve the cigarette shortage for
Ernie Pyle during the famous
war correspondents recent visit
to Washington.
He was recognized at dinner
with friends in a downtown
restaurant one night. Just as
his party ran out Of cigarettes
at the end Of the meal-and
there was none to be had at
the tobacco Stand-requests for
his autograph started to multi
ply.
Tell them, Yes, for q ciga-
rette,'" woman in the party
suggested.
From then on cigarettes were
not lacking in either numbers or
variety for Mr.. Pyle and his
friends as they talked. He
sold" scores of autographs for
a cigarette each.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26

he came OH s"h A"ieAA'
mission from his government, was
a member of the underground or
ganization from it's inception. He
tells his story in terms of his per-
sonal experience, and he tells it with
an unforgettable power.
The story of the prosecutions Is,
of course, the vivider tale, as viewed
from the human interest standpoint.
Political maneuvering, even though
1t be for the sake of preserving the
forms of free institutions, is pale
reading beside accounts OF human
anguish and death. Yet the re-
viewer feels that, in this book, the
emphasis should be put on the po-
litical history. Other writer's have
described the unspeakable persecu-
lions. but Mr.. Karski is the first to
give in full detail record of how an
underground government preserves
its being.
He tells us that Poland, alone Of
the occupied countries, never OIL
cially recognized Germany's victory.
It's government, he says, never laid
down its Office but, going immediate
ly underground, maintained its form
and even secured the normal repre-
sentation to all of Poland's political
parties in subsequent changes OF per-
sonnet. How this was carried out,
across the width of Europe, by secret
courier and under the nose of the
Gestapo is the unique material in
Mr.. Karski's book. He was one of
the couriers and so he speaks with
some authority.
He assures us, as light on the mat
ter of Poland's future, that the I'M
foreground government had as its
constructive aim to democratize the
constitution, to end the feudal estate
system and improve the condition of
the peasants. This, he says, was
Gen. Sikorski's great project. He la
ments the generals death as an I'M
mitigated calamity for his country
For the other part, it corroborates
what has been reported from many
sources. The most frightful single
item in the frightful catalogue is
the description of mass murder of
Jews. The Germans had ordered
the killings to proceed at the rate
of 10000 week, says Mr.. Karski,
and he bears witness that the COM
n1and was carried ont. NC. r.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26

ISSdAey POAAtAIAdIl, A~ ~AA~A''
who has fought for the cause of paci-
fism all his short life. In college he
takes the peace pledge; out of col
lege he works for pacifist organ
izations. Various misfortunes which
befall him he glorifies into martyr
dom. He develops into a complete
neurotic, and when his draft num-
Der comes up sees the routine pro-
cedure to which his case is submit
ted as persecution. He steals guns,
barricades himself in his house
and issues statement to the local
newspaper that. when they" come
to get him he will shoot. The
paper does not use the statement
and nobody knows Of his imaginary
seige. But when a neighbor's
daughter, clad in blue Stacks, starts
up his path, he sees her as a State
trooper and shoots. Then he goes
into the hills and fights it out with
the police, killing a man before he
is killed himself.
What Mr.. Hicks does to give his
frantic hero dignity is to demon
Strate how personal troubles-the
familiar childhood neuroses asso-
ciated with parents-turned the
young man toward pacifism and
how, in fighting for peace he really
was working out an old bitterness
toward his father and mother. BY
this device, he makes the mad
antics plausible. But the reader is
left in doubt as to the implica-
tons. Is Mr.. Hicks telling us that
all jealous servers of causes are
basically neurotics? Arthur Koest-
Ter, in his last novel, dealt with the
typical young communist on that
plane, and there is a good deal
of reason for bringing psychology
to bear on the appeal of certain
isms to certain types of young
people. Mr.. Hicks, however, goes to
such extremes in making his hero
irrational that he passes beyond the
limits of type. And so his argu-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26
ment is weakened-if it is an argu-

ment Is weakened-if it is an argu-
ment.
On the other hand, If it is not
an argument, then there seems to
be little point in the novel. In
that case, it is just a history of
a borderline patient crossing over.
1t would be unfair to end the
discussion, however, without giving
praise to the vividness with which
Mr.. Hicks portrays the rural people
who are his hero's neighbors. They
could hardly be better done.
Mo. r.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26
cLJ p.U. By Arthur E. Morgan. (Colun-
LuWUu DcHoH/ bid University Press. So

published works-his editorials and
book reviews on the Springfield
Union, his novels, his essays and his
Journalism. Morgan makes clear
that he was many-faceted genius
philosopher ranking with Emer-
son, an intuitiye scientist antici-
pating much now accepted as truth
in psychology and eugenics, and a
nature-lover who wrote about trees
and grass and fog with rare sensi-
tiveness and singular beauty. DR..
Morgan, by bringing all this to light
with sure hand, has made an i'm
portant contribution to our bio
graphical literature, a study merit
ing the attention of everyone inter-
eSted in greatness
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26
Public Library
| Book Pointers
WARTIME AMATEUR CRAFTS
BY Ruth C.. Coblen,

Extension Division, Washington Public
Library.
DO you find 1t more fun to make
things than to read about how
others make them? If so, you will
be interested in trying some of the
many fascinating crafts described in
the illustrated books at the
Public Library, Eighth and K streets
NV, and its branches.
The amateur with a modest degree
Of mechanical skill will discover en-
joyment in applied Leathercraft,"
by Chris Groneman. An excellent
book of $50 popular projects suitable
for amateur craftsmen is the Shop
Crafter's Handbook" by Nelson Bur-
bank and Edith Mitchell. Com
mercial woods and veneers obtain
able in wartime can be used. Low
Cost Crafts for Every One" by Harry
Reynolds, will appeal to those who
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26
Reviewed by w. H. HARRISON.

To biographers who delight in
colorful madcap personalities, the
great Edward Bellamy will probably
never seem attractive. He had none
of the eccentricities of Cellini, a
Schopenhauer of Van Gogh, nor
was his career nearly SO glamorous
or eventful as that of men like
Franklin or the junior Oliver Wen
dell Holmes. Living most of his life
in Chicopee Falls, Mass, where he
was born in 1850 and where he died
in 1898, he was in turn a dutiful son,
a good husband, a lovable father, and
also hard worker, and friendly, un-
pretentious neighbor-but withal an
authentic genius whose flame, how
ever briefly or unspectacularly,
burned with brilliance not lost
upon the world.
In his study of the man-the first
ever published-Arthur E. Morgan,
president of Antioch College and
chairman of IVA from 1888 to the
days of his alleged "contumacy" in
1888, draws scholarly if sometimes
heavy-handed portrait. In some
respects, it seems more picture of
Bellamy's unfolding ideas than of
Bellamy himself, but that is perhaps
as good way as any to represent
a personality whose life primarily
was a life of the mind. DR.. Nor
gans sources include his subjects
immediate SurvivorS-MrS. Bellamy,
daughter Marion Bellamy Earn
shaw, and son Paul Bellamy, the
present distinguished editor of the
Cleveland Plain Dealer-but 1t is
from private papers and a vast
amount of collateral reading that
the biography draws its greatest
substance.
Edward Bellamy is remembered
chiefly for Looking Backward" a
utopian novel which swept the
country at the turn of the century
and which is considered by such
men as John Dewey and Charles
Beard to be next in Importance to
Marks "Das KapitaI' as the book
which has most influenced the
thought and action of the world
during the past SO years. How it
was written and its after-effects are
discussed in detail by DR.. Morgan,
who incidentally argues convinc-
ingly against the charges of pla-
garism once raised against it.
Bellamy did not like the word $50
cialism," but his Looking Back
ward was nevertheless the dream
of a socialist in love with mankind,
a socialist to whom the MARKHAM
idea of class conflict was anath-
ema. And it was a sound dream,
too, in several essential respects
, fact remarkably well confirmed by
the naturalization of so many of its
significant prophecies.
But Looking Backward" though
still essential reading for people
seeking a better understanding of
these times, is by, no means the
sole measure of Edward Bellamy's
unique gifts. BY quoting copiously
from the mans published and un-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26
First With the Most
Forrest
By Robert Selph Henry. (Bobbs

By Robert Selph Henry. (Bobbs
Merrill. 81
Though it may at first appear to
be, this book is not a biography.
1t is history of Gen. Nathan Bed
ford FORESTS part in the Civil War.
Almost nothing about the gen.
erals career before the war and
only a few pages about what hap
pened to him afterward is included.
The more than $50 pages of the
volume are military history, &C
counts of troop movements, analyses
of battles and so forth. 1t Is sound
and authentic and, thanks to the
authors enthusiasm for his ma
terial, full of color and episode.
On the whole, the reviewer would
rate the volume as one Of the best
histories Of the year. NC. r.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26

out on a limb
or a party line
by the Ribben-
OPP = Molotov
pact in 1899. In
the present novel
he deals with
the similar case
of the pacifst
whom the ad-
v e n t Of W a r
changes into a
CONSCIENTIOUS OBJ
jector.
He gives us q
young American,
son of a rural
county politician,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26

the OVeTUnrOWu
Polish govern
ment to MAIN
tain it's structure
In exile and to
secure to its peo-
pie the usual
forms of repre-
sentation. The
other tells of the
prosecutions Wis
tied on the Pol
ish people by the
German uSurp-
ers. Mr.. Karski,
now in this
country, whittier
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26
Samuel Iohnson By Joseph Wood Krutch
Henry Holt & Co. $375.)

matte situations that point up john
sons character. His handling of the
events leading up to the Chesterfield
letter is that of scholarly explana-
ton rather than dramatic EXPOSE
ton. He Is even less concerned with
the circumstances surrounding the
John Wilkes dinner meeting. This
is dismissed with a few explanatory
lines.
But the book has many merits, es-
pecially for the student of johnson
Mr.. Krutch is a fine scholar, with
the scholars attention for detail and
accuracy. He is an excellent critic
and what he has to say about john
sons various works is important
Despite the many books written
and to be written about johnson, the
casual reader and the specialist will
still find the best introduction to
the great figure to be Boswell's life
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26
Illustrated, SO pages. $500

Illustrated, SO pages. $500
By the same author:
THE WIND FROM NOWHERE
SEVENTH LARGE PRINTING,
The unforgettable story Of 4
young Negro builder Of an agri.
cultural empire in the Dakota
wilderness, wherein he alone was
black, and a girl, to make this
the strangest love story ever told!
Illustrated, 438 pages. 32.7s
Order through your bookseller OF
send cash, check, money order or
we will ship books COD.
hook SUPPLY Co, PubIishers
and retailers any book published.
= 1erniAgsids Ayes NJ. a, MI.
IS ( 4
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26
Behold Trouble
BIZ Granville Hicks.

By Granville Hicks. (Macmil-
Ian, $2.75.J
In his previous novel. "Only One
Storm" Granville Hicks dealt with
the sad case of the Communist and
the fellow traveller who were left
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26
Reviewing he New Books
By Mary-Garfer Roberts
Between Henyen
Ano Eortt j

- y " W yNSs
from the German by Marin,
Ne1omark. Philosophical Ii
brdry. 49,
The first nonfction work by the
author to be published In America
this is a collection OF essays, adj
dresses and aphorisms on the sub
Ject OF the present world trend
toward the destruction of human
identity In favor of collectivized ma
terialism.
A more ringing and persuasive
eloquence would be hard to find.
In phrases which can be hkened to
the announcements of the proph-
cts, Mr.. Werfel attacks totalitarian-
ism and comes to the defense of
his opposites-democracy and in
dividualism. And, like the prophets,
he sees the weapon of defense as
religion. Democracy is the political
condition which respects the human
soul, he says. Communism and
Naziism-they are, he declares, vir-
tually the same thing-make it
their avowed aim to destroy the
individual as an individual, which
Is to say as soul. It is only as
believers, then, he concludes, that
we can do battle against them.
What is significant about these
papers is that the two chief ones
were written before the outbreak of
the war-one in 1882 and one
In 1887.
Mr.. Werfel does not leave the
term religion" to a loose inter-
probation. He states explicitly that
he means Christianity. The logic
of history, he says, is on it's side
and the drama of history is in
mans effort to attain the joy and
peace which lay in the realization
of Christ's great attainment-the
overcoming of death. In effect, his
book is a great sermon. 1t is impos-
sible in limited space to do more
than indicate the text.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26
Best Sellers
FICTION.

Earth and High Heaven, by
Gwethalyn Graham.
Forever Amber, by Kathleen
WinSor.
Green Dolphin Street, by
Elizabeth Goudge.
Immortal Wife, by Irving
Stone.
The Green Years, by A. J.
Cronin.
NONFICTION.
The Time for Decision, by
Sumner Welles.
Yankee From Olympus, by
Catherine Drinker Bowen.
Lees Lieutenants, Vol. III, by
Douglas Southall Freeman.
Brave Men, by Ernie Pyle.
Watching the World, by Ray
mond Clapper.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26
HuMoR.

Mods and Becks, by r. p. A. (Mc-
Graw Hill.) A selection from the
columns, poems and articles Of the
famous humorist.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26
PLACES,

The Great Lakes, by Harlan
Hatcher. (Oxford) The story of
our inland seas from the glacial pc
Rod Scholarly.
Cities of Latin America, by Francis
Violich. (Reinhold) A survey of
city planning and housing in the
countries to the south. Technical.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26

will find that the crafts using nut,
shell, pine cone, paper and wood,
require material which Is easily
obtainable,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26
The Story of a Secret
State
By Jan Karski. (Houghton
Mi61in. 49,

Describing Poland under the Ger
man occupation, the author divides
his book into two main themes. One
tells of the political methods used by
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26
Louis BromfieId
I 1Hf WORM WE IivetN

A collection Of nine new stories psey.
ing widely in character and leak,
.upremely divertms, deft ia ploe, sieh
ia background. t7.So
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26

III TINE MUST HAVE a YOF
He Is she moss arfeains vrises a
our time. His novel, 7;ms Msys Hs1S
4 Stop, may we'll be his sfessea."
IN. Y. World Tdssrsm. an
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26
Harry (. Fosdick

Challenging wartime sermoos 70 opoo.
sci and inspire. By the authoA q o.
Bfisg a Real Psysos. a 20
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26
usfQ ms
LIST NOM AUDkU
AND TAKE " 1AAA1VA A1O
.s :: 'ss: BOOKS
J THE TINE FOR DECISION
7 for Christmas

A top national bea seller beesuss h
answen, as far . 1ny one book en-,
the question uppennoN h peoPls's
minds: How shall NJ avoid anuehee
Wzf2 B.00
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26
John Dickson Carr
q TILL DEATH DO US PART

The new DR.. Fell mystery. The isdy
poisouer who can only murder hus.
bands or lovers will enrhrafI ron.
Don't m15"'-CMesgo News. $z.oe
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-26
lack BeIden

q STILL TIME 10 DIE
mo other book ! know Of has Coz.
veyed rhe emotions Of battle beftef."
IN. Y. Timss. 'One Of the very lev
current var books thst will live"
Leland Stowe. $50
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1944-07-11
Z zapadne strani

Cleveland, Ohio. - Drustvo
"Nanos" st. 264 S. N. P. ]. pri-
redi vrtno veselico v nedeljo
dne 16. julia, ma prostorih Do
ma zapadnih Slovencev 681e
Denison Ave.
Solnce v mesecu juliju je ra-
dodarno S svojimi toplimi zarki,
in ljudje oh prostem easu 81 l.
scejo razvedrila in zabave v le-
pi naravi.
Ma pikniku drustva "Nanos''
pa DO dosti razvedrila in zabave
"a vse.
Poskocne komade bo igrala
dobra godba. Ma razpolago sta
dive "aliji' "a balincanje, pod
senco kosatega drevja pa bono
zapeli ali pa bono drugace po,
strezeni, "a kar DO preskrbel We
'selicni odbor.
Ma vrtno veselico so vablje.
nj clani drustva, delavci, XII de-
lajo "a vojno produkcijo, tel
vse ostalo obcinstvo
Prieetek Oh 3. uri popoldne
" Domu zapadnih Slovencev
6S18 Denison Ave.
Ma svidenje 16. julia!
Ia odbor
Ella Pultz
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1944-07-11
SRETEN zUJOVICIsCRNI:
VPRASANJE V LUCI ODLOCB ASNOJ-A
MAKEDONIJE

taksno geslo danes, po odloe-
bah ASNOJ-a, sc pravi, cepiti
cd demokraticne federativne Ju-
goslavije, XII je mocna postojan-
ka v borbi proti nemsko fash
stienim sovraznikom vseh bal
kanskih narodov, njen organski
del; Sc pravi siriti cd Nemcev
zasedeno ozerhlje pod pretvezo,
da gre zato, da bi bila vsa Ma
kedonija makedonska. In cim
bolJ Sc kaze, da Bolgarija "a
r a di nezadrznega prodiranja
Rdece armade koleba, tenn bolj
so Nemci sirili in povdarjali to
geslo.
Nemci hoeejo MIN prepla-
cati bolgarski reakciji, ko j pre-
puscajo zasedbo Makedonije,
medtem ko ma drugi strani hra-
MILO v rezervi Vance Mihajlova,
XII ga bodo v trenutku, ko bi Sc
Bolgarija poskusila odtrgati,
postavili ma oder kot glavnega
nosilca tega gesla.
Jasno je, da danes, ko demo-
kraticni zavezniski biloxi v mno-
gocem zs priznava odlocbe AS
NOJ-a in Jugoslavijo kot fede-
rativno drzavno tvorbo, vsako
geslo. XII nj v soglasju 5 tenai
odlocbami in ne predvideva ma
kedonske federativne edinice v
okvirju demokraticne fedora
tivne Jugoslavije, v resnici pod
pira delo nemskih imperialistov
in njihoyih pomaga6ev, XII jim
je glavnl namen rabbit edinost
narodov Jugoslavije BIO rb i
proti Nemeem.
Kakor smo be rekli, nj mogo-
| &c snatrati Makedonije "a po-
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1944-07-11

di S tenn je priscl v nekem clan
ku v protislovje, ko Sc je izja-
vii, da je treba Bolgare iztrebiti
ali nekaj podobnega.
SANS je po Kerzetovem
mnenju nepotreben, dasi je bill
on navdusen pristas bivsega Re-
publitanskega zdruzenja, kateri
je incl iste ellie in namene kot
SANS. Priznamo, da SANS ne
della cudezev, toda &c ze nj dru-
gega napravil; je to, da je Sc
znanil ameriske vladne kroge in
javnost o nasih teznjah in da je
izpodnesel stolcek poslariiku Fo-
ticu in njegovi velesrbski kliki.
Kje je bill pa g. Kerze m e d
tenn casom? &c je incl boljse
ideje, bi lahko prisel med mas
in jih skusal uveljaviti. Steer pa
Sc nj prepozno, kajti vojna je
Sc vedno v teku. Ia njeg 6 ov
prakticen nacrt sc SANS ogre
va re cd svoje ustanovitve, &c
pa nj odkritosrcnega razmerja
med strankami, pa nj krivda
SANSovih voditeljev temvee
Ambrozic Gabrovskove klike
XII hoce, da SANS postane kleri-
kalno orodje in pretrga vse sti-