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Evening star., 1945-04-28
Dr.. Anderson Continues
Series of Sermons

At First Congregational Church at
II am. tomorrow DR.. Howard Stone
Anderson will preach on the third
of series of sermons pertaining to
the San Francisco Conference. The
title is What God Requires
At 8 pm. he will give the second
of a series of book sermons. This
one is upon Alyene Porter's book,
Papa Was Preacher"
At the dinner Thursday the Rev.
DR.. L. Ralph Tabor, pastor of Luther
Place Memorial Lutheran Church
will be guest speaker.
Evening star., 1945-04-28
GOSPEL Mission

In celebration of the 50th ami.
versary of the Africa Inland Mis-
sion. mass meetings will be held al
the Gospel Mission at 2:30 pm
and 7:45 pm. Monday. Field direc-
tors, just returned, and other mis-
sionaries from Africa will speak
The public is invited.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-02-24

Distributed by King Features Syndicate Inc.
Evening star., 1945-02-18
Among
the Authors
By Carolyn Coggins

SHELLEY SMITH MYDANS is
lucky enough to have a father who
is head of the Stanford journalism
School and husband who is a
crack photographer. Between them,
she acquired profession as well as
partner in it, for she is the writ
ing half of this author photographer
team of Mydans who were in the
PHILIPPINES for Life Magazine. There
the Japs imprisoned them Freed
by return on the second Gripsholm,
this slender. smiling slip of a girl
barely 80, has written a novel set
in the Manila prison camp which
bares the title, THE Open City"
With the timing of a good journal
ist, the book appears as Manila is
once more in the headlines.
Already Carl Mydans is back in
the PHILIPPINES on assignment. Shell
ley is in Honolulu, awaiting pas
sage to rejoin him, SO they will soon
be working together again.
*
MARGARET MITCHELL'S Gone
With the Wind" is not yet sponge
squeezed dry. 1t has brought in
something like $50 1000, 900 as movie
at home and abroad, with more
than 100000 copies of the book
printed in this country. Now it is
being considered by Selznick as the
vehicle for f1lmusical, sometime in
the future as Scarlet O'Hara."
JOHN ESPEY had a bit of luck
with his book Minor Heresies, -
one book postponed, not because of
paper shortage. The New Yorker
fell for Espey' charm hook, line and
sinker SO they are publishing three
long pieces from these stories of
China as he knew it when a child.
Result, the book won't be out until
April. But it's all good news and
timely for. Espey. a young college
professor at present on serious sick
leave from his work in a Western
college.
Evening star., 1945-02-18


can furnish protection. Out of the
horror magazines which have been
his past reading fare, he resurrects
an abominable bogey and Johnny
in panic at being abandoned to the
invisible menace, begs his mother
to permit Martin to stay. Over
playing his hand in rash moment,
Martin causes Johnny's death. The
mother then goes away, leaving him,
tormented by his conscience, with
unprincipled servants who complete
his moral downfall.
Miss Parrish never mars her story
by so much as suggesting that eco
nomic inequality is at the bottom of
Martins tragedy. She tells it in
terms Of people altogether 1t is a
thing which could have happened in
any age or country, and she shows it
as such. The beauty of Pleasaunce,
the home, is a beauty to which
Martin knows he has no right and
in which he always sees himself an
outsider. The cruelty of confronting
a child with such tantilization, the
alternative cruelty of deciding that
he should not have had his taste
of bliss-these issues Miss Parrish
does not mention. Nor does she
labor the fact that there was no
agency responsible for Martin, so
that he was left to the chance
benevolence of rich people who had
no interest in his future. She shows
it all as a piece of destiny's wanton-
ness.
For this reason (among others
the book rises above the level of
the social document and becomes a
work of art, for which further reason
it in turn becomes a social docu-
ment of the greatest possible
a1lthnritv
Evening star., 1945-02-18
Colleges
Continued From Page CID

tainments do not match those of the
men and women they replaced.
"An analysis by individual insti-
tutions more accurately indicates
the true situation" the report said
Many colleges and universities
have reduced their total instruc-
donal staff by more than so per
cent, an extreme instance being a
reduction in one of the mems COL
leges without a military program
from SO to % faculty members.
THE influence of these changes
upon the effectiveness of instruction
cannot be measured, but they have
created a serious problem for many
institutions. 1t is a situation that
if permitted to continue to grow
progressively more serious will u1-
dermine higher education in terms
of its valuable asset-its faculty"
The committee concludes that
these conditions (of depleted A.
nances and teaching staffs) bode i'll
not only for the colleges themselves
but for the Nation. From a ma
tional defense viewpoint, they cite
the fact that after Pearl Harbor
the Army was able to call to active
duty 10000 Reserve officers who
had been trained in ROTC courses
and quote Gen. Marshall, chief of
staff, as saying that these men
made it possible to put our forces
into combat nine months sooner
than could otherwise have been
done" Of 100000 Navy officers now
in service, the report said, 80 per
cent are products of American
higher education. The implication
is that weakening of the colleges
will reduce the supply of future Of
ficer material.
Viewing the future, the commit
tee concluded:
Serious as this situation may be
from the standpoint of individual
institutions, it may develop into a
national crisis by drying up certain
of the sources from which streams
Of mental power have flowed into
SsSAy PAnoC VI Jul COllulOu 1llS
throughout the years and during
the present war.
Furthermore, we cannot ignore
the fact that returning veterans,
both now and after the close of the
war, will expect to find colleges and
universities available from which
they can secure the education which
the Government has generously
provided for and which they need
for peacetime pursuits. In addi-
ton, America will turn to its insti-
tutions of higher education to fur
nish broad understanding Of eco
nomic, social and international
matters in order to meet the COM
plex problems of the postwar world. :"
Evening star., 1945-02-18

mr.. Sd1Uyer is vocational rebabilita-
ton officer il, the Medical DiUiSion
OF the Cipil Service Commission
Many of our men have been, and
more are going to be, injured in
this war. The total casualty figures
are now we'll over 100000, and we
read that we may have two more
years of hard fighting before total
victory
Many of these injured men will
be in need of vocational rehabilita-
ton. They will return to us at all
ages from l8 to 40 and possibly old
er. Unless they are properly re-
habilitated their postwar employ
ment efforts may be futile.
These are not the only people
needing such assistance as result
of this war. however The casualties
in our defense plants exceed the
casualties in our armed forces, and
probably will continue to exceed
them. Those disabled on the pro-
duction front who cannot continue
in their former jobs will need voca-
tional rehabilitation as much as our
wounded soldiers.
Two other groups that will find
difficulty in adjusting themselves
when the war is over and our able
bodied young men come home will
be many of our AIS and the young
vocationally handicapped graduates
of our high schools and colleges who
lack the benefit of work experience.
Total Runs Into Millions.
The total of these four groups
runs into the millions and many
American homes are now or will
be affected. Whether any particular
home is affected adversely depends
upon how we'll the handicapped
person in that home is vocationally
rehabilitated.
Because of the Importance of vo-
cational rehabilitation in our eco
nomic and social systems, the faith
rers, mothers, wives, sisters, brothers,
sons and daughters of our vocation
ally handicapped population should
know something about it. They
should know what it attempts to
accomplish, how the results are to
be achieved, what steps are neces-
sary, and the services available for
fulfllment of the desired aims.
With this information we can help
counsel, advise and encourage if
we know what our handicapped are
striving to achieve.
Vocational rehabilitation started
Immediately after World War I
The first law for this purpose was
passed for the benefit of returning
veterans of that conflict, and a year
later law was passed making re.
habilitation available to all of oul
handicapped population. Vocational
rehabilitation has been a definite
profession for many able Americans
since that time, and they have &C.
cumulated vast fund of knowledge
and information which is now ready
for use in rehabilitating our wal
wounded, factory injured and Others
requiring such assistance.
One deterrent that prevents many
handicapped persons, both veterans
and nonveterans, from availins
themselves of rehabilitation service:
Evening star., 1945-02-18
Who Walk in Pride
By Helene Magaret. (Brut

SZ.50.)
Although this novel Is written
distinctly to text, it misses the
curse of being a sermon. The author
has sense of character which, for
tunately, is stronger than her sense
of mission. So her novel Is a novel
after all, though it saves itself by
a close squeak.
1t is story about the injustice OF
slavery as the institution used to
exist in the French West Indies. 1t
gives us the family of a wealthy
sugar planter at the time when the
ferment of the French Revolution
was working among the oppressed
natives, shows us the way of life OF
these privileged people, then has a
native revolt destroy that way and
make its adherents fee for their
safety.
Saved From Being a Sermon.
What saves it from being a SER
mon unrelieved is that the author
centers her story around the young
son of the family who has the vir-
tues of his noble class. He is per-
sonally brave. capable of assuming
authority and gifted with a harsh
sense of realism. The development
of the book is concerned with the
effect on these good qualities of the
life of privilege which the young
man enjoys. He becomes a divided
nature and, fleeing to America,
meets violent death in an accident
1t is book which shows a certain
talent. It's author may well write a
better one. NC. r.
Evening star., 1945-02-18
Brief Reviews
BASIC SPEECH.

l0-in-1, compiled by Marcel Rodd.
(Bernard Ackerman.) A pocket-size
dictionary designed to furnish basic
speech requirements in French,
German, Spanish, Italian, Russian,
japanese, Portuguese, Chinese, Ar
abic and Esperanto.
THE WAR.
Tourist Under Fire, by Thomas E.
Healy. (Holt.) An English war cor
respondent writes of his experiences
in Burma and Africa in the dark
days of the war. Good literary
quality.
A Very Present Help, by 1t. Gen.
Sir William Dobbie. (Zondervan. }
The man who was Governor OF Malta
during that islands historic bombing
writes Of the religious faith which
sustained him In the ordeal.
Evening star., 1945-02-18

lation to others and as part of
his era.
The result in many instances
negates the existing idea of Mozart
as child and man and increases
his statue as a composer, proving
that although subject to every
musical influence his powers Of re-
sistance were strong enough to
enable him to assimilate only what
truly suited him. He explains
many sides of Mozart's character
incompatible with the high order
of his genius and balances the ap-
parent frivolous side of his nature
with his serious intent.
The Mozart Manuscripts.
The author was drawn into this
particular approach by his many
years work on Koecheps Catalogue
which made necessary a minute
study of the Mozart manuscripts
and gave him access to all the
available material on the composer
including letters not generally
known. From this point, and as
suming that the reader already
knows the story of Mozart's life,
he has sought to explain many
angles of his personality and his
writings.
In the assembling of his material
he mas considered Mozart's general
education, what his political and
religious feelings were, the effect
of his travels and his attitude
toward women. The many journeys
Mozart made as child prodigy and
in his later years are reviewed from
their intellectual, emotional and
artistic influence. From there DR..
Einstein goes on to study of
Mozart's dual nature; the creative
artist, strong, positive and far
seeing and the human being
From study Of the exterior ele-
ments affecting Mozart In his de-
velopment the author goes on to an
analysis Of THE Musician" His
attitude toward his contemporaries,
particularly Johann Christian Bach,
and the impression they made on
him leads into a learned discussion
OF Mozart's use of counterpoint, his
choice Of keys and operate works.
Throughout DR.. Einstein never
loses sight of his objective Of por-
trsying Mozart in his relation to
his period and for that reason the
same ground is covered several
times. Quotations from the un-
known letters between father and
son also reveal Leopold Mozart in
a new light. The exhaustive study
DR.. Einstein has put into the work
and the interesting way 1t is set
forth makes this treatise valuable
addition to the Mozart literature.
Evening star., 1945-02-18
By Bertha Shafer.

Two years ago Margaret Vail
(authoress of yours Is the Earth")
and her 4-year-old daughter Rose
Helene climbed the snow-clad Pyr-
enees to a height of 5000 feet to
make their escape from the Nazis
in Occupied France.
"And have been battling as hard
to get back as I did to get here" said
the authoress.
Given the first visa to be granted
by the French Embassy here to an
ordinary citizen, she will leave short
ly for her chateau in France to await
the release of her husband, a French
officer, now a prisoner of the Ger
mans. She and her daughter have
not seen him for five years.
Interviewed recently at her home,
in Washington Mrs. Vail-a pen
name used to protect relatives
abroad-recalled the perilous escape
from the Nazis which prompted her
small daughter to ask, do we have
to 60 back the way we came?"
1t was December, 1912, when
French villages changed hands over
night. Mrs. Vail and her daughter,
their papers in order, were embark
ing on a six-month visit to the
United States Their train stopped
a short distance from the Spanish
border.
Germans Were Meeting Trains.
The officials told me Germans
we're installed at the next station.
They were taking everybody off the
trains and putting the foreigners on
trucks to ship them back to intern
ment camps" she recalled.
Hurrying from the train with
Rose Helene, she thought momen-
tarily of going to Lourdes, where
diplomats, newspaper correspond
epts and Red Cross workers we're
held by the Germans.
Suddenly, I looked up at the
mountains. I thought that is the
only thing that stands between me
and freedom" she continued. II
had pictured trails with cabins dot
ting the way where we would rest
and quaff goats milk" said Mrs.
Vail. Il wouldn't do it again."
Clad in train clothes, with small
ration of chocolate and sugar, Mrs.
Vail and her child joined a guide
Evening star., 1945-02-18
Chino's Problems During the War
And Her Plans for the Future
CHINA AMONG THE POWERS

CHINA AMONG THE POWERS
By Dauid Nelson RoiDe. fHar-
court Brace, ST.
People who have been thinking
that, after the war, China, by vir-
tue of having made her heroic stand
against the JapS, would in some au-
tomato way emerge as great mod
ern power, will find this book of a
research assistant of the Yale In
stitute Of International Studies dis
heartening. For what DR.. Rowe
has to say is not only that China s
internal situation will make it i'm
probable that she will attain the
place of a great modern power. but
that she will hardly achieve
modernity at all without vast help
from abroad.
The level of the Chinese standard
Of life, he points out, is SO low that
the country has no margins at all
on which to draw for a great effort
toward industrialization. It cannot
do what Russia did and work for
heavy industrialization at the ex-
pense of consumers goods, because
its consumers goods are already in
sufficient. 1t does not even produce
enough OF its basic foods. In addi-
ton, it has a dearth of many raw
materials indispensable to a modern
state, a lack of trained personnel
and a rapidly rising birth rate. When
the war ends. the country will prob
ably face worse conditions than
those engendered by combat.
Under various heads-as raw ma
terials, agriculture, manpower and
the like-Dr. Rowe discusses what
best may be done to succor the
longest of the United Ma
tions. His findings are not particu-
larly encouraging, but the honesty
Of his approach is unquestionable.
M n p
Evening star., 1945-02-18

little protection against the bitter
cold, but her courage never failed.
Sometimes I carried her on my
back" said Mrs. Vail Then the
circulation would stop in her feet
and her little bare legs and she
would have to walk for a while"
At the Spanish border on the peak
of the Pyrenees the guide left them
with directions to walk into the
sun, go to the third mountain and
then down."
Several hours passed before Rose
Helene spotted the Spanish soldiers
who went daily ito the mountains
with their packs to direct refugees
to safety.
With bluff, quick wits and courage,
the two made their way through
Spain to Portugal. In Lisbon Rose
Helene developed ear absecesses and
pneumonia from the rigorous noun
tain journey.
"Yours Is the Earth.'
After reaching the United States
with 500 In her pocket, Mrs. Vail
was persuaded to write yours Is
the Earth" the story of Nazi oc-
cupation and escape to freedom with
a 4-year-old child as the heroine.
Her next book will be a sequel
the live happily ever after ending, y
Mrs. Vail calls it.
For her readers who were ' left
up IN the air" with the refugees
clipper bound for the United States,
lit will answer all those questions:
What happened to them in Amer
lea? When did she see her husband
again? Did she return to find her
chateau in ruins?
Evening star., 1945-02-18
This Weeks
New Books

Yeurs Is the Earth, So {New Printing!.
Strangers Should Net Whisper.
Darling, This Is Death. Sc. Feb. %.
The Broken Pitcher. $3.50, Feb. %.
There Gees sherty Higgins: $2.60; Feb. II
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sessS zserie. Called Them. ss.7S.
pyns2is sin.lns, SAYS. FEB. 1s.
The Jade Venus: g; FEB. 19a
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Teacher In America. So, Feb. 20.
Three Who Loved, So. Feb. 10.
The Hideout, Sl.f5, Feb. i9.
solution In Asia, So, Feb. 81.
shape sf DANGER. $3.50. Feb. 21.
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Handbook Of Drapery Patterns. $3.50,
welcome Home. 81, Feb. e1.
Five Who Vanished, So, FEB. I'll.
Legal Claims AEsinst Germany, $3,
An Iatrssuetien to Philosophy. s1.5o,
.s!itis: and Morals. ss. Feb. "a.
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Feb. 20.
Evening star., 1945-02-18

is that condition From an illustration
met in Looking in Looking for a
for Bluebird" Bluebird."
He is ships
musician and most of us have to ad-
NIT that ships musicians lives are
out of our ken. The men in the
orchestra seldom have human pro-
portions for us. Mr.. Wechsberg tells
us here what sort of existence they
lead. 1t is pardonable to doubt that
their entire careers are of such un-
mitigated inebriation and hilarity as
he describes, but his version makes
very lively reading.
On the good ship Azay-le- -Rideau
they threw the piano overheard
On La Bourdonnais they used their
instrument cases to transport boot
leg liquor. On the Porthos they
precipitated riot by offending
Marshal Petain. On the Chenon-
ceauX they drove an efficiency expert
mad. And so on. A carefree exist
ence, one can only conclude.
Not less carefree are the adven-
lures included in the volume from
musicians life ashore. Mr.. Wechs-
berg found it expedient at times
to further his fortunes by playing
in Paris clubs of the less chic va
riety, working as an assistant
croupier and joining the claque OF
the Vienna state opera. He de-
scribes these generally unknown
worlds with vivacity.
His book can be recommended to
all who like their New Yorker In
volume size.
Evening star., 1945-02-18
Public Library
Book. Pointers
Lenten Reading,
Bv Maraaref e. Miller.

Last Wednesday began the season
|of Lent when many Christian people
seek to replenish their inner re-
sources and to strengthen their
spiritual lives. The reading of re-
ligious books may make large con-
tribption to peoples lives in giving
spiritual aids for living As guide
to such reading the library has pre-
pared selected lists for Catholic and
Protestant readers.
The Catholic list offers recent
books Of spiritual significance. mod
|ern Catholic classics and books
which are the Catholic heritage
from the past. Preserving spiritual
values, faith for today and the.
Christian tradition are the subjects.
under which the Protestant titles
are grouped.
Evening star., 1945-02-18
America Has Much
To Learn From the
Soviet Experiment
The SOVIET SPIRIT

ne Swivel 0K 43t4
By Harry F. Ward. Interna-
ttonGl PubIishers.J
Reviewed by JOSEPH H. BAIRD.
This is pean OF praise, an af-
firmation of faith unclouded by any
iota of doubt or questioning.
DR.. Ward tells us in his introduc-
ton that he has made two visits to
the Soviet Union, the first in the
summer of 1924 at the time of Len
ms new economic policy" and the
second in 1881 during the third year
of Stains "five-year plan" He
travelled extensively in European
Russia and liked everything he saw
and heard. Although he does not
say so explicitly, voluminous quota
tions in his book indicate that he
has brought his first-hand knowl-
edge up to date by an assiduous de-
votion to the Soviet Embassy's In
formation Bulletin, the Moscow
Daily News and the writings of Ilya
Ehrenburg.
Some of the facts presented by DIR.
Ward are patiently true and well
documented by other writer's. In
deed they have been familiar for the
last two years to any Thoughtful read
er of good American newspaper.
Soviet youth, he says, has fought
valiantly against Germany because
it feels that it is fighting for a land
which truly belongs to it. Soviet
factories and workers have per-
formed miracles of production,
spurred on by a deep and holy pa,
triotism. Soviet young people have
a vast faith in the future. Their
spirit" is different.
America, he finds, can learn much
from the Soviet experiment. 1--WE
developed political democracy and
have now found that it can not go
on living unless it also becomes eco
nomic democracy"
Added to our own experience in
wartime" he writes, ''the Soviet rec
ord tells us that maximum produc-
ton requires more powerful incen-
tives than the profit motive in which
so many of our leaders and people
| still trust"
DR.. Ward Is rather contemptuous
OF contemporaries whose writings on
the U. S. S. r. have reflected a crit
ical mind, and dismisses those who
in prewar days underestimated the
strength of Soviet Russia as having
been blinded by political prejudice
class interest and economic fear"
Many observers who have had a
much longer and more intimate ac-
quaintance with Soviet life than has
DR.. Ward-William Henry Chamber
lin, for example-have been able to
laud the good in the Soviet system
without losing their sense of pro-
portion or critical balance. This
can not be said OF DR.. Ward. He
follows the Communist party line as
unerringly as an editorial writer on
IZvestia.
A professor emeritus of Christian
ethics at the Union Theological
Seminary, DR.. Ward is the author
OF several previous books Among
them are "The New Social Order
and I'm Place of Profit