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members of their social group, he re-
lates puritanism convincingly to the
stream of liberal thought which has
made up our national tradition. And
besides his careful and profound ar
gument with its attention to his
torical context, the jibes of the neo-
Menchkenians do seem a rather
shallow performance.
BY no means, however, is the book
mere defense. The moral judg-
ment, applied to certain aspects of
the puritan code-as its materialism,
its intolerance, it's exaggerations-
comes down adversely. There is in
deed nothing in the volume designed
to re-establish the bigoted figure
which the puritan has become
What Prof. Perry has done is to
demonstrate that that figure is
mainly distortion created by un-
scholarly methods of judgment. The
puritan in his time, he thinks, was
quite as logical as the modern
politico- -sociologist in his. The puri-
tan had certain grave failings The
politico -sociologist has his failings,
too.
National Tradition.
Summing up, Prof. Perry warns
against doctrines which stem from
certain types of this latter thinker.
No nation, he says, can depart from
It's tradition. 1t can cleanse its ira
dition, he observes, but he then
quotes A. N. Whitehead to the effect
that eff men cannot live on bread
alone, still less can they do so on
disinfectants." So he condemns
both the prevailing tendencies to-
ward radicalism and conservatism
as necessary dominant American
creeds. We must turn neither to
revolution nor reaction, he says, but
reaffirm our. traditional democracy
and puritanism (by which latter he
means personal moral responsible
ity) "in order thereby to maintain
our moral identity and the stream
of the national life"
His book is the profoundest kind
of common sense and his handling
of his heavy argument, though it
lacks its witticisms, is often ex-
tremely witty in itself.
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The Heudmistress
BU AnoeId ThirkelI.

By Angela ThirkeH. (Knopt;
$780,
Carrying on in her familiar man
ner, Angela Thirkell gives us another
of her novels on the gentle absurdi-
ties of English country life. If you
have read any of her preceding
books you will know what to expect
Of this one. 1t is a placid satire,
done in style which combines the
best felicities of Jane Austen and
P. c. Wodehouse.
It deals with Mrs. Thirkell's usual
literary countryside, the imaginary
shire of Barset. And it deals with
her usual cast of characters, the
local gentry, the villagers, the vicar,
the doctor, an oxford don with a
taste of genealogy, gallant naval
officer, a flock of incorruptibly in
dividualistic servants, and so on.
Into Barset's calm comes a girls
school which has been bombed out
of its London quarters and ro-
mances duly develop, the familiar
Thirkell romances which blossom
In good intentions and mature in
social accidents. The book is a
smooth performance, accomplished
far beyond it's surface indications.
On a High Level.
d. When you look back over Mrs.
Thirkell's 10 preceding novels you
are apt to think that they are all
very much the same thing. When
you think of them separately, how
ever, you probably recall that each
one seemed to you the best to date
What that sums up to is simply
that this novelist works on a level
but high one. She has estab-
lshed her mode and does not at
tempt to 60 beyond it, but, while
repeating herself in general, she
Keeps her particular freshness won
derfully. You could say that she
has genius for being monotonous
In fascinating manner.
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American engineers and technicians
have made it a full-time airport
Notwithstanding. From it's field
built UP on one-time rice paddles
"ATC is carrying more military
cargo over the Hump than formerly
was carried over the Burma Road
says Mr.. Dmitri. His camera records
this triumph of scientific knowledge
over primitive obstacles graphically
Africa and Sicily.
Not all the volume of 240 pages
is devoted to ATC and India, how
ever. Mr.. Dmitri's route took him
across central Africa on his way
out and Northern Africa and Sicily
on his way back, whence he turned
north making his home journey
by Scotland, Iceland and Green
land. He took pictures of ATC jobs
all along the way and in Sicily had
chance to photograph actual battle
scenes.
The uncompromising quality of
Dmitri's work in depicting wars
dSooioeioll Soil NC outAlplCo AlOlll lllC
accompanying illustration. There
are also some exceptionally good
aviation views from Bengasi. Few
photographers have caught the awe
some power of the Liberator as
impressively as Mr.. Dmitri has in
series of shots showing these
flying behemoths" moving over the
sand preparatory to taking off on
visit to the enemy. The work
Of ATC in the eternal SHOWS is also
dramatically illustrated in scenes
from the north.
There is only one possible reaction
to such volume-patriotic pride
in the traditional technical genius
of our people and admiration for
another kind of teehnician who has
made this genius visible to any one
who wants to see. MGR.
Evening star., 1945-01-14

Sold out before it even got to the
stands, this Photographic study of
the work of the Air Transport Com
mand by the Saturday Evening
Posts popular cameraman, Ivan
Dmitri, is certain of a good re-
ception. 1t deserves it. Not only
does it illustrate vividly the work of
an important branch of our war
machine-Gen. Harold L. Georges s
ATC-but it is also photography to
delight the eye. And the narrative
which accompanies the pictures-a
real story, not just captions-is good
reporting.
The author unquestionably stands
forth as man of versatile talents
and a word about him is indicated.
He Is a plainSman from Dakota who
began life under the unglamorous
name OF Levon West. Wearing that
simple handle, he did pretty we'll in
the world of fine arts as an etcher.
Then he took up color photography
and to distinguish the new person.
alty became Ivan Dmitri.
Now that he adds Journalistic tai
ent to his other gifts, he may pos
slbly acquire still another name. but
whether he does or not, his book is
worth having.
The Far-Flung ATC.
1t begins with flight from Miami
to Chabua, the latter place being
chosen as a base for studying ATC
because it is one of the toughest
and busiest sectors of ATC's far
flung activities, the supply line into
China. Chabua is in the northern
part of India and is vital stop on
the air route which now functions
in place of the famous Burma Road.
1t is subject to torrential rains, tor
nado snoWstorms, intense heat and
visitations from the japanese, but
Evening star., 1945-01-14
DemobiIizotion of
Wartime Economic
ITnn+rnIe
Controls

By John Maurice Clark. INC
GrdW-Hill;: $1.75J
John Maurice Clark, professor Of
economics at Columbia University,
has made this study of the problem
Iof demobilizing wartime economic
controls under the auspices of the
Committee for Economic Develop
ment, an independent and nonpo-
litical organization which has been
set up by businessmen to promote
high levels of employment after the
war
The book presents a picture of
the control organization as it now
exists, makes predictions and rec
concentrations for the period of
initial postwar reconversion and
the period of catching up, and sur
veys the problem of controls in the
long view. In detail, its arguments
are for the economist and the busi-
nessman to judge, for they are,
naturally, highly technical.
Postwar Plans.
One can say in general, however,
that Prof. Clark calls for the fol-
lowing measures:
l. The relaxing of all or nearly
all controls and the termination
of most of them during an initial
postwar reconversion period of pos
sibly six months to one year.
2. The final rehabilitation of
temporary wartime controls in the
catching-up period during which
industry will retool for peace, with
recognition Of the fact that some
of the war controls may have found
an enduring place in the economic
system and a deliberate effort to
make peacetime use of the tre-
mendous productive power which
the Nation has demonstrated dur
ing the war.
3. The permanent establishment
of a long-view way of thought in
which the individual businessman
realizes that the safeguarding of
his business requires that he work
to keep the system of which his
business is part in good order, for
which goal national employment
program will be prime requisite.
A Significant Note.
The book is neither conservative
nor radical in its views, nor can it
be said to be exactly middle-of the
way. 1t calls for American business
to 60 ahead. using the initiative
which is its tradition but including
in its aims the aim of general well
fare expressed through high en-
ployment levels and education of
the consumer in new consumption
habits. 1t expresses an implicit
confidence in our businessmen and
politicians alike to learn from ex-
perience and to incorporate the
lesson in their future conduct.
Coming from its particular source,
it is significant note on the fu-
ture. NC. r.
Evening star., 1945-01-14

CUP IN THE AIR SO BLUE
Reproduction of a photograph
By Toni FrisseU from the
photographic edition of Robert
Louis SteUenson's "A Child's
Garden OF Verses"
superb edition on glossy paper Is
illustrated for the first time with
photographs instead of sketches
Toni F'rissell, noted camerawoman
has achieved magnificent light ano
shadow effects in 33 pictures of hel
own boy and girl as they passed
gracefully through the late baby
hood and childhood to which the
verses appeal. The childly beauty o1
the models is heightened by theil
utter relaxation and absorption ir
the latest wonder that nature has
brought to their attention.
The familiar verses, arranged
sparingly in heavy type opposite
the large photographs, make it easy
for reading lessons to masquerade as
bedtime stories. There is, in fact
only one drawback to this perfect
nursery companion. It is a col.
lector's item. Like the Christmas
train, the adults are too likely te
grab it away from the children.
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The Weeks
New Books
No Tumult, No Shouting. 50

No Tumult, No Shouting, 50. so, Jan. Is
The Big Sleep, xl.15 (reprint), Jan. 16
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Jan. 16.
The Maltese Falcon, S175 reprint
Jan. 16.
This Man From Lebanon, So. so, Jan. Is
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$40, Jan. Is.
Business Leadership in the Large Cor.
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The Aeronauticai Dictionary, Jan. 10.
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that, in time, the people may in
telligently choose for themselves.
The author has had long expert
ence in the territory of which he
writes and unquestionably is mott
waited by sincere good will. The
impression which his book makes
is one of rather startling idealistic
honesty in these times when the
shade of propaganda is so very
much in evidence. NC, R.
Evening star., 1945-01-14
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Evening star., 1945-01-14
Reviewing | he New Books
BY Mary-Carfer Roberts.
Purftonism and
Democracy
By Ralph Barton Perry. Van
Ouard Press. S5

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By Ralph Barton Perry. VAN
guard Press; $5.)
Neither puritanism nor democracy
has lacked a press in our country in
recent years. Books have been
written on both subjects in some
thing more than plenty. But gen.
orally the two themes have been
held to be separate, if not down.
right opposites. The aptipuritans
have identified themselves with de-
nocracy, and any one so bold as to
speak a propuritan word has been
instantly labeled as undemocratic
by category.
This, at least, has been the great
popular tendency To be sure some
few writer's have stood against it
as, for instance, Margaret Mead in
her sound and excellent And Keep
Your Powder Dry"-striving to DEM
onstrate that the two forces have
worked together to produce the lib
eralism which has been Americas
great overall doctrine, socially and
politically. But such voices have not
been heard very far. They have
been drowned out by the still-re-
sounding echoes of the chorus put
In action some 80 years ago by H. L.
Mencken and his satellites. They
gave the dog puritanism a terrible
name indeed and the reputation has
lasted even as the proverb has.
Ralph Barton Perry, professor of
philosophy at Harvard University,
now comes out with book designed
to heal the schism in the most au-
thoritative way-by documented his
torical proof. He takes the wise
view that no movement can be justly u
judged out of the context of its time
and so goes back into the origins of
both democracy and puritanism,
following them to medieval and an
cient sources. From this immense
historical study he isolates the last
Ing parts of each and subjects them
to the only kind of Judgment which,
as he says, is independent of time
the moral judgment. His finding is
that both have been manifestations
of liberalism throughout history.
The Puritan Movement.
Naturally, he has been obliged to
produce more proof in the case of
puritanism than in the case of de-
mocracy. The great part of his
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POETRY.

Take Them, Stranger, by Babette
Deutsch. (Holt.) Miss Deutschs
customary turgidity applied to the
problems of our time.
The Golden Mirror, by Marya
Zaturenska. Macmillan Accom-.
plished religious verse.
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UOOh, AldcCN, 10
devoted to his
study of the pur-
itan movement.
But by showing
us how, from the
b e G n n i n G, it
S t r e S S e d the
value of the in
dividual, how it
forced its adher-
ents to think for
themselves and
to r &c o g n / z e
their individual
r e spon sibility,
not only as in
di1rid11alc hut oc
Evening star., 1945-01-14
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The union times., 1945-10-06

portant District Court of Appeals will win Wall Street votes, they are greatly mistaken. Clark is an iso- latiOnist, defeated senator from Missouri who hated Roosevelt but his appointment only serves to make liberals and labor suspi- ciOus of Truman. Truman also named William H. Wills to the Federal Communications Commis. sion. Wills is lame duck, ex-gov- ernor of Vermont and a Republi- can. Another appointee, Sen. Har- old Burton (R, O. was placed on the Supreme Court bench. Burton will be remembered by labor as cO-authOr of the BalI-BurtOn-Hatch bill to destroy the Wagner act and hog-tie labor.
 Then there is the little matter of the White House memo that was used by Republican Leader Arthur Van denberg to Cut the guts out of the emergency unemployment compensa- tion bill-the $25 a week figure. The memo came from George Allen, named by Truman to help him with the liquidation of the war agencies. Aliens memo, direct from the White House said that portions of the bill were essential. He listed as just de- sirab1e, but unessentia1, the $25 week clause. That did it when Vandenberg publicly discussed the memo.
 And that's all the clouds from Washington at this time.
The union times., 1945-10-06
LITTLE LUTHER

sYesr,' said MT. Dlworth, 'thats really big news'
 The fact that Congress won't do anything about jobs obless and has back worrying about how corporation taxes?" asked Little Luther
 "Ihat question: Luther that's and like heckler the better element in a Town Hall debae"
 sYou a stuing dripping od his lodging kick Bu great spoke if it's of 'em?"
 Luther this terrific Mr. Dilworh impressively. Ihe New York World Telegram four-coIumn twone it. It's worldshaking it's ."
 "1ndeed, be-" Little Luther agreed you're afraid to tell about? What IS it?"
 ~Why here," his father confded Hrohio opposed revolution in its place."
 That's news?" asked Little Luther posed revolution, but they don't banner
 "Is news?" screamed MT. DIworh. everybody the world Records cracked" Luther observed
 "We anyway" insisted good to see SOME foreigner who doesn't a revolution"
 would in of rvolutOn said Little Luther noddng emperor isn't"
 "YOu're out of your head" MT. Diworth exlaimed.
 "Sos old man," said Little Luther.
The union times., 1945-10-06
AS WE SEE IT
(Continued from Page One)

(Continucd from Page One) ing. Organized labor sent its off cial representatives, and they spoke up. Industry should have been there, SO that representatives of labor, industry and the govern ment jointly could have discussed the many vexing p roblems that face us.
 Our congratulations to Rep. Ceelan for his brave try. Our re- grets that industry officially iso- lates itself from the rest of the community.
 REFUSAL of the New Haven city administration and Board of Fi- nance to improve the wage rates and working conditions of city em- ployees is proof that liberalization of the city government is a must for aU citizens of New Haven. This is not labor's problem alone; it cer- tainly is not the sole responsibil- ity of city employees. It must be a joint undertaking of all sections of the people who believe that government must treat its employ ees as human beings if it expects private industry to do SO. Much more on this subject later.
 EXPLAINING why he had to shoot himself instead of using the traditional sword, Gen. Tojo said he didn't have time to disemboweI himself. And after the U. s. Army was nice enough to give him two weeks notice!
 IN New Haven, Unemployment Compensation Commissioner Bald win has ruled that when an indi- vidual refuses to work in an es- tablishment where colored per- sons are employed he is ineligible for unemployment benefits for so restricting his availability.
 This issue arose in a case where former drill press operator refus- ed to accept work where colored persons were employed. The wO- man had been laid off from her last employment for lack of work and was physically and mentally able to work. She limited herself to employment where no coIored persons were employed through out the time she filed for unem- ployment compensation. The ex- aminer's decision, that she had un- duly restricted her availability and hence was ineligible for benefits, was affirmed by Commissioner Baldwin.
 THE Patio Alto (Cal.) Times gave this revealing critique recently in it's motion picture guide: ''Under the Big Top-Family; Manure" The word should have been ''ma- ture::S
 STILL in the headline depart ment:
 HOSE HUNTERS
 OUT ON LIMBS
The union times., 1945-10-06
CONCESSIONS DUE

None but the most naive of the labor experts" in government believe labor will accept another no-strike pledge without some real guarantees about immediate wage increases, real unemployment compensation above the ragged state level, and a solid boost to about 65c in the minimum wage law.
 Unless these long overdue conces- sions are permitted, the national poli- tica1 picture is in for a change.
 The Democratic party has been in power for some Is years. It can- not remain in power without the support of organized labor.
 Some of the Democratic party's leadership has allowed wishfuI thinking to rule its reasoning |. to forget that the Democrats must be the party of progress and lib- eralism.
 The COP, on the other hand, has tried to play coy in presidential cleo tion years and out "new dea1' the New Deal That didn't give either Willkie or Dewey the White House spot, because conservative backbone of the Republican party won't go along.
 POOR APPOINTMENT
 If Harry Truman or his man Friday, Democratic Chairman Rob- ert Hannegan, believe that naming Bennett Champ Clark to the inn
The union times., 1945-10-06
AFL Favors Raise
 For Rail Employees

WASHINGTON - The A.F.L. Railway Employees department have received the indorsement of A.F.L. Pres. William Green in its demand for a 3o-hour week without reduction in pay.
 The A.F.L. will wholeheartedly support your program for a shorter work week." said Green in a letter addressed to Pres. B. M. Jewell of the department"
 Praising the war record of the railroad workers, Green added "The shorter work week is an important step toward maintenance of full em- ployment in the post war period" The department IS group of seven rail way unions representing 100000 workers.