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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-11
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TETE-A-TETE. An American SOL
der was seated opposite nice OLD
lady in the compartment of an Eng
lish railway car. For Some minutes ne
chewed his gum in silerce, then the
old lady leaned forward and muir
INJURED, 1T is so nice of you to try to
make conversation, but l must tell
you that I'm terribly deaf
MIRACLE. You're due for more than
one kind of shock when you pick up
your new income-tax form. Look over
one of the blanks and you'll find that
the first direction on it begins with
please" That's the first time in at
least 20 years that the government
has officially said Pretty please"
HOLIDAY SPECIAL. This story
has taken long time to get round to
us, but we like it so much that we
still want to pass it on to you:
As the little suburban town OF
Scarsdale, N. Y. sat down to Its
Christmas dinners, an unusually
large number of families we're thrilled
A. Lon- Tho Joo~hal1 r;0o opd racaivp
a Special Delivery letter from their
boys at the front.
1t wasn't until after the holidays
that Scarsdale discovered how all
these letters happened to arrive at
such happy moment. On Deem
Der "a, an unknown citizen had
walked into the Post Office, put big
bill down on the counter and said,
Il want to buy Special Delivery
stamps for all servicemen's letters
that come in tomorrow. think their
families would enjoy getting them
on Christmas day itself.
BELOW THE BELT. u. S. soldiers
have been warned to beware of NaZi
captives even when their hands are
raised. They may be packing a spe-
cial hidden revolver that is fitted to
the belt. A cord attached to the trig-
ger runs up through the arm-sleeve,
50 that Jerry can shoot with twist
of his appraised wrist.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-11

Names and descriptions Of all characters In
fiction stories and semi-hction articles in this
magazine wholly imaginary. Any name
which happens to be the same that Of any
person. living dead. Is entirely coincidentaf.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-22
niFOn

shock Blood plasma from the Rcd
Cross has been used widely for this
purpose. AS one expert said II Is O.
little value 10 have the finest trea
mcnt for burns and have a dead
patient on your hands.
Tannic acid is outmodcd in new
burn treatments. In pre-war days
tannic acid was sprayed on burned
areas and formed "a coating But too
often infections occurred under The
coating. Today doctors i'm the Army
are instructed 10 90 back 10 simple
dressing OF petrolatum jelly and q
sterile covering.
Sulfa drugs are busted on the area
TO cut the risk OF infection, but the
main benefit seems 10 come from
pressure dressings. the bandaging OF
the area with a firm outer covering
Preferably an elastic knit bandagc
Of the orthopcdic type is employed but,
sometimes the area is placed in a plasTa
ter cast. The rule is 10 leave the
burn alone for from week 10 10
days unless infection develops
Whatever the method the goal is
the samc-to apply enough pressure
TO the area 10 prevent the leakage
of plaSma from the body, for il is
found that this not only promotes
new skin growth but goes a long way
TO lessen the need for skin gratis.
THE AMERICAN WEEKLY
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-22

degrees Fahrenheit up TO 932 degrees
The new studies indicate that it
takes only about thrcc-fourths of a
second 10 create a sccond.degree burn
zone that bHstcrs) with the tcmpcra-
ture Of 932 f. In contrast ii takes
from seven 10 ten seconds 10 produce
a similar burn AT the temperature of
boiling water, 212 f.
Cigarette paper entered the invcs-
tigation because the Army doctors
found that the paper would char at
temperatures higher than 572 degrees
+. at the exact instant a first-degree
burn would be produced on human
skin. Thus at the more severe TEN.
peraturcs, they did not need TO expert
mCnt on persons 10 produce burns
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-22

OF hdlr on lhc skin.
Still on the war secrets lists are
the specific creams and lotions which
were tested as burn prcventivcs, but
it is known that soldiers who fire
the Army'S Balooka rockets now use
these creams to prevent burns.
In the postwar era such burn
preventing creams will have valuable
application in all occupations where
flash fires are imminent. Workers
around gasoline and in dryCleaning
establishments might obtain the extra
touch Of protection.
Burns have been so prevalent in
the war that methods OF treating
them have changed and major empha-
sis is placed on the prevention Of
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-22

that would merely redden
the skin without blistering.
When all hair had been re-
moved from the arms, the
burns came sooner, demon
stratinG that hair helps 10 in.
sulate the skin against flash
burns and similar agents.
Light Colorcd skins were
found 10 burn more readily
than darker ones, but the
color Of the skin made far
less difference i'm the speed
with " hich burns were
created than did the amount
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-22
BY ROBERT ID. POTTER
Science Editor

nave a weak defense against tne
dread "Molotov CoCktail"-a bottle OF
gasoline that bursts into flames when
il strikes some object.
Thus a major task of Army doc
tors has been 10 learn everything they
could about burns and the way the
human body reacts TO them. They
made various tests on mice, rats and
the lower animals but in the end they
had 10 obtain the final answers by eX.
pcTimentation on humans.
Reporting in the journal War Medi
cine, Drs. w +, AShe, Jr.. and l.. +
Robcrts-both majors in the medical
corps say the danger from fires in
tanks is less from contact with hot
metal than IL is from flash flames
hot gases, hot air blasts and similar
agents Thus there was no need TO
carry out soaring experiments
The Army doctors found that a
stream of hot air AT temperatures up
10 932 degrees Fahrenheit would pro-
duCC burns on humans. One Of the
unSolVcd mysteries, they soon discoV-
cred was that no one knew much
about the "time-tcmpcrature relation
ship of burns. When unwrappcd
from its scientific terminology this
expression means how bad burn
DO YOU get in how long an exposure
time from what temperature?
TO work out the answer the doc
tors directed a stream OF heated air
at the forcarms of the test subjects
who are anonymous but-one may
suspect included the doctors them
selves. This stream, about the size
of a dime, ranged in temperatures
from that of boiling water at 212
~ July -. 1915
Evening star., 1945-03-25
WAR AND NATIONS.

Latin America and the Future
World, prepared for the National
Planning Association by George
Soule, David Efrom and Norman
y. Ness and others. (Farrar and
Rinehart) A survey of conditions
in Latin America with the idea Of
arriving at future program Of inn
provement. Broad coverage.
Warsaw Ghetto, by Mary Berg.
Translated from the Polish by Nor
bert Guterman, edited by S. L.
Schneiderman. N.. P. Fischer) The
diary kept by young Jewish girl
through four years in the Warsaw
ghetto under the now-famous Ger
man denominations. A record OF
horror.
Germany Between the Wars, by
Lindley Fraser. oxford Univer-
sity Press.) A study of the origins
Of the Nazi propaganda about YER
sailles and war guilt. Detailed and
accurate but covering pretty old
ground by now.
No TumuIt, No Shouting, by Lois
and Don Thorbur. Holt.) The
story of the Catalina patrol bomber
in the present war.
Seabee Roads to Victory, text by
William Bradford HUE, maps by
Eryine Metzl. Dutton.) A collec-
ton of colorful maps showing the
distribution of the Seabees in the
various war zones.
MYSTERIES.
Remembered Death, by Agatha
Christie. Dodd, Mead.) Col. Race
solves a year-old murder. Miss
Christie doing very well.
The Philadelphia Murder Story,
by Leslie Ford. (Scribner.) Murder
in the lobby of the Curtis Publishing
Co. causes considerable upset in the
Quaker City. Col. Primrose to the
rescue. Competent.
Appleby's End, by Michael Innes.
Oodd, Mead.) An English inspec-
Evening star., 1945-03-25
THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington, D. C.
SUNDAY, MARCH Is.
he Lambs
By Kgthartne Anthony.
(Knnf3f. ~ IN

81 fshJSOP5, $C.0V./
While this work on the lives of
Charles ana Mary Lamb offers
nothing new in biographical ma
terial, 1t is still q book which can
be profitably read, even by scholars
OF the period. It offers, at least, a
new evaluation of the comparative
merits of the famous brother sister
pair. Charles, who in general esti-
nation has been rated vastly the
more important of the two, is, in
Katharine Anthony's view, merely
an equal. She holds that the sister
had genius in her own right and
was not just--or In the main-a
fosterer Of the genius Of the brother.
She reminds us that Mary was
the real author Of the Tales From
Shakespeare" She re-evaluates the
forgotten stories which came from
Mary's pen. With greater orig
inality. she sees Mary as a pro-
tagonist Of woman's rights, basing
the Interpretation on Mary's Essay
on Needlework" which was a con-
tribution to the British Lady's
Magazine. In this one article, Miss
Anthony sees the germs Of demands
for feminine equality which far ex-
ceed those laid down earlier by
Mary Wollstonecraft.
The book Is not a full biography.
It is more by way of being an inter-
probation, and as such it rests on its
authors personal opinions. One
cannot say that Miss Anthony is al
ways convincing; her method of in
sisting on probabilities, admitted to
be such, is sometimes disconcerting.
But she writes with vigor and clarity
Evening star., 1945-03-25

Journey he falls in with various
individuals who symbolic, as he
does, certain forces and national
attitudes now at work in Europe.
That is the whole of the story.
Insofar as there symbolibations
are carried out accurately, the novel
can be said to be a piece of realism.
Insofar as 1t is regarded as story,
it is wholly unrealistic. The charac-
ters have none of the properties of
human beings. They talk, march,
eat, fight and die, but remain bone
less, feshless dream figments. SIM
ilarly the landscape. 1t is super
ficially the Alpine terrain, but
actually the setting of dream. The
question is then-What has Mr..
Prokosch accomplished with his
symbolizations of forces? What has
he to say of the powers that are
shaping the European world today?
The answer is somewhat dis
appointing. It's extreme simplicity
leaves one feeling cheated. Europe,
1t tells us, is the scene of world
wide conflict between love and hate,
sickness and health, good and evil.
The necessity of life is that love
and goodness shall triumph.
The novel, as work of art, is an
unquestionable triumph. 1t is a
thing of beauty within its form. The
imposition of the authors purpose
is constant.
Evening star., 1945-03-25
Country Chronicle
dual,
By HernldT PeteTSen.
Sloan & Pedrce: $2.50.l

StONtt w OAkf S0t ySs0VsS
Any American who has lived on q
farm or in a farm community with
in the last 20 years will recognize
the verisimilitude Of this book. The
author, city man, moved 20 years
ago to a rural section of New York
not, as have many city people, delib-
erately to escape noise and confu-
sion but against his wishes because
his wife insisted. His attitude to-
ward the country, when he began
his sojourn, was that of a trans
planted city man.
A writer of pulp fiction, he be-
gan by carrying on his trade. In
the late 20s, however, he found his
magazine market falling of. The
local postmaster resigned, and he
got the job. Then he truly began to
learn about his neighbors.
His story is in the main humorous,
but it has clear unhumorous i'm
plications. The community was
declining one. 1t had been through
a number of agricultural cycles, but
always with less prosperity and a
diminishing population. BY the time
Mr.. Petersen set up shop in the
post Office it had settled down to
dairy farming, the village being the
milk station. The war caused the
station to be eliminated, traffic fell
of, the three stores dwindled to
one and then to none, and the dairy
farms, stripped of labor, went out Of
production. NC. r.
Evening star., 1945-03-25

on Americas battle against rack
eteers, chiselers, confidence men and
others of the gentry who practice
their wiles on the public with un-
fortunate success.
The authors, both of whom were
covering the local courts at the
time, suffered a mounting revulsion
against the growing parade of per-
sons getting arrested for practicing
various brands of fraud and de-
cided to tell what they knew in a
book.
A Collaborative Innovation.
They wrote, for the most part, In
the pressroom of District Court,
where 'it was quiet and peaceful at
night"
The way they worked, Mr.. Young
explained, was to write alternate
chapters and then exchange each
others work. They composed the
introduction by writing alternate
sentences, which is probably some
thing of an innovation in collabora-
tive authorship.
They enjoyed generous co-opera-
tion from the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation and other units of the
Department of Justice, from the
Evening star., 1945-03-25

that 1t is something better.
1t is the story Of a prosperous
Quaker family which, in 1920, leaves
its ancestral Pennsylvania home
and moves to a South Carolina plan
tation. Into a neighborhood of
convinced one-crop farmers whose
economy rests on Negro labor at
virtual slave level, the Friends in
troduce an enlightened agriculture
They are consequently able to pay
their Negro workers higher wage
than can their neighbors. Conflict
ensues and the peaceable new
comers are obliged to take a stand.
This they do by educating a Negro
to act as leader to his people, it be-
ing their conviction that men should
help themselves. The local variant
of the Ku Klux strikes back and the
father of the Quaker family is mur-
dered. But his work goes on. The
planters see the value of crop rota-
tion and the Negroes form a union
and stand up for their rights.
Mo .
Evening star., 1945-03-25
Americas Battle on Wartime Rocketeers
Outlined in Survey by Star Reporters
WARTIME RACKETEERS

WARTIME RACKETEERS
By Harry LeDer and Joseph
Young. (G. P. Putnam's Sons;
S275)
Reviewed by NORMAN KAHL.
War or no war, there are always
two kinds of people in the world
the decent ones and the other kind.
When nation is busy fighting the
unsavory Vaccinations of the other
kind, preying as they do on grief
and patriotism, become all the more
onerouS.
Harry Lever and Joseph Young,
both members of the editorial staff
of The Star, thought so, too. So
they wrote book about these peo-
pie. The book, Wartime Racket
eefs," is an impressive document
Evening star., 1945-03-25
Among
the Authors

"Thunderhead--Son of Flicka,
popular novel by Mary O'Hara, re-
Gently made into a picture, pre-
sented Goth Century-Fo with some
ticklish problems in filming. The
important characters of the cast
are mostly animals, including not
only horses and their young but
also rattlesnakes and porcupines.
Getting porcupine to stand still
while being shifted by an investiga-
tive colt was only one of the tricks
they had to pull off. The novel,
incidentally,s is now in its 668th
thousand Another book to go
to this film outfit is Ira Wolfert's
American Guerrilla in the Philip
pines" the Book-of -the-Month Club
selection for May. It's the story of
what one of the men of the famous
PIT cThey Were Expendable')
squadron did after being left behind
on the Jap infested islands and
shows modern American fighting in
the D. Boone manner established
somewhat earlier in our Nations
history.
Stephen Crane fans will be glad
to hear that a volume of 20 of his
stories is due out next month. Carl
Van Doren did the selecting, World
is the publisher. The book, over
500 pages long, will be called
Twenty Stories"
X
Do you like Scotch jokes? "499
Scottish Stories for the Price of
500' is the title of new joke book
soon to come out under the author
ship of, of all people, b. C. Fortes,
business analyst No review copies
are going out-(t They're always free).
And the price is $202, the two cents
being royalties to Mr.. Forbes two
assistants, Gertrude Weiner and
George Wolf, who, he says, did most
OF the work. A penny apiece they'll
get on each copy sold and paid for.
The motto of the enterprise is
"Caveat Emptor" and no money will
VIC 8NvuAAVA ulluGt ally C1Culli-
stances short of a court order COM
pelling it.,
David Cohn, author of the de-
servedly best-selling 1.-THE Good Old
Days." is now gathering material
for new book by taking a trip
through the Orient.
Ambrose Flack, New Yorker writer,
whose first novel, "The Family on
the HILL" will come out this week,
writes between ten-hour shifts in
the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Mr.. F1ack
is retired banker, make of that
what you may.
k4k \
Booth Tarkington's last novel,
Image Of Josephine has gone
over half million .. Random
House reports that its manufactur-
ing department is taking lessons in
1chiseling to beat the paper short
age. They mean chiseling texts
on stone. Their heavy defensive
argument Is that such were rood
enough for Moses.
Evening star., 1945-03-25
A Mosque of Reason
Bp Robert Frost. (Holt;; $2.G

By Robert Frost. lHOIt, $Z.UUJ
In a short poetic drama, or, If you
prefer, in a long poem, Robert
Frost here offers once again the old
news that our world is not run on
reasonable principles. Following in
the footsteps of satirists since pre-
Aristophanean days, Mr.. Frost uses
the device of calling the deities to
the bar of human justice and max
ing them answer mans charges
against their perfect wisdom. If
he has nothing new to say in his
version, he has still done charm
ing and delicate piece of work.
The protagonist whom he chooses
as inquisitor of divine judgment is
Evening star., 1945-03-25
Public Library
THE SHAPING OF
PSYCHIATRY BY WAR
By Margaret L. Frawiey,
WASHINGTON Public Library.


To enjoy the pageant of spring,
fortify yourself with good bird
book-then 60 on a fine day to the
best local bird theaters, notably
Rock Greek Park or the towpath
along the canal.
wild Bird Neighbors," by Alvin
M. Peterson, chats delightfully."- about
the more common birds, their won-
derful instinct for planning, build
ing, feeding and protecting them
selves and their families.
Pageant in the Sky" by Raymond
S. Deck, tells Of the modern sport
Of bird watching with dozens Of
exquisite closeup photographs to
enhance the text.
"The Bird Book" by Charles p.
.Shoffner, the question-answer type
of book, is highly informative on
nests, protection, economic value Of
birds. indentihcatiou, feeding.
Evening star., 1945-03-25
axe Three lenses
By Runner Golden. little,
p1a,p.,

Broton, $2.)
The form and theme of this novel
are old-so old, indeed, that one
wonders during the first few chap
ters If they are going to be MAIN
tanned, if the author is not planning
to introduce variety after having
engaged in little preliminary de-
ception. 1t seems hardly possible
that pattern so traditional will be
repeated once again. But it is re-
peated. Runner Golden sticks to her
guns. If its execution is good-and
hers is very good-there is no rea-
son why it should not be done as
often as an artist wishes to do it..
1t is the pattern In which an old
man, also in an old house, remem-
bers the days of his youth and, in
dreams, relives them. The old man
in question is retired English gen.
eral and the house is the one in
which his family has lived for three
generations. The time is the pres
ent, the place London. Gen. Dane
sits alone with his memories, and,
in describing the memories to us,
Miss Golden brings in the whole
history of the family as it has been
lived in that dwelling.
1t is minor tale, done with the
artistry which, in minor tale, Is
imperative.
Evening star., 1945-03-25
Pearl Buck Weiqhs
Aims and Purposes
OF Mass Education
TELL THE PEOPLE


By Pearl S. Buck John Dag
Co.. $780,
Reviewed by JOSEPH H. BAIRD
It is too bad that the word. prop
agandist" has come to have such an
unsavory connotation--a pleader of
a selfish cause or one who uses
thought as a weapon of war. Other
wise I should like to apply it to
Pearl Buck. For she has for some
years been pleading a cause-that of
the little men and women of the
world.
That tendency was marked in
"The Good Earth" and was car
ried on in "The Patriot" Now in
Tell the People" Miss Buck appears
to be making an effort to bring the
common people of the world to a
basis of peaceful living, despite their
rulers, by the simple process OF
knowing something of the world
about them and-more important
knowing each other.
In this book Miss Buck abandons
her role of novelist for that of re-
porter. 1t is her account of a two.
day conversation she held with
James Yen, father of China's mass
education movement.
An Inspiring Story.
1t is an inspiring story the Chi
nese teacher has to tell.
From the many thousands o1
characters a Chinese scholar must
know, he set about selecting l,0OC
which would serve as basis of SIM
pie literacy. He began teaching the
Chinese in France, and when the
war was over he returned to China
and devoted his life to mass edu-
cation there.
This education, as Mr.. Yen tells
in detail, was an entering wedge for
a program, which now has received
the support of the Chinese Central
government, for teaching the Chi
neSe masses the fundamentals of
sanitation, increased yield from
their farms and the technique of
democratic government.
The Important Man.
While in Washington the other
day, Miss Buck explained how she
and others are attempting to apply
the lessons of the mass education
to America and other
countries. For, as she says in her
introduction to Mr.. Yen's book, "the
common man of any country is the
man, and there will be
no peace or JOY in this world until
his lot Is made what he deserves"
AS to the postwar period:
"Our big problem of the future is
to offer to the peoples of the de-
feated nations assurance that their
lives will be happy and secure-and
this without accepting communism. 4"
Evening star., 1945-03-25
The Hideout

By Egon HostoDSky. Trans
lated from the Czech By Fern
Long. Random House: $1.75.J
Egon Hostovsky, a refugee Czech
novelist now In this country, is in
troduced to American readers in
this novelette,. Although 1t is a
minor thing, hardly likely to attract
a wide public, it is still fine and
sensitive piece of writing.
1t purports to be the letters found
in the "hideout" of a Czech refugee
who suddenly disappears. The let
ters are directed to the refugees
wife and tell the story of his life
since he fed from his country at
the time of the German seizure of
Prague. It is a demonstration of
futile existence given purpose by the
pressure of war.
What the author has wanted to
say, apparently, is that no one can
live outside public responsibility to-
day. His statement lacks drama
but has an emotional conviction.
NC. r.
Evening star., 1945-03-25
New Books

American Handbook, 1878. Mar. 25.
Dayspring, e2.75, Mar so.
Masaue OF Reason, So, Mar. 26.
, The Shaping Of Psychiatry by War, Mar
First Whisper Of "The wind in the vii.
lows" S1.50, Mar. %,
Eood for the World. S3.75, Mar. %. =
The Life Of Lewis Carroll, $3.50, Mar. IS
Careers In the Steel Industry, $3.50
Mar. %.
ChungkinE Dialogues, So, Mar, 27.
Americas Role in the World Economy
$3.50, Mar. 26.
Goodbye Proud World, So, Mar. %.
Woman's Medical Problems, So. Mar. %
How Shall ! Tell My Child? ST 9S
OPA and Its Pricing Policies, 81 80,
Fireman Flower. $3.50. Mar. %.
No Future for Luana, So, Mar. %.
Management At the Bargaining Table
Evening star., 1945-03-25

ting Him free from the necessity Of
rewarding men according to their
deserts, which necessity He calls
moral bondage to the human race"
Job, for his part, inquiries what
the real purpose of his old suffering
was. After some evasion, God con-
fesses that He was just showing
off to the devil"-there was nothing
more purposeful involved. To the
gravity of the conversation, Jobs
wife provides a running comment
of feminine practically. The scene
ends with her taking snapshot of
her husband, God and Satan
grouped beside the throne.
1t is a nice little piece of satire,
though rather more what one would
expect from a bright very young
man than from a veteran of Mr..
FroSt'S past achievements.