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Evening star., 1945-07-08
The Midnight Cry
By Francis D. Nichol. (ReDie1D
and Herald Publishing ASSocia-

By Francis D. Nichol. (ReDie1D
and Herald Publishing Associa-
ton; $780,
Reviewed by JOSEPH H. BAIRD.
In the middle of the last century,
Mr.. Nichol tells us, religious men in
number of countries began to
believe that the second coming of
Jesus Christ, as prophesied in the
Bible, was near at hand. William
Miller, New Englander who had
fought as captain in the War of
1912, was the leader of such group
in the United States. His followers,
known to history as the "Millerites, "
finally set october %, 1874, as the
day of the advent.
On that day, according to Mr..
Nichols account, thousands Of the
Millerites assembled peacefully and
prayerfully in various cities to
await the great event. His re-
searches indicate that there was
nothing fantastic in their behavior
Contemporary accounts written by
scoffers, however, attributed to the
Millerites many strange perform
anceS.
Such weird accounts, Mr.. Nichol
says, have found their way into
encyclopedias and supposedly schol-
arly histories.
The writer, a resident of Takoma
Park, set out to disprove these
canards. At the Advent Christian
College of Aurora, H., he found 300
of Miller's personal letters which
provided much of the factual data
for his book. In addition, he pored
over the 1884 files of some 90 con-
temporary New England newspapers.
From this material, Mr.. Nichol
concludes that Capt. Miller, while
mistaken in his prophecies, was an
intelligent and sincere man-not the
fanatic of some historical accounts
This book should be interesting
to readers who wish to delve into
the realm of modern religious
prophecy as well as to serious stu
dents of the sociological currents in
American history.
Evening star., 1945-07-08

privileges of education and inde-
pendent means. A bit unhappily,
she concluded that she must. as q
lady poet told her, learn the me
chanics of democracy" and under
take to teach those same to the
Indian villagers. Accordingly, she
set out, after two years, for the
United States, where the mechanics
supposedly may be learned for the
asking.
Her story of her experiences has
a decided charm and shows a good
deal of skill in portraying character.
A description of visit to Rabina-
drath Tagore's school, for example.
comes close to being a masterpiece.
On the question of independence
Miss Rama Rau is a convinced anti
Briton, and the whole of her mar
rative tells her reason-there is no
place in British India, she says, for
such people as herself, the educated
and cultured, who must be excluded
from white society, who cannot meet
their poor fellow countrymen on an
understanding level and who cannot
form group Of their own in the
resulting vacuum. MO. \.
Evening star., 1945-07-08
Home to India
By Sdnthd Rama Rdu.

By Sdntha Rama Rdu. (H1r-
per'S; $2.50.J
The author of this book is a young
Hindu girl of the Brahmin caste
who, after being educated in Eng
lish schools, returned in 1899 to
India to live among Indian relatives.
She spent some time in Bombay
with her ld-fashioned grandmother
she visited more modern uncle
and his Austrian wife in Delhi. She
went on a trip into the Himalayan
Mountains. She met prominent
Indian leaders of many shades of
opinion. Her conclusion was that
she did not understand India" but,
as she writes, one feels that the idea
of the necessity for understanding
a vast land and its people was rather
forced on her by influences outside
herself, that, somewhat contrary to
her natural inclination, she was
made to feel that it was duty for
her to understand and take some
action in her peoples behalf for the
reason that she enjoyed the special
Evening star., 1945-07-08

OF 1duure 10 JAMES l. EaiAeh'
give the young generation of his
readers something to live for. He
retortS that the realist is an artist
who paints life as he sees it, which
is contribution enough for any gen.
Grafton, and that the critics who
object to him are what his title
indicates-frightened Philistines in
league with one another against
realistic and naturalistic novelists.
Specifically, these frightened ones
are, as he names them, MesSrs.
Archibald MacLeish, Van Wyck
Brooks, j. Donald Adams and John
Chamberlain. 1t would seem to be
a somewhat elementary perform
ance if there were not some i'm
portant critical conditions involved.
For Mr.. Farrell, defending him
self, attacks a certain tendency
of current criticism which badly
needs attacking, and that is the
tendency of critics to align them
selves into schools and write of
books from the point of view of
personal creeds of one kind or
another. A critic has need of a
creed, to be sure; but the need
is for a critical creed, not a political
one or a religious or creed of
kindness or idealism or of any
thing else which is separate from
literature. The critics creed can
be summed up in two questions
which he should put to himself
rs this a Book? Or is it some
printed matter between book COW
ers?" If it is a Book, then it is
his duty to say so, even though
every idea in it runs counter to his
own IDEAS. But, of course, to be able
to make the distinction, he must
know what a Book is, and that is
the very heart Of our critical trouble.
Our working critics, as a class,
know thought fashions great deal
better than they know literature, or,
1 should say, better than they un-
derstand literature, for I do not
mean to charge them with a lack
of erudition. What I charge them
with a lack of critical passion to
vivify their learning. They know
literature but they do not care
much about it. They do care about
thought fashions, however, and they
make their alleged critical writings
vehicles for their views on those
fashions. 1t is as if a doctor with
a legal bent of mind should treat
his patients according to law, not
medicine. Mr.. Farrell, writing in
a style which comes down like iron
soled boots, smashes the pretenses
of the biologists on the ground
beloved by the most prominent
single group of therh-the leftists
For he quotes Karl Marx to prove
that theological writing is inde-
fensible. That's being noticeably
nice about your choice of weapons
One of the longest papers in the
book is devoted to an attack or
Lewis Mumford. That hardly seems
necessary, for Mr.. Mumford is q
writer destined to be forgotten
Another paper attacks Mortimer
j. Adler. James Farrell, though
he has written some lifeleSs books
is still the author of what is prob
ably the greatest novel of the past
quarter century, THE Studs Loni-
gan Triology" suggest that he
remember that. He doesn't really
have to go cunning after literary
small game.
Evening star., 1945-07-08
Reviewing The New Books

a little significant use Of that bar
gaining power would easily have
brought her to a less egotistic atti-
tude. To great extent. what hap
pened at San Francisco bears out
Mr.. Chamberlin's forebodings. The
Atlantic Charter, he says, was
drowned in the Black Sea, and the
death was made official on the West
Coast.
We've NeDer Been Told.
He feels that the American people
have never been properly informed
as to the nature of the war and
lists scathingly some of the types
of interpreters who have served US
minor poets, former sports writers
PROFESSIONAL pundits and so on
Nothing is more indispensable in a
democracy, he says, than popular
understanding of foreign policy
Mentioning some recent highly
praised motion pictures which
claimed to present Russia at war,
he observes that, for realism, their
scenes of Russian life might well
have been shot in Shangri-La. Our
organs of information have not
served us well, in his view. They,
too, have been subservient to
politics.
A great many Americans have
been aware of everything that Mr..
Chamberlin says for some time.
They will not find anything new in
his book. But any one who has
been drifting along on the dream
that we have been fighting a war
which was going to establish free
dom, will do we'll to read him. His
picture of our part in future ded-
icated to ruthless expansionism, i'm
perialism and aggression is some
thing which deserves all such op-
timiStS' attention.
Evening star., 1945-07-08

Not any minimal number of in
diSpensable freedoms then fills the
talk of the postwar world, but, as
has been the case since man first
took weapons in his hand, problems
Of loot. Who will get what? Whose
zone of influence will include whom?
How long will the newly dispoSed-of
nations stand for what is done? How
much time can we count on before
it all happens again?
Changed Basis of Thought.
1t is surprising to see how prompt
ly the average citizen has recognized
the changed basis of thought and
adjusted himself to it.
This latest book by William Henry
Chamberlin was written before the
war ended, but it fits into the post
war outlook admirably. For Mr..
Chamberlin obviously wrote as one
who foresaw the end and what might
come after. He reviews our war
aims, insofar as they were ever
officially stated, through the length
of the conflict and calls on Amerl-
cans to observe how diametricaly
their policies have changed. From
the noble, though vague, pronounce
ments of the Atlantic Charter, with
its disavowal of any ambition for
territorial aggrandizement, we have
come to a point where territorial
ACKNOWLEDGMENT is the open end OF
one of our Allies-Russia-and we
have been at least silent partner
in that aggrandizement.
We are already countenancing the
particular act which we named as
wrong and in the instance of the
nation for whose territorial integ-
rity the war began. Power politics
has brought this betrayal about and
power politics, says Mr.. Chamber
lin, will dictate the whole settle
ment. We may as we'll recognize it.
This was no war to end war or to
establish democracy in place Of
totalitarianism. 1t was just one
more of Europe's shambles. 1t ends
with a totalitarian power the
strongest in Europe and potentially
the strongest in Asia, too. Need
less to say that power is Russia.
The postwar Europe which Mr..
Evening star., 1945-07-08
Cost Measurement
I'm Urban RedeyeIopment

By Miles L. Coledn and Arthur
P. Ddvis. National Commit
tee on Housing, Inc; $15J
In this informative book the au-
thors have shown the influence Of
land costs upon the final cost of
housing in older sections of cities.
With the advent of transportation
the influx has been to the suburban
areas, leaving large urban areas un-
redeemed. This study purports to
show that while taxes on city prop
erty remain higher than that on
the suburban, new balance can be
achieved in the cost of rebuilding.
The volume encompasses plans
for housing of but one story to that
of six and twelve. 1t is invaluable
to those interested in housing and
city planning. r. D. M.
Evening star., 1945-07-08

the great part of his book is given
over to describing his life as a cor
respondent, his trials covering bat
ties and air raids in the Sino-Jap-
anese war, his work in Finland at
the time of the Russian assault on
that country, his brief time in the
United States as a journalism stu
dent. His wife and marriage figure
only slightly in the volume and
then in the manner of the better
bred matrimonial wheeze.
In the main the work suffers
from attempts to make it funny
without any real basis for humor
NC. r.
Evening star., 1945-07-08

clude som e
papers on au-
thors, past and
present, but in
the compactneSs
of the volume,
they amount to
q defense, in the
form of attack,
of Mr.. Farren'S
own position as
q move / ist. A
realist, he has
sometimes been
accused of an
absence of in
Spirinp idealiSm.
Evening star., 1945-07-08
The Woyforers
+ william
Bu Dan Wickenden. (Willidnl
Morrol0 & Co.. $275.J
Reviewed by
RICHARD D. MONTGOMERY

Morroi0 & Co.; $2.75.)
Reviewed by
RICHARD D. MONTGOMERY.
After spending 10 years as an
alcoholic eScapiSt, Norris Bryant
brings himself to believe that he
has been neglecting his family for
an image OF the past. This image
| is his wife Laura, dead the decade.
1t is a surprise to him that his chill
dren do not want his help. Charley
the eldest, is unhappily married and
unstable; Laurette is braSSy but
kind, and Patricia and Joel resent
his sudden interest, preferring to
solve their own problems.
| Patricia falls in love with Vincent
Rourke, handsome and dissolute
newspaperman. With the help of
Garcia Wilmot, old acquaintance of
both Norris and Laura, Winnie un-
earthS a forgotten scandal about
Laura which the children try not
to believe The result is the ending
of Vinnie's hold on Patricia and
Charley's death.
Mr.. Wickenden has written with
much realism of the time of the
last depression. He hasn't told us of
the bread lines and the untenanted
factories, but he has of the effect
i of these things on a family.
Evening star., 1945-07-08
Brief Reviews
FICTION.

The Tables Of the Law, by Thomas
Lann. (Knopf; $2.509 Novelette,
IN Moses, first published in 1943 in
he collection of stories called "The
Ten Commandments"
Identity Unknown, by Robert New
man. Gift Davis; SD Story of q
soldier who lost his memory and his
Evening star., 1945-07-08
The League of
Friohtened PhiIistines

By James T. Farrell. Wan
guard; $2.75.J
Here we have collected a number
of critical papers which James Far
rel has written and published dur
ing the past IS years. They in
Evening star., 1945-07-08
Ny Chinese Wife
By Karl ESkelund.

By KdTI ESKeEund. lDOnbLe-
day, Doran; $780,
The subtitle of this book tells us
that the work Is an account of an
international marriage. 1t is not
quite that. Karl Eskelund, Dan
ish newspaperman, did, in the
course of numerous adventures in
China, marry Chinese girl. But
Evening star., 1945-07-08
Among
the Authors
By Carolyn Coggins

Bob Casey's This Is Where /
Came In has been scheduled fol
months to appear on July n. Sud-
denly Washington released story
Of his on submarine warfare which
has been held up for two years,
Battle Below" His publishers de-
cided to rush it through in time to
come out on the same day as the
other. Bob considered this twin
book event with delight saying, i
shall be interested to see me COM
pete with myself"
4 n y 4
The Edward L. Bernays radio
award OF $1,000 for the program do
ing most to further democracy went
to the program based on Roi Ott-
ley's book, New World A-Coming. y
1t amuses us to remember the ref
erence to national characteristics in
lovers in Letitia Osborne's "They
Change Their Skies" 1t was Don
Jose's reflection that Americans
love by ear and the Germans by a
mathematical formula and the Eng
lish by custom, but the Latins, ah
q. Only latin could really love
with his heart"
Evening star., 1945-07-08

experiences while suffering under
the loss. Moving.
Trojan Brothers, by Pamela Hans
ford johnson. Macmillan; S2.50o
Well told tale of English music halls.
Worth reading.
MYSTERIES.
Black Tarn, by p. w. Wilson. Far-
rar and Rinehart; $780, An Eng
t1ish gentleman-detective solves a
crime back in 1909. Quite readable.
Evening star., 1945-07-08
Will Power Politics Dictate the Whole
Plan for the Brave New World?
AMERICA: PARTNER IN WORLD RULE
q By William Henry Chamberlin. Vanguard; s3J
Ry Nary-Gnrfor Pobprfe

Americans have learned rapidly weeks that
thinking
thinking about the thing
firing anything;
practically everybody thinking
figure
longing superseded by actual when have
familiar
from the aymans field
matter working
the old questions politics
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-02

SHORT ORDER COOK-Full time, 2 a. in. $ p. m. State Restaurant. l80 South Main St. Dial 4-06e0. stabiIization plan
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-02
C.Y.O. Minstrel Show
 ! Tonight's Attraction
Cast Completes RehearsaIs for Much Anticipated Event; Gideon Hoffman, Spanish War Veteran, Dies
WATERT OWN m Stephen Correspondent

The final rehearsal for the min.
 trel to be presented by St. Johns Catholic Youth Organization in the Watertown High School Auditorium tOnight at o'clock, was held Sun hay afternoon. Rev. Gerald Gan. kher is moderator for the minstrel The end men are Ted Merle, Ade Womala. Frank Amrich, Betty To- n1ala, under the direction of Joseph Tomala, all of Torrington. Tho spotlight and the amplifier service are being furnished for the occasion by Leonard Posa of Roberts street. Mrs. Christopher Ryan will be the hccompanist. Members of St. Johns choir are assisting in the minstrel.
 During the closing number Walter
 Gc Gowan, president of the St lJohn's C.Y.O. will give brief ad- dress. Due to an error, the name of Bernard Quesnel was omitted from the previously published list of vocal goloists for the performance.
 ! Boys and girls of the chorus are tJohn Poudrier, William Carew, Rob- Iert Giroux, Charles Miller, Thomas Cough. Jerome Caffrey, William Quill, Geraold Garceau, Gerard Pi- chetti, Lucien Grenier, John Ko- .cerguis. John Dunn, Hugh Camp bell, Walter Mo Gowan, John Cof- frey, William Barrett, John Humis- ton. Paul Poudrier, William Eustace,
 Melvin Bradley and Gerald Quesnel.
 Margaret Garceau, June Gaynor, Shirley Dyer, Folrence Seller, Nancy Edwards, Ann Garfield, Lillian Had- dad, Irene Mccartney, Mary Quill. Theresa DesruisseauX, Georgette 7 lGiroux, Vivienne Pichette, Jeanne, Boucher, Dolores, Galullo, Lorraine Pichette, Irene Mailhot, Vivienne Grenier, Jeanne Lemay, Irene Her. oux, Margaret Grenier, Jane Schof- fer, Mary Murphy, Joan Sullivan, Rita Collins and Agnes Butler.
 , Dancing will follow the minstrel show and during the intermission period, door prizes as well as the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-02
Jops Butcher Women
BY RICHARD G. HARRIS

Manila, March 31-(UP)-An of
 ficial report revealed today that the Japarese in their rape of Ma nila butchered helpless women and children with bayonets, shot men by the hundreds and wantonly de- stroyed places of worship.
 The atrocities were brought to light in a mass of documentary evidence furnished by the people who survived the ordeal and by American military personnel.
 Disposition of the evidence, which contains some of the most gruesome accounts ever written, was not announced but it likely will be submitted to the United Nations war crimes commission.
 Perhaps the most damaging affi- davit was that of Maj. David ". B.nkley, 37th division medical officer. He personally inspected
 many mass atrocity scenes, but the worst was near the Manila railway station where he saw the bodies of 115 men, women and children-au shot and bayonetted.
 Many of the adults and some of the older children were tied before they were shot, Binkley said, the
 very small children were killed without being tied.
 F, At De La Sale college, Binkley
 found the bodies of 76 men, wo- men and children of various ages
 scattered over the grounds.
 4R !, nant," he testified. "The breasts of one woman had been cut off. All the bodies were pierced by several bayonet wounds.
 At the Campos residence on Taft avenue, 45 women, most of whom wore slacks, were found. i Evidence of assault was apparent on many of the women and several women had been pierced through ls the genital organs by Jap bay lsonetS."
 ' At the rear of gasoline station, sBinkly found many bodies eight of ethem women, all with the hands ,gtied behind the back. Nearby lay ~a mother and her two children. The woman was face down with an ~arm around each child. They had been slashed to death apparently K with a Saber.
 q Col. J. D. Frederick, of the l29th sinfantry, revealed that an estimat- 2 ed 400 bodies were found in three adifferent places in the Fort San : tiago sector. Death had resulted :. from shooting, bayonetting or star 2 1vation. The majority of the vic- tims were men from 25 to 45. S All died with their hands tied : behind their backs and their bo- dies were piled layer after layer as : the Japanese riddled them with 7 bullets.
 x, A Filipino nurse disclosed how a Japanese soldier, irked by a baby's 7, cries, shot her in the legs, jaboed : his bayonet into the infants head x and then shot the childs mother and aunt.
 s4.., A Catholic church prelate, whose
 name was withheld to prevent re- retaliation, testified that more than 20 per cent of the Spanish con- Events, churches and religious hous- sees were desr, I'd by the Japanese rsdespite the fact there were no military objectives in the places.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-02
Legal Notice
NOTICE

AN AMENDMENT TO THE BUILD"
 ING ZONE ORDINANCE OF
 THE CITY OF WATERBURY. BE TT ORDAINED BY THE
 BOARD OF ALDERMEN OF
 THE CITY OF WATERBURY:
 The Building Zone Map, which ia part of the Building Zone Ordi' nance for the City of Waterbury, Connecticut, passed and adopted by the Board of Aldermen September 4th, 1928, and approved September 5th, 1928, is amended by changing from Zone B" Residence to Zone q" Business, certain piece or parcel of land located on the west erly side of North Main Street. bounded and described as follows:
 That certain piece or parcel of land with all the improvements thereon situated on the westerly side of North Main Street, bounded and described as follows:- Starting at 8 point on the westerly side of North Main Street which point is 154.77 feet south of the southwest erly corner of Brewster Street: thence running westerly BOOST feet along the southerly line of land now or formerly of Harry and Gussie Lebon and James H. Sincaster; thence running northerly 344 feet along land now or formerly of James H. Sincaster; thence run ming westerly 114.82 feet along the southerly line of land now or for merly of James H. Sincaster, land now or formerly of Joseph Cote, and land now or formerly of Liber- ta and Valletta Sanopietro; thence running southerly 123.66 feet along the easterly line of land now or formerly of Joseph and Georgianna Frenette, land now or formerly of James and Martha E. Newill, and land now or formerly of Mary Corideo and Passway; thence run ming easterly 57.71 feet along the northerly line of land now or for merly of Andrea Stolf; thence running northerly 20 feet along the westerly line of land now or for merly of Peter and Eva Stepona- vitz; thence running easterly 275.20 feet to North Main Street along the northerly line of land now or formerly of Peter and Eva Stepona- vitZ; land now or formerly of Mary B. Spector, land now or formerly of Luciano and Remigia DiNunizio, and land now or formerly of Vito Mole; thence running 10057 feet along the westerly side of North Main Street to the place of begin ming.
 Passed and adopted by the Board of Aldermen March 5th, 1945, ap- proved by the Mayor 8th, l945.
 Attest:
 JOSEPH M. SHEA, 4-2-2t City Clerk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-02

OLD BROKENDOWN TRICYCLES ALSO CARRIAGE WHEELS WANTED. DIAL 3-4704.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-02
NOTICE

STATE of CONNECTICUT, DIS- TRICT of WATERBURY, ss. PRO- BATE COURT. March 2Sth, 1945. ESTATE of ANGELINA GAU- DIOSI, late of the town of Wa terbury, in said district, deceased. The Court of Probate for the Dis trict of Waterbury, hath limited and allowed six months from the date hereof for the creditors of said estate to exhibit their claims for settlement. Those who neglect to present their accounts, properly attested. within said time, will be debarred a recovery. All persons indebted to said estate are request ed to make immediate payment to
 HELEN s. GAUDIOSI,
 AdministratriX, c. t. a. 176 Grilleytown Road
 Waterbury, Conn.
 Per Order of Court
 Attest:
 MARGUERITE NJ. FAHY. 3-30-3t Asst. Clerk
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-02
:Gondhi Intends
 O Live To 125

1s* Bombay, April 2-(UP)-Mohan- ~das K. Gandni plans to live l25 s3years, he told the Home Spinners .eleague today. He is 75 now. ~ Gandhis secret is simple hus- sskanding of as much energy as pos esyible.
 My experiments is non-violcnce .@and truth taught me the value of sputting a brake upon impetuosity," Nhe said. But I confess I've suc- ssceeded only partially-I could not sAxegulate my pace sufficiently ss His plan for longer life includes an abundance of humor; balanced
 diet; avoidance of stimulants; early ito bed and early To rise; deliberate
 refusal to be annoyed, disturbed, arl-
 gered or upset; and above all, 8 resignation to the will of God and prayers twice daily.