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New Books

FICTION.
THE BAIT AND THE TRAP. BY George
Challis. Harper. More adventures of
the swashbuckling Tizzo. $3.50,
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NON-FICTION.
THE LAW OF LABOR RELATIONS. BY
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on Federal de and state "a III labor board ru
THE HANDBOOK OF DREAM ANALYSIS.
BY Emil A. GutheiL MD. Liveright A
leading psychiatrist's clinical expert
enceS.
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TALL SHIPS TO CATHAY. By Helen
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INDUSTRIAL SOCIOLOGY. BY pelbert
e: Miller and William 4. Form; Harper;
An introduction TO the sociology OF
National Affairs, Inc. An experts re-
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LOUISE WHITFIELD CARNEGIE. BY
Burton j. Hendrick and Daniel Hender-
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A PHILOSOPHY OF LABOR BY Frank
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versity. S2.75.
FIELD GUIDE TO EARLY AMERICAN
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Little, Brown. For collectors and others
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Fighting in China
Before World War
Described in Novel

THE TIN TRUMPET OF CHINA
BY George c.. Appel. (DueH,
Sloan & Pedrce; S275.)
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his greatest pain, began in an at
of desperate gayety in
an era when life was largely a
personal matter" But as the '20s
wore on, they became more des-
perate and less gay, until finally
under the pressure of their rest
less, Incorporate lives, she suf-
fered a series of mental break
downs from which she never fully
recovered. Fitzgerald's disinte-
grafton was tied up with hers and
he wrote, when she first became
i'll, Our united front was less a
romance than a categorical i'm
pcrative."
From his boyhood, as the child
of a Black Irish mother and a
father of early American ancestry.
Fitzgerald suffered from what he
called "a two-cylinder inferiority
complex" He spent his youth. he
recalled. Gin alternating crawling
before kitchen maids and insult
ing the great" Hemingway's de-
scription of his romantic awe of
the rich" is harsh but true. He
spent far too much of his life in
pursuing wealth. success and pop
ularity, and he realized they were
unworthy of him and his talent.
But even his folly was not futile.
Like everything else that hap
pened to him it fed his art.
Fitzgerald's charm and honesty
held his friends long after he had
exhausted their patience with his
debts and drinking. Even so, his
books have outlived his era. prov
ing Mr.. Mizener's contention that
he was not just "the laureate OF
the jazz age" His wit, his fresh
ness, his uncanny insight have
given him hold on immortality
which the present revival of al
his works underlines.
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t<Q lSid1JSs was SO11SSA AiSo'
Miss todden has modernized her
conception. A youthful English
playwright named Valentine Dou-
bleday, plotting his own seaplane,
is returning from a visit to Aus
tralia with his mechanic, McGinty.
A storm sweeps them off their
course and they run out OF gas.
They are lucky enough to land
near an island in the Indian Ocean.
Valentine understands why this
strange island seems familiar.
Every one, at some time or an
other, has visited an island, or had
an island of his own, a coral island.
a desert island, a treasure or Swiss
Family Robinson island-an island
of the mind"
1t turns out that the island, as
nice a tropical paradise as you'd
want, is owned by a resident of
years who calls himself Van
Loomis. He has a daughter,
Charts, brought up on the island
and knowing no other place except
t'-"cugh books. The Van LoomiSeS
live like a medieval reigning fam
lily, with natives to wait on them,
luscious food and wine from their
vineyards. But there is no petrol
and no wireless. The two men
must stay Indefinitely, since it is
rarely a ship calls.
Valentine, once he has adjusted
himself to the tranquil routine of
the island and forgotten that he
must hurry back to London for
rehearsals of his new play, is quite
content. McGinty, practical
man without imagination, is
restive and angry because he
can't return home at once.
1t will be no shock to you to
discover, fairly early in the story,
that Valentine and Charts are
in love. Nor should this dis
closure spoil the suspense. Surely
you'd expect this and countenance
nothing else. However, I am leav-
ing you to find out from the
narrative who Van Loomis turns
out to be and what eventually
happens.
This Van Loomis, who deliber-
ately turned his back on what is
called the world many years ago
comes nearer to reality than any
of the other characters. Valen-
tine is a type, complete even to
the frenzy on which he dashes
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THE GOLDEN DOOR
BY Bert Spicer. (Dodd, Mead G.
Co.; $780,
Red Badge
Private Detective Carney Wilde
finds himself working simultane-
ously on two cases-perfume
thievery in a big department. store
and stolen records from a phi
lanthropic outfit. Every time he
gets slugged or shot at, he's not
quite sure which investigation is
getting hot. Multiple murders
make things even hotter in this
fast-paced item of mixed motives
and hard-faced antagonists.
WATERFRONT
BY Ferguson Findley. (Duell
Sloan & Pearce; $780,
Johnny Malone of the homicide
squad had his hands on a killer
and let him escape. Naturally, the
only way Malone could square
himself was to try again. He was
the only one who could identify
the killer, but, unfortunately; the
killer could spot him. too. And
this killer was no punk. He was
the ruthless boss of the racket
preying on New York's waterfront.
The subsequent cat-and-mouse
game with Johnny and the killer
stalking each other makes for a
hard hitting yarn with spectacu-
lar finis.
NO TEARS FOR HILDA
BY Andrew Carve. (Harper G.
Bros; $780,
Max Easterbrook is convinced
that his friend, George Lambert, is
no murderer and yet Georges wife
Hilda obviously didn't commit
suicide. Sure the answer lies
somewhere in Hilda's past,
Max uncovers an astonishing thing.
Hilda's daughter, brother, friends,
acquaintances. all hated her-or
almost all of them. Max's patient
plodding inevitably produces re-
suits but the excitement is not so
much in the solution as in how he
reaches it.
MURDER FOR THE HOLIDAYS
BY Howard Rigsby. William
Morro1U G. Co.; S2.50)
Crusading Columnist Jack Holi-
day and his night club singer
wife are forced into sleuthing when
a dead blond turns up on their
apartment terrace. AS the corpses
pile up, there's one clue that
seems to mean something -a
packet of matches from an inn
that once housed the racket boys
of rum running days. How the
gangsters of that era organized
into the modern silk-glove racket
GERS is skillfully outlined as the
Holidays risk their necks to fight
the syndicate.
MURDER ON THE LEFT BANK
BY Elliot Paul. Random House;
$780,
Would that Elliot Paul might
take time out more often from
what he terms his Items on the
Grand Account" ("The Life and
Death of a Spanish Town" THE
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Communism From
Marx to Stain

THE THEORY AND PRACTICE
OF COMMUNISM
BY R. N. Carew Hunt. (Macnail-
Ian; $3)
Reviewed by Belmont Fories
For the reader who would like
g real understanding of commu-
nism and how it became such a
dangerous threat to our civiliza- =
ton, Mr.. Hunt has written a brief
critical introduction to a broad
and confusing subject.
He explains the theoretical basis
of communism as presented by
Marx and Engels, it's relationship
to the various left-wing move
ments in Europe in the 10Th CEN
tury, its development in Russia
under Lenin and Stain, and how
its principles have been applied
in practice in the Soviet Union
and its satellites.
The book is temperate in tone
and simple in presentation. 1t
should serve its purpose ad-
mirably.
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Crime and Mystery
By Miriom Ottenberq

Last Time I Saw Paris" etc.
to produce such Gallic-f1avored
whodunits as this one. The plot
is no end complicated. involving
an American family in Paris, a
hush-hush branch Of the mill
tary and our old friend Homer
Evans. 1t wouldn't be Elliot Paul,
of course, without some Wild
eyed White Russians, bearded ex-
istentialists and sundry other
Bohemians wandering across the
landscape. The murders are suit
ably mysterious. the humor is
alternately broad and subtle, and
the whole affair makes a happy
successor to Homer Evans earlier
adventures.
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Results of Marshal
Plan Are AnoIyzed

THE ECONOMICS OF FREEDOM
BY Howard S. Ellis. (Harper;; S5J
Prepared by a Council on For
eign Relations group headed by
Gen. Eisenhower, this study an
alyzes the accomplishments of the
Marshall Plan to date and it's pros
poets for the future.
AS an emergency measure to
stave off economic chaos, ERP
was a decided success.
Whether the whole job can be
accomplished by 1852, when
Marshall Plan aid is scheduled to
end, is much more doubtful, the
study group believes.
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Books in Review
Author Inspired by The Tempest
To Write Modern Island Fantasy
A BREATH OF AIR
BY Runner Golden.
Reviewed by Corter Brooke Jones

Miss Golden preface her novel with quotation from The
adding that took story from the Shakespeare
fantasy inspired many romance
authors been fortnight asbe the
for that matter extremely doubtful
ANYBODY could invent entirely situation which
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First Biography of Fitzgerald
Is Revealing Story of Novelist
THE FAR SIDE OF PARADISE
BY Arthur Mizener (Houghton- Mi6zin Co.; $4J
Reviewed by Mory McGroY

1t hankless lob to be the biogapher of F. Scott
everything that be said about him. he said
his novels short stories
and letters Fitzgerald actually the final authority
Fitzgerald
Mizener Ftzgerad first bographer
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a
rating card for dinner guests. Top classical
ton in each category goes to the guest who
does as follows:
/. Invariably offers to help and does
exactly as told, when taken up on it.
2. When setting table, doesn't suggest
different color combination or revision of
seating arrangements, or sheer at the silver
service
3. When asked to watch certain pot,
actually keeps its contents from sticking or
boiling over.
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hate to blur it with postscript, but Molly
insists.
She says it's great fun for the menfolk -
and the rest of the family. too = to take
over the kitchen for cooking spree, but
there's no excuse whatsoever for the guest
cook, husband or otherwise, who doesn't
clean up the kitchen afterwards.
WHEN NOT TO BE POLITE - That's
the question taken up merit geek by
Washington hostess Vera Bloom.
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DEAR FIBBER: When you're invited
out to dinner and you know that your
hostess is the one and only worker in
her kitchen, should you offer to help?
ANSWER: If it was up to me to answer that
question, I'd be so busy debating with my
self in the living room that dinner would be
on the table before I'd got halfway through
my arguments.
But it isn't up to me, and that S the simple
truth. I've got my own etiquette expert -
name of Molly, and great kid - goes with
me everywhere, whispers in my ear what to
do, tweaks my ear if don't do it.
What Molly says about this is, Get in
there and offer to help, MCGEE - but
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mind your manners while
you're doing it." q.
According to Molly, the first
thing that needs to be learned
is that, of all the rooms in a
house, the kitchen is most espe-
cially a woman's own. And
from the same source, I hear
tell that women going into
other women's kitchens hadn't
ought to try to take their own
rules and regulations with
them. Not unless they want
to get dinner thrown at them
instead of served to them.
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tnat gong on.
;. Distracts the cook from
the job at hand by telling in
volved stories that demand
close attention.
4. Asks the hostess where
all the ingredients were bought,
and then says she knows far
better and cheaper markets.
5. Tastes everything that's
cooking. and then suggests a
pinch of this here, a touch of
that there, until the hostess
gets a strong desire to flavor
everything with arsenic.
It's a good set of rules. and
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Danger: Guest In The Kitchen
by FIBBER MCGEE
RADIO AND SCREEN STAR
RADIO AND SCREEN STAR

4. Refrains from making the cook feel
like small change by recalling fabulous
meals, either at fabulous restaurants or
other peoples houses.
:. Says, LET me keep those pots and
pans cleaned up as you go along" and does
same.
The reverse side of that rating card, only
for those guests who wear out their welcome
in less than half visit, looks something
like this:
!. Offers to help, but within 10 minutes
messes up everything in the kitchen. moral:
if you haven't got the know-how, stay out
of the kitchen)
z. Knows, and insists on talking about,
dozen better ways of doing everything
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There's No SHORTAGE of Men
BY Robert E. Geioer

Good news for women inter-
ested in life, liberty and the pur-
suit of a husbandl
The 1850 census showed that fol
the first time there are more
women than men in the United
States. But now census official.
hasten forward with a more com.
plete story in response to a fooc
Iof inquiries.
1t is true preliminary studies OF
the 1850 census show about Is
million more women than men
But these preliminary studies also
show there still are about 2.8 mil
lion more single males, IA years
old and up, than single women
by single the Census Bureau
means men who never have mar
Iried.
The new figures are confirming
what population experts had esti-
mated: That the shortage of males
is getting worse in the older age
brackets and the surplus of males
is concentrated in the younger age
groups. The fact that women live
longer than men has a lot to do
with this. Many of the surplus
women are widows of middle age
or older.
There is a surplus of single
males in all age groups except
those over IS. This surplus exists
in all regions of the Nation.
DR.. Henry d. Sheldon of the
Census Bureau sizes up the situ-
alton this way: "It is still possible
to argue that if females are suf-
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combination of potentially rich
resources and natural oil beds
to furnish extra cash. raq's liza
bilities are also similar to Trans
Widespread illiteracy, polite
ally inexperienced citizens and
a strategic location which
tempts invasion by Russia.
Iraq's oil fields at Kirkuk,
already a quarter of a century
old, are highly expendable if
Russia strikes south in a world
war. being only 800 miles from
the Russian Caucasus frontier.
Naturalization Considered
Aware that it's protection de-
pends on outside help. Iraq is
proceeding more cautiously than
Iran in the matter of national
izing its oil. Iraq's oil income will
leap within two years from
about $12 million to about $35
million due to the long delayed
exploitation Of the 10000
foot-deep oil dome in Southern
Iraq.
Oil money will make it pos
sible to crisscross with irriga-
ton channels the great scoop
of the Wadi Tharthar, the de-
preston between the Euphrates
and the Tigris which is today
swept by wasteful floods. The
immediate prospect of getting
rich has made it possible to turn
this former irrigation project
into a rich future farm belt.
The driving impetus for Iraq's
future lies in a few progressive
permanent directors of ministry,
several American or European
educated, who are determined to
make Iraq sound in it's own
economy before it considers en-
barking on the special plans of
coalition with its neighbors,
Syria and Jordan.
(Chicago Daily News Foreign Service \
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ficiently enterprising they can be
married at least once"
| But if a woman is divorced q,
widowed. and has passed her 35th
birthday anniversary, the problem
lis more complicated. In her age
bracket. the surplus of women be-
gins to build up. On the basis
of their preliminary studies, cen.
/. sus experts estimate there are
about AZ million more women
than men who are IS years old
or older, and who are either single
widowed or divorced.
But even in this age group, there
are 100000 more men than WON.
en- who never have been mar
lried.
Just where is the, best place for
a girl to hunt a husband today?
Here is what the figures say:
The West, not so woolly and not
so wild in 1851, has the greatest
proportion of males, as always.
More specifically, the States of
Wyoming and Nevada seem to have
the greatest proportions The
latest estimate is around ia males
for every 100 females in Wyoming,
about 113 males to 100 females in
Nevada.
Theoretically. it should be easier
to find a husband in the country
than in a large city. Males out
number the females on farms.
But, the Government can't say
whether it is harder to talk a
country man into marriage than
1t is a city slicker.
Distributed by the Associated Press \
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Britain to Start
Loan Poyments

Chances are that Britain
will make the first payment
on its $3.50, 100000 postwar
recovery loan tflfs year on
time.
The full amount due $76
million on principal and $44
million interest - probably
will be forthcoming by De-
cember 81. The principal
payment could be postponed
If the World Bank and the
British government were to
agree that to pay would be
crippling.
The final decision hasn't
been made, but ssrne British
leaders say privately it would
be a political Ioner to default
except i1 sAGreme emergency.
Also due this year is the
first annual $40 million on the
lease settlement.
distributed by the Associated Press)
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a bellweather in the Eisenhower
movement. On the Pacific Coast
there is Eisenhower sentiment
too. particularly in Washington
and Oregon.
But the Pacific Coast has a can.
Ididate of its own, should Eisen.
hover and Macarthur not be
available. He is Gov. Warren o1
California, who last November was
|re-elected by a vote lover James
Roosevelt, son of the late Presi-
Ident) so large as almost to be
shocking. His vote exceeded
Roosevelt's by 1.127,898.
Neither Warren nor Taft has
announced his candidacy. But
they are candidates, nevertheless
Mr.. Taft has insisted he is not
going to seek the nomination this
time, but that if there is a real
demand for him he will be glad tc
accept. Gov. Warren will, it is
said, have the big California dele
cation solidly in his corner when
convention time rolls around
Some of his friends, who profess
to know that Gov. Warren is il
this race come what may, are
urging that he get into some OF
the presidential preference pri-
maries next year and demonstrate
his vote-drawing strength. It is
not proposed that he go into
States which have favorite son
candidates-like Ohio, for example
but that he enter in the Oregon
and Nebraska primaries and per-
haps in Wisconsin, if Gen. Mac
Arthur is not a candidate there.
Senator Taft's attitude that he
will not go out after the nomina-
tion, if he sticks to it. might pre-
clude his entering presidential
preference primaries in States
other than Ohio. This does not
meet with the wishes of some OF
his supporters. They believe that
Taft. by going into primaries in
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crease the threat to our security
ard bring about the catastrophe
wcsich we dread.
KremIin Doesn't Know West
The political men now at the
head Of the Western governments
seem to overlook the fact that
there Is not a single man in the
Kremlin who is actually &C
quainted with the psychology and
the military potential of the West
and particularly of the United
States.
The first batch of Bolsheviks
who took over the ruling of Russia
were men who had lived for many
years in exile in the West; in fact
had spent most of their lives in
America, England, France, Switz-
erland and Germany. This group
headed by Lenin, advocated Com
munist world domination through
infiltration and subversion.
This group which understood,
partially, at least, the Western
mentality now has disappeared
through purges or, in a few cases
by natural death. In its place
there has arisen in the U. S. S. R
"a dictatorship by "insulars''-men
who have had little contact with
the West and believe in brute
force to accomplish the aims sci
forth by Lenin.
Since World War Ia wal
which the Russians had no chance
Iof winning until America ano
Britain rushed to their support
the Kremlin dictators have ac-
quired the conviction that the
West is really decadent and al
their mercy. We, Of the United
States, the mainstay of the free
world. have only confirmed these
views.
After vi day, when we pos
sessed the strongest military force
in the world, we attempted to buy
off Russia with territorial conces-
sionS in the Balkans and in the
Far East. We failed. The Rus
slams took whatever they wanted
At first they displayed some dis
cretion in the manner in which
they handled the loot. But when
they discovered that they could
continue their thefts with i'm
Ipunity, they became bolder and
more intractable.
We Did Nothing
We never withdrew our diplo-
matte recognition of the states
which had become Soviet satel-
iites. We never threatened Mos
COW with even the usual diplo-
matte tactic of breaking relations
which would have involved but a
scant risk of conflict. We just
accepted the accomplished facts.
Yet there have been a number
of instances which should have
opened the eyes of our leaders to
the fact that a determined opposi-
ton to the Soviet drive and
threats would not be resisted. The
first to take such a stand was
Turkey in 1946. The Russians in
sisted that they must control the
Dardanelles and Istanbul.
The Turks resisted. They told
the Muscovites that they would
not accept this solution for a
better relationship between the
two countries" as was stated in
the note delivered by the Soviet
Ambassador to the Ankara govern
ment. They indicated clearly to
their powerful neighbor that even
a hopeless resistance to the en-
croachments of the Soviet govern
ment would be preferable to slow
death by Strangulation.
This determination of the
Turks-to remain free, or fight it
out in an unequal struggle-gave
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and Africa. Soviet control of which
would expose the African conti-
nent. It is a source of prime
strategic material, oil, the con-
Itinuing supply of which is essen
tial to friendly nations in Europe
and Asia. 1t supplies three
fourths of the petroleum require
|ments Of Western Europe.
"Since World War II, and even
before, the region has been tar
get for Soviet communism, which
has sought through propaganda,
subversion, intimidation and guer-
rilla warfare, to exploit the eco
nomic weaknesses, social unrest
and racial antagonisms existing in
many of its sectors. Success of
such efforts would seriously
weaken the free world"