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grNQAT, DECEMBER Z9. 1910. NOW! Hnrt Thaw tHXMQ Circulation! -DES MOINES SUNDAY REGISTER. ir NOW! More Than ilfiS.onO Clmiliitton; -fr fiEN'ERAI SEVEN BOOKS Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart, Editor BECAUSE OF DEFENSE PROGRAM- Elimination of Jobless in The Books You r. Ten and Iwenty Years Ago Schiaparelli Going-, U.

S. Stylists Glad Kcprinifri from Timt blacailnt. Since Fiance's fall, chief debate in the billion-dollar United States dress industry is whether United States de- trend-dictating Paris once did: I Were Reading "Cimarron" by Edna Ferber. "Years of Grace" by Margaret Ayer Barnes. "Angel Priestley.

Pavement" by J. 'The Door" by Mary Roberts Rinehart "Rogue Herries" by Hugh Wal-pole. "Chances" by A. Hamilton Gibbs. "Young Man of Manhattan" by Katherine Brush.

Iwenty-four Hours" by Louis cromneia. NON-FICTION "Die Story of San Michele" by Axel Munthe. "The Strange Death of President Harding" by Gaston B. Means. "Byron" by Andre Maurois.

"The Adams Family" bv James Truslow Adams. "Lone Cowboy" by Will James. "Lincoln" by Emil Ludwig. "The Story of Philosophy" bv Will Durant. The Outline of History by H.

G. Wells. 'The Art of Thinking" by Ern est Dimnet. "The Rise of American Civili zation" by Charles and Mary Beard. m.

jv ittHAT were people reading 20 ear ago 7 Ana wnat books were me Desi-seuers or ten yearn ago? Well, a rather Interesting thing is that one book appears cn the lists of the most widely read books for both 1920 and 1930: The ten-year best-seller was jr. g. Wells' "Outline of History." The American book that ex--inded like a bomb in 1920 was Sinclair Lewis's "Main Other best-sellers of 20 years ago were: NON-FICTION The Americanization of Edward Bok" by Edward Bok. argot Asquith's 'Accepting the Universe" by John Burroughs. FICTION "Miss Lulu Bett" by Zona Gale.

The Ape of Innocence" by Edith Wharton. Wounded Souls" by Phillip Gibhs. The Captives" by Hugh Wal-pole. Blind" by Ernest Toole. An Old Chester Secret" by Margaret Deland.

A Poor Wise Man" by Mary Roberts Rinehart "Harriet and the riper" by Kathleen N'orris. "Mrs. Cuddock" by Somerset Maugham. "Painted Meadows" by Sophie Kerr. 1930 Ten years later ine rnnowing bonks were the best-sellers.

You will notice that the names of a couple of authors appear on both the 1920 and the 1930 lists. FICTION "Exile" by Warwick Deeping. 'The Woman of Andros" by Thornton Wilder. 1 i I ii.i.in. il imMii-tirii mil William Saroyan.

His Is a Particular Kind of Freedom. He's a Couple of Other People Two Cultures Meet in the Boy and Writer Saroyan MY NAME IS ARAM: By Wil-Harcourt, Brace. Ham Saroyan, J2.50. Reviewed by Kllzaltetli Clarkson Zwart. I "My Name Is Aram." Wil liam Saroyan has collected 14 obviously a i ographical sketches about an Armenian boy who was born in a California val- PROFITS HIGHER DESPITE TAXES Federal Finances Big Problem.

Is which our government will pay for and lease to the British. Thi pnvprimient will 1n that if congress approves. The program the president has outlined to help: the British Is the big issue ahead, For the first time In history, the national debt exceeds 45 billion dollars, or an average load of $340 for every man, woman and war. congress said the national debt should never exceed 45 billion dollars. Already congress has boosted that limit by four billion dollars and Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, is anxious to have the incoming congress, which will be sworn in January, raise it au additional 15 billion dollars.

Now comes Secretary of Com merce Jesse Jones, the Croesus of the New Deal, with the warning that though there will be unus ually-bright business conditions in the coming year, "many problems of adjustment" will come with it. He urged the speeding up ot production the quickening of the great cycle of Industiral activity which is shaking the countfy from one end to the other. It is a dizzy, and as yet In completely organized cycle, under taken because the fourth decade brings with It matters of life and death. Organization of this effort is commandine half the time ol the president. Employment Gain.

Jones pointed out Saturday that 1940 has brought the largest employment gain in recent years, and he predicted that in 1941, "for the first time in a decade we may confidently look to substantial progress toward elimination of unemployment as a major problem in our society." The whole picture has changed, Jones pointed out, from one In nhich production was discouraged, to one In which production must be encouraged. Ho, it is the same in business as in agriculture. The government calls for the production of more and more in this fourth decade, and the reason is war. These were io have been the years of progress, when slowly, but surely, man would rise to an ever more pleasant and dignified state. From February to October in 1940, Jones said more than 000 persons were added to nonag- ricultural employment.

Each of the three sectors of American economy industry, trade and agriculture consistently surpassed 1939, Jones said. He estimated the national income for 1940 at 74 billion dollars, a rise of four billion dollars over the year before, and two billion dollars higher than the best previous year since the depression. Business activity is running at a rate, he said, which for 1941 "would assure yearly income payments above 76 billion dollars. The chief contribution to the rising national Income of 1940, Secretary Jones found, was the larger volume of industrial production. "Under the Impetus of appropriations, of which nine billion dollars was quickiy awarded in contracts, industrial Wilson Continued from Pagt 1.

Hilton, Marquand, Tarkington Are Among Familiar Authors With New Books for 1941 signers can do the job that for it. For three months Paris Couturiere Elsa Schiaparelli! has barnstormed the United ICtoUo t.lbm. "lau 3 unun the auspices of CBS Colum- Aftieta Inr She also had a profitable sideline in selling her tour wardrobe designs to United States dress manufacturers (at $600 apiece plus 7 per cent of the sales i. Boiling Mad. By last week, as she was preparing to Clipper back to France, members of the United States haute couture were boiling mad.

They were maddest at her continued insistence that the I lilted States was too moiiey-conschms' to originate lis ouu fashion trends, that I'arls, ruled by the Na.is, still ruled the world of fashion. "The Eiffel tower is not displaced by the Empire State building," cried Mine. Schiaparelli early last month, at'a Los Angeles Junior League luncheon. Fashicneers were not amused. Farewell Sjeecli.

In Manhattan last fortnight, Mine. Schiaparelli made her fare well speech on the same day that delayed news came from Paris that Lurien Lelong's "corporative reorganization" of the fashion industry had been completed. "Sliai" stuck to her guns. "The I'arls designer Is free," said she, expressing annoyance at question implying a new order in France. Some fashion experts began talking of "Skap's" Italian origin.

They saw no other logical reason for her leaving a lucrative United States perfume business and a personable United States citizen daughter (Greenwich Village-born, British-schooled for a questionable future "helping her former employes in Paris." Ijibor Explodes. Labor was first to explode publicly. Said Julius Hochman, general manager of potent International -Ladles Garment Woikers union's dress joint board (at a con- production regained the ground lust at the first of the year, and now stands at a record high," said1 Jones. I'roflls, too, have Improved to the extent nhere they are now running 25 per rent above last year, and I spite of taxes, he said, "the net earnings of large corporations are expected to be as high as In any year since 129." Total retail, he said, was 7 per cent greater than in 1839. Sales of automobiles, electrical appliances, and other durable goods generally were tha "highest of the decade," according to Jones.

Never before," he added, "had we attained the physical volume of trade during the Christmas sea son which was experienced this year," he added. Higher Trices. Secretary Jones patted the country on the bark for not going through a rather sharp increase In prices. What he did not say Is that many economists expect these prices to come. And Jones found also that there has been little rise in hourly wsge during this period of expansion.

"We face many problems of 'Revolution of Nihilism." The'ter to edit an omnibus of reading book's tentative title is "The Beast tnat he has enjoyed during his '41 Seen sumed higher Income taxes will be voted by congress for futur years along with Increased and new excise taxes. Jan. 6, President Roosevelt will go before the new congress to outline his program, the general alma and aspirations of aiding England. It wilt fnllnu' tht with hi hnH get messago and a series of others, but it will not yet be the beginning-of his third term. That will coma with the inauguration Jan.

20. Virtually every act of the gov ernment is involved in the international situation. The era of reform has ended, for the tima being. Unlike in President Wilson's administration, a varjety of reforms were rushed through before war came. Veto.

The year that has passed witnessed no major reforms. When congress sought to "reform" tha New Deal administrative agencies through the Walter-Logan bill, to force legal review of administration acts, the president vetoed tha bill. In the year that has passed, tha government's attention haa been devoted to these matters: Appropriation of money for national defense. Expansion of the army and navy. A draft of the nation's manpower for military training.

During this time a definite foreign policy of the Roosevelt administration finally emerged. It is composed of two parts: The first, to help England at any cost except the lives of Americans; and the second, to drive German Influence out of South America and establish there the eronomlo influence of the United Statei. The big task ahead for 19il is to accomplish these objectives without going to war with Germany. DAMPEN HOPE OF JOB BOOM WASHINGTON, I). Tha Congress of Industrial Organization said Saturday that "those economists in Washington who have been predicting for the fall of 1941 an increased employment of six million over the fall of 1940 are less confident In their assertions." A rc-exaniinatlon of "the estimates "In the light of lagging" production" indicates an Increased employment of three million for 1941 Is a "generous estimate," said the current issue of the C.I.O.

publication, the Economic Outlook. The national unemployment figure in January will be "as great or greater than in July when the national defense program was put under way," the article said. Monday Tuesday HALF SOLES 49c Pair Attached Woman's Laothar er Composition HEEL LIFTS 10c PAIR While yea wait er ihsp rlt I'uhlin Shoe tfrrrirr Oprratrd MOWN ST MRS Watch the Tribune Wo Its fi .4 smell of "the old country." And every morning little Aram slams the front door on "that strange Near-Eastern, Oriental" way of thinking and talking and living to tear out into the life and freedom of a typical American boy. Aram sends $3 to Lionel Strong-fort for a secret method of becoming the most powerful man in the world. He plays hookey He rides a borrowed horse.

He gets flogged at school. He goes to the circus. But then he goes home again. And when Saroyan writes of the things he does, he leans on two languages. lie translates Armenian Idioms into English when he ran: "Poor and burning," he writes in English, it's Impossible to translate thli one." Aram and Saroyan have a spare set of customs, an extra culture, a second viewpoint.

The freedom of the Armenian-American boy is a particular kind of freedom he's freer than you are because he so easily might not have been. In a first generation Jewish-American boy or writer you might find something of what you find in the Armenian-American Aram and Saroyan. The idiom and the "characters." And the double background, even when it doesn't appear in the story. William Saroyan is a couple of other people as well as himself. Book Club Selections The Book-of-the-Month club has chosen two books tor January.

They are "Sapphira and the Slave Girl" by Willa Gather, and "My Name Is Aram" by William Saroyan. For February, the club has selected "Out of the Night" by Jan Valtin. GtH.D The Literary Guilds January book is Taylor Caldwell's "The Earth Is the Lord's." The Guild's choice for February is "Not for the Meek" by Eliza beth Dewing Kaup. CATHOLIC The Catholic Book club's December choice is "Father De Smet" by Helene Magaret. This book, by the way, was written in Iowa Ciry: it is a University of Iowa Writers' Workshop book.

Different Girl "Delilah" Is the name of a book which Farrar and Rinehart will publish on Jan. 23rd. But despite the book title, don't go hunting for any big hair-cutting scene ln it. For "Delilah" is the story of a U. S.

destroyer. Martin Goodrich has been writ- Elsa Schiaparelli, Fa-ihioneers Were Not Amusrd, ference of labor and employers last week) "She Insulted both our industry and the American woman'. Unfortunately our industry Is not organized sufficiently to meet such slurs, anil there was no one to reply to this impudent insult." Hut there was. Cautious, publicity-shy dam Ginibel, president of Saks Fifth Avenue, was the No. 1 pre-war United Slates buyer of Tarls high-style merchandise.

But "Skap's" stand made him see red. Wife's Collection. His wife Sophie had recently completed showing her own cus tom-made midseason collection, without any help from Paris, was full of excitement about fine tex tiles and exclusive gewgaws that she had been able to coax out of hitherto mass production minded Unite'1 States manufacturers. Said Mr. Gimliel: "The I'arls of the old days Is not the I'arls under totalitarian government.

Schiaparelli Is either misguided nr under the Influence of the Ylchy government." justment during the coming year." he said. "It must be a period of hard work and co-operative en- deavors geared to meet the imperative requirements of the world today. We must increase production, and to do this, we must recognize the urgency of, and meet, the capacity problem." Problem of Finance. This enthusiasm fur busines conditions must be tempered i the fact that soon after congress convenes President Roosevelt will present to it the problem of financing the national defense program. As early as Nov.

29, a preliminary conference on the subject was held at the White House with the president. When Mar. 13 comes around, income tax uer will realize Ihey have heen hit hy the national defense program. And they Hill he hit still a in. A program is being formulated to restrict additional federal bor- out of the Abvss" The publishers gay: "Finished during the pat few months in bomb and air raid shelters the maniiHcrlpt forecasts Hitler's new aims and technique In connection with F.ngland, Russia, the Orient and the Americas.

"He explains the inside cause of the downfall of France and of England's assistance." The book will be printed as soon as it is translated. STOLEN MANUSCRIPT Hallett Abend, famous Far East-j ern correspondent whose manu script on the life of General Fred erick Ward was stolen from him by the Japanese, has traveled from Shanghai to Manila, carrying with him new notes for the book which Doubleday, Doran will publish next year. Mr. Abend is going to Chungking via Singapore and Rangoon, over the Burma Road. OMNIBUS Clifton Fadiman has just signed a contract with Simon and Schus- ley.

And therein, perhaps, lies an important clue to Mr. Saroyan's bad-boy antics the exhibitionism that delights some critics, maddens as many more: Mr. Saroyan is a first generation American; he is an Armenian of countless generations. His big-mustachioed grandfather and his many similarly adorned uncles fifteen years of book reviewing. NEW ASCII A new book by Sholem Asch, author of "The Nazarene," will be Issued by Putnam on March 21st.

Called "What I the new book is a testament of faith and an inquiry into the causes of our present world discontent. HUTCHINSON The author of "If Winter Comes," a best-seller of about 20 years ago, A. S. M. Hutchinson nM a new novel due Jan.

10th. The new book, "He Looked for a City," will be published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce. Radio Talks BRITAIN SPEAKS: By J. Priestley. Harper.

$2.50. A collection of the radio talks made to the British people this summer and early fall by the popular English author whose air audience in England has been enormous. neater, grew uV i0wa, where she went to college. It tnere that sne met and married ln 1912 John Murray ciintmi Thev mnveri st- Louis ana mier 10 umun. Sir.

Flanagan aieo. in biu- which Mrs. Flanagan taught at Grinnell college, studied for a summer at the state university, and went on east, IMrs, Flanagan was widowed for a second time last year when her husband, Phillip Hal-dine Davis, died at their home In Poiighkeepsie, N. V. An Internationally known professor of archeology and ancient Greece, Dr.

Davis was a member of the Vassar faculty. Mrs. Flanagan and Dr. Davis were married several years ago in Athens, Greece. Mrs.

Flanagan is the mother of three small children by her second, husband, and a married son, Fred erick Flanagan who lives Flushing, N. Y. History of Federal Theater Written by a Former Iowan AMONG the new books which will be published early next year is a new novel by James Hilton. Little, Brown, the publishers describe the plot as "more dramatic than 'Lost the characters as "as appealing as Mr. Chips and the love story as Knnb "Random Harvest" will be published on Jan.

23. It will not be serialized. NEW MARQUAND The same publishers announce a new novel by another popular writer, John P. Marquand, for early spring. The new book by the author of "The Late George Apley" and "Wickford Point" will be called M.

Pulham, It will be a Book-of-the-Month club spring selection. TAKKINOTON On the 21st of February, Dou bleriay will publish Booth Tarking ton's new novel, "The Heritage of Hatcher Hero of the book is the 22-year-old son of a prominent and once wealthy family in a midwestern city. SKCOND NOVEL Some time next month, the second novel hy Carson McCuller, author of 'The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" will be brought out by Houghton Mifflin. The new book, "Reflections in a Golden has been running In Harper's Bazaar. 8TMITHEK POEMS Readers who have enjoyed the popular "Mrs.

Miniver" "by Jan Struther will be interested to hear that a book of the Englishman's poems will be published this spring. Harcourt, Brace will bring- it out under the title "The Glass- Blower and Other T-ARL BUCK On the second day of the new year, John Day will publish a collection of short stories by Pearl Burk. There will be 13 stories in the volume, which will be called "To-day and NIKE SERIES ikine Press will nuhlish Her Martin du Gard's complete! Nobel Prize novel series, "The "old of the Thibaults" in a two-volume edition on Feb. 24. A part of the series was la America in 1938.

The has not been translated and the final volume ap-PfKJ in Parti only this year. Th American publishers the work as "one of the epic "rks of modern French VE RAUSCHNING Je Alii, nr. Book corporation announced its receiving 5' clipper from London the of the new book bv Dr. Her-Rauschning, autho'r of "The Unusual Gift father Barstow Hammand of f' -Moines, author of the novel, -oad to Endor" which was pub- mis fall, received a ungual Christmas gift: Hpr Publisher, John Farrar most of on-ar and P-inehart. sent her a rowing to the speiific purpose of financing defense expenditures and to provide for amortization of new loans from the proceeds of addl- taxes.

It is generally as- OTHER book by a former i owan is "Arena" (Duell. Sloan Pearce, Jit, a good. readable history of the Federal) Theater Proiect bv Ine woman ineaier i who ran it, Hailie Flanagan. head Mrs. Flanagan, college's once Vassar Experimental Still Alive Peter Fleming, popular author "Rra? in Advemure aim "News From Tartary," was reported killed in action in Norway.

But he is back in England, in service with the home forces. And Antoine de St. Exupery. French aviator-author of "Wind, Sand and Stars" who was reported killed when his plane fell behind the German lines several months ago, is alive. His plane was shot to pieces, hut the writer survived, and is en route to America by way of Lis bon.

The Something Of Something tor "How to Win Friends and In- fluenc. People" by Dale Carnegie i er in'ing and re-writing the book for ten years. Publishers Hold Yearly Bet Iowa's firealest and Most Famous Cash-Saving January Evenl! PRICES ARE LOWEST IN YEARS ON jcompinru oiioi.R, HA? 0 tomary, side bets on the sales of various individual books published by each firm will be made during the course of the evening. BOOKS t' SIIOILD READ NAM: I ARAM" hv S'Vn -VOI IXOMt JA FOR kijw to Kfp It I.n 4PPHIRA AND THE omr." Willi rTHr I-OK WHOM IKK HM I. Toi.l Krf Herr'rwy -M4hR HKMtHT THE A KoM Niiii St Vincent kllt'in Vtrt TONY WON RAP RlHtH" for TW1 "OI.I KR HIMEI.L" Knn'1! THE HMII.i" $2.50 $1.00 $2.50 $2.75 $1.75 $1.00 $3.00 $2.50 NOTE THE HEW 1941 HOROSCOPES ARE HERE FOR YOUR OWN FAR.

TICULAR BIRTHDAY. 25c EACH. to-a r4rtnr hy mall aJ4 Ac rstra Kymsn's Book Store OPEN DAT AND MGHT 40S fith Art. f- MstM. Iftws Houghton Mifflin company and Little Brown and company have annual wager, prooaoiy me moL tradiuon encrusiea spoiling cciu American Each year the heads of the two firms decide on the nature of the net, but the stakes are always the name the best dinner obtainable at the I'nlon club of Boston for five executives from each company.

By the terms of the wager, three kinds of wine including port must be served in addition to old brandy, but cocktails are taboo as unworthy of the dignity of the occasion. The next dinner will be held in l.nimrv and paid for by the nouse nrtnfifttnn one rhiiarens dook man n'. that loses in two out or the three classifications. As is cus- Tested Values! into a loriy-tnai edition of ".000 copies. This brings the total numuer ui copies printed up to 236.000.

exacuy SECOND EXAMPLE in.ihr example of the gome-1 thine of something'. ilLo de la Roche's "Whiteoak Heritage" was the November choice for the Book Society in England-while "As 1 Remember mm" by Hans Zinsser was simply recommended book. If He Had Lived name of Rupert Brooke The to stand for pcrennia. seems I or for Vounp methir.c of I i tnercinie. that if R'JPrtl ic realize illl-VH lived, ne vuuiu has just gone into any and I.e., Hundreds of Astounding Wear- Tf TO HT lT1Tn On Sale So on: copy of her own book! bound In a dark brown i in and delicately tooled in, Brooke had liv 0'4 jbe 53-years-old..