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COUNCIL BLUS MOWA) OCTOBER 25 947 ji New in Books SIDE GLANCES tv GalTbrwMt Janies and Three Chhildren 10 25 by of Takes Time Ills of at CARNIVAL fly Dick Turner UNNY BUSINESS for Edward Brace in London Helsinki Amsterdam has since board of literature of Dr AS de in and Hickenlooper plans to return to Washington Nov 9 graphic pictures I'm going to marry for love and boy do I ever love mink and limousines and pearls and things!" deaf with a man should out a bang up exactly done of the best books about these days I find are by those who knew the war and White the who they of a saw wish Dorothy had waited for food prices to go down before becoming so Laney worked on it and you will envy fascinating recollection Big Aid to Motorists Hobbs Guide No 1 Band Mc Nally A new kind of motoring guide bringing together the three es sential kinds of information every motorist needs when plan ning a trip is being launched this fall by Band McNally and company This guide covers the areas of Iowa Nebraska and Kansas with extension routes to Chicago Min neapolis St Paul St Louis in seance and PAGE OUR a mo vine climax to this beauti story one of October Books of the Scnators Robert A Taft Arthur Vandenberg Leverett Salton stall Gov Thomas Dewey of New York Gov Earl Warren of California Rep Joseph Martin jr of Massachusetts Gen Dwight Elsenhower Gen Doug las MacArthur former Gov Har old Stassen of Minnesota McConnell said the committee would attempt to give political supporters of each of these men opportunity to sign petitions in their behalf and that if other po tential candidates receive na tional mention between now and the March 4 deadline for filing petitions the committee would consider sponsoring petitions for them "to make the test com I 1560 Un Your Dial Army doctors found that mus tard dissolved In a warm bath eases nervous tension by increas ing oxygon consumption ENCYCLOPEDIA TROLOGY Vore (Philosophical Library S5) This book by de Vore presl dent of the Aslrologie Research society contains 435 pages of 'definitions from the Chaldees to up to date physics and as tronomy The definitions range from a single line to one or several pages of cxplainations and his tory of astrological terms KSWI J36U On Yom by Nicholas led either about how such a program works or aelse into trying to kid a public that' wall do much more if it is given the truth Uniform Air Safety It is fortunate that the civil aeronautics board is investigating the non scheduled or charter airlines against a background of narrow escape rather than tragedy But lhe rescue of the 69 persons aboard the Bermuda Sky Queen in the storm swept north Atlantic does not make the forced Landing of that flying bent more excusable or the investigation less necessary Two sets ot CAB regulations now govern the operation of scheduled and non scheduled air lines The commercial lines for instance must carry a three supply of extra fuel on over seas flights Their pilots must have had at least 1200 flying experience to obtain a license There are other rules regarding maximum loads runway lengths and so on The non scheduled carrier need have only an extra 45 fuel supply which Is why the Sky Queen had to be ditched Its pilots are re to have only 200 hours of experience Load and runway rules do not apply Human lives of course arc involved in both types of operation But for reasons of economy the CAB seems to have assumed that lives of the paying passengers are considerably more impor tant There are many reports ol many illegal opera tions under minimum safety rules since the CAB forbade the carrying of passengers by charter lines This ban arose from the decision that with faster and more frequent scheduled service by domestic and foreign carriers there was not enough business to warrant the non scheduled lines' carrying passengers Since the ban went into effect on Sept 10 some non scheduled operators if reports are true have been getting away with potential murder They are said to have leased their ships and crews to foreign travel agencies or airlines or to have set up phony corporations here There are other questions that need answering or one thing why has the CAB Deen so lax in enforcing its rules? Is it shortage of manpower inefficiency or something more sinister? The board was one of the government agencies hard est hit in the last budget cut by congress if that is the reason for a situation which is a threat to the lives of air passengers then certainly the CAB should be given enough money to carry ou( its duties Is it better to maintain two sets of safety regu lations or to permit charter lines to carry passen gers under a uniform set of rules? Whatever the answer any who have violated the present ban on the trans oceanic transport ot passengers by char ter plane should be dealt with severely Another obvious need Ls for the adoption of uniform legal economic and safety regulations by all governments which operate or whose nation als operate passenger flights outside their boun daries This would prevent the type of dodge that Is charged in the present situation International air authorities have recommended such a step but the governments have failed to take it The harrowing experience of the Bermuda Sky passengers has done all aviation an in justice This near tragedy is bound to stick in the public mind despite the remarkable safety record in trans oceanic flight established by the armed transport services and by commercial car riers The least that aviation authorities and operators can do is offer the international air traveler reasonable assurance ot safety by what ever line or plane he travels Matthiessen author of the week perhaps the least sensuous them all Critical Study Ma th Jessen's huge opus corporates passagers lung short from the letters essays and papers of the four leading charac ters their criticisms often stern and always uncompromising of one another and of Emerson Carlyle Hawthorne Europe America politics society fiction science and connective com ments and interpretations by the author If it reveals less about their age that might be expected it reveals more about them than any work on any single James could do they were natives of tlte James family and of no other country it was said In Henry's opinion "the multi tude has absolutely no or so little that writer should bother to satisfy it Such a no tion would be incomprehensible to a lot of fiction writers nowa days but Henry produced his novels on the basis of it and so does Matthiessen this critical stud Record Wire Use HAMBURG The amount of telegraph traffic handled by the reichspost in the British zone of Germany is now greater than before the war the British con trol commission an mw KSW i ISM On Vw i)al The capital cit ot Au tralia is Canberra 'pronoun ran brat and is built on an open plain in the Australian highlands new driver waste a second waiting for the z'l Nebraska Primary LINCOLN Organization a statewide bi partisan commit tee to seek to place on the April 13 primary ballot the names of all potential candidates of both parties fur president has been announced here The committee Is headed by Raymond A McConnell jr edi tor of the Lincoln Journal as chairman Vice chairmen are Lt Gov Robert Crosby of North Platte and Mrs Sidney Smith of Omaha By petition the com mittee announced that it will seek to place on the ballot the names of the following: On the democratic ticket President Truman and Henry A Wallace On the republican ticket tlic Mexican government but Mr Daniels was more successful than most In keeping relations on an even keel KSM I 1560 On Ynur Bang up Recollections of Paris Newspaperman PARIS HERALD THE INCRED IBLE NEWSPAPER by Al La ney (Appleton Century S3) With all the material Laney had to work with James Gordon exploits taxicab army gay Paris itself leaders in letters and art news paper men wise cocky or zany the Lindbergh and Byrd flights Aiircd Loewensteins channel swim all these things manage to turn good book and what Laney has Just 60 years old this month the paper began to pay in world war 1 and got on its feet to stay in the in the lush years its circulation reached 25000 Eugene Joins Whit Burnett Elliot Paul Ralph Barnes were on the staff and so was Robertson and the Old Phila delphia Lady daily wrote her letter about how to move from ahrenheit to contigradc It could hear from Ambassador Herrick that the moon had wings it could argue about ab sinthe versus "coquet and it could and did print under big headlines all about how Preakness won the derbv but despite a small staff it scored more than its share of scops 11 years him order might be forthcoming which would direct treatment for the girl The new state law directs free tuberculosis care for all who are unable to pay At present Dr Evans added about a dozen private patients are receiving the drug and pay ing for it KSWI 1560 On Your Dial Americans made their cheese at home before the Revolution Anti bylS12 it had become a common item of export Library eatures Historical Novels Both Old and New By Eleanor A erguson Librarian Public Library) The books on our list today arc all History ot one sort or an other some so recent that we can remember the events some reaching farther back into the past One that gives the readers a feeling of great age is Lucious "Mixed Train a hook dealing with the short line railroads of the United States Though the trains it describes are stijl running daily or in some cases weekly they seem to exist in a world far from the modern streamliner of Beautifully Illustrated Nearly all the lines described are rugged individualists and carry passengers only when con xenient to the railroad The book is beautifully illustrated photographs by the author and by Clegg jr It was given to the library by the offic ers and directors of the City Na tional bank as a memorial to Mr McCrory of Oakland Allen Ameri by Walter Johnson is really a biography but because While was so much a part of h1s coun life the leader gets good deal of history as well represented the views of small town to all those knew him many will feel arc reading the biography friend though they never him Exiles rom Iowa i An attractive combination of guide book anil history Is "Cali fornia In Our Time 1900 by Robert Glass Cleland In it he reviews the events and devel opments of the immediate past and adds Interest to the tours of today There is a rumor about to the effect that southern Cali fornia is populated by exiles from Iowa so the book should have many interested readers among the stay at homes Perhaps the most successful ambassador we ever sent to Mex ico was Josephus Daniels who represented us there from 1933 to 1942 He has written his mem oirs ot the period in an inimit able style which will win him as many friends at home as he left behind in Mexico Things have not always gone smoothly Soon alter Commissioner Wallander ordered 4iclwcpn hc United States and New York police to treat suspects with courtesy and consideration two reputable citizens com plained about being dragged from their automo biles and beaten Mayor was much dis turbed An ex policeman himself the mayor must know that many cops think they are showing re straint when they beat up suspects with the fist instead of a nightstick Il may take time to con vince some that they supposed to beat up the citizenry at all THE BLUE GHOST by Stoichen (Harcourt $375) In this slim volume of prose and magnificent i a master photographer makes live again an episode of the war In the Pacific Aboard the aircraft carrier Two Translations Are Worthy Novels WHEN THE MOUNTAIN ELL by Ramuz translated by Sarah isher Scott (Pantheon S250) THE WEEPING AND THE LAUGHTER by Joachim Maass translated by Erika Meyer (Wyn: S3) These two novels have In com mon that they are by and about Europeans the Swiss written originally in rench and Maass's in his native German and that they are worthy and distinguished works but while one is about simple Innocent peasants trapped by a catastro phe high in the Alps the other deals with the more complex pro lems of existence in a crowded port Hamburg Maass opens his novel with the murder of Ernst Tyllman shipping executive and then un der the expert guidance of city attorney Karsten launches an intensive investigation philo sophical as well as criminal into the lives ot the widow Xenia the three sons Ernst Grigol and ranz the two Schubacks and some odds and ends ot charac ters good like Lcni and dubious like Miss Srhcyer and Peters The novel which is well writ ten rises far above the sordid fact ot the killing to a consideration ot the meaning and value of life Beautifully Told Story Where Maass is psychologist Ramuz is poet The Swiss takes up to a secluded valley where villagers In temporary huts guard their sheep and cattle in the short summer A mountain wall collapses with a roar which reverberates for miles kills 18 or 20 men and widows Terese who back in her home has just real ized that she is to become a mother Or widows her for seven weeks for her husband Antoinellgs his way out ami reappears in tags anl rinanciated more like a ghost than a man An toine's final redemption through the love of his young wife from the dread nightmare ot impri somnent furnishes dramatic fullj told the two Month Ramuz died last May Maass and his translator both teach Mount Holyoke KSWJ UM On Yur Europe and Its Complex Problems CONTINENT IN LIMBO by Edith Sulkin (Reynold Hitchcock S3) Most Europe written continent before the an excellent example Mrs Sulkin sailed abroad in January 1916 and visited places where she had once lived Tn peo ple she had known Stockholm Oslo Prague Warsaw The Hague Berlin Pro Nazi Sentiment Il was a sad disillusioning re turn In Germany there was of course considerable pro nazi sen timent but so was there in Swe den and inland and there were repugnant vestiges of it in the Low Countries The people whether they had lost or won the war were hungry discouraged and helpless and wartime hard ships had not ended with the coining of peace The acute American Russian problem which she suspects "made the hunger cold and defeat easier to seems to her a fundamental rea son for the continent's belated recovery The picture she draws so vividly reduces complex po litical and economic questions to the persuasive comprehensible and often tragic terms of suffer ing men and women Type of History Not ound in Textbooks THE IRST CAPTAIN by Gerald Johnson (Coward McCann S3 50) John Paul Jones was an In convenient Man says his latest biographer and makes this the text for explaining and defend ing the ill starrol sea fichtor who helped win this in dependence Johnson means that the mer chant sailor turned naval officer was a step ahead of the public opinion of his day so was scorned and abused not only abroad but in his adopted land too not because of what he did but what ho thought and pro posed greatest project Johnson avers (though without taking much time for documen tation) was to win recognition of a fighting navy as an honorable profession and to bring about se lection of naval officers on abil ity rather than through birth or ini mence Incomplete Record But besides being an Incon vention Man Jones was incon venient in not leaving behind a clearly marked trail for succeed ing generations ot pundits and analysts There are gaps shrouded passages ill marked at crucial points in the record So irst like other Jones volumes must rely to a degice on speculation and departs from orthodox biography io ucuume an extended historical essay with animadversions on events of much later limes This means the book becomes the rostrum for presentation of another views on that amazing era of revolution ary flux at home and abroad in the dying days of the 18th cen tury with some pointed com ments on Americans renchmen Britons and Russians whom the succeeding ages have treated with kindness or veneration or tolerance Medal of Honor Johnson is a skilled and de termined solicitor for his client and he lets no opportunity slip 1 remind how the ounding athers embroiled in politics sectional jealousy and envy de prived him of If) comm mils which had been promised how after each of his sea victories he was beached for extended inter vals how' he was booted about and discarded during his later career in Russia how later gen erations continued to revile him as a pirate In fact it un til 1947 that this land got around to awarding him a posthumous Congressional Medal of Honor This is the sort ol history that get Into the textbooks Ail rom Missouri Maybe Agriculture Secretary Anderson was not loo tactful when he publicly described the pro gram of meat less poultry lcss egg less days as of "little importance" except as of sac rifice" Maybe President Truman and Chairman Luck man of the food committee were forced to slap Mr Anderson down by inferencend dispute his statement But of course Secretary Anderson is right he President and Mr Luckman arc wrong The cays of abstention program is absolutely nothing more than what lhe Agriculture Secretary called The objective is not to save eggs poultry and meat because these arc scarce It is 'ot te induce a buyers' slowdown to bring the prices of those foodstuffs within reach of the family purse If It were either of these the pro gram might be considered as a mechanism in itself rather than as a mere token But what is sought is to save by this and other means 100000000 bushels of grain mostly wheat to be added to the 470000000 bushels already allocated to relief of Euiopean hunger That objective is most worthy We arc all for JtJVc even are for the days of abstenlion pro gram and urge everybody to co operate with it But we support the program with our eyes wide open We're not being kidded and not try ing to kid anybody else The production of meat animals poultry and eggs Is a continuous long range industry Ranchers and farmers are not likely to stop feed ing grain and kill off their herd and flocks just because part of the public in a spirit of good will abstains from meat and from poultry and eggs on specific days Probably this would be true in any case It surely is true now that the stoie prices of meat poultry and eggs have soared so high that only an unimportant few of the most pros perous housewives can afford to serve such luxur ies every day Most families already get by on cereal for breakfast more than one day a w'eck: just make Thursday one of those days Most families do not eat poultry every day just see that Thursday except for the coming poultry day Most families are driven to at least two meatless days a week to save money one traditionally is riday and just make Tuesday another It is entirely possible to live up to the letter and spirit of the abstention program without affecting family consumption of meat poultry and eggs in the least and without saving one tiny grain of wheat There can and should be savings If the days of abstentlon program is taken as a token a re minder a symbol of sacrifice it can help all of us to remember the great need of starving mfl Hons and to save grain We might even save grain direct In the form of dry bread now thrown away Before the war we might have been kidded into thinking that such an abstention program will bring direct saving But during the war we discovered too many flaws in the propaganda drilled Into us Now all from Missourli we've got to be shown AH that is but Mr Truman He has been mis Matthiessen a native of Pasadena came east to get the subject of his book "The James an account of the rela tions interrenctions resemb lances and differences of Henry James sr and three ot his chil dren: William Henry and Alice Matticsscn who in 1918 when he was only 16 gave promise of a life of adventure by joining the RA settled down thereafter in study attended Yale and Harv aid and went to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar He taught at Yale for two years and been chairman of the tutors in history and at Harvard THE JAMES AMILY Mattiessen (Knopf $675) An Irishman who came to this country 'settled in Albany ami made a fortune was the founder ot the family one of the greatest products or at least happen stances of American life of which four members arc Hie sub jects of this "group Henry Janies son of the original immigrant daughter Alice and his two sons William the psychologist and philosopher and Henry the novelist Henry senior friend ol Emer son anti Calvinist cqtiallhirfan pegleg ami something of a stam merer determined to provide for his children in Europe the "sen education which (he states did not afford It was fan tastically Informal and horn the pedagogic point of view no edu cation at all yet It helped to form two of our most disting uished men of letters William the professor who later regarded it as inadequate and Henry who found In it what he thought an swered his needs or William who taught us the "cash value of an and as pragmatist submitted his philosophy to the test of the senses and who is regarded as one of our most influential novelists and yet is Raises ine Point Under New Iowa Law DAVENPORT The first chapter in what may be a grave responsibility of coun ties under the new Iowa tubercu losis care was opened ri day with a discussion among members of the Scott county board of supervisors Informed that a 19 year old girl a county patient is in a dangerous condition in a sani torlum and that a so called wonder drug streptomycin might halt the ravages of tu berculosis board members were adamant ir demanding that she receive the drug The board was informed that such treatment is being delayed because the cost would be $400 to $600 and such charges in a number of cases ex haust funds of the institution The supervisors hold that the sanitorium trustees arc empow ered to authorize the expendi ture Dr Harold Evans medical director of the sanatorium said he feared all kinds of trou ble if high pressure tactics wore used by the public to demand the drug for all tuberculosis patients The drug he said still is in the experimental stage and is available only in limited quantities Only a few types of cases have been shown to bene fit from it he said but he add ed the drug holds out hope the girl in question Since the girl is a ward Scott county juvenile court Denver and other important cities in the surrounding area it tells how to go the route to select where to eat amt sleep along the route and what to sec 1560 On Your is only possible among a peo ple intelligent enough to demand it and Strong enough to enforce NEW NONPAREIL CO PUBLISHERS OUNDED 1857 PobhaHed every evening end Sunday at II Pearl Council Bluffs Iowa Entered as second clans matter at the Post Office at Council Rluffn under aot of March 1871 Subscription by mall: 87 a year In first and second cone all other aonea 610 By carrier 25 cent a week LHE ASSOC1A ED PRESS The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to me use for republication of all the local news prlnt in this newspaper as well as al! AP news dispatches Telephones: Council Bluffs: 406L Omaha: Jackson 212L Lexington on a strike into the Gilbert and Marshall islands during November and December of 1913 Stelchen snapped the shots and jotted down the notes that bring the whole half for gotten operation to reality KSWI UM On Yaar DtZi Criticizes Art by Dissecting Artists MONA LISSA'S MUSTACHE A DISSECTION MODERN ART by Robsjohn Glb blngs (NnopL S3) This author tossed ur an tiques out tlic window in his first book "Good bye Mr Chip and now he tries to do the same with modern art But lor a book supjkised to be about art this one in both text and illustrations is devoted almost entirely to artists He wants to throw artists out the window be cause he says thej believe in abracadabra mumbo jumbo and foe fi fo fum Behind the new studio isms such as cubism expressionism and Dadism Robsjohn Gibbirgs has found still one more oc cultism Sprinkling his text with some damaging quotes he charges that Resettle and the pre RaphaeJites were not much more than table tippers and tars with the same stick Marinetti Kandinsky Picasso and other contcmjwraries They followed Mme Blavatsky and Annie Besant wanted to be dictators pointed the way to facism Hence they are bad painters and the museum of modern art is only the most conspicuous ot the institutional and personal suck ers Material I Interesting In general the material here is interesting the argument un convincing Robsjohn Gibbings confesses ectoplasm and plastic He the first man to con demn a picture he like by jointing to the pecca dillos He drinks he acts crazy he has affairs with women a spendthrift he go to my church so he paint Of course Marinetti was a fascist and Kandinsky an oc cultist but there are three things which do not follow though the author maintains they da It doe not follow that modern art is not good art that al) modern artists are fascists or that they an Deneve crystal ball magic In there some where our crusader still com plains Maybe he means that as praise for in a sense magic in all great paintings and indeed no painting can be creat without it The book contains a errors and misconstrues some quota tions And the author has an annoying habit Every time he wants to be sure of your atten tion he puts his comment in italics like a man who tells you something and keeps nudg ing you to be sure listen ing and maybe at that if he you wouldn't listen KSW'l UM Oa Yaar Sen Hickenlooper to Tour Central America VS ASIIINGTON d' Senator Hickenlooper (R Iowa) left ri day on a one man study of the United States information pro gram in four Central American countries He flew to New Orleans where he is scheduled to take a boat for Cristobal Panama His itinerary includes Panama Costa Rica Honduras and Guatemala Hickenlooper is a member of a committee which recently sur veyed the effectiveness of lhe state department's information program in 22 European coun HI 4 I' Group Biography of Henry mum imt Tywy A 'Him Vt I rr "Pt vA i ziA in? rr server KWW fej I Ci PEPT Atom's aMK zwp su YU7srvicr7jc 4 7 W' i 1 £Sjc MH yjz 4 COP 1947 KA SERVICE INC 2 3.