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With confidence in our armed forces—with
the unbounding determination of our people—
we will gain the inevitable triumph—so help
ns God.
Roosevelt’s War Message.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1945.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY
“Memory is given to us,” said a great
man, “so that we might have roses in De
cember” . . . The distinctive thing about
the Christian life is that the best is ever
on before us; the best is yet to be. . . .
There is no such thing as growing old for
the Christian.
DR. ARCHER WALLACE.
Reading Public
In one of her "My Day" columns. Mrs.
Roosevelt wonders "whether the great ma
jority of people really read their newspapers
and whether, when they listen on the radio,
they take in much of what they hear."’
We suspect that this question might have oc
curred to Mrs. Roosevelt after reading a good
many paper's and listening to a good many
commentators during the last four presidential
campaigns, and then adding up the popular
vote on the second Wednesday after the firs!
Monday in November.
Hard To Please
President Roosevelt spoke glowing words of
praise for France in his recent message to
Congress. Yet General de Gaulle's biographer
has expressed bitter disappointment that the
President did not mention the general by
name.
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey has been taken to
task by Democratic leaders of the New York
state legislature for proposing a legislative pro
gram that the Democrats themselves have
been trying to put across.
Obviously the President would have disap
pointed General de Gaulle’s biographer ever,
more if he had failed to praise France And
Gov. Dewey would have been taken even more
seriously to task if he had proposed a pro
gram contrary to Democratic inclinations.
In politics expecially, it seems that one is
damned if one does and damned if one doesn’t.
Postwar Travel
In a recent advertisement one of our do
mestic airlines has published its postwar time
table of flights from San Francisco to Calcutta.
In 1929 this airline, TWA. inaugurated the first
transcontinental service using planes. The
elapsed time of these runs (with train travel
at night) was about 35 hours from New York
to Los Angeles.
After the war, according to present plans,
a TWA passenger will be able to go from San
Francisco to Vienna or Milan in slightly less
time than the New York-Los Angeles time of
16 years ago.
We think that's encouraging and pretty won
derful. And we would think that it was even
more wonderful if someone could guarantee
to us that mutual international cooperation,
sympathy and respect would be increased in
direct proportion to the increased speed of in
ternational travel.
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Up To The People
The industries of the United States have just
started a job that deserves unrestrained com
mendation. Thousands of them, through the
National Industrial Information committee,
have joined in the greatest informational cam
paign to the people ever attempted by pri
vate enterprise.
The outstanding feature of this endeavor is
the fact that a meeting of thousands of minds
In all lines of diversified production and em
ployment, was secured to act as a unit in
presenting a program to the public on the
Job industry must do and will do in meeting
what ase commonly called postwar psoblems
At a matter of fact, they are problems tbat
we have all faced since the world began, of
earning our daily bread and butter. But never
before has industry, in clear and concise
language, tried to show the people where the
public interest in helping to maintain condi
tions conducive to investment, and employ
ment, and production, is greater than the in
terest of any industry involved.
In a series of advertisements that is running
throughout the nation, the National Industrial
Information committee is endeavoring to make
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clear to the wage earner, the capitalist, the
housewife and the employer, that there is no
mythical means of making jobs either by in
dusty or the government—that it is the peo
ple themselves who, by their own acts, create
the conditions that make or destroy employ
ment. earnings savings and government.
While industry must furnish the jobs and
will do all in its power to accomplish that
end, the people, who in turn, are the workers,
the investors and the government, have the
solution of industrial problems that create em
ployment, in their own hands.
Industry in the United States represents
America—not a few stockholders. The people
must realize, and realize soon, that neither in
dustry nor government can be more success
ful than the people will it to be. Industry is
doing a tremendous job in focusing public at
tention on this issue.
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A Late Look
The House Military Affairs Committee, ac
cording to a dispatch from Washington, would
like to canvass the manpower problems in
military and war production fields before
reaching any decision.
A look before a leap is certainly commend
able. But why is the committee (and ap
parently the House and Senate) only now
getting around to look? And why has legis
lation to cure these manpower problems al
ready been introduced when congressional
information is apparently so inadequate?
The existence of manpower shortages in
certain critical fields is not news. The Presi
dent first asked Congress for national service
legislation well over a year ago. And since
that first tentative request the manpower sit
uation has gone from better to worse.
The need for more ammunition, heavy ar
tillery, trucks and tires, radar equipment and
cotton duck is six months old. Congress has
known of this need. It has sent some of its
members to the battlefronts to see the result of
i shortages with their own eyes. It has received
! from War Mobilizer Eyrne* a detailed report
on production ar.d manpower problems.
And new, when enough of everything and
more to spare is needed to press the attack
in the Philippines and throw back the Germans
in Europe, the House Military Affairs Com
mittee wants to canvass the situation.
What has the committee, and Congress in
' general, been doing in the meantime? Well,
| for one thing, they were pretty busy running
I for office. There was the question last summer
[ of recessing without unbecoming haste so that
the members might get home to their constit
uents. And after the elections were over there
was really very little that the waning 78th
Congress felt that it could do, emergency or
no emergency.
And then what happened when the new Con
gress finally rolled up its sleeves and prepared
to tackle its critical tasks? Well, the first order
of business in the House was to reconstitute
the so-called Dies Committee and put it on a
permanent basis. There was also considerable
talk of investigating organizations like the
CIO—PAC and curbing their future activities.
We don’t say that a congressional committee
to investigate un-American activities is not, in
principle, a good thing. Nor do we^contend that
“non-partisan” political organizations should
be immune to investigation. But we do main
tain that they are not of first importance to
day, at the expense of pressing military needs.
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Mr. Vandenberg’s Speech
Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Republican and
pre-war isolationist, helped launch the Senate’s
foreign policy debate with a speech that merits
the attention and admiration of all friends of
international postwar peace.
He was specific. He proposed an immediate
treaty among the leading powers to demili
tarize Germany and Japan permanently. This,
he suggested, would remove the fear of Axis
militarism and the doubt of eventual American
co-operation which apparently are driving Brit
ian and Russia toward a course of unilateral
and bilateral agreements, and power politics.
He was practical. He proposed to allow the
President prompt authorization of force to car
ry out the treaty. He also proposed eventual
functions of the Dumbarton Oaks plan calcu
lated to cancel some foreseeable objections by
“perfectionist’’ colleagues in the Senate.
And, as an influential Republican, he charted
a course of unity and action for his party. His
program is one of positive accomplishment,
not negative opposition. It promises a will
ing, constructive partnership by the Senate
minority in the great and fateful work ahead.
In short, Mr. Vandenberg probably did a lot
to renew a lot of wavering faith in the Con
gress of the United States.
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EDITORIAL COMMENT
CONCERNING THE CROW
Why a crow honks when he is in flight is
one of the things in nature that has always
filled me with wonder. Generally, in arising
from his rookery or soaring home to it in the
twilight, he keeps up a constant honking.
When he reaches a watering place in his
morning flight, he immediately ceases to honk.
In the evening when he has settled down
amid the trees, he grows silent again. In
crbw language that honking may mean a great
deal, but so far as I can make out it is
merely a method of letting the world know
he is alive.—The Bentztown Bard, in the Bal
timore Sun.
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Contrary to the ideas expressed by some of
our industrial organizations and labor leaders,
I am confident that the great majority of our
people want to be told how thay can P>
where they are needed and what they s ou
| do to back up our fighting men at the lr0IU’
— Navy Undersecretary Ralph A- Bar .
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Fair Enough
(Editor’s note.—The Star accepts no re
sponsibility for the personal views of Mr.
Pegler, and often disagrees with them as
much as many of his readers. His articles
serve the good purpose of making people
think.)
By WESTBROOK PEGLER
(Copyright, 1945. by King Features Syndicate.)
CHICAGO. — The revolution against the
terms “GI” and “GI Joe” seems to be pro
ceeding nicely but I believe a case can be
made for the contention that they were not
slapped on the soldiers by outsiders but in
vented by the troops themselves. Early in
the draft, when the new men were just learn
ing army dialect they were impressed by the
term “GI” meaning government issue or
standard stuff and called themselves “GI's.”
Surely that could not have come from the
civilians because only a service man could
know what it meant. About the same time,
the use of the name “Joe” became common
among them, too, but, at first the two were
employed separately. Speaking of another man
in his outfit, a soldier would say "he is a good
Joe,” but it was not a term of personal ad
dress as in the case of “buddy” in the army
of the first world war. A man would not
sing out “what outfit, Joe?’’ as his father had
saluted strangers in the same cloth with "what
outfit, buddy?”
Damon Runyon, who is to our native slang
as Henry Mencken is to our more substantial,
and enduring, if quaint, forms of expression,
says that for forty years “a Joe has meant
a jasper, a joskin, and yokel” and he may
be right but I don’t know where it was so
used if so and I have been around many of
the places where he has been durine much
of the same time, always with an ear stretched
out. Joskin I never encountered until he used
it a few days ago in deprecating “GI” and
“GI Joe” as undignified, but in my time “Joe”
was applied exclusively to immigrant Italian
laborers on the railroad and other construc
tion gangs, and that was long ago. The boss
would yell “hey, Joe” and a bunch of them
would come a’running. Some people mostly
drummers and a few inexperienced travelers
who wanted to seem worldly, used to call all
Pullman porters, “George,” a practice which
was deftly put down by some subtle propa
ganda eased into print by the late James
Keely, the former tyrant of the city room
of the Chicago Tribune who ended his aggres
sive career in the milky role of press-agent
and good-will provocateur for Pullman in a
strange and friendly association with men to
whom he would not pass the time of day in
the elevator when he was boss. Nobody who
knows his way around calls a porter “George”
these days and anyone who realiy wants to
call a porter by name usually can find it in
the little frame at the end of the car. Im
migrant Polish laborers were called “§teve”
and the Irish who came earlier were called
“Mick” or “Mike.”
Otherwise, though, and speaking from my
own experience, "Joe” seems to have been
originally a baseball term, denoting a non
descript but earnest sort of fellow who made
awful, awkward mistakes and looked very un
promising in the spring but later opened his
pores, got the hang of things and stood up
all right. My memory has it that it was
first used, aside from its application to the
Italian laborer, about the spring of 1930 when
A1 Lopez, the Cuban catcher, came up to
join Uncle Wilburt Robinson’s Brooklyn club
which always looked hopeless in Clearwater
but generally floundered into the first division
at the end. Asked if he intended to keep Lo
pez. Uncle Wilburt said he didn’t think so
because if you had one of those Spicks you
had to get another to room with him. Other
wise the one wouldn’t have anyone to talk
to in his own language. He didn’t always
know his players’ names or personalities and
here was a highly intelligent young man des
tined to be a great catcher, who hadn’t even
caught his eye yet. During that camp one of
the essayists reported that Uncle Robby would
start the geason, as usual, with Dazzy Vance
and a lot of guys named Joe but probably
would do all right as usual and that, I be
lieve, is the true origin of the expression “a
lot of guys named Joe” from which the sol
diers, in turn, adopted their Joe and with about
the same meaning.
Used by civilians and the press and radio,
however, I agree that “GI” and “GI Joe”
do sound familiar, patronizing and undignified
and presently will fade.
The French soldier was not called "Poilu”
in this war. possible because he no longer
wears the whiskers that brought the name
down on him in 1914. It stuck through the
first war even though, w'ith the introduction
of the gas-mask which was not designed to
accommodate those horse-hair square-riggers
and galways, the whiskers had to come off.
Mr. Kipling publicized the name Tommy
Atkins and the British people did call their
enlisted soldiers Tommies and with no dis
respect, either, but rather with affection, and
the modern British troops, certainly no longer
the ignorant Kipling Tommies of the slums,
did not resent it.
The most horrible mistake of this kind was
committed in the First World war when the
First division went to France. Some well
meaning but silly Englishman thought that
because they were nephews of Uncle Sam
they should be called Sammies and some of
their papers took it up, although anguished
Americans writhed, cringed and frothed as
they tried to explain why it just wouldn’t do.
Pursuing the campaign to imflict this awful
thing on the American soldier, another Eng'
lishman said it was a term of endearment in
vented by our gallant French allies. They had
called the troops “Les Amies” which had the
effect of “Sammies” if you closed your eyes,
held your nose and said it fast.
God rest his soul, he was a man of many
good works so I will not identify the American
editor who thought this was a fine idea and
attempted to stick it on the American soldier
by ordering his correspondent with the First
division to use it always in his dispatches.
Fortunately, after a few months, he realized
wnat he was doing and dropped the name
“Sammies” cold. A man cannot be forced
to testify against himself so 1 will never re
veal who the correspondent was who became,
over his protest, an accessory to the dastard
ly attempt.
-V
Without this war we could not have had the
high grade gasoline we have now. Out of it
will come better planes, better automobiles,
more efficient transportation generally. _ a
A F Gen. Henry H. Arnold.
* * «
The program begun in November for furth
er increases to meet General Eisenhower’s
needs, now in the tooling and equipping stave
will reach top production some time in August
or September. _ Maj. Gen. Levin H. CampbeU
Army Ordn^jnce chief. ’
“Favorite Stamping Ground**
WITH THE AEF:
Musicians Help Salvage Wounded
By KENNETH E. DIXON
ON THE BELGIAN FRONT,
Jan. 5.—(Delayed)—UP)—A bunch
of musicians have turned medics
up here in the cold, snow-covered
Ardennes forest, and some of Am
erica’s better known bandsmen
are playing mercy instruments in
a frontline medical experiment.
Tney are in the 84th Division’s
new “convalescent center,’’ wllich
sends slightly wounded Doughboys
back into action within 10 days—
instead of the month or six weeks
it normally would require.
It’s an experiment because nor
during the month we've had the
center in operation we’ve sent
more than 35 per cent of our total
casualties back into action within
10 days,” said Major Robert J.
Day, Omaha, Neb., the division’s
clearing company’s surgical chief.
By the old system of evacuating
them farther to the rear we’d be
lucky to get 10 or 15 per cent
back that soon.”
It’s an expeirment because nor
mally a division clearing station
isn’t supposed to keep patients
more than 72 hours. Thus, when
the convalescent center was set
up, Army red tape prevented any
personnel being available to op
erate it.
“That’s where the band mem
bers came in,” said M/Sgt. Wil
liam Disbrow, Cranford, N. J. "It
takes 37 men and officers to run
the center, and 28 of them came
from the division band.”
They set up 200 cots, litters and
pallets on the floor of an old
Belgian castle and sent for the
band boys.
Sgt. Phil Ford of San Francisco
and Alameda, Calif., who used to
have his own bana on the West
Coast, was one of the first to show
up. He brought along his clarinet
and saxaphone and composed nov
elty pieces and songs in his spare
time.
When he isn’t making beds or
changing dressings hes singing
songs to the boys—"Cigaret For
Poppa” and "Uncle Sammy, Take
Care of My Gal” are two of his
own compositions that the Dough
bays like best.
Along came Cpl. Charles (Pap
py) Powell, Ontario Ore., and al
though now he’s tuning taut nerves
of shaken soldiers, he also had a
big string bass with which he
used to shake dance floors in Sun
Valley, Idaho, Los Angeles and
other places.
Sgt. A1 Deharris of Uniontown,
Pa , beats out on bedpans the
tunes he used to drum in Herbie
K^’s band.
Most famous of all is Cpl. Otto
(Coco) Heimel, New Orleans, La.,
whose guitar provided accom
paniment lor 15 years for Gene
Austin and made the famous best
selling record, ‘‘My Blue Heaven.”
Cpl. Bill Sadler, who once had his
own outfit in Cincinnati and else
where in the Midwest, now tickles
the battered division piano. Others
include: Pfc. Pete Castellano, New
Jersey trumpeter who starred with
Eob Crosby and Ina Ray Hutton;
Pfc. Rudy Pompili, Philadelphia
saxaphonist; and Sgt. William
Notini, Lowell, Mass., alto saxa
phonist who played in Richard
Himber’s band.
Most of the wounded Doughboys
don’t know the reputations of their
ward attendants. They only know
their division is taking care of
them—which is a lot better than
being shunted around from one
replacement depot to another.
The officers still don’t know
whether the Army will extend
the idea to other divisions, but
they do know that the command
ing general of their Army group
sent them congratulations, saying
they were ‘‘salvaging more fight
ing personnel than any outfit in
the European theatre of opera
tions.”
forts of life; who has covered our
infancy with his providence, and
our riper years with his wisdom
and power; and to whose goodness
I ask you to join with me in sup
plications, that he will so enlighten
the minds of your servants, guide
their councils and prosper their
measures, that whatsoever they do
shall result in your good, and shall
secure to you the peace, friendship
and approbation of all nations.”
Those are the words of a man
who thought of himself as truly
a public servant.
(Copyright 1945 by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
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A New York internal revenue
collector said taxpayers were
meeting their obl.gations with
very few complaints. People
must be living up to the war
time warning of "Don’t talk.”
Interpreting
The War
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press War Analyst
With the Nazi Belgian bulge
but flattened out with British ar(1
American armies on both sides 0< j
it on the offensive, Moscow I
discloses a Red Army attack d; |
tidal wave proportions rol!j. I
across the plain of Poland. ! :
The east-west ultimate SqueeZ( 1
play long ago projected at Tehran '
seems to be taking shape at w ^
How long it will take to throttl'd ’
Germany into submission is beyond
calculation; but there is new sh
grim warning to the roe of the
purpose behind it.
“The war will go on until n*
conditional surrender has been oi '•
tained,’’ Prime Minister Churchill
told Parliamentary hecklers j
Moscow left no doubt oi the' tre
mendous scope of the twin at!
tacks launched over the weekend
in Poland. That the whole German
defense front from the north f|ar,i
of the Carathians to Warsaw and
beyond is under concerted Hed
Army pressure is Nazi-revealed
Russian bulletins covered iwj '
main thrusts boring in beyond be I
Vistula.
Tr» 1_
estimate that, the Nazi bulge d iv. I
en more than 40 miles deep hto h
Belgium at high cost has bee-,
cut to a bare 115 miles. Less lhari |
400 square miles of the maximum ■
of 2,000 the enemy once held there
remain in his hands.
By official American estimates
that lean heavily toward conserva. I
tism it cost the Germans <>o.000 i
men, more than twice American t
losses, to gain nothing but a brief
delay in the Allied winter offensive*
That the respite will be brief at
best and already may be over is
indicated by the British attack in i
Holland on the Meuse sector anil
the American counter thrust down
the Moselle Valley approaching the l
Nazi Siegfried Line anchorage ol f
Trier. The scope of neither the 1
Meuse nor the Moselle operation i
is clear yet
A breakthrough to Trier beyond
the last indicated American posi
tion there would put Patton’s hard
hitting armor astride rail and high- |
way communications leading di- t
rectly north in rear of the south I
shoulder of the German bulge
into Belgium.
It is too early to classify the
twin British and American offen
sive moves on both f'anks of the
Belgian oulg as resumption of the
winter campaign. The mere fact
that they could be undertaken with
in a month of the launching of rhe
Nazi drive is significant. It be
speaks Allied intention of resuming
full scale offensive operations in
the west.
Daily Prayer
FOR DEEPENED WAR SENSE
Thou hast given us victories, ,t
token that we fight on Thy side.
O King over all; and Thou hast
permitted defeats to our arms, to
chasten our self-confidence, and to
recall us to Thyself. By all Tr
providences, whether of victory or
of defeat, intensify our reliance
upon Thy power. May our faith [
not be a shallow thing, shaken by
every-changing wind of fortune. In
the deepest depths of our hea:;r f
may we trust Thee wholly, and R
wait patiently for the fulfilment it
Thy promises. Surely, it is more
to Thee that Thy children he j
drawn to Thee, our Father, in ev- |
Washington Calling
-Bv Marauis Childs
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—Lights
have burned late in the executive
offices of the White House in these
first weeks of the new year, as
the President and Iris staff of as
sistants have worked on the re
ports and messages which tradi
tionally are sent to each new ses
sion of Congress.
This time, following the budget
message and the annual report on
the State of the Union, there is
also an inaugural address to pre
pare. It will be the fourth time
that Franklin Delano Roosevelt has
taken the oath of the highest office
in the land—an unprecedented phe
nomenon that will inevitably loom
large in our history.
Actually, of course, it is no more
than confirmation of profound
changes which have occurred. Dur
ing Roosevelt’s 12 years in office,
the character pf the Federal gov
ernment has been altered. It is
difficult to see how any future
president can go back to the rela
tively simple governmental struc
ture that existed up to 1930.
Partisans will argue, from now
until Kingdom Come, as to whether
this revolution was the result of a
conscious, deliberate course pur
sued by Franklin Roosevelt, or
whether he merely helped to guide
the Nation along a path that had
become inevitable in the light of
changes in our economy which oc
curred long before the blustery day
in March of 1933 when F. D. R.
was first inaugurated. I believe
that in the long perspective, Roose
velt will be seen to be more effect
than cause.
His bitterest haters have regard
ed him as a sort of god of the
machine deliberately forcing the
country into radical and untried
ways. History ultimately, it seems
to me, will show that, more often
than not, circumstances dictated
the road he took.
The President has said that this
fourth inaugural address will be
shorter than any of the other three.
It will be part of a private cere
mony to be held with wartime
brevity and simplicity on the south
portico of the White House.
But as the President's ghost writ
ers are undoubtedly discovering, it
is harder to write a short speech—
that is, an effective short speech—
than it is to write a long speech.
Pascal once said, “I have made
this letter rather long only because
I have not had time to make it
shorter.”
Those who are working on what
the President eventually will re
shape in his own language could,
for a guide, go back to an in
augural address delivered 140
years ago. At his second inaug
ural, Thomas Jefferson spoke with
brevity. In many ways, that brief
speech could serve as a model.
Jefferson, too, had had his bat
tles with the press and, in the ad
dress he delivered on March 4,
1805, he sharply rebuke the news
papers for their "abuses,” but
Roosevelt needs no inspiration in
his vendetta with the press. It is
in another respect that the plain
speech of a century and a half
ago seems to me to commend it
self to the fourth-term President.
In a memorable conclusion, Jef
ferson shows the humility that is
a mark of true greatness:
"I shall now enter on the duties
to which my fellow citizens have
again called me, and shall pro
ceed in the spirit of those princi
ples which they have approved. 1
fear not that any motives of in
terest may lead me astray; I am
sensible of no passion which would
seduce me knowingly from the
path of justice; but the weakness
of human nature, and the limits
of my own understanding, will pro
duce errors of judgment sometimes
injurious to your interests. I shall
need, therefore, all the indulgences
I have heretofore experienced—the
want of it will certainly not lessen
with increasing years.
‘ I shall need, too, the favor of
that being In whose hands we are,
who led our forefathers, as Israel
of old, from their native lands and
planted them in a country flowing
with all the necessities and com
er-ciuaer ucpcnucntc, man c...
victories come invariably to our
arms. We pray for this closer walk
with God; and we pray for our
men. in the fearful stress of bat
tle. that they may know themselves
to be in Thy companionship and
care. Hasten the coming of a
peace that will conform to Thy i
will; and Thine will be the glory.
Amen.—W.T.E.
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NEW FLIGHT SCHEDULE
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BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMP
The Literary Guidepost
By W. G. ROGERS
“I’ll Hate Myself in The Morning"
and "Summer in December." by
Elliot Paul (Random House:
$2.5.)0
Here are two ingeniously plotted
and expertly handled mystery sto
ries. The first is a Homer Evans
yarn laid in North America: the
second, laid in Latin America, i.
a tale of a German scheme oI
conquest.
One body is found in the com
partment of a streamlined train
and the other in the smouldering
ruins of a consulate; in both cases
youare tolerably interested in the
who, why and how. The second
story is dedicated to that fine
democratic artist, Luis Quintanil
la; its whole tone is most laudably
patriotic, liberal and anti-Kascist,
as invaluable nitrate deposits arc
preserved from destruction by
Axis villians.
These stories have just the right
vivid splashes of sophistication
from the facile pen of the author
of “The Last Time I Saw Paris'
and "he Life and Death of a
Spanish Town." There are adroit I
references to Picasso, Joyce,
Frank Harris, so that you feel you |
are in the right company: tnt- I
are glib touches of French. Gti* jjpyj
man and Spanish (with tra”s'3' 9
tions' so that you may delight ^ 9
the impression of scholarship! 9
there is drinking Left-Bank st)A
w hieh is from the time you i" jf
up until the time you go to be* ,
and there is sex Left-Bank sty >p
which is all around the clock.
In the second story, in .vr-^ I
Paul himself figures, he quote; ■■
Walt Whitman lines: fi
“Me imperturbe, standing ■
ease in Natuje ,
. . . Aplomb in the midst i
irrational things. . _ if
■‘Imperturbe” was the t.”e. ta ft
cn from the lines above, of '
of Paul’s early, earnest, '*'■•-■
novels, when he thought v-'rp”'.j 11
was a calling, not a businr •
was the man, toe, who wrote ■,
solid, sound “Governor of Mas-- ||
chusettes.” Paul, also, was the c ;|
founder, with Eugene Jolas, o!j“
experimental magazine ‘ *r£ '
tion” which helped so import*” |
ly to encourage young tale- • |
the Twenties and made Paris ^ g
nost an essential stop on the *
to an American literary care*” ^
The author of these two ® 1
tery stories is another Paul.