The Des Moines Register from Des Moines, Iowa • Page 40

StryPAY, MAT 5, 1940. SOCIETY THIRTEEN if NOW! Mora Than 850,000 Circulation! il NOW! More Than 850,000 Circulation! -fr DES MOINES SUNDAY REGISTER. Miss Binkard To Wed BOOKS Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart, Editor Sanitation To Be Theme Of Meeting Refreshing Short Stories By Author of The Yearling' another about Snort, a droop-eared mule jointly owned by mean Jim Lee and mild Luty Higgenbotham, and a third and easily the favorite one about what befell when that Inveterate and irrepressible old scamp, little Uncle cranked his Model-T and ground away with a pint of 'shine in his pocket and his seven pled bird-dogs in the back seat to keep him company. MAGAZINES "Jacob's Ladder," the novelette included in "When the was first published in Scribners and the short stories are reprints from that magazine, Harper's and the Saturday Evening Post It's An Idea For Invalids One New York bookseller fre quently orders single copies of new books in folded sheets, unbound. Recently a publisher asked her why.

The books, it turns out, are for a bed-ridden customer who has them cut apart and reads them la single page at a time, being too weak to hold a bound book. Music Club To Meet for May Breakfast Treble Clef Music club will hava a May breakfast at 9 a. m. Monday at Greenwood park. following the breakfast election of officers will take place.

i free Piek-up and Dthvry Br Our Boadtd Mwngmt ANY FUR COAT stored tn burglar, moth and Ire proof Vault. Includes) bv wane to ISO vahaatloa. Miller-Wohl 312 7th St." today I 14 Popular Flavors famous recifz Louis Zara. His Indian Battles Are Gory. Miss Jane Binkard, daugh- ter of Mr.

and -Mr. Glenn A. Binkard of Spen cer, will become the bride of Lewis Fuller of Ia Crosse, son of. Mrs. R.

H. Fuller of Des Moines. The wedding will take place June 23. Return to McGregor. McGREGOR, IA.

Logan Blizzard and Mrs. Blanche Blizzard have returned from a five months' vacation spent at West Palm Beach, Fla. Help save a life! Look where you drive and where you walk. HEDGES Hide and Beautify II there are unsightly objects ia your outlook or your lawn appears unfinished and ragged, beautify it with a hedge. Whatever the seed icreen twenty feet tall or a knee-high border, there are ihrubs and evergreens ideally adapted lor uae as hedge.

They are inexpensive yet valuable asseti is the home landscape and excellent back-grounds for perennial borders. Aik us tot euggesUoni (or hedges, screens, windbreaks, vines or ground covert. Thi most campled lenitcap airier? in low. Opt eveninfi A Sonifoyi Robinson Paroham Landscapors Phone 5-0868 60 15 Grand A Thrilling Pioneer Story Indians, Settlers and British Stuggle for the Land THIS LAND IS OURS: By Louis Zara. Houghton Mifflin.

$2.75. Reviewed by Jane deF. Woodruff. "rpHE land is ours! By treaty, by conquest! By the ordaining of heaven, sir, the land is ours!" Thus spoke Mad General Anthony Wayne. "These lands are held by all the tribes together.

The land is ours," the warrior chief Tecumseh in formed the white men. "We are men! We will not go! The land is ours," cried the In dians. "The land is ours," said Andrew Benton, the hero of this novel. "It's waiting to be took!" OVER AND OVER The conquering chiefs crowed over their dead enemies as they crammed dirt into their mouths, "Eat it Palefaces. So much and no more will we give you.

The land la bursForever ours!" Cried the encroaching settlers, Only the Finest, Pure, Sweet WHIPPING CREAM Cows have be good to meet the demaads Reed'i make foe the rich, pare, whipping cream thai goes into Reed's lee Cream. Blended with fine fresh fruits and ants. it a del'clous. Take kome saart, WHEN THE WHIPPOORWILL By Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Scribners. $2.50.

Reviewed by Jane Tlnsley Watter. readers who were enchant- ed with "The Yearling" here ia a collection of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' shorter fiction, The 10 short stories and a novel ette in "When the Whippoorwill mostly about the "folksea" and the "varmints" of the Florida scrub, are not so inspired as "The Yearling" but there is about them something of the refreshing and endearing magio of that idyll of backwoods boyhood. SIMPLE THEMES Some of the pieces are very somber In mood and others are quite hilarious. It is not the least of Mrs. Rawlings' abilities that she can aacend or descend the gamut of human feelings and unerringly strike any tone with sureness and clarity.

i The themes are simple ones, not always original but sufficiently embellished with the quaint folkways and the nature lore of the wilderness region to give them freshness and a special charm. The one story In the collection removed in setting from the scrubland, "A- Mother in MannvlUe," is, however, in itself sufficient proof that Mrs. Rawlings' talents do not limit her to regionalism. The story tells volumes in a few pages. It Is about the boy from the orphanage who boasts of the roller skates his mother has sent Jiim for Christmas he has no skates, he has no mother.

CHOICEST The best of the stories to my taste are the rollicking ones related by Quincy Dover, a knowing, talkative village woman, her weight two hundred-twenty, her heart "big as her behind and soft as summer butter." There are three tales of her telling one about men and roosters, Midwestern Town Life In the '90s KINGS ROW: By Henry Bella-mann. Simon Schuster. $2.75. Reviewed Charles Biirnw THIS story of life in a small midwestern town in the '90s and the first 10 years of the 1900's comes mighty near being a really fine novel. In tha nmin an account of an exceptional boy Parris Mitchell is 12 when the story opens it is also a three-dimensional measuring of the lives and ways of living of a curious collection of brittle old pioneers, the softer second generation of boosting businessmen and the third generation, misspending its misunderstood youth.

PIONEERS Kings Row was the sort of a town (and this is the sort of a book) in which almost everyone falls a little too easily into place. The pioneer generation is fine-hearted, broadmlnded, and a trifle eccentric; the peppy merchants of Union Street are glossed over, but you suspect they're about what you'd suspect; the younger generation is sexually maladjusted. Almost everybody else aside from the Greek chorus of yokels on the courthouse lawn Is a fit subject for the insane asylum on the hill at the edge of town. In fact, the asylum comes very nearly being a character in the story. It's very definitely a factor in the subconscious life of everyone.

Parris the central character grows up on the edge of town, -not In the asylum but on his genteel, old-worldish grandmother's genteel farm. HERO LEAVES His and precocious, childhood reaches a precocious climax and ends when the caretaker whisks his daughter away over night. Thereafter Parris studies at the unpretentious small college, is tutored by the most eccentric of the town's curious phy-nymphal daughter. Parria goes away for years to study in Vienna under the master of the new science of psychiatry and the town's story carries on, telescoped to fit the adventures and accidents that befall his few friends there. It is only when he returns, a full-fledged prober of souls and subconscious minds, that he and the reader appreciate to the 'full what a fine sea of iniquity a small town can be.

"King's Row" is recommended as an antidote for something too sweet, i ICE CREAM May meeting of the Des Moines Council of Parents and Teachers will be at 2 p. m. Tuesday in the auditorium of the Y.W.C.A. i Health committee, with Mrs. Olney S.

Weaver as department chairman, will present the work of the sanitary division of the Public Health department of the city, and will follow the "Information Please" plan. City Sanitation. 1 Persons from different depart ments will explain their part in the task of city sanitation. Miss Adah L. Hershey, director of Public Health Nurses, will be in charge and will direct the 'discussion group.

Others taking part will include M. K. Tenny, assistant to the general manager of the Des Moines Water Works; Frank T. DuByne, city milk inspector; Nelle Flshel, city bacteriologist; John Rand, chief sanitary inspector, and Rob ert Hanlon, Polk county sanitary engineer. Health Committee.

Members of the council health committee in addition to Mrs. Weaver include Mesdames Russell Doolittle, A. H. Wieters, C. Royal; O.

C. Sutherland, J. A. TaylT, A. A.

Bartholomew, G. E. Sinex, Harry Dahl, T. H. Rettig and J.

W. Ash. Others are Mesdames Hugh Gib son, E. G. Hilgenberg, Robert L.

Scarpino, Ivan Anderson, Ernest Nelson and J. E. Oliver. The executive board will meet at 1 p. m.

Iowa W.C.T.U. To Have Three Conferences Women's Christian Temperance union of Iowa will have three regional conferences this week. The first will be Tuesday at Allerton, the second at Corning Wednesday and the third will be Thursday at Glenwood. Mrs. Harriette Mc-Cullough, 'state president, will speak on "Mobilization for Home Protection" at each meeting.

She will be assisted at the conferences by other state officers. Y.W.C.A. Activities General Administration Camp commit tr meeting, 1 p. m. Thurt-day.

Mrs. Charlei Henshaw, acting chairman. Finance committee, noon luncheon Friday, at Y.W.C.A. Mn. Jen Hammill, chairman.

Buslnens-1'rofessioiial Vnallyl club commltHei Monday, 7:30 p. m. meeting of nominating Committee, 8:30 p. m. meeting of program committee.

Work and Play 50 a. m. to 4 p. m. Tuesday: 10 a.

m. ahorthand dictation; ,11 m. business Kngllah spelling noon to 4 p. m. potluck picnic at Water Works park.

Cora Ma Clark, chairman. Live Vera, 6:15 p. Id. Wednesday. Mother and daughter dinner.

Program of special music and toasts. Ruth Franzene, toastmiatress. Mrs. Charles H. Henshaw.

president ot T.W.C.A., will gtv greetings. Fellowship supper, 6 to 7:30 p. m. Wednesday. Travel movie of southwest.

Miss Arlene Peterson, program chairman. Saturday danee committee. 8 p. in. Thursday.

Party at Airport cahln. Committee: Ruth Hunter, Madlyn Van Kpps, Audry Squire, Merlam Horton, Charles Ferris and Vaughn Lewistnn. Work and Play 10 a. m. fo 3 p.

m. Friday, 10 a. m. dictation; 11 a. m.

Charm Diggers club. Mary Romano, president, 1 p. m. Camera club. Saturday nliht dance.

8:30 to 11:30 p. m. Saturday. Open to all young men ana women. Girl Reserve Amos Watt.

3:15 p. m. Monday, eab met meeting. President, Nancy Woods; advisers. Mrs.

Clyde R. Bradford and Miss Eleanor Woods. Roadside 7 p. in. Tuesday.

Talk on "Personality" by Mrs. H. I Hoak. Girl Reserve commutes and advisers' meeting 9:43 a. m.

Wednssday. Mrs. D. O. Mllllgan, chairman.

Kast High, 3:15 p. m. Friday. Picnic, meet at school. Ialerrlub council meeting, 10 a.

m. Saturday. Betty Brewer, president Health and Recreation Health council, 7:30 p. m. Thursday.

Miss Doris Ludeke presiding. Young Matron's club, 1:30 p. m. Tues day. Mrs.

unaries J. smith presiding. program, "How to Buy China," a talk by Mrs. Irene McCormick. Tennis classes.

All classes will meet on outdoor courts. in case of rain clssses to be postponed another wee. Information from Miss Marylaura jnacuregor, x.w.c.A. Glr rlasses, all classes will be held on outdoor courses. For Information call th Y.W.C.A.

Houtte and Residence House and Residence committee, :30 a. m. luesaay. jugular meeting in charge of Mrs. O.

K. Hutchlns, chairman. Industrial Frlndo elftb officers meeting, 7:30 m. Tuesday at Y.W.C.A. Department committee, 7:30 p.

m. Wednesday, Mrs. H. J. Laird, chairman.

Amlrltla rlub trip to Fella Tulip festival. Busses will leave th Y.W.C.A. at 1:30 p. m. Frlndu rlub trip to Pella, m.

Frklay. Can will meet at th Y.W.C.A. ADVKRTIHF.MENT. Bleach Your Skin to a Prettier Hue Tou can help your akin to look lighter and lovelier with th aid of Mercolized Wax Cream Just apply It nlsthtly according: to the directions to riK off tha dull, darkened, weathered surface akin and reveal th fairer, fresher un-derskln. Get a lar now at any cosmetic counter.

a 14' rjUr)) BUNGALOWS and SUPER-SERVS I An Englishman Talks About His Own Highly Colorful Life Shed The BluesThe Blacks The Greys The Browns AND JOIN TIJEUIJITE BRIGADE "The land is ours! We've won it, our task is to hold it!" These words are repeated over and over throughout the novel as the settlers, the Indians, and the British struggle for the land for which they are willing to die. EIGHTY YEARS The tale is packed with gory, exciting Indian fighting as the pioneers slowly conquer the Northwest territory during the period from 1755 to 1835. In Andrew Benton, the composite of all pioneer heroes, the author forms his tremendous mass of material into a unified story. Andrew Benton started across the Alleghanies from Lancaster, as a youngster in 1755. Eighty years later, an old man crippled with rheumatism he turned westward once more to cross the Mississippi where he wouldn't find a settler every twenty miles or so to crowd him.

In the intervening years, Andrew had accompanied every Important expedition against the Indians, and Had be among the happiest I ever spent I shared a task with men of every type and every social station, and was admitted to a fellowship and intimacy so rare and so delightful as almost to justify the beastliness which made it possible. "There is at least this to be said for war: you live simply if at all, and you do so in the company of men at their best, spurred to a pannlonate unselfishness by a common purpose which at other times Is lacking. "The tragedy of war is not that so many lives are lost and so many hopes shattered, but that the sense of fellowship which war engenders seems unable to survive the coming of peace. It is an arresting paradox that mutual service, the sjeed of thai all-embracing love and sympathy which, enlisting mankind in a universal brotherhood, would make war and poverty alike impossible, appear to flourish best in a blood-soaked soil." Middletown' German City choice in their Jobs. They suffer from a progressive shortage of food and war materials.

(The book was written before war was declared). Mostly they don't pretend to understand why things are as they are. They merely try to avoid economic and physical annihilation. GOOD AND EVIL Miss Mann does not dwell on the concentration camps and the purges. She feels that the German state and its people have forgotten the distinction between good and evil, that they have yielded without a struggle to godless and devilish forces.

They have set up as their God, the Fuehrer, and the "powers above" mean the "Gestapo." It is an almost Incredible existence that Miss Mann's people live. They die for trivialities while the morals and honor of their nation deteriorate. Each of the stories is based upon facts in official German records. The reich's decrees which are quoted actually exist and an appendix covering the factual side of the stories closes the book. fought in every decisive battle against the British in the conquering of the Northwest territory.

CLARK EXPEDITION At 15, Andrew was as keen- eyed a woodsman as any Indian, and a better shot At that time he was at Detroit where he began auspiciously by discovering Chief Pontiac's conspiracy to take Fort Detroit. At 17 he was captured by the Shawnees and became an Indian brave. Ten years later he was back among the whites, married, and with a family that went with him into the wilderness. Andrew's desire to conquer the land led him to accompany his admired friend, George Rogers Clark, on his expedition from the Ohio to the Kankaskia settlement in the Illinois country, which he helped capture from the British. Next he went with Clark through floods to Vincennes and helped retake that settlement from the British.

He -saw General St. Clair routed by the Indians in the bloodiest defeat the whites ever suffered, where "the slain, scalped and mutilated were left on the field, the heads like pumpkins in a bare cornfield." SCOUTING As a scout for Mad Anthony Wayne, Andrew went in the ex pedition to avenge the St. Clair defeat. It ended in the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794, where the Indian power in the Northwest was broken. Scouting again for Wayne, he laid out the first Fort Dearborn post.

At 60, he marched with Harrison to Tippecanoe. He was nearly killed in the Fort Dearborn massacre. The battles with the Indians are the most vivid and exciting portions of this novel. Take the fighting at Fort Recovery: "The soldiers froze In their tracks and shrieked when a file of redskins, naked except for breech-clouts and moccasins, crawled forward on their stomachs and sprang up to attack them. Heavy stone tomahawks and war-clubs went up and down like hammers driving nails and crushed heads and shoulders and chests.

The cries were piteous: only a few defended themselves. One brave, his face painted a fearsome white, brandished his knife and went down on his knees to scalp his victims: he could not have worked more leisurely skinning rabbits." ONE OF THE BEST A great deal of interest Is added by the characterizations of Pon- tiac and Tecumseh, the great Indian warriors, and by many details of pioneer food, habits and entertainment, and chief of all, the weddings, which the, author does with gusto. Besides writing a thrilling story, the author has done an amazing piece of historical research. There is no doubt that this is one of the best early American pioneer tales. "The hard clarity oi a painting by Grant Wood" says Sterling North in The Chicago Daily News "Sioux City of the Corn Palace, of the plush-upholstered gambling halls, of prostitutes' alley, real-estate boom and legal conniving is added to the picture of Iowa corn fields and FresidentCleveland interiors." Chicago Daily Ntws SIOUX CITY A1 Novel of Boom Day HYATT 'DO WNINO mam li.iomTNAM'1 The Month of May heralds tha march of the White Shoe Brigadeand before the warm breath of lummer catches you unaware, step into your favorite shoe store and select your white shoes for summer wear.

You should have at least 2 pair one ell-white and a smart two tone combination that blends with the colors of your summer clothes. Many smart new styles for men, women and children await your selection. THE WIND OF CIRCUM STANCE: By Harold Dearden, Reynal Hitchcock. $3. Reviewed by Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart.

THE fact that Harold Dearden has been a physician and psycniatrist may Keep persons who are tired of doctor-books away from his very read able, autobiographical "The Wind of Circumstance." That would be a shame. Because this charming Englishman has written delightfully about his colorful life. His book is crowned with fascinating characters, ranging from his highly individual father, through pretty Kitty (whom the author rescued from a life of prostitution by marrying her), to the most interesting of his patients. There is a peculiar chivalry in Author Dearden's make-up which seeps through his pen and ren ders inoffensive even such dramatically personal material as the sexual adventures of his own father and the sordid background of his own wife. Doctor Dearden had a full war experience from which he draws several stories for this book.

Par ticularly interesting is an ob servation which concludes this section: "The next four years were to Exile Does a With a Modern THE LIGHTS GO DOWN: By Erika Mann. Farrar A Rine-hart 2.50. Reviewed by Helen K. FalralL THE distinguished daughter of Thomas Mann has written a series of sketches which will explain why the Germans let themselves in for this regime, how they have fared under it and why they have been swallowed up by a veritable gargantua. GERMAN LIFE Miss Mann has taken a typical south German city as her Middle-town.

Her characters are of the middle professional classes, and without exception they fare badly, even tragically. They live on substitute foods, they get arrested for feeding barley to their chickens, they are killed because they attend meetings which they are prohibited from attending, their machine go to piece because they are made of ersatz material, their workmen are shunted from the farm to the town to the westwall and have no Animals In Novels That novel Paul Engle is writing between classes at Iowa City is mostly about horses. Announcing the title of G. B. Stern's new novel, "A Lion in the Garden," Macmlllan explains that Miss Stern says a lion in the garden, she means a lion In the garden.

The book will be published June 25..