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U. S. GENIUS FOR MOMENCLATURE
The war has brought out the American tendency to
reject orthodox names in favor of fancier tags. Follow
ing are some samples:
American nurses in New Guinea have become known
as the Loneley Guinea Hens.
Combat flyers needle their non-flying confreres in
the Army Transport Command by asserting that the
initials A. T. C. really stand for AJlergic to Combat. 1
Workers in a California aircraft factory on the mid
night-to-dawn shift held a beauty contest and voted a
former show-girl “Miss Gravevard of 1943.”
Flyers stationed in the North African desert built
themselves a night club—a shack just off the end of
the runway—and named it “Belly Inn” because the
bellies of bombers almost scrape it.
RETURN OF THE CAPTIVES
Nearly 5,000 than, pale men reached the shores of
England after months or years of captivity in Germany,
Some had been prisoners ever since the disaster at
Dunkerque; others had been captured at Crete. None
would ever fight again, for they were all maimed, a
few still on stretchers. Fourteen Americans were
among these men lucky enough to figure in the ex
change of war prisoners.
Strict censorship cut to ribbons Associated Press ac
counts of what the returning soldiers said about their
treatment in German prison camps. Brief references
to endless meals of potatoes and watery soup were per
mitted; and the men’s deep thankfulness for Red Cross
food was made clear. The rigid censorship was at
tributed to a desire not to imperil future exchanges of
prisoners with Germany.
The returning soldiers were able to give brief
glimpses into conditions in Germany. They pictured
a nation convinced of the inevitability of defeat and
anxrious to get the suffering over. Nazi propaganda
apparently had succeeded in one respect, however, for
the Germans seemed to be in terror of the consequences
of a Russian victory; one soldier said he heard a wish
expressed for a second front so the English would get
into Germany before the Russians. Allied bombing
raids were a great factor in the low morale, the former
prisoners belief; one man who rode through Frankfurt
said everything was flattened on both sides of the
track over a two-mile area.
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LITERARY
GUIDEPOST
By JOHN SELBY
“MADE IN CANADA”, by Mary
Graham Bonner {Knopf *2)
Most juveniles appeal to this
department as wastes of tome
It ought to be possible for a writ
er to produce books fox young
sters that have some substance
as well as some entertainment
value, although the books that
come to my desk seldom indicate
that it is. ‘‘Made in Canada”
does.
Mary Graham Bonner has had '
a long experience in writing for;
the young. Her latest project
seems to be the job of interprgt- '
ing Canada to young America,
and the two books; she has done
so far are remarkably successful.
or the first of them, "Canada and
Her Story,” Miss Bonner was
given the Constance Lindsay
Skinner award. "Made in Can
ada” is a natural extension of the
first book, since it is the story oi j
Canadian arts and handicrafts |
reduced to terms which can be
understood by boys and girls, yet i
presented in srach a way thai .
their parents can read with equal
pleasure—and quite likely wilL
The book covers evrything,
from totem poles to pottery. To
tem poles, incidentally, are not1
idols at all. but devices originated
in the first place to impress upon
strangers the worth of the own
er’s racial inheritance. The ani
mal figure on the pole was mere- '
ly the one that the spirit of the
ancestor had assumed—it might
be a raven or a 'bear, or even a
spirit. Totems are more nearly
comparable with the family crest
of the European than with any
thing else.
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The songs ot the boatmen, the
French Canadian*, the Indians,
the lumberjacks are included.
There is a section on the Ursulino
nuns and their tapestries, the
patterns and skills for which
were brought from Tours. Wood
carving is a very important art
in Canada, and there have been
fine silversmiths . and weavers
as well. Canadian quilts are a
story in themselves, and so are
tlie '‘Assomption” - sashes which
were made originally for the voy
ageurs, who wore them to impress
the Indian*. But the work of
weaving them i*, 1 Mis* Bonner
say*, so wearing that only a feu
women are willing to undertake
it today.
A lot of research has gone into
“Made in Canada*” and also a
good deal of finl hand know
ledge, since the author is a Can
adian. There is even, ..believe it
or not, a good index.
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