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THE Return to Mufti: Army-Ex Tells What G. |.s Think About Post-War Plans

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“THE LONG WAY HOME." Julian Messner, $2:50.

MILLARD LAMPELL was writing scripts: for radio plays even before he became a sergeant in the army air forces in order to tell civilians what goes on in the minds of

veterans, When he saw the big bat

battle of getting back into civilian life—he went on a difficult

"assignment. He checked in at

convalescent hospitals as a patient, took psychiatric treatments and physical therapy

workouts. He went to bomber bases, ports of debarkation and redistributing centers. No wonder the dialogue in the 14 radio plays assembled in “The Long Way Home” sounds lifelike. Here, for instance, is Joe Topinka, coming home and getting the hush-hush; hearing that “I know you just want to forget everything,” when Joe would be only too glad to tell the folks everything that happened to him, so that everybody will know exactly what a soldier thinks.” . ann LOOK, Joe says, exasperated by protests: “Soldiers coming back are people coming back. I happen to be one of the guys who's got Just {wo problems. “problem No. 1: Finish the war. “problem No. 2: I'm a good coal miner; I've been all across the country and halfway around the world, and I know how many people need coal. I want to be able to dig it for them. Theyre problems to about and the way I do it is not to clamsup and

in a corner, problems. or your and

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and meet civilians who harbor judices and iritolerance. William Rose Benet, in a foreword for this

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. book, says “the bitterness will go

when the returned soldier can feel ‘he is a living part of a society that

is rational ‘and full of energy and hope and help for the handicapped, without patronage. . . . What he is afraid of is the pity, the pap, the

hig words.” not control war-making maneuvers . present plight with alarm. Other Pa a and tempers among the nations, piSiossword pussle fans, froroilns observers, believers and avowed | SGT. LAMPELL has coverediis the responsibility of the Amer-! B08 gefinitions © Ve-GOlAl agnostics both, have pointed out |

many typical cases in terse dialogue. is most successful when he gives his characters names and habitations and sticks to specific

details, Radio must put pictures into the

mind of the listener, and when it

names a man it does its best by describing him as an actual person. There may be some excuse, perhaps contrast, for such a highfalutin’ line as “Is there a comDoser looking for a symphony to sing across the arc of the continents?” Spoken on the air it may

sound less pompous than it looks

«on paper. But on the whole, this style of writing is one of the ills of radio. . ~ » » THE SKETCH, however, in which ‘this line occurs, “The Miracle of Ed McKenny,” is an effective portrayal of how Ed, who was flying an unarmed cbservation plane over

Burma when bullets tore his face

‘ to bits, gets a new face by the

plastic surgery of army doctors.

There is an excellent exhibit of another kind in “The Wound That

Shows No Scars.” This is about “a sweet guy and a damned good

mechanic, and he knew how to

Jaugh,” named Ernie Santini.

_ Ernde had no wound, but he hurt.

He had two full years overseas

when everybody was talking about

rotation. He forgot how to laugh. The Brnles of the army must be healed, too, back home. THE

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LITERATURE is more than an ornament. That's the conviction of, Alice Bidwell Wesenberg, associate professor of English at'Butler unie versity. From long experience in teache ing literature, Mrs. Wesenberg has come to the conclusion that her subject is one of the most im= portant in the curriculum.

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» » ¥ “NO OTHER medium of expressing human values is equal to literature,” says Mrs. Wesenberg. “All the problems of human behavior have been most impress sively dealt with in creative writ= ing." , Great writing = teaches ime portant lessons indirectly. “I think the present emphosis on direct teaching of social and moral * principles is all wrong. You can't teach anything abstract in an abstract manner.” : ® 8 =» A POEM like Coleridge's “Ane cient Mariner” seems to Mrs, Wesenberg full of moral and social value. . \ So does Shakespeare's fanciful play, “The Tempest." ““The Tempest’ proposes and deals with most of the important problems of human life—educa~ tion, marriage, duties cf a man

By Millard Lampell. New York,

tle ahead of the veterans—the

in “The Boy from Nebraska.” This lad, a tail-gunner on a B-24, came from Hershey, Neb.; Ben Kuroki is his name, and his missions took in all the places pounded by the 8th air force—Kiel, Hamburg, Muenster, Wiener-Neustadt, Ploesti. When Ben is put into a room in a hotel at Santa Monica with Ed| Bates, an airman who lost a brother to a Jap sniper at Saipan, Bates| j, public office, the use of says: “Kuroki, that's a funny name.| nower, The ideas are, of course,

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What is it?” | not our modern ideas; but discus- | “When my grandfather had ii. sion of the play brings about dis- | it. was Japanese. Now I've got It.| cussion of those problems.” Now it's Nebraska, U. S,A.” | . rw “Japa. . . . Are you kidding?” . yn gER classroom, Mrs. Wesenasks Bates. ei | berg uses the question-and-ariswer No,” says Ben. "lf you want method to stimulate tiscussion of me to move to another room, Just| ymportant topics. That is the way, say so, it's okay. she believes, to bring out the rela-

Teacher of literature . . . Alice Bidwell Wesenberg.

teaches creative writing. Her class in verse-writing forms the nucleus’ of the Butler university Poetry club, one of whose dis | tinguished former member is

In a less serious mood, Mrs. Wesenberg likes to recall the stu-

exam paper, “Literature is an interruption of life.”

nn. tion of literature to life. “WHAT'D you get the DFC for?” | “Above all, literature is an | “Twenty-five combat missions.” | interpretation of life,” Mrs, Wes“And the cluster?” | enberg says. :

“Ploesti.” | “And you're asking me if T want| to kick you out of the room? Are] you kidding?” These plays belong to the history of the war, too. They reflect deepseated feelings not expressed in reports from, correspondents. By now many of the men who passed through these experiences are taking civilian life in their stride. But, as Col. Howard A. Rusk

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thoracic surgery for flak in the chest of similar .readjustment. The urgent need may have called for the intensity and sometimes shrill declarations in these scripts, but the spirit in which they were

dirt. Or how about narcohypnia (“a

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our ethical impoverishment, and not merely in the popularly sen-| sational fields of crime, delin- | quency. and divorce. ’ Americans whose minds are like salesrooms full of new cars, electric; washers and nylons, with no| room for thoughts of starving Eu-| BUT NO ONE can quarrel with ropeans, are morally anemic. Dr. Trueblood’s main contention— In his enthusiasm Dr. Trueblood that our moral order needs recondoes not, I think, fully state the struction if we are to survive. The case of the so-called agnostic in-|need for universal law transcendtellectual. What have been de-|ing national sovereignty was never scribed as attacks on religion have | more apparent, been, in some cases, not so much| “Foundations for Reconstruction” attacks on religion as attacks on may remind a lot of us of things the uses to which religion has/we have half forgotten, but should somietimes been put. [not forget.—H. B.

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Loyal Detroiter . . , Malcolm W. Bingay, ” » ” : By HENRY BUTLER Times Book Reporter ONE OF the grandest things about the United States is that you can feel affection for almost any city. Cities are people. And people are always betfer, when you get te know them, than you thought they might be, n ” » HERE'S Malcolm Bingay, editorial director of The Detroit Pree Press, writing about his home: town, He does an enthusiastic job. Mr. Bingay writes about the metor industry, about baseball, ahous inside matters in Detroit—always with an individualistic bias. That bias will undoubtedly get him some unfavorable reviews. The experts, the engineers, the men who

Detroit. But the view of social construction in terms of Titans, for. getting the growing thousands of assembly line workers who had ta {push this gadget, pull that, is limited. » » » MAYBE that sounds left-wing, It isn’t. I have great respect for what I've seen of Mr. Bingay's writ ing elsewhere. What I find a little sour in this book -is the emphasis on the Detroit Athletic club, with its regular and perennial gathering of big shots. Big shots, like some brass hats, know their stuff. Nobody denies the competence of people like Messrs, Knudsen and Kettering. Some of us may wonder what is the ulti mate goal of fine technological minds. The persistent emphasis on indi viduals gives Mr. Bingay’s enterfaine ing book a somewhat naive quality. Names like Dodge, Durant, Ford, Chrysler, Briggs, Fisher and the rest are good stuff for copy, » = » THOSE MEN'S exploits in devel. oping mass production cant he over-estimated. But they had te have help. And, one gathers, the help never joined the Detroit Atle letic club. Right now, nobody wants to basi out the Dodge brothers, Henry Ford, or any of the other automotive

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