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K. 'Streit, Harper, Bros. ýWM G. MOOIRE- OPToMERIsT 1119 enf Aeire A.. WiI..t*. 1214 Opp.,.k. WilUiseu.Tlaeo Have a Heart! flts, take their place. Intimacy tsala- way s present, everi though it is not always expressed, and it 15, some- times demnonstrated h.,ineighbor- liness and ini symhpathy at times of trouble. These are the recompenses for -the general kniowledge of char-, acter anddeed that covers the smnall town like a bianket. Susan Glaspeli knows this well. She has lived in one o! those tom- munities where. the' Joneses bave known, the Smiths for generations, and she bas fought the awful en- croachments of. all-knowing friends and. enemies. So that ber story, whIch is built on what people have said concerning somethlng they knew but little about, is really a try of what smatterïngs can do. 1 hrough a perfect sea of gossip, and 'when they emerged were unrecog- nizable. And the people most con- cerne et shame about conse- quetial things. The combination of ignorance and false pride made for a situation that was enough toi ruin any woman's life. This careful story, told with such suspense that it seerns at times we are -reading a good detective stor3y. s A news, photo graph of J. B.- Priestley, taken at luncheon at hiî home in Lond on, just after * he ha4 completed hie new novel, "Let the People S#ing," publish- ed ~byj 4Irpeyand Brothersgo January 4. "Let the People Single Is a U:ght Advenfure Creating fiction that skims the sur- face o! things, that lends a fairy-tale aspect to life's hunidrum realities is a knack that belongs to J. B. Priest- ley who, i 1929, wrote that much-. Tor aiscuss<>1 o trie unionflNow- Iprogra m, a proposai for a federal union of the demnocracies. bas re- I vived interest in Clarenc e K. Streit's book, "Uniion Now," which first ap- peared'during the September. Euro-' pean crisi 's of, 1938., Since th.en, It bhas. been- published in England, in. France, and in Sweden. tlnionist orgenizations. it 15 reported, are formlng in Sweden, Australia,' Can- ada, the- Netherlands, New Zealand' and the Union of South Africa, aiý- though n ro international Unionist group has. as yet sprung Up. Mr. Streit's conceptionof. a world union, of dernocracies,, banded to- gether- to insute the peace,,of thé world -and the continued existence of that typýe of governrpent, was born following niany. years of news- paper correspondence. Since 1920 he bas followed and written the news in a score of! untries i the Old World and the New, particularly since 1929. In this Iast period he spent much time reporting for the League o!f Nations and he says he watched the efforts of mankind to organize and apply world goveru-, ment and law "day in and out for more than 3,000 days; I would give In this .book not my experiences but What I have learned from them." Five Point PlIan -------------.' I&U11*.-pvi .tib .lq peu ie 5g mera po«~uU1 ber of years. in Europe, she came thein an odd collectioil of frienids, baclc to lùWe on the old farm, she as they adventure about the country had not only to rebuild it for ber seeking employment and escapet children, but she had to battle from the local police. No one takes agaist superstitions, fears and life too seriously, and the book abysmal ignorance o! what it was charms not only by its lightnes5s o! alU about. Only because she was so touch, bût for its very amusing Eng- f fine a person and1 ber courage was lish diction.a indomitable did she solve the situ- The theme of the story, if themec ation and find a place for herself it can be called, is the freedom,1 i the world. enin'inz s~nimDet-ncz . n=a - ly linkeci semocracles,' such as the United States, the United Kmngdoh,, the French Republic, Belgium, the Netherlands, the Swiss cont édera- tion, Denmark, Norway, Swedé'n and F'inland. These would then set up 1) a union .citizenship, 2) a union defense force,. 3) a union customhs-, free economy, 4) a union money, and 5) a union postal and communi- cations system. Could the United States, with, its propos Jr creators.DYe .L.-2 Avenue sensei bythe