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Safe in harness, Sergeant Jenkins settled down in a U.S. Army dependent house in Yokohama with his wife Mania Etta, who is also 71, and as spry as her husband. Mrs. Jenkins helped put Yokohama orphanages back on their feet, spent most of her time working with the district Red Cross and raising funds for Japanese charities. When they learned that the Jenkinses were due for reassignment this month to the U.S., 1,400 Japanese friends signed a petition asking the Army to extend their tour. "We truly believe," they wrote, "that Mrs. Jenkins is one whom God himself...
Young Man's Fancy. In San Rafael, Calif., Mrs. Etta Waldorff, 50, accused her 91-year-old male boarder of chasing her around in his birthday suit until she finally had to put a lock on her bedroom door...
Bouquet. In Walhalla, S.C., Etta Jackson won a suspended sentence after explaining to the court that the twelve half-gallon jugs of bootleg whisky dug up in her garden were placed there only to make the flowers grow better...
...life force in other than material terms demanded a religious justification of his views. Not until "The Bulwark" did he discover one. Then, he saw a possible solution in the Quaker doctrine of "the inner light" which animated the life of Solon Banes, and which moved his daughter Etta to realize "the love and peace involved in consideration for others." In this frame, the study of Brahmanism becomes merely another buttress to the synthesis of religion and communism. When Dreiser has Berenice declare that "One must live for something outside one's self, something ... to answer the needs...
Also valuable war books, though not battle books, were: Tokyo Record (Otto Tolischus, $3); In Peace Japan Breeds War (Gustav Eckstein, $2.50); Japan's Military Masters (Hillis Lory, $2.50); Paris-Underground (Etta Shiber, $2.50) The Serbs Choose War (Ruth Mitchell, $2.75); They Shall Not Have Me (Jean Hélion...