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_1 Braun Bros. Ou Co. il FOR FUELâ€"USE OLL b "A CORRECT GRADE FOR EACH BURNER® | Two Bulk Plants â€" Right Trucks * operated ON the north shore to assure PROMPT, EFFICIENT SERVICE literature, his "Shen of â€"the Sea." This new book has the same charm the same transforming touch which ehildren‘s books must have to make them quite worth giving to the best of children. such a wealth of interest and talent und=â€"oftenâ€"genius, has been poured into the making of these books that viewing them in the mass they leave us speechlessâ€"with delight. Colorful outer covers, gay unusual illustraâ€" tions, fine type, these are the clothes in which they come to us. Many dressed thus newly and beautifully are old favorites, hosts of them, of these there is not space to even atâ€" ample, "The Wind that Wouldn‘t Blow" by Arthur Bowie Chrisman. Mr. Chrisman last year was awarded the Newbury medal for the most disâ€" tinguished contribution to children‘s mequaintance as the Oz family has reâ€" turned in Hugh Lofting‘s latest book, "Doctor Doolittle‘s Garden." In this the Doctor learns insect language and To attkinpt to write about childâ€" ren‘s books for this most important week, Children‘s Book Week, is like trying to describe the colors of the magle carpet which is waiting and at a signal will carry you away. . For Among the best of the new ones calling for our attention is for cxâ€" Another absolute favorite is A. A. Milne‘s "Now We Are Six." Milne‘s work is now so famous that it is unâ€" necessary to do more than merely name it, and every lover of "When We Were Very Young" will do the rest. _ This new book, while it may not be quite as spontaneous as that first, is still delightful verse. Mr. Shepherd‘s drawings could not be imâ€" There is a new one of that famous and unsurpassable Oz series, "The Gnome King of Oz." ‘The Scarecrow is his same amiling self and Ozma is as fair as ever in her flowing robes. No child ever tires of these old hears many of the life stories of this interesting and hitherto almost unâ€" Dhan Gopal Mukerji has another book, "Gayâ€"Neck, the Story of a Pigâ€" eon." °Tt is beautifully illustrated, and while it has not perhaps quite the new charm of his earlier "Kari the Elephant," it is good reading. "Teepee Tales," by El Comancho is a real opportunity for children. These are nature stories by a man, adopted by a half dozen Indian tribes, who is m student of nature and of wild things, and who has himsel{ followâ€" ed all the old trails west of the Miss~ round again bringing with it as it does each year a larger measure of flhh.flnom-h&mdnn kinds, the boy and girl scouts, the profit in the furthering of reading and good reading for children. Â¥.M.C.A., the Parentâ€"Teacher‘s clubs the women‘s clubs, schools, libraries, and bookstores are joining in making it a week not only of pleasure but of Frederick A.. Stokes Co. $2.50 Doctor Doolittle, a creation nearly "A Good Woman" THE MAGIC CARPET Highland Park 3290 â€"â€" Telephones â€" Winnetka 3020 In its 80th thousand! C 1 m d n an By May Lamberton Becker Frederick A, Stokes Co. May Lamberton Becker has made an art of reading. In her "Reader‘s Guide" she bas passed on that art to thousands of others, now she has written a book for boys and girls. In it she tells them, and tells it. interâ€" estingly, how to lay a foundation for intelligent reading, how to develop a taste which will be a joy to them all their lives. "Reading for Companionâ€" ship," "Discovering the Delights of But enough, we have more than filled our space and though we have only caught feebly at one or two of the colors of the magic carpet we have at least brought it to your mind that it is there. TE 0 eneeen oom ind mt L mneere c Sus History," "Other .!.’.eople's Lives, How Biography Adds Them to Your Own" these are some of the chapter headâ€" *‘The whole book is the most simpie and sincere statement of why Mrs. Becker herself loves reading, what she has gotten from it, what another could hope to get. It would be a real cornerstone for the library of any young person of twelve years and up. informative "Twins" series. It is a story of pioneering in America in the year ‘49. oo ez "The Quest of the Sea Otter" by Sabra Conner is an unusually colorâ€" ful story of adventure for children of a little more advanced age. "The Boy Knight of Reims" of Eloise Lownsberry, also for older children, is a charming story of long ago. ings. :-us*n.m'.uno,- Elizabeth Duval. It is one. of those books which should be so welâ€" come to parents since it anwsers the kind of question which they usually cannot answer themselves. "The Pioneer Twins" is Lucy Fitch Perkins‘ contribution for the year, an addition to her interesting and really By EDWIN BALMER A fastâ€"moving novel of men and women caught in the craze of entertaining for busiâ€" ness â€" with a tremendous By Ruth Plamly Nature stories enâ€" . TEEPEE tertainingly . told _ TALES + by a famous _ By Ei Comanche Brave. Tilustrated. $1.50 DANGEROUS BUSINESS "ADVENTURES IN READING"® For CHILDREN REILLY & LEE 1y illustrated . by §1.60 We came out of the World war with a merchant marine, an oceanâ€"going fleet, in tonnage measured by the millions. Ships without men are as useless as railroads without engiâ€" neers, brakemen, tracklayers, and freight agents. To man our merchant marine with crews ~predominantly foreign is neither good business nor a sound policy. The crews of our ships, whether commerce carriers in Calling the youth to the sea is now one of the duties of the United States Shipping Board, according to Oliver McKee, well known Washington news« paperman, who writes entertainingly in the current issue of the National Republic of the sea service of the Shipping Board which is seeking to educate young Americans in seamanâ€" ship as a career. Mr. McKee also tells something. about the glorious days when Yankee seamen went all over the world in American clippers. In part he says: s F "The sea again calls the youth of America. The call may not be as irâ€" resistible as it was in the days when Yankee clipper ships and merchantâ€" men swept the seven seas a hundred years or so ago, but many an Amerâ€" ican youth is answering the summons. must be loyal and dependable. Our merchant marine must be an Ameriâ€" canâ€"manned, if it is to meet the comâ€" petition of other nations and win for "A hand before the mast at fifteen, a mate at sixteen, and master of a vessel at twentyâ€"five, was a record of which many a New Englander in the old days of Yankee supremacy at sea could boast. Nathaniel Silsbee comâ€" EEPCD ME KTE PIVP, CMO PCTJRITUE with Charles Derby as his mate, both lads of nineteen, bound out of India around the Cape of Good Hope. Robâ€" ert B. Forbes of Boston, a famous mariner in his day, was mate of a ship at sixteen, held a command at twenty, and at thirtyâ€"six was the head of the largest American mercantile bouse in China. The deck boys from Kansas, Vermont, or Texas, who sign up in 1927 on an American flag cargo vessel, propelled by steam instead of sails that sent the Flying Cloud speedâ€" ing through the sea on her recordâ€" making voyage to the Pacific Coast, may not reach the captain‘s bridge as "Uncle Sam has recently bestirred himself through the sea service secâ€" tion of the Shipping Board to interest young Americans in seamanship as a life work, not on government ships alone, but on all American flag vesâ€" sels. So successful have these initial efforts been, that in the past three years, 2500 American . citizens beâ€" tween the ages of eighteen and twenâ€" tyâ€"three were placed as deck boys: on cargo vessels, to serve their apprenâ€" ticeship in a career which to many may mean a master‘s license before their sea days are over. manded a. fine ship, the Benjamin, the United States our fair share of international trade quickly as this, but they are cast in the same mold. Energy, aptitude and efficiency provide as readily today the keys to advancement as they did when Yankee ships from Salem and other New England ports carried the Amerâ€" ican flag on all the trade routes of the world. ‘The steel successor of the clipper ship» can likewise fire the imagination of youth, and enlist his MERCHANT MARINE VALUE Helps to Renew This Country‘s Pioneer Supremacy in Naval | THIRTYâ€"THIRD DIVISION REUNION NEXT SATURDAY Famous Iilinois Fighting Unit In World War to Meet In Chicago Nov. 19 Iilinois‘ own fighting division, the 383rd, whose units won renown in savâ€" Hamel and ‘Chipilly, at St. Mihiel, and a dozen points in the Meuseâ€"Argonne, is to have its first real reâ€"union since the war, all day, Saturday, Nov. 19, ut the Hotel LaSalle, Chicago. Members of the Chicago regiments of the famous divisionâ€"the 131st and 108th l':i'-.-. 108th Field Signal Battalion, 108th Trains,â€"are hosts to their buddies from all other parts of ®. a.fl‘.vl:‘&-;-h:‘ J\hnfi--llir’i‘uf the election ‘of officers develop several spfrited contesta.. The busiâ€" ‘-ir-‘-v.-h.:nlh: tertainment, a feature of which be a complete set of films of the 33rd Division in action, these films havâ€" ing just been released by the War deâ€" Outgrowth of War In Old Days to Writer Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee R. R. Co. PHONE 2700 your own home North Shore Line u-dpn-,-_-lmim in the entire country is now offered by the North Shore Line. may be arranged and baggage thecked through to your ultimate point of destination. What plans have you made for Thanksgiving? It‘s almost hereâ€" it comes next week. If you‘re going away, you‘ll find North Shore Line service a comfort and convenience. . 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