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Evening star., 1945-05-06
Pride's Way

By'Robert MoHoy. Macmillan;
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That's what Charleston pride is
its shame, that's the word for
it." Putting these words in the
mouth of one of the characters in
his first novel, Robert Molloy seems
to be supplying local theme fol-
an otherwise genially human little
tale which is quite able to stand or
it's legs without the geographical.
prop. Writing novels about places
particularly about Southern places
has been in great fashion with us
for some decades now, and it may
be that young novelist will resent
the statement that his book is good
apart from its <heavy local color
But that is what I would say OF
"Pride's Way" 1t is a very pleas
ant story of family life and, though
the Charleston background is un-
questionably authentic, the people
behave very much as people do
everywhere. That their behaviour
should be tied so insistently to a
place is a little curious.
1t is chiefly the story of two
sisters, both grown old, who under
take to atone for life Of quarrels by
making peace in their declining
years. The scene of their rather
desperate experiment turns out to
be the home of the married daugh-
ter of one of them. There is Miss
Julie, good-natured, sensible and
hearty, and Miss Tessie, sour, mean
and full of delusions. The old ladies
feud and make up, and do it over
again, while the hapless daughter
and grandchildren strive to keep up
appearances.
The issue at stake, Mr.. Molloy tells
us, is pride, pride of a particular
Charleston variety, and in the end
he passes the verdict on it, quoted
above, through the mouth of Miss
Tessie, who finally renounces her
pridefulness by the hard method of
going gently crazy. But to the
reader, the peculiar Charleston fea-
lures are apt to seem to be such
things as breakfasts of shrimp
hominy and molasses, and houses
with entrances on the side, rather
than the fussiness of two old ladies.
Anyway, 1t is a well-told tale of
human weakness Illuminated by q
kindly spirit. For a first novel 1t
was mild, but noticeable, indi-
viduality. NC. r.
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PurIey
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which in due course will have IN
even greater value than our armed
forces.
President Truman is reported to
have Endorsed this latter thesis,
which fully represents his own point
Of view in all national and interna-
tional affairs. He is as anxious as
his predecessor to maintain the best
possible relations with Russia and
all the other members Of the United
Nations. But he Is said to be deter
mined not to pay a price unworthy
of the good name Of the United
States in order to secure Russia's
good will.
Neither President Truman nor his
intimate advisers believe our insist
ence on keeping pledges given IN
good faith is likely to wreck the San
Francisco Conference. Nor do they
believe the U. S. S. r.. which has
to look to the Western World for its
future reconstructions, will be will
ing to do more than remain ada
mant on her position without,
however, going so far as separating
from other peace-loving nations.
But should this unimaginable
situation occur, the consensus Of all
those in close touch with this ad-
ministration is that the San Fran
cisco Conference will proceed ac-
cording to schedule regardless Of
who or how many nations may
choose to abandon the world peacs
organization because Of selfish rea-
sons.
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man for an insurance magazine
when he came to the Mutual BENEFIT
organization In 1927 and impressed
officers Of the company 30 much
that they offered him job. Two
years after joining the firm he was
made secretary Of the Board OF Con-
troll and in 1885 executive vice pres1.
dent. ....
McKim's feeling toward politics
may have been Influenced by his
wife. A quiet, attractive woman.
she said at the time Of her hus-
bands most recent appointment, II
never wanted Ed to go into politics.
When he tried for the nomination
as lieutenant governor, told him
I'd vote for him but that's all. I
said if he ever ran again, I wouldn't
even vote for him"
Their youngest children, JAMIE, o,
and Ellen, 7, said wistfully they
would like to see daddy" who has
been in Omaha only two days since
Mr.. Truman became president. The
McKims have two other children.
Laurence, IA, at home, and Eliza
beth, 10, at Maryville College, st.
Louis, Mo. Second 1t. Edward D,
McKim, jr., U. s. M. c., was killed
in action on Guam last year.
McKim's penchant for avoiding
publicity has backfired on at least
one occasion. To escape the public
glare as much as possible, he re-
Gently made hurried trip home
from Washington only to fnd hii
family absent, the door locked and
himself without a key.
"It's easier to get into the White
House than 1t Is my own home,
McKim remarked.
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Payoh for the Banker, by Frances
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with q banker found dead In highly
unconventional circumstances.
The Lucky Stiff, by Craig Rice.
(Simon d Schuster3 A manhunt
tale involving a ghost. Lively.
PLAYS.
1 Remember Mama. Adapted from
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POETRY.
A Salute in Passing, by Ellen
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We've F. Morse: Opal Dust, by
Frances Cole Lee; Between You
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CPaebarD Volumes of popular verse
To Marry Strangers, by Winfield
Townley Scott. (CrowelD VOL
ume of short poems, some good.
STORIES.
Fireman Flower, by William San
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II gifted short stories.
NOVELS.
Now That April's There, by
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Story of the emotions involved ir
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stately volumes, its background q
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SPORTS.
Shotgunning in the Lowlands, b,
Ray P. Holland. illustrated BY
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or's adventures in the hospital
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TOO SMALL A WORLD


By Theodore Maynard. bruce;
S2.50.)
The first citizen of the United
States to be made a saint will be
Mother Cabrini, foundress of the
order of the Missionary Sisters OF
the Sacred Heart. She was beatifled
in 1888, the process being instituted
only 10 years after her death. The
rule that so years at least must
elapse before the process may be
opened was waived in her case
because of the extraordinary evil
dence of sanctity which accumu-
lated during her lifetime and i'm
mediately afterward.
She was an Italian nun who
came to New York City in 1889 to
work among the Italian immigrants
who at the time were living in great
degradation. Her lifelong ambi-
ton was to be a missionary and
after she had done considerable
work in New York, founding or
phanages, hospitals and schools, she
extended the field of her labors
She went into the Midwest and
West, she went to South and Cen
tral America, she founded houses in
Spain. France, Italy and England
In all these undertakings she mani
tested great business capacity and
shrewdness.
At the same time she had in her
personal religious life the extraordi-
nary gifts of the mystic. AS Theo-
dore Maynard writes of her. all
through her life there had been
strange happenings And those who
knew of these regarded them as
miracles =" He relates how.
in times of need, food supplies ap-
peared in the empty larder of one
of her houses and money in the
empty pocket of a sister and how
she herself referred at times to her
heavenly bank" Since her death
there have been a number of in
stances of physical healing by the
instrumentality of her relics.
Mr. Maynard writes her history
with frankly eulogistic enthusiasm
He is a Catholic, though born into
a Salvation Army family and sub
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Biography of First American Saint
Tells Life Story of Mother Cobrini

sequently member of the Plymouth
Brethren, Baptist and a Congre-
gational minister. While one re-
spects his enthusiasm for Mother
Cabrini one may feel at times that
he displays a certain bias in re-
ferring to other religious faiths
than his own. The work done
among the Italian immigrants by
Protestant groups in advance OF
Mother Cabrinis arrival, for in
stance, he calls, with obvious disap-
proval, "proselyting When, how
ever, he writes of her wish to con-
vert Protestants he expresses ad-
miration for her fervor. Liberal
opinion is "so-called"; so is Prot
estant welfare work. The general
tone of the book, however, is that
of objective biography and these
flaws, if they trouble any one, will
probably be quite as distasteful to
Catholics as to Protestants.
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Readers Adviser in Relision, Washinstor
Public Library.
Religious Book Week is observed
this year from May to 13, under the
auspices of the National Conference
of Christians and Jews, for the pur-
pose of encouraging the reading OF
books with spiritual themes and mo-
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compiled by committees of the Jew
ish, Catholic and Protestant faiths
recommends books for the stimula-
ton of attitudes of mutual respect
among racial and religious groups.
GAS See It." by Stephen S. Wise,
comments on the passing scene in
Jewish life. The Catholic list in
cludes study Of the peace plans of
Pope Plus XII, entitled "A World to
Reconstruct" by Guido Gonella
Among the Protestant titles is ''The
Predicament of Modern Man," by D.
Elton Trueblood. Gwethalyn Gra-
hams Earth and High Heaven" a
novel involving race relationships,
appears in the section of Books Of
Good Will,
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the bench at the peak of their
careers it was an awful gamble
Lieh tells about the time Connie
used the word damn" to stop some
pickering between Jimmy Dykes
and AL Simmons. When he said that
they knew he was pretty riled. Yet
the book also has that incident
when Dykes threw his bat because
Connie removed him for a pinch
hitter almost hitting Connie. He
simply told Dykes after the game
he didn't want him to do that
again. But another time he chased
a player to the clubhouse with a
bat when the fellow refused to leave
the dugout
I could almost write a book my
self about Connie, but Fred Lieb has
done splendid job. It's interesting
and faithfully describes Mack and
his career
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that inquiry by the author of this
work has failed to elicit any infor-
nation of the name of the writer,
the editor of the Review d.e, the
North American Review declining
to disclose it." For that reason Mr..
Curtis felt compelled to emphasize
to his readers the fact that "the
statements made in these papers
de, The Diary of a Public MANI
are therefore anonymous, and read
ers will judge how far they should
be regarded as reliable materials of
history"
OF Doubtful Authenticity.
Edwin L. Pierce, who, in 1896, ad-
dressed the Massachusetts, Historical
Society on "Recollections as Source
of History" cast serious doubts upon
the "Diary's" authenticity. THE
latest theory" he declared, "is that
the Diary is a pure invention-a
fictitious narrative by an adventurer
recently deceased, who had much to
do with newspapers and magazines,
who had career both in this coun-
try and in England, and who late in
life figured in scandalous trial in
London. He was able, by general
knowledge of social occasions and of
the presence of public men in the
two cities, to give an air of probable
ity to his narrative: but a close scru-
tiny reveals his untrustworthiness 4"
Mr.. Pierce then pointed out certain
circumstantial flaws and pronounced
the Diary" "a fiction-nothing
more or less"
On the ether hand. James Ford
Rhodes in the second volume of his
monumental History of the United
States" and the distinguished Lin
colnian, Jay Monaghan. in his re-
Gently published Diplomat in Car
pet Slippers, cite the Diary" as a
source"
The Doubt Remains.
Frederic Lauriston Bullard, who
has contributed the excellent Pref
atory Notes" which accompany the
separate edition, does not attempt
to dissipate the confusion. Writes
Mr.. Bullard: If this Diary So
called, is forgery it is one of the
best jobs of the kind ever put on
credulous and undiscrimina ting pub
lie, to say nothing of the historians
it may have fooled. It probably con-
tains some anachronisms -. We
would gladly accept this Diary as
genuine historical document. And
still-the doubt remains. This doubt
must be removed before this docu-
ment can be received in full standing
among the historical sources on
which We depend for our compre-
hension Of the forces which brought
about the great Civil War. And If
this Diary is in fact fake it has
full right to be pronounced an
almost-perfect crime
Mr.. Billiards. reward for scholarly
patience will be derived from the
inevitable stimulus it will give to the
researches of others who attempt
finally and definitively to resolve
this tantalizing photographed prob
lem.
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CONNIE MACK

By Frederick G. Lieb, Putnam, j,
S2.75J
Reviewed by CLARK GRIFFITH,
President Washington Baseball Club
suppose if you asked the average
modern baseball fan anything about
Punxsutawney he would think you
were either crazy or had an impedi-
ment in speech, but almost any old
timer can tell you it is the name of
the little Pennsylvania town where
Connie Mack got one Of baseball's S
greatest pitchers-Rube Waddell.
I got a lot Of pleasure reading
about Mack's visit to Punxsutawney
in Fred Liebs book about Connie.
know Connie was pleasantly sur
prised when the looking char
acters who came down to the depot
to see him off with Waddell thanked
him instead of socking him in the
eye for stealing their best pitcher
Those were hard and often unpros-
porous days for us, but we had lot
of fun along with our troubles and
Lieb's book brings back some pleas
ant memories.
Connie is the yardstick by which
the integrity of the game can be
measured He's won more pennants
than any other manager in the
league and has finished last more
than any other. I suppose Connie
Mack has meant more to baseball
than any other man.
Games Greatest Manager.
In my book he rates as the great
est manager the game ever had. l
say that because he developed all his
championship teams, all his stars
He took average players and made
good ones out of them. He made
great players out of good ones. He
had to tear up one of the greatest
teams we ever had in baseball and
after wrecking that club he was
down for a long time. But he came
back to win more pennants.
Lieb tells about the trick Connie
had of swapping his fingers to simu-
late the crack of foul strike in his
playing days, and how he tipped
bats and even froze the balls to
make them dead and hard to hit
when the other team was at bat.
In those days that was considered
smart. Baseball was a hard and
tough game then. You had to be
able to think quickly and accurately,
and if you couldn't the other fellow
had big edge.
Connie had some wonderful play
ers during the early days of the
league, and some just as great, pos
sibly better, later on. He had Eddie
Plank, Jack Coombs and Chief
Bender as mainstays of his pitching
staff in the early days, and he had
Lefty Grove, George Earnshaw and
Rube Walberg in later years. I sup
pose fans first reaction to that
would be, Pretty soft. A manager
doesn't have to be good to win with
pitchers like that"
He's Been Through the Mill, Too.
But they never stop to think that
you can have as much trouble with
good pitchers as with those of only
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she met an American soldier and it
was not long before they were in
love.
Pearl Is the heroine of this new
novel, but her love affairs with Karl
and Edward are not the whole of
the story. Her family's part in the
war gives scope to the tale and, at
the same time, builds up to the
climax. That comes when Karl de-
liberately crashes his Messerschmitt
near Pearls home and she has to
pass judgment on his part in the
war. It is, in way, a judgment
that every reader also is making on
a nation of Karls. MO, r,
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p1uCy 10 WOTkGTS Anomas n. NAres
in America. Then he trained himself
as social psychologist and minis
ter. His book is about his Army
experiences and is a convincing pic
ture of the Kind of cleric who can
win the respect of tough, irreverent
soldiers living under the hard condi-
tions of tropical country.
He lived with the men, took their
risks, played their games and out
smarted them when they tried to
outsmart him. He lent hand to
the natives, too, fighting famine and
working together with the Catholic
sisters of a nearby convent whose
pupils we're so touched by his piety
that they supposed that he was a
Catholic himself. That he could
write all this, or convey it to his wife
so that it could be written without
egotism or swagger, is wonder, but
he did it. His book is one of the
most moving which have read by
service priests so far.
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Mysterious Document of the Civil War
Presents a BibIioqrophicoI Problem

ary" has remained under suspicion.
The late Allen johnson ii. his study
of THE Historian and Historical
Evidence" was of the opinion that
because there is internally 80 much
information about this diarist, the
value of the record can be speedily
determined" and concluded that
the identity of the writer becomes
matter of secondary interest. -
But George Tcknor Curtis in foot
note to his Life of James Buchan-
an published 81 years ago, reported
Evening star., 1945-05-06
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Among
the Authors
Bv CAROLYN Coqqins

In Boston there is a young man
who had a record of perfect attend
ance at the club where he was a
waiter, until he began reading
Sophie fuckers biography, Some OF
These Days" That night he failed
to show up for work in order to read
it to the end. Later friends sug-
gested he should make Miss Tucker
pay for that nights loss in tips,
and as an April fool prank he sent
her bill for the amount. BY return
mail he received her check for $40
and an amusing apology.
Instead of pocketing the money,
he resolved to sell a thousand copies
of her Some of These Days" by
mailing out postcards telling what
had happened. BY the oath of April
he had sold the 1,00Oth copy-so
quick was the response. Having
achieved his goal, he wrote a note
to Miss Tucker telling her about it
and explained that when she casts
bread upon the water it will come
back to her after many-or at least
Some Of These Days."
When Sinclair Lewis finished the
manuscript for his novel, "Cass
Tlmberlane," which will be pub
lished this fall, we wrote a story
about his painstaking preparation
for writing book. Apparently he
has a "painstaking" business man.
ager as we'll MGM has just paid
5000 900 for the screen rights.
Bennett Cert, publisher of Ger
trude Stems exotic works, often says
he never knows what his precocious
author is talking about. Gossiping
with him the other day, a cable ar
rived from her which any one can
understand. 1t was in response to
receiving the first copy of her book,
Wars I Have Seen" It came from
France and said: Happy with
book. Lovely page. Lovely form
Lovely Bennett. Love to Random
House"
X X X
Helen Haberman's first novel
How About Tomorrow Morning?'
might be called a "test-tube baby
She is a successful advertising exec
utlve who wanted to write stories
A brief night course under Gorham
Munson was the result of that and
he urged her to write about the
advertising world. Later in longer
class for novel-writing she wrote a
60-page outline. She wrote the novel
around it during the next year
spent six months polishing it. and
now it is being published by Prem
tice Hall where, oddly enough, Cor
ham Munson has recently gone as
chief editor the man who first
urged her to write.
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LINCOLN THE MAN OF
| THE AGES:

An Epic Poem in Prose. By Hugh
D. Hart. IF. L. Seybold & Co..
Mr.. Hart, whose other works in
clude Life Insurance as a Life
Work." "A Simple Plan for the
Maintenance of World Peace" and
THE Mature Person." has produced,
in this tribute to "deflnitive Presi-
dent" reflection of his strenuous
and personal admiration for Mr..
Lincoln. AS an epic it escapes
classification with literature and as
a saga it avoids the discipline of
history, but it is obviously based on
sincere and earnest convictions of
the grandeur of Lincoln's principles
and their importance in our pres
ent world.
Evening star., 1945-05-06
New Book on Connie Mack Brings Fond
Baseball Memories to Clark Griffith

mediocre ability, or worse. I've been
through the same mill as Connie
and I know it takes a lot of patient
handling to get the best out of them
and keep them all satisfied and
happy He took a big gamble by
pitching Howard Ehnke in the
opening game of the 1929 World
Series, but Ehmke's 13 strikeouts
prove he knew what he was doing
Still, with Grove and Earnshaw on
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long time, she
kept her word,
But as news of
N All atrocities
/ cr e a sed she
gradually came
to believe that
a ii G er m a n S
were barbarians
at heart.
In an England
at war for sur
vival, there was,
OF course, plenty
of work to be
done and Pearl
managed to keep
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The Music Is Gone
By LIE Garde S. Doughty
(DueH, Sloan & Pedrce; $780,

(Duell, Sloan G. Pearce; S2.5OJ
A sentimental picture of an old
fashioned country doctor is set
against realistic rural Southern
background in this rather contra
dictory novel, So superior is the
setting to the story-if story there
can be said to be-that one feels
that elimination of the action would
be an improvement. The languid,
poverty-ridden life of a backwoods
Georgia county is set down with al
most tangible reality - the placid
ignorance, the snuff, the dust, the
malaria, the orgiastic religion, the
rare islands of intelligence and cul-
ture. But, oh! DR.. Will Gray, the
hero! A noble nature indeed, right
out of a Victorian hthograph. He
defends the weak, restrains the
wicked, gives his last penny to edu-
cate the talented orphan-and never
is appreciated. Shed a tear for DR..
Will. And also spend a regret for
what might have been a good novel,
foundered in q sea of treacle.
NC. r.
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powers anu WILL
have no thought
of fom e n ting
it's lon g-cele-
br a t e d world
revolution. In
deed. the pres
ent war, he says,
is the end of the
Communist revo-
1u tt on. Russia
will want terri
tory on h er
western border,
as she has al
ready declared,
but beyond that
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McKinn
Continued From Page CID

Missouri, who was in Mr.. Truman s
battery and served with McKim, said
McKim was very good sergeant
good at his job and good at looking
after the men in his squad. He is a
very intelligent man."
Mayor Roger T. Sherman of 1nde-
pendence. captain of Battery C,
129th Field Artillery, in the last war
and another buddy" of McKim's,
said Il know he and the President
are very, very close friends. Eddie
McKim is very personable fellow,
makes friends quickly and meets
people easily"
McKim was an advertising sales
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months after he
entered the serv-
ice: tn a t W a S
September, 1912.
In May, 1914 he
was re p or t e d
m i S in 6 in a
pl a n e nishap.
He came to the
United s t at e S
from Wales in
1922 and worked
as a miner until
h e u n d e rstood
that professional
e d u c a ton was
not an impossi-