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New Books

Lovely Is the Lee, Robert 0ibbinEs, Mo-
yember 90.
:, We Are the Wounded, Keith Wheeler.
November 20.
Bound With Two Chains. Alexander
Janta. November 26.
The Best Short Stories Io45, edited By
Martha Foley. November ~.
~ Soldier q Democracy, Kenneth 8. Davis.
The River Road, Frances Keyes. Novem-
,IP. Portrait .f q Marriase. Pearl s. Buck.
FEsnklin Delane Roosevelt. edited BY
Donald Porter Geddes, November 81.
s,css9. Ar9unS Son the Woria q In st. Paul Alice L
LarEer Than the Sky, covelle Newcomb.
VT, The Perlleus Fisht. Neil H. swanson.
Orientals, Ernest Rathenau. Novem-
ber 2S.
Evening in sprinr. August Derleth, No.
Adventure in Diplomacy, Kenneth Pen.
Army Mule. Fairfax Downey. Novem.
~. Tomorrow Out Bers, Max Miller.
Noyember 20.
) The Saints That Moved the world, Rene
Fulop- Miller, November e.
Evening star., 1945-11-25

d m nStrating Or. Herman Finer.
the incontrovertible truth that gov
ernmental interference has always
led to dictatorship in the past, has
of course, used European models
there being no other. DR.. Finer, at
tacking American business, applies
the term conservative" as natural
description of any business COM
munity. But American Government
most fortunately has never been at
all like European government and
American business has been con-
sistently the most progressive force
in our national life So-once more
from the point of view of a mere
American citizen-it seems that the
gentlemen who care so much for our
democracy might well take into con-
sideration those facts. They make
a set of conditions new under the
sun, and not to be dealt with in
terms of Europe's historic rigidity.
Beyond that, 1t seems pertinent to
point out that DR.. Finer, who, con-
stantly accuses DR.. Hayek of having
written out of a spirit of hatred
displays a good deal more venom
than his colleague. DR.. Hayek drew
largely on history. DR.. Finer is the
doctrinaire.
AS a counterblast to the embat-
tied pair, I suggest DR.. James Trus-
low Adams recent Big Business
in a Democracy" 1t is free of
irrelevant terminology and full OF
relevant facts.
Evening star., 1945-11-25
Lovely Is the Lee
Written and illustrated by
Robert GibbingS. (Dutton, s3.J

Written and illustrated by
Robert GibbingS. (Dutton, s3J
Robert Gibbings for some time has
specialized in books devoted to the
scenery and lore of certain localities.
Sweet Thames Run Softly" and
Coming Down the Wye were two
of these pleasant volumes. Their
pages were filled with legends pc
culiar to tpeir territories and with
the personal experiences of the
author as he gathered the legends
together. More pleasant even than
this always ingratiating material
were theaccompanying illustrations,
Mr.. Gibblngs drawings of the scenes
about which he wrote The present
book-the choice of the Book-of-
Month Club for December-fol-
lows the same pattern with the
Southwest of Ireland for its locale.
It would be hard for any author
not to fill a work on Ireland with
delightful whimsy and Mr.. Gibbings
has not resisted the tradition.
Whether he writes of the little
people or of drumlins or of crannogs
or carraghs, he is thoroughly con-
scientiously delightful. And his
drawings are as beautiful as ever.
Not only the routine enthusiasts
of his work will want his book. 1t
also should have great appeal for
Christmas gift piVerS
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Hobart skidmore. longing to the
depression generation, has had little
personal knowledge of the reality
behind the ideal. Describing his
soldiers state of mind as the young
man starts for the combat area,
Mr.. Skidmore uses these words:
I'VE could recall so much of our
lives that seemed wrong and sense
less that we couldn't make our
selves feel that what lay ahead
would make a hell of a lot of diff
ference. We were curiously dispos-
sessed. Never in our lives had we
accepted maturity, nor had we been
allowed it. From the time we fin
ished school, work had been made
for us, the FERA and WPA and
CCC. These jobs had not been
work we had created in our man
hood. There had been nothing per-
manent about them. They had been
transitory, and they had robbed us
of a rightful place in the world.
We had kept on the move But
now, .belatedly and cruelty, we were
given a chance to claim our stake
in the world. We were to have a
chance to fight for what we had
never possessed. We wanted to feel
deeply that we contributed to vic
tory SO that when we returned we
should know we had earned place
IN our own country"
Holding this humble, expectant
attitude before his readers con-
stantly, Mr.. Skidmore carries his
unit of soldiers through months of
the Pacific war, showing how the
greatness of Americas fight in time
fulfills the expectation His SOL
oiers are not combat troops. They
are the administrative group who
perform the paper work involved in
Keeping up an airstrip on strategic
atoH. They are bombed and strafed,
but they do not fight back. Even
In war they are, in wars sense of
1t, "dispossessed.Y But the book
rises to . fine note OF faith at its
close.
Mr.. skidmore writes with beauty
and realism.
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Where Ny Love Sleeps
By Clifford Do,Ddey. fAtlantie
Little, BrolDn.J
Reviewed by
OHM THOMPSON.

reviewed Dy
JOHN THOMPSON.
Beneath a somewhat inane title
Clifford Dowdey tells another good
story-this time about the Civil War
campaigns of Virginia.
Mr.. Dowdey, who has moved to
Richmond to write of present-day
Virginia, draws his usual colorful
word pictures which those who re-
member CANDLES Hundred" Tide
water" and other earlier Dowdey
novels have come to expect. This
is the story of Lees army. 1t Is also
the love story of Blount Mathis and
Cathie Moreu.
Mathis is a captain on the staff
OF A, P. Hill-a man of middle -class
background who made good in archi-
lecture and house building in Rich
mond. Cathie Morell lived on
plantation-a part of society that
was Slowly dying out and wouldn't
admit 1t. For $50 pages they try to
work some mutual happiness in the
scattered meetings amid the fighting
for Petersburg and Richmond.
Much has been written of the great
tight put up by the tatterdemalion
troops OF Lee-both fact and fiction.
Mr.. Dowdey advances an interesting
thesis that only the men of the
planter class really knew for what
they were fighting. The far more
numerous others, under his pen.
seem bound together in a sort of
cameraderie of suffering and pride
of army, which enable them to stare
defeat in the face and not recognize
it. Whenever Dowdey's Confeder-
ates ask themselves for what they
are fighting they have no answer.
They know they are not fighting
for the slave-holding world of Staff
Officer Lanny Warwick because
most OF them don't own slaves and
form no part of that world. So they
duck the question and keep fighting
until they go down and Lanny's and
Cathie's world goes down with them.
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Plantation Parade: The
Grand Manner in
Louisiana
By Harnett T. Kane. William
MOrrO1D & Co.. $3.50.
Reviewed by
ROBERT j. LEWIS.

ROBERI j. LEWIS.
This is the extravagant story of
the dead pigeons of Plantation
Louisiana, the tattered relics fes-
tooned with cobwebs that remain
today melancholy links with an opu-
lent age.
Nowhere on earth" the word
went out hundred years ago, "can
money be made so fast" Wealth
from the toll of tens of thousands of
slaves created fantastic parade of
mansions, hugging the Mississippi
and its bayous for 200 miles. In
this book they rear up their pillared
elegance once again, and dance
across the pages of an aristocratic
era.
Killed off by beneficent econom-
les, the feudalism those old homes
represent has been mellowed by
time, and Mr.. Kane may be for
given for now and again shedding a
nostalgia tear as he restores the
cracking plaster, sweeps up the
dusty floors and decently drapes
the ugly foundation on which this
magniflcence stood.
For this is not a story of the tens
OF thousands of slaves. 1t is a story
OF the mansions and the men and
women who peopled them. made
their walls ring with laughter. kept
the account books, and fed and
clothed minions to brush flies off
people. Only occasionally is a slave
manacle left lying around exposed
to view
Here you will find the great houses.
serene, proud, poised. soaring above
their surroundings in white, light
yellowS and greens, each with its
facade of naughty columns framed
by explosions of foliage.
Here through $50 years you will
find Louisiana in the grand manner,
bit of transplanted France in
which, as Mr.. Kane points out, the
great grew greater and greater and
the plantation system prospered.
first on tobacco. myrtle, saffron and
indigo, and finally on those twin
sugar cane and cotton.
Here you started out big, or you
started out not at all. Here you
lived secluded from a burgeoning
Evening star., 1945-11-25
Spectacular Career
Of Joseph Smith, .,
Mormon Prophet
NO MAN KNOWS MY HISTORY

9>o NhN hNOWS M H1S1O OTs
By Fd,1n NJ. Brodie. (Knopf
S4.J
"A definitive biography" of JOSEPH
Smith is what this book is callec
and probably it will stand as such
for some time to come. The author
seems to have made very careful
study OF the records of the Mormon
prophets life which are available
as she notes, great many pertinent
documents are kept from students
hands by the authorities of the
Mormon Church. And she has put
her findings together in a manner
which turns them into a connected
and lively narrative Even so, as
one reads, e~e realizes that there are
considerable lacks in the history
I: 4 = remarkable thing-Joseph
Smith lived only reccn-.y and was
a subject of enormous public interest
during most of his existence. Yet,
apparently, it is impossible today to
assemble records which furnish a
full account of his spectacular
career.
Mrs. Brodie, who spent her child
hood in a Mormon village, has made
use of the customary sources
Smiths own writings and the nu-
merous writings of his associates.
To this study she has added research
into court records and many hither-
to unStudied pioneer memoirs and
diaries which, she writes, were re-
Gently brought to light by the Utah
Federal Writers Project. Other new
material was furnished her, she
notes, by the Brigham Young Uni
versity.
The problem which confronted
her, however, when she began to
write. and which sometimes seems
to have been too cumbersome for
her to handle, was whether to tell
the story of Joseph Smith or the
story of the Mormon Church. The
two records are, of course, almost
inextricably tangled Even the
stupendouS tale of the prophets 48
known marriages must be treated as
a church, rather than a personal
history, since the unions were en-
tered on strictly as church policy
A man whose very domesticity was
SO concealed by publicity will natu-
rally be even harder to find in affairs
by nature less private. So there are
considerable passages in Mrs. Bro
dies book in which Joseph Smith
practically disappears and the mar
rative runs on in terms of the
Mormon community altogether. Yet,
when one has finished the work, one
does have a concept of the prophet
as a person.
Evening star., 1945-11-25

He has been an all-around career
man in the Government service-on
duty at the White House, with Con-
gress and the Supreme Court, liai-
son officer for the Veterans Ad-
ministration in Washington and in
the field. During World War I he
was an officer in the Army, and
during World War II he travelled
153, 900 miles, visiting every theater
twice on special missions for the
Navy.
But-to men in the services he Is
best known as "Eggburt's Pappy."
His friends at the Capitol have long
Evening star., 1945-11-25
THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington, D. G..
SUNDAY. NQvEMaEk 25 l9A5. 60

taking over their first job anywhere
except at home. We can't afford
the mistakes Of beginners abroad.
Mr.. Powell walked slowly about
the hotel lobby the evening we
visited him, with the aid OF two
canes, He planned to leave soon
for Missouri University, where he
would lecture on the politics,
geography and the people Of the
Far East. Soon after that he and
his wife will return to China, where
he will once more take up the edit
ing of the China Weekly Review,
which his son has already attempted
to start again. No doubt his own
experiences in China, and the in
formation he will give students hear
ing his lectures about the Orient,
will drive many a man and woman
to drink his morning coffee-or tea
on the other side of the world
the rest OF their lives. q
Book ReUie1Ds Continued on
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EGGBURT AND OTHER NAVY
CARTOONS.
wv 1O WOU DN
CASPAR NAMES,
By Earle D. Chesney. lander
son House, 1.50 and $3.)

BY VIII p. Kennedy
Conlor. Earle D. Chesney is out
of uniform and back again on his
old job as liaison officer for the
Veterans Administration at the
Capitol, which Office he held for 20
years before he was commissioned
in the Navy, having been assigned
wnen the World War Veterans
Committee was created in 1924, un-
der the late Representative Royal
C. johnson of South Dakota. But
World War II has multiplied the
work which Comdr. Chesney is re-
organizing, with offices both in the
Senate and House ONCE Buildings.
Members of Congress consider
themselves and the Veterans Ad-
ministration fortunate In the re-
turn of Chesney, whose World War
II experience has better qualified
him for the enlarged service.
Comdr. Chesney had done inn
portant work in all theaters of the
war before he took trip around
the world with the Subcommittee
on Naval Appropriations, of which
Representative Harry r. Sheppard
Fof California was chairman; Rep
resentative Nobel ]. johnson Of
Indiana, ranking Republican, and
Representatives Jamie Z. Whitten
|of Mississippi and Walter G.
Ploesser Of Missouri, also members.
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III his SeCOIlu
novel, he carries
on in a worthy
manner.
His book is an
attempt to put
into words the
feelings of a
soldier who has
been conscript-
ed, who is a
h a t er of war,
whose Ideals are
based on a DEM
ocratic pattern
of life, but who,
by reason of be-
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p r o I e S S lonal
economist from
M a rs m / 6 h t
have the needed
detachment. To
the lay Ameri-
can q the weak
ness of b o t h
works seems to
lie in the fact
that their au-
t ors h a We
brought Euro
pean thinking to
bear on Ameri-
can conditions.
DR.. Hayek, in
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More Lives Than One

BIZ Hobart Douglas Skidmore.
fHoughton-M -Mif1in; $780,
Hobart Douglas Skidmore's first
novel, Valley of the Sky" was one
of the few distinguished works of
fiction to come out of the war. Here,
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Taking the Other
Side of a Debate
On Democracy


BroUn; ST.
The reason for the writing of
this book is the authors determina-
ton to discredit DR.. Friedrich
Hayek's widely read Road to Serf-
DOM" DR.. Hayek's book was. a state
ment of the position of the profess
sional economist who sees govern
mental control of business as lead
ing to dictatorship. DR.. Finer's book
is an attack about equally on his
colleague and the system of free
enterprise. DR.. Hayek is a Czech
DR.. Finer an Englishman. Both
riters-economists-are concerned
about the safeguarding of American
democracy.
To follow the arguments in detail
would be virtually to write a third
book, for which task no doubt a
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Best Sellers
-NATION-WIDE-

tAccording to Publishers Weekly
FICTION.
1st-The Black Rose, Thomas B. Co.'S
sd-Gsss Iimberlsns. Sinclair Lewis.
ssy Ullman.
4th-The Peacock Sheds His Tail.
Alice Tisdale Hobart
6th-A Lion Is in the Streets Adria
Locke Langley.
NONFICTION.
1st-Up Front, Bill Mauldin.
2d-Brave Men, Ernie Pyle.
ad-The herISsE EEE and l. Betty Mac
4th-fisss.nt Valley, Louis Brom-
5th-Gen. M.rsh.rs Report. reorse
IN WASHINGTON
FICTION.
1st-Cass Timberlane. Sinclair Lewis.
2d-The Peacock Sheds His Tail, Alice
Tisdale Hobart,
3d-The Black Rose, Thomas B. Co.'S
4th-Ihe Gauntlet. James street
5th-The White Tower, James Ram
sey Ullman.
NONFICTIoN.
1st-Gen. MarshalPs Report, George
&C. Marshall.
ad-The Cherokee Strip, MARQUIS
sd-Ths Life Of the Heart Frances
4th-Up Front, Bill Mauldin.
5th-The EEE and l, Betty Mac
Donald.
Evening star., 1945-11-25

Family. By Lucy Poate Steb-
bins and Richard Poate Steb-
bins. columbia U. Press: s4.)
Reviewed by
CASPAR NAMES.
The reslrgence of interest in Vic
torian writer's indicates the 5O-year
period when authors reach their
low ebb in critical and public esteem
has been passed and gradual
ascendancy by them to their perma-
nent position is under way.
Anthony Trollope is one of the
Victorian noveliSts having a rebirth
of popularity. Overshadowed by his
contemporary Thackery through the
years, the author of the Barchester
novels nevertheless has always pos
seSsed steady audience and the
present biography indicates a grow
ing addition to it.
The volume deals with the entire
Trollope family, group remarkable
In its lesser way as the James or
Bronte families. Most important
are Thomas Trollope the father,
frustrated and gloomy but still ad-
mirable; Frances Trollope the
mother, brilliant and erratic;
Thomas Adolphus the brother,
charming and spoiled. and Anthony,
methodical and crude.
Frances and Anthony gradually
occupy the center of the stage, the
mother in the first part and the
son In the second part of the book.
Frances is a character out of Dick
ems. She is brilliant, witty, erratic,
indefatigable, brave in family dis
aster and irresponsible in ephmeral
success.
Anthony Trollope emerges a more
sympathetic personality than his
assembly line method of turning out
books would suggest.
The Stebbins, mother and son,
perform the unusual feat of dis
cussing the numerous books written
by Frances, Anthony and Thomas,
whose histories were popular in their
day, without allowing their analyses
to impinge on the human stories of
the writers. Here is a biography.
joining scholarship and reliability,
that should make a strong bid for
the best-seller lists.
Evening star., 1945-11-25
Outside Eden
BY Isabel Scott Rorick. (Hough
ton -Mt6lin,. ST.

BY Isabel Scott Rorick. (Hough-
ton-Mt67in, ST.
The mad married couple, the
Cugats, who made their bow to the
public in the earlier Rorick novel,
Mr., and Mrs. Cugat," are back
once more, madder than before if
possible. This time it is mother
in-law trouble. though the mother
in-law also partakes of the goofy
family pattern. There is really
nothing to the novel but a series
of hilarious episodes, as George and
Liz bounce around. taking in a bit
of Washington as they CO. But it is
fun. You are advised to get it when
you've read all you want to about
the atomic bomb.
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Book ReUie1DS Continued on
FOLLOWING Paqe.)
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The TroHopes

The Chronicle of a Writing
Family. By Lucy Poate Steb-
bins and Richard Poate Steb-
bins. columbia U. Press; 81
Reviewed by
rACnhn NrANrN1rc
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tSee EGGBURT, Page CAD
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-06-16

Il this ycar-Fatlcrs Dayhnls Douglas Mac\hu emphasis
of beng home with his uprrmt the thoughts and
families The bulng military mood which
Fathers Day has the approaching
and the pleasures untlouId world
NOR
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-05-05
TWO .DlAMl0NDBALL
'GAMESiIAST NIGHT
ENLISTED FLYERS AND MA.
RINEs WINNERS OF
CONTESTS

The Naval Enlisted Flyers won
over the V.P.B. 113 last night at
the Bayview Park. and the u. S.
Marines won over the Machinists.
Eoth were league games.
In the first game the pitching
Of Bonney featured. He hung up
a record when he famed Is bat
tiers out of % to face him. He al
lowed two singles, the first came
in the fifth. Ayotte. first. batteD
singled 10, Left and Baker, TO- 4ce1t
Ter. He fAhned the fifstl6 battefs
to AceIfhnK Fbrf the WINNERS
Fanatics hit two safely to lead
the batters and in the field Zama-
titles had Is put outs behind the
rlate and two assists. Novasat
had two at first and Cook at
short had the other out for the
losers Phair, Ayotte rand Pursian
Tlayed good game. il.
VPRY l13 p. 900 600 0 0 2f4
N. E. Flyers 001 102 x 4 40
EafteTlgs, Lynn land : Piiaet:
Bonney-and Fanatics. il
Sprouse of the Marines hung
up another strike out record last
night at the expense of the
Machinists when he famed IA
batters in five frames. He famed
every player at least once except
Bazo. ]. Walker was wild and
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.SOFTBALL SCHEDULE
official Navv. Photograph

Softhall schedule for Bayview
Park week of May Z, 1915:
MONDAY
7:30 - Miami Daily News VS..
Machinists.
900 - Key West Barracks VS..
u S. Marines.
TUESDAY,
1880 - American Legion VS..
Aviation Civilians.
900 - Fort Taylor VS.. V.PB.
113.
FRIDAY
7::30-Porter Place VS.. Electric
Shop.
9:00-F A. w. Chiefs VS.. Naval
Enlisted Flyers.
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lost his own game He walked the,
first batter to face him in e,first
folr frames and wild pitches put
them arc md to the plate. He al
lowed four hits and Sprouse 2.
The Machinists played the. game
under protest. They, claim the
pitcher was not delivering the
ball according to the rule book.
lathe field, Caldwell shaetsl3 .pat
oats and IAlexander3 at FIRST had
one and Turner in right had the.
other Albury,g Goehring and
Williams played well for the
losers.
Score:
Marines .--------..----- 001 81 4 2
Machinists ------- Ill 90 3 2 2
Batteries: Sprouse and Card
well; J. Walker and B. Bazo.
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-American Leaa,ie !

New York. M Boston: { ,Iuni
Phffade4rhia-at- Washington -
St. Louis al Detroit. !
Cleveland at Chicago.
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National League
TODAY'S GAMES
National League

Boston at New York, -.
Brooklyn at Philadelphia.
Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, d f,
Chicago at S1hopisi M. 2 ri
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-05-05

j. Monroe johnson, born Mar
ion, S. c.. 81 years ago, director
of the Office of Defense Trans
portaticn E@ps it.@'" ~"
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Yesterdays RESULTS
Yesterdays Games
National League

, Boston~at New York,-rain..--.-
BrooklYn at Philadelphiaa Pain4
Chicinnatf at PittshlAHib rainI
Only cares scheduledssss rs
American League, 49,,
New York at Boston, rain,
Cleveland at Chicago, rain.
St Louis at Detroit. rain u iiIiIi
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SENATOR'S WIN
OVER ATHLETICS
ALL OTHER GAMES POST
4 PoNEp ON ACCOUNT 20
sH1aSIEsy' lIG MsS G''seft,.E. me J

Washington Senator's sage out
victorious in their night game
with the Philadelphia Athletes.
taking the contest by a score of
5 to 4.
Flores and Kneer were on the
mound for Philadelphia, with
Pieretti hurting for Washington
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BASEBALL GAME
HERE ON MONDAY

The Sound School will play
the baseball nine off the Cuban
gunboat Cuba" Monday after
noon at the MOB field.
The Cuban boys have played
about 10 games this year and
have won every one, and the
Sound School have won their
games in the Service League.
Alice Faye, screen star, porn
New York, 80 years ago.
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Flores, Kneer and Hayes; Pier
etti and Guerra.