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Parking LOT Denies
Owing u. 5. Money

-Four stockholders of the Triangle
Parking Center, Inc, have filed an
swers in District Court to suits
brought against them by the United
States Government in which they
deny that they are in any way in
debted to the Government.
Last February the Government
obtained a judgment for 8,400
against the corporation as an un-
paid balance on rental of a parking
lot by the corporation between Oc-
tober II, 1912, and May Is, 1913.
The lot. bounded by Twentieth,
Twenty-fir and F streets NV,
was rented to the corporation I'M
der contract with the Alley Dwell
ing Authority, now the National
Capital Housing Authority.
After the judgment had been OBJ
tanned, it was reported there were
no assets available to levy against
In April, the Government filed
suit against the four stockholders
seeking to obtain 5000 from each.
under District code provision
which holds that stockholders are
individually liable to creditor of a
company.
In their answers they claim they
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-10
nard l.. Montgomery. according to q

nard l.. Montgomery, according to q
dispatch from Germany.
He was among 38 American officers
and enlisted men to be decorated,
the group including Maj. Gen. Jo-
seph Lawton Collins of 1896 Thirty
first place NV, commanding general
of the 7th Corps. whose receipt OF
the Companion Order of the Bath
already has been reported in The
Star.
Gen. kean, West Point graduate
lived in Washington as boy before
moving to New York. He was sta
toned here before he went overseas.
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Maj. Gen. William B. Kean
Receives Order of Bath

Maj. Gen. William B. Kean, At.
chief of staff of the 1st Army, whose
mother, Mrs. Annette M Kean, lives
at 1929 Columbia road NV, has
been awarded the Companion Order
of the Bath by Field Marshal Ber-
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paid the full $1,000 each to the
corporation and that they do not
owe it any money.
Answers to each of the four suits
were filed through Attorney Charles
L. Norris. 2100 block of Pennsyl-
vania avenue NV, who is one of
the four defendants named in the
suit and who served as president of
the corporation. The others named
as defendants are Charles F. Hall,
j. j. Kimball and Niels M. Nielsen,
all District government employees.
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Buy War Bonds like our fighters
fght-all out for victory! And buy
them the way they buy them-the
easy way, the best way-through
payroll savings.
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His wife and two children, William
II, and Katherine, Is, live in Bir-
mingham, Ala.
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moral man sometimes has for a
frivolous and Immoral woman. The
scene is San Francisco of the inter-
war years, where Bruce Priest, a
young student of architecture, comes
under the fascination of Elaine
Barnes, a stenographer. In order to
be able to marry, Bruce abandons
his studies and takes a job. Elaine,
who is engaged to him, light-heart-
eddy marries some one else. This
gambit is subsequently repeated.
Bruce learns in time that Elaine is
faithless and mercenary, and he
also learns that he will always love
her. So the book ends with him
summoning her once more, know
ing that his success as a commercial
artist achieved most improbably,
by the way will attract her from
her other admirers, at least for a
while.
That is all there is to it. The
characters are the thinnest silhou-
cites and the incidents are often
forced. Oscar Lewis has, however,
some sophistication of mind, and
his comments, if not his people, are
witty and to the point.
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Among
the Authors
By Carolyn Coggins

At party the other day a gen.
tleman drifted up to us and in
quired, Did you ever read Anna
and the King Of Siam'?"
"Of course" we answered brightly
Margaret Landon wrote it. It's
one of our favorite books"
Seems this gentleman knew
nothing about our work but simply
wanted to get something off his
chest-that he had been in love as
a young man with the Anna who
is a granddaughter of the Anna in
the book. According to him the
present Anna is just as gifted as her
grandmother ever was. She was a
pianist whose concerts were lauded
by the critics with the most extrav-
agant praise they could dream up
and Anna has cut across the face
of the world, like a brilliant comet,
delighting those around her wher-
ever she went. She returned to this
continent only few years ago,
after many years in Germany.
Where is she now?" we asked
him.
"Oh, in the South somewhere or
in the Bahamas" said he. So we
thought We would tell this story to
see what more we could learn. It
was a timely incident, for only last
week Anna and the King of Siam"
went into reprint edition at about
half its original price.
Film Berlin, who is Mrs. Irving
Berlin, wrote book about a year
ago called Land I Have Chosen"
1t created quite stir because it was
much better than people expected
from woman who already had
everything. In fact, it is still pros
pering and now Bette Davis and
Joan Crawford will star in a movie
version of it.
After 2,286,0O0 copies of THE
Boston Cooking School Cook Book, .
by Fannie Merritt Farmer, have
been secured by would-be cooks it
also is going into reprint edition
this month.
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Britain over Iran, which is now
complicated by British and Ameri-
can need for Trans OIL Russia does
not share that need, but she will
nonetheleSs enter the arena, in
Mr.. Dallin'S view. In the Far East
she has her weapon ready to hand
in China's Communist army, which
she has nourished for the purpose
and which renders her devoted al
legiance. Using this weapon she
may we'll claim, as spheres of in
fluence," Outer Mongolia, Man.
churia, Sinkiang and a good share
OF North China. Korea may also
come within her claims, on the
ground that it was a Russian sphere
under the Tsar. Japan, in other
words, will be expelled from Asia
by American arms, in order that
Russia may move in, as Mr.. Dallin
sees it.
Indeed, the only conclusion to be
drawn from Mr.. Dallin's book is
that the new aggressor is at hand.
Like the old one it is equipped with
an theological fervor which, it holds,
Justifles any and all violations of
international agreements, and the
destruction of any who, for reasons
Of their own interest or integrity
oppose it. His work is not alarmist
in tone. 1t is, instead, almost placid
ly factual. 1t draws no program of
its own, though as opposed, eventu-
ally, to Moscow's expanding world
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other planets-take over Since Mr..
Wells has pretty well put his patent
on the Martians, Mr.. Koestler
pumps for the inhabitants of a
satellite of Aldebaran.
His play is a satirical farce, genu-
inely humorous. It's action turns
on the arrival by space ship of two
inhabitants of the Aldebaranian
planet, bent on discovering whether
there is enough happiness in our
species to justify our existence. The
immediate answer is no, but the
emissaries allow two days for the
earth-dwellers to step the quotient
up. after which, in the event of
failure, humanity is to be destroyed
The top-hatted government re-
signs before such a crisis, begging
the radicals to take over. But the
radicals have no program except for
free dental care and hot tea at III
for all factory workers. So a gossip
columnist steps into the breach
with a plan for free champagne,
merry-go-rounds and sex license.
The practical application of the idea
is taken over, while he makes
speeches, by a female tycoon who
knows how to organize things She
brings in her company police, has
the champagne forcibly admins
tered and orders the arrest of all
appiness-resiSters.
The scheme catches on-the
Scotch protest in principle against
a happiness quotient of more than
21z per cent, the Russians simply
shoot every one who does not look
cheerful. But presently the word
goes round that the Aldebaraniansl
are imposters after all and the |
grand global binge fiattens out to
normally. The top-hats come back,
the radicals, greatly relieved, pick
up their agitating, the citizehs settle
contentedly down to unhappiness.
That's what we are, says Mr.. Koest-
Ter. That's the best that we canI
do, even under pressure to save our
mortal lives.
Only an erstwhile idealist could |
be so completely damning. !
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Public Library
THE ATOM
4 III IA Z O1VI
Bv John Lord,
Technology Division, washington Public

Technology Division, washington Public
Library.
why Smash Atoms" by Arthur
K. Solomon, published in 1910, gives
a simple and concise account Of the
interior of the atom and describes
three methods of attack by which to
break it up and identify its constit-
uents.
Three years later Rogers D. Rusk's
popularity written Forward With
Science" was published, with atten-
ton paid to uranium fission on
which the atomic bomb apparently
is based. The chapter "Harnessing
Atomic Energy" discusses the split
ting of uranium 235 and speculation
on its possibilities as of 1943.
History of discoveries relating to
the atom is given in Energy and
Matter" by Charles B. BazZoni, pub
lished in 1882, but does not include
the more recent information on ura-
MUM. For "the physicist and the
reader of somewhat less technical
training" the dean of American
physicists. Robert A. Millikan. wrote
in 1885 "Electrons G. and y Pre-
tons, Photons, Neutrons and Cosmic
Rays" 1t is basic work on the
atom but needs to be supplemented
by later books.
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Labor
Continued From Page CID

Of competitive economy both on
domestic and international planes
1t also demanded, as a result of
wartime experience, drastic meas
ures Of social reconstruction.
These did not come. The Con-
sentative party was in office, with
great majorities, for all the inter-
war years save for two brief periods
when the Labor party itself was a
minority government jockeyed out
OF office each time by carefully
organized stunts and scares.
In 20 years of Conservative rule,
what became increasingly clear not
only to Labor supporters but also
to the great masses of unattached
voters was that the forces behind
conservatism had no interest in
doing more than safeguarding their
power. They never seriously at
tempted to tackle the grim problem
of unemployment; they even treated
the unemployed as though they were
enemies of the nation They showed
clearly their fear of educational
change. They were timid about
large-scale housing plans. They
supported the reactionary mine
owners. Their remedy for a decay
ing agriculture was subsidies to the
landowner and farmer. They
watched cotton, shipping, iron and
steel drift into incompetence and
inef1iciency. They saw science and
technology either not used or frus-
trated.
MAN of the Past"
Above all, the real minds of the
forces which supported Toryism
were revealed in their passionate
hostility to trade unionism in the
general strike of 1926 and the con-
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unsung subs must have taken many
daring periscope peeks.

unsung subs must have taken many
daring periscope peeks.
Seawolf is sister ship to the tragic
Squalus. Under Fearless Freddy
Warder, lieutenant commander, she
visited Manila, slowed the foes ad-
vance south of Java, fought through
the Dutch East Indies. Warder
joins the almost interminable list
of officers telling his crew. when
the Navy Cross is pinned on him
that it's "as much yours as it is
mine, boys"
Trumbull seems the most evoca-
tive of the writer's. He has a knack
of making you understand exactly
what it's like to fire one, fire two;
to cover far below the surface and
feel the depth charges shivering
your timberS.
It was aboard the Silversides that
Pharmacists Mate Thomas Moore
performed, with the aid of some
regulation instruments, plus an
ironing board and spoons, the
famous appendectomy on George
Platter.
Both books are illustrated with
photographs. w. G. R.
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Book Reviews in Brief
SPORTS.

Retriever Gun Dogs, by William
r., Brown. (Barnes) A work on
the different retrieving breeds with
rules for training from puppyhood
on. Illustrated with photographs.
Very good.
Bass, by Harold c. Hollis. (Barnes.)
The different kinds of bass and the
equipment and tactics required to
catch each. illustrated with photo
graphs.
Tennis Made Easy, by Lloyd
Bulge. (Barnes) A comprehen-
sive covering of the game and how
to play it.
Best Sports Stories of 1914, edited
by Irving T. Marsh and Edward
Ehre. Dutton) Collected articles
on sports subjects, all well done.
NOVELS.
The Rim, by Frances M. Sedg-
wick. (Coward-McCan Novel
about matrimonial tangle. Heavy.
Mrs. Heriot's House, by Barbara
Webster. (Scribner's) Story of a
woman retreating to the country to
find solitude and then becoming en-
crossed in the life of her servant.
Well done.
ORIENT.
China's Crisis, by Lawrence K.
Rosinger. fKnopf) A study Of
China in relation to the postwar
world. The author is a research as
sociate of the Foreign Policy Asso-
citation.
POETRY.
Silent Fame and Other Poems, BY
Lloyd Haberly. (Macmillan.) Meas
ured and accomplished verses.
Choir and Tempest, by Esther FIRE.
mont. (Great-ConcordD Long tur-
gid poem about war and peace intro
duced as preface to new poetry"
but reading like much else that has
been written since the heyday Of
Walt Whitman.
PLAYS.
The Best One-act Plays Of 1914,
edited by Margaret Mayorga. Dodd-
MeadD The eighth edition of the
annual collection.
Seven Plays by Maxim Cork.
Translated from the Russian by
Alexander Bakshy. yale Uni
versity Press) Plays well known in
Russia put into English by a con-
temporary dramatic critic.
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f Company
By Frank O'Rourke. (Simon
Schuster;; ST.

By Frank O'Rourke. (Simon G.
Schuster; ST.
The formula to which this short
novel conforms is by now fairly
familiar one to readers of war books.
1t is the formula which covers the
development of casually assembled
group of men into a military COM
pany worthy of the name. The story
begins with the formation of E Com
pany on December II, 194l, at Camp
Mcintosh in Alabama and carries ON
through training and maneuvers
until, after a few days in battle in
Africa, the remnants of the group so
laboriously created are sent behind
the lines for requirements"
The authors care naturally has
been to present E Company as a
typical one, both in training and
personnel, so he moves his narrative
forward by means of incidents and
characters which by now have some
what the quality of stereotypes.
We have the fine young captain
who is like a father to his soldiers,
we have the outwardly tough but
inwardly kind old Army noncom,
the gold-brickers, the hot dice crap
shooters, the serious soldiers, the
idealists, the incidental women,
They are all more or less routine
figures in books on Army life, both
fiction and nonfiction. But Frank
ORourke writes with a persuasive
and good sense of MARIA
tive proportion. Though without
original quality, his book is a worthy
representative of its class.
AS any reader will guess, he has
been in the Army himself. He went
in in the spring of 194l, received a
lieutenant's commission and was in
out in 1913.
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their possession Of property and
governmental representation was
determined along the line of prop
ertied classes. Man, in short, was
economic man."
With Rousseau there appeared
however, the idea of political equali-
tarianism; politically all men were
held to be equal, regardless of the
property they possessed. There was
obvious divergence between the two
ideas, but in actual practice eco
nomic classes continued to exist and
to get their interests represented
before their governments. This
happened even in Russia, where a
classics society" was set up by de-
cree. The economic basis of politics
therefore is established as the in
evitable one.
Considering in his new chapter
the developments of the last 20
years, DR.. Beard takes note of the
rise of pure relationships and the
increase of state power in the
democracies and comes to the con-
clusion that the changing forms
have not changed the basic fact.
We have now threatened conflict
between economic, political and
military man, but the function de-
manded of government In any form
remains the same-that it maintain
an efficient economic basis.
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New Books

Peters Silver Dollar, So, August q
Florestan, 1915, August 81
Flight From China, So so. August Of
Broad Marsin. So so, August %
Out of Control, So, August -.
The Economic Basis of Politics, 81 *
August 20
Brazil, 50, August 30.
, The Uncertain Journey, $3.50, August
The Free State, So, August 90.
The American Language, Supplement
Twilight Bar, 81, August 81.
Home Fires Burning, $3.50. August 20
Government Jobs and How to Get Them
So .95. August %
Heartwood. $3.50, August %.
Interval in Carolina, So, August "a.
Slow Train to Yesterday, So, August o1
Stuffy, ST so, August %
Beneath the Stone, So so. August 81.
No ShortaEe of Men, $3.50, August 90
Napoleon and Uncle Elby, 50, August "a
Stop or I'll Scream, So, August "A.
The Black Rose, So, August SO.
Selected Speeches and Statements OF
Gen. George c. Marshall, August "a
The Western Island, So. so, August %.
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trast up to and beyond the out
break of the war in 1899, between
their hatred for Russia and their
desire to appease the Fascist coun-
tries even at the cost of destroying
the democracies of the European
continent. The utter inability Of
the Conservative party to recon-
struct and renovate was made plain,
in binding flash, by the disaster
OF Dunkerque and the year we stood
alone.
That is why the British electors
decided to give Socialism an oppor-
tunity through the Labor party;
that is why, also, once Churchill de-
cided to throw his whole strength
behind the TRADITIONAL Britain, not
even their recognition OF his great
war services could conceal the con-
viction that he was a man of the
past. They wanted new ideas, new
experiments. They were passionately
democratic, but they saw no reason
to suppose that democracy must re-
main a subordinate appendage Of
capitalism. They were schooled by
70 years of eager debate to the con-
viction that parliamentary successes
could, stage by stage of what Webb
called 1.-The inevitability of grad
ualness,' transform capitalist de-
mocracy to Socialist democracy.
They believed this could be done by
consent and without violence. They
believed that they would be freer,
as the transformation developed,
than they were in all their previous
history. Above all they believed
that to make the public a political
power and master of private eco
nomic power by democratic methods
would be an immense contribution
to the art of civilized living.
That, at least, is the background
Of the decisions made by this cleo
ton of the British people. 1t has
taken 10 years to make it. Nothing
IN 1t is surprising save the fact that
so vast part of the world could not
see that it was the logical outcome
of long years of timidity among con-
sentative statesmen and defense of
vested interests by businessmen.
The people of a democracy may be
slow gathering their forces, but
when they have made up their
minds, like Fabius Cunctator, they
strike swiftly and hard. (Quintus
Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, Roman
leader, who died in 203 BIC, was
surnamed Cunctator, or the delayer,
because of his military strategy
which was to wear down the enemy
Observation-Disclosures harassing OPP
erations while avoiding decisive con-
f1icts.
(Copyright, 1945, Overseas News Agency.
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press a Doubt
as to efficacy of
idealistic W a r
aims to atone to
dead soldiers for
their lives. In
the present nov
ell, he a g a | n
voices a pessi-
mism. He writes
Of the returning
English soldier
and his failure
to find a place
in civilian So
ciety. The dis
appointed vet
Grams. he saws by
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The Economic Basis
OF Politics

By Charles A. Beard. (Knopt:
S1.75J
The first four chapters of this
little book consist of four lectures
which DR.. Beard first delivered in
1916 on the Clark Foundation at
Amherst College. Revised, the lee
lures were brought out in book form
in 1922. Since then there has been
a steady demand for the work.
Now, to the four as they were pub
lished in 1922, DR.. Beard adds a
fifth chapter designed to cover re-
cent developments in the subject.
The conclusion reached in his
earlier coverage of economics in
politics is based, as he observes, on
all history up to the time of the
writing. Until Rousseau's influence
made itself felt, it was generally
recognized that government existed
to regulate, control and protect
property. Hence men stood before
their governments in relation tc