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trian and SWiSSJame Ramsey JIIman.
Brought together by circumstance in
Swiss valley, each feels compelled
for his own reasons to climb the
White Tower. They join in an at
tempt for the aloof summit. never
before attained from the Kander-
matt side The climb is exhaustine
beyond belief, exhilsrating, depress-
ing the climbers grasping for hold
plodding, gasping and coughing
hoping, advancing, foot by foot
breath by breath, until breath itself
seems unattainable.
Qualities of the five men ano
one woman are starkly exposed
against the White Tower. The ar
rogance of the German, the deca
dence of the Frenchman. the simple
superstition of the Swiss and the
confusion of the American are
brought into focus, at times momen-
tarily subdued. again intensified
Each meets staggering opponent
or friend, in the immensely of the
mountain. The Englishman, the
type generally known as "a nice
old duffer,' plays subsidiary role
Interestingly. The Austrian girl is
the least convincing of the lot
she is a bit too wonderful, with
standing her ordeal with femininity
gay smile and a heart full OF
love and problems
The conclusions. while incon-
elusive, seem inevitable.
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Dg WIZ SO'tNo. tLtLttC, of OtH,
ST.
Reviewed by
JOHN B. GARRETT, U. S. C. G. r.
What is it like to be a sailor on a
ship in time of war? In his novel
"Beachhead OH the Wind Carl
Jonas, a boatswains mate in the
Coast Guard, gives the reader a
categorical answer. 1T is" he says,
TO die for little while at
least and in many different ways.
There is the death of homelessness,
of exile, of lovelessness, rof fear, the
death of being subject to arbitrary
and unquestioned whim, all forms of
death and hell into which the sailor
must descend, suffer and from which
to rise, not to judge the quick and
the dead, but die again.
The story is an almost literal trans
scription of life in the Western
Aleutians in 1912. 1t is novel only
because names and localities have
been changed and two or three
literary contrivances' have been
made. Otherwise you hear real dog
faces and real sailors talking.
The art of amphibious warfare
has progressed immeasursb bly, since
1912. When LISTS, ICIs and the
other landing craft types appeared
in the Pacific, some of the sheer,
back-breaking toll of establishing a
beachhead was eliminated.
The seven men who figure in this
book are members of the ships
beach party who go ashore on the
island of Tartu to begin salvaging
boats smashed or lost in the surf
supervise the landing of cargo, set
up a first-aid station for casualties
and hundred and one other jobs
But invasions never go the way
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mountain climbing. One day when
Ullman was jubilantly leading the
way up the nearest cliff the young
est boy succinctly spoke for them
all. He picked himself up from
another fall and asked severely.
Father, are we doing this for funnr
\ X X
Samuel Hopkins Adams lives in
Auburn, N. Y, which may ex-
plain why only the other day he
saw our account of the party given
for him and his book, "A Woollcott."
At the risk of causing feud among
the Adames, We quote bit from his
letter to us:
Some one sent me your gay
little piece about the Algonquin
party just day or two ago and
1 read it with mingled amuse-
ment and shock. The shock was
occasioned by the statement that
the lady with Laurette Taylor
whom F. P A. kissed was his
wife. To paraphrase the ancient
wheeze wasn't no lady:
that was my wife You got
your Adamses slightly mixed.
Franks wife wasn't there and
my wife was, which explains why
he kissed her. but only in part.
the rest of the reason being that
they were friends long before I
ever kneW-and married-Jane
Pevton
so next time you see Frank
just ask him, Who was that lady
l seen you kissing the other
dayo'"
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Brief Reviews
HISTORY.

Thunder Gods Gold, by Barry
Storm. Southwest Publishing Coz
Collection of stories, legends and
history about mining in our South
west from the time of the Span
iards on.
Dewey Also Ran, by Irving Stone.
Doubleday-Doran) Supplementary
pamphlet to Mr.. Stones They also
RAN" work which considered the
merits of defeated presidential can
didates through our history up to
the last election.
THE WAR.
World War Veterans Rights and
Benefits, by Robert T. Kimbrough
and George H. Chapman. Lawyers
Cooperative Publishing Coz A
book covering the legal rights of
veterans and their families. Should
be valuabl
Thread of Victory, by Frank K
Walton. CFairchild Publishing Co..
The story of the part played in war
by textiles and their manufacturers
An interesting sidelight.
Fighting the Devil with the Ma
rines, by 1t Comdr. Hansel H. Tow
er. DorranceD A Marine chaplain
writes of his adventures in the re-
cent South Sea fighting.
ENTERTAINMENT.
Top Stuff, edited by Harold Hart
Parker Press) A collection of puz-
zles, quizzes, games, jingles and the
like, with directions how to use.
COOKERY.
Cooked to Your Taste, by Ann
Williams Heller. Essential Books. }
A book of basic cookery information
as well as of recipes and menus.
Good.
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Among
the Authors
Bv CAROLYN COqpins

We met an author the other day
who had just seen his first novel,
The White Tower turn into one
of the current literary skyrockets.
It seemed incredible that he could
be so composed for the height of his
success had not been reached early
or with ease. In fact, James RAM
sey Ullman did quite a lot of zig
tagging through one occupation and
then another before he got onto the
right track. Meantime he knew he
had not found the right thing yet,
but was interested even if bit rest
less about the porpoise-like speed at
which he was progressing toward
his goal
Mr.. Ullman arrived in this world
via New York City where his parents
lived around Ninetieth street and
Central Park. When he was 10 ano
a freshman at Princeton, he went
to Europe with some friends and in
Switzerland saw the mountains
which drew him so irresistibly that
he knew it was a devotion which
would last his lifetime There he
became mountain climber and has
since scaled mountains in almost
every part of the world
He wrote The White Tower" ir
II months. spending a couple more
polishing it. There is some question
in the family about who worked the
hardest on this book. He writes
with pencil in hand that only his
wife can read. She typed this 200,.
000word novel three times.
In the years leading up to this
success, James 'Ullman had been re.
porter, theater director and pro.
Queer, and was with the American
Field Service in Africa. Later a triE
to South America brought on a book
and another followed. These were
factual books and did not set thu
world on fire. His short stories did
however, sufficiently to make a full.
( time writer of him
He wrote this first novel wher
he returned from Africa. Then the
Book of the Month Club selected
it and The White Tower" startec
off in the -million-cop class
Mr.. Ullman is a calm man so hi
celebrated by taking his sons on ar
expedition up in Maine The family
does not share his excitement ovel
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Beneath the Stone
By George Tabori. (Houghton
Mif1in; $780,

By george TGO0r1. fHOnghtOn,
Miflin, $780,
Na1 psychology is the theme of
this novel and while it is a theme
worn thin by many preceding novels
and given near quietus by the
peace, one cannot deny the -four
ishing excellence of the book
George Tabor, a Hungarian news
paperman, has brought genuine
originality and color to his han
ding of his time-tried material.
His story is told through the mind
of a middle-aged German major
as he plots the fate of a captured
English agent. Virtually, it takes
in the whole of the majors life. 1t
is, in short, a series of flashbacks
shown between brief scenes in the
handling of the Englishman's case.
What emerges is soul shaped by
bitter lifelong jealousy of the Eng
lish-jealousy of their position as a
dominant power. of their self-pos-
session, of their correctness, of their
virtues and of their vices. Yet,
fundamentally, one understands, the
emotion is not for the qualities
which the German attributes to the
English, but for the spiritual Sc
curity which he imagines is their
possession as result of those quail
tiles. In other words, Mr.. Tabor S
major, like so many other fictional
Nazis, is a complete neurotic.,
1t is fascinating character study.
Even If you feel pretty we'll up on
Nazi insanity by this time, you will
find it so.
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Years of Victory
By Arthur Bryant. (Harpers,

Sf.t
In this work of history Arthur
Bryant carries England's story on
from the point where he left it in
his earlier volume, Years of En-
durance." That work dealt with the
decade between 1892 and 1902. In
the present book he takes up the
struggle with Napoleon which filled
the years between 1902 and 1872.
1t is popularity written history
based on solid scholarship. The
style is not unlike that of Philip
Guedalla, but the matter is more
substantial. Mr.. Bryant undertakes
to give as full picture of his
country as is possible He covers
the political situation in its many
changes during the dangerous years,
he follows the military campaigns
which Napoleon carried out against
continental powers as we'll as those
against England and he attempts
to fill in the background of English
life and opinion. What he never
tries to do is take a detached at
titude-he writes frankly as a
champion of his country and a
despiser of her enemies. So he pro-
vides the ingredients of a book
which many people ought to like,
one which both appeals to the
emotions and pleases the intellect.
Through it consistently he draws
a parallel between the Napoleonic
period and the Hitlerian. There
were, as he shows, appeasers in
England, there was a Cliveden set,
there was panic at the thought
of invasion, there was a period of
defensive (phony) war, there were
rumors that Napoleon was a mere
historical maniac, there were over
lures to Russia with Russia chang
ing sides as it pleased her, there
was the old strategy of blockade,
OF Tightening the ring, of taking
the offensive. And there was global
war, too, with invasions in South
America and India. And above all
there was the astonishing similarity
in the reactions of the English
people-slow to take the danger in.
specifically incredible of any one
acting that way, and finally stolidly
determined to put an end to it. You
can therefore regard the book in
two minds-as a mere token that
history repeats itself or as a warn
ing that 1t max go on doing it.
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All Summer Iona
By Wilder HObSon. Duel
Sloan & Pearce, $780,
Reviewed by RICHARD D.
MONTGOMERY

Reviewed Dy RlCHARD u.
MONTGOMERY.
Websters definition of a shill is
"a decoy who pretends to patronize
gritter in order to start Others"
but Estelle Nicholas is and does
more than that. In the gambling
house of J. Bates Upham on the
heights in Brooklyn, Miss Nicholas
decoys not in the true sense of Mr..
Webster's definition, but in a
manner to bring forth views and
opinions from Mr.. Uphams Glen
tele, which, while lofty and remi-
niscent at times, are also worldly and
earthly. Mr.. Upham and his elderly
cohorts lose Estelle to another
ageing swain, leading scrap metal
dealer, Hugo Zachias, who wins her
only to discover what Mr.. Upham
already knows. This is the theme of
the book taken from lines of w. B.
Yeats. That is no country for old
men. Fish, flesh. or fowl, COM
mand all summer long, Whatever
Is begotten born. and dies"
The publisher of "All Summer
Long" says that Mr. Hobson's novel
is in the tradition of Aldous Huxley.
Perhaps it is If a comedy of manners
is. what they use as comparison.
There is the biting satire and wit of
After Many a Summer Dies the
Swan" but with a slight overtone
of the late Thorne Smith. Not that
it isn't amusing reading and wise in
its content. 1t is. and not to be
compared with anything.
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ShoIem Asch Delivers q Powerful
MESSAGE to q Wounded World

the Christians hated the Jews? he
asks. His own answer is-the Jews
separate faith.
Then he shows what he means by
his title. The faiths are not sep
arate, he contends. They are united
as no other two religions have ever
been. The Judaeo-Christian idea
has given the world its hope and
has been kept alive, in his view, by
Gods will. The followers of the
two faiths have one indivisible des-
tiny. 1t has been in America only
that this truth has been seen. 1t
is for America therefore to renew
the moral and spiritual estates
which our common ideal Of faith
have created" and impress its ex-
ample on the hate-filled remainder
of the world.
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Rain Before Seven

By Marc BRANDED. (Harper's;:
So
A first novel, this work by Marc
BRANDED is likely to provoke con-
flicting critical reactions. It's theme
seems to be the ineyitability of
destiny. You are destined to come
to such and such an end, says Mr.
BRANDED. and nothing which you do
can change the plan. All the mesh
ing of all gears of all human activ-
ity simply moves you toward the
unacceptable event. Nobody is free
agent. Nobody disposes of himself,
no matter how much he may try.
That is the thesis-or, as I said,
that seems to be- But as Mr..
BRANDED works it out, one falls into
some doubt as to whether he is prov
ing the mechanistic theory of con-
duct or simply presenting the ro-
mantle notion of Kismet. The two,
of course, are different views of the
same thing. but the difference Is
considerable For myself, 1 hardly
find scope for both in one short
novel.
The plot is so tenuous that it can
not be reported. It centers around
a young man, Cassius, who knows
by intuition that he is destined to
be the destruction of a number of
his fellowmen. He, in short is their
destiny. Through day and we'll
into night the seven fated ones,
weave complicated relationship
between them. The scene is New
York and, for the most part, the
characters meet or fail to meet in
various bars. The atmosphere here
is one of ever-heightening unreality
a dreamlike illusion very we'll han
died.
Then, at last, driven by various
compulsions, they all set out for the
home of their unwilling nemesis,
Cassius. They have not been able
to escape.
The work has an extraordinary
intensity. It's author is unquestion-
ably an artist. His satire is deep
and it rings true. His bitter humor
is enjoyable. But he does not
achieve in the whole of his compost
ton the excellence which he gives to
its parts.
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THE MAN FROM MISSOURI

HE MAN FkOM MISSOURI.
By Cyril Clemens. Interna-
tiondl Mark TlUain Society. ST.
Reviewed by J. A. FOX.
1t seems bit early for biographies
of President Truman to be making
their appearance, but two are
reaching the bookshops this month.
Naturally, there is a great deal OF
Implications.
This Man Truman is the prod
uct of Washington newspaperman,
Frank McNaughton, and an investi-
gator for the famed Truman Com
mittee, Walter Hehmeyer, and is
the more comprehensive of the two.
The authors had the advantage of
several years of close contact with
the national activities of the new
President, and have woven wealth
of detail into their work that future
historians will find of value when
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New Books

Take the Children, 81 so, September 10.
The Lonely Steepie, 80 80 September II.
Seng Of the Dnieper, SO, September II.
TENDER II.
Promised Land, $3.50, September Is,
Leave Cancelled, 50, September 20.
neewltched Lands, $3.50, September 20.
Animal Fair, S2.75, September 10.
This Man Truman, $50, September II.
Lean with the Wind, $2.75. Septem-
The Case Of the Half-Wakened Wife, So,
September 49,
Men Who Have Walked with God, $3.75,
September 90.
Three O'Clock Dinner. $3.50. septem-
The Question. 81, September 90.
tember 20. w. Wv
A . Wine Growers Guide. 50. septem-
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New Biography of President Truman
IsWork of Washington Newspopermon

they start dealing with this i'm
portant era in American life.
The Man From Missouri" Is
hardly more than a condensation of
the wordage that was poured out
when Harry S. Truman succeeded so
dramatically to the Office of
President on the death OF President
Roosevelt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-09-16

portant as the
people. 1t as
sumeS va r i e d
traits. 1t can be
b e a u t | f u ! ,
wheedling, fero-
cious.
The pc ople,
despite their in
diVdualities, are
drawn as SYM
bols. They rep
resent six ma
tion a liti es
American, Brit
/ S h. Fren h,
German. A uS -
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The Peacock Sheds
His Tail
By Alice TiSddle Hobart.
(BobbS Merrill. s2.75.)

In this ambitious novel, Alice
Tisdale Hobart, author of "Oil for
the Lamps of China" attempts
nothing less than to present all the
social factors which have been ac-
tive in Mexico since that country's
revolution. Naturally that gives her
material in great plenty and, also
naturally, she has had to regiment
her human characters accordingly
Her people come out as personifica-
tons, to the point of being virtually
labeled. But in her main aim she
comes off pretty we'll She does show
us Mexico in which the poems are
wakened from long despair and in
which various European parties are
fighting out their differences.
The social factors involved fall
into two categories. There are the
native forces of reaction striving
to thwart the revolutionary pro-
gram of land distribution and edu-
cation, and there are the European
A11luCllSCc Vi dSSlOlll, lCpl CoCtlVCo
by the Falange and the Sinarquists.
The aims of both are pretty much
the same-to resaddle the Mexican
poor with the burden of the rich,
to stir up anti-American feeling, to
align Mexico with Fascist forces
throughout the world generally.
The struggle is represented through
the story of one wealthy family
which is deprived of its land by the
redistribution program. Various
members take various attitudes. In
all their lives, as Mrs. Hobart shows
them, there is no reality much ex-
cept the public problem.
The story carries through from
the Gales regime to the entry of
Mexico into the World War on the
anti-Fascist side. 1t is often crudely
written but there is a kind of large
warmth about 1t which makes one
go on reading. NC. r.
IL
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ONE DESTINY

OINE DES IAN
BIZ Sholem ASch. Translated
from the Yiddish By Milton
Hindus. Putnam; $780,
1t is the view of Sholem Asch, the
well-known Jewish writer, that, for
the prosecutions which Hitler visited
on the Jews. the whole Christian
world is to blame. Had Christians
not cherished and encouraged hatred
of the Jews for centuries past, he
says, there would have been no such
maSsacreS as recent years have
seen. 1t would not have been pos
sible. But a thousand years of
is in the Christians
blood, says Sholem Asch, and that
gave the tacit consent. Why have
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-09-16

Country Road. by Leone Rice
Grelle. (Macmillan) Short verses
about beauties of nature. Senti-
mental.
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Public Library
Bv Geneviepe M. e.. Simha,
Readers Adviser in Education,
n,,A
Washington Public Library.

Washington Public Library.
In recent months several exciting
volumes have been published on the
subject of teaching. The most pop
ular is Jacques Barzun's Teacher
in America" in which he critically
analyses college teaching Mario
Syrkin's Your School, Your Chill
dren: A Teacher Looks at What's
Wrong With Our Schools" Is a sec
Iond popular one, also critical, but
of the public school levels. Warner
w. Lloyd and others in Who Shall
Be Educated? The Challenge of I'm
equal Opportunities" plead for more
democracy.
David Jackey and Melvin L. Bar
lows The Craftsman Prepares to
Teach" is of practical help to any
teacher with its suggestions for =
beginner.
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The Mission Of the University, by
Jose Ortega y Gasset. Translated
from the Spanish by Howard Lee
Nostrand. University Of Princeton
Press) A study OF the modern uni
versity.
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THIS MAN TRUMAN

THIS MAN TRUMAN
By Frank McNaughton and
Walter Hehmeyer. (Whittle-
seq House McGra10-HiH Book
Co., Inc. $780,
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The White Tower
By James Ramsey Ullman
Lipp1ncott: So.

Reviewed by LUCY McCLENON.
Six people and mountain are
the elements of this novel, which
achieves an almost epic proper
ton. The mountain is fully as i'm
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Beochheod on the Wind

By Carl Jonas. little, Bro1Dn,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1945-08-23

guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Elwood Fluke
at Bayard, on Sunday.
Artie Dodge, accompanied by his
father, went to Clarksburg on Mon
day where the senior Mr.. Dodge re-
ceived treatement for an eye infec-
ton.
John Burkholder, Uniontown, Pa,
spent from Thursday until Sunday
with his sisters in this community.
Mrs. Glenn Hoffman, of Oakland,
was a recent visitor at the home of
Noah Schrock.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Green, Swan
ton, spent Thursday evening with Mr..
and Mrs. Paul Welch.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Glotfelty and
three children, Of Sand Flat, were
guests at the S. w. Slabach home on
Sunday evening.
Mrs Willard Swartzentru0cr and
sons returned home from a visit with
relatives in Pennsylvania on Satur-
day.
Earl Brilliant, enroute by plane
from Scottdale, Pa, to Camp Grot-
toes, Va, landed for a visit at the
Simon Swartzentruber home on Mon
day.
Miss Nellie Feather, of Cumberland,
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GORTNER

Come to worship at the church
on Sunday morning and also Sunday
evening.
The wedding of Miss SaIome
SUNNY, of Meyersdale, and Henry
Swartzenrubcr, Of Camp Grottoes,
Va, will take place on Sunday in a
church near the brides home.
D. W. Dodge spent Wednesday af-
tcrnoon with Mr.. and Mrs. Will C.
Welch.
Mr.. and Mrs. Blair Simmons and
daughter, Of Loeb Lynn, were recent
guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. Elwood
Schlossnagle.
Miss Blanche Grove, student nurse
at Memorial Hospital, Cumberland, is
home on a three weeks vacation. Miss
Grove and Miss Elsie Hcsse are at
Camp Galilee this week.
Pvt. John H. Wilson, who was sta
toned at Camp Buckley, Col, is now a
hospital patient at Hot Springs, Ark.
Mrs. Junior Paugh and daughter
Sandra and Miss Faun Friend, of
Loeb Lynn, were guests Of Mrs. Will
lard Swartzcntruber one day recently.
MIR. and Mrs. Eli Miller, of Apple
Creek O.. were guests of Mrs. Allen
Pctershcim several days last week
Misses Fannie and Leah .Bcachy
and Lena Slabach. MI. and Mrs. AL
| crt Ssk and S. w. SIabach were the