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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-07-20

ton IN America OF an unprecedented
republican society with single
eye to reason and the good of those
for whom it was framed"
Mrs. Kimball realizes the dangers
to which she submits her hero. She
begins by believing in him herself;
she closes by identifying Jefferson
with the firm establishment of his
country in his own manner and
fashion as we'll as his own language
as 1.-The strongest government on
earth the only one where
every man at the call of the laws
would fly to the standard OF the
| law and would meet invasions OF
the public order as his own personal
concern" Does she, however, prove
her case? The answer is: Yes, this
SIDE idolatry."
Jefferson in solemn fact was a
great reformer. Mrs. Kimban Is as
right as rain when she describes
him as an apostle of truly re-
publican" society. Her view is sup
ported by the delving which she
patiently has done. She has quot
ed Jefferson's own papers, but she
likewise has had recourse to the
correlative letters and diaries OF his
contemporaries.
What the reader will want now
will be similar means for looking
into the souls of the Monticello
philosophers rivals for remem-
brance. Was he so isolated from
Washington, Franklin, the Adamses
Madison. Monroe and the rest as he
seems to be In Mrs. Kimballs book?
Were they so conservative, he SO
radical; they so ineffective, he SO
magnihcently successful as she ap-
pears to hold? Only when analyti-
cal examinations of his principal
colleagues and competitors have
been completed and published will
it be feasible to reach definitive
verdict.
| Meanwhile, Mrs. Kimball has per-
formed for Jefferson a service OF
devotion, perhaps. unparalleled
among living scholars. Her first
tribute to him was considered "a
work of art; this second offering
also Is a worthy work OF science.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-07-20
An Expose of Bank Frauds, Not Intended
As Guide for Ambitious Robbers
BANK FRAUDS
Pratt. fThe Ronald Press; 81
Reviewed by REX COLLIER

Some months ago Lester A. Pratt
local certified public accountant
wrote a magazine article with the
catchy title, How to Rob a Bank. .
In it he disclosed that by dint OF
much research he had discovered
secondhand, Of course, that there
are 210 ways of getting money ou,
of bank other than through the
approved channels. He gave a few
examples in the magazine piece, but
there was not enough space to cover
all the techniques or to reveal all
the intriguing details. So Mr.. Les
ter has written book, ..-
Mr.. Testers book, is not intended
as a guide for ambitious bank rob.
bers. AS matter of fact, they anc
their ilk will not like the volume. or
general principles. For it is really 6
valuable handbook for bankers or
how to protect their institutions
against thefts of every description
If Mr.. Testers advice is needed or
grand scale, the 210 ways Of steal
| ing money from a bank will become
suddenly obsolescent. That is what
he is aiming for in this interesting
volume.
Preventable Crimes.
Exhaustive studies of more than
thousand embezzlement cases &C.
curing over a 15-year period con.
WINGED Mr.. Lester most of these
crimes could have been prevented
had banks taken reasonable steps
to correct conditions inviting theft
Even the most trusted employees
have been known to succumb tc
| temptation when their need fol
money is acute and when the op-
portunities for fraud are so appar-
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Strange Doings
On MoryIonfs
Eastern Sho'
THE LONELY CARROT
BY Mannix Walker. (Dodd, Mead
& Co; $2.50J .-, .
Reviewed by
HENRY LYON.

The author of this bit of foolery
about paying guests on the Eastern
Shore OF Maryland is one Washing
ton resident who has refused to al
low the state of the Nation to
affect his sense of humor.
Mr.. Walker was born here, in fact,
five generations OF the family have
Joined the ranks of the voteless and
unrepresented, so 1t Is not surprising
that Mr.. Walker would have de-
veloped an interest in the Shore and
decided to write a thin-plot satire
about it.
The characters and their antics
are thoroughly impossible. But they
are made to c-der for Mr.. Walkers
style. Wellover, Uncle Roddy's
proud but unproductive estate, sud
denly becomes peopled with New
York gangsters, wealthy business
men, an extremely extroverted Rus
sian woman, quartet of gin-soaked
Washingtonians (two of them from
the FBID. an introvert who
doesn't want to live past the end of
summer, and various other screw
balls-all wonderfully blessed with
NICOLA.
The Russian casts her spell over
the household and all turn to rails
ing carrots to get Uncle Roddy back
on the road to financial stability
through a proper use of his land
Between seedtime and harvest the
zany company turns Wellover into
an extremely disordered environ
ment.
This book will not acquaint you
with the places it mentions. The
locale is Easton country, somewhere
beyond the Matapeake Ferry and
near st. Michaels. Half the char
acters like the region SO much
they buy farms and settle down to
raising more vegetables, but the
real beauty and heritage of the
Shore Is little revealed in the book
1.-THE Lonely Carrot" which will!
be published tomorrow, is suitable
successor to Mr.. Walkers Every
thing Rustles" and Count on Two
Days."
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used to gain its ends, and after con-
finement In cage, presumably
such as Joan Of Arc was confined in
The Moneyman is brought before
the bed of justice where five of his
enemies are at the same time his
Judges and prosecutors. 1t Is a
good trial scene. The King and the
Judges finally divide his wealth.
Background Material.
Mr.. Costain has equipped himself
with so much background of the
period that he appears to be writ
ing of a time in which he has lived
Apparently there is no limit to his
information on the cuisine. the
dress, the nostrums and the customs
OF France of 400 years ago.
When Occur sups at court M
shares his plate and cup with Q
lady. The roast meats are bastee
with orange juice and rosewater
Soupe doree Is followed by trout
and that by venison and frumenty
If YOU would like to make frumenty
take wheat -four and boil 1t II
milk with melted sugar and carda'
MON seeds.
The headdresses Of the womer
lowered as high as three feet. Some
were fashioned like windmills, others
resembled stag horns.
No Bawdy Tumbling.
Mr.. Costain might have MADE
Occur a more alive and human flg-
lure had he endowed him with the
family he actually had. Occur hae
a son who became an archbishop
and a daughter who married in high
place. But perhaps the author has
discarded these for the sake OF
simplifying his tale. And 1t woule
be unappreciative to cavil at the
methods of good story teller.
Despite the mistresses, the candi-
dates for mistress. the persons borr
out of wedlock In those lusty times
this is not q story Of any bawdy
tumbhng In amber hay.
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Among
the Authors
By Carolyn Coqqins

The most encouraging hot weather
announcement is that Harpers have
given two more literary fellowships
through the Eugene F. Saxton Mem.
orial Trust. These grants were
established four years ago in memory
Of one Of the outstanding contem-
porary editors in publishing, Eugene
Saxton, and these latest ones mean
that eight have been proffered all
together. In every instance, the
money Is given to young writers Ct
promise. who have never had books
published and whose connections
with means Of getting books pub
ltShed are remote, to carry on the
work Mr.. Saxton did for many
years before his death to encourage
men and women whose work had dis
tinction.
Currently, the fellowships go to
Majorie Stengel of New York and
John Watson of College Station.
Tex. Both of them have been writ
ing for several years and each Is at
work on a first novel which will ap-
pear under the Harper imprint
when finished.
X II
On behalf of the United States
Government and its re-education
program in the occupied territories,
A. A. Wynn has arranged with the
Infantry Journal to publish trans
lations of Ralph Bartos Perry's
lone World in the Making" 1t will
come out in German, Japanese and
Korean.
X X X \
Two authors of some of the big
gest sellers in the past few years
made their success as novelists after
they were so years old. One is
Samuel Shellabarger, whose Prince
of Foxes" is the August Literary
Guild selection, as was his previous
Captain From CASTLE" The other
is Thomas Costain, whose The
Moneyman" came out last week
1t is his fourth historical novel. Tho
first three. For My Great Folly"
Ride With Me" and 1.-The Black
Rose" have sold two and one-third
million copies all together.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-07-20
He's a Man
OF the Year
infection
ALBERT SEARS
By Millen Brand. fStmon 4
Schuster; $2.75J
Reviewed by
HUDSON GRUNEWALD.

HUDSON GRUNEWALD.
This is the biography Of man
who never existed. But Millen Brand
makes him live and linger in your
memory. He rides into your &C
quaintance on bicycle, this Albert
Sears, and when you end his story
and say good-by to him, you've
known him intimately, for many
years.
Such is the genius of Millen Brand
in bringing his characters to life.
His mental patient Of 1.-THE Outward
Room" was very real, and there were
men OF flesh and blood in 1.-THE
Heroes" In Albert Sears" his art
finds new expression.
Not that Sears is a man you're
likely to meet. Or one you'd go and
look for. He's a stern, hard-bitten,
old fashioned moralist, narrow =
minded and bitter; "a frontiersman
by birth and in spirit, loathing the
crowded restricted life of the East
ern city in which he is forced to
live" and unable or unwilling to
adjust himself to it. But he's an
honest fellow, so completely honest
and straightforward you're glad to
know him.
He's the whole story; how he
reacts to what takes place about
him. Perhaps it's a good thing that
you become so interested in him
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shown in the foreword, when he
states, THE writing of this book has
been a labor of love. My only re-
greet is that in its pages l have
failed to do justice to an enhancing
subject" And in his last short chap
ter he says, "All our walks were
great fun and many of these chap
tiers are stodgy and dull
"Footnotes on Nature" Is an ex-
cellent example of a man being
pushed too far.
Why won't publishers let writers
alone?
Mr.. Kieran is witty, wise and
wistful, but only now and then does
he shine here.
The reader still will get lot of
his personality, just as the blurh
says, and that ought to be satisfying
to all concerned.
ALIAS, what about so many things
I have overlooked, omitted or
marred in the telling?" walls Mr.. K.
For one thing, I drew much from
Nature in secret that I am reluctant
to acknowledge in public"
He Lets Us Have 1t.
He breaks down. however, and lets
us have it full in the face, along
with many wanderings in and out
of the neighborhood of New York
City. His findings will no doubt
astonish many a weary straphanger
He has a good word to say for
common sparrows, and tells how one
of his walking companions chung to
an old coat until his wife took 1t
away from him. That will interest
many readers.
Mr.. Kieran tells us about his big
ears, and how the botany books dc
not agree in their terminology-for
this book is not all about birds, by
any means, unless that rara avis.
John Kieran, is meant. II you like
him on the air, you will like him
here. His best mood Is in the
dramatis personnae in which he
links flowers and human names with
that sense of humor which has en-
deared him to millions. Wood en-
cravings by Nora S. Unwin are ex-
cellent,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-07-20
STRANGE STORY
BY Hilda Lewis.
uo.r 80 IN

i MAMIE - Wv
BY Hilda Lewis. (Randon
House; $780,
The twins couldn't have been
more different. Lii was famboyant
inclined to untidiness, always one
for the boys. Rose was a student
painfully neat, not pretty at all in
her proper clothes, hating and fear
ing ALPHABETICALLY the one OF
LIS choice. Maybe it was accident.
and maybe it was long -nourished
desire to be rid Of her twin that
made one of them a murderess.
But murder was not the only sin
on one twins conscience. The ex-
Iuuisite naturalization that made 1t
possible for the twin to lay the crime
at the door of an innocent person
and get away with its the
authors most skillful concept.
You may argue the ending
Whether the punishment fits the
crime is debatable, but the author
may be justified in feeling that a
living death is a more suitable pun
ishment for the erring twin than a
quick trip to the gallows.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
BY Cary Lucas. (Simon &
Schuster;; 81
Kenneth Marsh comes to Mexico
to work on pumps. Instead, he falls
into a hot plot to overthrow the
government by way of stolen Ameri-
can military equipment. Actually
Marsh senses that he'll be too busy
to worry about pumps when his pre-
decessor disappears the day Marsh
arrives and the State Department
and FBI representatives in Mexico
CITY take an unusual interest in
that disappearance. Before Marsh
has time to do much OF anything
but fall in love, murder. has been
done.
From then on, Marsh and the
reader move swiftly through Mexi-
can drawing rooms, ranches ano
swamps. They discover practically
any disgruntled character can start
new political party and cook up q
revolution. They meet such un-
savory characters as an expatriate
Nazi, an obese pervert and mus
tache-twirling politico.
The author obviously knows hi:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-07-20
Another BuchenwoId
Survivor Tells His
Horrible Story
BEYOND THE LAST PATH
BY Eugene Weinstock. fBont &
Gner.. S2.75.l
Reviewed by
STANLEY BAITZ.

Reviewed by
STANLEY BAIIZ.
The long history of mans in
humanity to man reached its apex
with the horrendous crimes Of the
Nazis. The evidence Of Facist deg
radiation was seen in the exter-
mination camps Of Auschwitz,
Dachau and Buchenwald. Human
bones and ashes testified for the
dead; the living are just getting
around to telling their story.
One who survived was the author
Of this book, a Hungarian Jew who
had emigrated to Belgium. During
the German occupation he Joined
the underground movement but was
arrested and sent to Buchenwald,
where he spent year and a half
before being liberated by Allied
troops.
Now in the United States, he has
written this description Of his ex-
periences in Buchenwald. He writes
simply and without the hysteria
that might be expected Of one who
has suffered as he did. It Is all
the more impressive for that reason.
Take, for instance, his description
of the brutal efficiency with which
mass murders were carried out:
1.-THE method OF execution was
amazingly like that used to dispose
of cattle in the Chicago stockyards.
Prisoners did not walk into this
room. They were thrust down a
dark chute which opened on the
chamber, and as each victim reached
the bottom of this grisly kelly
slide, a crematorium employe struck
him violently over the head with a
blunt instrument. In a brief time
the room would be filled with dead,
half dead or insensate people who
were then placed on moving belt
which brought their bodies into the
cremating hall where attendants
stripped them Of their clothes and
their dental gold. If the person
had neither gold nor platinum IN
his mouth he was Immediately
thrust, still warm, into an oven"
Beatings, starvation and torture
were q normal part of life at Buch-
enwald.
Since the end Of the war, mem
cries have begun to fade and people,
caught up In postwar escapism,
don't want to be reminded Of the
evil things that were. Yet 1t Is,
We believe, a good thing to have a
SOLDERING reminder from time to time
that such things actually happened
and could happen. again-perhaps
closer to home-unless we are eter-
nally watchful.
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this time as pawns in a real estate
war, and, like the Kingsbloods in
Sinclair Lewis latest tract. they de-
eide to stay and fight it out. Sears
takes the Negroes part and gives
Author Brand an opportunity to
argue against the neighbors and
defend the new tenants. The mo-
tive, at least, is to Mr.. Brands credit,
but the polemics are worn thin, and
the problem begins to lose color.
Only Albert Sears himself remains,
looming large in. closeup against a
fading background. It's pity MIR.
Brand did not give him better
vehicle. He's a top character in
this wears fiction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-07-20
Crime and Mystery
By Miriom Gutenberg

vav around south of the border and
can put what he knows into rip
roaring adventure story.
MURDER STALKS THE CIRCLE
BY Lee Thayer. (Dodd, Mead &
Co.; $780,
When Herbert Thomson Is found
dead amid the smoldering debris OF
his workshop and Detective Peter
Clancy discovers a half-burnt fuse
nearby, Clancy concludes Herbert
is the victim of a murderer who
tried to cover his crime with arson.
Naturally. Thomsen's wife and her
aging sister, Miss Eastlake, are
prime suspects, for Herbert, it de-
velops, was no angel. An empty
morphine bottle bearing Miss East
lakes name on the prescription
practically cinches the case against
her and the evidence seems to be
complete when a bottle Of brandy
she supposedly sent to her long
time sweetheart Is laced with
cyanide.
But Clancy believes the blame lies
elsewhere. and how right he is-as
the reader realizes some time before
he does. The plants for the muir
derer's guilt are flung at the reader
so insistently that only q moron
detective could fail to realize them
some time. 1t might also be men
toned in passing that Clancy's valet
Is as tiresome a caricature of a
detectives Man Friday as ever came
from coy pen.
MURDER BY EXPERTS
Edited by Ellery Queen. (Zif-
Dauis Publishing Co.; $780,
In an entertaining introduction.
Mr.. Queen explains how this par
ticular anthology came to be born.
It represents the favorite stories OF
20 members of Mystery Writers OF
America, Inc, with an explanation
by each of them why the story they
chose stuck in their minds. From
the stories submitted, Mr.. Queen
culled those which were not
burdened by too much familiarity
In the course of eliciting the ia
vorites, incidentally, Mr.. Queen
found to his distress that some we'll
known fiction crime creators were
impervious to the charms OF the
short detective story.
That said authors don't know
what they're missing is well demon
strated here. Most of these stories,
for some unknown reason, haven't
received the acclaim they richly de-
serve. One of the best was selected
by Anthony Boucher, who chose
Thomas Burke's THE Hands of Mr..
Ottermole," the story of a perfect
crime that violates some of the firm
est rules of detective fiction and gets
away with it.
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or property, misappropriating in
come, making false entries, forging
instruments. manipulating expenses
and exceeding authority vested In
the bank. He found that most EN-
bezzlers are in their middle 30s, are
married, have been employed for
about 10 years. begin by making
temporary" withdrawals-and get
caught within three years. Mr.
Testers book should be required
reading for banking officials every
where.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-07-20

IN. BEST FILM PLAYS IN 1945,
edited by John Gassner and Dudley
Nichols. Grown Ten of last
years screen plays in one volume.
A GUIDE TO THE SOVIET UN-
ION, by william Mandel. Dialo A
volume of rather routine and sta
tistical material on the Soviet state.
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t h a t the p i o t
doesn't matter
too much. Be-
cause it's just
another d sc u
ment on racial
discr limitation;
a n o t h er in a
series that seems
to have run the
current literary
gaun tie t. It's
down in black
and white again.
Once more the
Negroes m ov e
in to a W h i t e
l.
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WILLIAM II. SH1PPEN.

Perhaps the two years since the
end of the Japanese phase of the
war, and the three years since the
guns were silenced in Europe. is long
enough for the public in general AND
servicemen in particular to begin
to refresh memories or relive expe-
riences both bitter and Illuminating
In any event, the III stories from
the official service journal OF the
Army Air Forces, as contained II
the current diary, are decidedly
factual accounts set down for and
by the 1000 600 men In the war
time AAF in a way to recapture the
spirit and tempo of q period still
recalled with reluctance by many
participants.
For the ex-gunner and bonn
barber, the fighter pilot and crew
chief, or even the war correspon-
dent, there are accounts which will
bring back those awful moments
when all the clocks stood still, when
1t seemed to each individual that
he had q more than even chance of
being sent home in telegram"
The passing months. however,
have drained much Of the bitterness
and restored the true meaning OF
experiences which the participants
would like to share with the home
folks-most especially since they
can share them from comfortable
chair without the dread Of receiving
one Of those kilograms from the
War Department.
Col. Straubel had a wide choice
of experiences, fantastic. tragic and
humorous, to draw upon-an I'M
limited fund of "heroism without
heroics."
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out of paying
the Moneyman
the funds he
had advanced to
fight the war.
Occur and VAL
erie are charged
with having poi
soned Agn es
Sorel.
Valerie es
free. But it Is
only after learn
ing Of, although
not experience
ing. the refine
ments OF torture
-LjrL i,,o&ira
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-07-20

emit to them.
The author par
ticularly con-
dennis bank d.
rectors who fail
to direct - who
n e & e C t their
moral and legal
obligation to SUI
pervise their Of
hcers and to see
that they, in
turn, assiduous-
ly su p erv l e
t h ose un d e r
them. Independ-
ent examination
zf 49, kNnLc at
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-07-20
AT Treasured Volume
OF Americana
CHURCHES OF OLD
NEW ENGLAND

BY George Francis Marlowe
Photographs by Samuel Cham
berlain. macmillan; $3.50
Lovers of the dignified architec-
ture of New England will be glad
to add this volume to their shelves
In the writing of 1t, Mr.. Marlowe
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frequent intervals. apart from the
regular State or Federal inspections,
is essential, he declares.
Most entertainments follow pat
tern which adequate supervision and
inspection will expose. Among the
more frequent methods, the author
states, are failing to record money
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-07-20
John Kieron's Rambling Book on Nature
Us Not All About Birds, by Any Means
ON NATURE
3y John Kieran. Doubleday; S3J

BY John Kieran. 7DoubIeday So
Reviewed by CHARLES EDWARD TRACEWELL.
Burbs jackets tell the truth The dust cover OF
bookfu klerans
onaliv Here Information Please star IN one OF
willing to give the reader an ea Oh O
Man Kieran. ,.,. r.. T.,