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Richland Center

There will be Harvest Home and
Home Coming at Emanuel Reformed
church and Sunday school at $50 a.
m. Worship at 10:45 a. m. and
basket dinner at noon. Afternoon
services at 200 p. m. Everybody
welcome.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Miller and
family visited relatives Sunday in
Springfield.
Mr.. and Mrs. Weldon Luginbuhl
and Mr.. and Mrs. Amos Luginbuhl
We're Sunday evening supper guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Marquart.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. c. Schaublin
visited Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs.
?. D. James and sons of Columbus.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Leiber and
son and Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth
Chidester and family were in Port
Clinton, Sunday. -..
Past week callers at the Ernest
Gratz home were: Mr.. and Mrs.
Francis Gratz of Sidney, Mr.. and
Mrs. Richard Core and family, Mr..
and Mrs. Reno Gratz, Mr.. and Mrs
Lee Coon, Mrs. Minnie Moser and
Mrs. Arthur Miller and daughter
Grace. Sunday callers were Mr.. and
Mrs. Mel Zimmerly, Mrs. Regina
Gratz, Mr.. and Mrs. John Boehm,
Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Gratz, Mr.. and
Mrs. Wilford Gratz and daughter
Sharon and Miss Mary Gratz.
A picnic dinner was held at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard
Gratz, Sunday. Those present were:
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Surprise Dinner

A surprise basket dinner was held
Sunday at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Harold Van Meter of near Rockport
in honor of the latter's birthday.
Guests were: Mr.. and Mrs. Chas.
Van Meter and family, Rockport ;
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Van Meter and
family, Beaverdam; Mr.. and Mrs,
Harold Rogers and family, Colum-
bus Grove.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leland Bartels, Co
lumbus; Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Shell
lenberg and daughter Dorothy, Pan
dora. Mr.. and Mrs. Leon Boedicker
and family of Ottawa were after
noon callers.
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PAGE FIVE


For saIe-49 acres with DuluIngs,
20 acres Of woods. Mrs. H. ". Alt
haus, phone l3s-W. +. Garretzon,
broker.
For sale-F 0 Cd for fireplace.
Beaverdam phone 256.
For sale-4Sweet corn, 80 cents
dozen. Lloyd Vermillion.
For sale Potatoes. Arthur Miller,
2 miles southwest of town. Bluff
ton phone. 25
For sale-Westinghouse electric
range, davenport and chair, bedroom
suite, books, automatic furnace
damper controls, steel drums, child's
swing, sleds, sand box, rocking horse.
G. w. Elliott, 1873 w. Kibler street.
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Schifferly Reunion

Sixty-one attended the annual
Schifferly reunion held at Richland
Grange hall, Sunday, Sept. 7. Off
GERS elected for the coming year are:
Pres, Harry Schifferly; secretary,
Mrs. Harry Schifferly. Next years
reunion will be held at the same
place the first Sunday in September.
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ArmOrsville

Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Ewing, Mr..
and Mrs. Harold Young and family,
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Hilty and son
were Sunday dinner guests of Mr..
and Mrs. H. o. Hilty.
Sunday afternoon callers of Mr..
and Mrs. Erwin Moser and family
were: Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Moore,
Mr.. and Mrs. Victor Moser and
daughter and Mr.. and Mrs. Lysle
McCarty and son of Lima.
Sunday dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. c. E. Klingler were: Mr.. and
Mrs. J. c. Montgomery, Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Edinger, Mr.. and Mrs
George Stultz and family of Find
lay and Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Klingler
and son Keith. Afternoon callers
was Mr.. Burr Harding of Denver
Colo.
Chas. Hall and daughter Kay anC
son Jimmy called at the Harr!
Moore home, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Moser AM
family of Lima were Saturday even
ing supper guests of Mr.. and Mrs
Erwin Moser and family.
Sunday evening callers of Mr.. an
Mrs. O. l.. Stratton were: Mr.. an
Mrs. Russell Huber, Mrs. Troup, MI
Jesse Stratton, Mr.. and Mrs. Ray
mond Stratton and daughter and MI
and Mrs. c. E. Klingler.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wayne Guider an
family spent Sunday afteroon wit
Miss Margaret Guider.
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See me for men, oriaIs of all kinds
Samuel Bixel, 400 S. Main St., Bluff
ton. Phone 429-W. Representing thu
Lima Marble & Granite Co. G
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Some of our weaknesses are born
in us. others are the result of edu.
cation; it is a question of which
of the two gives us most trouble.
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under the Act of March 5, 1879.
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POinsettia Club
The Poinsettia club will meet with
Mrs. Blanche Harmon this Wednes-
day night. The program: Poem, The
Problem of Packing, Mrs. Helen
Worthington; Beds Ahead, Mrs.
Grace AmstutZ.
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Addresses Lima Club
DR.. Lloyd Ramseyer, president o
Bluffton college spoke on highlight
of his trip to Europe last summer a
dinner meeting of the Bushes
and Professional Women's club il
the Barr hotel, Lima, Tuesday even
ing.
Evening star., 1947-03-02
Stafford
Novel Shows
Great Power
THE MOUNTAIN LION

BY Jean Stafford fHdrcourt,
Brace G. Co.; s2.75.) \
The young writer. whose first
novel, Boston Adventure" won crit
ical acclaim, publishes a second
which is likely to add considerably
to herr literary reputation. "The
Mountain Lion" is an extraordinarily
sensitive study of childhood.
Miss Stafford's new novel is, in
fact, more than that implies. It is
more than the story of the two
children who are its central figures,
their struggles, fears, hopes and de-
spairs. The grown people who are
close to these baff1ed, thwarted
children emerge, largely through
their eyes, clear and fully proper
toned, not the great shadowy crea-
lures that most books about children
make them out.
Ralph is 10, his sister Molly 8
when the story opens They live in a
spacious place on an edge of Los
Angeles in the days before Holly
wood became an industry and SYM
Dol. They lived with their shallow,
pretentious mother, a widow, and
their more glamorous older sisters,
Leah and Rachel. The intimate cir
Gle includes the minister, vain and
intolerant, and his scrawny wife.
Nature and scarlet fever have cursed
Ralph and Molly. They are under
weight, ailing and nearsighted. Peo-
pie endure them, and turn brightly
to the older sisters.
But Ralph and Molly are not
lacking in perception. They see
through their family and the peo-
pie around them with savage clarity.
Evening star., 1947-03-02
New Biography Is Penetrating Study
OF the French Master Story Teller

THE PRIVATE LIFE OF GUY
DE MAUPASSANT
BY Ronald Kirkbride Frederick
Fell, Inc; S3,J
In the 54 years since De Maupas-
SAINT died SO tragically at the age
of 43, interest in his work-and un-
doubtedly in the man himself-has
grown rather than diminished. Some
writer's whose books are rated
classics are not read as they once
were; some are almost forgotten
except by scholars; others are "re-
vived" from time to time. Not so
the French master; the demand for
his stories continues steadily, in
many languages.
Mr. Kirkbride has compiled a pen
etrating study of De Maupassant's
mind. 1t is not biography. I said
compiled because Mr.. Kirkbride has
woven together in the form of let
ters to an imaginary woman ano
some of the woman's letters to a
fictitious friend much that De
Maupassant wrote about himself
Some of these passages are excerpts
from his letters and others are por-
tions of stories which Mr.. Kirkbride
considered essentially biographical
Two famous De Maupassant stories
"BaIle de Suif" and La Horla," are
reprinted at the end of the book.
This tapestry of letters makes a
fascinating panorama. Here is
much of the beauty which De Mau-
passant found alike in nature and
women, and much of the horror
which shadoWed his life and his
Evening star., 1947-03-02
Many Delightful
Surprises Under
De PoInoy's Tree
REX COLLIER.
THE UMBRELLA THORN

The UMBRELLA THORN
BY Peter de Polnay (CreatiOe Age
Press, Inc.; $2.75.)
There is more to this novel than
meets the eye. Its seemingly effort
less writing and naturaness of char
acter drawing hold the reader be-
cause they do not attract undue at
tention to cleverness or assertive
opinions of the author.
Full of quiet surprises, gentle
ironic touches and unobtrusive
suspense, the story starts as an ap-
parently conventional account of
few Britishers settled in Kenya.
Miles WAGE, thoroughly likable, but
improvident,. is celebrating the birth
of a. son. Within a dozen pages,
Miles is gone but never altogether
forgotten.
David McKenna, the child's god
father, takes up the burdens that
remain. These include not the stuff
ed-shirt assumption of the White
Mans Burden, but debts and de-
pendents, especially the distracting-
ly lovely Gloria. She is Miles hon
estly grieving but often shallow and
self-centered widow.
Instead of emerging as the color
less, inscrutable colonial of tradi-
tional fiction type, McKenna proves
to be a very human man fighting
loneliness and deceit and capable
of deep feeling and understanding
When he rests under favorite UNI
brella tree on his remote estate he
finds, as others eventually do, that
it is pleasant place to think-but
not too much to be dangerous.
Nevertheless, the main surprise of
''The Umbrella Thorn" is that it is
not at all an introspective book with
surface characters and obvious situ-
ations. 1t builds up to a strong cli-
max which, with all its drama,
avoids the melodramatic. The read
er, while increasingly eager to know
what happens to the characters, is
always more interested in how the
characters influence the happenings.
r. K. w.
Evening star., 1947-03-02
Reviews in Brief
HOW TO DEVELOP, PRINT AMI

HOW TO DEVELOP, PRINT AND
ENLARGE PICTURES, by Samuel
Epstein and David w. De Armand
Franklin Watts, Inc). An exposi-
ton of technical phases of the art,
profusely illustrated.
THE CHALLENGE OF HATE, by
A. r. Lerner and Herbert Poster
(F. F. F. Publishers, Inc). A photo
record of democracy's struggle
against disruption and disunity.
CAN SCIENCE SAVE US? by
George A. Lundberg Nongmans,
Green & co... A sociologist argues
that the scientific method, applied
to all social problems, presents our
brightest hope of a better society.
IT'S FUN TO LOOK YOUR BEST,
by the editors of Look (Franklin
Watts, Inc). An illustrated hand
book on dieting and beauty, style
and grooming, relaxation, exercise,
posture and emotional health.
HOME GUIDANCE FOR YOUNG
CHILDREN, by Grace Langdon
(John Day.. A parents handbook
ranging from prenatal care to the
child at school.
THE UNFORTUNATE FURSEY,
by Mervyn Wall. (Crown) A novel
which is a humorous fantasy of
10th century Ireland.
Evening star., 1947-03-02
Public Library
By AIetheo T. Anderson
Readers Adviser in Poetry, Washington
Public librory

= Public librory
& Despite the turmoil of the world
during the past year number Of
Interesting volumes of poetry were
published, and several attractive
books of selections from established
;poets appeared, in many cases with
iintroductions and interpretations by
distinguished editors.
= "A wordsworth Anthology" col
lected by Lawrence Housman, with
a foreword on What Happened to
zWadsworth" Collected Poems, y
.by Stephen Crane; Thirty -one
Poems" by Rainer Maria Rilke, in
English versions, with an introduc-
tion by Ludwig Lewisohn, and Col
.lected Poems of Hart Crane" are
important publications. The Burn
ing Mountain" by John Gould
Fletcher, and Poems, 1888 1945,
fby Robert Graves, are new titles by
swelr-known poets. THE Big Road,
"a narrative poem by Norman Ros-
ten; The Bomb That Fell on Amer
Sea- by Herman Hagedorn; Glory
for Me-" by MacKinlay Kantor, and
rMan and Shadow" an allegory by
Alfred Kreymborg, reflect different
phases of this troubled age.
Evening star., 1947-03-02

here that men could get along bet
ter and come nearer solving their
human problems if they would
throw off the fears, taboos, super
stitions and day-dreams that haunt
them
Mr.. Wylie feels that religion is
one of their worst enemies, blocking
thought and progress. "* 8 God has
been mans excuse for failure. God is
his moral alibi" And Mr.. Wy1ie log
ically includes in this indictment
Russian communism as religion
in which the state is worshiped.
He would, he writes, do away with
the church entirely.
His thesis, he says, &c" begins
and ends with the assurance that
you, good reader, are beast, and so
am I, and that we are nothing else" :"
Why men would be happier if they
could and did cast off religion and
presumably all other faith and
hope, the whole esthetic side of their
lives, carrying on by instinct alone,
Mr.. Wylie does not try to explain
Or perhaps he does; one can't be
sure. &C. B. j.
Evening star., 1947-03-02

AMERICAN SEA FOWEH
SINCE ITS
Edited by Allan Westcott lip
pincott; So
Reviewed by
REX COLLIER.
The seven collaborating authors
of this book have achieved the
monumental task of condensing be-
tween its covers the full sweep of
American naval progress from the
days of John Paul Jones and wooden
ships to the Halsey- -Nimitz era OF
fast carrier task forces and over
whelming land-sea-air joint opera
tions. They have produced what is
probably the first authoritative work
of its kind to cover so much scope.
That this is authentic history is
attested not only by the annotated
references and photography but by
the fact that all of the authors are
members of the faculty Of the
United States Naval Academy.
They are: Senior Prof. Allan West
colt, Assistant Prof. j. Roger Fred
land, Associate Prof. Richard S.
West, jr.; Comdr. Elmer B. Potter,
u. S. N. r., and 1t. Comdrs. William
w. Jeffries, Neville T. Kirk and
Thomas F.. McManus, U. S. N. R.
Each of these dealt with a selected
field with which he was familiar
The whole was integrated and edited
by Prof. Westcott.
But the product of these writers
is more than the description they
Evening star., 1947-03-02
Among
the Authors
REVIEWED Dy
BEATRICE S. MOVES.
By Carolyn Coegins

Pat Knopf, young member of the
book publishing Knopfs, mentioned
a book at lunch the other day which
is probably going to cause numerous
explosions. Called "The Other Side
of the Record" they are bringing it
out in May and it is Charles O'Con-
nell's idea of letting the public in on
what around Is or more of their
musical idols are really like. It ap-
parently is not a pretty picture and
in addition to relating skeleton
closet flaws in Toscannini, Rouse
vitsky, Grace Moore, and Flagstaff,
to mention a few, a lot of pictures,
also not selected for the usual rea-
sons of glamorizing the subject, will
illustrate the revelation. ls 10.
Evening star., 1947-03-02

projects, hospitals" schools, feed
ing stations-the pitiful struggle OF
ragged, broken men and women to
become a people again.
And then their new army was
evacuated to Persia. The following
year, with the reaffrming of the
new Polish border, the majority Of
Poles in Russia were forced to be-
come Soviet citizens. And for those
who refused, as almost all did. the
ordeal began again. So ended the
miracle
1t is a grim book, the kind likely
to be more widely remembered than
read. This reader remembers the
words whispered to two Polish girls
by Soviet citizen.
Arrested? - Don't be unhappy
sisters. You today and we tonlor-
row."
Evening star., 1947-03-02
New, Authentic History Of the u. S. Navy
Is q Volume of Fact and Hiqh Adventure

give It: "A history OF the fighting
men, fighting ships and famous
battles that have shaped the his
tory of the American Navy, in peace
and war, from its beginnings to the
present" There is high adventure
for the lover OF sea stories, as well
as lessons for the strategist and
warnings for the advocates of drastic
postwar disarmament. The authors
pay their respects to the atomic
bomb, but conclude that it has not
yet outinoded armies and navies.
$50 long as the oceans and water
ways OF the world shall continue to
serve either as paths for or barriers
against conquest" they assert,
fleets of ships and f1eet-borne air
craft will have a vital function
and the basic concepts of sea power
will remain"
Evening star., 1947-03-02

QllleTeIlU U Ill jean ctdhofu
the over-refined adults surrounding
them. He is not even their grand
father-he's their mothers STEP
father - but that doesn't matter.
Unfortunately, Grandpa Kenyon
dies on one of his visits. Things are
desolate until Ralph and Molly are
allowed to visit Uncle Claude at his
ranch in Colorado. A new sort of
life opens, peopled by characters
they had only imagined.
The time comes when mother
takes Lesh and Rachel on a "trip
around the world, leaving the
younger children for a whole year
with Uncle Claude. This suits Molly
and Ralph. BY then adolescence is
overtaking them, bringing new an
xieties which split them apart for a
while. Ralph is man among men,
shooting and riding with the cow
hands. Molly is not so easily ad-
justed. The only women on the
ranch are the housekeeper, a faded
New Englander; her robust
daughter, older than Molly and al
ready running around with boys,
and the aged Negro cook. Molly,
precocious' and talented, keeps to
herself and writes stories secretly.
She feels that the children at school
don't like her because she's thin and
ugly. She even avoids Ralph.
The final tragedy that strikes one
of these children does not seem con-
trived, but comes as something you
almost expected, one of those bitter
ironies with which life is filled.
Miss Stafford depicts her people
with subtle touches that make them
clearer than whole pages of exact
description would. She has written
this story with both sharp edged
humor and compassionate under
standing. &C. B. j.
Evening star., 1947-03-02
Clyde Brion Davis
Packs Tenth Novel
With Excitement
JEREMY BELL
BY Clyde Brion Davis (Rinehart,
So75l
Reviewed by
IRVING LASH.

lRVlNkI LASH.
When an author turns out 10
novels in about as many years and
keeps the reader coming back, he
must be something more than pro-
life. That fits the case of Mr.. Davis,
who slid from behind the managing
editors desk of Buffalo newspaper
IL or Is years ago to write some
books he thought somebody might
enjoy. He got off to a good start
with 1.-THE Great American Novel,"
a newspaper story which Haywood
Broun and many others enjoyed
very much.
In Jeremy Bell" he fips the CAL
endar back so years to record the
interesting misadventures of two
Illinois farm boys Dawns Hill, pop.
610) who went to Chicago for eX-
citement and found more than they
wanted. AS usual, Mr.. Davis has a
liberal sprinkling of startling char
acters, chief among them Grandpa
Bell, a tobacco-juice marksman and
blacksmith shop philosopher, WHO
lost a leg at Cold Harbor while
guarding Gen. Grants liquor chest.
Mr.. Davis has never found it nee
essary to print q map or chart to
guide his reader, merely because his
tales are simple, ii brisk, and be-
cause he always seems to know
where he's going when he starts
to write.
Evening star., 1947-03-02
Book Burns Itself
Out in Probing
Flaming Youth
END AS A MAN
BY Calder Willingham wan
guard Press; $2.75J
Reviewed by
ROBERT z. WALSH.

yUuTu FTeSS, SE.I01
Reviewed by
ROBERT K. WALSH.
Boys who hope to end as men
might as we'll skip this story of
some adolescents at a military COL
lege. Processing to be a novel of
blazing power and intensity" and
with implications "as wide as hu-
manity itself and as deep as evil, ,"
the book burns itself out by raking
up the progress of group of young
men through 345 pages of shoddy
escapades and low-grade talk, no
matter how literally you look at it.
The final five pages, though not
SO deep as we'll nor so wide as a
church door, nevertheless try to
serve as cleansing remedy after
a clinical probing of the 1947 vari-.
ETY. of flaming youth. But the con-
clusion is not enough, even when
the general who heads the military
academy tells the corps why he ex-
PEELED six cadets and ordered spe-
cial punishment for % others who
disgraced the dignity of the school,
not to mention the dignity of man.
There is something to be said for
the generals discourse on self dis
cipline and the making of a man.
There also is something to be said
against the sophomore shock treat
ment to which a reader is subjected
in every chapter before he is as
sured the bad boys didn't get away
with extreme and wanton viola
tions." Violations of the academy's
rules, that is.
The reader need not be a Rover
Boy fan to ask about the future
of the lads who are ousted or put
on extra fatigue duty. That is a
legitimate question to-. ask if this
book is meant to expose what's
rotten in juvenile ranks. in and out
of uniform.
In his first novel, Calder Willing
ham, a Georgia native and at one
time an Office of War Information
writer, fortunately does not add to
the Rover Boys series. Unfortu-
nately, he has not set the literary
world on fire, despite his blazing"
style of trumping spades with
spades in an often immature ef-
fort to dig up young life in the
rough.
Evening star., 1947-03-02
Three Years Behind
jap Borbed Wire
VERY SOON NOW. JOE

VERY SOON NOW, JOE
BY Alan McCracken (Hobson
Book Press: $3.J
Capt. McCracken, U. S. NJ, was
in command of gunboat in South
China waters the day of Pearl Har-
Dor. The boat, en- route from Hong
kong to Manila, reached Cavite, P. L.,
just before the japanese levelled the
Navy Yard. He was captured when
Corregidor fell. He was a prisoner
until the Americans liberated the
Philippines in 1945, and required
several months disqualification at
Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Md,
before he could return to duty.
This is the story of the life he and
his fellow Americans led behind the
barbed wire for more than three
years. &C. B. J.
Evening star., 1947-03-02

tame California. Benedict Freedman.
But she remembers the hard, bright
years in loving detail. And she
tells their story with the superb
craftsmanship of Mr.. and Mrs.
Freedman at her command.
just as there would be no excuse
for publishing the story merely be-
cause it is factual, so I may add
that it would be a good novel if
it were entirely imaginary.
An outline of the story gives scant
idea of it's breadth and beauty. It
Evening star., 1947-03-02

later stories when he realized that
he was losing his mind.
1t is always questionable how
much such a method contributes to
an attempt to explain man and
|appraise his genius. But if the ap-
proach is not scientific, the material
not entirely accurate, Mr.. Kirkbride
surely gives an approximate picture
Of the unhappy De Maupassant, his
zest for life and his agony at seeing
it slip from his grasp at the zenith
of his powers. &C. B. j.