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Evening star., 1947-08-03
Public Library
UMMER GARDENS
Bv MothiIde Willioms

Branch Librarian. Georgetown Branch,
Washington Public Library;
The gardener is anxious to pre-
serve the beauty of his plot through
the transitions of summer and fall.
And only a healthy garden can be
beautiful. Plants. like people, have
diseases to which they are subject.
and enemies in the insect and plant
worlds.
The foresighted gardener will be
conversant with THE Plant Doctor,
and How, Why and When of Disease
and Insect Control in Your Gar
den," by Cynthia Westcott. and will
have memorized practically all OF
the text and pictures from her
Gardeners Bug Book If he is
raising fruits and vegetables he will
have consulted pest Control in
the Home Garden by Louis Pyen-
son.
An unrestrained crop of weeds
can soon crowd out cultivated
plants. The time to eradicate the
pushing, upstairs is in their youth.
To this end John M. Fogg gives
drawings of the young weed as well
as the mature plant in his Weeds
of Lawns and Garden" If this is
out at the Public Library Edwin
Rollin Spencer's Just Weeds" will
be satisfactory substitute.
Evening star., 1947-08-03

and the untouchables are delusions
which he traces to India's many cen.
turies of foreign domination. The old
British policy of divide and rule, BY
setting group against group. he
thinks, bred many Of the current
delusions that stand in the way OF
Indian unity.
Appraising India's Culture.
The author uses the same method
to appraise India's culture, its social
machinery, and its great religions
Even readers who are not acquainted
with the Orient should find the re-
suits interesting. But when Mr. Tay-
lor runs international relations and
world-government prospects through
his filter, these things take on a
personal and disturbing meaning for
every one.
Mr.. Taylor foresees an eventually
united India capable of contributing
valuable things to the world COM
munity. He suggests that even the
Indians chronological backwardness
might be used as a desirable brake
on the Vests scientific advance,
which already is threatening to bring
world disaster.
This book is not easy to read be-
cause the subject cannot be made
simple. But all of it is interesting
and some sections dealing with the
authors personal experiences are en-
tertaining.
Evening star., 1947-08-03
Experimental
Novel, Becomes
A APIotypus
MR.. ARROW
BY Austin Russell. fBeechhurst;
So
Reviewed by
CHRIS MATHISEN


An irresolute, Intellectual salesman
has fallen in with bad company
The bad company is planning to
move in on a shabby religious cult
known as the Invokere. Horsey, the
salesman, has his doubts, but he de-
cides it's worth try. ...
In relating the experiences of
Horsey and his cohorts among the
Invokers, the author has striven for
satire and symbolism. He has
snatched handfuls of each and
sprinkled them through his narra-
tive. Unhappily, the reader becomes
conscious of Mr.. Russell's industrious
plIcking and scattering and, at
times, mayxwish he would go away.
This could have been very funny
-bumbling would-be big shots
among misguided pseudo-intellec-
tuals. Or, it could have been a
philosophical study. But Mr.. Russell
has produced an "experimental'
novel which is vaguely disturbing,
occasionally amusing.
HorSey Is dull sort who appar-
emily has been exposed to great
deal of literature. He becomes
enthralled by this Unknown Pre-
sence" business of the Invokers. His
talk is stilted even when it is earthly,
and maybe this is the trouble with
Horsey-as a character in book,
that is. He should be a character
who is character" But his talk
sounds as If he were merely a
ventriloquist's dummy.
Whether Mr.. Russell labored for
fish or fowl was not made clear. but
he brought forth a literary platypus.
Evening star., 1947-08-03
The Life Story
OF q Modern
Monte Cnsto
ANGELS FLIGHT
BY Edward Holstius. Double.
day & Co.; $2.5O.)
Reviewed by
MARGARET CHILD,

One day when Garnett MacCrory
was little boy his uncle took him
to London for an outing. One OF
the sights the old man showed the
small Garnett was Claridge's, the
city's finest hotel. With not the
price of a tip in his pockets, the
boy vowed some day he would live
there.
And so 80 years later the in
ternational flnancier Garnett Mac
Crory descended from his suite at
Claridge's to dine with the author
and tell how the vow was kept.
A turn as a merchant seaman,
another as a Hollywood bootlegger
and land speculator, a murder COM
mitted Tin self defense), a tender
love story and several love affairs,
these were the experiences that
fashioned man of the world from
the uneducated Irish orphan.
Self made men, no matter how
unbelievable stheir success, are us
ually good novel material. This one,
better written-of than most, is no
exception. MacCrory emerges some
thing of modern Monte Cristo, If
not of the same age-enduring pro-
portions. But he is still good read
ing and Hollywood evidently thinks
he would make good film hero, for
the novel has already been pur-
chased as possible vehicle for
C1ark Gable
Evening star., 1947-08-03
Among the Authors
By CoroIyn Coeeins

Universal-1nternational h v e
taken an option on the screen
rights for Gladys Schmitt's new
novel, Alexandra, to come out
this fall. Miss Schmitt wrote David
the King" one of the top-selling
novels of 1916.
For the linguist minded, "a
French A B c" is coming out Sep
tember 2. Francine Legrand Dau-
phin has turned 1t out with 56 pages
of four-color illustrations to en-
trance the little folk.
X
And those who like hobnobbing
with the birds will be glad to know
that Roger Tory Peterson's "A Field
Guide to the Birds" is now ready.
Evening star., 1947-08-03
There's a Jungle
Throbbing Behind
This Tale of Haiti
MASTERS OF THE DEW
BY Jacques Roumain. Reynal
G. Hitchcock: $780,
Reviewed by
STANLEY BAITZ

From the first time he comes
swinging through ravine, you know
that Manuel is many cuts above
his fellow villagers. For strapping
Manuel, Haitian Negro, returning
to his native land after long years
of toll in the sugar fields of Cuba,
has the innate air of hero.
Gone is the pleasant oasis he
knew as a child. What he has come
back to is a dreary, barren settle
ment, ravaged by drought and fam
lily feuds. Dead roots crumble in
the hands and the sun beats pitt
lessly on eroded' gullies which once
were farms. Without water, Manuel
cannot till the land he came back to
till: without water the entire village
is doomed.
Manuel finds water, but first he
finds Ann'aise, beautiful young ma
tive girl who is forbidden to him
because her family hates his. This
is no casual rift, for family hatreds
bite deep with these intense. pas
sionate people. An even greater OBJ.
stacle for Manuel is persuading
them to work together in bringing
the water to their fields by irriga-
ton bitches. Apparently prcdes-
tined as savior, Manuel leads his
people out of the slough of bitter
ness, only to encounter tragic end
himself.
This is story of considerable in
tensity told simply and beautifully.
The background of rhythmic drums,
melodic chants and tribal supersti-
tions only serves to delineate more
clearly the essential human dignity
of these people. elemental though
they be. Implicit in the novel is
cry against oppression-a theme
which has occupied much of the
works of the author, probably
Haitis most distinguished writer,
who died in 1914 at the age of 38.
This book was translated from the
French by Langston Hughes and
Mercer Cook, who deserve plaudits
for preserving its color and beauty.
Evening star., 1947-08-03


In 1943 Mr.. Taylor was sent to
India by the Office of Strategic Serv-
ices and stayed for more than two
years. Trained for psychological war
fare and with prewar background
in Europe that produced "The Strait
egy of Terror" it was inevitable that
he should try to discover what makes
India tick His system of tackling
the problem is interesting:
The thinking of all individuals,
says Mr.. Taylor, is afflicted by de-
lusions. Two common examples are
the delusions of being prosecuted and
of grandeur. If these develop suff-
GENTLY, the individual becomes a
paranoiac who may kill to protect
himself from the fancied threat or
to remove the worm-like creature
who stands in the way of his god
like self.
Betraying Delusions.
In his individual thinking the nor
NAL man recognizes and represses
these delusions. But, continues Mr..
Taylor. in his institutional think
ing"-that is, his thinking as MEM
Der of social or political group, the
individual is betrayed by institu-
tional delusions.
Using this premise as a filter. Mr..
Taylor clarifies the dark stew of In
dian politics. The suspicious among
Hindus. Moslems and Sikhs, and the
mistrust between the higher castes
Evening star., 1947-08-03
Among Bridge Players
By Fronk B. Lord

The center of interest for all
bridge fans this week will be the
st. George Hotel in Brooklyn, where
the annual summer tournament
under the auspices of the American
Contract Bridge League is being
held. 1t began yesterday and will
be continued through August IL
The registration shows that the
Washington delegation will be
larger that that from any other
city except New York, Philadelphia
and Boston.
Last years tournament also held
in Brooklyn was the largest and
most successful in the history of
the league and 1t is expected that
this weeks record will equal it.
Col. Dick. Skinner, former presi-
dent of the American Contract
Bridge League and a resident of
Washington before he entered the
Army, was double winner at the
recent Southern New England cham
held at New London. Conn.
With Miss Alberta Coons of New
Britain as his partner, he won the
mixed-pair championship in field
of 56 pairs, and playing with Ken
meth P. Hill of Boston. he won the
special game for the Florence H.
Fitch Trophy, also in a field of
Sc pairs.
The July master point game of
the Federal Bridge League played
on Tuesday night at Pierce Hall re-
suited as follows: Section A, north
and south, Lewis Tubbs and John
Darsey, first; Mrs. A. j. Steinberg
and G. j. Steinberg, second Col
]. T. Willis and David Murray, third;
east and west, DR.. E. M. Short and
E. E. Eisenhart, first; Paul Neff and
John Geddes, second; Mrs. Violet
thinner and Mrs. Fay Bentley, third
Section B. north and south, Miss
Ella Walker and D. Kendall, first:
Miss Paris Keener and Miss Maxine
Gerts. second; Mrs. Edith, Fink and
DR.. Emily Grewe. third; east and
west, Col and Mrs. Karl Itken, first;
E. G. Harris, jr., and Robert Beerly.
second; Mrs. Margaret Graham and
Ed. Stewart, third.
Prizes were awarded to the WIN
ners of the two-session mixed-pair
contest whose. names were an
last week.
The following PLAYERS have made
Evening star., 1947-08-03
American as
She Is Spoken
MANUAL OF AMERICAN
DIAT ,ECTS

MANUAL OF AMERICAN
DIALECTS
BY Lewis Helmar Herman and
Marguerite Shalett Herman.
(Zif-Dauts;: s6.)
This is, in general, a valuable
compilation of the various ways in
which English (or American is
spoken in different sections of the
country. The sections treated include
New England. the South, with sub
divisions on the Delmarva Peninsula
Tidewater Virginia and East Texas;
Louisiana Cajun and Creole; noun
tain speech, the Negro dialect, New
York City and Upstate New York.
Pennsylvania Dutch and Middle
Western. There might be some quar-
rel over whether all these variations
ara strictly speaking, dialects rather
than infections. The book is filled
with phonetic explanations of typical
regional pronounciations.-C. B. ].
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Peterson is editing new series OF
nature guides, some of which he will
write himself. He expects the prof.
ect to occupy the rest of his life
and at the same time permit him to
spend most of his time painting
birds, which is his idea of the way
TO spend 1t.
X II
Houghton Miff1in have cornered
what they hope will be a publishing
plum in the personal war story of
Gen. George s. Patton, jr. They
will publish 1t in the late fall titled
War As I Knew It," and the 10000
word manuscript was actually writ
ten by the general himself for his
family. He did not write any of it
until after the war was over, but
completed it before his death.
Evening star., 1947-08-03

DR.. Beard has written useful
introduction to the American sys-
tenn of government. Couched in
rather general terms, his book has
two broad objectives: Cd To offer a
simple account of our system of gov
ernment, and % to indicate how
people may take fuller part in the
conduct Of that government.
There are, in Boards view, two
fundamental problems in governing
maintenance Of civil liberty and the
upholding OF responsibility in gov
ernment, In attempting to answer
some questions which these problems
arouse, the author outlines in abund-
ant detail the entire governmental
structure, national, State and local.
A Definition.
This work probably would be sum-
married. best by the word 'responsi-
bility." The maintenance of civil
liberty is a responsibility not only
of the Government, but of every
American. It is the responsibility
of individuals to see that the Gov
ernment remains strong enough to
perform essential duties, yet not so
that it destroys individual
liberty.
DR.. Beard sees in our system Of
checks and balances" a partial an
swer to the danger of totalitarian-
ism. He feels that each branch of
Government, State and local as well
as national, has a defense against
the other. Responsibility rests with
the people to see that those safe
guards remain.
A Working Program.
The author outlines a program
for Americans who wish to influence
their Government. He recommends
the study of government. joining
a political party voting and other
activities so frequently urged upon
Evening star., 1947-08-03

the American electorate. Two sug-
gestions not usually made are re-
course to the courts and jury
service.
DR.. Beard traces the origin of
our political and governmental sys-
tenn briefly but adequately. Follow
ing family tradition he includes no
footnotes or photography.
The book is we'll written, informa-
tive and will be of inestimable value
to the general reader. For the schol-
ar it contains nothing new, but it
will still prove to be handy refer
enee work. DR.. Beard has fulfilled
his purpose amply.
Evening star., 1947-08-03
Proving That
Can Be Vital
DISTURB NOT OUR DREAMS
BY Hobart Douglas skidmore
(Houghton Mt6lin;, $780,
Reviewed by
CARTER BROOKE JONES.

REVIEWED by
CARTER BROOKE JONES'
To describe this novel without
concurrent comment might have the
effect Of deterring some readers from
exploring furtherAeither the review
or the book. The modest story might
sound like sentimentalized wrimsy,
a studied effort to force tear from
unwilling eyes or at least to compel
a mood Of pity.
Mr.. Skidmore has done no such
thing, He has, instead, In his lyrical
way disclosed a handful of char
acters by touching their lives subtly
and gently. He has swung so far
from the cheaply emotional that
about the only criticism I can think
OF Is that perhaps at times he is too
detached. But this is a good fault;
1t allows the reader to discover the
pathos inherent in the narrative
without any attempt by the author
to tell them when and what to feel.
Their Chief Delight.
The story concerns a few elderly
women who live in the pleasantest
OF old ladies' homes, a house in the
country provided for just a few of
them by the will of a man whose
mother once had hard shedding.
Their chief delight is a little girl,
Lovely, who was left on their door,
step as a baby in the wake of
carnival. They've been allowed to
keep Lovely because of Janice
Leland, the. young woman who
supervises the home. Janice had to
adopt the child to make the joint
custody possible, though Janice lives
miles away in the town.
Then there's the cook, Dove Plopi-
net, in way the main character.
Doves husband, as she prefers to
think of him, the wandering French
man who painted birds, wandered
away after a rare one many years
ago. But she never blamed him,
and she still is grateful to him for
two years of beauty and happiness.
No one cares more for Lovely than
Mrs. Plopinet, or worries more when
the day comes when Lovely must
climb on the bus and go to school.
For Lovely has a blemish, birth
mark, of which she's unaware. But
Mrs. Plopinet and the old women
know the tragedy that is likely to
happen-and does-at school when
the children see the scar.
Janice's fiance, the young doctor,
has come back from the war not
quite a psyche but almost in his
bitter disillusionment, his imagined
hatred of all his ambitions and long
ing for solitude. 1t is Lovely, whom
ne and Janice encounter when the
child returns from school heart
broken, who sets him thinking about
something more than himself and
his cruel experiences. Youthful Dr.
Thompson begins to wonder if SUR
gerry can't do something for Lovely,
who is so perfect except for the scar,
and thus his interest in medicine.
which he foreswore as he left the
Army is kindled again. Both he and
Lovely find new hope. i
Mr.. Skidmore has explored several
lives his story touches with such
skillful brevity that it is only after
ward that you realize how complete
each portrait seems, how suggestion
has conveyed a clarity that massed
detail might have blurred.
Evening star., 1947-08-03
Crime and Mystery
By Miriom Ottenberq

| Mr.. Fischer changes point of view
exactly 23 times in telling his story.
In each chapter, he looks over a
different persons shoulder. Even
the murderer gets chance to tell
part of the story. How Mr.. Fischer
manages this trick and still main
tains even flow and suspense is
something you'll have to see to be-
lieve.
ELECTION BY MURDER
BY Alfred Eichler. Lantern
Press, Inc; ST.
1t was bound to happen. Even
good old mystery stories aren't Inn
mune from causes. The cause this
time is the it-could-happen-here
theme The murder is political and
so Is the plot. The hero Is called
upon to solve the murder and foil a
revolution, which he proceeds to do
with an assist from the State police
and the FBI.
Involved in the melodrama are q
newspaper publisher. who gets killed:
a Hollywood beauty with reaction
ary ideas, a cowboy star who Is
picked to lead an American varia-
tion of the Hitler jugend: a pro-
ducer. who is supposed to make q
movie showing the sins of labor and
all immigrants; two Senators with
White House aspirations; a column
ist, who breaches hate in some of
the largest dailies, and a munitiors
magnate of dubious background All
in all, Mr.. Eichler's sentiments are
admirable, but he shouts them so
loud that the innocent reader seek
ing whodunit might get stone deaf.
THE RESTLESS CORPSE
BY Alan Pruitt. (Zif-Davis Pub
fishing Co.; $780,
On the surface, Don Carson's as
signment was simple enough. All
he had to do was locate the pub
lisher's daughter and bring her
home to papa. The assignment got
more complicated. though. when he
found April, the wandering daugh-
ter, and corpse at the same time.
Between trying to get rid Of the
corpse, getting his story to his paper.
keeping April out of trouble and
solving the murder, Don was a busy
and frequently bruised boy.
If you keep your eyes open, you
can spot the culprit before Don does.
1t isn't easy, though. because the
apartment where murder is done is
full of people with eccentricities that
may or may not be of the homicidal
variety. AS BELTS reporter, Don
is much more terrified of his city
editor than he is of the murderer.
Evening star., 1947-08-03
Is This Insanity
Or Second Siqht?
A NAME FOR EVIL
BY Andrew Lytle. (Bobbs- Merrill
Co.; $780,
Reviewed by
MIRIAM GUTENBERG,

There's a feeling here of things
seen under water-everything some
what out of focus, distorted and
given to appearing suddenly and as
quickly fading. This probably grows
out of Mr.. Lytles assumption he
has the reader with him every
moment, when actually he is given
to hard-to-follow spasms of obscur-
ity.
The story has to do with a man
named Brent who moves into an old
and neglected house in the tobacco
country with plans to rebuild it
to his taste, From the beginning
something about the place gives
Brent nameless fear.
Before long. his fears are cen
tered on an apparition of one Maj.
Brent. master of the estate in his
long-past heyday. He believes the
apparition is threatening his wife,
Ellen, with some mysterious evil
similar to wedding the devil. Ellen's
attitude eonvinces him she is in
touch with this evil but when he
finally speaks of it directly, she ac-
cuses him of telling ghost stories
Into his nightmare life comes his
nephew. He believes the apparition
has attracted his nephew to death
Then he finds hE nephew had died
three months earlier in the Pacific
and couldn't have been at the
haunted house.
The reader is left to draw his
own conclusions. Is Brent wrestling
with the separations of insanity or
is his the gift Of second sight2
Evening star., 1947-08-03

a cumulative score above so per
cent for the quarter ending July II,
in the Capital City Chess Club
Thursday night games: Lewis G.
Tubbs, James G. Stine, Mrs. Fred
erick Eberson. Miller Roberts, David
Murray. w. R. Garrett, Comdr J.
J. Parish. ]. D. Boyd, w. R. Stark.
Col H J. Vanderlius, j. G. Fletcher,
Mrs. George L. Kathan, DR.. J. v.
Waits, DR.. J. G. Woody and T. B.
Westman. In the Sullivan Memorial
Saturday night games the record of
the leaders above SO per cent is as
follows: w. M. Lingley .5683, DR..
Waits .5610, William Walsmith 5597,
j. G. Stone $3.50, Larry Reynolds
.5426, Mr.. Murray .5419, DR.. Woody
.5375. Comdr. Parish .5523, Mr.. Boyd
.5305, George L. Kathan 5297, Joe
White 5270, Comdr. w. A. Poissant
.5236, c. w. Zimmer 5034.
In the clubs individual game on
Monday night the winner was R. E.
Roberts. Mr. Murray was in tie with
R. H. Higgins for second place.
Results on Thursday evening.
July "a, at the Chess Club. we're:
North and south, DR.. Waits and Mrs.
Gregg Gusts, first; Mr.. Tubbs and
George l.. Dickerman, second; Mr..
Reynolds and Mrs. Mariana Bos-
chan, third east and west, r. H.
Higgins and Clarence thinner, first;
William Million and Mr.. Murray.
second; r. E. Roberts and Mrs.
George L. Kathan, third. July 26.
Saturday nights winners were Lewis
and Lloyd Tubbs, first; Col. H. j.
Vanderslius and Comdr. Poissant.
second, and Miller Roberts and
Clarence Zimmer, third.
Evening star., 1947-08-03

Alan Wykes'
william is the
man who sings
in church on
S u n d a Y and
swindles his best
frie N d first
thing Monday
morning.
Pursuit Until
Morning is as
full of suspense
as any murder
story, but this
time it dwells.
OF in h e
tracking down
Evening star., 1947-08-03
JOHN c. HENRY.

John c. Cooper, former vice
president of Pan-American Air
ways and lifelong student of in
ternational aviation, views with
considerable pessimism the policy
level thinking of those who today
are setting up the structure Of post
war international flying.
Mr.. Cooper grounds his pessimism
in what he considers the completely
.fallacious reasoning of those who
attempted the same task in the
wake of World War I. The basic
error, he contends, was in attempt
ing a division between civil air
power and military air power. BY
this division an ex-enemy state,
Germany then as now,' was per-
mitted to build a great civil air
system-planes, personnel and COL
lateral facilities-which in the mid
die thirties was converted with
relative ease and speed into the
dominant military air force of its
period.
The same loophole already has
been left in the Italian treaty OF
World War II and seems in fair
way to crop up again in favor OF
Germany, the author warns.
Turning from the threat OF ex-
enemy states, Mr.. Cooper also deals
with the question of indivisible air
power, namely the ability of any
nation to create, maintain and
operate its own air power without
dependence upon others. In this
regard he finds the United States
and Soviet Russia in the best posi-
tions and he displays no hesitancy
in his urging that our own air sys-
tenn be supported in every essential
degree.
The book contains an appendices
of basic documents pertaining to in
ternationial aviation, dating back to
the Paris Convention of 1919.
Evening star., 1947-08-03

tomobile t h a t
p l u n G e d over
the curb in the
h a n DIS of a
n o p p e d. u p
y o u n 6 S t e r.
There's no mur-
der here. but the
coroner is inter-
ested in know
ing more about
the girl, Cor
rinne. So john
ny, e m e r 6 i n g
from black grief,
tries to give the
coroner the an.