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Evening star., 1947-10-19

some day, the Rev. Newton G. Cosby
predicts, its congregation will build
a church suitable for its expanded
role as religious center.
The idea behind the church, Mr..
Cosby says, is to get all the de-
nominations to work together in one
church family"
It's appeal is primarily to the 49,
900 people in the District area who
have no church af1iiliation here, and
to the city's children, IS per cent of
whom attend no Sunday school.
1--WE have tried to take the best
elements of each denomination S
faith" the pastor asserts, "and COM
bine them in Christian service for
all people"
Nonaffiliated Sought.
There is no attempt to take
churchgoers from any of the es-
tablished churches, Mr.. Cosby en-
phasizes, for that would only con-
tribute to the sectarianism he seeks
to overcome. There already are 256
Protestant denominations in this
country, he reports.
What the new church would like
to do is encourage people with no
active religious affiliation to develop
a clearer understanding of basic
Christian principles, the minister
says. There is, he contends, a grow
ing need for all faiths to subordinate
minor differences of religious ritual
and work together toward common
goal.
Having served with the celebrated
10lst Airborne from its training
camp days in this country through
it's paratroop landings in Normandy
and its heroic defense at Bastogne,
the former chaplain had an oppor-
tunity to weigh the merits of the
Army's non-denominational services.
He came away impressed.
Trained As Baptist.
The 30-year-old pastor, trained as
a Baptist minister, has not accepted
members of his new congregation
without period of training in which
they learned the church's principles.
The IL persons who will be inducted
into full membership at 4:30 pm.
today have gone through six months
of religious orientation.
Mr. Cosby has great plans for his
church when its congregation gets
large enough to support an expan-
sion program. It's present annual
budget is about $4,000, but the pas
tor says there are many people in
terested in its program throughout
the United States who will help the
cause of interdenominationalism.
The church hopes eventually to
take an active part in Washington's
recreation and health activities,
through the establishment of teen
age clubs and medical clinics, "stra-
logically located throughout the
city"
The recreation director will be
Miss Ellen Wimberly, Is, test pilot
of twin-engine planes during the
war, in which she served as WASP.
Miss Elizabeth Anne Campbell, %,
Mr.. Cosby's sister-in-law, will direct
the church's medical social service
program. She's now student nurse
at Garfield Hospital and will grad
uate next September.
Brother Will Assist.
The educational director, who will
take charge of the study groups,
Sunday school and other instruc-
tive activities, will be Mr.. Cosby's
brother, the Rev. Peter G.. Cosby, an
ordained Presbyterian minister.
So far, at least eight different
denominations are represented in
the congregation of the Church of
the Saviour. The first II members
and the 20 candidates who are ex-
Evening star., 1947-10-19

pected to be admitted after further
indoctrination are mostly young
people, including veterans and mar
ried couples. according to the pastor.
In addition to the vesper services
each Sunday in the temporary
chapel and the study groups on
weekday nights, the minister is
carrying on regular nondenomina-
tional services at Garfield Hospital.
at a George Washington University
fraternity house and several apart
ment communities in Alexandria,
where he lives.
Evening star., 1947-10-19

month hitch. started making we'd
ding plans.
But the Army abruptly informed
the prospective bridegroom his time
was up, and he was ready for dis
charge.
This didn't suit the plans of the
young soldier, since it would be a
long time before Miss Riegler could
join him in this country. So he
hastened to a recruiting Office again.
Informed his outfit in the Air
Force was about to pull out of Ger
many for good, the one-time para
trooper re-enlisted in the infantry.
The infantry, he figured, would be in
Evening star., 1947-10-19

threatened punishment for Indo-
nesians who "collaborate" with the
Dutch in organizing such separatist
governments.
The round table resolution of the
so leaders, who claimed to represent
100000 natives in West Java.
asked the Netherlands Indies gov
ernment to summon a general con-
ference of delegates of all groups of
the population of West Java to or
ganize preliminary governing body
along democratic lines,
Evening star., 1947-10-19

10 marry a young
Austrian girl.
The 22-year-
old soldier, son
of Mr.. and Mrs.
Wayne C. Proc
tor, 4700 Suit
land road, Suit
land, Md, was
stationed n ar
the erm a n
Austrian border
last year when
he met 16-year-
old Miss Edith
r i e g Ter, who
lived in near-b
Evening star., 1947-10-19
50 Indonesian Leaders
Urge Separatist Regime
BY the Associated Pres,

bY me AsSocIofed Press
BATAVIA, Java, Oct. 18.-The
Netherlands won what appeared to
be an important political victory to-
day when so Indonesian political,
religious and commercial leaders
voted to cooperate in organizing a
West Java government in the rich
agricultural area occupied by Dutch
forces.
The Indonesian Republic has
Evening star., 1947-10-19

members into a
new, interde-
n ON i n ational
church which he
hopes some day
will be able to
set up teen-age
clubs and med
ical clinics all
over town.
AT present,
the Church of
t h e Saviour
holds services in
a on " e r t e d
house at 1707
N i n e t e e n t h
cfroot NJ w But
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Germany until the last troops were
sent home.
Now Pfc. Bruce has his wish. After
q brief furlough with his parents
mere, he Is on his way back to Ger
many and hopes for wedding soon
Evening star., 1947-10-19
II Will Be Welcomed
In Church by Former
Airbone Chaplain

A "sky pilot" who saw plenty of
sky during the war-he was chap
lain in the 10lst Airborne Division
today will welcome the II charter
Evening star., 1947-10-19
Youth Joins Army Third Time
In Effort to Wed Austrian Girl

Pfc. Albert M. Bruce has just en-
listed in the Army for the third
time since 1943-because it's just
about the only way he has a chance
Evening star., 1947-10-19

1t wasn't too long before Miss
Riegler and Pfc. Bruce, who enlisted
in the Air Force in 1945 for an 18-
Evening star., 1947-04-20
a First-CIoss Bit
OF FooIery Devoted
To Sotiriizing Radio
AURORA DAWN

BY Herman Wouk. (Simon G.
Schuster;; s2.75.)
The twice-told time of day that
provides the title of this novel is
only one of its many felicities.
Aurora Dawn" is the name of a
soap, and the story is a satire on
radio advertising. Not just another
satire, however, and quite different
from 1.-The Hucksters" and probably
any other you may have read.
The most notable difference is the
style. Aurora Dawn" is written
somewhat as If Daniel Defoe had
tackled the topic. In place of the
staccato English Cor American) to
which Hemingway, Cain, Raymond
Chandler and others have accus-
toned us, Mr.. Wouk tells his tale
in the flowing sentences of long
ago, rounded and lush. And he
proves, further, that the goings-on
Of today may be taken apart without
resorting either to narrative short
hand or vocabulary rich in
profanity and in those other words
that used to be seen only when
chalked up on certain walls.
The story is as thick with plot
as a Dickens novel I won't go
into it. I'm sure Mr.. Wouk would
much rather unfold it. In his own
way. And you'll enjoy 1t more. 1t
is first-class piece of foolery, of q
decidedly original design.
&C. B, j.
Evening star., 1947-04-20

strange combination OF sentiments
adorn the walls. A picture of Presi-
dent Roosevelt and alongside it the
second inspiration in their lives, the
black seowling face of the Madonna
of Viggiano. Pictures of Mussolini,
the King or even Garibaldi are con-
spicuous by their absence. The peo-
iple of these villages are sure that
Christ had never got as far as their
forsaken land, but that he had
halted his journey at Eboli, 100
miles away.
Carlo Levi did much to help the
peasants in their physical distress
and he made many friends among
them. He himself acquired a deep
affection for these people and he
did not leave his place of exile until
about 10 days after receiving his
notice of release. Sitting in the
train which was carrying him back
to the world he had been forced to
leave. he says, Il thought with af-
fectionate sorrow of the motionless
time and dark civilization which I
had left behind me-"
This very excellent work was writ
ten during World War II and trans
lated from the Italian by Frances
Frenaye. The author is at present
In this country on tour. The pro-
ceeds of this tour will go to child
welfare In Italy. This book has
gone into its fifth printing in Italy,
making record breaking sale in
Italian publishing of $1,000 copies.
Evening star., 1947-04-20
s|'sss
Carlo Levi Writes With Sorrow Of Stark
Tragedy in d Stricken Italian Province
CHRIST STOPPED AT EBOII
| BY Carlo Levi. fFnrrar e Straus,
Reviewed by
NINA PEMBERTON.

Today from all parts Of the globe
come stories of poverty, malnutrition
and disease. It is with such matters
that this story deals. Carlo Levi
was In no desperate mood when he
wrote Christ Stopped at Eboli," but
in mood to put on paper his dis
passionate description Of life in the
italian province Of Lucania.
Because of his opposition to fas-
|cisnn, Carlo Levi was confined during
the Ethiopian war as a political
prisoner to the wasteland In the in
step of the boot of Italy. Doctor.
painter and philosopher, Carlo Levi
spent many q month in this un-
believably poverty stricken region.
This was not the Itaiy well known
to tourists. This was no beautiful
Isle of Capri. This was no center
of art and architecture. Here in the
village of Gagliano the peasants
waged an eternal war against such
evils as malaria. disease and starva-
ton. Politically. they seemed de-
tached. There was little or no rally
ing to the colors to fight for the
glory of the empire which was being
achieved through the application of
mustard gas over the land and
bodies of the naked enemy In
Abyssiria.
These provincial Italians live by
their superstitions and beliefs in
witchcraft. Whole families in a cave
or one-roomed dwelling of sorts.
The children in cots slung from the
ceiling, the parents and older mem
bers of the family on the bed and
the animals under the bed. A
Evening star., 1947-04-20
Jean Pedrick
Shows Promise
Reviewed Dy
FRANCIS P. DOUGLAS.
THE FASCINATION

i ne ASSlNh n 4oN
BY Jean Pedrick. fHoughton,
Mi6ain, $780,
Youthful Jean Pedrick has written
a strange, confused, poetic first
novel which seems to point to a
not-wholly-developed talent of dis
tinct originality.
The story concerns an emotionally
bewildered girl and her love, at vari-
oH stages of adolescence and ma
turity, for three widely differing
men. When Ellen Jason leaves the
security of a spacious home in a
Massachusetts, mill town and goes
alone to Boston TO make her way
her mother is dead, her father long
before has disappeared. The girl
is lost, not because her home Is
gone-it never meant much to her
but because she does not know what
she expects OF life, or what 1t ex-
pects of her, and she's too intense
to let each day take care OF itself
She's still lost when the final page
Of the terse narrative is turned.
Within the commercially brlef
compass of this story, however, MISS
Pedrick has sketched with swift
bold strokes the background and the
groupings of Ellen and the other
characters, The novel is, within Its
limitations, an artistic achievement
C. 3. j,
Evening star., 1947-04-20
The France hat
Did Not Quit
THE REPUBLIC OF SILENCE
Edited by A. J. Liebling. fHar-
court, Brace & Co.. 81
Reviewed by
ROBERT X. WALSH.

ROBERT X. WALSH.
I'VE were never more free than
during the German occupation"
said French writer in the war of
ideas during the resistance. And
A. j. Liebling shows how true this
was by letting us listen to a tor
tured France which, often in silence
and always in suffering. resisted the
temptation to sell her soul to a
temporary conqueror.
This book presents pieces, literary
and otherwise, done dangerously
during the resistance movement. It
is more than review, an anthology,
a history on -the-run. or a selection
of I-was-there testimony. With an
admittedly d-fashioned romantic
view of France" but with a good
reporters passion for facts and fair
ness, Mr.. Liebling has put together
tribute to the dignity of man and
the will to fight against oppression
Readers who complain that this
book contains nothing new, and
some views that are untrue, lose
sight of the fact that these articles
were written and published under
the heel of the NaI and at risk
which too frequently ended under
machine gun volley. The book
keeps alive what brave French peo-
pie thought and did and died for
at the time, and not what they set
down on paper years later after ''due
deliberation."
| Some of Mr.. Liebling's excellent
war correspondence of the period
has fitting place in the story. His
additional background material
weaves brilliant pattern for the
other items by recognized prewar
French writer's, men who achieved
/! literary as well as national great
ness during the resistance, and
others who must remain forever
honored In anonymity.
These often abstract and brief
chronicles of the time demonstrate
once more that the resistance was
not started or maintained by Com
munists, terrorists or hotheads
They show that French soldiers in
the dreadful spring of >1940 were
not afraid to fight and that the
vast majority of the French people
never stopped fighting.
The writings have amusing mo-
ments such as in the story Good
Neighbors." They have many mo-
ments of human sublimity such as
in the letter of the 16-year-old lad
who did not fear the firing squad
but wrote that "just the same it is
hard to die"
But most of all they give French
patriots an opportunity to say, as
did Cyano de Bergerac, that when
all her laurels were driven away
during the war the real France kept
ursullied her plume of honor.
Evening star., 1947-04-20
Presumptions of Social Organizations
Exposed in Philosophers Clever Book

DR.. Dunham has set himself the
task of pulling back the underbrush
to expose these foundation stones
Here are some of them:
You cannot change human nature
The rich are fit and the poor less
fit or unfit.
There are superior and inferior
races.
Every question has two sides.
Art and politics don't mix.
Thinking something makes 1t so
You must look out for yourself.
All problems are merely verbal.
Words will never hurt me.
You cannot be free and safe.
One would expect consideration
of these concepts to be tough GO
ing. 1t isn't. DR.. Dunham is a
philosopher at Temple University
and he explains philosophical ten
cts, but he does it in simple Ian
guage. Nor does he mince words
in stripping the f1ummery from mod
ern hokum. His wit bites deep and
his cleverness makes pleasant the
reading of what otherwise would
be dull tome.
The book is courageous, and,
though ruthless, fair in analysis.
Conclusions are powerfully phrased
in brief statements.
Evening star., 1947-04-20

| 'N'''
greedy and in fear of underworld
vengeance which awaits him if he
ever goes back to Indianapolis, his
home town. Then Games Ellen, a
fugitive from a job in a bookstore
in university town. She fed with
q boy friend, but he has left, and
she feels we'll rid of him.
What happens to these charac-
ters in three days forms this novel,
Miss Chidester's fourth. It's stu
alton which might have appealed to
Steinbeck. Miss Chidester is no
Steinbeck, but she has managed
to build up certain amount of
drama along with The casual amours
and fights which she describes
casually &C. B. j.
Evening star., 1947-04-20
IA Twisted Mind
Traced to Eorly
MishondIing
WRONG TURNING
BY Joan Charles. Harper 4
Bros, S2.75.J
MIRIAM GUTENBERG G.

In previous novels, Miss Charles
has looked at psychoneurosis from
all angles. Previously, however, the
damage to the mind has been done
before she comes on the scene and
she is looking at the effects. This
time, she starts from birth to DEM
onstrate the causes of a twisted
mind. The girl, in the case, how
ever, doesn't wind up in a mental
hospital or anywhere like it. She
simply has to live with herself-in
itself major problem.
Mercilessly, Miss Charles doesn't
let her readers off with simple ex-
planation of why Faith Denny at
10 is selfish, hateful and bewildered.
1t would be too easy to blame it all
on the beauty of her mother.
Heredity and Environment.
AT the beginning, she insists the
explanation for Faith lies In the
whole picture of heredity and en-
vironment, not solely in her moth
er's beautiful face. Then, step by
step, she reveals how thoughtless
gestures, careless conversations,
maternal vanity contribute to scar
ring a child's mind. Obviously,
Faith fails to get all the affection
a child should have, but the lack
of affection isn't the whole explana-
ton either. Even relatives with the
best intentions share the blame for
the girls confusion
1t would perhaps have been more
effective If Miss Charles had related
the scars of childhood more directly
to Faiths adult character. She
makes several gestures in this direc-
ton but she finally narrows her
microscope to examine the core of
Faiths trouble-the desire for re-
venge on her mother. Faith finally
determines to be kinder to the
widowed Mrs. Denny but there is
no reason to believe her resolution
will stick.
Miss Charles is an expert at the
type of psychoanalysis she under
takes here. Enthusiastically, Faith
emerges as symbol of parental
mishandling of child. She is
nonetheless a living character for
Miss Charles is too sensitive a writer
to allow her knowledge of psychia-
try to stand in the way of her Gre
ative performance.
Evening star., 1947-04-20
MAN AGAINST MYTH
BY Barrows Dunham. little.
Broa1n & Co.; $780,
Reviewed by
HENRY LYON
R6FleW6Q DY
HENRY LYON.

Almost everybody, says DR.. Dun
ham, is in a mental straight jacket
People want to be fair -minded-most
of them-and are willing to play ball
50 that mankind will achieve prog
ress. But, actually, they cannot be
fair minded because they do not
have the vision and strength to cast
off the chains that selfish men
through tradition have plated about
them. These chains are social
myths.
Myths are not lies that loom large
They are invisible foundation stones
upon which has been erected a great
superstructure of seeming truth and
law. Some of these foundation
stones were laid before the dawn OF
history.
Evening star., 1947-04-20
his All Seems.
To Be q Bit
90 Intimate
THE PRIVATE LIFE OF
NAPOLEON
By Octave Aubry. fJ. B. Lipptn-
colt Co., So
Reviewed BY
CHARLES M. EGAN.


The chief trouble with an init
mate book like this-as It's Jacket
says. it pictures Bonaparte in house
shppers-is that, on occasion. it
seems a bit too intimate. Ger.
tainly, all the first empire boudoirs
weren't wired for sound
M. Aubry, an outstanding Ma
poleonic authority. who died last
summer at IS, must have antici-
pated such criticism, for In q
rather aggressive Authors Pref
ace" he wrote: THE reader will
find no footnotes to vitiate what
ever strength and simplicity this
story may have. However, have
not set down a single word OF Ma
poleon's that is not authentic and
does not derive from the best
sources-and God knows how nu-
merous they are"
There is no doubt that M, Aubry
mad splendid sources, nor that he
made the most of them. Claiming
complete impartiality, although In
many instances he seems mere
apologist for the Corsican, this
French scholars avowed purpose
was to show how completely
Napoleon. the Emperor, is depend
ent on Napoleon, the son, brother,
husband, father and lover.
| Perhaps the best chapter is that
on Marie Walewska, the beautiful
Polish noblewoman whose affair
with Napoleon once was the motif
of Carlo picture The author
is kind to her, as he is to the
buxom Mile. George and many OF
the others in Napoleon's life. Even
Josephine gets sympathetic treat
ment. Marie Louise, her successor,
| doesn't fare so we'll.
The book was translated from
the French by Elisabeth Abbott.
Evening star., 1947-04-20
For Transmission
To Moscow
IHE SOVIET SPIES
BY Richard Hirsch. (Dueu, Sloai
& Pearce; ST.


G. Pearce, ST.
Reviewed by
REX COLLIER.
Richard Hirsch knows a good spy
story when he sees one. Having
served in the Army's G-2 branch
military intelligence) and having
written numerous pieces for detec-
tive magazines, he was fascinated by
the reports of, the Canadian Royal
Commission on the operations OF
what it described as Communist
fifth column" in Canada during
World War II Newspapers have
carried relatively brief summaries
of the amazing and alarming find
ings of the commission-how we'll
organized Russian espionage ring
succeeded in using Communists and
their sympathizers as agents in OBJ
tanning official secrets for transmits
sion to Moscow.
Mr.. Hirsch has rewritten the com
missions reports in detective-story
style. but without loss of authentic
ity. This is a true spy tale with
which every one would do we'll tc
familiarize himself. II the full re-
port of the Canadian Royal Com
mission is not available. Mr.. Hirsch' s
popular priced paper backed con.
densation is recommended as a sub
stitute.
Evening star., 1947-04-20

OSL IN Une war.
N o w, vaguely
like an adopted
son, has come
Ed Brandon, a
handy mechanic,
back from the
war, disillusion-
ed with every
thing, his home
broken because
his wife no long
er wants him.
Then t h ere S
Venter, the puff
fly cook; his wife
and child. Venter
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