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Should Power RivoIries Be Forgotten
AIono With Mohon's Historic Lessons?

MAHAN ON SEA POWER
by William E. Livezey. (UniDer-
sity OF Oklahoma Press; $780,
Reviewed by
REX COLLIER.
When Capt. Alfred Thayer Mahan,
U. S. NJ, wrote "The Influence of
Sea Power on History" back in 1890,
he little dreamed that his observa-
tions would have worldwide roper
cussions for decades to come, reper-
cussions that would tend to shape
the course of events in his own
country and abroad. DR.. Livezey,
assistant professor of history at the
University of Oklahoma, by dint of
exhaustive. research, has traced
these repercussions around the
globe and summarized their effects
on nations and men. His volume
might well have been called THE
Influence of Mahan on History"
Beyond question" DR.. Livezey
points out in his concluding chap
ter, "Mahan contributed greatly to
the history of his time, and his in
fuence is still felt. He not only
recorded history but created his
tory"
He created history by expounding
what DR.. Livezey sums up as "a
somewhat novel Interpretation of
national power based upon a phil
osophy of history which adroitly
linked patriotism, politics and eco
nomics." Although his own country
was slow to fall in line, Britain
enthusiastically indorsed his doc
trine. 1t was acclaimed, too, in Ger
many. in France and in Japan. The
doctrine, in brief, was that the
nation that rules the &, seas is in
position to rule the world-for good
or bad. He advocated the building
up of the United States fleet at
least to a secondary position with
relation to Britain's. and he urged
a close naval alliance between these
two countries. He warned of "the
folly of false economy, the stupidity
of unpreparedness, the impossibility
of preparation on the spur of the
moment, the unmanliness of sub
mitting to wanton aggression"
DR.. Livezey comedies that while
Mahan's theories may have been ap-
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Public Library
THE ZOO
BY Mary Linn McCuIIoch

y NtoiJ Isuu "SSuliOSH
Reoders' Adviser. Mount Pleasant Broneh,
Washington Public librory
The Public Library can add to
your pleasure in visiting the Zoo
by suggesting books about the lives
OF the animals. You might carry
with you "The Zoo Book" a pocket
size guide to help you remember
their idiosyncracies. Mrs. Mann's
book From Jungle to Zoo" tells
of her adventures as the natural
lists wife in collecting these speci.
mems. This subject is covered also
with vim and vigor by Frank Buck
in Bring EN- Back Alive"
The children's room contains such
fascinating titles, with splendid
photographs, too, as the Big zoo,'
who's Who in the Zoo" call About
Elephants" and "The Book Of Zoog.
raphy."
Ivan Sanderson's new book calles
Animal Tales" is an outstandin.
collection of fact and fiction about
animals the world around.
"The Nature of the Beast" by
Ruth Crosby Noble, goes into anima
psychology. This explores new field!
in paralleling beast to man. my
Animal Babies" by Belle Benchley
tells of their birth to adolescence
and adulthood.'
South American Zoo" by Victor
Won Hagen, has superb illustrations
in black and white of the animals
from the Americas to the South, ano
is delightfully."- told.
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Hesse's 1929 Work
Aqoin Makes News
STEPPENWOLF

. GFfECN WOLF
BY Hermann Hesse. (Henry Holt
G. Co.; $2.75.)
This reprint of novel first pub
lished in America in 1929 becomes
news because the author was
awarded the Nobel Prize for Litera-
ture in 1916. "Steppenwolf" is one
of his earlier works.
Mr.. Hesse, born in Germany, chose
to become Swiss citizen, and thus
found a sympathetic haven for the
freedom of expression he would have
been denied in his native land in
the years following the First World
War. Even in the '20s, he predicted
the Second World War, foreseeing
the cataclysm of Europe much in
the way that it did occur.
"Steppenwolf' is a mystic, philo-
sophie novel about Germany in the
post-World War T era, describing
the struggle of one who considers
himself half man, half wolf of the
steppes. His conflict symbolizes in
modern terms the ancient war be-
tween instinct and the spirit-or, if
you prefer, between good and evil.
&C B. J.
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ToIeof4 Men
InoHospitoI
Is Guild Choic,
THE CHEQUER BOARD

THE CHEQUER BOARD
BY Nevil Shute. (WlHam Nor
ro1 G. Co.; $2.75.)
-Four men, all seriously injured
met during the war in a ward of q
hospital in Cornwall. TWO were
British officers, the third British
corporal, the fourth a Negro private
in the American Army.
The three Britons had been hurt
when a transport plane had been
shot down by the enemy. One OF
the officers, a captain, and the cor
poral were under guard awaiting
court-martial. The captain was
charged with black market sales
the corporal with murder for killing
civilian outside London pub. The
American also faced court martial
for an alleged attempt to attack a
woman. He wasn't guilty. But he
had cut his throat when trapped by
American MPs near his station in
Cornwall, fearing he would be
lynched.
Several years later, the war over,
the captain, whose name was Tur-
ner, had served a year and was
back in business, but faced another
sentence-death in a few months
from unhealed bullet wounds in
fiicted when the Germans fired on
the plane. He determined to use
the short time he had looking up
his companions of the hospital ward,
seeing if he could do anything for
them.
His quest took him to Burma,
where he found the former British
flight officer married happily to a
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Our Musical Growth
MUSIC COM

MUSIC COMES TO AMERICA
BY David Even. (Allen, ToDne
& Heath, Inc; $780,
A revised and supplemented edi-
ton of former book of the same
title. The musical development OF
this country is traced since the Civil
War in an entertaining manner.
Brought up to the present day, it is
enlivened with anecdotes and human
interest stories. "A. E.
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But Miss Heuser
Knows Her Stage
TIMES SQUARE
BY Beatrice L. Heuser. Samuel
Curl, Inc; $780,
fCEVIEWFU UV
HARRY MACARTHUR.

Reviewed by
HARRY MACARTHUR.
knowledge of a background, un-
fortunately, does not make a novel
1t does, however, make a quite or
binary story easier to read. It also
lends it certain degree of credi-
bility. The story told by Beatrice
L. Heuser here in her first novel is
quite ordinary one. Her trick OF
seeming to bare a young girls in
nermost thoughts by addressing the
narrative to the man she loves
rather than to the reader is not
enough to hide that fact. Her story
is of a young innocent aspiring tc
great things on the stage, who falls
in love with a famous producer and
stands by him through thick the
lush years when he turns out hit
after hit) and thin (the lean years
following the 1929 crash. Why
she does. only woman could say
but Miss Heuser is not the woman
to tell us. She merely describes il
and the description must be desig-
mated as entertainment solely fol
women who understand such things
Miss Heuser, a former actress her.
self, does know her theater, how
ever. Her people act. like the people
she means them to be. She may
bet the hang OF this novel-writine
vet
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propriate to his day, he doubts that
they are appropriate in their en-
tirety in this era of atomic warfare,
when men are cropping to find way
of ending power politics, aggres-
sion and a new kind of war that
could mean the end of civilization
as we know it. Indeed. he sees the
followers of Mahan leading the
world ito the brink of disaster" i"
In this critical era, he contends,
power rivalries should be forgotten,
along with Mahan. It is now a
question Of lone world or none" "
he gloomily predicts.
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been acquitted, had returned from
the United States after the wa-
and married the Cornish girl he
once had been charged with mo-
testing. There was no prejudice
against him in Cornwall, and he
had a greater opportunity in his
craft, craftsmanship.
'fThe Chequer Board" is the April
selection of the Literary Guild. The
novel suffers from Mr.. Shute's effort
to make it prove a thesis: That
racial equality works when it Is not
handicapped by prejudice. Most
novels with a basis in propaganda
are not wholly successful. Mr.
Shute, nonetheless, has plotted
the. story skillfully and written il
vividly. &C. B. j.
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rev Will dispute the assertion tnat
the American preSs-1eWspapers, ra-
dio, movies, etc.-is technically the
best in the world and that it serves
truth far better, for instance, than
Russia's. But the best is not nearly
good enough. Our agencies of mass
communication, as the commission
declares, can and do facilitate
thought and discussion" At the
same time, though, when they are
irresponsible or biased or narrow
minded or simply ignorant-as they
sometimes are in their constituent
parts-they can stif1e thinking. They
can thwart the progress of civiliza-
ton. "They can debase and 'vul-
garize mankind. They can endanger
the peace of the world they can do
so accidentally, in a fit of absence
Of mind. They can play up or down
the news and its significance, foster
and feed emotions, create COM
placent fictions and blind spots, mis-
use great words, ard uphold empty
slogans. Their scope and power are
increasing every day as new instru-
ments become available to them
These instruments can spread lies
faster and farther than our fore
fathers dreamed"
Free Press Held in Danger.
In saying these things, the COM
mission does not indict the press as
a whole. But it does warn that
unless the press as whole, national
and international, takes affirmative
action our tremendously complex
modern society, battered from every
side by endless torrents Of words
and mountains of pictures, may well
lose itself in new tower of Babel
bewitched and bewildered by such a
vast articulation of explosive igno-
rance and prejudice that the sanity
of the world and the survival OF
civilization will be endangered. Ir
a more limited and immediate sense
the commission holds that unless
corrective measures are taken now
the free American press will ulti-
mately pass away-that it is in dan
ger today land here the analysis is
quite debatable) for three reasons:
Cd That while it's Importance has
greatly increased with chronological
advances, its ownership and direc-
ton is concentrated in relatively few
hands and it is growing less and less
open to new opinions and ideas; CD
that it is not adequately serving the
needs of society; and CD that those
who direct it have engaged from
time to time in practices which, If
continued, will lead to Government
regulation or control.
The commission makes numerous
recommendation for improvement
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Gardens Discussed From the Viewpoints
OF Certain Success and Lazy Pleasure

and your fingers viii itch to get
started.
THE Lazy Gardener" is written in
progressive form, month by month,
and the continuity is helpful.
Mr.. Pryor lives In Falls Church.
Va. He is head of the section of
Education and Publication for the
Soil Conservation Service in the De-
partnent of Agriculture. Atmos-
plere is added by "A drawings by
Jessie Robinson.
Evening star., 1947-03-30
Stephen Longstreet
Tells of Gettysburg
THREE DAYS
BY Stephen Longstreet. (Juliar
MeSSner, Inc; $2.75J
Reviewed by
FRANCIS DOUGLAS.

The guns of Gettysburg roaring
across the warm Pennsylvania coun-
tryside provide a backdrop of sound
against which Mr.. Longstreet tells
his story of the battle. 1t is no
technical account with regiments
and divisions moved like blocks, but
a tale of individuals and small
groups related in an episode
manner.
On the battlefield there is blood,
sweat and filth; around the fringes
life goes on, children play and the
girl, Garden Seed, with yellow hair,
and the young soldier from Texas
make love.
There are brief pictures of Gen.
Meade, knowing he has to stand and
fight, and Lee, taking defeat calmly
despite the realization that at
Gettysburg the Confederate tide has
begun to ebb.
The people who move through Mr..
Longstreet's book are live people,
easily recognizable as they reappear
| in succeeding episodes.
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Full Responsibility for Guiding Society
Is Placed Upon Shoulders of the Press
A FREE AND RESPONSIBLE PRESS

A FREE AND RESPONSIBLE PRESS
the Commission Freedom the Unipersy
cago Press; ST.
Reviewed by W. H. HARRISON
subtitle explains this
ion Newspapers radio motion pictures magazines and books
q q
Chicago Although nothing sensaonaly
weight
the the century, constitutes
that
should fail to read and give earnest thought to it.
Evening star., 1947-03-30
Philosophical
Aspects Of the
Supreme Cour1
LIONS UNDER THE THRONE
BY Charles P. Curtis, Jr. fHough.
ton Mt17in Co.: $780,
Reviewed py
WILLIAM A. MILLEN. J

sSss 80 sOsssS wv P~sSV<
Reviewed by
WILLIAM A. MILLEN.
Charles P. Curtis. jr., Boston law
yer, has written here a comprehen-
sive review Of the Supreme Court.
It embraces copious extracts from
decisions, sketches of the pre-emi-
nent jurists and the economics OF
some Of the landmark cases.
Starting out as q law court, Mr.
Curtis observes that the Supreme
Court "has all but ceased to handle
ordinary private litigation" He de-
clares, "of course, the court follows
the. election returns, but it is the
national elections"
Politics, judicial supremacy, the
power Of the tribunal. its scope, its
advantages as law court, the Legal
tradition, the New Deals influence
on the court, taxes and persona.
liberties-these include the broad
sweep of the study. 1t occupies 36s
pages and has numerous footnotes
as well as summary of the Con-
stitution.
In his conclusion, Mr.. Curtis
writes: "The function Of the court,
then, includes philosophy as well
as law and statecmanship."
He sets it down that tie Supreme
Court should handle Conceptions
and distractions" as would the en-
lightened philosopher-"as objec-
lively and as surnily as facts them
selves" What the tribunal should
do for us, he says, is "articulate our
creed for the era"
Mr.. Curtis asserts: What Jeffer-
son, Adams and Franklin did for us
in the Declaration of Independence
in our first crisis, what Abraham
Lincoln in his two inaugurals did for
us in our second, what Franklin
did for us in our third,
the court must do for our daily
needs, during term time"
Evening star., 1947-03-30
Among
the Authors
By Carolyn coegins

After the literary drought of 1946,
when more books-and more poor
anes-were published than in many
years, the spring titles are fulfilling
an early promise of improvement. In
view of the paper and bindery bot
tlsneck, however, it Is amazing that
this month more books were being
published than in any month in the
history Of book business.
~
Grosset & Dunlap have acquired
world book trade rights to the Paul
Richmond sporting books. This
means that titles like 1.-The Gun Di-
gest," Fishing Tackle Digest" and
Frank Steers Fly Fishing" all books
selling in the low-price field. will be
available IN bookstores. In the past
they have been chiefly seen in SPORT
ing goods stores.
Agnes NGE.on .,cith, whose
Three Came Bacl," will be out in
April, weighed 80 pounds when re-
leased after three and a half years
Imprisonment in North Borneo.
Her 2-year-old son was with her
but her husband was a prisoner
half a mile away. when she saw
him twice year, both were sur
rounded by armed guards, and they
were not even allowed to shake
hands. Mrs. Keith has gained As
pounds during the past year Of
freedom. Her Land Below the
Wind a story about life in Borneo,
was the $4,000 Atlantic Monthly
prize winner when it came out in
1889, ard it has remained a popular
book through the years since.
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|AN for Love
ON LOVE

BY Stendha1, Marie Henri Boyle
Translated from the French by
III. B. w." under the direction
of C. K. Scott -Moncrieff. (LiDe-
right
First published over one-hundreo
years ago, this classic. now reprinted
a de luxe black and gold edition
has become as timeless as love itself
which Stendahl considers in every
aspect during every age of human
ity. H. G..
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burmese 6 lr /.
Next Turn e r
learned that the
ex-corporal of
commandos had
gotten off with
a six-m on t h
S e n t e nee for
m a n S laughter.
T er found
the corporal in
Corn wall. In
tne same Cor
nish community
the former cap
tain located the
American Ne
-o -,I, IoJ
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Shocking a Reader
Without Purpose
The LAKE
BY Hide Abel. fDodd, Mead &
Co.. $2.)
Reviewed by
HENRY A. LYON

Dark. unclean, contemplate shad-
ows inhabit this little book. Most
of the baseness and corruptibility OF
the flesh wells up in a psychological
morass far more oppressive than a
stagnant lake could be. AS an ex-
ercise in the creation of atmosphere
and characterization. through in
ference and insinuation, the writing
craft may find it of interest. 1t is
not realism but sort of literary
impressionism. The teller of the
story seems to shock the reader
without excuse or purpose.
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PLANNING AND PAYING FOR
FULL EMPLOYMENT, edited by
Abba P. Larner and Frank D.
Graham princeton University
Press. Papers contributed by the
editors and by a group of able
economists.
Evening star., 1947-03-30
THE LAZY GARDENER

THE LAZY GARDENER
BY William Pryor. (Longmans;
s3.)
Reviewed by
NINA PEE1BERTON.
This Is the time of year when
something should be done about
making a garden. It Is the time to
plan and to order plants and seeds
It is the time to get into the
mood. If you want to do any OF
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The commission makes numerous
recommendation for improvement
Evening star., 1947-03-30
John Erskine's
Many Talents
Are Revealed

THE MEMORY OF CERTAIN
PERSONS:
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
BY John Erskine. U. P. Lippin
colt Co.: s4J
Evening star., 1947-07-24
BY the Asseeioisd Press

Establishment Of a naval post
graduate school at Monterey, Calf.
which eventually may be increased
in size several times" was virtually
assured today.
Only parliamentary technicality
passage of identical bills by both
houses-prevented Congress from
sending to the White House a bill
authorizing the Navy to buy the
luxurious Del Monte Hotel and
equip it for Navy officers.
The bill probably will be cleared
today by either House or Senate
adoption of the others bill as SUBJ
stitute. Senate and House passage
of the twin bills yesterday authot-
izedd $2,500,000 to buy the hotel and
6O6 acres of land adjoining.
Early in the past session of Con-
gress, the Navy recommended that
the Government buy the Del Monte
Hotel property as the site for 5000
officer postgraduate school to be
constructed at q cost exceeding
$30,000,000.
Capt. H. A. Spanagel Of Annapolis,
Evening star., 1947-07-24
TestsApparent|yCIear
Boy in Baby Deaths
BY the Asseeietsd Press

MAssnLoN, Ohio, July "a
Tests in the pediatrics nursery of
City Hospital apparently cleared g.
year-old Roger Cue of Navarro,
Ohio, today Of the killings Of two
baby girls June 8.
Dr.. Lemoyne Snyder Of Lansing,
Mich, medico-legal director Of the
Michigan State police said 1t was
most unlikely" the boy-who admit
ted the killings Monday then
changed his story Tuesday-"actu-
ally ever did remove baby from a
crib"
The Michigan eriminologist ran a
series of tests with the Cue boy re-
enacting his purported accident"
his right arm in a cast as 1t was at
the time of the babies deaths.
The tests, he said, showed "it
would have been physically possible
for Roger to have removed either of
the babies from their cribs" but "it
Is most unlikely that he actually ever
did remove q baby from the crib"
Eight-week- -old Diane Jean Brand
and 10-week-cld Rosemary Norton
were found dying with crushed
skulls in their cribs. DR.. Snyder
said 1T is inconceivable that these
injuries could have been caused by
simply dropping the babies on the
floor"
Roger said that was the manner in
which he caused their accidental
deaths.
1T appears that they were held by
the lower extremities and dashed
violently against the floor" DR..
Snyder declared.
Evening star., 1947-07-24
Navy School on West Coast
Is VirtuoIly Sure Of Approval

destined to become superintendent
Of the postgraduate school, said the
Navy had looked at sites all over
the country and concluded that none
compared with Monterey.
Monterey, he said, has everything
"a deep-water harbor, an adjoining
airfleld, year-round flying weather
and adequate housing.
Congress was skeptica1. 1t sent
subcommittee to look at the Mon
terey site and others. Both recon-
mended Monterey, but too late foI
Congress to act last year.
This year the Navy again recon-
mended Monterey. Representative
Anderson, Republican, of California,
sponsored authorizing legislation in
the House and Chairman Gurney
OF the Armed Services Committee
introduced 1t in the Senate and its
passage followed but with an
amendment to authorize purchase
of the hotel and enough adjoining
grounds to accommodate 500 to 600
officers and to continue postgradu-
ate courses at Annapolis, Newport,
and various universities.
Evening star., 1947-07-24
Mayor Of Richmond
Told Vepco Rate Cuf
Talks Have Started
By the Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va, July 24.-Mayor
Horace II. Edwards of Richmond
called on the State Corporation
Commission yesterday to take steps
to lop off more than 100000 from
bills of consumers served by Vir-
ginia Electric g. Power Co. The
city's chief executive quickly drew a
rebuke from the sec for failing to
ascertain that negotiations looking
to such reduction already are in
progress.
The Mayor, in a letter delivered to
Commissioner L. Mccarthy Downs,
said recently studies conducted by
this office" indicate that VEPCO
during 1946 had a gross electric in
come Of $37, ,436, 500 and charged that
the compa1ly's earnings were excess
sive by more than $4,000, 900.
In addition, Mr.. Edwards letter
continued, VEPCO's earnings ar-
parently have continued to increase
in the early part of 1947, in compari-
son with corresponding periods of
3ofO d4lO, t11C N1dyOi oaAo O1iS S1lA
safely estimate a net increase of
$4,000, 900 for 1947 over 1946."
Hardly an hour after receiving the
Mayors letter, the three-member
commission had drafted a reply
pointing out that negotiations al
ready are under way with Vepco
officials leading toward the ascer-
tainment of what would be reason
able and fair rates under all attend
ant conditions"
Had you seen fit to make inquiry
Of this commission prior to the let
ter Just received" the commission
ers said, you could have easily as
certained the above information"
by the process Of rate negoti-
ations," the commission letter to the
Mayor said. which has been the
practice Of this commission since
1884, rate reductions have been ac-
complished from year to year, and
as you will probably recall for the
year 1946, amounted in the case of
the Virginia Electric 81 Power Co.
to $2,o42,000. \
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Congress 10 GET Petition
For FOOD Price Probe Today

A petition urging Congress to in
vestigate food prices, signed by
$4,000 Washington housewives, will
be presented to Congress this after
noon by delegates Of the Washing
ton Committee for Consumer Pro-
lection, each representing a church,
civic or political organization, 1t was
announced today.
The petition Is expected to be ac-
cepted by Senator Baldwin, Repub-
lican Of Connecticut, who recently
offered a joint resolution to ap-
propriate 100000 for a cost-of-liv-
ing inquiry to be conducted during
the congressional recess this fall.
The Committee for Consumer
Protection includes representatives
Evening star., 1947-07-24
Durunt Prison Sentence
lis Reduced One Yeur
by the Assoeia,sd Press

FRANKFURT, Germany, July a.
The 15-year prison sentence given
Col. Jack w. Durant of Chicago for
his part in the s1,5o0,oO0 Kronberg
Castle jewel theft was reduced to-
day to ID years.
Brig. Gen. Robinson e. Duff
Frankfurt military commander, Or
dered the reduction after reviewing
the court-martial. He disapproved
the finding of guilty on one charge
accusing Durant of signing another
officers name without authority.
Durant's WAC bride, Kathleen B
Nash Durant, also was convicted in
the case.
Evening star., 1947-07-24

Of the League Of Woman Shoppers,
the Congress of Women's Auxilia-
ries, CIO; the Women's Trade
Union League, the American Veter-
ans Committee, and others.