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Evening star., 1947-01-19
| Londoners Who Live on the
1'Wronq Side of the Street
DULCIMER STREET
By Norman Collins. (DneH,
Sloan 8 Pearce; S3.
Reviewed by
WILLIAM H. HARRISON.

WILLIAM H. HARRISON.
At 10 Dulcimer street everybody
has trouble of one kind or another.
Mr.. Josser, a retired clerk, and his
good wife have two grown children
to worry about. Mrs. Wizard, the
landlady, is in a constant fret about
the reSpectability of her shabby es-
tablishment and about Mr.. Squales.
a fake spiritualist with whom she
has fallen in love. Mrs. Booa's
trial is her son Percy, garage me-
chanic who dreams slightly moronic
dreams, steals cars and gets caught
up in the stupid murder Of a blond
tart. Mrs. Wizards other tenants
include Connie, a faded nightclub
worker hiding a lonely heart under
cloak of motley, and Mr.. Puddy,
whose precise meaning is. difficult
to define. except that he seems to
be in there for the comedy relief.
With these and handful OF
others, Norman Collins gives us a
picture of Londoners living ION the
wrong side of the rivera group
typical, presumably, of what the
British would call the lower middle
class. On the whole, the picture is
a warm and interesting one set
against the background of the i'm
mediate prewar years and the COM
ing of Goering's LuftWaffe. Several
of Mr.. Collins personality studies
are excellently done, even though
some of the individuals themselves
hardly seem to be worth all the
words devoted to them in ''Dulcimer
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Public Library
SNOWBOUND.
By Soroh l. Wilson
Reference Librarian, Southea stern,
Washington Public Library.


WASHINGTON Public Library.
"No cloud above, no earth belo,U,
A uniuerSe of sky and sno,U."
(From Whittier's "Snowbound.")
Here are few recent books which
bring you the beauty of winter while
you sit snugly by your fireside.
Three husband-and-w -wife-and-the-
wilderness titles suggest that there
is charm as we'll as rigor in Northern
winters. "Snowshoe Country" writ
ten by Florence P. Jaques and illus
trated by her husbands excellent
drawings in black and white is full
of the character of the Minnesota
woods. With a setting in the frozen
wastes of British Columbia, Drift
wood Valley" by Theodore Stanwell-
Fletcher lets one enjoy the unforget-
table wintry landscapes of the region.
John Stanwell- -Fletcher's animal
sketches add to the attractiveness of
the book. With a Maine accent,
Helen Hamlin in Mine Mile Bridge
tells of pioneering in North woods
lumber camps.
Evening star., 1947-01-19
No Dull Moments
In This Bedroom
Farce on Wheels
By Goddard Lieberson. (Dom-
bledar; S2.)
THREE FOR BEDROOM c.

By Goddard Lieberson. (Don-
bledar; S2J
Here's satire of an amusing and
penetrating sort, welcome inter-
lude among novels of Illustration
and disheartening factual studies.
The episodes which make up
Three for Bedroom C" take place
aboard a train between Chicago and
Pasadena. The characters con-
cerned are two movie stars-male
and female-a couple of Hollywood
agents, two of their pals, a univer-
sity professor thrust into a milieu
utterly alien to him, as he probably
would have expressed it; the screen
girls 8-year-old daughter, Pull
man porter with an M. A. degree,
and a dog named Emperor.
Having gathered together these
not unfamiliar types, Mr.. Lieberson
manages to make them more hui
man, less like stock figures, than
most recent writers have depicted
those drawn into the Hollywood en-
vironment for one reason or an
other.
A Zany Crew.
You'll probably like these char
acters very much, especially the dis
tasteful ones like Johnny Pizer, the
screen girls agent, who is so stingy
that he always drops into a public
phone booth to see If somebody
has left nickel. The romance be-
tween the Cutlery Ann Haven and
Prof. Thrumm, who never heard of
her until this fated moment, is de-
veloped with all the interesting
complications suggested by their
chance meeting. The dislike be-
tween Ann and Ray White, the
other star, who also meet for the
first time on this journey, is more
fundamental and more amusing
than a mere clash of carefully nur-
tured temperaments. The denoue-
ment of this fast-moving trip is . -.
well, you'll have to find it out for
yourself.
This is Mr.. Lieberson's first novel.
He is, however, by no means un-
known in another field. He is vice
president of a recording corpora
ton, in charge of master works, and
he has published several musical
compositions. He is the familiar
of such people as Stravinsky. Or
mandy, Lily Pons, Nelson Eddy and
Stokowski. None of them, the pub
fishers assure us, suspected he was
at work on this novel.
It's to be hoped he'll do another.
This reviewer has enjoyed nothing
so much since "Rhubarb" came out
last year. &C. B. j.
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can Studies, Library OF Congress.
able in view of the ground covered
within a limited space. Neverthe-
less, the argument would have been
much more convincing had it rested
on more solid factual foundation
than the author cared to provide.
Evening star., 1947-01-19
The Saga of a Great
Publishing Empire
DUNKERLEY'S
By Howard Spring. (Harber
8 Bros; s2.50.)
Reviewed by
FRANCIS P. DOUGLAS.

So FRANCIS P. DOUGLAS.
: There are three romances in TINS
second BOOK of trilogy which Mr..
Spring is writing, with Sir Daniel
Dunkerleys publishing empire, MS
family and associates as the threads
around which the stories are woven,
The four characters involved IN
two of the romances are real ana
living people. There are Alec Dill
worth. Dunkerley's editor, and Hesoa
Lewison, the coming woman
writer, and Elsie Dillworth, Alec's
sister, and the strange Isambard
Rhyfe. The latter two persons, whom
the reader at first regards with
suspicion; finally engage his SYM
pathy and understanding.
Tragedy walks with both couples.
It is vanquished in one instance. Is
conquered in the other.
sSince three romances were men
toned, it should be recorded that
the author gives scant attention to
the third one.
In this volume the scene, OF
COURSE, ID EllsldliO, diio eAiS VAIN
the 1S90s. But the period might be
almost any modern span of years;
the only thing that dates the story
as1that vehicles are drawn by horses
rather than propelled by motors.
The first of the projected trilogy
was Hard Facts" in which the
past of these people and the rest
of the Dunkerley clan may be
found, although there are no un-
answered questions which would
make it necessary for the reader
of the present book to turn to the
earlier one. War work and still an
other book interviewed between the
two volumes. And 1t should be re-
corded that Mr.. Spring also is the
author of the widely read, MY Son,
MY Son."
Mr.. Spring is primarily a story
teller. The reader will find no spe-
cial distinction of style and, in
TACT will reread certain sentences
to try to resolve a confusion they
rive. But the story will hold you,
and the characters will impress you
as actual people.
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t is a stream-of-con-

dark forest paths to muse on and
taking up one of the other charac-
ters who fit so briefly in and out
of the narrative. They sound more
promising.
But Miss Gottlieb has done very
ably what she set out to do, describe
the chaotic mind of girl who is
lost in a spiritual wilderness.
Evening star., 1947-01-19
Life and Love
.EvoIvesFrom
A Sea Of Fog
DARKLING
By Elaine Gottlieb. (ReynalI
s. Hitchcock; $780,.

By Elaine Gottlieb. (Reynal
8 Hitchcock; $751;
Cristabel is a girl just out of col
lege-a girl who, like many another,
lives in an esthetic fog more real
to her than the actual world about
her She has studied art, and would
like to paint, but vague sense of
perfection, ADDED to her vaguer
Illustrations, holds her back. She's
dissatisfied with everything she at
tempts, whether with pencil or
brush or in the way of human re-
lationships. Her misunderstanding
mother Is only an annoyance, and
her older sister is too smugly well
adjusted to perceive what's wrong
with Girls
"Darkling" is the story of Crista-
bells three weeks at summer camp
in the mountains. She goes along
with her sister Amelia, though they
see little Of each other during the
vacation.
Cristabel's conflict with the world
reaches a climax at the camp,
with it's crowd of jolly young
people, swimming, hiking, dancing,
loving. She wants to be like them
normal, adjusted, she feels-and yet,
in the same breath, she wants to
stay apart from them. Her inner
conflict churns all through the book.
She has cared for only one man, her
art teacher, and then from an mac
cessible distance. Here, since she is
not unattractive, she is sought by
more than one of the well-built
young men. She repulses them,
longing to surrender, so that she will
be like other girls, and yet dreading
it to the point of rebufing them.
She searches for a perfection which
she attributes to her unattainable
professor.
When, in the end, she yields mo-
mentarily to one of them, it turns
out ironically to be a casual thing
to him. And she realizes that he
does not love her, nor, for that
matter, does she love him.
This is Miss Gottliebs first novel.
She shows a firm grasp of her NAL
adjusted subject, the unhappy Girls
label. And there is some distin-
guished writing in the book-hashes
of keen perception, pungent descrip-
tions of scenes and moods and
people.
The worst fault is stream of con-
Evening star., 1947-01-19
Fiction

THEY ASK FOR BREAD, by
Rebecca Rogers (Rockport Press)
A novel dealing with the social and
human conflicts of a Southern in
dustrial town.
Reprints -
THE DIARY OF A PUBLIC MAN,
foreword by Carl Sandburg, notes by
F. Lauriston Bullard. (Rutgers Uni
versity PressD Popularly priced
edition.
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Nonfiction

THE PATH OF SCIENCE, by c. E.
Kenneth Mees (John Wiley & Sons :.
History as a background in the
of science and the
scientific approach p to human
problems.
SEEN FROM E. A.: THREE
INTERNATIONAL EPISODES, by
Herbert Feis (KnopD. Episodes
behind the scenes in Americas
desperate search for enough oil and
rubber to win the war.
Evening star., 1947-01-19
Can Threatened Depression Be Averted
By Politics Rather Than Economics?
THE COMING CRISIS
By Fritz Sternberg. (John. Day Co.; S35O)

Reviewed by DIR. MIRON BURGIN
Editor Handbook of Latin American Studies, Library
Evening star., 1947-01-19

Sc1ouSneSS over
flow, which be-
comes monoto-
nous through
page after page
of fragnentary
introspection. 1t
becomes more a
psychiatric than
a psychological
novel. One feels,
sometimes, like
leaving Cristabel
IN ono nf 1har
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Even before the end of hostilities
the problem Of maintaining in the
postwar era a level Of economic ac-
tivity that would insure full employ
ment came to occupy prominent
place in the economic thinking OF
the country. The problem is not
one of simple reconversion. Nor is
it merely a matter of readjustment
to temporary changes in the inter-
nal and. foreign demand patterns.
Rather it is a problem of finding
permanent markets for the enor-
mously increased productive capacity
of United States industry and agri-
culture.
In Mr.. Sternberg's view a purely
or primarily economic solution with
in the existing framework Of eco
nomic relationships is not possible.
He does not think that foreign
markets for United States goods will
expand sufficiently in relation to the
increased productive capacity OF
American industry. Nor does he be-
neve that real incomes in the hands
of United States consumers will rise
rapidly enough to absorb the addi-
tional output which American in
dustry is capable of producing as
a result of wartime expansion. In
deed, he feels that more or less
widespread unemployment is an
essential concomitant of our eco
nomic system as it is now const-
tuted.
A Chronic Depression.
Since under present conditions an
Improvement in the standard OF liv-
ing here and abroad will not be
proportionate to the increase in
United States productive capacity,
and since, also, American industry
cannot count upon opening of new
areas for exploitation, a crisis is
inevitable. Such crisis will at
least equal and probably surpass
in magnitude and breadth the great
depression of the sos. Moreover, 1t
will tend to become q chronic de-
preston.
AS in the case of the 1929 crisis
solution of the coming crisis must
be Sought on a political rather than
economic level. When the system
of free enterprise Gin Mr.. Stern
bergs Technology, monopolistic
capitalism proves itself incapable
of devising it's own means of recov-
cry the Government must assume
responsibility, fully and without
reservations, along lines suggested
by Sir William Beveridge. The al
tentative is chronic unemployment
and eventual emergence in the
United States of a war economy
(Wehrwirtschaft), the ultimate and
logical result of which is war.
Subjects for Debate.
One need not accept all OF Mr..
Sternberg's propositions in order to
recognize the validity and timeli-
ness of the problem he formulates.
For this reason alone the book
merits careful reading. 1t is to be
regretted, however, that the author
found it unnecessary to examine
more closely the manner in which
forces making for economic insta-
bility operate, or to explain in
greater detail his program of Gov
ernment intervention with reference
to conditions in the United States.
This would appear to be all the
more desirable inasmuch as neither
the problem itself nor the general
outline of the proposed solution are
new.
Both are at present, and have been
for some time, widely and even
acrimoniously debated throughout
the land. Mr.. Sternberg's analysis
Is couched in broad terms, SO broad,
in fact, as to require frequent repe-
tition. This perhaps was unavoid-
Evening star., 1947-01-19
Religion

WHAT'S WRONG WITH RELI-
GION? by Karl B. Justus. Duell.
Sloan & Pearce.) A chaplain with
combat experience in the Pacific
writes of the place of the church
in peacemaking.
Evening star., 1947-01-19
Evelyn Waugh
Recalls His
.Perigrinotions
WHEN THE GOING
WAS GOOD =
By Evelyn Waugh. Little.
BrosOn s. Co.; S3.
Reviewed by
IRVING LASH.

His own travelling days are over
and there is no room for tourists
in a world of displaced persons,
Mr.. Waugh writes by way of in
PRODUCING this blend of four time
mellowed tales of a blithe spirit
,Chis at 26) moving through the
Mediterranean, Abyssinia, Africa
and South America between wars.
Footloose from 1928 to 1887, he
compiled a somewhat debonair
diary of his adventures, which came
out originally as Bachelor Abroad" :"
'They Were Still Dancing" Nine
ty-two Days" and waugh in Abys.
sinia." BY sanding where he
thought the literary going was bad,
he has smoothed the way for the
reader without making his trav-
elogue dull.
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THE COMMON DEFENSE
By Rev. WiIIiom c. Kernon

A FULL LIFE IN THE AMERICAN PATTERN
There was good and great American born in 1890
in Omoho, Nebraska. His name wos Henry Monsky
His life was built principles pnd the principles we're
COOS He had purpose and determination And that how
it happened that his principles gained increasing infu-
ence in Omoho, and beyond it, the years passed Bly,
1T wos 1921. Omoho needed community chest He
joined with other citizens to found it He became it's vice
president in 1929 its president His influence was grow
ing The Boy Scouts of his city needed help He gave it, and
1927 become president Of the Omoho Council of the Boy
Scouts of America Father Flanagan had founded Boys
Town" Henry Monsky was its counsel and member Of
the Board of Directors
The years sped on and with them Henry Monskys re-
sponsIbities grew president of Bno Birth the oldest
and largest Jewish froterno order in the world as odvsor
to the United Stotes delegation the United Motions at
San francisco chormon by appointment of President
Truman, of United States Attorney General Tom CIorks
Juvenile Delinquency Boord as chairman of the Interim
Committee of the American Jewish Conference
Loe Friday afternoon, Moy 2nd in New York City, as
the sun was setting and the Jewish Sabbath was benq
ushered in, Henry Monsky died In the Providence Of
Sod his work was done Thousands all over the country
Catholics, and Professionals and Jews honored him in his
deoh as he had served them in his life And back in Omo
ho mony and mony recalled how when he had per-
sono problem to solve, decision to moke and needed
wise friends advice and good friends support he had
gone to Henry Monsky
He served his generation we'll and Faithfully in the
best American tradition He never turned his back but
marched breast forward He believed in God and con-
sdered hot to honor His Holy Name it was most ftno
to mankind
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be separate
things that affect mutual and
development hand" Booker T. Wash
Ing
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towors it's Negro citizens, it is ocng on world stoge its
oction being vto and because of trodton as
effects the world prestige and position of the United
Stotes as that Of any other section of the nation The
American Negro is the test of American Democracy and
its right to world leadership.
As on American Negro and citizen of the South we
often times wonder how few million people who have
demonstrated through years of slavery freedom and war
the highest LOYALTY to the American concepts and Ideals
whose friendship for their white neehbors have been dem
onstroted in every possible way, be made to stond in
the way of the eory and permanent realization of the
American dream, and the new American Destiny
1t is up to the South and Southernes The South Cor
oino Lynch Verdict mean the beginning Of the new
realization of the American Dreom and Destiny or it can
be an American tragedy.
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maine at the Naval Academy lang
enough to graduate. Through haz-
ing and physical and mental de-
ficiences, either real or imaginary
they have been forced to resign.
The last two appointed prior to
Browns appointment were Jones
Johnson and George Trivers, both
of whom withdrew in their first
year.
Banks, who is not yet % years of
oge is a veteran. He was indicted
into the Army March 6, 1914, at
Camp Lee, Virginia, and was tran
scferred to Keesler Field, Miss,
March %, 1914, for pre-aviation
cadet training, and to Tuskegee
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Army Air Field June 3, 1914 for
cadet aviation training.
He was honorably discharged
from the army with the rank of
aviation cadet, at Mitchell Field,
Hempsteor, Long Island, N. Y. No
vember 20, 1916. On the day of
his discharge, he joined the army
Reserve Carps.
Born September II, 1925, in
Middletown, Connecticut. Banks
is a graduate of the Middletown
High School. At Howard he is
majoring in mathematics and min
oring in chemistry and is one of
the highest ranking students
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Wednesday by Representative Will
liam L. Dawson, Democrat, of Ill.
If Banks passes the physical
examination on June 10 and enters
the academy he will join one ath-
er colored youth there, Wesley
Brown, who is nav in his third
year. Brown was appointed by
Representative Adam C. Powell
Democrat, of New York.
No colored youth has ever re
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enthusiastically in his class. He has
passed the mental tests.
He is the son of Mrs. Rosa Banks
Of Middletown, Connecticut.
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Howard Junior
Appointed To
Naval Academy

WASHINGTON, D. Chester
Banks, a junior at Howard Uni
versity, wa sappointde to the u
nited States Naval Academy last
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The public Is also extended
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Chenille Fluffness

To restore the fuffiness Of chenille
and candlewick which has been
washed. shake the article vigorously
from time to time while 1t Is drying.
When dry. brush with a whisA
broom.
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Prune Berries
Small fruits and berries already
established should be pruned during
their dormant season before they
begin spring growth.
Evening star., 1947-02-06
Higher Veterans Payment,
lJrqed at House Hearing

The House Veterans Committee
today resumed hearings of sub
sistence allowances paid CT students
and trainees and heard a Veterans
of Foreign Wars official urge that
restrictions be revised upward.
At present, allowances for veterans
with dependents are cut if their
subsistence and actual wages total
5000 month. A ceiling of SITS is
In force for those with no depen-
dents.
Omar B. Ketchum, VFW legisla-
tive chief, told the committee that
88 per cent of VFW members be-
lieve the ceilings should be retained,
but asked that they be placed at
$275 for veterans with no depen-
dents, $500 for those with one de-
pendent and 1925 for those with
more than one dependent.
Chairman Edith Nourse Rogers
called special meeting at 10 am.
tomorrow when George Ijams, re-
habilitation director of the WV,
will testify.
Mrs. Rogers said Veterans Ad-
ministrator Bradley would be asked
to give the committee his views on
the subsistence ceilings, probably
next week.
Evening star., 1947-02-06
House Member Denie,
IVA Knew Nominee
As Red Sympafhizer
BY the Assoeioted Press

Representative Jennings, Repub-
lican, of Tennessee today labeled as
mot true" testimony to Senate
committee that it is common
knowledge" in tthe Tennessee VAL
ley Authority that Gordon Clapp,
nominee for director of the IVA,
had Communist sympathies.
He told the Senate Public Works
Committee, considering the Clapp
nomination:
"If I, for one minute, thought
that Mr.. Clapp was a Communist,
or had sanctioned or protected it, ]
would be against the nomination" "
Mr.. Jennings said he knew Mr..
Clapp personally and by reputation
and thought him "a remarkably able
man, useful and fine American
citizen"
Never Heard Charge.
Mr.. Jennings said he never had
heard Mr.. Clapp referred to as hav-
ing Communist sympathies until
the hearings began.
Asked by Senator Watkins, Re-
publican, of Utah about testimony
by several Knoxville citizens that 1t
was common knowledge" that Mr..
Clapp had Communist leanings, Mr.
Jennings replied:
II would say that that Is not
true"
In one exchange with Senator
McKellar, Democrat, of Tennessee.
question and answers by Mr.. Jen-
nings and the Democratic Senator
became so heated that Acting Chair
man Cooper requested them to be
calm.
Asked by Senator McKellar If he
had seen a Knoxville Journal article
including Mr.. Clapp's name in a
list of witnesses once summoned by
the Dies Committee, Mr.. Jennings
replied:
I'm used to weighing evidence as
a lawyer, Senator, and would not
put any probity in newspaper
article"
Praises Integrity and Loyalty.
Mr.. Jennings said he had studied
previous testimony to the committee
and had mo hesitancy at all in
testifying to the integrity, loyalty
and Americanism of Mr.. Clapp."
OF one witness who had testified
to Mr.. Clapp's Communist sympath-
les, Mr.. Jennings said, when
man loses a good position he natur-
ally isn't happy about it." He die
hot name the witness.
Senator Hill, Democrat, OF Ala
bama, urging the committee to ap-
prove Mr.. Clapp's nomination, de-
clared he gives mo 'credence te
charges of communistic activity or
his part" He predicted committee
approval and Senate confirmation
of the nomination.