davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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u lice, utlIlOCldtlC 1eTIIldIly.
From the beginning of the occu-
patton until the Stuttgart speech,
the Americans were on a day-to- day
basis in Germany. At the Paris
conference last summer Mr.. Molo-
tov made an open bid for German
support, clearly indicating that
Moscow saw its former enemy as
future satellite. Mr.. Byrnes went
to Stuttgart, and the struggle was
on.
Mr.. Hill deals at some length with
occupation policies in general but
reserves his principal argument for
the more mportant-and timely
discussion of whether we shall let
the Russians lead a frequently mis-
guided but always industrious and
capable people into the Communist
bloc in Europe. He believes the best
way to combat communism in Ger
many is with some kind of socialism
The country, he feels, is too de-
vitalized by war for the operation of
capitalistic economy. He sees
some chance of success in the
British policy of socializing indus
tries in Germany and giving favored
consideration to the Social Demo-
cratic Party. The Americans have
been waiting for the birth of a
genuinely democratic" political
party in their occupation zone. 1t
hasn't come yet.
Turning to the question of a peace
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cOmely Negro girl ana a nOSt OF
others help to carry the burden of a
plot which embraces political in
trigue. miscegenation and several
murders.
Wells Wickham, who has spent
much of his life trying to drink his
way out of environment, is finally
freed from the spider web of family
tradition by his uncle's will and
lights out Immediately for Chicago,
where he finds peace in the arms
of a troubled nurse and purpose in
a correspondence school course in
accounting. On the other hand, his
best friend, Steve Pickett, stays on
home grounds joyously doing battle
with perfidious politicians, un-
scrupulous distillers and a tricky
parcel of no-account poor whites.
"We1l Sing One Song" has no end
Of variety and some vitality, al
though Miss Carruthers' style in un-
distinguished and her treatment is
episode in the extreme. Since she
allows only few pages to one
character before switching off to
another, which produces somewhat
the effect of riding in a car that
stalls easily. AS a story of a sleepy
Southern community, the novel
reads like an inside job, but it
doesn't go very deep,-M. Meg.
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sor of philosophy CHRISTOPHER Norbors.
at the University of Minnesota, a
section chief in the Office of Strate-
gic Services, and an UNRRA official
in Northern Europe.
In the UNRRA assignment he
saw Soviet foreign policy in action,
and he did not like what he saw
His conviction that Russia is a
totalitarian state ruled by an i'm
perialist oligarchy plotting to de-
stroy the democratic world provides
the basis for his program. And if
his analysis of Kremlin policy is
sometimes more emotional than it
might be, a former preacher can
perhaps be forgiven for failing to
give the devil his dues in what he
regards as a battle between good
and evil.
Enduring peace can come, DR..
Norborg believes, only through the
enforcement of the combined will of
responsible nations de, those not
in the Soviet bloc in accordance
with international justice and moral
Law. The problem, then, is how the
United Nations, hampered by the
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Tracing a Boys
Growth Toward
MANS S Estate
TOWARD WHAT. BRIGHT LAND
BY Walter Gilkyson. (CharleS
Scribner'S Sons; $3J
Reviewed by
P. DOUGLAS.
Reviewed by
ROBERT K. WALSH.

With a memory that plays no
tricks, and a sure sense of per-
spective, a writer in middle age is
better able than is a youthful
author to do a novel tracing a boys
growth to maturity.
Walter Gilkysoh thus recaptures
the long days and thoughts of child
hood and portrays with equal faith
fulness the sometimes frightening
but not necessarily despairing dis
illusionment when a man must put
away the things of child.
The only exception that might
be taken to the progression in
Toward What Bright Land is not
that Timothy Rood idolized and
idealized people, or that his early
ideals were shallow It is that so
many of the people were so far
from heroic and virtuous when
viewed with the wisdom that sup
posedly comes with age. Even real
life is not always so disillusioning.
Timothy, son of a socially correct
Philadelphia lawyer in the years
after the Civi, War, looks upon his
particular world and those who in
habit his immediate sphere of rela-
tivity as being little short of idyllic,
although Philadelphia OF that pc
riod was considerably less than
pastoral.
His awakening is especially bitter
as he begins to see his family and
some of his feminine associates as
others see them. In the meanness
of an affair with his best friends
sister, he suffers the worst kind of
disillusionment when he realizes he
lacks the strong moral fiber he had
taken for granted. He eventually
heads for happier, if presumably
stufner, destiny.
The author deserves credit for a
story of richly descriptive but un-
usually unobtrusive detail and a
narrative that seldom bogs down in
nostalgia. Mr.. Gilkyson is Penn
sylvanian of legal as well as lit
erary pursuits who has Travelled far
and in 1916 was an American Sec
retary at the war criminal trials
in Nuremberg. He writes charm
ingly and authoritatively of the
Philadelphia locale, but with enough
universal interest to raise hope that
some of his future works will be
broader in place and time.
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x-UNRRA Official Suggests Solution
For Dilemma of Relations With Russia
(Dutton,: $780,

big power veto, can force the Soviet
to accept its decisions. The answer.
Dr.. Norborg says. is the setting up
of regional authorities to provide
adequate police protection, within
the Charter but not subject to
Soviet veto.
The framework of one such au-
thority already exists in the Pan
American Union. Additional At
lantic and Pacific authorities (the
United States would be a member
of all three would provide base'
for the use of the atomic bomb to
penalize aggression.
The atomic bomb, DR.. Norbore
points out, is the one weapon that
can reach the vulnerable spots OF
Russia, yet it cannot be used ag-
gressively by the Soviet, for over
whelming retaliation would be in
slant.
If we assume that Russia can be
restrained only by the threat OF
atomic destruction of her great
cities and industries, DR.. Norborg's
approach is certainly realistic one.
Whether it can fairly be described
as Christian approach (as it is on
the book jacket is a question per-
haps better left to the individual
Christian reader.
Evening star., 1947-08-31
Boy Meets oGHI
You'll Remember

JULIE
BY Ruth Babcock. (Co1Dard-Mc-
Camp; $275J
Obviously, Julie had seen better
DAYS, but Chad Burns, the strug-
Cling young architectural student
who makes himself responsible for
her welfare, has no idea how gooc
they were until midway in this
agreeable first novel. Julie takes
the ministrations of Chad and his
equally strapped friends more or less
for granted. She never complains
never explains. She isn't apathetic
exactly, just detached, and the other
girls can see at once that she has
class" for which they both admire
and resent her. AS long as Julie
is a study of an arresting person
ality, it is holding enough, but the
!, treatment of the romance which de-
[velops between Julie and Chad is
not entirely satisfactory, because
Z Miss Babcock Is telling the story
in the first person from Chads point
of view and she never makes hin
interesting or even believable. Sht
s does much better describing jules
1 effect on other women-M. Meg.
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|Soop-Opero Plot,
But Writing and
Atmosphere Good
SWAMP WILLOW
BY Edwina Elroy.
nanl's Sons. So

by EdWlna ElrOy. (G. +. FhI'
MANS Sons; $3J
Swamp Willow" is an unusua
novel which explores little-knowr
segment of Americana.
In 1914, Big Lem Tanner lived ir
the shanty section of Rivenhill, sit
uated on New Jersey river where
| it met the sea. Big Lem had 8
daughter, Holly, sinewy, pretty cir
of Is; son, Bay, and numerous
nephews and cousins. They made
a living out of clans and Holsters
They could almost see the skyline
of New York, yet some of the ole
men of Tannertown had never been
to the big city.
When Lem was killed in a lobster
boat race, Holly was befriended by
Sid Tracy, the saloon and dancehal.
keeper. Finally he took her away
to New York, then Chicago, where
he abandoned her to have their baby
as best she could. But Sade, a
chambermaid in the cheap hotel
and Mr. Knowles, the old actor who
was night manager, were kind to her
And Sade went with Holly and her
son back to Rivenhill-a journey
that took them five years because
they had to work in war plants in
Detroit and slowly save the money
They settled down in Big LENS old
shack on the river. When claiming
and lobstering failed, there was rum
running, in which the river-wise
Holly could help. Meanwhile there
was Larry Ainsworth, who came
from the grand section of Rivenhill
and a rich family. He and Holly
were in love- Their romance, which
lasted three months, was the biggest
thing in her life. But there were
adventures in the years ahead.
Swamp Willow" is on the senti-
mental side. And at least four char
acters are disposed of by violent
means. Nonetheless, Miss Elroy
writes we'll, and she has woven at
mosphere and character into CO.
hesive narrative which always is in
teresting and sometimes poignant
&C, B. j,
Evening star., 1947-08-31
Returned Vets
of ThreeWo
In Tough Novel
THE TOM WALKER
BY Mari Sandoz. dial Press, So

THE TOM-WALkER
BY Mari Sandoz. dial Press; S3.)
Reviewed by
FRANCIS P. DOUGLAS.
Milton Stone wondered, as the
other Stones had before him, "if
there was any way to return from
the wars but dead"
Another Milton, grandfather of
the Milton Stone of World War II,
had come back from Sherman's s
army with only one leg, a Grip"
Finally he had an iron pipe fitted to
the stump and became known as the
Tom-Walker, a term applied ordi-
narily to man walking on stills.
The panic of 1873 drove him from
his Cincinnati home to the West.
From Council Bluffs he sold patent
medicine from an orange-covered
wagon. Legends gathered around
him and the feats he could perform
with his iron leg.
The Tom-Walker's son Martin
came back a cripple, too, mis- lungs
eaten by the gas of World War I
He became a victim of the depres-
sion, his disability and the neuroses
it produced. His tragic disintegra-
ton is portrayed almost clinically in
the best section of Miss Sandoz's
book.
Milton Stone, back from Worlo
War II, had a bullet in his chest
which one day, the doctors told him
would reach his heart
One reason he wondered about re-
turning from the wars alive was the
gulf between soldier and civilian.
Old Milton, returning, found his
father war CRATER. Martin found
mis- sacrifices had been given to a
plot by international bankers abetteo
by misunderstanding to the stay-at-
homes. Young Millions brother on
the Stones wyoming farm held back
his cattle in a strike against the
OPA and speculated on how much
he would have made had the bomb
been withheld from Hiroshima an.
other six months.
The wives of the three veterans
were civilians, too, lacking the un.
derstanding the crippled soldiers
needed to bolster their pride anc
confidence.
1t is tough book Miss Sandoz
has written, with tough language
and tough people. But the people
are real people and they live agains
background which is almost his.
tory of populism in the West.
Evening star., 1947-08-31
The Public Library

provided by certain universities, by
State extension programs, unior
Institutes or forums, and special
schools like the Hudson Shore Labor
School. 1t is forwarded by writers
like Mark Starr t"Workers' Educa-
tion Today'') and Caroline Ware
("Labor Education in the Univer-
sities'D; by the American Labor
Education Service through re-
search, advice and publications; by
local committees like the Washing
ton Workers Education Committee
which is sponsoring forum series
this fall, welcoming every ones
participation. And Government
Support of Workers Education y
described by Eleanor Colt.
Evening star., 1947-08-31
Summer Visitors
And Twin Sisters

HEAVEN AND VICE VERSA
BY Ethel Hueston. (Bobbs-Mer-
riN;: S2.75.J
Miss Hueston's new novel moves
smoothly, lightly, amusingly until
good two-thirds of the story is
told. Then a dramatic theme is de-
veloped suddenly, and the narra-
tive ends in tense and unexpected
climax.
It's not out of key when the
brightness of the strings gives way
to a dark brooding in the wood
winds. The strings return to their
cheerful mood, though subdued by
a contrapuntal tragedy. Miss
TIueston has written many novels.
She composes them expertly. They
may not be profound; they may not
be too close to average reality; but
they are absorbing, which is not a
trivial merit.
Heaven and Vice Versa" concerns
twin sisters still on the glamorous
side of middle age. and the two at
tractive daughters of one sister.
The older sisters are widows, the
childless one by court decree. Other
characters are the owner of the
adjoining estate in New Jersey and
a group of summer visitors, male.
The beloved, middle-aged neighbor
is q bachelor, who owns most of the
county. The visitors include a sec
ond man who is affiuent and has
reached the age of indiscretion, and
his three youthful proteges, emerg-
ing GIs, one his nephew.
The several romances which this
summer paradise is sure to nurture
are developing according to pattern
when Lydia's first husband, divorced
and unheard of these 20 years, turns
up in a startling way. Then things
begin to happen in several direc-
tions.
Heaven and Vice Versa" is safe
pick for an unboring companion to
share your porch swing or beach
parasol. &C. B. ].
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M o S c o W - Or.
Norborg presents
his own answer
to that perplex-
ing question.
| Born in Nor
way, DR.; Norborg
was educated for
the Presby terian
m i n i S t try and
came to this
country as pas
tor of a Nor
wegian seamen's S
church. He has
since been an
associate profess
Evening star., 1947-08-31
Reviewed by JOSEPH A. F

Reilly, naturally, saw policies OF
grave moment conceived and de-
veloped-or rejected-but the mar
rator never was one to take him
self seriously. and this is a phase
that has been left for discussion by
pundits. The Reilly tale, always in
good humor (but with fingers
crossed at tines is the froth.
Winston Churchill is not the great
statesman but an individual whose
capacity for-and ability to handle
liquid refreshment was source
of wonder and admiration.
Nine. Chang Kai-shek, charming
beyond dispute, but with manner
isms that annoyed American serv-
ants no end.
Little Details.
King George, very unhappy
human being when he had to ride
too long in a parade in New York
(The Secret Service took care Of
that, too.)
More serious was row between
Gen. Charles de Gaulle and Roose-
velt which caused Reilly to reach
for his shoulder holster.
Stain, Ibn Saud, Blood anc
Evening star., 1947-08-31
By Sroce Quimby
Readers Adviser in Economics, Washin
Public Library

Readers Adviser in Economics, washington
Public Library
Bringing changes into a world
resenting changes" (Sandburg) is
the weighty responsibility labor is
shouldering. This imposes
stringent test of social wisdom upon
labor. Strength it has. Will its
understanding be deep enough? Its
temper level? It's decisions just?
Such wisdom develops out of ex-
periences digested and transmitted
through effective education. 1t is
this education-for industrial rela-
tionships, for community goals
that citizen workers seek Oppor-
tunities for it are gradually being
Evening star., 1947-08-31

capitulation of failure. The re-
sistance never won major victory.
The author blames the many SYM
pathetic officials, foreign and do
mestic, who hesitated to act in the
early Nazi days even though shown
opportunities. Later malign fate
seemed to interfere. But any rea-
sonably experienced American poli-
tician could discern the real fault.
A loose, shadowy group at best, the
opposition was pitted against a
superbly organized machine with a
program. BY contrast, the resist
ance had little to offer. 1t tried to
beat something with nothing.
Evening star., 1947-08-31
Variety and Vitality
In This Novel of
"A Southern Town
WE'LL SING ONE SONG

WE'LL SING ONE SONG
BY Olive Carruthers. (Bobbs-
Merrill, $2.75.)
A spoiled aristocrat who hates his
old Kentucky home and a Lin
colnesque young country attorney
who loves his, are the two main
characters in this novel of life in a
Southern town. A large support
ing cast, including an importunate
and much-resented Yankee pro-
moter, a shabby-genteel trio OF
maiden ladies. the neurotic scion
of the towns wealthiest family, a
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bomb ASSASSINATION OF Adolph Hit
Ter in June, 1914. A fugitive there
after, he got out to Switzerland
with papers forged by the American
OSS.
His "reminiscences are an in
tensely personal, one-man account
of the German resistance move
ment. Beginning slowly, the book
takes some time to grip interest,
but mounts to a crescendo in its
Anal account of the putsch attempt
and panicky flight of the plotters
Mr.. Gisevius' initial material
doubtless was Of high value when
he got it to the OSS in Berne in
1943. But it essentially Is a re-
Evening star., 1947-08-31

mentS on WhdC III "'"iie" o'ei"'i'e'
he has termed eXtra-sensory percep-
ton, or ESP. He has used numer-
GUS subjects. and in his many tests
has taken all possible precautions to
avoid suggestion or collusion, and
to avoid interpreting as valid results
what might be due solely to chance
and coincidence.
Psychology, says Prof. Rhine, has
developed to such an extent and in
terest in nervous mechanisms that
it's view of man is "brain-centered," :"
that is, it seeks to explain all mental
activity in terms of functioning
nervous system, whereas he main
tains that the mind -centered" view
is the proper one. Just as the stu
dents of the early Renaissance had
to decide whether the sun or the
earth was the center of the universe,
so must psychologists settle this
question. The first was, and the
second will be, he says, settled by
research, not by faith or belief.
In this book, Prof. Rhine presents
data and describes tests which he
believes demonstrate the existence
of CD telepathy, that is, thought
transference without the use of the
senses, and 90 clairvoyance, that is,
the direct apprehension of external
objects without the use of the senses.
Furthermore, he finds that ESP
transcends the laws of physics. and
is independent not only of distance,
but of time! In other words, not
only may past events be appre-
hended in this manner, but future
ones may be foreseen. Still further,
he maintains the existence of PIX
or psychokinesis, that is, that nom
physical force may produce physical
results and influence. for example,
as in his experiments, the fall of dice.
There is, he admits, much resist
ance on the part of psychologists and
many others to the acceptance of
Evening star., 1947-08-31
Just Stock, But
Medically Sound
TAKE THREE DOCTORS
BY Elizabeth Seifert. (Dodd,
Mead & Co.; s2.50J
MARGARET CHILD.

Take three doctors "a talented
young one; a talented, bitter older
one; a narrow-minded, warped ole
one). Place in a small town and
shake together we'll The result
is the usual story about stuff1ly
conventional country town first pre-
JUDGED against, then warming tc
the modern method young doctor
from outside"
The story depicts pretty young
school teacher; a town bad girl
with heart of gold, naturally
a jolting fire, and a great awaken.
ing" epidemic. And the equally
stock happy ending for every one
The medical passages. which are
frequent, make interesting reading
Evening star., 1947-08-31

ing Of confusion
may be expert
e n C e d by t h e
reader of this
volume. partic-
ularly if he be a
skeptic regard
ing clairvoyance
and like "psy-
chic p h e n o M
ena."
For ver 20
years, the author,
Prof. Rhine of
Duke University,
has b e e n con-
ducting expert
Evening star., 1947-08-31
THE YEARS AFTER FIFTY
BY Wingate Johnson, M. D
(McGra1D HILL: ST.

oy VlIlSdCC 0olllAoOAA, AVA ~
(McGraW Hill, ST.
This compact volume is the lat
est addition to the Whittlesey House
Health Series, edited by Dr. Morris
Fishbein. Much attention is being
given of late to health education,
and since more people are living
into middle age and beyond than
was ever the case before, books of
this sort are sure of a wide circu-
lation. DR.. johnson is professor of
clinical medicine at the Bowman
Gray School of Medicine. He not
only knows his subject thoroughly,
but writes clearly and simply, with
realism, but without alarmism, and,
on the whole, optimistically. He has
written "to help the intelligent
man and woman prepare for the lat
ter half of life, through discussion
of the various problems that are
peculiar to this period" He adds,
II also hope that those who have
aging relatives or dependents may
find in this book some advice that
may prove helpful" II achieving
these aims he has succeeded ad-
mirably. w. Q.
Evening star., 1947-08-31
A Texas Roconteur
CUB REPORTER

BY Boyce House. fHightoDer
Press, Dallas, Ter, S2.50J
Mr.. House, described as Texas
raconteur" Cisnt that being re-
dundant?), here has written a de-
tailed account of his days as a cub
reporter on the Memphis CONNER
cial Appeal in the days of its great
editor, G. P. j. Mooney. There is
very little in it about the paper or
Mr.. Mooney except as they figure in
& Mr.. Houses personal experiences
This Is his book. e. T.
Evening star., 1947-08-31

these findings, although he con-
siders the basis of this resistance
psychological rather than logical.
Who, so years ago, would have ac-
cepted prediction of radio, or radar,
or the atomic bomb?
Whether or not one accepts Prof.
Rhine's conclusions. one is bound to
admire his scientific approach and
his persistence in delving in a field
which has challenged mans imag-
nation since the dawn of history.
Those who already believe in ESP
will find their beliefs confirmed; :;
those who do not will find them
selves challenged and stimulated.
Evening star., 1947-08-31
OPERATION MOSCOW
BY Christopher Norborg.
BELMONT FAIRIES.

What to do about Soviet Russia
is a problem the United States must
face-with World War III the penal
ty for bad guess. In "Operation
Evening star., 1947-08-31

The story is told of the yokef who,
on seeing a giraffe for the first time,
exclaimed, There amt no such ami
mall" Something of the same feel
Evening star., 1947-08-31
America Has Been Waiting Far Too Long
For the Birth of Democracy in Germany
STRUGGLE FOR GERMANY
(Harper & Brothers. Ne,U York, S3)
Reviewed by EDWIN TRIBBLE.

The competition Soviet Russia and the western for
future thesis of
the New York Herald Tribune
change from the determination Germany
for to he positive officially
Stuttgart last by Mr. help
Evening star., 1947-08-31
Secret Mission
THE FORBIDDEN LAND

BY Bertha Hettleman. MAR
gent Press; $780,
The story of a secret mission
which an Englishman, versed in the
ways of the East, carried out in
the forbidden land of Tomar.
SCIENCE SINCE 1900, by H. T.
Pledge. Philosophical Library) An
interesting and carefully compiled
outline of sciences development, in
physics, chemistry, medicine, math-
ematics, dynamics. BY the librarian
of the London Science Museum.
Evening star., 1947-08-31
"A -Go-Lucky Irishmon, Mike Reilly,
But He KeptFDR Safe From Wartime Harm

OF THE WHITE HOUSE
Rv Michael Reilly as told to William J slocum (stnaon
Schuser; $3J
Reviewed by JOSEPH A. FOX
Iishman Montana had
wartime AS head of the White House
detail responsible for the weeng OF Franklin
hour of the day and night
accounting of his stewardship
a this entaied
Evening star., 1947-08-31
From the Scientists: Fresh Information
lon Psychic Phenomena; Life After 50
THE REACH OF THE MIND

THE REACH OF THE MIND
BY J. B. Rhine. William Sloane; $780,
Reviewed by DR. WINFRED OVERHOLSER
SUPERINTENDENT Editor of Quarterly
of Psychiatry and Neurology.
Evening star., 1947-08-31
Anti -Nozi Working in Gestopo
Tells His Story of Resistance
TO THE BITTER END
BY Hans B. Gisevius Houghton Miflin; s4J
| peyiou,ed h,, rr,r>rIEp u rcprT

Hans Gisevus hunted civil service job in his native Germany
1888 shortly found himself official Later
still anti Nazi
he the
love of intrigue
ranks of the opposition and heavily attempted
Evening star., 1947-08-31
RocioIProbIem
Viewed From
Anew Angle

jade GREENWAY
BY I. S. Young. (CroWn Pub.
fishers, S2.75J