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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-02
Civilization Endangered

Civilization Endangered
We wonder if the significance of the
report of the Emergency Committee
of Atomic Scientists is generally
appreciated ? Have we, as a people, read
the news dispatches on the report, or
the report text itself, with the appre-
hension it deserves?
If we have not we are laying up
trouble for ourselves in the future. For
it depends upon what the people OF the
United States do to encourage their
government to force control of atomic
energy upon the nations of the world
whether the destruction and desolation
foretold in the report as an inevitable
report of uncontrolled atomic bomb
production will come or not.
During the year tina thas passed
since the committee wa founded, our
hopes for international agreement on
control of atomic energy have come
to nothing, "says the report. Events
during this year, it continues" have
emphasized the tragic pertinence OF
our six-point statement. published on
November II, 1916"
Although the Star published these six
points at the time of their release, it
is pertinent to repeat them:
l. Atomic bombs can now be made
cheaply and in large number. They will
become more destructive.
2. There is no military defense
against atomic bombs and none is to
be expected.
3. Other nations can redlscover our
secret processes by themselves.
4. Preparedness against atomic
war is futile, and if attempted will ruin
the structure of our social order.
5. If war breaks out, atomic bombs
will be used and they will surely de-
stroy our civilization.
6. There is no solution to this prob
lem except international control of
atomic energy and, ultimately, the
elimination of war.
Reread the fifth point now If the
scientists are right, it is imperative
that atomic control be effectively es-
ta%blished, if u society is to survive.
The report seeks to explain why the
United Nations Atomic Energy Com
mission has not succeeded. In part it
states the answer thus:
"The representatives of great states.
while striving to safeguard the peace.
have fulfilled their traditional duty to
place their own nations in the most ad-
.vantageous position to win the next
war. 1t is useless to proceed further
along this path; one cannot prepare
for war and expect peace"
However far it goes into the realm
OF idealism, as contrasted with reali-
ties, the report states the plain truth
OF the situation when it. says:
1--WE believe that the imperative
problem of international control of
atomic energy must be solved and can
only be solved within the context of
a general agreement which guarantees
a reasonable degree of security to all
nations and provides for far-reaching
economic and cultural cooperation
among nations. Such a settlement is
not possible if the respective peoples
are concerned exclusively with the Sc
curity and welfare of their own coun-
t%ries.",
Obviously there can be no reason to
hope for permanent and secure peace
unless and until the nations of the
world adopt and enforce a code provid-
ing for complete control Of atomic
energy and outlaw atomic warfare.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-02
SEE FIRST

The States of Arizona, Arkan-
sas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine
and Michigan, Minnesota, Mis-
scuri, New Hampshire, New York,
Rhode Island, South Carolina,
Tennessee and Utah all have ad-
vertising plans inviting vaca-
toners and travellers into their
states to see the sights and en-
joy the hospitality, climate, lux
uries and sports. Each of these
states claim they have everything
that is worth while seeing in
any part of the country.
According to Advertising Age,
a total Of 80 states East, West,
North and South will spend 81
600, 600 in advertising during the
coming months.-Sanford Herald.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-02
COB NJ

Her lips quivered as they ap-
preached his. His whole frame
trembled as he looked into her
eyes. Her chin vibrated and his
body shuddered as he held her
close to him.
The moral: Never kiss a gil in
a jep with the engine running
Take-Offs, U. S. S. Valley Forge.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-02
GOOD MORNING

What men want is not talent; it is pur-
pose; in other words, not the power to
achieve, but the will to labor.-Bulwer.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-02

Without the Soviet Union the United Nations
Organization would be much stronger and
more effective than it is today. Without the
Soviet Union it would be a world military al
lance of free peoples against all aggression.
Sen. James o. Eustland CD Of Mississippi.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-02
uotation

In the development of any industry, the first
aim is the benefit Of mankind.-Chen Li-fu,
Chinese leader.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-02

Committees have their proper places in
working out co-ordinated policies. but when
It comes to day-to-day decisions a single ad-
ministrator is SO far superior there il no
comparison.-General Eisenhower.
Evening star., 1947-10-26

AMERICAS ECONOMIC SUPREMACY
With New Evaluation by Marquis w. Chds
(Hdrper 4, Brothers; $780,
Reviewed by HARRISON.
published almost so Brooks Adams views
position in the world seem ngulary appote Iooay
them, excellent eVauatlon oy MARQUIS
certainly solid and seang as
Gqutions the great overall problem OF our
bewidered hmethe theological ana economic Clash
and West. -, =,
family Brooks shared with his
brother Henry deep pessls over the american sense
the ability willingness OF the American peope M
live to the vast responsibilities implicit IN tne
wealth and power being built up seeIgV
land But Brooks was
less despa1rng in his attitude na e
brother who sought intellectual comfort IN escapSe eSec a
into the future with at least some nope
America properly educated itself ABOUT se o
nations might acquire enough VISION anu I
not to material greatness but to employ
for great national ana merhaeo ac Spii'u'
''-' ~ He Foresaw Two Mighty Rivals.
Tocqueve few other presclent Du III
specific FORM ADAMS 1oresaW Woro IN " w. h roe the
United States and Russia Wnen ne "oIe e
this provocative little book ne mao eaoy @
counted His statistical STUDY OF ther uae position
their growing inability export enough to for essential
written only yesterday He saw Engana la h
uer o the west shifting Atlantic point OF unparalleled
land At the same time athougn ne
deficient and soveny he saw anone
He suggested that they lgh
one day efficient Germans to dominate all europe ho M
event he envsioned thm-ng ooe 1he aov u @
soviet Unionevenuay challenging to faeu test engn
dangers Tor us II we laleo W Aeep ou ~ ~ ~
our sfnS " ~ Sounds Grim of Warning.
Not all Adams thesis is beyond question nu Wegneo
realities of the present particularly against e
m open theological and economic war on ne nea
states remarkably impressive and operng ne lew
enon Of all American of his certainly are
peculiarly to the day and age: -, ,., , will,
fight Dale "neth sue
~ M From this destiny she cannot escape The
center system of civilization is IN oto ana u H.
to rest tranquility annot M Az
of the United States ou
entaed its sacrifices well as X @ dnd
those who oeoe neng eheeeuc anu 4noo'
haven mott been organized
Evening star., 1947-10-26

Readers of the Saturday Evening
Post have had an appetizing fore
taste of Admiral Halsey's meaty and
salty account of the war in the Pa
cific. This is the whole highly sea-
soned dish, served up Navy style, as
only Halsey could serve it-with
plenty of spice to tickle the ribs and
plenty of substance withal. Some
of the ingredients will not be easily
digested by some persons, including
Gen. Kenney, who commanded Cen
MacArthur's wartime air force, and
the drys, who already have pro-
tested certain wet" sentiments at
Evening star., 1947-10-26
Memoirs of the
Hoffman Twins
WE LEAD A DOUBLE LIFE
BY Ruth and Helen Hoffman
II. B. Lippincott Co.; $3J
Reviewed by
CATHERINE D. HILL.

=
The Hoffman twins, Ruth ano
Helen (authors of 1--WE Married ar
Englishman') have now compiled
their memoirs.
Born into a "horsey" family. the
twins loved cats and dogs and draw
ing. We Lead a Double Life" tells
many anecdotes of their early
"twinhood" in st. Paul, Mimi, when
Mr.. Hoffman's trotters, sulkies and
surries brought in the silver dollars.
Definitely slanted toward the fem
mime reader, the anecdotes are
entertaining and amusing, but
rather like reading passages from
long diaries, with an extension OF
remarks.
The real story begins when, as
high school graduates, they plar
for their artistic future. Theil
careers as artists for Buzza Greet
ing Cards in Minneapolis, CONNER
cial work in New York and as art
students in Fontaineoleau, France
comprise the better half of the book
A few sketches and recipes are in
cluded.
They travel on the Riviera, ir
Italy and Switzerland. A French
man proposes marriage in Paris
but not for two! The book ends II
Cairo, in the middle SOS, as they
meet "a very handsome English
man" who understands that twins
should never be separated and theil
pact never to marry until every
item on their agenda is checked off
Only one item is left-a double ex-
hibit in New York-and that's where
the book leaves you.
Evening star., 1947-10-26
Interpreting All
The Ugly Stories
OF Pearl IHorbor
THIS is PEARL!
BY Walter Mills. (Morro1D, 81.
Reviewed by
BELMONT FAIRIES.

BY Walter Mills. (Morrow; 81. J
Reviewed by
BELMONT FAIRIES.
The record of the joint congress
sional investigation of the Pearl
Harbor attack fills 40 volumes. Mr..
Mills needs only 373 pages to tell
the same story and to tell it we'll.
The author, an editorial writer
for the New York Herald Tribune
whose Road to War" analyzed in
f1uences leading to our entry into
World War I, makes no claim to
originality in material or interpre-
tation. He reviews the now-familiar
history of Army-Navy "co-opera-
ton" in Hawaii consisting chiefly
of an admiral and general play
ing golf together), of high COM
mands IN Washington which con-
tributed to the confusion on Oahu,
of diplomatic negotiations with the
Japanese to stall off war. and of a
political situation in which it was
possible for isolationist newspapers
to disclose secret War Department
plans three days before the Jap
anese struck.
A few minor participants in the
story showed initiative-a lieutenant
commander in Navy cryptoanal-
ysis unit in Washington, for ex-
ample, and two Army privates at a
radar set in Hawaii-but their ef-
forts were lost in the fog of inertia
and confusion. Many regulations
were tarnished in the Investigations
which followed. But there is no
escaping the conclusion that the
responsibility for the Knockout blow
to the Pacific Fleet rests primarily
on the Hawaiian commanders. who
somehow managed to violate nearly
every precept of history and of mil
itary security, laying Pearl Harbor
open to the aerial attack which all
of them had recognized as the
greatest threat to the base, and this
after receiving a clear warning that
war could be expected within mat
ter of hours.
1t is not a pretty story, but it is a
fair and comprehensive account OF
what happened to us in 1941.
Evening star., 1947-10-26

tributed to the admiral All in all,
however, it is eminently satisfying
fare.
This is the first informal nara
tive of major naval exploits in the
Pacific to be published by a high
ranking officer and 1t is likely to be
the most discussed Admiral Hal
sey confesses a propensity for stick
ing his neck out. He has done it
time and again in this book, just
as he did during the war. He didn't
think MacArthurs airmen under
Gen. George c. Kenney gave him
proper support at certain times, and
he says so. He disliked the idea of
-gooders" such as Mrs. Roose-
velt visiting his command, but ad-
mits he was wrong in his first esti-
mate of Mrs. Roosevelt.
Admiral Halsey has no apologies
to make for his two outstanding
neck-sticking episodes, viz, his
brash prediction on New Year Day
of 1943 that the would be in Tokyo
by the end of that year, and his
much discussed northWard venture
during the battle for Leyte Gulf.
He explains that he had his tongue
in his cheek when he made the 1943
forecast. His purpose, he says, was
not only to lift the sagging morale of
his men, then operating on shoe
string, and of the panicky New zea-
landers and Australians, but to
make the Japs think we had more
strength than we actually did. The
ruse worked both ways, the admiral
avoWs.
AS for Leyte, Admiral Halsev in
sists he was justified in leaving San
Bernardino Strait unguarded and
sallying north to meet the main Jap
carrier force. He would do the
same under similar circumstances,
he adds. The important thing, to
his mind, is that the battle was won
decisively, as were most of the bat
ties of the Sd Fleet. The Halsev
story is saga of victory that will
revive poignant memories for many
readers and provide plenty of thrills
for all
Evening star., 1947-10-26
"A Side-SpGtting,
Cockeyed Version
OF Tomorrow

DAHL'S BRAVE NEW WORLD
Cartoons by Francis w. Dahl.
Text by Charles w. Morton. at
ntic-Little, BroUn, $780,
Francis w. Dahl, unofficial laugh
ing boy of Back Bay, has been get
ting away with murder at the draw
ing board for years. No one has
ever drawn the unyielding outlines
of Dame Boston so unhatteringly,
no one has ever hooted so derisive-
ly at her frugality, her resistance to
change. her plug ugly squirrels
her panhandling pigeons. Any out
lander who dared to dig her in
the ribs in this outrageous wise
would have been in the stocks long
since. But is Dahl, a hunted man
who pads through back alleys to
his office at the Herald furtively to
scrawl his daily jibe, in line? Moth
ing of the sort He is honored by
the city he laughs at and makes 1t
laugh with him first thing every
morning. He is that nice, anus
ing young man from Wollaston.
and a living refutation of the old
adage about the prophet in his
own country.
Now while his simple drawings
are eloquent, the court jester is
himself a notably laconic man, al
though there is no truth in the
legend that the inquirer after his
health must twist his arm to get
an answer. 1t is just that he is as
sparing of small-talk as he is of
the lines in his cartoons and eases
himself into a conversation in the
cautious manner of an El street
brownie edging into the surf on a
January day. Once in. he gets
along swimmingly, but he prefers
to communicate with India ink.
That is where Charles w. Nor
ton, ex-neWSpaperman, now associate
editor of the Atlantic Monthly, an
other Boston institution, comes into
the picture. He is star performer
at the typewriter whose agile,
pointed prose is the perfect run
ming commentary for his collabo-
rator's sardonic art. This congenial
pair have demonstrated their
smooth. interlocking technique in
Dahl's Boston, have put their heads
together on cockeyed, side-split-
ting version of the world of the
tomorrow, portraying for all he is
worth the gadget-ridden, television-
blinded, unhoused, carless man of
the future, who, Mr.. Morton thinks,
can be summed up as the Man
Who Owns a Food-Freezer. Dahl
has the time of his life with mos
quito-producing redlights. f1uores-
cent theater programs, self-whip-
ping cream, functional furniture
and atomic wise small fry. 1t all
adds up to hilarious evidence that
Aldous Huxley will have to move
over and Boston will have to get
used to sharing Dahl with the
Nation, M. MEG.
Evening star., 1947-10-26
Reviewing The New Books
ZestfuIAutobiogrophy OWE. Woodward,
Who Wishes He Hadn't Invented 'Debunk'
THE GIFT OF LIFE
BY w. E. Woodward. (E. P. Dutton Co.; s475J
Reviewed by CARTER BROOKE JONES.


One of abest bogphe author important accounts Of
washington Grant Lafayette and Panenow writes OF subject ne
And autobiography with the
charm that readers for his volumes about other men,
the word "debunk His first
book in it who made
hooey from ideas and opinion called
Ward M oodxa xoraons Of American history He is
too pleased at that. He explains
Americas Chief Debunker.
"If again. would hesitate long time before
creating the debunk would make effort find another
it on 0 with bands
Pointing Washington the
debunkng written by Americas chief
dbunker of fact admirer of
whole books %zS'-S'' ana 'S''N''S '"'~S''
the simply fell
themselves point out these and debunkng
But Mr. woodvads biography probably is the most sympahee
aduato history headline
woodward Debunks the DeOunkers of Tom Paine , -
woodward debunks himself"
The Best of All Possible Gifts
Woodward 72 He has quarrel with the which have
piled him he the contrary only grateful for what they
m m o tb @ @ 5 @ of al ossible gif % to human beings" And he
wonderful time all life and when wonder
you his experiences the
bitterness and the dlunmen which so many writers seem to have
@ m not that @ Mr. h. @ % Ee HE Hes m
people certainly he's had his
been able dull the that lay over the horizon every
Today happy with the wife has shared his
life for 80 happy in his friendships
Perhaps willingness experiment to venture
life surely this contributed to his success
people in little in Carolina college but
an advertising man promotion executive
finally found his meter He nearly so when
congen job he'd probably still be podding away at some
autobiography not his vaedctory He plans he
wrngmore novels because histories and bogao
of mind not time of life he's still young
Evening star., 1947-10-26
What Happened to
Average Germans
After Munich
THE AXE OF WANDSBECK
By Arnold ZWeig. (VikinQ: $50

THE AXE OF WANDSBECk
BY Arnold Zweig. Viking; $780,
Mr.. Zweig waited 10 years after
World War I to write The Case, of
Sergeant Grischa," the unforgotten
story of what that war meant to
one man. The novel was followed
by three other books dealing with
the period.
Now, decade after Hitler became
a world menace, MI. ZWeig sends
from Palestine a major novel of the
German tyranny, describing the
rise of the Nazis to absolute power
in the '30s. This story, too, revolves
around an insignificant man, a HAM
burg butcher named Teetjen, a vet
eran of the earlier war.
Teetjen and his wife Stine are
having hard time making living
out of their little shop, because the
big stores are moving branches into
the residential areas, sitting COM
petition. He appeals to an old army
comrade, Footh, now a shipping
magnate. Surely the Fuehrer does
not want to see the small business
man throttled. 1t happens that
F'ooth is in love with the daughter
of Koldewey, superintendent OF the
district prison. KoldeWey is sup
posed to have four men executed
political prisoners against whom
treason charges have been trumped
up. The prolonged illness of the exc
cutioner has embarrassed KoldeWey
Footh persuades Teetjen to act as
substitute executioner for a liberal
fee, which the tradesman so badly
needs.
Teetjen is masked when he Wields
his grandfather's ak. He and his
wife confide in no one. But some
how the story leaks out. Many
workers regard the four executed
men as martyrs, though such senti-
ments must be whispered. Teetjen
is a marked man. Gradually his
little world crumbles He tries to
believe in the new. regime. He's
still puzzled at his fate when the
final tragedy overwhelms him ano
Slime
The Axe Of Wandsbeck' is a
powerful, compassionate study of
what happened to average, ordinary
Germans around the time of Munich.
The story is long drawn and heavy
with detail, but reading it is re-
warding experience. Mr.. Zweig
writes with restraint, sometimes
with understatement, and his mes
sage is more telling because it IS
never overwrought or hysterical.
&C. B. J.
Evening star., 1947-10-26
4UCFN WNN Uy
ROBERT K. WALSH

A ring worn by a special-privilege
Senator and a cross belonging to
people he has betrayed are symbols
that mingle and sometimes become
lost in this novelistic tract. Save
for their place in the title of the
book, they seem a minor part of a
complicated story pattern of fash
backs, essays or more or less related
subjects, and characters either in
tensely Warm-hearted or basely
mean, but seldom in-between.
Nevertheless, despite a tendency
to ride backward and forward, and
in several other directions at the
same time, the action and person.
ages fit finally into a neat pattern.
This fight between murderous reac-
ton and the championship of posi-
tive values in American democracy"
is almost too neat, but it is dis
turbing and powerful.
The scene is Texas and the CEN
trail character a Senator who domi-
mates an industrial city. The Sena-
tor wins an empty victory at the
close. The "fascists" seem to have
scored futile triumph. The oppo-
sition is left pretty much on the out,
with little more than an theological
hope for the future. Perhaps it is
not as discouraging as it reads.
Mr.. Rylee, author of two previous
novels, has a strongly individual
style, although addicted to involved
sentences. He has produced bitter
book and 1t is likely to be bitterly
discussed.
Evening star., 1947-10-26
THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington, D. c.
SUNDAY
Three Troubled Women in Search of Love
Are Heroines of Intense, ProIix Novels
Reviewed by MARY McGRoRY.

Reviewed by MARY McGRoRY.
These three sensitive intense and fusome artcate novels by and
about American moment when the being
@ Of dae @ as @ e 40 wen eones d wno m are aa put no n
This % 1 of s n H Fo aH sn and
measure their expectations against reality
spirited
tive Of the decisive and iOs5atns
happily married to the ogste son Of old family In the corss
ground varied able bring inner fe
whrlng pomscuous
This nteruds Of and
worlds at substituting graceful forbaranc for in life
She Writes With Commanding Fervor
novel
"of Lena Gey well know writes with commanding In this
exuting tribute varied
ON 5 East s the m d ab the the g ea4
hustle Of the Third the
refreshment and restoration TO those who respond to it.
one m her m & or her Mrs
the personality of city in love story that memorable for its bril-
Gladys schmt who in her most recent novel David the King
If AexanSr an actress with strong tendency toward
the O fooighs a.'''' 0'' '''''
Her feveris search for through
counted by her long friend Sophie iman
moderate transports houehot her verwrugh and
famed Alexandra herself Humi-
Gn nd and poverty she bears but "t'sf'0'
Dpe the careful presentation of her mky
adolescence
lyray the
O novel S overheaed
deals unparingly with the problems of
aless who through the psychac
rather british husband
psychoneuroc of the pair at least by Army
nationally only through their analyst while
chickering's punctu-
passionate reconcliatons.
modern chamber of horrors which goes by
a relentless
mind under drugs and lock up ner
neatly the mental hospital
udlcrous OF some Oh e
whc kind of ghasy humor.
the flash
the victim of overwhelming sense OF mdequcy
family by
decision defy Trump on
enlightened rest home her
mestones
reconciliation with Trump who has some
bespeaKes
a hitherto alien him.
she has invested her morbid
insight Many of the scenes painfully close up But
psychaty expensive
and sympathy that might have saved the high
along the line.
Evening star., 1947-10-26

tietam when he was captain OF
cavalry.
Mr.. Kicks does not allow his tap
estry to become cluttered with edl-
torial clap-trap. The character OF
Conway, rebellious but finally sub
missive, is systema tically developed
and the reader comes to believe with
Uncle Benjamin that the haystack
love of Conway for the white tenant
farmers daughter is not, Conway S
sin, but the sin of his times.
Evening star., 1947-10-26

! CONTROLLING WORLD TRADE
by Edward S. Mason. (McGraW
HILL A study made under the
sponsorship of the Committee Of
Economic Development urging the
use of the cartel and the commodity
agreement without their hitherto
evil features.
Evening star., 1947-10-26

The rich, nostalgia colorations OF
=, dying way of life following the
Civil War haunt this excellent novel
dealing with the clash OF gentle
mans love for poor white girl and
the instincts which prevent his hap
piness with her. All the easy-going
and exotic local color Of the Caro-
lima lowlands a few decades after
the war are here, and in the tower
ing Characterization of Uncle Ben
ianlin. Mr.. Ricks has achieved an
eminence of realism rarely reached
by novelists.
The hunters horn is Uncle Ben
ian1in's. and he carried it over the
swamplands morning after morning
in pursuit of foxes. 1t was given
him by men of his company at An