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Evening star., 1947-07-27
Prize Contribution.
By Marian Froncis, IA
Coolidge High School

a hot weather and
that didn't enjoy
do this for several
returned after eentful weeks there
haps would like to share experience.
found rav1ne In cln 1ace
Evening star., 1947-07-27

ArHRlLLINe, spillins lover, with-beauty vaca.
ZION is yours to enjoysin Pennsylvania.
Every section of this varied State offers you a
spirit-renewing adventure in natural splendor.
Here mountain peaks nudge the sky and rim
the fertile valleys. More than 800 lakes and 20
great rivers mirror the rolling hills the
gentle farmlands country hamlet or giant
metropolis Hundreds of waterfalls spill their
silver thunder through verdant glens and rock
srewn gorges. Millions of acres of forests
that seem a million miles away from busue
and worry beckon you to rest and relax
E YOU DRIVE DRIVE SAFELY
Evening star., 1947-07-27

This is not ALL To make your vacatioa
exciting as well as elating-many Of Penn.
sylvania's renowned resort areas are located
amidst unspoiled natural beauty. Historic
shrines are preserved among natures shrines.
Every sport in which you may want to par
ticipate is at hand Quaint folkways and famous
foods will weave bright thread Of memory
through your days.
Yes. everything you want in 4 vacation i.
here-for sN of Pennsylvania is a treasure OF
vacation pleasure. May we tell you about II
in more detail? Fill out the coupon-now
Evening star., 1947-07-27
Scottish Tights

''Skivies' sailor slang for under
wear-derives from the early Scots
who called the tight-fitting trousers
they wore next to their skin ''skiva-
clotheS.s
Evening star., 1947-07-27
Seeking Young Artists

The Watkins Memorial Gallery
of American University, has an
nounced an invitation show of
paintings, open to Washington area
artists, who have never exhibited
in one-man or small group shows.
The exhibition will comprise the
work of three or four painters of
promise, according to the judgment
of a jury of selection, to be appoint
ed by the university's art depart
ment. Artists are invited to submit
at least three examples of their
Evening star., 1947-11-16
Reading and Writing
Anos Min Has the Troubles Of Advance Guard Novelist
Conversion at the Library and Poqess Reports From Authors

Is Louis Zilhy, leading novelist, who
arrived in the United States several
weeks ago.
Stephen Bonsal, distinguished for
eign correspondent emeritus and
aide of Col. House at Versailles, has
lust about completed q sequel to
Memoirs OF a Vanished World" his
backward glance over q full life,
in the course of which he covered
two Russian revolutions.
Transition: Well 1t turns out that
the nall-tables Of Boston stood up
very well under the impact Of an
Atlantic Monthly which had a full
color panel right across the middle
of the cover, the first such in the
Atlantic's 9o-year history. AS a mat
ter of fact, reports Associate Editor
Charles w. Morton, the reaction to
this precedent making November
birthday issue, which had a rather
dazzling table OF contents graced
by such names as Mark Twain,
Albert Einstein and G. B. Shaw,
was one of warm satisfaction" "
That's Back Bay for solid"
+ r \
More Forthcoming: The second
volume In Dutton's Society In Amer
lea series, washington Tapestry"
by Charles Hurd; tides Of March,
by Thornton Wilder; "Free Admis-
sion," by Ilka Chase, which will
take up where the delightful Past
Imperfect" left of.
Evening star., 1947-11-16
By Mary MeGrory

with his wife Adele, an attractive
ex-Washington Post reporter.
Ferenc Macy, ex-Premier of Hun
gary, has just delivered to his pub
fishers in New York the completed
manuscript dn Hungarian of his
memoirs, tentatively titled Struggle
Behind the Iron Curtain" which
Macmillan will publish dn English)
some time in January. On his way
back to his farm in .Herndon, Va,
where the crops have all been
gathered in, the former editor of
Hungary's largest daily, spoke
his mind, through an interpreter,
Thor Kerekes of the American
Hungarian Federation. about COM
munistic literature, which, he says,
has absolutely no literary value"
Hastily translated Soviet stand
ard workers imported with the Rus
slams and supplemented by out
pourings of Hungarian Communist
writer's found no favor at all with
Hungarians, a literate. people, who
read avidly the works Of the great
masters Of English literature and
enjoyed American fiction, especially
Steinbeck's, which, despite its left
LIST political views, aroused much
interest for It's treatment OF agrar-
ian problems.
The best Hungarian writers have
either stopped writing or left the
country. says Mr.. Macy. Latest exile
Evening star., 1947-11-16

vantage; OF the yellow Duchess, "
who had to have color all around
her, rooms, servants, even her
pantaloons; Of the girl who said no
to Aaron Burr, and why; Of John
Annis who in the lS4os got fresh
fruits to New York before snow had
melted there. and of Varina Howell,
who on meeting Jefferson Davis for
the first time summarized him IN
100 words that stand in the light Of
history.
OF interest to Eastern society will
be Consuelo Yznaga Of Ravenswood
Plantation, who married the eighth
Duke of Manchester, became fire.
uuent hostess of Edward VII, and
with engaging guile engineered the
acceptance by the Astor family OF
the Vanderbilts. then nouveaux
riches, into New York society.
The book has excellent illustra-
tions of Natchez mansions, as well
as a sound photography. Mr.. Kane
fortunately Is one of those authors
capable of combining accurate re-
search with lively style. His pre-
vious New Orleans Woman" en-
tered the best-seller lists; he has
here a genuine piece Of Americana
which should enlarge on that Sue
cess. -'
Evening star., 1947-11-16

Reviewed py FLE1'
Natchez passed through French,
British, Spanish and into United
States hands before Eli Whitney
perfected his gin. Then the rush
was on. In climate perfect for cot
ton, incredibly fertile soil lay ready
for the taking. Put on 1t parcel of
slaves and a man could repay their
cost in a year. With luck, he could
count on 9 20 per cent annual cap
ital increase. Overnight from the
Atlantic States blossonned one of
the great American frontier migra-
tions.
The rest is history, still unfolding,
however, in the roar of drilling rigs
as Natchez counts oil royalties and
watches roughnecks and pipe clatter
through streets in the midst of its
newest boom.
In between these two eras Harnett
r. Kane has packed in kaleidoscope
fashion the story of one Of America S
famous regions. 1t seems everything
came bigger In Natchez-planta-
tions. steamboats,, mosquitoes, am
bitions and alterations. Here are
accounts of that bloody and mysteri-
GUS trail, the Natchez Trace; Of
Stephen Minor, who served both
Spain and the United States to ad-
Evening star., 1947-11-16
Roberts
Continued From Page C-1.)

great amount Of work that has
been done in preparation for 1t,
both in the administration and by
Congress.
On the administration side, three
big and rather exhaustive documents
have been produced-the Krug re-
port on the effect Of an aid program
on our natural resources, the
Nourse report on It's impact on our
economy and the Hartman report
on the proposal Of the is European
nations.
On the Hill the Herter Commit
tee has labored long and late to
produce its report and the STATS
OF the two Foreign Affairs Com
mitttees put out a joint document
of basic documents and other back
ground material.
How the Schedule Appears
At one point in the Senate hear
ings Undersecretary of State Lovett
said: I'VE find ourselves in the en-
barrassing position Of starting out
with too few figures and ending up
with too many" Last week, as he
labored to gather the loose ends to-
gether for the two committees, he
was a tired man, hopeful that the
late night work in his department
would soon come to an end.
If all goes according to plan, the
$5s7, 900 900 stop-gap aid bill will be
on the Presidents desk In month.
That would be the week before an
expected Christmas recess. This will
maintain the status quo" as I'm
dersecretary Lovett and Ambassador
to Britain Douglas both put 1t, In
France, Italy and Austria until next
April L. The other 10 Of the 16
cooperating nations will be able to
get by, it appears, though Under
secretary Lovett said some of them
would have q tight squeeze
The January session will have It's
full quota Of politics, II, by chance,
the special session escapes. The
COP tax cut bill viii 60 in the
hopper the first day Congress meets
in January and there will be plenty
of other ammunition for recrimina-
ton between the two ends Of Penn
sylvaria avenue.
So far, however, there are hopeful
indications that craftsmanship will
prevail over politics in the special
session.
Evening star., 1947-11-16
chsissuss Ssels

sixth time since the first seal sale
in this country in 1907. Previous
horizontal seals were issued in 1888,
1881, 1927 and 1918, as well as 1887.
"The 1947 Christmas Seal was de-
signed by Raymond H. Lufkin OF
lTenafly, N. j., and depicts a typical
New England winter scene OF yoke
of oxen drawing sled loaded with
freshly cut Christmas trees. Walk
ing beside the sled Is a man with a
prod. In the background are a
range of mountains and a small
farmhouse, with blue skyline.
Dark red is used for the horizon
! tai and vertical cutters of the sheet,
framing the seals. Across the bot
tom of each seal are the words
Merry Christmas in white Gothic
type against red background. The
seal itself measures % nm. by II
mm., making the overall size OF
sheet of 100 seals 101a inches by
8h inches. Four colors are used IN
printing the seals-brown, red, blue
and green-resulting in set Of
seven progressive color proofs. The
initials U. S. A. appear in brown in
the lower right corner Of each seal.
""Approximately 5000, 100000 seals
were run off by the four litho-
graphers: United States Printing
and Lithographing Co., Eureka
Specially Printing Co., Edwards and
lDeutsch, and Strobridge Litho-
graphing Co. Each printers work
can be identified by the small let
ters-E, D, S and U, respectively
which are In the lower left-hand
corner of the 56th seal of each sheet.
The perforated and imperforated
negative sheets have wide outside
margins and show crossed guide
lines next to each of the marginal
seals on all four sides of the sheet.
In addition, a color chart appears
beneath each seal In the bottom
row.
"All the D, s and u sheets are
performated 121ax12h. A II E sheets
are perforated 12x12A.
Canada will again use the same
design as the United States. AS in
the past, 1t will have two printings,
one in English text and one in
French text. The letters U. S. A.
will be omitted. England. New
foundland and Bermuda will use the
Canadian seals with the English
text. Bermuda, however, will have
the seals overprinted in red with
the word Bermuda.
The satellites Of Soviet Russia are
using their stamps to spread Red
propaganda. This is exemplif1ed IN
recent postal labels Of Hungary
showing portraits Of Lenin and
Stain. CzechoslovaHa, Bulgaria,
Yugoslavia, Romania and perhaps
the captive Baltic countries are ex-
pected to follow the Communist line
! In their adhesives. Meanwhile, the
United States thus far has done
nothing with stamps to dramatize
the cause of civilization to which
it is pledged. Collectors are ask
ing: Why not bring out some new
issues representing the high ideals of
democracy now challenged by Marx
list agitators all over the world?
Evening star., 1947-11-16

Press IN Manila
and was prob
ably a factor in
the recent sena-
torial elections
there because of
it's full re-
view of the COL
| a b ora t / onist
record Of Presi-
dent Roxas, has
turned his at
tent1on to mat
t RS n e a r e r
home and is now
working on a
study Of Con-
Evening star., 1947-11-16

SALVADOR DALI, by James
Thrall Soby. -(Simon & Schuster;
So A monograph on Dali's work,
many reproductions Of his pictures
-four In color, lists Of exhibitions,
Aims, ballets and iewelry for which
Dali has ftirnished ths designs; .
mbNoRnplsy.
Evening star., 1947-11-16

each sheet OF
100 seals this
year presents a
h oriZ go ia l
ra er than
vertic ca ! ap-
pearance. This
Is the first time
the seals have
been arranged
In a horizontal
position since
non a~i %ha
Evening star., 1947-11-16
News About Stamps
By jones Waldo Fowcett

The District Of Columbia Tuber-
culosis Association, 1901 Eighteenth
street NV, says: with the i947
Christmas Seal wider than 1t Is deep,
Evening star., 1947-11-16

Auditors for the Centenary Inter-
national Philatelic Exhibition have
reported that the CIPEx enterprise
was a financial as we'll as a cultural
success. Income from all sources
was $169 ,D51.19, expenses were $l48,-
Evening star., 1947-11-16

GOT "a and gross excess OF income
over expenses was $40, 1885. Plans
for another great stamp show IN
1857 already are developing.
Copies Of the stamps issued by
Luxembourg in remembrance OF
Gen. George 8. Patton have reached
Washington. The values are 350fr,
blue on blue-gray, showing a por-
trait of the late commander in cam
paign uniform with symbolic
broken chain to the right; 10fr,
brown-violet and gray-blue. same
design; 1.5Ofr, red on buff, and STR,
green on gray, view of American
Military Cemetery at Luxembourg
Hanm with cross inscribed with
Gen. Patton's name.
Airmail service will be inaugurated
at Wilmington, Del. on AM-25. at
Charleston Dunbar, w. Va, on AM
Is and at Richmond and Kokomo,
Ind, on AM-54 about November 20.
No official cachets will be provided
except at Kokomo.
Svend Yort will exhibit stamps of
the Danish West Indies before the
Washington Philatelic Society at the
Sheraton Hotel, Fifteenth and L
streets NV. wednesday evening,
November 26.
An unused block Of nine Of the
Edward VII l0-shilhng I. r. official
stamp of Great Britain was sold at
auction by Harmer, Rookie & Co. In
London November 6 for $12,600.
The 18th annual American Phila-
telic Congress will be in session at
the Detroit-Leland Hotel, Detroit,
December to Z.
The new Id stamp Of Australia
will 60 on sale on Princess Eliza
beth's wedding day. November 20.
It shows her portrait.
Michael Agricola, translator Of the
Bible and father of Finnish liter
ature," will be commemorated In
stamp of Finland to be brought out
soon after January /.
Japan produced four pictorial ad-
hesives for the Second Peoples Ath-
letic Meet at KanaZawa October 80
to November 4. The designs feature
hurdling, swimming, shot-putting
and volley ball.
Evening star., 1947-11-16
The President and MRS. Cleveland

BeAM and sister OF John Peter
Mayor Of Georgetown from 1913 te
1918.
In Our Fathers Day"
Il ID fascinating 10 turn back the
pages Of time and see the District
Of Columbia as 1t was IN our IA.
thers day. According to the map
there were few landowners before
the Civil War In the area east OF
the Tenleytown road and west Of
Rock Greek and between George
town and Tenleytown.
Beginning at the southern part
of this section we find such names
as william M. Boyce. E. Linthicum
w. H. Dougal, M. Adler. c. Ellet
r. Barnard's heirs, M. Barber, w
Morton's heirs, G. Schwartz. j.
Causten. Mount st. Adams Church
DR.. Busey, Gen. Larenzo Thomas
Mrs. A. e. Kervand, e. French heirs
j. Pierce, Mrs. M. and r. Nourse
J. OHarry, H. H. Dent, Pierce
Shoemaker. Mrs. A. Lyles and Mrs
p. Green. owner of Forest Hill and
descendant of Gen. Forrest, who
built the old residence still standing
and which in 1878 was occupied by
Nancy Green and the property tc
the south by George Green.
1t was the 1atter's property which
later became the summer home OF
President Cleveland. It was bought
shortly before his marriage and
was then considered quite an item
OF interest. Among the many in
teresting accounts of the property
given at the time was the follow.
ing taken from The Star:
"One of the pleasantest drives
in this vicinity is out over the fine
Military road from Georgetown to
Tenleytown and by the winding
country roads through the beautiful
scenery of Rock Creek Valley to
Brightwood and the Fourteenth
street road in the return to the
city. Any pleasant evening car
riage after carriage may be seen
rolling along these roads, the oc-
cupants enjoying the fresh. COO
air and the picturesque views which
come in sight at every turn. The
beauty of the scenery and the
healthfulness Of the locality are
not q recent discovery, as any one
can see who glances at the fine
old houses which may be seen along
the road, surrounded with fine
lawns and forest trees. In fact
as soon as Washington was located
these sites were taken up by peo-
pie, In some cases of wealth, who
preferred a residence In the coun-
try to one in the city.
ut is in this paradise of subur-
ban homes that the President has
selected his country residence, and
the people who drive out along the
Tenleytown road may see the two
story stone house with its old-fash-
ioned hip roof, nestled among the
old forest trees where the Woodley
lane intersects with the Tenleytown
road. The house is now occupied
by A. r. Green, and 1t has
come to him from his grandfather,
Uriah Forrest, who, in 1881, pur-
chased a large tract of land known
as Pretty Prospect. This tract ex-
tended down nearly to the city linn
its, and has since been very much
subdivided."
AS before stated, President Cleve-
land paid for the 261a acres Of Oak
View $21 500. He spent about $13.-
600 In improvements and sold II
in 1890 for $4,000. Not bad
investment after all.
MANHATTAN KALEIDOSCOPE
by Frank Weitenkampf (Charles
Scribner's sons. Impressions OF
New York from 1870 to 1945 by the
retired curator Of prints in the New
York Public Library.
DEVIL BY THE TAIL, by Lang
Evening star., 1947-11-16

The Collectors Club of Washing
ton will meet at 1912 Ninth street
NV. Tuesday evening at 8. Visitors
welcome.
Evening star., 1947-11-16
reading and Writing

Anais Min. who is 80 far out In
front that the advance guard just
gets a back-drifting Whit OF her
perfume, wishes that the new look
in fiction would be as readily &C
cepted as the new look in fashion.
She herself has adopted both. The
other day in the appropriate setting
of The modernistic music room OF
Robert Richman, director OF the
King Smith School Of Creative Arts,
whose students she addressed last
Monday night, she was wearing q
suuare-necked black wool dress with
dipping hemline and fetching nest
of fucshia ribbons in her dark hair,
as she explained her latest novel,
Children Of the Albatross," which
expresses emotions through the
movements Of the ballet and en-
bodies the new dimension which she
feels psychoanalysis has given to
character.
II have not had an easy time. "
said Miss Mn, q delicate-faced,
gentle-voiced literary RADICAL OF
Spanish French origin. who had to
buy a press and learn. to set type
in order to get her first four books
into print and then suffered the
pain Of having critics call Ladders
Of Fire" her f1rst commercially pub
lished novel "a surealist soap
opera" II didn't think they would
be 80 mean" she added.
Appeals to Youth.
This slim disciple Of D. H. Lau-
renee and his only woman critic,
consoles herself in times Of critical
drubbing with the knowledge that
the youth OF the country, with their
background of psychology, under
stand and accept her work. She told
with some pride of having enthu-
siastic overflow audiences at every
college, including. Harvard and
Dartmouth, which she has visited
In her current Nationwide tour.
The best analysis Of her books has
been done by q young man OF 20,
which she hopefully regards as a
sign Of the times.
Miss Mn, who strives only Tor
complete honesty" and thinks her
writing can best be compared with
Martha Graham's dancing, lives
with her husband, Ian Hugo, cop
per engraver, in Greenwich Village,
and moves in a circle Of writer's who,
she says rather wistfully, have not
been published yet"
| n X n
There's an excellent, even inspir-
ing reason, behind the present lag
in the usually brisk exchange OF
talking books between the Library
of Congress and their readers. the
entire collection of, some 1900 to
$500 recorded volumes Is being re-
catalogued in braille so that this
service to the blind can be admin
istered by blind personnel.
The conversion, aided by sighted
volunteers, is going forward nicely
under the supervision OF Keno
phon P. Smith, director of the di-
vision for the blind. A genial,
bearded gentleman, Mr.. Smith en-
Joys the mail he gets from taking
book readers, a vocal group which
comments freely on the perform
ances of those who read them. They
have their matinee idols" he said
smilingly. eve frequently get let
tiers asking, What happened to so
and so? He used to have such fresh
ness. He's tiring.'"
Forthcoming Books
noy,;d Rernsfain uhose "The
Evening star., 1947-11-16
Books

David Bernstein, whose 'The
Philippine Story" was called "dy-
Mantle" by. the Philippine Free
Evening star., 1947-11-16

apartment on Kalorama road he Is
also collaborating on his first play
Evening star., 1947-11-16
MANHATTAN KALEIDOSCOPE

MANHATTAN KALEIDOSCOPE
by Frank Weitenkampf (Charles
Scribner's sons. Impressions OF
New York from 1870 to 1945 by the
retired curator Of prints in the New
York Public Library.
DEVIL BY THE TAIL, by Lang
ston Monett Nippincott). A novel
dealing with an alcoholic, his ad-
ventures In various countries and
his fight over . period Of years to
reclaim hirnself,
Evening star., 1947-11-16

Svend Yort will exhibit stamps of
the Danish West Indies before the
Washington Philatelic Society at the
Sheraton Hotel, Fifteenth and L
streets NV. Wednesday evening,
November 26.
Evening star., 1947-11-16

GOT "a and gross excess of income
over expenses was sac, 1885. Plans
for another great stamp show IN
1857 already are developing.
Evening star., 1947-11-16
Hornett Kane UnfoIds the Kaleidoscope
Story of the Capital of a Cotton Empire
NATCHEZ ON THE MISSISSIPPI
BY Harnett T. Kane. (MorroD; S4.,

Reviewed by FLETCHER F. IsBELL.
Evening star., 1947-11-16

Michael Agricola, translator Of the
Bible and father of Finnish liter
ature," will be commemorated In
stamp of Finland to be brought out
soon after January /.
Evening star., 1947-11-16

An unused block of nine Of the
Edward VII 10-shillng I. r. official
stamp of Great Britain was sold at
auction by Harmer, Rookie & Co. In
London November 6 for $12 500.
Evening star., 1947-11-16

. HE recent death Of Mrs
Thomas j. Preston, better
known to the public as the
. widow Of President Grover
Cleveland hrinrs back fond
Evening star., 1947-03-15

classes. The es- DR.. G. E. Birse.
sence Of this approach is the So
cratic method of developing ideas
about subject through adroit ques-
tioning.
DR.. Bigge opens lesson with an
analysis and Interpretation of the
Scripture subject for the day. He
then tries to point out three or four
major applications of the lesson to
modern human society problems.
This is done by raising a series of
questions in the minds of his stu
dents as he goes along, these ques-
tions forming the basis for their
questioning him when the discus
sion part of the period comes.
A specialist in labor problems, Dr.
Bigge uses his experiences in this
field to illustrate ideas brought forth
from the lesson.
He first became interested in
Bible classes as a student at Big
Rapids, Mich, where the headmaster
inspired the students in this direc-
Evening star., 1947-03-15
Christian l''ing School
AT National City Church

The third session of the Lenten
School of Christian Living will be
held at pm. tomorrow in the social
hall of the National City Christian
Church, 1903 Vermont avenue NV
The speakers will be Mrs. jose
phine Kyles, Federation of Churches;
Vincent P. Ahern, Labor Advisory
Committee: Boris Shiskin, Amer
ican Federation of Labor; Miss Jane
Hardy, YWCA, and Prof. M. S. Sun
daram, Indian Embassy.
Miss Cammie Gray and her
adopted daughter, Joy Ruth, will
address the church dinner on
Thursday at SIS pm. Make reser-
vations at National $3.50.
DR.. j. Warren Hastings, the min
lister, will give special lenten SER
mon on What Think Ye Of Christi"
tomorrow evening. s.,