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so-called independent voter is all
but deif1ed, when he ought to be
condemned as a shirker."
An early supporter of the presi-
Dental aspirations of Alfred E.
Smith, and later, James A. Far
fey's successor as chairman of the
Democratic National Committee
he ran the historic Roosevelt third
term campaign-Mr. Flynn, who al
ways had a distate for New Deal
ers. by the way, throws more light
on the long debated Roosevelt
Smith and Roosevelt Farley breaks.
A friend of all the principals, the
reader gets the idea that the author
looked on these breaches simply as
the outgrowth of the clashing wills
of ambitious men and not as an
indication of the disloyalty to old
friends that critics have laid at
Roosevelt's door.
The book adequately mirrors the
operations of the Democratic Party
nationally in the years that Mr..
Flynn has played a part.
Evening star., 1947-09-07
Tension Between
Summer: Folks .
And Natives
SECOND GROWTH
BY Wallace Stegner. (Houghto'
Mi1Fin Co.,; $2.75D
Reviewed by
prTSV EASWE1 IL,
BETSY CASWELL.

In this, his latest book, the author
of such outstanding works as Re
membering Laughter" and "The Big
Rock Candy Mountain" attempts the
story Of New Hampshire village
that froze in northern isolation
through the long winters, and
sprang to rather febrile life with
the coming of the Summer people
each June. To be sure, these sum-
mer people were, for the most part,
quiet professors and their families,
who led a positively sleepy exist
ence compared with that OF other
groups in more modern resort towns
Nevertheless, Mr. Stegner endeaV-
ors to present an atmosphere of ten
sion that arises between the SUM
mer folks" and the natives-and In
particular how this mounting feel
ing affects the lives of various indi-
viduals who are of neither force.
In this he succeeds only fairly well
the presentation of the various
episodes is choppy, and loosely knit;
only the most tenuous thread binds
them together. There is an inter-
lude devoted to racial discrimina-
ton, which ends in rather a movie
finish. There's an orphaned boy
who has been exploited by an un-
scrupulous insurance man to hire
out" for him as a hand around the
farms and village, and who ends
up in a messy encounter with a
saw. And there are others-all
mistily wandering in and out of the
narrative.
To offset the vagueness Of Mr..
Stegner's plot is the nice quality OF
his writing. At times he actually
encompasses the reader with the
lulled quality of the dreaming VII
Iage. Second Growth" is a pleas
ant book for a summer afternoon.
Evening star., 1947-09-07
TimeHos Not DuNed
The FociIe Pen
|OfGeorqe Ade
THE PERMANENT ADE
Edited by Fred c. Kelly. (Bobbs
Merrill Co.; $3.)
Reviewed nv
Reviewed by
CATHERINE D. HILL.

reviewed Dy
CATHERINE D. HILL.
Making your personal acquaint-
ance with the work of George AIDE is
socially like first taste OF vintage
champagne.
The turn of the century Thurber
was as witty as you've heard he was.
And Ade fans of 1897 need not fear
that time has dulled the facile pen.
Except for a few dated illusions to
sarsaparilla ads, trolley rides, clean
ing windows with chamois, the Flat
iron Building and the Brooklyn
Bridge, the Fables in Slang which
comprise the first section of the
book, might have been written yes
terday.
Fred c. Kelly has selected many
of the pieces from the files OF the
Chicago Daily News, the old Record
and early editions of such magazines
as Golfers, Cosmopolitan and the
Saturday Evening Post. Selections
from AIDES columns include, in H. l..
Menkens opinion, some OF the best
short stories written in America. A
one-act play, "Marse Covington,' a
favorite of the vaudeville stage, and
AIDES famous light opera of 1902,
The Sultan of Sulu," are also in
cluded. In this time of successful
revivals these should be bonanzas
for an astute producer.
Mr.. AIDES treatises on Putting Up
a Front" Letters of Introduction, "
The Joys of Single Blessedness' J
and advice" are sparkling reading
in any era. And one-scene grand
opera"-"Il Janitoro"-written by a
fictional Mr.. Tyler for Mrs. T. after
one evening at the opera, ought TO
have Alex Templeton writing an &C
compartment for his next radio
show.
THE Permanent AIDE" Is the book
you've been looking for to send Aunt
Mabel in the hospital, for the stu
dent of Americana as he returns to
college, and for your own library.
Evening star., 1947-09-07
|FurtherStudies
OF the Battling
Reich Problem

THE SOLUTION OF THE GER
MAN PROBLEM.
BY Wilhelm Ropke. putnam: So }
GERMANY-BRIDGE OR BAT
TLEGROUND.
BY James P. Warburg. (Harcourt
Brace; $500
Reviewed by
FLETCHER F. ISBELL.
Two new books from strikingly
dissimilar sources provide a strik-
ingly similar approach to the Ger
man problem. DR.. Ropke is a Ger
man professor who fought Naziism
from his classrooms so valiantly he
had to flee to Switzerland in 1888
Mr.. Warburg is the international
banker and erstwhile director OF
propaganda policy of the Office of
War Information.
Both search German history, DR.
Ropke the more deeply, to evolve
the same conclusion regarding its
record of military aggressiveness
They realize the German people are
composed of good" and bad" indi-
viduals, like any other; they simply
say that by peculiar social path
ology the German way of life, the
bad" have been able to dominate
They point out, disturbingly enough
that the germs of this disease are
latent in all races and nations, and
that the totalitarianism which Is its
end result can occur in any OF
them; but that Germany was cul-
ture particularly qualified to nour-
ish the germs.
Crisis at Hand.
Both believe this situation should
not be allowed to recur, and that
the way to prevent it is a major re-
orientation of German life. Both
admit the tremendous task, the op-
portunities lost in the last two years
and the crisis at hand now. Both
would start with economic reform
1t is at about this point that they
part company.
DR.. Ropke, who fears Prussia, sees
it necessary to dissolve the Bis
MARKHAM empire and re-establish
autonomous German states. He
would accompany this with COM
plete free trade, deflation of Allied
administration and reform of de-
notification policies. and free intel
lectual exchanges with the outside
world.
Mr.. Warburg fears economic dis
aster in a partitioned Germany. He
wants to treat the country as a
functioning trade organism, hence
opposes political division. Gn this
view, it may be said, he runs counter
to Sumner Welles and John Foster
Dulles.) 1t is his thesis that Ger
many first of all must be on her
feet before Europe can be restored
For the rest he wants an overhaul
of education and reorientat1on
not too far removed from that OF
DR.. Ropke.
The greatest differences lie in de-
tails, not the broad points, and it is
exactly these details that will be
the stumbling blocks. For instance,
to restore Germany and therefore
Europe Mr.. Warburg would ploW
Ruhr industrial profits back into
the country There are some raw
aged countries which will not agree.
Both DR.. Ropke and Mr.. Warburg
refer to, but do not tell us surely
how to handle, that most untamable
component of the German problem
The Russian bear.
Evening star., 1947-09-07

which machine politics operate.
Mr.. Flynn, as is to be expected
is a stanch defender of the ma
chine" system.
Il know" he says, that urban
social planning that ignores ma
chimes is as unrealistic as social
planning that ignores the presence
of the automobile. I know that
fighting bad machines with hastily
slapped-together fusion tickets is
as futile as expecting civilian SOL
diers with only three months train
ing to win long war"
He Reads a Lecture.
With this as his premise, the
Bronx "boss" reads lecture to
that large group of citizens which
inveighs against machine" control
but does nothing about it!
"If we are to have uniformly good
government, local, State and ma
tional, I am afraid a lot OF men
and women will have to get down
off their high horses and grub
around in practical politics as ac-
tive members of a party. The
Evening star., 1947-09-07

In this historical novel of post
revolutionary France, Napoleon
Bonaparte is presented as a stickler
for legality who refused to use the
military power at his command to
boost himself into position as head
of the state. Instead, he parlayed his
popular appeal for the masses, some
political intrigue, and token show
of military strength into a coup
d'etat which was strictly bloodless,
a fact which very nearly enabled his
political foes to rebound and sweep
him into oblivion.
Napoleon was a strong-willed, ar
bitrary man of considerable recti-
Evening star., 1947-09-07
MARY McGRORY.

MARY McGRORY.
Tart and juicy, THE Quarrel ha
the roundness and soundness of ;
good apple. 1t has a regional-perio'
flavor and something Of the tast
of folklore. Paul Strahl has no
reached too high in this story o
two men who hated each other TO
most of their lives, but within it
limits, he has accomplished exact
ly what he attempted, and with
minimum of fuss and fine words.
The two old men named Johr
Mcdonald have long since stopped
speaking to each other when the
story opens. They are spending theil
last years sitting in the sun before
the blacksmith's shop, nursing ole
wounds and directing their COM
ments to the blacksmith's son, who
repeats their tales with great won
der and little, understandable dis
belief.
AS the aging pair talk at each
other the youngster gradually learns
the history of their feud, which
dates back to Civil War days, when
Portersville, a small town in the
border State of Indiana, rallied tc
the Northern cause after ruinous
rebel raid. One-eyed John McDon.
aid joined up and came back with
gaping eye-socket. The other
John Mcdonald stayed home, ano
the gossips had it that he wore
women's clothes to dodge the draft
When One-Eyed John came home
dead-weary, manned, to find his
former friend courting his best girl
all the veterans bitterness against
the noncombatant boiled up ir
him. He flung the name of Petit
coat John" at the Stacker, and il
stuck.
One-Eyed John, feeling that the
world owed him something for the
hell he had been through at Shiloh
stole Lydia Williams right back
from under Petticoat Johns nose
and then went to live with hel
folks, so people could make it all UP
to him. Petticoat, who is destined
to battle public opinion in Porters-
vile all his life, lit out for Chicago
and started making something OF
himself as drayman, until his
fathers death called him home, and
the quarrel f1ared anew.
Looking back over the years, both
One-Eyed John and Petticoat see
themselves as slightly larger than
life. One-Eyed Johns "reminiscences
of soldering blur to the point
where he can recall verbatim con-
versations with Gen. Grant on the
field of Shiloh. And Petticoat
Johns Belgian dray-horses become
in memory great splendid creatures
out of mythology.
In the background. like a chorus
is the gossip of Portersville, relent-
less and vindictive, eagerly rubbing
raw the friction between the two
men. Mr.. Strahl- has created q
number of minor characters who
are sparingly but vividly drawn ano
pictured some village scenes that
are full of color and comedy. He
has interspersed a good deal OF
earthly humor and urgent young
love in this story of two closely
bound, chafing lives. It's fine slice
of the American scene. Mr.. Strah
ought to get to work Immediately
on another novel. This is his first
but there's nothing tentative about
biS talent
Evening star., 1947-09-07

tative treatment Of Napoleonic lore
and swiftness of pace, one OF the
arresting things about this book Is
it's formal for expression Of some OF
the famous bon mots of that day
AS for instance, when Talleyrand
was told that a person about whom
he had spoken we'll was speaking evil
of him.
~"It is possible we are both OF Us
mistaken he responded.
Talleyrand's opinion of America
was summed up in one pungent
statement: "A country with 80 re-
ligions and only one sauce"
Evening star., 1947-09-07
For the Ladies'

MADAMOISELLE HANDBOOK,
by Mary Hamman and the editors OF
Madamoiselle. (Whittlesey House;
s2) Sort of q success text for the
girl with job.
CESSORIES, by Wee Powell. Gar
den City; So Directions with many
diagrams.
Evening star., 1947-09-07
Lordner Wrings
Laughter From
The Sports World
1T BEATS WORKING
BY John Lardner. (Lippincott
S3J

l. oEA . WolI1A1lN1
BY John Lardner. (Lippincott
$3J
Reviewed by
IRVING LASH.
BY his seemingly effortless, yet
highly entertaining, style of manu-
featuring a sports column, Mr.
Lardner lays himself open to sus-
picion that he, and not the char
acters about whom he writes, is
lodging work. This, however, is no
doubt delusion set up by the
authors ability to single out the
daff1est of the daffy people who
hustle through the sports world
Their antics require little caricatur-
ing to guarantee laugh.
Take, for instance, Dumb Dan
Morgan, manager of Welterweight
Champion Jack Britton and a firm
believer in leathery beef-steak tc
condition a fighters jaws. The
last good Irish heavyweight" musec
Dan, was Jim Coffey, the Dublin
Giant. When he first came over
here he had jaws like wolf. Chuck
steak did it, But he got a little
prosperous and began to go fol
those corned-beef sandwiches, and
his chin went weak
Or Tony Galento. who, after
coming off second in a gouging and
butting contest with Arturo Godoy
demanded rematch. pouting
only don't be so strict about the
rules. He knew a couple of things
I didn't know. but I know them
now"
And James Joy Johnston, the
fight promoter called the boy
Bandit" who once heard Gene
Tunney say he could lick Joe
Louis if the latter would under
take to smoke two packs of cigar
ettes day for six months. did
he say what kind Of cigarettes?'
barked Mr.. Johnston. "If he meant
marijuana, he might be right"
sANDBY DRAWINGS AT
WINDSOR CASTLE
BY A. P. Oppe. (Orford UniDer-
sity Press, Phaidon Edition,
$780,
Reviewed by
FLORENCE S. BERGMAN.
The balanced order and grace OF
18th century England are inherent
qualities of these drawings by Paul
and Thomas Sandby, 450 Of whose
water colors and studies are in the
Royal Library at Windsor Castle
This first volume in a projected
series of catalogues reproduces $50 Of
the drawings, seven in colors; give:
detailed descriptions of the entire
collection and an introduction com
prising a history of its assembling
and biographies of the brothers. II
is handsome book, of permanent
appeal not only to students OF
graphic art, but also to every one
interested in a portrait of an era
| THE COUNTRYMAN'S COOK
BOOK, by Haydn S. Pearson. whit.
Evening star., 1947-09-07
Ed Flynn Clarifies a Few Issues While
Borinq His Life in Practical Politics
YOU'RE THE BOSS
. (The Viking Press: $3.)
Reviewed by JOSEPH A. FOX.

Reviewed by JOSEPH A. FOX.
the national democratic committee
for of century has been
State and, coespondtngly, In
that of the Nation
autobiography story Of life In practical
revealing document making plain the
Evening star., 1947-09-07

Ed.oard Flynn SEATED at the far right the day he
Democratic national chairman take the job
James A. Farley for eight In this picture taken
White Mr. Flynn Nth leading party figures
Seated (ro e Mr.. Farley President RooeDe. Henry A..
Wallace and Mr. Flynn Standing rom lett, w. HoDes
Mrs. Mildred OF Ohio Miss Beatrice Cobb OF North
olna and David E. Fitzgerald OF Connecticut AP Photo
Evening star., 1947-09-07
New Novel of Revolutionary France
Traces NopoIeon's Rise to Power
ONE AMONG MEN

Bv Marjorie Coryn. ID. Appleton Century Co.; s3J
Reviewed by STANLEY BAITz.
Evening star., 1947-09-07
Reviewed by
IRVING LASH.

THE COUNTRYMAN'S COOK
BOOK, by Haydn S. Pearson. whit
tlesey House; So Illustrated cook
book containing a lot of old-time
recipes.
Evening star., 1947-09-07
THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington, D. c.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER ?, 1sE7.
Robert Smith, Baseball Crazy Novelist,
Bats Out Home-Run History of the Game
BASEBALL

BY Robert Smith (Sinon Schuster: $500
FRANCIS E. STANN
Evening star., 1947-09-07
Scroppy Yarn
Has Flavor
|OfFoIkIore

THE QUARREL.
BY Paul Strahl. fDueU, Sloan &
Pedrce; S2.75J
poyri oxuod tyy
Evening star., 1947-07-24
On the Other Hand
Believes New Method of Meeting
Economic Problems Is in Making

that the law be extended to cover
millions - farm workers, domestic
servants and others-not now COW
cred. Congress has not acted.
The President recommended in
creases in social security benefits.
Congress has ignored the recommen-
dation.
On the face of it the Employment
Act of 1946 would appear to be fu-
tile, with the President and his
Council of Economic Advisors vast
ing their time. But that Is not the
opinion of those who have been
observing the matter at close range.
They say the members of the joint
committee have begun to take their
assignment seriously and that other
committees Of the House and Senate
are passing along to the joint COM
mittee some of their own problems.
They believe the joint committee
will gradually take on the role it is
supposed to have, that of formu-
lating each session an overall leg
islative program on economic ques-
tions.
Intellectual Approach.
The joint committee has a staff
of three economists. The Presidents
council has 10 in addition to its
three members, all economists. With
work beginning to pile up in the
committee an increase in It's staff
is to be expected. More and more
then Congress may be found tack
ling national economic problems on
an intellectual as well as political
level.
The present Congress has at times
appeared to have no better INTEL
lectual guidance than that furnished
by lobbies for special interests-plus
the campaign slogans on which
members we're elected. Yet Senator
Taft, chairman of the Republican
Policy Committee as well as chair
man of the joint committee, likes
the intellectual approach better
than the lobby approach. He has
made this clear. If the next elec-
tion should be satisfactory, from
his standpoint, the Presidents
council and the joint committee,
between them. are likely to take on
real authority in the handling of
our national economic problems.
Evening star., 1947-07-24

suit OF 1a1lure Constsh"he Dfo""'
of the Dutch and Indonesians to
agree on certain points of interim
administration before the United
States of Indonesia comes into exist
ence January /. 1949.
Tangible enough are the Amer
lean economic interests in the Meth
erlands Indies, interests in the res
toration of normal trading with this
rich part of the world whose prod
ucts are of direct importance to
American commerce and industry.
Indonesian products. principally
from Java, are largely in the hands
of the Republican forces, and they
have attempted to resume trading
with the rest of the world. But the
Dutch blockade has effectively pre-
vented the Indonesians from sending
their products abroad.
Reluctant to Act.
Our economic interest in Indonesia
might impel the American Govern
ment to take some steps toward
pacihcation as a matter of general
world policy, although the former
reluctance of the American Gov
eminent to interfere in the internal
affairs of other nations would have
dictated a careful hands Off"
1t is not possible. however, in the
present state of world affairs to per-
NIT disruptive situations to persist,
Evening star., 1947-07-24

by sports mind Henry MeLsmore.
ed Englishmen to give extra rations
to the athletes who will gather in
London next year for the Olympic
games.
Castle of Their Own.
Elizabeth and Philip, neither Of
whom will ever earn an honest
dollar. can't find q castle to suit
them. 1t seems there is shortage
of castles in England at the moment.
Elizabeth and Philip don't want a
10-room house or q 15-room house,
or a 20-room house even. They want
a moat, 8 drawbridge, acres and
acres of land, miles and miles of
winding driveways, and platoon OF
servants who will quiver and shake
whenever one of them lifts finger.
OF course, they have been offered
living quarters in Buckingham Pal
ace, q mousetrap sort Of place that
has only 100 rooms, but they don't
want that. They want, to tell the
truth, castle of their own. If the
British government were wise, 1t
would give Elizabeth and Philip, for
a wedding present, round-trip bus
ticket to Brighton and Quonset
hut, and request that they get down
to earth and quit acting royal in an
unroyal world. How any woman, or
any man, who has an ounce of love
for people, could go sashaying
around in a fringe-topped surrey
while millions are starving, Is be-
yond me.
Please get this straight. I'm not
knocking Elizabeth and Philip. I'm
asking why the English people still
60 for such a racket. The boy and
the Princess are just products Of
Henry-the- Eighth thinking.
Food for Athletes.
Now for item No. 2-the one about
more food for athletes.
In a world where more people are
eating out of garbage cans than off
tables, sports minded" Englishmen
want the Minister of Food to give
an extra chop to pole vaulters, a
thick steak to mile runners, a second
helping Of butter to hop-skip- Jump
men, and eggs and milk to javelin
throwers.
I may be crazy as q loon, but
wouldn't 1t be better, If rationing
were eased q bit, to give those chops,
steaks, eggs, milk, af,d butter to
those tired, weary men and women
OF England who have been looking
at a bare cupboard for years and
years? To come right down to 1t,
Is a new record in the 200-meter
dash as important as that some fat
chested, rib-sticking-out youngster
90 to bed with his belly full Of food?
Are we living in a world where it Is
so vital that eight strong men row a
shell faster than one has ever been
rowed before that some woman has
to wear shoddy clothes, or some hus-
Evening star., 1947-07-24
This Changing World
Indies Fighting Could Provide Russia
With Fresh Diplomatic Ammunition

particularly If they present the like
llhood of an international issue
when the United Nations Is loaded
down with business as it is, and
is as ensnarled in dangerous po-
litical situations as 1t is now.
The greater apprehension OF the
American Government with respect
to the Indonesian crisis is that it
will come again before the United
Nations, either on the initiative OF
one of the Moslem states, whose
sympathies lie with the Republicans
and against the Dutch. or, worse
yet, on the initiative of the Russian
bloc, which once before threatened
to make 1t a major question for the
U. N.
Would Embarrass U. s.
1t would be embarrassing for this
country to have one of the Soviet
bloc states assume the position OF
protagonist for the Indonesian Re-
publicans, thereby forcing the Amer
lean Government either to join them
in pressing the issue for the Indo-
nesians or to take the opposite side
with the Dutch and be placed in the
anomalous position of supporting
Dutch imperial rule in the Far East
at a time when we have relinquished
our own hold on the Philippines and
Britain is doing the same in India
and Burma.
The American Government pro-
foundly desires to avoid letting the
Netherlands mainstah in the
western democratic bloc-be put on
a spot by the Soviet bloc in the
U. NJ, but it must also avoid alienat-
ing the peoples of the Pacific, whose
good will and sympathy are impor-
tant elements in the American
political structure in the Eastern
Hemisphere.
Whatever the merits on both sides
Of the Indonesian question-and the
United States wants to avoid tax
ing any public position on the ques-
ton, at least at this time-the Amer
lean Government is bound, by its
dominant world interests, to seek to
prevent the appearance of fresh
issues which would provide ammuni-
ton for Moscow and its satellites.