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cludes without allowing himself a
revealing peek into the known fu-
ture, came out of the Army and
prepared to settle at Mount Vernon
as country squire with a host of
virtures and some faults.
He was, first of all, a man of ex-
ceptional maturity of judgment and
fairness. He was Of an orderly turn
of mind "a quality which paid of
in the Army. He was not, because
of lack of training, conspicuously
successful as a military strategist
or even as a leader of men. He was
astute politically without being
aware OF that quality. 1t was rather
by-product of consuming ambi-
ton which caused him to be con-
siderate at all times of the opinion
of his superiors. He was unfailingly
amiable but always perfectly deter
mined. He had q high personal
code of conduct and no known &C
counts of the lax living of 18th
century Virginia include any refer
ence to him. Indeed, he leaned
toward self-righteouSness.
A Reticent Youth.
There were some deficiencies in
his makeup. He did not enjoy facil-
i ity of speech. He knew much and
felt much but he kept it to him.
self. His reports and letters were
stilted and self-conscious. 1t Is hard
to imagine that he could ever know
that articulateness which came to
him later when he needed it. But
it is not surprising to realize that
everything about him in his youth
pointed to capacity to grow.
He lacked what DR.. Freeman calls
'the relaxing balm" of a sense OF
humor. He was not known to laugh
or even to smile.
He lacked at that time the inspir-
alton of family and a strong sense
of religious belief. DR.. Freeman
presents evidence that Washington S
mother was a bad manager of her
property, made continuous and ex-
acting financial demands of her son
and would have restrained him
from embarking on his military
career If he had needed her.
DR.. Freeman has dropped the con-
ventional approach to Washington
as he begins his accumulation OF q
vast amount of evidence. Indeed
the cherry tree episode gets only q
curt listing under Myths About
Washington He pictures him as
intensely human, this solid, some
what stolid young Virginian who
was to win the most secure place in
his country's history. He is slightly
less than heroic in these early days
when he had to seek personal
prefermenc in his country's service
but there was always about him ar
IRON of character and principle that
hints at greater things to come.
The mood of DR.. Freeman's first
volumes is appropriate to the sub
ject matter. full, careful and closely
reasoned 1t is a tremendously sue
cessful start of tremendous job.
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Bowdoin. But the details which are
required to bolster the theory are
not conclusive, and like the minutiae
about the projects Of Hawthorne's
friends which are included, do not
seem essential to an understanding
Of the character of Hawthorne.
Both writer's take a calm view of
the haunted chamber" myth, which
was fostered by Hawthorne him.
self. probably to emphasize his joy in
Sophia'S love. He read and wrote in
solitude-as all men muslin those
years, but he took a lively interest
in politics all the while, since many
of his best friends, including Frank
lin Pierce, who later became Presi-
dent, were leading Democrats. His
dismissal from the post of customs
officer at Salem was the occasion of
much rancor and intrigue Later,
when appointed consul at Liver
pool by Pierce, he served with an
efficiency which belied any notions
of hermitry.
Hawthorre's resistance to the
philosophical fashions of a trans
'cenGental society is a fascinating
study in itself. During his honey
moon years at the old manse in
Concord he listened unconvinced to
some of the greatest takers of his
age, among them, Emerson and
Margaret Fuller. He stood firm
against abolition. Although he had
for a time thrown in his lot with
the Brook farmers in the hope of
eXpediting his marriage, he seems to
have been far too level-headed to go
overheard on any one idea. He was
equally stalwart in judging person.
anty, and his evaluations of Miss
Fuller. Mrs. Browning and other
dazzling contemporaries are excep-
tional for their shrewdness and
humor.
His puritan heritage he trans
formed and touched with universal
meaning. AS Mr.. Stewart points
out, his work can be taken as crit
icism of 18th century individualism
and optimism. His preoccupation was
always to show the disastrous effects
Of mans separation from man.
Hawthorne himself kept amply in
touch with life as both these works
show. His admirers will want to
read these two biographies, Mr..
Cantwell's for it's solid recreation of
background. Mr.. Stewards for its
warm annreciatinn of character
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The Solitary Genius
OfAmericon Letters
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

HENRY DAVID IHCREAU
BY Joseph Wood Krutch. fWil-
liam Sloane Associates; $780,
Reviewed By
CASPAR NAMES.
Henry David Thoreau is one OF
the solitary geniuses of American
literature. He belongs to no school
and leaves no successors. His work
as his life, was a thing apart from
the common paths of men, and it is
this fact that makes him of con-
tinuing interest to the world.
He is, moreover, in the final
analysis, a writer of one book
walden" Upon this work his rep
utation stands. 1t is entirely proper
then, that Mr.. Krutch centers his
penetrating study of Thoreau around
the elements in the man that went
into making up Walden" This ht
does with the appraising eye of the
critic and the cool brilliance Of 9
master surgeon.
But this approach has its defects
as we'll as its excellences. 1t lacks
warmth and feeling. and though we
learn much about Thoreau he does
not come through as living person
Nevertheless, Mr.. Krutch's study
is indispensable for students OF
Thoreau and of American literature
Evening star., 1948-10-17

GEORGE WASHINGTON: Volumes 2-Young Washington.
BY Douglas Southa Freeman Charles Scribner Sogs Ne
York: $15J
Reviewed
With these volumes the noted Virginia bogaphr
ms study OF George WASHINGTON Their l2o take
Washington through
and DR. Freeman plans finish
modern exhaustive study of Washington
only comparable
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Siegfried Sossoon's
Engaging Biography
OF George Meredith

MEREDITH
BY Siegfried Sassoon. (The Vik-
ing Press; $780,
If further proof were needed that
this year is to bring bumper crop Of
literary biographies, here is Siegfrieo
Sassoon's vivacious, witty and en-
gaging study Of George Meredith
that enormously elegant and complex
Victorian novelist. Himself a dis
tinguished poet and memoirist, Mr.
Sassoon is pleasantly partisan, but
he good-naturedly entertains the
numerous objections to Meredith's
crowded, convoluted method. He
sees the creator of the "Meredithian
woman" as an athlete of both mind
and body and his Interpretation Is
based on the premise that ito be al
ones best Is to be Meredithian. He
defends Meredith against the charge
of snobbery with much vigor. Denied
the privilege of artistocratic birth, q
"nobleman in disguise" in appear
ance, Meredith was unquestionably
patrician in literature.
MIR. Sassoon sympathetically pre-
sents Meredith's unhappy first mar
riage (Which ended with his wife's
elopement with an artist, his devo-
tion to, and later estrangement from
his flrst-born son, his thankless tolls
as a manuscript reader and news
paper hack, his long struggles in
obscurity to write his novels, which
came to an end with the publication
of Diana Of the Crossways" wher
he was so. A great walker anC
talker, Meredith in his last and lion.
lied years was the victim of creep.
! ing paralysis and deafness, which
robbed him Of his great pleasure ir
long tramps and conversation.
The biography is interspersed with
much Illuminating and generou.
commentary on Meredith's prose ane
| poetry. M. Meg.
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Commies Can Save
The Price of This
| RUSSIAN ZONE OF GERMANY
BY Gordon Schaffer. (Soviet
Russia Today; $780,
w. H. SHIPPEN, Jr.

w. H. SHIPPEN, Jr.
This Englishman's book reveals
quite clearly the type of impartial"
observer for whom the Soviets lift
their iron curtain. Rather than buy
it in the United States Commies can
save time and $3.50 by getting their
propaganda direct from the Krem-
lin. 1t would appear Mr.. Schaffer
did not win his permit to spend 10
weeks in the Red zone because he
was more enterprising, persistent or
persuasive than other correspond
ents in Germany.
He has little good to say of his
colleagues, and I doubt If he could
win popularity contest at the Ber-
lin Press Club. Mr.. Schaffer seems
to be sold on democracy" as prac-
ticed by the Soviets in Germany
I'd like to lay him a quid to Red
occupation mark that somebody
would rub his head down with a
broken bottle II he went into the
democratic" Soviet sector of Ber-
lin and showed as much impartial
ity' to the Reds as he has shown to
his own people or the Americans.
Evening star., 1948-10-17
Heroic DoredeviItY,
Brave Lovemokinq
In Civil War Times
SCARLET COCKEREL
BY Gerald Lagard. William
MorrotD & Co.; $500
NINA PEMBERTON.

There is no room for doubt as
to Gerald Lagard's Southern SYM
pathies concerning the American
Civil War. The hero of this novel
is Lane Byrn, Virginia gentleman
by instinct and birth, and surgeon
by profession. Apparently blessed
with the proverbial nine lives. Lane,
otherwise known as the Scarlet
Cockerel, Is a member of Moseby's S
Rangers" Equally skilled in the
art of bayoneting as in that of
manipulating his scalpel, this rebel
hero conducts himself throughout
Az pages with uncompromising
courage. He does not even waver
in his stanchness when faced with
the fact that he finds himself in
love with Fac Bishop, daughter of
a Northern colonel. or when Col
Bishop is sent to occupy the Byrn
homestead, Oak Lawn.
Notwithstanding all the odds
against him. Lane not only survives
his daredevil exploits in outwitting
the enemy, but he also gets his girl
Even the gore and mlre OF warfare
seem unable to taint this too-good-
to-be-true hero. The book Is filled
with interesting sidelights on the
Civil War, such as the subversive
activities of Negroes, working under
the very noses of Yankees in New
York; vivid scenes of the antidraft
rioters raising havoc on Manhattan
Island, and the heroic escapades OF
Selmo, the sea captain who, when
he lost his ship, took to drug SNUG
Cling on horseback.
Less Lane and more realism would
make this novel. which no doubt
required great deal of research
into something less sweet and more
palatable.
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as recognizable human

that they cannot be trusted and
are "a menace to western civiliza-
ton" The Roman adds: "All our
concepts of freedom. dignity and
responsibility are alien to them.
- Jews are a basic threat to
Rome itself, since they stand in op-
position to the basis of western cul-
ture, free slavery" He sees them
further as the enemies of mankind,
since they reject and despise and
SANDER all that is precious to man
kind, the gods of men, the beliefs OF
men and the customs of men"
Evening star., 1948-10-17
Sol Bloom Tells
TheGood Story
|OfHis Life
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF
SOL BLOOM
%. p. Putnam's Sons; $780,
Reviewed by
ROBERT K WALSH

:. reviewed Dy
ROBERT X. WALSH.
Representative Bloom, the
genial gentleman from Man
haitian and also San Francisco
and Chicago, deserves a rising
and rousing vote for this record
OF IS infinitely varied years.
The House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee chairman, veteran Of Con-
gress through the booming '20s,
the depressing sos and the warning
'40s, tells an extraordinary story right
there. But it is no disparagement of
his public career to report that the
best parts of this book deal with his
ingenius youth on the West Coast,
his showmanship at the Worlds
Columbian Exposition at Chicago in
1893 and his theatrical, song pub
fishing and real estate operations in
New York before coming to WASH
ington.
Mr.. Bloom writes with q zestful,
mellow charm and a modest ap-
praisal of his unvarnished drive for
money in his early days of extreme
poverty. He refuses to take himself
too seriously. He makes no pre-
tense of producing earth-shaking
memoirs or a gossipy political warm
over. In fact, he sets something of
a new look for current autobiography
by saying only the good about people
(perhaps too good in some in
stances) and letting charitable
silence fall on those he may not
relish.
On the broader stage of national
and international drama, he has
faith that mankind, without any
futile effort to change human ma
ture, can learn to govern itself eff
fectively and equitably. He speaks
with the enthusiasm Of youth and
the satisfaction of reflective age in
declaring that initiative, energy and
opportunity still rate high and that
working for the public good is bet
ter than striving solely for cash.
The refreshing thing about all this
is that Mr.. Bloom shows not shred
of smugness or hypocrisy. His good
humor is infectious. His sincerity in
discussing the Palestine problem, the
good-neighbor policy and Franklin
D. Roosevelt's preparation of the
American people for an inevitable
war" will be unquestioned even by
readers who may not agree with all
his views.
Mr.. Bloom must have had lot of
fun writing this story of his life,
just as he undoubtedly had lot of
enjoyment in the living of it. His
readers will find the same and
plenty more in this book.
Evening star., 1948-10-17
For Capital Visitors
INTRODUCING
yrYA crrYAr~TNAY ~ ~

WASHINGTON, D. c.
BY Clara Bishop MacIntyre. fAn-
derson House, Washington, D. c.;
$3.J
An informative pictorial guide
book for Washington. complete with
interesting illustrations, maps and
a brief history, describing the
growth of the city and listing i'm
portant events that have taken
place here. The author has listed q
series Of Well-planned tours which
together with the handy guide mar
in the back cover of the small, easily
carried booklet, should prove o1
real value to Capital visitors.
M. S. B.
Evening star., 1948-10-17

Nathaniel Hawthorne, the attic
bound genius and tormented re-
cluse of romantic legend, is being
led out of the gloom which has
enfolded him since his death in
1864. From these two biographies
the great New England novelist,
who is now enjoying a literary re-
vival, emerges as man of affairs
much involved in the political life
of his times, and as an attractive,
well-balanced human being.
Robert Cantwell, former editor
of Time, writes in copious detail of
Hawthorne's unhappy youth. which
was shadowed by an overbearing
uncle, and of his indolent college
years at Bowdoin, where he formed
the friendships that were to in
fluence his whole career. His
biography takes Hawthorne only to
the age of As. when the publication
of The Scarlet Letter" proclaimed
his genius to a world which had
taken little note of his twilit tales.
In half the space Randall Stewart
covers Hawthorne's life. His is a
warm, smooth-fiowing, eminently
readable study, in which he stresses
the effect OF Hawthorne's supremely
happy marriage to Sophia Peabody,
one of the extraordinarily gifted
Peabody sisters of Salem. Indeed
we are but shadows until the heart
is touched" Hawthorne wrote. The
story Of that marriage is one of
continuing and deepening felicity
and Mr.. Stewart has set it down
with nice restraint and sympathy.
Mr.. Cantwell makes rather a point
OF Hawthorne's possible employment
as a confidential Treasury agent
during his nine solitary years in
Salem after his graduation from
Evening star., 1948-10-17
Esther Forbes
Writes Truly
American Book
THE RUNNING OF THE TIDE
BY Esther Forbes. (Houghton-
Mi67in;: 81

BY Esther FORBES. (HoughtO1-
Mi67tn; 50
Reviewed by
HENRY LYON.
Something truly American
breathes in 1.-THE Running of the
Tide" It's characters speak with
the earnestness of the present
in an early 18th century setting,
and 1t Is this flesh-and-blood
reality Of Esther Forbes historical
novel that raises it far above the
less consequential books that owe
only q semblance Of reality to the
facts.
Another distinction is the fidelity
with which Miss Forbes describes
the early majesty of Salem when
sailing vessels made It the greatest
port in the New World. So real are
the characters Of the Inman BROTH
ers-two Of them idealistic photo
graphs of the fearless captains of
windjammers-that when the reader
goes to sea with one Of them, he
hears the slap of the waves against
the ship and the keenings Of the
typhoon In the China Sea.
A century before the principal
action in the story, Salem had
hanged witches. Then as a richly
Ipeopled novel progresses. Salem
waxed wealthy beyond the dreams
Of the captains, then gradually died
as a center of world commerce. Her
slowly sitting harbor, which in its
best days afforded only 8 to IS feet
of water, had to bow to the growth
Of Boston and New York, which
could accommodate first the heavier
sailers and then the steam vessels.
Salem's Glory.
But in that period of transition, a
hoary glory shed its light around
Salem. Her fast boats skirted the
Napoleonic blockade, shipped around
the Cape of Good Hope to the Dutch
East Indies after Napoleon had tried
to swallow them. and, during the
white heat of the war with Brit
ain, supplied the craft that went out
as privateers to fight of the British
ships.
There is a story here of an old
love that never ripens, a fitting par
allel to Salem's fading wealth. Some
will find this never-to-be consum-
mated romance tedious, but it
clothes the historic recital with
warmth. There is many a story
within the story and interest is well
sustained in all of them.
Evening star., 1948-10-17
Virginia Poetry Society
Offers Major Awards

Unprecedented awards total
ing almost $500 will be made in
poetry contest prizes by the
Poetry Society of Virginia, it
was announced by the president
Of the club, Barbara Whitney.
Poets from all over the United
States are eligible.
Louis Untermeyer, poet, an
thologist and critic, will be guest
speaker at the society's first
meeting on Sunday afternoon,
October "a, at Virginia Beach.
Evening star., 1948-10-17
Reviewing I he New Books
At Last, a Novel About Poor Whites
In the South, Without q Racial Issue
SERAPH ON THE SUWANEE

BY Fora Neale Hurston. (ScribnerS; so
Reviewed by CARTER BROOKE JONES
might before considering other merits Of
Miss Hurston has done at least thing note
worthy She has written about the fchroni
cled poor the South without condescension pity
Sentmentalty.
She has group of them recognizable human
Evening star., 1948-10-17
New Biographies Bring Hawthorne
Out of His Lonq-EnfoIdinq Gloom

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. The American Years.
BY Robert Cantwell. fRinehart & Co.; S6J
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A Biography
BY Randall Stewart. yale University Press: $4)
Reviewed by MARY McGRORY
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-12-11
PFC. MORIHIRO
LAID TO REST
AT ARLINGTON

WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. H.
Funeral services were held Wed
nesday at Arlington National Ce-
metery for Pfc. Roy Tatsuo Mort
hiro. Portland, Greg, who was killed
IN action near Milan, italy, April
IA, 1o45. In the Po Valley campaign
Born at Portland, in 1921, he was
a son of Fudesuke and Ayako Mo
rihiro.
War interrupted bis studies ut
the University of Washington,
ana in Aug. 1914, he enlisted in
the army. joining the famed
442nd aIl-Nisea TtegimentaI Com
bat Team in France IN January.
l945.
He was a holder Of the Bronze
Star, Battle for Germany ribbon,
Combat Infantryman's badge, Pre-
sidential Unit Citation and Purple
heart.
Following formal army rites, pri-
vate services were held at the
graveside with the Rev. Andrew
Kuroda, Washing ION, officiating.
Don Komai. a MEMBER of the
JACL National Arlington Gene
terry Committee, In q brief address,
said: "Pfc. Morihiro found faith In
the ideal that gave this natio,,
life--the ideal Of freedom. He died
that others might live in security
and peace"
T. 5hizuoka gave a Japanese
translation of the address, and
Mike Masaoka. national legislative
director, JACL ADO, told of Pfc.
Morihiro,s war record.
Survivors include his widow, Mrs.
Alice Misawa Morihiro, Cleveland;
his mother; two brothers, Joe and
Mike Morihiro, and sister, Rosie
Morihiro, all Of Chicago.
Pfc. Morihiro's widow, his mother,
a brother. Mike, and his father
in-law, Frank K Misawa, attended
the service.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-12-11

Butterworrh Mortuary. The Rev. q.
Nishinaga Of Tacoma Shinshu Buk-
kyolai will officiate.
Hashimoto, who was born on Dec.
is, 1915, received his education at
H;discn Techs1icaiahish school, -Frss-
no. Calf, and also attended Fresno
State College.
He was indicted on March Is,
1941 and received his basic training
in the medical corps at TT. Lewis.
After further assignments Of duty
at various camps, he reported to Fl.
Mcclellan for infantry training as u
replacement for the 442nd regiment.
-e went overseas on August, 1914,
md became a squad leader in l..
Company in the 3rd battalion of
the 442nd. He was reported missing
n action on Nov. IA, 1874 in the
vicinity of La Housierre, France, In
the final days of the 442nd's parti-
cipation IN the Vosges Mountain
campaign. Official confirmation of
his death was reported on April 80,
1916.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-12-11
Polka Dots Scare
TOkuda Drug

Sci Adachi and Mote Yasuda. two
all-star candidates. were the heroes
in the Tokuda Drug 1910 triumph
over dangerous Polka Dots in a Glass
double-aye basketball game las;
Thursday night In the Seattle Bud
dhist auditorium.
Adachi sank a one-hand howitzer
from the corner of the floor to as
sure Tokuda's the victory which was
earned after q fierce overtime
struggle.
Yasuda tossed in q. one-hand shot
on the run m the closing seconds
of the regular time to knot the game
at 1886.
George Kozu, ex-Tokuda ace now
a Polka Dot msinstay, provided
plenty Of fireworks during the con-
test, finding the range for IA points.
Along with his teammates, s. Hata
and Art Louie, they proved for
midaDie scoring tr1o.
Besides Adachi and Yasuda, Ma
nabu Fujino and Chuck Kinoshita
with II and o points respectively
rescued Tokuda's from possible
defeat
In the preliminary "A" games,
the Filipino Catholic Youth outfit
scored its second victory of the sea-
son by taking the Tokuda Drug
Savoys and the Lotus Lancers
dumped the Baptist Comets.
The Tokuda Drug-Polka Dot
scoring follows:
TOKUDA DRUG am. Yasu-
da 7, Mar, Kinoshita o, Heyamoto
5, F'ujino IL, Y. Takeuchi, 8. Adachi
IS, 8. Fulfil 8, Nishimura 1. Otani /
POLKA DOTS (4o)-G. Kogu IA,
X. Yagi 2, D. Fujii 2. H. Kawahara,
Louie 8, B. Ohashi 2, s. Hata IL
K. Suguro.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-12-11
NISEI SEEKS
j. s. RIGHTS,
FILES SUIT

Charging that he was forced 20
vote in the 1947 Japanese general
election and that he did not know
that he would thus lose his Amer
lean citizenship. Hichiro Uyeno,
who was born in Bellevue. Wash,
and had lived in Japan since 1880,
filed a suit in the United States
District Court here last Wednesday
Dec. 8.
In a complaint filed by William
Y. Mimbu, local Nisei attorney,
Uyeno said that when he applied
to the United States Consul in ia
pan last July for a passport to re-
turn to this country, he said he was
told he had forfeited his citizen
ship by voting in the Japanese cleo
ton.
Uyeno charged that the leaders
Of the japanese village where he
lived forced him to vote.
The suit was filed against Sec
rotary Of State George G. Marshall.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-12-11
Nisei
Calendar
DECEMBER

1l-Baptist Youth Fellowship Of
Japanese Baptist church to sponsor
ice-skating party In the Civic Ice
Arena from 1890 pm. to 1880 am.
22-Movie-dance to be presented
by Adrians in MaryknoIl auditori-
UNI at 8 pm.
%, "a and 26-The second all
Oriental national basketball tour
nament, co-sponsored by Nisei Vet
Grams Committee and Cathay Post
1856, in Seattle University gym.
24-Christmas eve semi-formal
dance featuring Frank Barker q
his orchestra at Bruce Crane Ball
room from Q pm. to IL am. 5pon-
sored by Rissho YBA.
26-Second all Oriental national
basketball tournament dance in
Palladium ballroom.
31--South e n d Merchants to
sponsor its annual New Years Eve
riance