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Brilliant Essays
On Human Spirit
FOUR STUDIES IN LOYALTY
BY Christopher Sykes. William

FOUR STUDIES I'm Lo1 ALI L
BY Christopher Sykes. William
Sloane Associates; $3.)
So many excellences' distinguish
Christopher Sykes studies in the
effects of dedication on the human
spirit that it is hard to know where
to begin and even more difficult to
know where to leave off. Perhaps
in this debunking age the most
arresting aspect of the four essays
is their warmth, their unabashed
responsiveness to the virtuous
rather than the vile in human ma
ture. Mr.. Sykes has voiced his ad
miration in prose that is precise
and measured without ever being
precious or merely mellif1uous.
They are SO deliberately paced that
they defy a hurried reading. They
demand to be savored and they
will be.
Each of the four memoirs is an
admirable entity rounded out with
social commentary and art criticism.
Taken together, they progress in
time from the Edwardian era to
the recent war and in intensity
from unworthy service to social am
bition through the ennobling effect
of a Persian reprobate's cherished
falsehood and the mission Of mod
ern to save his world to the matter
of-fact patriotism of a whole Vosges
village, imperiled by the presence
of British paratroopers.
Christopher Sykes plainly loves
his subjects He has somehow never
managed to let his devotion cloud
his perception. He understands
that his uncle, who served no
better purpose than to be the butt
of the practical jokes of the Prince
of Wales (who became Edward VID
was an unredeemed snob; but his
ruinous obsession had kind of
gloomy grandeur which his name
sake delineates with sympathy and
humor.
His most felicitous portrait is of
his most bizarre character, Bahram
Kirmani, who ushered Englishmen
through the heretofore forbidden
beauties of the Persian mosques.
One youthful glimpse of oxford had
been enough to hold Bahram en-
thralled throughout his dissolute.
often sordid, existence. The care
fully fostered delusion that he was
Balliol man enabled him to rise to
one supreme moment when his dam
aged honor was challenged by the
Nazi conquerors of his country. He
exempted "the hard, carefree, hid
den incorruptibility IN corruption"
of the Persian nation.
The subject of the third essay,
Robert Byron was the authors be-
loved friend and companion of Per-
sian travels but he recognizes the
intemperance which marred Byron's
art criticism and his narrowing in
sistence on 1.-The sanctity of mod
ernity." But these very qualities
enabled him to play superbly the
role of Cato to the appeasing Give
den set in the days of Munich. In
his final essay Mr.. Sykes has at
tempted. half despairingly, to dis
charge the debt he and his comrades
in a parachute patrol owe to the
valorous people of a Vosges village.
His sketches of inept but true-heart-
ed underground workers is full of
comic touches and he conveys, with
no condescension. the impression
that they were often absurd while
they were being most splendid.
M. Meg,
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Reading and Writing
What Is Congress Reading?
By Mnry McGrory

Ask what reading and remind him that
o a
will way answer,
w indignant sel-ghteous about it.
will that the documentary material
And that all will
with
on probation.
mail poughng
print
TIME something
additional background.
Might S Well Be a
preferred change
there
readinu for nea
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People of Palestine
Made Real in Dream
OF Arab Center
BY Robin Vaughan. Viking /,
s2.75)
NOMAD
Reviewed by
I. WILLIAM HILL.


'The Arabs and the Jews What
do the words mean to you? A
phrase from a headline? Maybe
just the symbol of vague but per-
sistent conflict in far-off Palestine?
To the reader of 'Nomad," the
time-worn phrase begins to concern
live persons, persons with hopes
and hearts and disappointments.
Robin Vaughan (nephew OF Nov
elist w. Somerset Maugham) joined
the British Intelligence in the Mid
die East after being invalided out Of
the British Tank Corps in Africs
due to wounds. Later. as civilian
he went back again. This volume il
an account of his experiences, plot.
ted loosely about TIE authors eff.
forts to establish an Arab center
where English and Arabs, working
together, might build sensible
military or civil leadership and re-
duce strife.
You travel to Cairo, Baghdad
Palestine. Latakia, Beirut and thu
anecdotal pictures of people en-.
countered are as readable as fiction
There was the Arab youth in Da-
mascus whose life was dedicated
to stopping all kinds of cruelty tt
animals until he himself suffered
the cruelty of the lash and became
a brothel boy. There was the came
guide whose love for his bride leo
Vaughan miles out of his way on
a camel-back journey across the
desert.
Thought Provoking Words.
From an Arab student at Beirut
Vaughan heard words as thought
provoking in America as anywhere
else: 1.-The privileged rich cannot
have a good life because they must
be depressed by the mass>of people
who lack this good life-those at the
top of the scale suffer from lack of
equality. But equality is not the
end. The object of man is to in
crease love"
Too few British appreciated those
words, as do too few persons any,
where. At any rate, Vaughan S
dream of his Arab center never
came true. OF that, the author
writes these words: Sc" I can
only just manage to smile at the
importance the plan assumed in my
mind three years ago. Long after
the rapture and anguish are fin
ished, you think you can afford to
look back with pitying smile on
the pains of unrequited love. But
then. suddenly, from the past a
pang Of misery strikes across your
heart, like shadow across the
brightness of field. For an instant
you feel a tug which binds you to
the past. And you know you have
grown what you are, not only be-
cause of your prudent labors, but
also because of your foolishness and
vanity. We are all of one piece,
created from yesterday and tomor-
row. Thus, it is but wryly that I
can grin at the desperate efforts I
made to get the Arab center
started; for my hopes and eagerness
and disappointment have become a
part of me, and no man enjoys
laughing at himself
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Why not? his friends ask. But the
authors, both widely know news
papermen, each with several books
to his credit, have turned out far
more than a campaign document
or a mug book of suitable pic
lures and sympathetic text. They've
done a first-rate rewrite job with
their material. If they have strained
at times to make a hero of their
subject, they also have written
breezy. highly readable account of
him.
There was nothing unusual about
Mr. Green's boyhood in the little
Indiana town of Ligonier, nor at
Wabash College, except he made the
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Reviewing | he New Books
Looking Backward at Roaring Twenties;
A SkIIfuI Novel and a Cam poign Buildup
THE TIME rs NOON
ram Havdn /Tr07gn 81 50 J

BY Hiram Haydn (Cro,un; $500
BROOKE
length depict the end
spreading
completely has given than
glimpse of many Others
20s-he bursting
prosperity and desperate gayety of prohibition and crime hope
a lived
guessed Wall Street
ahead Mr.
postwar period whole sof living
thinking America the end epoch that began
the Civil War.
vividly indifference the
bewdement that followed
attempted
detail credit that he
through extremely
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baseball a n d
football teams.
He was a flyer
during the First
w orld w ar.
Afterward h e
studied law at
t h e University
of Chi C a 9 o.
There was an
interlude when
he was a youth
full reporter on
Hearst's Chicago
Examiner the
m ost amusing
chapter in the
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First World War.
He is the victim
of a divorce. His
home shattered,
his mother re-
m a rrie d and
gone to South
America, he is
sent to boarding
schools. Cruelty,
indifference and
neglect threaten
to warp him, but
he is saved by a
kindly under
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favorite American author is Wash
ington Irving and whose favorite
American poet is Edgar Allan Poe.
Samuel Eliot Morison's oxford
History of the United States" is "the
best of the lot" according to Sena-
tor Saltonstall, Republican, of Mas
sachusetts. He is also reading 10
year-old novel called THE Eagles
Nest" by Theresa Thorold.
Another New Englander, Senator
Green, Democrat, of Rhode Island.
had the most plaintive rejoinder of
all. Once a great reader, he can
get to nothing but reports these
days, and "it's all Uncle Sans
fault" according to him.
Here I am sponsoring bills for
the furtherance of education, and
I'm gradually becoming illiterate
myself" he said. '-.
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We Must Keep
Military. Power
At Any Price
THE PRICE OF POWER
BY Hanson w. Baldwin. fHarper
& Bros, Neio York; S3.75.)
Reviewed by
GARNETT D. HORNER.

Reviewed by
GARNET D. HORNER.
This book is the product Of two
years study and discussion by a
group of specialists set up by the
Council on Foreign Relations to
assess the power position Of the
United States in this postwar era.
Mr.. Baldwin, New York Times
military analyst. put the results of
the exhaustive investigation into
book form as chairman Of the
councils study group.
He reviews in detail the effects
Of the atomic bomb, germ warfare
and guided missile development on
traditional military concepts and
concludes that the new total war"
makes defense If it dominates
the military thinking of nation,
a term synonymous with defeat
and completely incompatible with
modern reality"
"The only true defense" he
writes, would appear to be strong
offense. the threat OF retaliation in
kind, the threat of worse blows
against the enemy homeland than
any enemy can deliver against us"
Comparing American and Russian
power in detail. he finds that the
United States has a met preponder-
ance of relative power unequaled
in the world today" Therefore, I'VE
face no immediate military threat" !"
But the price of power is huge
and to guard against dangers OF
tomorrow calls for constant effort
to maintain effective military
strength, Mr.. Baldwin warns. He
thinks universal military training
as presently planned is not a
must" but emphasizes the neces-
sity Of maintaining highly
trained, completely ready mobile
force. prepared to retaliate instantly
and massively against any aggres-
sor."
Evening star., 1948-04-04

Inc SIX important characters are
youths. The four boys are seniors at
a revered New England college the
author calls Emerson. The two
girls attend an art school in Florida.
The lives of all are enmeshed, to a
large or small degree, through cir
cumstance.
Sand Warren "a girD Is a Florida
cracker. Harriet Hawthorne is from
a tony New England family.
Charles Hoyt is the son Of steel
magnate. His college friends are
Lathrop Stone and Tom Robinson.
Charles father is Lathrop's bene-
factor, has educated him. Tom,
Emerson's leading athlete, has been
promised job with the Hoyt colos-
Sus, Tri-State Steel. The fourth
campus figure, Sol Krassovsky. is Of
Russian-Jewish parentage and so is
outside the social pale. But the lib
eral Lathrop, editor of the college
paper, has befriended the talented
Sol and given him a column.
Typed Characters.
Mr.. Haydn has not entirely resist
ed the temptation to type his char
acters, though all of them at least
are credible human beings and some
develop plausibly. Charles Is the
rich mans son of popular tradi-
tion-selfsh, sensual, cruel. Tom is
O typical college athlete, or the way
one is supposed to be, hardly know
ing what he wants to make of him
self. Harriet knows exactly what
she wants, love and luxury, and
she's not particular who supplies
either. Sand belongs more clearly
to the lost generation" OF which
Fitzgerald wrote, She hardly knows
what it's all about, but she's willing
to learn, and she does to an extent,
through her unexpected friendship
with Sol. Sol, the most important
person in the novel, inevitably be-
comes the college radical. When he
writes a column satirizing a bene-
factor of the college, and refuses to
apologize, he is fired. Some hooded
students beat him up. He goes to
New York, and in the Village falls
ready prey to the Communists. But
Sol is too independent by nature to
have his thinking ordered; too i'm
pressed with personal problems to
accept a philosophy that scorns the
individual, and he soon breaks with
the party. Later we find him cover
ing the Gastonia riot trials for
liberal magazine, still trying to work
out a creed for himself.
Yet, to me, the most interesting
character is Lathrop Stone, the be-
fuddled young intellectual, hating
his benefactor and wanting to break
away from a dominating mother,
eager to make career of his own.
He lacks courage, even honesty, but
his life has been too dictated Tor
him quite to have personality. He's
in a fair way to grow one, though,
when the story ends.
To keep close track of all his peo-
pie, the author constantly shifts
scene and point of view. Every
episode is described in vast detail.
1t seems a fair conclusion that the
novel would have said as much and
said it more effectively with fewer
leading characters and at far less
length. Still, as it is, Mr.. Haydn's
skill at narrative is so sharp that
it's a hard book to put down. The
Time Is Noon" is likely to be one of
the talked about books of the sea-
son.
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1t is, frankly,
o lauda tory,
buildup biog-
raphy Of Dwight
H. Green, the
Governor of IL
linois, sometime
prosecutor of AL
C a pone and
Samuel insult,
now a potential
candidate for
the Republican
vice presidential
rnr,, | ~ a I inno
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THE MIDWESTERNER

By Robert J. Casey and w. A. S.
Douglas. (Wilcor & Follett, Chi
caoo; $3.)
This is another, a factual. book
about the turbulent '20s, a story
laid in the most brawling spot OF
the bootleg decade-Chicago.
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to Washington with the Internal
Revenue Bureau, and returned to
Chicago as an Assistant United
States attorney. AS special Fed
eral prosecutor, he-and Federal
Judge James H. Wilkerson - sent
Capone to AlcatraZ. Mr.. Green was
less successful when he prosecuted
Mr.. insult, who emerged from a
sensational mail fraud trial with an
acquittal.
The story of the Chicago gang
wars has been told often. bat never
more Interestingly and succinctly.
Evening star., 1948-04-04

standing male teacher who finally
adopts him. A sympathetic, but not
too absorbing study. The boy uses
some very mature expressions when
he is still long way from adoles-
cence. The translation does not
help much.
Evening star., 1948-04-04

Mr.. Casey is known for his whimsi-
cal books about places and people.
Mr.. Douglas is remembered in
Washington as an able journalist.
X r \ X
ONE PAGE MISSING
BY Hans Yaray. Henry Holt &
Co.; $3.j
The author, born play
wright, now an American citizen,
has written a novel about lonely
Austrian boy during and after the
Evening star., 1948-04-04
The PIeydeNs Face
Anew Way ofLife
THE BERRY SCENE
BY Dornford Yates. Putnam.
S2.75.)
Reviewed by
NINA PEMBERTON

Reviewed by
NINA PEMBERTON
Stanch and admiring followers
of Dornford Yates. Berry Books
will be glad to know that they can
once again regale themselves with
more Pleydellisms and the Pleydell
way of life.
The Berry Scene" shows us some
thing of Berry's youth and the early
manifestations of his extravert
charm and genius.
Early in the days of the motor
age. when the narrow, and winding
roads of England are being rudely
disturbed by those snorting, splitting
monsters called automobiles, we find
Berry newly installed in his capacity
of justice of the peace. Berry i'm
poses fines on those who cover a
mile in less than 3 minutes. Local
disapproval has to be lived down
when it is clear that the modern way
of life is here to stay. Fun and
games run riot throughout this
novel which covers a period long
enough to bring it's characters
through World War II, after which
life in England no longer held some
of the delights of yesteryear. The
Pleydells face a new way of life, but
their outlook remains the same.
Good or bad-it makes for happi-
ness.
Author of more than dozen books
published in America, Dornford
Yates will be remembered for such
stories as Blood Royal" Berry e.
Co." Jonah g. CO.. and "An Eye
for Tooth"
POLITICAL HANDBOOK
OF THE WORLD, 1948
BY Walter H. Mallory. (Harper
G. Bros, for the Council on
Foreign RelationsJ
This reference book contains In
convenient form all essential infor-
nation about the political makeup
of governments all over the globe
With international affairs overshad-
owing all other news, this book will
prove valuable to any one anxious
to follow world DEVELOPMENTS,
whether a student or just an aver
age citizen who wants to be we'll
informed. j. A. o.
Evening star., 1948-04-04
Missouri Skeletons
Coming to Life
For Election Day
MISSOURI WALTZ
BY Maurice M. Milligan. (Charles
Scribner's Sons; $500
Reviewed by

BY Maurice M. Milligan. (Charles
Scribner's Sons, $500
Reviewed by
JOSEPH A. FOX.
This is the story of the breakup
of the Kansas City machine of
Thomas j. Pendergast, President
Truman's political sponsor, by the
man who primarily was responsible
for its demise, the then United
States attorney for the western
district of Missouri.
Mr.. Milligan describes trenchantly
events that took place a decade
ago against the backdrop' of an
COW town. where
gambling and" women were la
carte and municipal skulduggery an
accepted state. The end was writ
ten in vote fraud convictions after
the 1896 election that netted 259
henchmen, and the
boss" followed his underlings to
the penitentiary when he neglected
to pay income tax on the proceeds
of fire insurance shakedown.
In a campaign year, the authors
obvious effort to tar President Tru-
man with, the Pendergast brush is
understandable, but there is little
if any thing about that relationship
that has not become public property
since Mr.. Truman emerged on the
scene as Senator from
Missouri in 1885.
Mr.. Milligan, who was replaced by
a Truman appointee in ,1945, ex-
hibits some trepidation over the
possible resurgence of the old
machine under the leadership of
James M. Pendergast, nephew of
the late boss" who likewise is a
intimate, and presents
the current Kansas City vote fraud
charges as a case in point.
j.. He also uses the Missouri Situa-
ton to bespeak national con-
sciousness of the need for safe
guarding the ballot.
Evening star., 1948-04-04
= THREE SOLDIERS
BY John Dos Passos. fHoughton

Mi67in; $3.)
A timely reissue of Dos Passos'
stunning realistic story of three
American soldiers in World War I.
The horrors of infantry combat are
described as they affect a sensitive
young musician, who bucks the sys-
tenn with tragic consequences. One
of the great war novels, which
writer's of the present conflict have
never matched. M. McC.
Chicago world. (Chicago, Ill.) 1918-????, 1948-09-25
Memorial Services
For Mrs. Hdll
milwaukee Specially


Memorial services for the late
Mrs. Lille Mae Hall will be held
Sunday, September IL at st.
Lukes Hall in Milwaukee from
4 pm. to z pm.
Mrs. Hall, an outstanding
worker among Milwaukee Ne
groes for 20 years., died recently
at the age of 50.
St. Luke's Hall is at 2153 N.
9Th ST. Many city organizations
will take part in the memorial
service and several prominent
speakers will address those as
sembled.
Among the guests will be AS
semblyman Leroy J. Simmons
Of the 9Th Wards 9Th District
and former Congressman Andrew
j. Biemiller. Milwaukee's Mayor
Frank Zeidler has also been in
vited.
Mrs. Hall was affiliated with
the County Council Of Church
Chicago world. (Chicago, Ill.) 1918-????, 1948-09-25
Mr.. WEIHE
TRANSFERRED

The people of the Sixth Ward
heard with regret of the transfer
of Raymond Weihe, principal OF
Roosevelt Junior High School to
Peckhorn High. Mr.. Weihe has
been at Roosevelt for II years
and the citizens Of the commun.
ity have come to know him and
expect his ever-ready help in
their educational problems.
1t will be a severe blow to lose
a man who has taken such al
active part in community life.
Not only did Mr.. Weihe make
Roosevelt one Of the best schools
in the city; he also provided US
with one Of the finest cafeterias
ITO befound in the city :
zs Despite their regret to see him
go, the members Of the Sixth
Ward wish Mr.. Weihe continued
success in his new assignment.
ina letter to: the World, Mr.
sWeihe said, Il believe that a
change is good. for everyone and
s'ihat the transfers Of principals
from school to school is good for
the boys and girls of Milwaukee.
However, | have come to know
SO many Of the charming and
kindly people in the Sixth Ward
who have hearts as big as houses
and who are certainly my loyal
friends, that it is difficult to
leave
Mr.. Weihe said he and Mr.
Paul j. Jack, who viii be the
new principal at Roosevelt, are
very good friends and that the
community will grow to be very
appreciative Of Mr.. Jacks high
standards Of education.
"There is a great future for
the colored people in Milwaukee
if they will realize that in union
there is everlasting strength.
Personal differences must be
pushed aside for the larger con-
siderations," is Mr.. Weihe's mes
sage for his former neighbors.
Chicago world. (Chicago, Ill.) 1918-????, 1948-09-25
Bishop Short Moves
Office to Des MONIES

The Most Rt. Rev. David Will
liam Short, DID,, B.Th., Ma
tional president, senior bishop
and founder of the National Da-.
vid Spiritual Temple of Christ
Church Union, Inc, U.S.A., rep
resenting the "Orthodox Chris
tian Spiritual Faith and Inter
racial Church Of All Nations"
moved his office and national
headquarters this week to Des
Moines, Iowa. The office and
headquarters in Milwaukee, Wis,
was located in the local church
property at Ills w. Cherry ST.,
until the local church sold this
property two months ago to re-
duce their overhead expenses of
operation. Bishop Short stated
that the national office and head
quarters will be located in the
two-story brick building owned
by the national organization at
1929 Walker St., Des Moines 16,
Iowa, within the next Is days at
which time the property will be
vacated for this purpose by ten
ants whose lease expires. Bishop
Short also plans to open the Or
thodox Christian Spiritual School
with token classes in 1949. Mil
waukee will miss a great leader
in the departing of Bishop Short.
Every one who knew him and has
seen him in action, if they will
speak the truth will say, che was
a relentless fighter for freedom,
justice and equality, not only for
the colored citizens but for all
nations. In 1941 he moved his Of
ficve and headquarters to Mil
waukee, Wis, from Kansas City,
Mo-, his office was first located
at TIC w. Vliet St. Milwaukee
could well use many more lead
ers like Bishop Short. Des Moines
should be proud Of his coming.
Chicago world. (Chicago, Ill.) 1918-????, 1948-09-25
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCHE

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCHE
The subject Of the Lesson-Sermt
in all Churches ~ Christ, Scientis
on Sunday, October 3, 1948, was:
"UNREALITY"
The Golden Text was:
"The night is far spent, the d:
Is at hand: let us therefore ca
off the works of darkness, al
let us put on the armour Of ligh
from. 1912.
Among the citations which cor
prised the Lesson-Sermon were tt
following from the Bible:
"Another parable put he for
unto them, saying, "The kingdo
of heaven is likened unto a ms
which sowed good seed in h
field; But while men slept, h
enemy came and sowed tar
among the wheat and went h
way. But he said L.
both grow together until the ha
vest: and in the time Of harves
| will say to the reapers, GATH
We together first the tares ar
bind them in bundles to bu1
them: but gather the wheat in
my barn" Matt. 13:24-30).
The Lesson-Sermon also include
the following passages from Il
Christian Science textbook, Csc
ence and Health with Key to Il
Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddl
"The temporal and unreal new
touch the eternal and real. I'll
mutable and imperfect new
touch the immutable and perfec
The inharmonious and self-dl
structive never touch the hal
monious and self-existent. The.
opposite qualities are the tar,
and wheat, which never real
mingle, though Ito mortal sight
they grow side by side until II
harvest; then, Science separat,
the wheat from the tares, throue
the realization Of God as evl
present and Of man as refectin
the divine likeness" n. 30ol.