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Laurel outlook., 1948-01-28
SEARCH FOR
TOOTH DECAY REMEDY

In an effort to learn why tooth
decay per mouth is greater now
than 40 years ago, dentists have
dug up some facts that are inter-
esting and may lead eventually to
a method for preventing tooth de-
cay. A reason for the increased
amount of decay per mouth may
be the peoples changed diet, or
lack of certain minerals. DR.. D.
A.. Nottingham, speaking Tuesday
at a meeting of the Rotary club,
said that although much research
has been done in recent years, the
theories have not yet been suffi-
supported by scientific evil
dence to warrant their complete a
doption. The work so far has estab-
lished a number of facts and has
observed several corollaries.
The first institute on the subject
was IL years ago in Michigan; since
then the study has become inter-
national.
Of the facts, one is that decay
IS now four times greater per mouth
han 40 years ago. Another, sugar
consumption per person was il
40 years ago, while today it
S 40 pounds. In Cuba where the
consumption is 140 pounds, teeth
ire almost nonresident.
Certain bacteria in the mouth be-
.ome active when food is taken in
md by their activity release acid.
Acids destroy teeth. How the bac-
eria act has been studied extensive
in untreated as we'll as sterilized
When bacteria is Destroy
4 the decay is retarded.
Many controlled experiments have
cen conducted. In one instance
900 students were tested in Cali
ornia, one-half on their usual diet
nd the other half on a diet from
hitch much of the sugar had been
emoved. In the sugarless group
ne decay was greatly reduced.
In the tests there were exceptions;
few people did not respond like
he others.
Montana and some of the adjoin-
lg states are in what is known
5 the goiter belt, possibly because ,
lere is not enough iodine in the ,
alter. The dentists found that I
10Th decay continued with people :
it'll thyroid trouble, but that when
e thyroid was corrected the de- t
~ could be reduced or halted.
Down in Texas there was a large
'ea in which not a dentist resided, 5
a young graduate chose that '
a place in which to hang out 4
S single. After waiting for pa 2
ents who did not appear the young
an investigated and found that =
,ople around there just didn't have 1
9th trouble. He also discovered
at they all had little yellow spots
their teeth and that the spots
IRE concentrations of flourine COM
und. Tests were then conducted in c.
orphanage and it was found tina. F
,atment with flourine reduced de- n
Y. In one city the water is
lated with ~ffourine. Il
The search continues for a means +
prevent decay of children's teeth, N
Itch DR.. Nottingham predicted Il
'uld be found in not many years. .,
Ed Coombs and Harold Richard
4 were guests of the club. The D,
Continued on Page Twelve) IN
Laurel outlook., 1948-01-28
REPORTS ON T-B FUND

The Laurel Woman's club at its
meeting Jan. 10 was informed by the
president, Mrs. R. ]. Rosselot, that
the tuberculosis association Christ
mas seal sale sponsored by the Club
had thus far brought in s1,140.
Evening star., 1948-02-22

Schoen, son Of Col. and Mrs. Joseph
Frederick schoen Of Alexandra,
took place recently In the Washing
ton Street Methodist Church in
Alexandria. The Rev. Hawes p.
Clarke oficiated.
The bride was given In marriage
by her father and was attended by
her sister, Miss Geraldine Polling,
as maid OF honor. and by the Misses
Virginia Apperson, Catherine New
ton, Frances Coates and Sadie Simp-
son as bridesmaids. Betty Watkins
was flower girl. Mr.. Robert j.
Schoen was best man for his brother
and the ushers were Sergt. Sterling
Albert, Sergt Harry Clark, Sergt.
Robert Spangler and Mr.. Don Sulli-
van.
The couple are now making their
home in Alexandria. Formerly q
sergeant in the Army. Mr.. Schoen
is continuing his studies at George
Washington University.
Evening star., 1948-02-22

The marriage of Miss Eleanor
Elizabeth Polling, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Pleasant Arthur Polling, of
Fort Belvoir, to Mr.. Richard Davis
Evening star., 1948-10-24


Involved are other simply but
sharply etched characters: BeatriZ
woman once in love with Blasco
now prioress of the convent OH
whose steps Catalina is visited by
the Blessed Virgin; Diego, Catalina S
sweetheart. who has abandoned her
after the tragedy that crippled her
leg, and Catalina's Uncle Domingo
a cynical but worldly wise play
wright.
Magical Prose.
The life of each of these is barred
through revealing words and deeds
None is a villain, but selfish mott
vations being what they are, the
conflicts arising as the story moves
forward toward the miracle make
for a suspense that is heightened
by the clarity and simplicity that
has made Mr.. Maugham's best
writing magical. The point of view
is ironical and not the least of
the ironies is that, after the miracle
is performed, people credit it, not
to the man who performed it, but
to the man they think should have.
Along the line, through the words
Of the worldly Domingo, Mr..
Vaughan emphasizes beliefs, he has
Evening star., 1948-10-24

emphasized in other books-beliefi
in an adventurous spirit, common
sense, love of life and a sense OF
humor. Nowhere, however, has Mr.
Vaughan more vividly presented
the belief that the value of life
lies not so much in its outward
seeming as in each persons acting
in sincere conformity to the person
he really is.
The first two-thirds of "Cata-
lima up through the performance
of the miracle ana Dona Beatriz's
efforts to bring Catalina into her
convent, provide as superb a story
as Mr.. Vaughan has ever told
The remainder of the novel trails
off into comparative insignificance
1t seems to me this is because the
author was more concerned with g
crowning irony than with his story
For most readers, the story will
end when a restored Catalina is
back in the arms of her lover. AT
least the last third of the novel
however. deals with the adventures
of Catalina and Diego as strolling
players. Mr.. Maugham's purpose
was undoubtedly to make believable
the fact that. in the end, Friar
Blasco de Valera, the Bishop OF
Segovia, found peace, not through
established rites of piety, but
through lines in a religious play
written by the worldly Domingo and
spoken by the no-less-worldly Cata-
lima. Unfortunately, all story
suspense having long since ended
many readers will be left unmoved
Catalina" is typical Maugham
however. 1t will delight all who
admire Maugham's characteristical-
ly detached probing of mems ways
and actions. 1t may even remind
some that, in the present day also,
great professions are no measure of
great purposes and that proper
judgment rests on a knowledge of
what lies behind mems words and
deeds.
Evening star., 1948-10-24
Dodie Smiths Novel
Is Purely Amusing
Comedy Drama
I CAPTURE THE CASTLE

j CAPTURE ItE CASILE
BY Dodie Smith. (Atlantic-Ltt-
tie, Bro1Cn; $3.)
For some reason, the so-called
light novel-the comedy drama with
that certain touch both deft and
whimsical-remains largely an out
let for British writer's. Americans
are more apt to write either with
fervid seriousness or in broad, satire
or farce.
Miss Smith is English. She has
written a number of successful plays.
I Capture the Castle" is her first
novel. 1t qualities for the category
mentioned. since it is amusing. 1t
is not much more, but perhaps that's
all the author wanted it to be, and
many readers will consider that
enough to justify any piece of fiction.
This story is supposed to be told
by a 17-year-old girl with the ro-
mantle name of Cassandra Mort
main. She sets down these happen
ings in a series of personal journals.
Cassandra lived in an ancient,
half-ruined castle which her father,
gifted eccentric, had acquired at
a moderate rental. Besides the
strange father, there were an older
sister. Rose; schoolboy brother and
dizzy young stepmother named
Topaz, former artists model.
There is much sly humor in the
book and a few hilarious scenes.
The people are zany enough for the
story to be a lot funnier than 1t is
perhaps it is inhibited by the method
of having it all told in the preco-
,cious brat's journal. Personally, ]
get more than little weary of Cas-
sandra's youthful sprightliness and
mature wisdom. Simon uttered a
mouthful of understatement when
he remarked to his brother that the
girl was "a bit consciously naive.
The denouement, averting the
threatened misalliance of Rose ano
Simon, is carefully and unpersua.
sively contrived.
There is no reason why II Capture
the Castle" shouldn't be best seller
It lacks no essential element. Anc
1t starts off auspiciously as the No.
vember selection OF the Literary
lGuild., %. 3. 4.
Evening star., 1948-10-24
|HoWFreedom
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In Washington

THE WAR LORDS OF
WASHINGTON
BY Bruce Cation. (Harcourt
Brace & Co.: $3.)
Reviewed by
JAMES Y. NEWTON.
The author takes a long and care
full look at the Washington end OF
Americas stupendous World War II
effort and tells why he thinks we lost
a fight for democracy at home while
overwhelming our enemies on the
battle fronts: how we failed tt
strengthen our democracy and
thereby lost the chance to make ou,
way of life attractive to other peo.
Piles Of the world.
This occurred, according to MIR
Cation, because the Washington
war lords" who wound up on TOP
in the struggle for control that
lasted from early defense days until
almost We day, were out to main
tain economic status quo with their
right hand while whipping the Axis
with their left. He says the war
lords" refused to recognize the whole
battle as. being against world revo-
luton and concentrated on just one
phase-actual military campaigns to
crush fascism.
Big Business.
America failed to come out Of the
war with a revitalized democracy
necessary to win the peace, he says,
because the war lords" refused to
allow the great struggle to become
q peoples war. The war was fought
by big business, big industry and
like-minded people in Washington
and our production effort was never
one in which small industry and the
mass Of people were allowed to play
a real role. L" fear of change
= kept our war from being a
peoples war"
It is a very well-written book in
which Mr.. Cation gives a ringside
view of the constant battle here for
control of the war-production ef-
fort and consequently the economy
Principal characters are President
Roosevelt, Donald Nelson, Henry
Wallace, Jimmy Byrnes, Army and
Navy brass and numerous dollar-a-
year big shots" from industry.
Aside from his preachments, the
author gives some lessons which
should be needed by those now
charged with making us militarily
strong again. Formerly a topdight
writer and columnist for Scripps-
Howard, Mr.. Cation was public re-
lations adviser to Mr.. Nelson and
later to Mr.. Wallace when he was
Secretary Of Commerce.
Evening star., 1948-10-24

Mr.. Mearns, director of the refer
ence department of the Library Of
Congress, has selected more than
500 documents from the $4,000
papers of the Robert Todd Lincoln
collection made public July 26,
1947, 21 years after the death of
the Presidents son.
Mr.. Mearns has arranged chron-
ologically papers bearing on Abra-
ham Lincoln's life from earliest
records to July 4, 1861, four months
after his Inauguration and three
months after the outbreak of the
Civil War.
AS every one interested knows,
Robert Lincoln, who collected these
papers shortly after the Presidents
assassination in 1865, turned them
over to the Library of Congress in
1921 with the provision that they
remain sealed until 81 years after
his death. The son had guarded
their SECRECY all those years with
one important exception. The "au-
thorized" biographers, John Hay
and John G. Nicolay, who had been
President Lincoln's secretaries, had
been allowed full access to the
papers and used them freely in
their history Of Lincoln and his
administration. But, as Mr.. Mearns
brings out in correspondence pub
hshed here, Robert Lincoln exacted
the right to delete or revise any
thing in the history that displeased
him, and he did so on at least
some occasions. Mr.. Mearns is not
inclined to think the son damaged
the work. Future historians may
disagree.
History Of Documents.
One of the most interesting
phases of the Mearns volumes is his
history of the collection itself. Mr..
Mearns points out that a Presidents
personal papers do not belong to his
country and his family has the
right to retain what it chooses. OF
Lincoln's widow and oldest son,
he says: "Only the malicious could
construe their reluctance to part
with the totality of the Lincoln
record as suspicious or furtive, and
only the malevolent would deny
their responsibility to prevent an
indiscriminate invasion of privacy
Mr.. Mearns also prefaces his COL
lection with biographical sketch
of Robert Lincoln. The author is
sympathetic to the son, though not
blind to his pecularities and preju-
dices. Mr.. Mearns feels that his
love of seclusion and what some
people called his smugness were due
to an innate shyness which Robert
had all his life. He had a distin-
guished career as a lawyer and a
business executive and served as
Secretary of War and Ambassador
to England.
Some students Of Lincoln have
thought that perhaps Robert Lin
coin destroyed the more sensational
Evening star., 1948-10-24
Crime and
Mystery
By Miriam Gutenberg
Ten Days Wonder, by Ellery Que

Ten Days Wonder, by Ellery queen
| little, Brown & Co.; S2.50)
Howard Van Horn, suffering from
sporadic attacks of amnesia and an
obvious guilt complex, asks Ellery
Queen to act as sort OF bodyguard
That request takes Queen back to
Wrightsville, scene of two earlier
adventures described in Calamity
Town" and THE Murderer Is
Fox" Queen finds q vital but elder
ly man married to his former ward
sinister and greedy brother and a
mysterious centenarian on the Van
Horn estate. Murder is inevitable,
but Queens devious mind finds a
pattern for the solution. Even
Queen the great, however. can make
the fatal error of overlooking what
doesn't conveniently At into the
pattern. For that reason this first
novel in three years by the writing
team that goes under the name Of
Eilery Queen provides two climaxes
for the price of one. The second is
a beaut.
Echo My Tears, by Jan Foster.
dial Press: s2.50D
| A young psychiatrist, trying to
release the lovely Serena Parrish
from some past mental horror, is
informed she killed her mother
But Dr. LANCER isn't satisfied with
that explanation, particularly when
it becomes increasingly clear that
somebody wants him to stop prob
ing the past. In the face Of overt
/ acts that make him fear for Serena's
life, as well as his own, he must
solve the 12-year-old murder. Fol-
once popular psychology is geared
to plot development to make first
rate suspense story.
Testimony by Silence, by Doris Miles
Disney. doubleday & Co.; So
Crime Club.
Simon Redding's family didn't
want him to marry Amy Sayers
even if she was pretty as well as
wealthy. AS it turned out, his
mothers worst forebodings were
realized six months after the mar
riage when Simon died of poisoning
Amy kept talking about the cope.
plates at his club, which must have
tainted his food. Her housekeeper
insisted Simon had told her he
poisoned himself. The Redding
family and the whole town were
sure Amy, her housekeeper, or both
plotted the killing-particularly
after Amy's guilty secret was ex-
Evening star., 1948-10-24
By Cospor Names


The Library of Congress. the Pub
lie Library and many of the large
bookstores in the District will have
special displays to feature the sixth
annual religious book week, October
24-3l, 1t was learned today.
Another feature of the week will
be the issuance Of book lists, con-
tanning 140 titles, for adults and
children on the general field. The
lists are the work Of eight COM
mittees and will be published in
four categories-Protestant. Catholic
Jewish and Good Will. They will
include best sellers in both the fic-
ton and nonfiction field, with q
large number of titles of novels
biographies and histories on the
lists.
Everett r. Clinchy, president OF
the National Conference of Chris
tians and Jews, sponsor of the re-
ligiouS book week, declared the OBJ.
servance is aimed Ito remind the
readers of America of the rich
treasures that lie in the religious
departments of their bookstores ane
Observation-Disclosures that get al
too little attention because it has
become the fad to regard religious
literature as either prim- -and-prud-
ish or dry-as- or both."
New Vitality.
NMndArn ro1f0fNJrc yYfffnre hoUe
got away from the plaster -of-paris
saints and the pollyanna prose that
was once the accepted style" DR.
Clinchy asserted. Their work has
all the verve and vitality that to-
days reader has come to demand
plus a high degree of intellectual
stimulation and spiritual edifica-
tion."
OF the recent religious books
studying the deep relationship OF
religion to life, the PHILOSOPHY Of
Religion" by the Right Rev. Msgr
Fulton J. Sheen of Catholic Uni
versity, marks an epochal statement
of religious point ohview. Msgr
Sheen, regarded by many as one OF
the authentic great voices of Amer
ican Catholic thought, in his Volume
analyses the relationship between
human reason and religion. He ex-
amines some Of the principles out
side of religion by which some men
live. and then states the case for
the spiritual side of life, using the
philosophy of Thomas Aquinas as a
guide to the understanding of hui
man nature in itself and in its re-
lation to God.
"A Faith for You," by Brooke
Peters Church, is a worthy contri-
button to general religious litera-
ture in its analysis of the many
faiths and denominations present in
the United States. These chapter
studies are buttressed by an intro
ductory chapter tracing the history
of religious thought from the early
Hebrews to the present.
masterpieces of Religious Verse"
edited by James Dalton Morrison, is
a volume persons interested in the
Evening star., 1948-10-24

The various hands through which
the Royal California brand passes
belong to characters who are either
caricatured or slightly idealized-
types in shors-which is all right
since Mr.. Spewack seems obviously
more interested in national rather
than individual psychology. He is
at his best when sourly contemplate
ing such representatives as the
fatuous incoming American Ambas-
sador and Saunders, spineless En-
bassy underling, whose mother has
bullied him into diplomacy on the
theory that "he would never have
sense enough to run the family fac
tories and therefore could be trusted
to help run the world"
The theological burden Of the
story is carried by an aging Ameri-
can correspondent, who, after Is
years. still loves Russia and dreams
of explaining it to his compatriots,
and a sanity old revolutionary.
Their friendship, of course, is
doomed.
He Knows the Russians.
Mr.. Spewack, who has spent some
time in Moscow, both in Journalistic
and diplomatic capacities, seems to
know all there Is to know about its
grimness and grayness. Under the
present diplomacy, he says, with
teletypes and sucn, Ambassadors
have become office boys" and min
listers mere housekeepers.
1.-The Busy Busy People" might
come under the heading of
diplomacy with the gloves of or a
white paper written in acid. Bu-
it has the air-clearing quality OF a
good laugh. Mr.. Spewack, who
wrote boy Meets Girl" with his
wife, has thoughtfully constructed
his fast-movlng satire so that it
can be transferred as is to stage
or screen. 1t would look very good
either place.
Evening star., 1948-10-24

else ought to enjoy it hugely.
Mr.. Spewack's two-in-one back
handler at blunderers abroad and
bears at home is centered around a
can of peaches, which disappears
from the storeroom of the American
Embassy in Moscow and is the only
tangible evidence besides several
illicit romances, Of liaison between
Russians and Americans. Before it
is returned, it has been used as a
farewell gift, for coincidence and
bribery and even threatens to set
off an international incident. the
Americans regard it rather self
righteously as a proof of their
native efficiency and largesse. The
Russians eye it warily as symbol
of capitalistic luxury.
Evening star., 1948-10-24
Sixth Annual Religious Book Week
Brinqs Much Good Reodino to Lioht

| field would undoubtedly want to
own. 1t contains 2,020 poems by
300 poets, among them many verses
that belong to the great poetry Of
the world.
THE PARSON TAKES A WIFE
BY Maria Williams Sheerin.
(Macmillan; s2.75.)
Reviewed by
HENRY LYON.
"You may think you can lead
your own life and not worry about
your parishioners, but you can't" !"
So spoke young Maria Williams
uncle before her marriage to Charles
Sheerin.
She found that during her 20
years as the wife of an Episcopal
rector this opinion proved more true
than false.
Mrs. Sheerin writes with sparkling,
yet kindly. good humor of her life
in the rectory and the reader feels
that in spite of the many problems
she wouldn't have traded that life
for any other.
The work of the church took the
Sheerins to Fredericksburg, Rich
mond cher birthplace), Waco, Chat
tanooga, New York and. finally, to
Washington, where DR.. Sheerin was
rector of the Church of the Epiph-
any for the six years preceding his
untimely death last spring.
BOLD GALILEAN
Legette Blythe. UNIVERSITY OF
North Carolina Press; $780,
Reviewed by
COURTENAY PLASKITT.
Although the central figures in
this book are three Romans, the
Central force is Jesus of Nazareth,
for their story takes place at a
time when a watching world slowly
recognizes that here. in a Bold
Galilean" is remarkable power.
Marcus believes in wealth, unimag-
inative Lucius believes in military
power, Gaius believes there is more
to life. A declining Roman Empire
is the well-developed backdrop for
action that focuses the rise of
Christianity with the decadence of
Rome. Many novels have been
written on this theme with excel
lent word pictures, but this one
goes beyond to achieve smoothly
laid plot as well.
Lady Afraid. by Lester Dent.
doubleday s. Co., Inc, $2.)
Crime Club.
Sarah Lineyack, a lady yacht
builder, steals her child back from
her in-laws on the advice of a shady
lawyer. Both child and lawyer
promptly disappear, leaving Sarah
in pack of trouble for alleged kid
naping. The frantic mother en-
lists the help of one Capt. Most,
taciturn sailor, but even their
romance fails to hide the weak
nesses of the plot and the improba-
bility of the motivation. The MUIR
der Is incidental.
Evening star., 1948-10-24
THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON D. C. C-s
SUNDAY. OCTOBER

posed. The wages of sin, the author
reminds us, are still death.
X X \
The Cold Companion, by Jack
Sher. Rinehart & Co.: $2.50.)
Already bent by the loss of his
best friend in the war-the "cold
companion" of the title-Writer
Steve Rowe is nearly broken when
Evening star., 1948-10-24

papers before beStoWing the colossal
collection on the Library of Con-
gress. MIR. Mearps doubts that. He
comments, logically enough, that
the Lincoln heir hardly would have
taken such precautions to keep the
papers from those he did not like
or trust and to delay their public
release until long after his death
If he had "watered them down" to
innocuous ones. His worry was that
living persons might be embar-
raSSed.
AS for the Mearns compilation
it should interest the general reader
and be must" for all who special
ize In the martyred President and
his period. The correspondence
picked out is an Illuminating ane