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OF them suggest 1t. The temples
willie is an ex-national Guards
man with an erector set mentality
and Kitty's various lovers make up
the shifting personnel Of the crowd,
which always has plenty Of butter
bacon and scotch. The manager
of the hotel is a loathsome creature
who retires after a hard day at
the switchboard plugging in on the
residents conversation with book
of pornography.
Into this den of thieves comes the
hero of the book, a decent and
honorable officer named John Brent,
and his pretty, faithful wife, Nancy.
John has been kicked out of ETO
for the deplorable frankness of his
reports He proceeds to make the
same mistake all over again when
in the course of his duties at the
Pentagon, he recommends discon-
tinuation of an airfield whose
bordering property is owned by one
of Willie's congressman. He is sub
jected to unmerciful pressure by his
superior officers and Willie. He
fights hopelessly in that war within
war, that battle against policy
chat never-to-be questioned sacred
thing like mother love or religiono
in which accord Mr.. Arnold the
civilian soldier is inevitably worsted
by the professional. Johns crisis
provides Mr.. Arnold with his
choicest opportunity for local color.
He describes with some glee the rigid
ritual of the morning coffee, the
reading Of the papers, the time
killing trips to barber and dentist.
Everybody Slept Here" is swift,
savage, rowdy study of the people
who had a good war. It's writing
and characterization are not mark
ed by any particular subtlety; the
moral awakening which overtakes
Kitty through the love of CT is
not entirely convincing. 1t will un-
doubtedly be read with rage by the
Pentagon set; and more in sorrow
than in anger by the rest OF the
citizenry.
Evening star., 1948-04-25

magazine lasts, George Horace Lorimer'
he will be remembered as the editor
who built it up from the dying little
periodical for which Cyrus H. K.
Curtis paid $1,000 in 1898 into the
most amazing success in publish
Ing annals.
Mr.. Lorimer was born in Louisville
In 1867, the son of a Baptist minis
ter, George Claude Lorimer, who
afterward became famous as pastor
of fremont Temple in Boston. After
q year at Yale, the son left college
and went to. work for the Chicago
packer, P. D. Armour. Within a
few years, young Lorimer was head
of the company's canning depart
ment. He seemed to have found his
meter, but he was not satisfied. He
wanted to be an editor and writer
He went to work for Boston paper
at a fraction of his Armour salary
Then he took more college courses,
although he was married. He got
another newspaper job. Finally,
=, when he was just past 30, he per-
suaded Curtis to let him try to re-
vive the Post. At the peak of his
career, he was the most powerful
editor in America. He also was
president of the Curtis Publishing
Co, and a millionaire. When he
retired, at the end of 1886, he had
less than year to live.
Mr.. Tebbels occount is highly
readable. 1t also is laudatory be-
yond any critical estimate of the
man and his influence as an editor
The biographer does take notice OF
the shafts that were loosed at the
Post from literary magazines and
from iconoclastic writers, but these
sour notes he regards as of little
consequence. He says Mr.. Lorimer
had IAN enveloping contempt" fol-
professional literary critics. Mr.
sTebbel points to the large number
of significant American writers
whom the Post introduced and bull,
up.
Many Famous Authors.
1t is true, and perhaps forgotten
by many. that the magazine die
print, especially in the. early years
OF the Lorimer regime. some of the
best work by number of writers
who have won q place in American
literature. There were serials ano
stories by Frank Norris, Stephen
Crane. Jack London, o. Henry
Evening star., 1948-04-25

Drury Hatfield, was elected Governor
of West Virginia in 1912. The old
man himself died in his bed in his
86th year. So did Randolph Mccoy,
leader of the enemy, though his
death at 80 was hastened by fall
into an open fire.
Mr.. Jones is a newspaperman,
known to his friends as Pat" and
formerly was on the staff of The
Star. He is a Virginian and an
alumnus of Washington and Lee
University. At present he is a
publishers representative in Wash
ington. His first book, Ranger
Mosby," story of the Confederate
guerrilla chieftain, attracted wide
attention. &C. B. j.
Evening star., 1948-04-25

since Mr.. Lori
mer retired from
the desk he had
occupied S | n C e
1899. But, what
ever the changes
IN policy and
appearance the
Post has made
since, his shadow
still falls across
the masthead a
from which his
n a m e dis a p
peared with un-
just haste. AS
1opo oS I he
Evening star., 1948-04-25

The feud between the two clans
living in the mountains bordering
West Virginia and Kentucky cost
an undetermined number of lives
in the years following the Civil War.
There is record of less than a score
of fatalities. But other men dis
appeared in the mountains and never
were heard of. What the toll was
no one really knows.
Beyond the factual record, the
Hatfeld-M Mccoy feud got into Amer
lean folklore. Although it actually
ended with the battle of Grapevine
Evening star., 1948-04-25

complishment and underplays the
almost hysterical gratitude of the
people who were liberated from the
terrible tyranny of an animal which
had assumed the proportions of an
evil spirit. Col Corbett leaves the
pleasant impression that he would
much rather shoot the beasts of the
forest with camera rather than
with gun. M. Meg.
Evening star., 1948-04-25

CTeek Ill 1000,
it was reported
revived + r o m
time to time un-
til recent years.
The pat r iarch
of the West Vir-
ginia f a mily,
Devil A n S e"
Hatfield, W h O
was a captain in
the Confederate
A r m y, became
almost as fabu-
lous a figure as
Paul Bunyon OF
the N or t Invest
Evening star., 1948-04-25
.Non-MoterioIN Needs
OF Men and Women
THE TEMPLE OF THE SPIRIT
BY Francis Meehan. (E. P. Dut-
ton & Co., Inc; $780,
Reviewed by

ton G. Co., Inc; $780,
Reviewed by
THE REV. MILTON H. KEENE.
Francis Meehan in his latest book,
"The Temple of the Spirit" greets
the reader with outstretched hand
and genial smile, then, linking arms
with him, walks with him down
silent aisles flooded with soft light
from stained-glass windows. The
author knows the Temple of the
Spirit as one who has long wor-
SHIPPED there.
With the quiet persuasion OF a
thoroughly convinced and amply
furnished mind, he brings you to
see that it is the worship of this
temple, dedicated to the great i'm
ponderables, that our world needs
if it is ever to find itself.
Mr.. Meehan discusses with an
abundance Of literary allusion and
scintillating wit the nonmaterial
needs of modern men and women:
Reverence for life; healthy sense
of detachment from material values;
personal humility based upon
frank facing of ones self; solitude,
silence, meditation and, finally, a
personal discipline which is the re-
suit of an intelligent and mature
attitude toward liberty and law.
The book, though convincing, gives
the reader no hint that it is strain
ing to convince him. The urbane
handling of the material is COM
pletely disarming. You put the book
aside-not away, because you will be
looking at it again-with the feel
ing of having been through kind
of religious experience, whispered,
friendly benediction lingering in
your soul.
Evening star., 1948-04-25

who spends his
working hours
figuring out in
come taxes OF
his fellow Off
GERS and giving
them good tips
about expense
accounts. Be-
cause he is like
a cool grove to
women" he is
much S o u 6 n t
after. FIis code
forbids him to
seduce the wives
Of his friends.
although t W o
Evening star., 1948-04-25
Reviewed by
MARY McGRORY.

II just love wars. I don't un-
derstand why anybody wants this
war. to STOP" says Mrs. Willie
Temple, an erstwhile Riverdale,
Calf, matron, who as the wife
of a colonel assigned to keep
Congressman happy, is drinking
deep of the high life of wartime
Washington. She sums up pretty
well the attitude of the adult
delinquents who figure in Elliott
Arnold's blistering novel about
people whose lives in the embattled
Capital were bound by Pentigon,
bedroom and bar, imperiled only by
the "murderous Washington traffic" !"
Mr.. Arnold's no-holds-barred ac-
count of on-the-job chicanery and
after hours debauchery might well
have been written off as exaggerated
if it did not follow so closely on the
heels of last summers headlines on
high echelon hf-jinks. In the light
of the Senate War Investigating
Committees scandalous revelations
there is no choice but to think that
what Mr.. Arnold angrily describes
may well have happened here. Its
effect is further heightened by the
horrible thought that the whole
outrageous farce may be re-enacted
if war comes again. 1t has consider
able shortcomings as novel, but its
situations are unfortunately quite
plausible.
An elegant apartment building
provides the setting for most OF
the blackmail, adultery and other
forms of knavery which make up
the unedifying plot of the story.
The cast is composed largely of
peacetime nobodies and neuroticS
who find themselves in promoting
the deals and angles that war sug-
gests to the sharp character. Mr..
Arnold has been as Jealous as
house detective in detailing up in
their private lives and even by
today's standards Everybody Slept
Here" is broadly explicit. The we'll
based announcements OF Amber
like Kitty Williams, who has violet
eyes and no morals, add to the shock
and sales value of the book, but
are needlessly overemphasized.
Busy Switchboard.
The Capitol House crowd is infor-
mally led by Col. Hank OMalley,
Evening star., 1948-04-25
Novel About War
By a Young EXCL
THE NAKED AND THE DEAD
BY Norman Mailer. (Rinehart &
Co., Inc; 81 81"
Reviewed by
STANLEY BAITZ.

Even if the author of this novel
were well beyond the Is years the
publisher claims for him, this would
have to be put down as one of the
more brilliant products of the post
war literary output. Norman Mailer
not only is facile and imaginative
handler of the written word, but his
human insight is penetrating. 1t
seems extraordinary for one so
young to understand SO well what
goes on in the mind and heart OF
man. His books is about soldiers
one of the spate of war-spawned
novels that have revealed rich veins
of writing talent among our ex-
service men. 1t is better than any
such we have read, with the possible
exception of John Horne Burns
The Gallery"
Mr.. Mailer is complete realist
when it comes to dialogue. He has
allowed himself virtually no o5inhibi-
tions In inscribing the words SOL
diers utter. In that respect he out
Hefningways and out-Farrells those
two outstanding exponents of pun
gent conversation. What's more, he
is forthright-sometimes, it seems,
almost obsessively so-in dealing
conversationally or otherwise with
the subject soldiers talk about most
women. Any one who doesn't get
over the shock in the first few pages
should be gently tapped on the
shoulder and reminded that soldiers
do talk that way. AS it is, it's better
than an even money bet that this
novel will be banned in Boston-and
possibly Philadelphia.
Evening star., 1948-04-25
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
AND THE SATURDAY
EVENING POST

BY John Tebbel. doubleday; 81
The title of this biography is apt,
for the histories of the editor and
of the magazine are inseparable.
More than II years have passed
Evening star., 1948-04-25

s. CARTER BROOKE JONES.
(. The author, a New Englander,
who has written histories of
some leading American families,
including the Roosevelts, and a
critical biography of the late
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, now
offers a salty political chronicle
of the 20s.
The book, he says, does not
pretend to be completely objective,
Afor no book that can be read ever
achieves that end" But, Mr.. Schrift-
glesser adds, 1t was written "for no
ulterior purpose, political or other
wise"
He must have thought, neverthe-
less, that it was timely in this year
OF political confusion and uncer-
:tainty.
His account of the administrations
OF Presidents Harding, Coolidge and
Hoover is frankly biased against the
philosophy of government which
their successive reign Of "normalcy'
represents. He is caustic and bitter
in his depletion of the inadequacles
and failures of these Presidents and
their advisers. He admires President
Wilson and he feels that President
Roosevelt was the greatest apostle OF
democracy since jackson. Yet the
book is not too warped, too preJu-
diced, too focused toward the left,
to be a discerning history OF the
decade, accurate in documentary
detail, pungent in expression. After
. all, few judicial observers. Whatever
their politics or ideas, can fail to
see the evils that blossomed under
the doctrine of laissez-falre.
The Presidency for Sale.
Who brought on the great depres-
sion, or whether any person or group
is particularly responsible, or merely
an inherited system, will continue
to be argued by historians IN the
years to come.
Mr.. Schriftgiesser thinks the cur
tain rose on the tragedy of the early
'3Os when Harding was nominated
in Chicago. He looks back on this
Republican convention as an "ob-
scene spectacle" with the presidency
for sale, and the city packed with
frenzied bidders, their pockets bulg-
ing with money with which to buy
the prize" OF the nomination OF
Harding and Coolidge, he writes:
1.-TWO men less qualified for the type
of political leadership for which the
country was in dire need in the year
1920 would have been difficult to
find"
The scandals of the Harding ad-
ministration, the colorless caution
of the Coolidge years, and the COL
lapse and desperate maneuverings
of the Hoover term are sketched
with dramatic swiftness. Nor does
the author spare the Democrats in
his searching glance at the kaleido-
scopic decade. He hoped, he writes
at the outset, not only to discover
what the Republicans did to the
country, but why the Democratic
4 Party abdicated its historic role as
the party of the people for II
chaotic years.
Mr.. Schriftgiesser gives an ad-
mirable picture of the often-under-
rated Alfred E. Smith and takes
scathing notice of the Ku Kiuxism
that defeated him in 1928.
This Was Normally" is worth
careful reading, particularly by those
who think all the country needs is
to go back to "the good old days"
Evening star., 1948-04-25

is the story of every Presidents
birthplace, his early career, his elec-
ton, the high points of his presi-
dency and the close of his life. It
is the work of two members of the
Library of Congress staff who have
labored long and well to bring forth
q record which should become q
basic document for all Americans
interested in our Chief Executives.
C r.
Evening star., 1948-04-25
Separating Fact From Fable in Story
IOf Famous Feud of HotfieIds and McCoys

THE HATFIELDs AND THE McCOYS T.,
Virgil Darlington University OF North Carolina Press
Evening star., 1948-04-25
PRESIDENTS ON PARADE
By HirSt D. Milhollen and Milton
Kaplan. (MdcmilIdn: $780,.

AdE1d1I. EWUCHs'ssUt, WV"
Here, for the first time, are gath
cred together in single volume the
photographs, drawings, prints and
campaign posters of every American
President from Washington to Tru-
man. Here, as only the pictorial
method of presentation can tell it,
Evening star., 1948-04-25
|High-Living
Fighting Men
|OnthePotondc

EVERYBODY SLEPT HERE
BY Elliott Arnold. (DueH, Sloan
& Pe1rce; $3.)
Evening star., 1948-04-25
Just How Good
Were Those
ssf
Good Old Days

THIS WAS NORMALLY
BY Karl lSchriftgiesser. atlantic
Little, BroD1; So.
Evening star., 1948-04-25

The Capitol House crowd is infor-
mally led by Col. Hank O'Malley
Evening star., 1948-09-17

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In that fact lies a faint CLEAN Of
hope for world peace and a relief
from Communist agitation.
Joseph Stain is not the leader of
the Russian people. He is the leader
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group Of dictators-
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in turn, is the head
of the Communist
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1t EN- braces only
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nation. It is the bu-
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The Tower of Butter, built in the
18th century, is in Rouen, France.
It was erected with money contrib
uted to the priests by the peasants
who so priced butter as food that
they paid for the privilege of eat
ing it during Lent.
Milford chronicle., 1948-04-23

ter Freeman Clifford, Elizabeth Nc
DOWell ShOckley v Mark H. Shock,
ley, Grace M. Harrington v Ralph
Harrington, Minnie Opal Watkins
v Harry Louis Watkins, Nancy v.
Mason v James A. Mason, Leroy
Handy v Martha M. Handy, Miner
va M. Wheatley V Elon w. Wheat
ley, Edna r. Willin v Amos Willin,
Ella Paris Bounds v James A.
Bounds, Oliver M. DerriGksOn v
Mildred J. Derrickson, and Uhland
H. johnson Bessia A. johnson.
Final DEGREES were granted as
follows: Preston A. Hickman v
Kathryn o. Hickman, Beatrice E.
Rementer V Chester j. Rementer,
John Stephen Smith v Helen Eliza
beth Smith, William J. HOIIinger "
Grace Church HOlhnger, Elsie S.
Belts V William Milton Belts, Elsie
X. Layton v Harvey w. Layton,
Beatrice ]. Powell William H.
Powell, Harold w. Kitchens v
Grace J. Kitchens, Mary Kathryn
Hudson Frank r. Hudson, ClIas.
A. Johnson v Diana Johnson, Clara
B. Dennis William ]. Dennis,
Ralph w. FOskey v Dorothy Mae
Foskey, Ruth Ada Dubois v Harold
Dubois, Susie X. Wingate John
G. Wingate, Charles S. Rust, Jr. v
Gladys S. Rust, Elsie M. Hopkins
" Merritt F. Hopkins, Emma HOr-
sey Wynder v Ralph r. Wynder,
and Earl Richardson Todd v Mar
ian Evelyn Todd.
James f. Walls, of Georgetown,
has announced the engagement of
his sister. Miss Virginia Elizabeth
Walls, to Mr.. Walter WillougI1Ey
Speakman. Miss Walls is the
daughter of the late Mr.. and Mrs
George Elton Walls of George
town, and Mr.. Speakman is the
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Cumlnins b
Speakman of Smyrna. No date has
been set for the wedding.
Mr.. and Mrs. William e. Joseph
of Georgetown, were guests of hon
or at dinner attended by a large
number of members of the family
1 and friends, in celebration of theii
50th wedding anniversary on Sun
day, April IL. Mr. and Mrs. JOSEPH
We're married in 1898 by the late
Rev William Tindell, of George
I town. Both were born in George
town. Mrs. Joseph is the former
Addie L. Rogers and Mr.. JOSEPH
is a son Of the late Mr.. and Mrs
William Joseph. They have spen
their lives here.
George w. Hudson, aged 78 years
farmer of near Georgetown, diel
Tuesday of this week after severa
months illness. A native and life
long resident of Sussex county
Mr.. Hudson was a son of the lat
Milford chronicle., 1948-04-23
GEORGETOWN

Mrs. Duane Lynn, of Milford,
was guest speaker at a luncheon
and meeting of the Georgetown
New Century Club last week. Mrs.
Lynn spoke on the art and culture
of Belgium, Holland, France and
E England, describing historic
churches and buildings and much
of the life and habits of the peo-
pie of these countries.
Mrs. Isabelle Pepper read a pa
per devoted to the life and inter
ests of the late Mrs. A. d. Warner,
who was a sponsor of the local
club. The club observed a period
of silent prayer in memory of
Mrs. Warner. Mrs. Pepper also re-
ported the planting of a dogwOod
tree on the grounds of the club
house, in accordance with request
of Mrs. Warner.
Mrs. Linden McI1valne ana Mrs
John Bainbridge were elected as
delegates to the Golden Jubilee
Convention to be held in Whining
ton May 13 and Ia. Alternates
named were Mrs. Charles r. Can
non and Mrs. J. Ralph Carey.
The club will conduct installa-
tiOn ceremonies of the recently
elected officers at the meeting on
April 20.
Seventeen decree nisi divorces
and 19 final DEGREES have beer
haDdhd down drrino 4ba o,,r,,o,,,
session of Superior Court il
Georgetown. The DEGREES nisi were
granted in the following suits
Elmer F. COverda1e v Pearl M
COverdale, Edna Charlotte Hal
Townsend v Edgar Wilson Town
send, Gloria c. Childress v Ray S
FChildress, Harry c. Burton, Jr.,
Anna Eta Burton, Fannie Heller
Truitt Joseph Francis Truitt
Virginia S. Wells Samuel Dem
Wells, Pearl Ellen Clifford Wal
Milford chronicle., 1948-04-23

has been deferred. Il will be held
May 25th, in Jones Memorial Hall.
Earl Rust heads the committee in
charge Of arrangements. The Ki-
wants Club and the Georgetown
Lions will jointly sponsor a min-
strel show, in the near future, the
date as yet Uriannounced.
In comnemi0ration of Interna-
ti0nal Good viii Week, letters from
w. L. Mackenzie King, Prime Min
lister Of Canada, and from Pfesi-
dent Truman were read. The let
ters were addressed to DR.. Charles
W. Armstrong, president Of Ki-
wants International, and cOngrat-
rulated the KiWanians on their fine
efforts toward establishing good
will between nations. Following
the meeting, club members visited
the local high school to view q
demonstration put on by the local
Office of the Diamond State Tele-
phone Company, which gave
birds-eye view of the various divi-
sions and operations of the com
pany.
Roland G. Messick, of Milford.
was guest speaker at the Millsboro-
Georgetown Rotary Club. Mr.. Mes
sick spoke principally on problems
confronting the youth of America
land of the responsibility resting
on leaders in aiding to build a welI-
balanced program Of aid to yonth.
He especially stressed the need for
religious training as a vital part of
such a program. "A native and
former resident of Georgetown, Mr..
Messick gave "Reminiscences Of the
town, covering period of the
last fifty years. He was intro
duced by Harley Ryan, program
chairman.
] Demonstrating their culinary
ability, the Blue" team of the
Mems Bible Glass of Grace Church.
this week, prepared and served a
fried chicken dinner to the 'Red"
team, which was a winner in the
recent membership contest spon-
sOred by the class. The dinner
was served in the social hall of the
church. The Mems Bible Glass
and the Mems Club have combined
and reOrganized. Officers of the
class are Walter Smith, president;
Charles Trammell, vice-president:
Charles Greene, secretary, and
Robert Wyatt, treasurer. TIL e
class is planning another member
ship contest beginning this coming
Sunday and running through the
next six weeks.