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Evening star., 1948-09-19
Story Of oGHI
WhoCouIdn't
Learn to SoyNo
HERSELF SURPRISED.

HERSELF SURPRISED.
BY Joyce Cary. Harper e. Bros,
49,
Sara Mondays only real fault
was that she couldn't say no
1t wasn't that she lacked a moral
sense exactly, for she had been
brought up by a strict mother
attended church regularly, and
read avidly the uplifting novels OF
Charlotte M. Yonge. 1t was just
that when any one asked her to dc
something-and she was the sort
who often caused men to make sug-
gestions that to less tolerant ears
might sound improper-she could
always think of some good reason
for complying. No one was more
amazed than she at the calamity
that arose from sheer good will.
Raffish Sara, a Wayward cook, is
the heroine of this entertaining
novel by Joyce Cary, a well-knoW
and prolific English writer whose
work should be imported in larger
quantities. While Herself Sur
priseG" is not quite so readable as
The Moonlight" the only other o1
his works to be published here, be-
cause it is told in the first person
and partakes slightly of the newt
able monotony of that type of story
it is still a mastery piece of char
acterization.
Sara's "reminiscences begin in the
court and prison, where her adapt
able nature had led her She con.
cludes with resolve to keep s
more watchful eye on her flesh mex
time, but any reader will know thai
for Sara to try to keep her capacit!
for enjoyment-innocent and other
wise-Within the wobbly frameWork
of her principles is as hopeless g
task as trying to stuff fat pillow
into small pillowcase
Most Inconsistent.
But quite as interesting as Sara's
misadventures is her habit of strain.
ing at the gnat of gentility while
swallowing eagerly the camel OF
larger indiscretions. For instance
she staunchly refuses to pose in the
nude for Gully Jimson, her dis
reputable artist lover, although she
lives with him in sin for several
years, and loves it. Sara had mar
ried her first master because ht
asked her to, and for many years
she was a passably respectable ma
tron and mother of four. Later after
the soul-satisfying interlude with
Jimson, she again became a cook
and the mistress of Mr.. Wilcher. hel
hypocritical, lecherous miserly mas
ter. She always addressed him as
sir" If she stole from him fol
Jimson, it was simply that she felt
that art, as well as nature, must
be served.
Mr. Cary has made Sara heart
lily likeable soul who is perfectly
willing to admit her errors, if not
regret them. She responds gustily
to charm and beauty and goodness
and he wisely shows her praise of
nature in her own culinary terms
She says, for example that the
sand was as bright gold as deep
fried potatoes" Herself Surprised
is an fiawlessly consistent self -por-
trait. earthly but never lewd, of a
perfect product of the what was
to do" school. 1t obviously amused
Mr.. Carey to write it and it will
amuse you to read it. M MEG. .
Evening star., 1948-09-19
GANDHI's AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Reviewed by
STANLEY BAITZ.


M. K. Gandhi was a devout man,
the spiritual leader of millions, in
deed, one of the strongest nom
military leaders the world has ever
known. This, then, becomes a sig
nifcant tract in that in it the man
himself relates the circumstances
and events of his formative years.
The cornerstone of his spiritual
strength was an abiding faith in
the workings of the Almighty. Con-
commitantly, he clung to an un-
shatterable belief in the basic good
ness of man, although there were
times when, perturbed over some
arrant injustice, he must have found
his tower of faith swaying at least
wee bit.
While this is an unfinished work
cit carries through only to 1920, 1t
is enough to see the stirring OF
Gandhis religious consciousness and
his abandonment of a law practice
in order to devote himself COM
pletely to social service.
Gandhi came of respected and
deyout family of the Bania caste of
merchants. Much of his later re-
derived from a mother
whom he described as sanity
woman who took frequent VOWS OF
Evening star., 1948-09-19
Gen. Pershinq,
Soldier
Nobody Knew

JOHN ]. PERSHING: GENERAL
OF THE ARMIES
BY Frederick Palmer. MILITARY
Sercice Publishing Co.; $780,
Reviewed by
FLETCHER F. ISBELL.
When the German avalanche
crushed France in 1910, Gen. Per-
shing found the facts hard to be-
lieve. For the facts were the Allied
command had violated what the
general knew to be the unchanging
principles of war-the fundamentals
that do not vary, however. their ap-'
plication may. The old flash came
TO his blue-gray eyes as he stood
in his Washington apartment: Il
wish I had been over there with my
CHG and the divisions we had from
Cantigny and Chateau -Thierry to
the Meuse-Argonne."
Six years later, in the hour of
victory, Gen. Eisenhower cabled
him: THE stamp of Benning, Sill,
Riley and Leavenworth is on every
American battle in Europe and
Africa" He meant that the Ameri-
can field commanders unity of staff
and command conceptions stemmed
directly from a military educational
system reorganized and indoctri-
mated by Gen. Pershing. Exactness
in training the first AEF laid the
foundation for the triumph of the
second.
On this theme Col. Palmer has
built a biographical account which
has the advantage of the authors
association with the subject for over
Evening star., 1948-09-19
FROM THE HEART OF EUROPE
BY F. o. MatthieSsen. (Orford
UniDersitU Press. So

FROM THE HEART OF EUROPE
BY F. o. Matthiessen. (Orford
University Press; So
AS "a student in professors cloth
ing" F. o. Matthiessen. distin-
guiSlled and vocal member of the
Harvard faculty and an outstanding
interpreter of the. works of Henry
James. went to Europe in the sum-
mer of l947 as a kind of cultural
envoy. A self-described Socialist
without Q party who will vote for
Henry Wallace in November, he
came home to find that many Of his
accustomed activities had become
"supversive" and with his conviction
of the need for cooperation and
communication between nations re-
affirmed. The lntellectual's reSpon-
sibillty in these days of clogged
channels he feels is to make clear
to the rest of the world the differ
ence between the Official and the
real versions of life in their own
countries
At Salzburg. where he conducted a
seminar on American literature in
a beautiful old castle for students
of Is European countries, he OBJ
served "a pervasive background of
nopeleSSness" which. added to war
exhaustion, depletion of libraries and
lack of food money and heat made
the European scholars life pre-
carious one. But he found there,
as everywhere else in Central Europe
an avid curiosity about America.
Even in Hungary, 300 half-frozen
students crowded into a lecture
hall to hear him discuss Robert
Lowell and Karl Shapiro.
Responsibility Of the Press.
At the heart OF his journal, which
Is equally about America, his own
political development and literary
points of view. are his impressions
of Czechoslovakia on the eve Of its
communication. He has not revised
his estimate of the situation, al
though he admits in a footnote that
Joseph Alsop's diagnosis OF creeping
terror" (Which to him seemed 9
normal political anxiety would
appear to have seen right. He still
holds to the position that "our
newspapers, writing with such exag-
geration and lack Of understanding,
bear q grave responsibility for hav-
ing increased the tension between
East and West" And. more signifi-
eantly, he believes that 1T Czecho-
slovaKla can continue to advance
into socialism, without the authori-
tartan coercion of the one-party
state, 1t will have demonstrated the
bases for possible fusion between
Evening star., 1948-09-19
A Student in Professors Clothing Draws
Some Intellectual Comparisons Abroad

the traditions Of the East and
West Brave words, these days,
you must admit.
While Mr.. Matthiessen's forth
rightness and good will are admi-
rable, even the least chauvinistic of
his readers may find his unfavor-
able comparisons between intel
lectual life here and abroad a trif1e
wearying. But he has been, as he
says, a subjective observer, whose
privilege it is often to see what he
wants to see M. Meg.
Evening star., 1948-09-19
He Played With
.Gar6antua

Guests tempted to slip quietly out
of the Statler without observing the
little formality of paying their bill,
might think twice if they knew that
the credit manager of that hostelry,
Arthur G. Abbott, is one of the few
men alive who ever played with
Gargantua, the giant gorilla, who
scares children out of their wits.
It was during one of Mr.. Abbott's
trips home from Nigeria, where he
served at one time as beachmaster,
and before Gargantua, then a little
Evening star., 1948-09-19

guished himself at Baltimore or
South Fallsburg, but now has re-
established his prospects as one of
our young hopefuls.
The SD monthly Feud at the
Divan on September 8 resulted in q
victory for the McCoys by 71a-54a.
The particulars.
Evening star., 1948-09-19
WEST POINT

BY John Crane and James E.
Kelley. (Whittlesley House Nc
Grd,O-HiH Book Co.; So
Dedicated to the United States
Cadet Corps, this admirably COM
piled pictorial record and story OF
the Military Academy and its long
line of distinguished alumni is a
must" for every military library.
A foreword by President Truman
and more than 500 illustrations
high light the volume.
Evening star., 1948-09-19
"A Timely Handbook
OF Labor Law
LABOR LAW,
290 Questions and Answers
BY Reginald Parker. (Central
Rnop N e1
Reviewed by
MILTON M. PLUMB. Jr.

MIL1UN NJ. PLUMB, JT.
Editor OF the Encyclopedias OF Labor
A significant contribution to un-
derstanding in the complex field Of
labor law, useful to lawyers and
laymen alike. is presented in ques-
ton -and-answer form by DR.. Regi-
nald Parker, associate professor Of
law at Columbus University, Wash
ington, D. C. Inclusion of COM
ments on, and interpretations Of
the Hartley Act makes the
book especially timely. but the his
torical and constitutional back
ground of labor legislation in all its
aspects is also covered.
Evening star., 1948-09-19
STORM AND ECHO.
% oIlNl AMI GCnC
BY Frederic Prokosch.
NINA PEMRERTON

NINA PEMBERI ION.
There is a distinct note of sultry
meditation on the fate of mankind
in this latest contribution to the
literary lore on Africa. Mr.. Pro-
kosch has poured platitudes as we'll
as much colorful prose into Storm
and Echo"
Here is a story about four men in
Evening star., 1948-09-19

thing, became so antisocial His
erstwhile playmate came to our at
tention because he is the author of
a book called The Color of Life"
which he intends to follow up very
soon with an encyclopedia on sound.
After that, he'll do volume on
taste and smell.
Speaking of the colorful life, that
is exactly what Mr.. Abbott has had.
He was born in Carrollton, Mo,
but has spent most of his adult life
working either on ships or in hotels,
and has travelled all over the world.
Although he seems a serious, rather
matter-o of fact person, Mr.. Abbott
said he has always liked the "holi-
day atmosphere" of the cruise or
the hotel. He has always been in
terested in art, too, but disliked the
solitude of the drawing-board.
He enjoys his work just as much
as his hobby, and is rather proud of
his ability to spot bad credit risk
or a counterfeit bill. He can't tell
you how he does it, though. Just
lunches it.
Why Statesmen
Should Read Novels
Another writer embarked on a
long-term project is F. c. Weiskopf
author of Children of Our Time. y
That is sequel to Twilight on the
Danube" and the second of a pro-
jected four or five novels which will
tell the history of our time through
the story of a family, ending with
Munich.
A Czechoslovakian who wrote his
first play at 10 and turned out a
steady stream of books and foreign
correspondence until he came here
in 1889, he is currently serving as
first counselor in his countrys En-
bassy here. The post was offered
him during a visit to Czechoslovakia
last winter and it was the last ap-
pointment made by the late Jan
Masaryk.
Mr.. Weiskopf, who is tail and
balding, with a smile that reveals
perfect white teeth, spoke with some
pride of the book-reading procliv-
tiles of his countrymen.
Jan Masaryk, he said, was an
omnivorous reader who liked mys-
teries for diversion. And Thomas
Masaryk, the founder of Czechoslo-
vakia and its first President, once
told him, Mr.. Weiskopf recalled,
that Statesmen should read novels
because they can learn from them
almost more than from fat volumes
of sociological works"
\ 4 +
Miscellaneous Notes.
Coming up: Kay Somersby, Gen.
Eisenhower's English WAC aide,
has written her memoirs of her il
lustrious wartime boss.
Also in the works is "The Vir-
ginia Reader: A Treasury of Writ
ings from the First Voyages to the
Present" which has been edited by
young Coleman Rosenberger, a Vir-
ginia Democrat, who has served as
personal assistant since 1912 to a
Republican from Ohio, namely,
Representative Bender.
Mr.. Rosenherger's background is
100-proof Virginia. He was born in
Manassas, attended the University
of Virginia College and Law School
and now lives in Alexandria. THE
Virginia Reader" will be published
by Dutton in November. Thereafter,
he will devote his literary efforts to
The Jefferson Reader" which will
be a collection Of writings about
Jefferson, whom Mr.. Rosenberger
deeply admires.
Evening star., 1948-09-19

The electric clocks of the Divan
were lent for use at South Fallsburg,
and presumably timed half the
games of the national champion
ship. The club celebrated their re-
turn with a five-minute tourney
September IL. Hans Berliner was
convincing winner with ga a-112, and
Carl Hesse good second with 7ta-
2l2. 1t. Comdr. Walter C. Michaels.
a newcomer to District chess from
the Pacific Coast, led for much Of
the way, but toward the end dropped
to IA, and was nosed out for third
prize by D. H Mugridge, who made
IA -3h2.
Evening star., 1948-09-19

A rapid transit tourney at the
Federal Chess Club September 7
was won by Norman T. Whitaker
with 80. DR.. H. " Klein was sec
ond with 6la-11a, and Edmund Nash
third with 6-2.
Evening star., 1948-09-19
The Public Relations
Bows Are eGiven Some
Huckster re0tment

NOBODY'S FOOL
BY Charles Yale Harrison. Holt
& Co., So
, 1948-10-07
Municipal.

fore, that participation in pol
itical campaigns preliminary
to our local elections is not
prohibited by the Hatch Act.
Of course permissible partici-
patton in political campaigns
does not include any use of
public office to intimidate or
coerce voters or to hold out
promise of reward to voters.
1T should also be pointed
out that my understanding &
Interpretation of the Hatch
Act is not binding upon the
Civil Service Commission nor
the courts which are charged
with the enforcement of that
law.
Finally, quite apart from
the Hatch Act" no employee
Of the Government of the Vir-
gin Islands is permitted to use
his worktime for political ac-
tivity.'
, 1948-10-07
PUBLICATION

It is hereby brought to pub
lie notice that Trademark No.
64,125 shown below which was
registered in the United States
Patent Office, w Washington, DC
on July %, 1907, in the name of
Anheuser-Bush Brewing AS
sociation of st. Louis, Missouri
a corporation organized under
the laws of Missouri, which
was renewed on May 8, 1927
for twenty years from July %,
1927, to Anheuser- Bush, Incor-
porated, of st. Louis, Missouri,
a corporation Of Missouri, and
which was further renewed on
June "a, 1947, to Anheuser-
Bush, Inc, Of st. Louis, Miss
oufl, a corporation OF missouri
which has made a showing Of
ownership of the trademark
originally registered to An
heuser-Busch Brewing Assoc
citation for twenty years from
July %, 1947, has this date
been registered in the Office
of the Government Secretary
Of the Virgin Islands of the
United States at Saint Thomas
in accordance with the provi-
sions IN the regulations gov
erning the registration Of Pa
tents and Trademarks in the
Virgin Islands, approved April
l, 1916.
, 1948-10-07
Adm. Taylor

the presentation Of your en-
tertainment represent a great
deal of work as well as
thought. Think it is very fine
that you enabled our less for
tunate citizens to share in the
entertainment.
Miss Richards sent a reply
to the Administrator which
will be published.
, 1948-10-07
Alexander

Aeronautics Board in Wash
ington last April. As a repre-
sentative Of the Chamber, he
presented oral arguments ia
voring permission to Pan Am.
World Anyways to make
scheduled stops in st. Croix.
The CAA recently certified
Pan Am to make stops here,
which is what the Chamber
had been fighting for.
, 1948-10-07
A D V { R IT, {
IT PAYS
SALE

One Westinghouse 8 Burner
Electric Range with large
Oven. complete with Broiler.
fer use on go Volts A.C.
Good Condition
Contact Gordon M. Skeoch
Est. Hannahs Rest
Frederiksted, st. Croix. vi.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-09-02

Just how important the work of
the unions political action league
can be is clear when these figures
are checked with those published
in a nationwide Gallup Poll last
week.
The Gallup Poll showed the Re-
publican ticket headed by Thomas
f. Dewey running III ahead Of
the Democrats and President Tru-
man. Among people who are sure
they're going to the polls the Re-
publican lead is 14%6. It's only
9% among the people who "may
vote" and Truman leads Dewey
by 1870 with the eligible voters who
don't plan to perform their demo-
cratic duty Of going to the polls in
November.
This is why labor's political edu-
cation committees are concentrat-
ing now on getting union families
registered, and why they'll be
working SO hard to get you to the
ballot boxes in November. Your
vote can determine what sort Of
Congress we have next year as
well as who's in the White House.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-09-02
STU Wage Boost
Set Pattern For
Maritime Pacts

New York (LPA)-The Seafar-
ers' Int'l Union-AFL last week
won $3.50 to $25.OO increases on
II vessels of the Waterman Steam
ship Corp, keeping in the pattern
which they established the week
before for the entire maritime in
dustry.>
The maritime wage front was
broken when STU forced eight At
lantic & Gulf Coast ship operators
to sign by what they call "job act
ion at the point of production"
This involved immobilizing the
ships without any long planning
or announcements which might
have brought on crippling "cease
and desist" injunctions like those
slapped on other maritime unions.
The contracts have two-year
duration, $3.50 across-the-board
increases for all hands except
Bosuns who got $25. In addition to
the wage and working condition
provisions, the operators agreed to
provide a glass-covered bulletin
board and book rack for union liter
ature aboard all their ships.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-09-02

with highest raises amounting to
$32 per month. Lowest-paid work
ers were raised from $3.50 to $40
per month. Highest-paid civil SER
wants were raised from S751 to $783
per month. These are strictly cost
of living increases, merit raises be-
ing granted separately.
What happens when the cost of
living index goes down instead of
up? The plan specifies that auto
matte pay decreases are to be made
on the same basis as increases-in
proportion to changes in the cost of
living index.
Although almost a score of cities
have pay adjustment plans based on
the cost of living index, Minnesota's s
plan is unique among the states.
The first city plan was also Min
nesota product-being put into eff
feet in st. Paul 26 years ago. When
the cost of living decreased during
the depression, the pay of st. Paul
city employees was decreased pro-
portionately.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-09-02
Picture News of The Year

Washington LPA)- The year
that has passed since Labor Day,
l947 is one Of the most momen-
tous in labor history. These twelve
months are most famous as the year
in which the Taft Hartley law went
into effect. Much violence and rule
by injunction was due to the spirit
and letter Of that law. Other things
happened last year which might,
in the long run, mean more to the
American labor movement than the
temporary set-backs suffered un-
der Taft-Hartley. The Marshall
plan was put into operation and
labor extended its activities in the
international field At home, there
were new political alliances with
large parts Of the labor movement
wayering at times in their tradi-
tional support Of the Democratic
Party. Every branch Of the unior
movement now has its own "politi-
cal arm" The Communists were
singled out and rallied to the sup
port of Henry Wallace and the
new Progressive Party. Union pres
sure broke the employers united
front" ard won third round wage
increases. But the average work
er is still suffering under ever
mounting prices.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-09-02
500 Monthly Pension Checks Go
Out To Miners Beginning In Sept.

Washington, d. C. (ILNS)-First
$100-a-month pension checks for
retired bituminous miners will be
mailed in September, the United
Mine Workers of America announ-
ced here.
Forms have been sent to local
unions in 2 coal producing states on
which to make applications for
payments from the $100,000,0O0
welfare and retirement fund raised
by a contribution of 20 cents ton
on all coal mined.
Pension payments will be made
to eligible anthracite miners from
their own separate fund in the near
future, the union said.
The soft coal pensions will be
made under terms of plan adopt
ed by John l.. Lewis and Senator
H. Styles Bridges of New Hamp-
shire, trustees of the fund over the
opposition of Ezra Van Horn, en-
ployers trustee. The plan was
adopted in April to end the miners
"pension strike" In June Federal
Judge T. Allan Goldsborough rul-
ed that the plan was legal and per-
mitted it to go into effect.
Those eligible will be union min
ers 62 years or older, with 20 years
service, who retired after May 29,
1916. Local, district and interna-
tional union officers must certify
as to the applicants union MEM
bership, age and term of service.
Regulations adopted by the trus-
tees for computing "years of serv-
ice" fix the starting date for pen
sion payments as the first month
after retirement of the pensioner.
Monthly payments will be made on
the first day of each month.
Payments will be suspended for
any month in which the pensioner
works for pay in the coal industry,
ceases to be member of the union
in good standing, or is mentally in
competent or otherwise incapable
of conducting his affairs.
The union said the 500 month
is 81 per cent of the average mon
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-09-02
Minnesota Grants Pay Increases
Based on Cost of Livinq Index

Chicago (ILNS)-Under a uni
que state salary plan, some 10000
employees of the state of Mime
sofa were recently granted cost of
living pay increases. The Civil Ser
vice Assembly Says that Minnesota
is the only state in which state en-
ployes are granted by law pay ad-
justments based directly on fluctu-
ations in the Bureau of Labor Sta
tistics cost of living index.
A key feature of the plan is that
it operates automatically. When
the cost of living goes up 9 points
during the year, Minnesota en-
ployes are granted pay raises of
as much as SIC per month without
having to wait for further legisla-
tive action.
The adjustments are made an
nually July l. This is the first year
the automatic provision was in op-
Grafton. Since the price index for
Minnesota advanced from 1882 to
1862 during 1947, a "two-step" in
crease was granted this summer
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-09-02
November Results Depend
On Your Registering Now

Minneapolis IPA) A survey
made in Minneapolis recently shows
that 25R more business and pro-
fessional men out Of hundred
registered for the 1914 elections
than did trade union members.
When election day came 27% more
of the non-union men voted.
The wives of union members
turned in really poor record.
Only 529o Of the ladies registered,
and mere 46R voted. In contrast,
1870 of the wives Of business and
professional men registered and
77%o Of them got to the polls.
The survey was made by Jack
Lyons, who conducts the famous
political poll at the Minnesota State
Fair every year. Lyons himself
wasn't happy about his figures.
He's a Democratic Farmer-Labor
party supporter.
Lowest registration and voting
percentages Of all, Lyons said, is
among unorganized workers and
their wives. Only 1870 of the un-
organized, and 27%o Of their wives
vote, Lyons reported.