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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-09-30
Many Teachers Plan
To Attend State Meet

Many teachers of Garrett county
were making plans to attend the
Maryland State Teachers association
meeting in Baltimore on October 7,
and 9, and it was announced this week
by R. Bowen Hardesty, assistant
county superintendent of schools, that
the schools of the county would be
closed on Thursday and Friday, Oc-
tober and 8, to allow all of the III
teachers to attend if they cared to do
so.
Meetings are scheduled in the 9Th
regiment armory. Some of the speak
ers will include Pearl S. Buck, Dr.
Otto S. Kraufhear, of Goucher college,
and John w. Vandercook.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-09-30
Named Health Nurse

Miss Betty Shaffer, R. N. daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Dewey Shaffer, of
Swanton, has been appointed health
nurse for Garrett county.
Miss Shaffer, who has been nursing
at Potomac Valley hospital, Keyser,
W. Va, will assume her duties Oc-
tober l.
At present Mrs. Neil Walter is the
only health nurse in the county.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-09-30
Wins Golf Match

Mrs. |. ]. Bosley won the Ladies
Golf tournament at the Oakland
Country club last Sunday afternoon,
defeating the runner-up, Mrs. Ralph
Pritts.
Cheston Browning, Jr., was the
victor in the second flight of the mems
tournament, the top flight having
been won by Phil Contic previously.
Winners in the third and fourth
flights are yet to be determined.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-09-30
Killing Frost Hits County

Two killing frosts were experienced
in the county during the past week,
striking on successive mornings, Sun
day and Monday.
The lowest reading in and around
Oakland was 20 degrees, on Monday
morning. Other places in the county
reported % degrees on Sunday with
slight moderation on Monday.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-09-30

Fourth street, at the north edge of
town, is torn up this week with town
workmen preparing to lay the sewer
and water lines for the new hospital,
SO that no delay will be experienced
next spring when needed.
Evening star., 1948-09-26
Reviewed by
w. H. HARRISON.

The tales told by Mr.. Lang ap-
peared originally in the New York
er. Informal and straightforward
in style, they are at once instruc-
tive and entertaining They begin
with the story of the measures
taken during the war to keep our
atomic project secret. Touching
only lightly upon nuclear fission it
self, they deal chiefly with the peo-
pie and the physical operations be-
hind it-scientists, technicians, Gov
ernment officials, the layout at Oak
Ridge, the atmosphere of Los Ala
mos, the experimentation with W.
rockets at the White Sands Proving
Ground, the hopeful peacetime re-
search at Brookhaven National Lab
oratory, and other groups and places
directly or indirectly associated with
the development of the most deadly
and revolutionary force ever har-
messed by man. Mr.. Lang's report
does not pretend to be dednitive or
profound but it is certainly inter-
esting, and in some ways it is more
Illuminating than much of the vast
volume of heavier literature that
has been turned out on the subject.
Recommended for anybody who
would like to read something about
the atom without being overpow-
cred by abstruse technicalities or
scared stiff by predictions of immi-
nent doom.
Evening star., 1948-09-26
Anne Parrish Novel
Is Worthy Memorial
TooHeroic Slave
A CLOUDED STAR.

BY Anne. Parrish. Harper &
Bros s2.75.)
This is an object lesson in what
fastidious artistry can do with a
historical theme. Miss Parrish has
distilled into a brief novel the char
acter and service Of Harriet Tub
man, the slave who led 300 of her
people to freedom through the un-
derground railway. She has writ
ten with a clean spare beauty of
prose and piercing insight which
makes other productions in the field
seem overweight and overweight.
But it is more than . sure and
moving study of the squat, aging.
indomitable Negress, who was
Moses" to those who followed her
in trembling to Canada Miss Par
rish has given a horrifying picture
of what it meant to be slave
And this she has done-without
melodrama or histrionics, without
ever raising her voice in abolitionist
editorializing-through the simple
and inspired device of showing it
through the eyes of a gentle 9-year-
old boy named Samuel Mingo, who
was separated from his loving par
ents by a master paying a debt of
honor.
Samuel, timid and homesick at
Tranquility after being dragged
from Ellen's Portion, learns that
most white folks are "sometimey."
The great exception is Miss Amanda
Piper, aged II, from Boston, his
forbidden playmate who plaques
and pushes him onto the freedom
road.
So Miss Parrish has conveyed in
all its luxury and languor and
plenty that river life, with it's dark
sioe of terror and oppression, thus
setting the scene for the appear
ance of Moses" and her mighty re-
solve. Moses has little more than
her faith in God. with whom she is
in constant communications; her
love of her people, her hideous
memories and few friends along
the way. AS she herds her little
band on the route, she must cope
with jealousy. terror, resentment
and incipient rebellion. Song and
laughter sometimes break the jour-
ney, and they are sometimes sub
ject to nostalgia pride for the splen-
dors of the homes they served.
Only Moses is steadfast, shepherd
ing them by the North Star, great
hearted, humble and buoyant. Miss
parrish's novel is perfect little
memorial to that great woman.
| M McG
Evening star., 1948-09-26

1t would seem from the sympa-
thetic telling of this story that
Texas-born John Garner never once
was in doubt as to the objectives
of his life and never once failed in
the achievements of these objec-
tives. Born in relative poverty, he
laid early foundations for his
economic success and has long since
been in the millionaire class. Struck
in comparative youth with the de-
termination to become a member
of Congress. he deliberately sought
his training in the Texas Legisla-
ture and then virtually created a
new congressional district in the
frontier State from which he was
to move to Washington.
Once in the Capitol here, he de-
liberately charted his course in the
House to bring himself commanding
position on the powerful Ways and
Means Committee - relinquishing
ranking position on the House For
eight Affairs Committee in order to
hold to his pre-eminent concern
with domestic matters.
Climax of His Ambition.
BY 1928 he was leading House
minority that was more often a
majority and by 1880 he was Demo-
cratic Speaker under the Republi-
can administration of President
Herbert Hoover. To John Garner,
the speakership was the climax of
his ambition and he saw in the po-
Evening star., 1948-09-26

Lincoln, his coattails Tapping be-
hind him, came dashing up the Of
flee stairs. Billy" he asked breath
lessly, do you want to enter into
partnership with me in the law
business?"
Thus in 1874 began the intimate
life of Billy Herndon and Abe Lin
coin in the Springfield firm of Lin
coin g. Herndon. AS Lincoln ad-
vanced to the presidency Herndon
slipped behind his partner. He saw
him only once in the White House.
But, says Mr.. Donald in this fas-
cinating, ultrareadable and highly
important Lincoln book. "Lincoln's
death was the most important event
in Herndon's life.'
He began at once to devote his
life to the memory of Lincoln, a
task broken only by the near
futile legal practice and hard life
on the farm necessary to grub an
existence.
This devotion to Lincoln led, in
his final years, to the publication
of "Herndon's Lincoln" a book
which Mr.. Donald calls (and to
which Carl Sandburg agrees in a
forward) "the most controversial
Lincoln biography ever written"
Herndon never received a cent of
ROYALTIES.
Mr.. Donald, now Columbia Uni
versity history instructor, has told
in these brilliantly constructed pages
the story of Billy Herndon, his fond
ness for drink, his love of good
tale, his hatred of the law, but above
all his desire 'to write the life of
Lincoln as I saw him, honestly
truthfully-courage geously-fearlessly,
cut whom it may" AS the reader
follows the struggle of Herndon
against the idol makers and his rea-
sons for the battles, he will discover
more of the true Lincoln.
Mr.. Donald does not let Herndon
get away with anything. He points
out Herndon's weaknesses in his
torical research although the vely
extent of those researches begun i'm
mediately after Lincoln's death
probably will surprise most readers
as much as it did this reviewer.
Herndon, we learn, was the one who
discovered or publicized most of the
familiar human incidents" in the
Lincoln story-the doubts on the
ancestry of Lincoln and his mother,
the pioneer days in Indiana, the Ann
Rutledge story, the Mary Owens
courtship, the so-called jilting of
Mary Todd before she became Mrs.
Lincoln, the marital troubles of the
Lincolns, the law Office anecdotes.
Herndon wrote at length over the
years of Lincoln; his personal de-
scriptions of the man are magnifi-
cent. The final "Herndon's Lin
coin" which reached publication in
1889, however. was partly the work
of a collaboration, Jesse w. Weik, and
Mr.. Donald makes it clear much
of it is not sound biography.
Evening star., 1948-09-26

OF q LOT OF thangS.
and would, we are told here, have
supported either one if the conven-
ton had so chosen
Wanted to Check F. ID. r.
OF Mr.. Roosevelt, Mr.. Garner is
quoted as follows:
Roosevelt made a good President
for four years and could have been
a great one in the second four. I
wish I had not felt obliged by party
loyalty to 60 on the ticket with him
1892, but I did. He needed Joe
Cannon as Speaker. That would
have been a check on him. I
would have liked to play that part
in Franklin Roosevelt's administra-
ton. think I could have talked
him out of lot of things. That
could have been my contribution. ."
Throughout these 300 pages Mr..
Garner is quoted in unfriendly
words toward only one person
former Representative Tom Blanton
of his own State of Texas.
Il have nothing but the kindliest
feelings for every one" he says on
the final page, but, of course, I
like some people better than
others"
1t is evident that the author, an
experienced and widely beloved
Washington neWspaperman, yields
to no man in his own admiration
and affection for the bushy- -browed
elder statesman from Uvalde.
Evening star., 1948-09-26
AFirst Novel
OfGood Promise
INTRUDER IN THE DUST
BY william Faulkner. Random
House; 49,
Reviewed by
CARTER BROOKE JONES.
NOTHING EVER HAPPENS
SUNDAY MORNING

NV 1142N0 I1f11 ClNO
SUNDAY MORNING
BY Blanche Cannon. g. P. Put
ndm's Sons: s2.75J
Reviewed BY
MARGARET BLAIR SHUMAKER.
On fast Sunday in June, 1900,
Bishop Eben Benson was on the
verge of achieving his life's ambi-
ton of becoming an apostle in the
Mormon Church. He had sacrificed
his wife and children to this dream
and finally even his humanity. He
did not know that at the very meet
ing where he expected to be glori-
fed, the daughter of the town drunk
could name his son as father to her
child. Neither did he know that his
daughter was in love with a hired
man, nor that his wife, whom he
had treated with little more than
scorn, was the only person who
could save him from disgrace. He
couldn't see these things. blinded as
he was with his own approaching
glory, nor did he come to find them
out, for nothing ever happens Sun
day morning"
Here Blanche Cannon has writ
ten more than q promising first
novel, 1t is an achievement In 1t.
self. The story, which can boast oi
Ave main characters who are both
interesting and convincing, u un.
usually good.
Evening star., 1948-09-26

lied ruler of the princely state of
Dampura, marries into the family
of the ultrafeudalistic and strict
Maharaja of Selaipur After the
death Of her husband, Induraja,
then only in her early 20s. refuses
to follow the rigid and restricting
life prescribed for Hindu widows.
Her life becomes a struggle to free
herself from emptiness and useless
ness. She succeeds in obtaining
permission to return to her fathers
home. Once back in the State of
Dampua. Induraja throws herself
into progressive charitable works,
such as providing clinics for the sick
and schools for the poor. The cul-
minating point of Miss Wernher's
novel is the remarriage of Induraja
to DR.. Addur Rahman, Moslem.
Even in the enlightened court of the
house of Dampura, such precedent
had never been set. Marriage be-
tween Hindu and Moslem was the
eliminating defiance to caste and
tradition.
Miss Wernher's "Story of Indu-
raja" carries a definite message;
hope, and an increasing understand
ing between East and West.
Evening star., 1948-09-26
Reviewed by
MARY McGRORY.

A novel particularly of our
time, The Sky Is Red" tells of
four displaced adolescents in a
bombed town in Italy. 1t was
written by an Italian officer cap
tured in Africa during the 30
months he was confined to a pris-
oner -of-war camp in Texas. A best
seller in Italy, it was imported by a
publisher who has expressed the
hope that it will be received as
warmly as the super italian films OF
recent months.
The four principals of the story are
all under II, but they are not teen
ayers, but simply youthful old peo-
pie, hardened by hunger and desoia-
tion. Three of them have come out
of the towns worst Slums, and so
are conditioned to the squalor of
their home IN an abandoned house
of prostitution in an infected area.
But Daniele. a runaway student, who
stumbles onto their shelter, Is recog-
niZed as being softer and more sensl-
tive and curiously enough is respect
ed for it. Tullio, tough leader of a
gang of youthful black marketeers,
will not force Daniele to steal. Carla
earning living among the soldlery
suddenly becomes self conscious
about her profession; Giulia, who
loves him on sight, coddles him with
every small comfort their mean
refuge can provlde.
Wary, resourceful and matter of
fact, they scrounge for food, sldeStep
the police. The coming of the
Americans means more work tor
Carla, little stop-gap aid tor the
others. The coming of peace means
nothing. Only Tullio plans beyond
the day. He is Communist, but so
little do politics matter in tnat bleak,
crippled land that the name OF Mus
sollni is never even mentioned.
The Translation Suffers.
In 4 series of stark, staccato
scenes, Mr.. Berte moves through the
rubble of the town, noting the
apathy and misery of the people,
the half-hearted thrusts at aid ana
rehabilitation on the part of the
authorities. 1t isa pity, incidentally.
that the translation seems to cloud
what must have been the strength
of Berte's style. The translator has
used British rather than American
idioms and contractions, and has
impaired to the conversation of
these waits of war a most unlikely
gentility.
The mood is one Of despair and
exhaustion and bewilderment, and
Mr.. Berte keeps everything in key.
There is a dead level of monotony
in the dialogue and the sombreness
is broken only through the fitful
dream of the tragic romance be-
tween Giulia and Daniele, who de-
rive a brief Joy from their doomed
idyll.
Mr.. Berte, concentrating on each
small detail, builds up realistic,
crudely powerful picture of what
it means to be young and alone in a
ruined Europe.
Evening star., 1948-09-26

In two rapid transit Journeys at
the Washington Chess Divan, the
clubs rapid champion, Hans Ber-
liner, continued to demonstrate his
to the rest of the field.
In the midmonthly rapid Wednes-
day, September IS, he scored 7l2-
III, while D. H. Mugridge had
61a -21s and 1t. Comdr. Walter F.
6-3. In an impromtu rapid
on Saturday, September Is, Berliner
dropped only half a point in drawn
game with Charles D. Mott and was
first with 91a-12. At a considerable
remove o. w. Manney and D. H.
shared the remaining
prizes with 8-2 each. Both lost to
Berliner and, in addition, Manney
Evening star., 1948-09-26

Members of the Federal Chess
Club had an unusual. if not unique
opportunity on Tuesday, September
IA, when Edmund Nash and Hugh
C. Underwood replayed and dis
cussed the game which they con-
tested in the Open Championship
Tourney at Baltimore last July, a
game won by Nash. Audiences at
chess lectures often get to hear one
side of tournament game, but sell
dom both:
The following game, likewise
played at Baltimore, was probably
the best individual performance of
any of the Washington entries. Won
by Martin c. Stark from the we'll
known Brooklyn master, analyst
and collector of chess literature, Al
bert S. Pinkus, it exemplies the same
theme, mobility, as did the game
Stark lost to Oscar Shapiro in the
last District championship, first
published in this column and subse-
quently In the Chess Review"
In order to secure lead in de-
velopment, an advantage in mobili-
ty, and a grip on the opponent s
game. Stark gives up a pawn on his
18th move. He does not regain it
until move 25, but meanwhile Black
is kept busy with efforts to free
his game.
The combination initiated with
Whites 20 P-Q6 (ch) is really very
fine, and ultimately nets him not
only the pawn originally invested,
but a second one as well, which is
sufficient to win the game.
This combination of positional
pressure with tactical sharpness
adds up to fine game. on which we
congratulate Mr.. Stark. The play:
White: Stark. Black: Pinkus.
Evening star., 1948-09-26
Hofstodter's Essays on Great Americans
Recalls Strochey's Eminent Victorions'

THE AMERICAN POLITICAL
TRADITION
BY Richard Hofstadter. fAltred
Knopt, Inc; 81
Reviewed by
FRANCIS P. DOUGLAS.
Not since Lytton Strachey's
Eminent Victorians" has there
been such an urbane and pene-
trating series of essays on the
leaders who Influenced a Ma
tion's thought and actions. DR..
Hofstadter's book is less glib but is
written with a greater background
of scholarship.
In his opinion, the economic vi
sion of the men who made our
political tradition has not extended
beyond the horizons OF property and
enterprise. He holds also that the
sanctity of property and the natural
evolution of self f-interest into q
beneficial social order have been
staple tenets" from Jefferson to
Mr.. Hoover.
Why not extend this to "the pa
trician as opportunist," as he char
acterizes Franklin D. Roosevelt?
DR.. Hofstadter fails to make this
clear. The New Deal, he says, was
designed for q capitalist economy
that Roosevelt took for granted. 1t
may be that DR.. Hofstadter stops
with Mr.. Hoover because Of the
Wagner Act and the soak the rich"
income tax of the second New Deal
Of Herbert Hoover.
Mr.. Hoover, hailing the triumph
over poverty, is pictured by DR.,
Hofstadter as "wild-eyed Utopian
capitalist" And-an ronic touch
when ex-President Hoover's warn
ings went unheeded perhaps it was
the spirit of the people that was not
fundamentally sound"
Both Jefferson and Jackson
aimed to free the natural economic
order from the grip of government
granted privilege. On the other
hand, Theodore Roosevelt, pictured
as the boy who never grew up, Is
described as carefully shadow box
ing with the trusts.
The reader will question the COM
pleteness of some Of DR.. Hofstad-
ter's pictures. No one, Of course,
Evening star., 1948-09-26
AN OWL IN THE SUN.

AN OWL IN THE SUN.
BY Leslie Kark. (The Macmillan
Co.; S275J
Reviewed by
MEREDITH S. BUEL.
This is an absorbing story Of a
man whose intense obsession for
the treacherous woman he loves
leads to his gradual physical and
spiritual decay.
Against the backdrop of shoddy
nightclub in Istanbul, Georges
Leste, an ambitious young French
man, first heard tales of the faith
less woman who was to become his
wife. 1t was when Georges fell in
with a wealthy group of interna-
tionalists that he met the beauteous
Erika Deichsel, q German woman
with mysterious connections and a
notorious past. From the moment
he laid eyes on Erika he became her
creature, q slave to his passions and
drawn into the web Of enchantment
Evening star., 1948-09-26
"A Drama Critic
Looks Through

SEEING MORE THINGS.
BY John Mason Brown. Whit
tleSey House; $780,
Reviewed by
JAY CARMODY.

tlesey House: $780,
Reviewed by
JAY CARMODY.
Next to the electric washing
machine and television indus
tries, the most active force in
the economic community might
well be John Mason Brown. Mr..
Brown, a drama critic by profess
sion is basically the first-nighter
for the Saturday Review of Liter
ature. In addition, he has both ra-
dio and television programs, he is
the pet annual visiting lecturer Of
dozens of women's clubs from coast
to coast, and in whatever spare
minutes he can find he teaches
at the nearest available univer-
sity. He also turns out at least
one book year.
Of duty, he Is the father of two
lively sons, and the husband of one
(the legal number) attractive
woman.
Critic Brown patiently is a superb
provider with more irons in the
fire than the village 'smithy ever
had.
Obviously a man of this over
powering productivity demands an
explanation more than a review.
The explanation is relatively SIM
pie. 1t is no more or less than a
reflection of the fact that the ma
terial of a drama critic is rework-
able into more shapes than the
modelling clay supply in a lively
kindergarten. The play the critic
sees is useful not merely for a
review, but for a radio talk, tele-
vision demonstration, lecture, and
round, rich living for the family,
and ultimately a book.
Seeing More Things" is the per-
feet expression of this truth. 1t
represents a collection of Mr..
Browns criticisms and essays ex-
tracted from his Saturday Review
of Literature department. 1t is the
work of an urbane mind. an enter
tanning reading of the theater and
of life, and curiously alive.
Evening star., 1948-09-26
They Only Wanted
A Permit to Live
WORLD WITHOUT VISA
BY Jean Malaquais. (Doubledas
& Co., Inc; S3.75J
Reviewed by
ROBERT K. WALSH.

UooE4S1 n. "faAo41s
A hard, confused world whirls
around in this Kaleidoscope novel
about people who wanted only a
permit to live" 1t makes for some
hard reading and confusion before
the strange style takes hold, the
long reaches of talk turn out to
be more than words, and the fash
ing bits of character and seemingly
disjointed episodes finally fall into
a pattern.
World Without Visa" translated
by Peter Grant, was first published
in France last year. Malaquais, an
outstanding French author before
the war, found refuge in the United
States after escaping from the Nazis
IN 1910. While his book covers a
particular phase of Frances tragedy
and resistance, its concept is time
less and limitless.
The work is less a narrative, &C
cording to usual conventions, than
an attempt to show individual
human nature and a whole mass of
humanity and reacting to shifting
scenes of violent incidents and dis
turbing ideas. For all that, it stays
so persistently earthbound that hu-
manity has hard time seeing
through the dark glass of disasters,
distrusts and indecisiveness of the
times.
Evening star., 1948-09-26


could write now of Franklin Roose.
welt without both his supporters
and his opponents wanting to make
interlineations.
In the case of Jefferson, does not
the author fail to give proper
weight to the Declaration of Inde-
pendence as a revolutionary docu.
ment? 1t is still revolutionary.
In the chapter on Bryan, the
Democrat as Revivalist," does he
not overlook the Importance of the
Democratic platform of 1896, even
though it did not attack property?
OF Lincoln, DR.. Hofstadter says:
The first author of the Lincoln
legend and the greatest of the Linz
coin dramatists was Lincoln him.
self" He, too, was supporter Of
capitalism, but when he came to
the presidency his task was not to
uphold capitalism but to preserve
the Union. The end was the realiza.
ton that "for q man of sensitivity
and compassion to exercise great
powers in time Of crisis Is . grim
and agonEing thing"
Evening star., 1948-09-26

prevalent III
India today. In
dia, a country
of self contra :
diction and con-
t &C is, is a
coun try where
S ON e of t h e
most advanced
thinking of to-
day is fanked
by backwardness
and totally un-
bending feudal-
ism,
I n d u r a j q,
daughter of the
.-1L
Evening star., 1948-09-26
Correction.

The publication date OF Three
to Make Ready" by Catherine
burlington (known to Star readers
for her popular column over the
Back Fence" written under the
name of Isabel HacketO Is tomor-
row. It was enormously stated in
these columns that the book would
appear last week.