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Evening star., 1949-09-27
MARYLAND u. Chief Electrician
Due to Retire After 27 Years

world" and then settle down in
Havana. Cuba was one of five
places where he worked before
coming to the university. The
others were Venezuela. Colombia,
Peru and India.
Wants to Visit Other Places.
when I leave, I certainly in
tend to visit Egypt, Palestine, Ha-
waii, Tahiti and possibly Alaska,
before settling down." he declared.
But I'll miss this place." he
added.
Yesterday. he saw about the
same number of students as were
present last year. The one excep-
ton is that most of the new fresh
men. in contrast to those Of the
past four years, were younger.
There still were the CT students,
but slightly less than in 1948.
University officials said approxi-
mately 4,500 veterans signed up
so far for the fall term. There
were $500 during the first semes-
ter last year and 5000 for the
second semester. Many of these
will graduate in 1850, further re-
ducing the number. About 10 or
Is of the CT students are girls.
With the decrease in excl
students there is an accompany
ing increase in those who will
JOIN the Reserve Officers Train
ing Corps. program. So far 1908
are enrolled, compared to only
$50 during 1889.
For the first time virtually all
of these will take Air Force train
ing under a new policy adopted
for the first time by the univer-
sity and the Air Force.
While registration personnel
said final figures are not yet
available, they added that more
than $4,000 are enrolled so far at
College Park, the five professional
schools in Baltimore and the off,
campus training courses.
Just about all of those at COL
lege Park will know Mr.. Cromwell
or will have seen him before he
|retires.
"You can't miss him." a youth
full undergraduate explained.
Evening star., 1949-09-27
Virginia Auto
| Inspections Will
| Start Saturday
By the Asseeioted Press

RICHMOND, Va, Sept. IT.
State police today announced
plans for the 1949 fall inspection
Of motor vehicles. '=
The inspection period will begin
Saturday and end November is.
During that time $500 trained
mechanics will inspect approxi-
mately 100000 trucks and auto
mobiles in 1.700 officially certified
stations throughout the Old Do
minion.
Meanwhile, the State Depart
ment of Education had gotten the
i,,nnn ~, ~A~.> .>oii~a with an in
opvCvAU.i "a U..cAi Owii. n QepaTI-
ment transportation official said
all school buses in the State now
are being inspected for Is safety
items.
Evening star., 1949-09-27
Women Voters to Hear
Arlington Candidates

Three candidates for the Ar
lington County Board who are
seeking election in November will
speak at a luncheon meeting of
the Organized Women Voters of
Arlington at 1890 pm. Thursday
in the Little Tea House.
After talks by Member BAIL
DeLashmutt. the. incumbent, and
Robert Cox and Jacob Bechtel,
all seeking board membership, the
women voters will hear a talk by
T. Oscar Smith. new president of
the Arlington Civic Federation.
Non-members of the women's Or
ganization may attend the meet
ing by making reservations with
Mrs. Edith Weston. 2639 Fort
Scott drive.
Evening star., 1949-09-27
Virginia Registration
DeudIine Is October 8

october 8 is the deadline for
Virginia voters to register to be
eligible to vote in the November
8 general election.
It was enormously reported in
The Star yesterday that the
deadline is Saturday. Voters
who already have registered in
their home precincts need not
re-regiSter.
Evening star., 1949-09-27
Arnold Line Workers
Meeting 70 Discuss
Possibility Of Strike

Union employees of the Arnold
bus line were meeting today to
decide whether to strike or wait
the firms efforts to get a fare In
crease with which to pay for re-
Gently arbitrated wage increases.
The bus line employees were
awarded a 17-cent-an-hour wage
increase on September 9, retro
active to the former contract ex-
piration date in May, but officials
of the line.-the Washington,
Virginia & Maryland Coach Co.
have said there is insufficient
revenue to pay the increases,
estimated at $200, 900 a year.
The line, which serves Wash
ington and points in Arlington
Fairfax and Falls Church, filed
petitions last Friday for a rate
increase to cover the wage boosts
The company asked the Virginia
State Corporation Commission and
the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion for an increase of scents
per%zone and to cut the number OF
tokens for 81 from eight to six.
The proposed increase would range
fares from 20 to 40 cents.
Bernard Wahle, the company's
executive director and general
manager, told union officials dur
ing sessions yesterday that reve-
nues will not meet the increased
payroll.
According to the last wage
agreement, the drivers and af-
filiated employees, whose top pay
now ranges from $1.35 to SLAB an
hour. will receive the increase
|progressively-10 cents an hour
from the old contract expiration
date of May IS to October 3; then
5 cents more until March 20, and
the last 2 cents beginning March
20.
H. j. Harris. president and busi-
ness agent of Division 1919, ANAL
gamated Association of Street,
Electric Railway and Motor Coach
Employees Of America, AFL, that
today's union meetings will not
affect bus transportation. He said
the morning meeting would be
continued tonight, but that only
extra or off-duty drivers would
participate.
Evening star., 1949-09-27
Falls Church Official
AssaiIs Teen Canteen j.,
Citing Beer Can Litter

Beer cans scattered about the
Falls Church Teen Canteen
grounds were cited by the city's
Recreation Commission chairman
last night as evidence that the
youth center is poorly operated.
Donald S. Frady. the chairman
who also serves as supervisor of
the municipally-owned canteen
for young people, told the City
Council that latter a week end
you can pick up half a truck load
Of beer cans at the canteen and a
wheelbarrow full any morning.
Before he could proceed further,
however, Mayor Albert M. Orme
inquired if he did not intend his
remarks to be "off the record" Mr..
Frady agreed and did not amplify
his remarks about the beer cans
which had been made in open
session.
Mr.. Frady then charged that the
city is spending $425 a month to
operate the canteen and "is get
ting nothing for it but phone
bills"
Not "Getting Moneys Worth"
In answer to a direct question
from Councilman Samuel E. NC
Crary, who resigned early this
month from the Recreation Com
mission. Mr.. Frady said he does
not believe we're getting our
moneys worth" from the $500 a
month salary paid to the canteen
director.
/ While Mr.. McCrary was still a
member of the commission last
month, he unsuccessfully opposed
a. resolution retaining Miss
Frances Mayze, the canteen direc-
tor, in her present position.
AS supervisor of the canteen,
MIR. Frady receives daily reports
from Miss Mayze and serves as
go-between for the commission
and the director. Miss Mayze
could not be reached this morning
for comment.
| Mr.. Frady appeared after the
council had requested at an ear
lier meeting, on motion of Mr.
McCrary, that it be shown a COM
|plete Recreation Commission
budget for the current fiscal year
jMr. Frady emphasized he was moi
prepared to present a budget but
he promised that a full report o1
the commissions budget commit
tee will be made soon.
| The Recreation Commission
chairman also told the council
THAT teen-age leaders feel the can
teen has mo program" which
really interests them.
Previous Charge Recalled.
In February, Francis A. Wagner,
real estate man who had headed
1.-THE drive for funds to build and
Iequip the canteen, charged that
1.-THE canteen was not being properly
loperated. He said the building was
Idfrty and that the teen.acerS were
Evening star., 1949-09-27
By ChorIes A. McAIeer

When classes were resumed at
the University of Maryland yes
terday, Lewis w. Cromwell, SO,
veteran chief electrician at the
College Park campus, was on hand
to greet new students for his 22d
year.
It also was his last time.
Mr.. Cromwell, a familiar "land-
mark" at the university since Au-
gust, 1928, is to retire November /
When he does. the university
will lose one of its most colorful
characters. For tA students and
alumni, Mr.. Cromwell is known
perhaps as much as Testudo, the
Terrible-the university's bronze
terrapin.
Wearing his familiar overalls
and a pair of sneakers" Mr.
Cromwell looked over some of the
approximately 10000 students who
attended classes for the first time
this year.
This new crop seems to be a
pretty good set," he commented.
The campus has grown quite a
bit since Mr.. Cromwell first came
to the university, but he has no
special recollections.
Except that I'm always busy"
he asserted.
Called "Short Circuit"
Students who know Mr.. Crom-
well refer to him affectionately as
Short Circuit" This they explain
stems from his trouble shooter
job. When something goes wrong,
electrically speaking, Mr.. Crom-
well is there to fix it. They also
say the veteran electrician assists
them in some Of their classroom
lproblems.
IF there's something in class
we can't make up our minds on, i"
one student reported I'VE go to
him. If he says yes we know
we've got the right answer"
Mr.. Cromwell knows most Of the
answers when it comes to electri-
cal engineering. He holds two
degrees from Purdue University
a Bachelor Of Science and Bache-
lor Of Electrical Engineering. He
attended school about the turn of
the century.
Mr.. Cromwell also is known
for his knowledge of various
languages. He claims he can speak
six of them and knows words and
phrases" in another Is or 20.
Much of his time at the uni
versity. where he lives, is spent
in the campus library. Here he
browses through books, picking
his favorites and taking them to
his room.
He has lived on the campus
for 20 years since the death OF
his wife. His present quarters
are in Sylvester Hall, one of the
mems dormitories.
He was born October 4, 1879
in Albany, Ga, When he retires
he wants to travel around the
Evening star., 1949-09-27
Polio Funds Compoign
Extended in Fuirfux

The emergency fund raising
campaign of the Fairfax County
chapter of the National Founda-
ton for Infantile Paralysis has
been extended for another week
through Saturday. according to
Edward K. Uhler. chairman OF
the county chapter.
A series Of three radio broad
casts sponsored by the county
chapter will be given at pm. Sat
urday, Sunday and Monday over
station WAX.
Evening star., 1949-09-27
Fuirfux PTA to Meet

The first fall meeting of the
Fairfax Elementary School Par
ent-Teacher Association will be
held at $3.50 pm. october 6 at
the school. A reception for Mrs.
Dorothy Collier, principal. and
the faculty will follow.
Evening star., 1949-09-27
Fuirfux League to Elect

Officers of the Northeast Fair
fax Citizens League will be elected
at 8 pm. tomorrow at an organ
ization meeting at the Chester
brook School.
Evening star., 1949-09-27
Boord Meeting at MoyfIowel

The American Women's Legion
of the World Wars will hold an
Executive Board meeting at the
Mayfiower Hotel at II am. to-
morrow.
Evening star., 1949-09-27
Previous Charge Recalled.

In February, Francis A. Wagner,
real estate man who had headed
the drive for funds to build and
equip the canteen, charged that
the canteen was not being properly
operated. He said the building was
dirty and that the teen-agers were
Evening star., 1949-10-02
Robert MoI|oy's New Novel
Is Writing of High Merit
THE BEST OF INTENTIONS
BY Robert Molloy. (Lippincott; $3J
Reviewed by CARTER BROOKE JONES.

Reviewed by CARTER BROOKE JONES.
Mr. Molloys people actual not life
Illustrate authors ideas and prejudces The
story great social gnincancthough
that battered
but it MANAGES Of verisimitude minimum
drama and
Evening star., 1949-10-02
New Biography Of Sto|in Takes
The Mystery Out Of Him
STAIN: A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY
BY Isaac Deutscher. (Ortord; So

He was in his teens in Tiflis
when he was obliged to learn the
utility of "dissimulation, decep-
ton and violence" In the 1905
revolution be revealed propheti-
cally "a penchant for a reckless
wasteful method of warfare" His
disagreement with Trotsky was
not something drummed up fol
personal or political reasons, but
started as far back as 1907. and ar
inseparable part of it. strangely
seems to have been his choice OF
Stalingrad as the site OF the crit
ical battle of 1912.
Deutscher says Stain under
estimated Hitler, overestimated
Polish and French military might
and made mistakes in Spain. He
is puzzled by the Warsaw debacle
But. he believes Stalin's attacks
on Bukharin, Rykov and Tomsky
and the subsequent purges may
we'll have been the salvation OF
Russia; that Stain was gen
uinely" striving to get along with
the democracies and avert wal
for several years after 1885
While he likens his methods to
Hitler's, he thinks Hitler ruined
Germany but that Stalin's accom-
plishments in behalf Of Russia
and a new society are certain to
endure.
Evening star., 1949-10-02
A New Approach to American History
Throuqh the Study of Personalities
THE HOURS AND THE AGES


THE HOURS AND THE AGES
BY Edward Nicholas. William
Sloane Associates; $3.50
This unusual approach to his
tory is subtitled "A Sequence o!
Americans. The main title is
based on a quotation from Emer-
son: There is a relation between
the hours of our life and the CEN
turies of time. The hours
should be instructed by the ages
and the ages explained by the
hours. = Every revolution
was first a thought in one mans
mind. Every reform was
once a private opinion"
Mr.. Nicholas has picked out
significant personalities in Amer
ican history. some, like Andrew
jackson, famous; others. like a
letter. writing girl named Eliza
beth Lucas, who lived on a South
Carolina plantation 200 years ago
known only to descendants and
antiquarians. Through these men
and women the author has sought
to show how individuals contrib
uted to trends In history and at
the same time were caught up in
Evening star., 1949-10-02
Ia Witty, Free-FIowing Biography
Of the Inconsistent Ben njon1in Constant
Reviewed by MARY McGRORY.

as an author. Nine. de Stael
was in her day, by virtue of her
position and her temperament, a
passionate politician, and she in
trigued nightly for Constants
political advancement Had Con-
slant maintained any one Of q
number of positions he took dur
ing the tumultuous years follow
ing the French Revolution, he
might have become a leader in
France. But, a gambler at heart,
he betrayed himself with his own
opportunism. veering between
Bourbons and Bonapartisties until
scarcely he knew where ne stood.
1t was he who said, Politics is
the art of the possible" and no
one knew it better.
Although Constant toiled most
OF his life on a monumental and,
finally, worthless history Of re-
ligions, he has come down to us
as a great liberal spokesman, a
brilliant, vain, foolish. courageous
man who withal understood the
principles Of human liberty.
Evening star., 1949-10-02
CoIorfuI st. Louis is the Setting
For Fannie Cooks New Novel

helping the bride who is heiress Of
the high-toned Coorts. who faces
q sheaf of trouble through her
young husbands incompetent ef-
forts to untangle her fathers es-
tate. Meanwhile Toms art teacher
has given him a garage for studio
and living quarters and is working
up a one-man show for him. There
is. too, Toms romantic interest.
Dandy, a stenographer. who wor-
ries herself sick when Tom takes q
freight train South and spends
four months as roustabout with q
circus. But Tom returns. and
finally his show in the art gallery
lis set. Then matters begin getting
really complicated.
Tom is an interesting character,
but more articulate than most
painters, and you're apt to get
weary Of his irascible disposition.
Annie exudes homespun philoso-
ply. 1t is doubtful if any mistress
would have stood long for her con-
slant interference in family af-
fairs, however great her culinary
talent. The writing is uneven.
Sometimes it is quite effective, at
others it is oblique and over
phrased. On the whole, though,
"The Long Bridge" Is q readable
and appealing novel.
Evening star., 1949-10-02

these currents and carried in cer-
tain directions. The lives OF
men. like notes of music. speak
meanings in concert which are not
in them separately
At the same time, Mr.. Nicholas
has breathed life into figures
which in too many histories ap-
pear only as puppets pulled here
and there by the force of events
or else as themselves setting of
explosive epochs through mere
speeches or proclamations. He
has done this, not through the
imaginative treatment Of the his
torical novelist, but by using
authentic sources judiciously
Some of the emerging personali-
ties and periods which the author
describes may be quite different
from those you have pictured from
school histories. For instance
jackson. who is known as the
great Democrat, actually. in Mr.
Nicholas account, tried to pattern
his life after the ideals Of q
Southern aristocrat.
The Hours and the Ages" is an
original and provocative explora-
ton.
Evening star., 1949-10-02
THE LONG BRIDGE

THE LONG BRIDGE
BY Fannie Cook. doubleday;
s2.75).
The hero of this novel is a
painter. The villain is the depres-
sion. The setting is a colorful city
not often dealt with in fiction-St.
Louis.
, Tom Carr. the painter, is OF
heroic mold-brawny, courageous,
gifted-but not too easy for the
other characters to take. He has
. temper with a very low boiling
point and no more tact than q
traffic cop. He is ready to fight
any time-not only foes. but
friends and well-wishers If they
cross him. Things are tough for
everybody at the beginning Of the
1930s. but especially for artists.
Tom, however, also is a carpenter
and he's willing to work at any
thing he can get, and yet he keeps
on painting with a fierce hope
lessness because he must.
Toms mother Annie, widow
takes a job as cook in a wealthy
family, much to Toms disgust.
Annie also assumes the task of
Evening star., 1949-10-02

Caroline, who by now has her
third husband and is a successful
writer of bad novels. He thinks
he is ready to leave Peggy and
take up with Serena. a half f-baked
intellectual, with whom he has
been having surreptious but in
nocuous dates for some time. All
this mental turmoil has left Joe
in a neurotic state and made him
not easy to live with.
The situation is followed to q
conclusion that seems inevitable.
Joe's reflections are pretty hard
on the Irish and on the church.
but his unhappy and confused
condition must be considered in
extenuation. And then some of
his opinions are more seeming
than real. The flashbacks that
help to make his character COM
plete are admirably brief and
never fog up the main narrative.
A sly humor brightens the whole
narrative. In dialogue and de-
scription, Mr.. Molloy knows what
to put in and. more important,
what to leave out. In brief, he
knows how to write.
The author is a native of
Charleston, S. c., which his pre-
viouS books have concerned, but he
has lived in New York, scene of
the present novel, since boyhood.
His first novel, "Pride's Way" had
a wide sale.
Evening star., 1949-10-02
Reviewed by
w. G.. ROGERS.

Reviewed by
w. G. ROGERS.
This 600-page study, by a Pol
ish-born author now in England,
contains, to begin with, much ma
terial with which readers Of mod
ern history are already familiar
There are, for example, Stalin's
birth as the son Of ex-serfs. his
upbringing in Tiflis, the early de-
velopment of his revolutionary
attitudes, his continuing obscurity
but growing Importance. his ar
rests, his adherence to Lenin and
bolshevism, his rivalry with
Trotsky. his crucial posts as COM
missar Of several departments. the
slow consolidation of his position
after Lenin's death, the purges
the maneuvering with Nazis and
democracies in the late 1930s, and
the war.
But this is only the background
of the book. Instead of a lot OF
pieces of perversity, opinionated-
ness and unpredictability, Stain
becomes here a whole man: most
of the mystery is taken out Of
him. Youth is linked UNDER
standably to maturity. inexperi-
ence to experience, the influences
of the first years to the achieve
ments Of the later. This is an
explanation, not an expose.
Evening star., 1949-10-02
Immortal Bible Stories Interpreted
In the Language and Art Of Today

IN OUR IMAGE: CHARACTER STUDIES FROM THE
OLD TESTAMENT
King version Houston Harte Orord
University Press; $10J
Reviewed by CASPAR NAMES.
interpreted the enduring things OF life IN terms
classic interpretation appearing dehnitve to Its
period does completely satisfy different Chapmans
and generally regarded
today English rendition found rivals
tury the 18th to Lang and
Evening star., 1949-10-02

BENJAMIN CONSTANT
BY Harold Nicolson. doubleday
& Co.; 81
Seldom has a man been SO mis-
named. Benjamin Constant, the
famous publicist of the Napoleonic
era, veered between causes and
love affairs like a weathdcock.
All his life he was at the mercy
of various characters who were
stronger, though never more bril-
liant, than he. Scion Of an old,
exiled French Protestant family,
he was born in Switzerland. cut
a wide swath through the salons
Of his day, loved several famous
women, and after denouncing Ma
poleon in a pamphlet that Is still
defnitive as a castignation OF
tyrants, turned around and helped
the restored dictator to draft a
new constitution.
In only one thing was he con-
sistent, Harold Nicolson main
tains, and that was in his love
of individual liberty. This binds
together his apostasies and vacil-
lations, according to Mr.. Nicolson.
who makes rather a speciality OF
studying historic figures who were
their own worst enemies. and who
has told Constants story superbly
in what he calls q "cautionary
tale"
Happily. Mr.. Nicolson, an Eng
|lishman, commands a most felici-
tous style and incorporates po-
|litical history. character analysis
and ethical commentary into a
witty, free flowing biography.
Moreover, Constant himself. the
most articulate Of men, was well
aware of his shortcomings and
wrote of them with great acumen.
Self-expression ran in his family.
and since he corresponded with
many cousins besides number OF
gifted contemporaries. the literary
tone of the volume Is extraordi-
narily rich.
If Constants education trained
him for anything. it was to be a
neurotic, and in this he exceeded
expectations. Subjected by an &C.
centric father to a string Of tutors
of sharply varied talents and
morals, he learned Greek and
Latin at 5. but remained "tem-
peramentally adolescent" until he
died at So. Due to these capricious
influences and his own precocity.
he became q cerebral type Of
libertine," constantly mistaking
emotional disturbances" for love.
His amours in themselves make
fascinating record. Perhaps his
most fateful encounter was with
Nine. de Stael. that cyclone OF
a woman who kept him in bond
age, alternately by her wit and
her Mysteries, for 13 years. main
tanning her control even after
BENJAMIN married his second wife,
q spectacularly long suffering
German baroness. His love az
fair with the exquisite. vapid
Nine. Recamier was equally
stormy.
Although she is immortalized