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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1949-09-15
Couple Plead Guilty
Before Judge Bruce
Fines Levied Against Elmer j.
Hayes and Bertha Hayes

After waving rights to grand jury
action and asking for an immediate
trial before the court, information
was filed by States Attorney w.
Dwight Slower against Elmer j.
Hayes and Bertha P. Hayes, of
Grantsville, and the pair pleaded
guilty before Associate Judge Oliver
H. Bruce, Jr., yesterday afternoon in
the Circuit court to charges of sale
and possession of alcoholic beverages
and possession of slot machines.
The same charges were made
against both Mr.. Hayes and Mrs.
Hayes. Judge Bruce levied against
Hayes a fine of 5000 and costs on the
charge of alcoholic beverages, and
$10O and costs on the slot machine
charge Against Mrs. Hayes he levied
a fine of $50 on alcoholic beverages
and $35 and costs ON the slot machine
charge, a total of $375.O0 plus costs.
In addition the judge signed an
order of court confiscating all alco-
holic beverages discovered in their
home, and also signed an order of
court declaring that the slot machines
confiscated be destroyed.
Durr Is Sentenced
Edison DUR, given suspended
sentence at the March Term of Court
for larceny of an automobile in 1913,
was brought before the court upon
violation of his probation and at a
hearing before Judge Bruce, Durr was
ordered to serve his original sentence
which was two years in the House of
Correction.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1949-09-15
To Hold Card Party

The Woman's Civic club of Mt.
Lake Park will hold a card party on
Thursday, September 20, at p. M,
at the recreation center in the park
for the benefit of the library.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1949-09-15
Civic Club to Hear
State President

Miss Alma Prinkert, registrar of
the University of Maryland, who is
also state president of the Maryland
Federation of Women's clubs, will be
the speaker at luncheon meeting of
the Oakland Civic club on Tuesday,
September 81, at the William-James
hotel, it was announced by club Of
ficials.
Evening star., 1949-10-23
Religious
Books
By Cospor Nonnes

With the first hints OF the
Christmas season in the offing
interest in religious books shows
a steady increase even above the
exceptional high point it has
reached this year. This interest
has not been confined to any par
ticular type of religious work, for
novels, essays, histories and other
writings in the field have all en-
joyed wide and hospitable recep-
ltions.
A survey of the outstanding
trends and books in this field will
be discussed by The Star in its
annual pre-Christmas survey of
books to be published on Decem-
ber 4. In the meantime, recent
volumes to make their appearance
on the shelves of booksellers
should be noted.
X X i X
THE SHORT KORAN
BY George M. Lamsa. (Zif-
DaOis Publishing Co.: $780,
A rearrangement and reorgani-
zation of the Koran so as to make
this great Moslem book more
readable for Western readers.
4 X ~
THE MAN BORN TO BE KING
BY Dorothy L. Sayers. (Harper
& Bros; $3.75.)
A series of plays, originally
written for radio, embracing the
birth, life and death of Christ.
THE ROOT AND THE BOUGH
Edited by Leo w. Schwarz. (Rine-
hart G. Co.: s375.)
Tales Of Jewish people who suf-
fered under the Nazis in Germany
and other parts of Europe.
k* 4 4
WHERE PRAYER AND
PURPOSE MEET
BY Helen E. Tyler. (The Signal
Press; ST.
A history of the so years Of the
National Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union.
Evening star., 1949-10-23

straint and as little self-intrusion
Of how jefferson Davis, Judah P.
Benjamin and other of the Con-
federate cabinet came quietly to
his house while in fight after the
Army's collapse. Davis played him
game Of chess and lost. Every
word Barringer had about Benja-
min should have been written,
even the smallest detail. Too little
is known of him in the very times
Barringer speaks of. But he
simply flashes across. the narra-
tive.
The story more than anything
Is refreshing. Its very handling
reminds of a time, that seems ir-
recoverably gone, when men could
somehow write Of themselves with
ease and self-effacement, of people
generously and of the world as a
place worth living in.
They could do so probably be-
cause OF manner Of living. Their
way of writing seems too largely
replaced now by personal narra-
tives OF screams and outcrys on
behalf of self or cause with the
soapbox thrown in to stimulate
slow buyers. Aside from its SUBJ
stantial worth in entertainment
and information, the Barringer
book is valuable as a souvenir of
that type of gentle reminiscer who
has gone where the woodbine
tWineth.
Evening star., 1949-10-23

distortions, she holds, which grad
ually thwarted and twisted the
whole personality of the South.
She speaks of this special South
ern trauma in which segregation
not only divided the races, but
divided the white child's heart" +"
(The child had grown up with
colored children about him and
perhaps a colored nanny" to
help raise him.
Up From Georgia.
Miss Smith grew up in Georgia
and came to realize that some
thing was wrong with a world that
tells you that love is good and
people are important and then
forces you to deny love and to
humiliate people," She adds that
80 in trying to shut the Negro
race away from us, we have shut
ourselves away from so many good
creative, honest, deeply human
things in life"
Southern tradition" is the vii
lain of Miss Smiths piece. In its
name, she feels, monstrous injus-
tice has been done and a regions
whole character stunted. She
blames the church-meaning, she
explains. largely the predominant
Methodists and Baptists-fol
preaching Christ's message OF
brotherhood and then keeping
silent in the face of segregation
f1ogging, lynching. She takes il
to task. too. for rigid proscrip-
ton of sex which. she says, made
it seem a thing of horror to most
Southern women, even in the
bonds of marriage. The author
accuses Southern political leaders
of using white supremacy as q
phony issue to keep the mass of
voters, the poor whites" in line.
AS for the one-party system, she
points to its results in totalitarian
countries.
Whether or not you agree with
Miss Smith that segregation and
other injustices should be ended
everywhere, you will find her book
stimulating and written with no
little beauty. Perhaps in her psy-
choanalysis of the South, she has
oversimplified a complex problem.
But if she causes people to think,
to wonder, she will have made no
small contribution to tolerance
and good will.
Evening star., 1949-10-23

equally divided between the new
ideas" expounded by the new
leaders, of whom she gives witty
and incisive sketches, and the
"old institutions which she has
studied with a warmth of under
standing and sympathy that give
new insight into the British pas
sion for tradition. Her explana-
tion of the defeat of her personal
friend, Winston Churchill, is re-
markably penetrating passage.
Her account of the revolutionaries'
reverence for such typically Brit
ish strongholds as Oxford, the
civil service, the monarchy and
the BIC make the best kind of
paradoxical sense. The carpet
between the Socialist and Con-
servative benches in the Com
mons represents no impossible
gulf. The very smallness of Eng
land has made for coziness in
political and social interchange,
a coziness that is compounded by
common intellectual backgrounds
absorbed at Oxford, that nursery
of statesmen. There is even a
community of ambition through
all the strata of society, since
public service is rewarded by
honors and titles and acclaim
and politics is the national sport.
Packed though it is with meaty
information about naturalization,
trades unions and other knotty
matters. mo Cause for Alarm"
has great charm and vivacity.
Any one wondering whether or
not there would always be an
England can go away with light
ened heart and also a sneaking
suspicion that it will be a Socialist
England for quite while yet.
Evening star., 1949-10-23


deserted. At last he returns te
his home by the Golden Gate and
he meets a young widow. They
marry, in their way. and in time
a few others join them. There
are children; the years pass; the
small colony gets along.
There are not enough technical
skills in such scattered groups to
maintain public utilities, which
break down in time, or to replace
the stocks of stores. "Ish" VIII
liams, the only highly educated
member of his colony, tries des-
perately to educate the children,
but it is hard for young persons
who cannot remember govern
ment or trade to see the value of
even reading and writing. In
evitably. in his older years, the
second generation grows up il
literate. There is a steady re-
version toward the primitive, with
bow and arrow replacing gun
powder no one knows how to
make; automobiles decayed and
useless, roads impossible. Wild
animals roam ruined streets and
libraries crumble, their record Of
human progress unread.
Earth Abides" is a powerful
projection of the imagination.
The story is plausible and COM
pelling. 1t is told in quiet phrases
that flow with lyrical ease.
Evening star., 1949-10-23


book. Yet it probably will anger
many Southerners. It is a sane
book, written not out of hatred for
the South, but out of love and
hope for the country where the
author was born and still lives.
Miss Smith is no Communist-she
expresses her opinion of Commu-
nists in some phrases that fairly
sizzle-and yet she probably will
be accused of adhering to the Mos
COW line and of other even less
fattering things.
Her book is not the story of the
Negroes in the South. though the
effect of the political and social
system on them is described here
and there. It is essentially her
account of the effect of segrega-
tion and other rigid customs and
one-party politics on white South
erners. 1t is study of the results
of certain beliefs dinned into white
ears from childhood for genera
tionS-false theories and factual
Evening star., 1949-10-23

His book "should be read by
every American who Is trou-
bled by ,Dhat he calls atomic
neurosis.'"
quire the formulation of a ma
tional policy, he insists that all
such policies should be admin
istered locally.
AS a further development Of
this thesis of delegation of au-
thority he advocates a fluid kind
of citizen service, in which men
and women move from private life
into public service for q period of
years and then turn back to pri-
vate Life" The feature that has
made public service increasingly
unattractive and even repugnant'
to qualified men is "a tendency
toward detailed congressional
supervision of essentially techni-
cal undertakings" What man
knows better?
Not all of Mr.. Lilienthal's state
ments are SO stimulating. His
early chapters, sincere though
they are, suffer from many cliches.
But as a whole '"This I Do Be-
lieve" stands as a splendid state
ment Of the credo 6 q public serv-
ant and q master plan for every
| day democracy. M. Meg.
Evening star., 1949-10-23

ye FTeSS, $j.j
large cast Of characters, gets of
to a jerky start. He uses repeti-
ton unsparingly to convey the
sordidness of the street life of
Florence. But most damaging to
his intention is the fact that
none of the people whom Giovan-
ma influences for good are espe-
cially sympathetic. They are SIM
ply indecisive. Maybe it was q
miracle that she unwittingly pre-
vailed upon them to make up their
minds.
Somehow Mr.. de Polnay's mix
ture Of the bizarre and the pris-
tine, the precious and the primi-
tive, is just q bit too rich to be
digestible or even always plausible.
He is not able to master COM
pletely the agile mind of his
hardened but still vulnerable Gig
arctic boy. who wistfully eyes the
unfair competition offered by an
armless contemporary. This is an
interesting experiment from an
author who has been recently con-
verted to Catholicism, but is not
an entirely convincing one.
Evening star., 1949-10-23
Peter de Po|noy Ladies a Heavy Mixture
A Bit Too Rich for the Digestion
OUT OF THE SQUARE.

w VI 4AAa ASE S&AAtc.
BY Peter de Polnay. (Creative
Hitherto known for his deft and
ironic social comedies, Peter de
Polnay. the highly gifted English
novelist. turns here to miracle
tale. His miracle worker is a
simple beggar named Gioyan-
ma, an exasperating girl begrudg-
ingly adopted by Mario, a Floren-
tine cigarette vender of the type
immortalized in such Italian films
as "Shoeshine. Despite her SIM
pie e-mindedness, Giovanna is able
to give purpose to a number of
futile lives around her. An Eng
lishman with a deep dislike of
happiness" is induced to accept
it: a middle-aged restaurateur
is emboldened to put aside his
beautiful but unfaithful young
wife; a drifting divorce is in
spired to found an orphanage for
just such children as Giovanna
and Mario; and a butterfly &C.
centric, who loves to change his
clothes for every mood. decides to
run it.
Mr.. de Polnay's story. with its
Evening star., 1949-10-23
THIS I DO BELIEVE

Were he lesser man or a lesser
American, David E. Lilienthal
might have used this book as a
platform for answering his de-
tractors. A fluent, not to say elo-
quent writer, he could easily have
turned his talent to scoring off
the congressional critics who have
heckled him as chairman Of the
IVA and more recently as chair
man of the Atomic Energy Com
mission. But as senatorial COM
mittees have learned, he is
not to be stampeded. So
This I Do Believe" is no de-
fensive account of his steward
ship. but a ringing, affirmative
confession of faith in democracy.
in the future of America and the
destiny of its people.
In fact, it is such a clear and
idealistic statement Of democratic
aspiration that it should be read
by every American who is troubled
by what Mr.. Lilienthal calls
atomic neurosis," and perhaps
even more so by inhabitants OF
other countries who are in the
dark as to our future course.
Mr.. Lilienthal sees flaws In our
system, but he examines them
constructively. He understands the
threat of communism, but he sug-
gests more democracy as an anti
dote. He recognizes the menace
of fear and panic and the
consequent inclination to retrench
and suppress. But he warns that
mo great national, spirit can be
built up by wearing hair-shirt
and sitting in the ashes of our
shortcomings"
The great goal of democracy as
MIR. Lilienthal sees it. is in the in
creased well-being, both spiritual
and material, of every individual,
but beyond that the increased en-
lightenment, responsibility and
dignity of every citizen. From this
central theme flows his most pro-
vocative statements about the
"disquieting increase In centrali-
zation Of administration in Wash
ington," surely an unexpected
stand from one who guides the
vast, secret enterprise Of the Acc.
But while he comedies that such
Federal projects as the iva re-
Evening star., 1949-10-23
THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington, D. c. c.
SUNDAY. OCTOBER
Crime and
Mystery
By Miriom Gutenberg


"Shark River" by Richard
Powell. (Simon g. Schuster, $780,
Inner Sanctum.
Mr.. and Mrs. Blake of Powell's
earlier mysteries are missing from
this adventure but he maintains
the formal of the reluctant hero
and energetic heroine. Pete, the
hero, is looking for an escaped
murderer in the Florida Keys and
the whereabouts of a quarter mil
lion dollars stolen from his father
Hampering the project are hostile
townspeople. some crude fellows
on a cruiser and heroine who
wants him to act like a hero "a
hours a day. Somebody is even
unfriendly enough to take pot
shots at him. The climax in the
swamps is a chiller.
X X X
"Count the Ways" by Doris
Miles Disney. doubleday & Co.,
S2.50.)
Crime Club.
Love of the hoW-can-you-do-
this tome variety produces all
manner of woes in this sad saga of
Walter, who loves Vera, who loves
David, who feels the same way
about Katherine. Obviously, at
least one member of the quad
rangle was bound to depart sud-
denly but was it voluntary or by
violence? Since this is alleged to
be murder mystery. the question
is academic.
Lovely Lady, Pity Me-" by Roy
Higgins. (Duell, Sloan g. Pearce,
Inc, S2.50.)
Bloodhound.
John Swanney had a perfect
alibi for the moment of his wife,
murder. Only trouble was he
couldn't use it. The lady whose
presence furnished the alibi
wouldn't play. So John had to
keep the laws heavy hand of his
shoulder long enough to clear
himself. The situation isn't ex-
actly new but the writing Is crisp
and the hunt hectic. Higgins has
been writing for the movies. He's
still doing it in this one.
\ X X X
finland Passage" by George
Harmon Coke. (Alfred A. Knopf,
Inc, $2.5O.)
A cruise up the inland waterway
from Florida to New York got off
to an inauspicious start when the
ships captain ran away from a
murder only to meet the man he
thought had been murdered.
More mayhem along the route and
some gunplay in New York main
tain the pace. AS in his "a earlier
mysteries, Mr.. Coke has turned
out pleasantly romantic but not
particularly puzzling fare.
Evening star., 1949-10-23
THE NATURAL BENT

This personal narrative Of DR..
Barringer (1857-194D takes up
with his Confederate childhood
on a North. Carolina plantation
and from the turbulences of the
time passes him along to old age
as a witness to an enormous tide
Of violent and tranquil happen
ings.
His memoirs swing like a drag
net and come up with odd and
fascinating assortments of anec-
dote and clear history. Like any
good personal narrative his story
moves fast but. in this case, too
fast sometimes. Before the
readers eyes are dangled dozens
Of personalities and incidents
that would stand lengthiest treat
ment.
There was the trip, which
Barringer made as child by
mule-drawn canal barges to Lex
ington, Va, to see his uncle,
Stonewall jackson. There are
several Jackson family letters
that are new or at least little
known. And there was the trip
Barringer made as a child in Army
vehicles as he followed his cav
alryman father to the first tenta-
tive Confederate camps.
With Restraint.
Sharp enough impressions are
left, impressions which are mingled
with considerable tracings of the
Barringer family tree. Such pune
tilious regard for forebears will
forever be a diligent concern of
Southerners and Chinese: and, in
complete fairness, DR.. Barringer
has not made an over-pursuit.
But some readers will choose to
have known more about the gen.
eral run of people in the land
scape.
Barringer tells with equal re-
Evening star., 1949-10-23

She charges that for nearly two
centuries white supremacy and
Christian asceticism of a crude,
naive kind combined with isola-
tion and poverty to destroy the
vast talent that was dormant
among white Southerners, leaving
our region as bereft of art, music
and dance. ideas and books, as any
group of civilized people probably
in all the world" 1t was only
lately, she points out, that South
ern writer's began writing about
anything closer to the people than
tinsel romances.
Several years ago Miss Smith
published a novel, Strange Fruit. "
a story of an interracial love affair
Evening star., 1949-10-23

triumphant revOlutlOnarleS.
Thus, the Socialist members
who jubilantly took their seats in
the Commons after the smashing
victory of 1945. sang THE Red
Flag" but thereafter sat down to
elect a conservative country gen.
tleman as Speaker of the House.
This is just one of a score of
instances which underline Miss
Cowles' basic contention of "the
British genius for marrying new
ideas to old institution"
Crammed With Paradoxes.
Miss Cowles' books is crammed
with such paradoxes, which the
British not only tolerate but posi-
lively venerate. Her book is about
Evening star., 1949-10-23
A Mind on the Verge
Of Going to Pieces
THE TUNN]

THE TUNNEL
BY Baynard Kendrick. (Scrib-
ner's; $3.)
Mr.. Kendrick, who wrote ''The
Flames Of Time" one of the bet
ter-written historical novels of
last year, has attempted in a
contemporary novel a tour-de-
force of a mind on the verge Of
insanity.
Natalie Sherrett's tortured
thoughts are followed as she faces
dangers in which fact and fancy
are so woven that she is unable
to discern the truth. She has
married Trevil Sherrett before re-
covering from the shock of los
ing her first husband. Bon Helms,
in the war. There has been the
further complication of her Sec
ond husbands dominating mother
Natalie believes Trevil is in love
with a designer who works for his
company and that her husband
plans to poison her. Yet, at more
logical moments, she wonders
whether all this is not imaginary
AS fantasy closes about her, she
fights to keep her mind moored
to something solid and enduring
. While the writing is effective,
the story is too much in the same
key to maintain the suspense of
the first few chapters. "The. Tun-
mel" is not a long book, but it
becomes repetitious, even tire
some, probably because the young
woman's Elusive reflections are not
sufficiently absorbing for 223 pages
OF unrelieved attention. A change
OF pace now and then, even q
shift of viewpoint. might have
added interest to the dark mar
EatiVe. &C. B. j.,
Evening star., 1949-10-23
This Is Super-Horror Science Fiction
As Written by a Literary Artist
EARTH ABIDES
(Randon1 House; $3.)

BY George r. Stewart. fRandoi
Mr.. Stewart is a professor o1
English at the University of Cali
fornia, but when he turns to his
own writing it is not the trans
mutations of the language from
middle English or the merits OF
Restoration dramatists that in
terest him. He is fascinated by
the elemental-the struggles of
man against the powers of nature.
In previous novels, called tersely
Storm" and Fire" he explored
the uncomfortable sweep of these
forces.
Earth Abides" is another novel
in which man, for all his science,
his vaunted mastery of the earth
and the air, is helpless before a
sinister vagary of nature he had
not anticipated. The foe which
strikes without warning is an un-
known virus. In a matter of days
it wipes out almost everything
that could be called America.
Mr.. Stewards fantasy might be
classed as scientific fiction or a
super-horror story, but the diff
ference is that, unlike most of the
kind, it is written by literary
artist.
Isherwood Williams, a graduate
student ct Berkeley. comes out of
the foothills, where he has been
studying plants and animals, to
find the nearest town deserted.
He picks up a week-old newspaper
and reads that millions of deaths
have been occurring all over the
country from mysterious disease.
He drives to the bay cities across
from San Francisco. Here and
there he finds a person alive, but
too shocked and bewildered to
give him coherent information.
He drives across the continent,
breaking into filling stations for
gas, rarely encountering any one
alive. Whole cities are silent and
Evening star., 1949-10-23

Most Sacred of All, by Jeffery
Farnol. (Robert M. Mcbride &
Co.: So
Jeffrey Farnol. a great English
story-teller of glorious days gone
by, has written another full
blooded novel of chivalry and
romance. He has brought to life
one of those swashbuckling heroes
known in tales Of merry old Eng
land, whose Drawn and sweet
simplicity are shining symbols
used to protect the common man
and overcome forces of evil
threatening life, reputation and a
lady's honor. Those light of heart
who wish to return to stirring
days Of an earlier century will in
deed find this book enjoyable
reading. M. S, B.
Evening star., 1949-10-23
HELP AND COMFORT
FROM THE BIBLE

Edited by Leonard M. Leonard
and the Staff Of the Journal of
Living. Doubleday & Co.,: s2.5OJ
Quotations from the Scriptures
which 200 ministers of all denom-
nations have found of comfort
and help in meeting daily prob
lens. ... {