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Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1949-08-20
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Evening star., 1949-07-03
Sounding a Hopeful
Note inoChootic >
Civilization
THE TREE WITHIN

THE TREE WITHIN
BY 1. V. Morris. Doubleday g.
Co., Inc; S3J
Reviewed by
MARGARET BLAIR SHUMAkER.
Like a tree, says I. V. Morris. "a
man can become rotted, his roots
no longer sending up sap. But
when the husk finally falls away
new tree may be disclosed with
in the old" With young Partisan
Banker Jacques Leroy, it took a
long time for the husk to fall
away, for in 1889 Jacques was a
man of indecision and man of
thought seldom given to action.
Jacques condemned collaboration
lists. but allowed himself to remain
in the employ of one. His stock
phrase was What can do about
it?" and he used it not as a ques-
ton but with a resigned shrug OF
the shoulders. Then. by accident,
Jacques became involved with the
resistance, and through this con-
tact the husk fell away, revealing
a new tree, strong and straight.
The Tree Within" is another
story of the modern man who
feels himself crucified by the vast.
complicated civilization of today.
1t does not, however, reflect the
pessimism which so many other
writer's have found germane to
the theme, but by focusing on the
resistance in France, where the
individual regained dignity and
meaning through dedication to a
cause, Mr.. Morris sounds a well
come note 0f hone
Evening star., 1949-07-03

.
irony even when he is the victim
of it.
He notes, for instance, on COM
ing to France in 1888, that the
fugitive from injustice has quite
as hard a time as the fugitive
from JUSTICE. Through the sub
sequent trials of his private seven
years war" against Hitlerism, he
felt like a character in a Kafka
novel, who could not make him.
self heard above the din. Still,
he never suffered the fate of some
other exiles who we're jailed for
offending Hitler during that pc
riod when the democracies were
committed to realistic reasoning"
la Chamberlain.
When their direst prophecies
came true in September, 1889, Mr..
Schoenberner, along with thou
sands of other German and Aus
trian refugees, was interned by
the French, whose humanity he
steadfastly admired while he de-
plored their casualness. During
that time. Lion Feuchtwanger. the
best-selling author who was fell
low internee. behaved with gross
selfishness. which was Offset by
the selfess service Of Andre Glide.
After the German invasion OF
France, Mr.. Schoenberner and his
wife were rescued through the ef-
forts of Herman Kesten and the
Unitarian Service Committee.
In America, where he marveled
at the applied Christianity
practiced by his Protestant friends,
MIR. Schoenberner set himself to
the conquest Of English, with no
table success. After brief Pc
riod with the Owl, where he was
not too happy amid the clatter
and hustle. he settled down to
write in his adopted tongue. His
greatest intellectual adventure was
the discovery of Thomas Wolfe
tan enormous favorite, by the way
in occupied Germany. whose
work he found to be "one great
confession of faith in life and in
the holy spirit of truth"
For all it's painful contempo-
rary history, Mr.. Schoenberner' S
memoir is beguiling reading,
Epigrammatic and stimulating
punctuated with candid anecdotes
of other German literati, it re-
veals at the same time a man of
considerable practical wisdom and
profound awareness.
YOUNG WILLIAM WASH
BOURNE
BY Humphrey Pakington. Nv.
w. Norton & Co.: $3)
Seasonal as the white f1annels OF
another day. the novels of Hum
phrey Pakington appear every
Evening star., 1949-07-03

stand? Mr.: Long never says: Pre-
sumably the defendant did not,
though surely he conf1ded to
friends how he felt about the
case; his attitude is not men
toned. Mr.. Long also has used
portions of letters and other data
deleted by c. Alphonso Smith IN
his authorized biography, pub
lished in 1916. But on the whole,
Mr.. Long leaves as many gaps in
the life of o. Henry as Mr.. Smith
did.
Perhaps there are no more facts
to be found. The gifted short
story writer was morbidly sensi-
tive about his prison term, and he
succeeded in concealing it from
nearly every one as long as he
lived. Even in New York, after he
became a CONSPICUOUS figure, he
had no intimates, and hisfriends
learned little about his private
life. 1t was, after all. his own af-
fair. and perhaps he should be
known, as he wanted % be,
thr0uph his stories
Evening star., 1949-07-03
Nat FIeischer Tells Story Of Bigtime
Boxing in New History of Prize Ring
THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP
BY Nat EleiScher LPutndtn 81 Sd

Mr.. Fleischer, editor of Ring
Magazine and outstanding au-
thority on boxing, has written
what he calls an informal history
of heavyweight pugilists from
1719 to the present day.
1t is a fascinating chronicle
not only for all interested in what
the late Damon Runyon called the
manly art of modified murder, but
for those who would like to lead
entertaining sketches of colorful
figures and to learn something OF
the changing mores of the last
two centuries as mirrored in thei,
sporting events.
While the Greek and Roman
eladiators practiced a form OF
boxing. often with knuckles
barbed with lerhal edges. boxing
faded out through the Middle
Ages. the author points out. The
first recorded champion of mod
ern times was James Figg, who
was recognized as the English
titleholder, circa 1719. Boxing
f1ourished in London during the
18th century, sometimes, as later
languishing when it temporarily
got into disreputable hands. On the
literary side, we 1earn that LORD
Byron was taught to box by Gen
tleman Jackson, retired heavy
weight champion. who set up a
school of self defense in London.
1t was the middle of the 10Th CEN
tury before American champions
cut much figure.
Trojan Champions.
Troy. N. Y. has the distinction
of having produced three world
champions-John Morrissey, the
only champ ever sent to Congress;
John c. Heenan and Paddy Ryan.
Paddy was knocked out for the
title by John L. Sullivan, the
fabulous Boston Strong Boy.
Mr.. Fleischer says of the first
co1ored champion of recent times:
Il have no hesitation in naming
Jack johnson as the greatest of
them all. He was a fine box
er. a good hitter and a powerful
counter-puncher."
The author comedies that Jack
was not the. finest influence on
the game. Whatever discredit he
did his race later was redeemed
by Joe Louis. Mr.. Fleischer says
Jack Dempsey undoubtedly was
the most popular champion. win
Evening star., 1949-07-03

Both speed championships CT
the Washington Chess Divan have
been settled, and the 5-p1lnute
game and the 10-second titles are
in the same hands.
The playoff match in the Divans
second annual 5-mlnute cham
pionship, between Donald H.
Mugridge and 1t. Comdr. Walter
C. Michaels, was won by Mug
ridge, five wins to none and one
draw. This was curious reptl-
ton of the outcome ir the first
annual championship, when Mug
ridge tied for first place in the
tourney with Carl A. Hesse and
then won the playoff by the iden-
tical score.
The Divan's seventh annual
10 second championship was
played on Saturday, June 25, the
preliminaries having been held on
the previous Wednesday. The
first four championships, 1943-
1946, were won by Magridge, and
the next two, 1918 by Hans Ber-
liner. This years event developed
into a race between the two pre-
vious holders of the title, and
although Berliner won their indi-
vidual game from Mugridge. Mug
ridge nosed out Berliner by half
a point and regsined the cham
pionship. Third prize was won
by Nathan Robins. point and &
half behind Berliner. The COM
plete results:
4 .BerIinerO B ri M NC stark-- 4-5
SShss5s3ss sS%sSSsS ES$$'s = ESsSii. MSts Il
Martin Stark failed to maintain
the form which he showed in the
preliminaries, when he won his
section by TO. Oscar Shapiro was
quite unrecognizable.
The consolation tourney, dou-
ble-round affair with six players
was won by Robert E. CasWell
with 7-3, closely followed by Her
man Wobus with 6l2-312.
The following game vas played
in the championship section:
White: Mugridge. Black: Naldel.
Evening star., 1949-07-03

characteristic of his countrymen.
A man of letters with a pressing
sense of political responsibility,
Mr.. Schoenberner refuses to for
give colleagues who attempted to
conciliate the WhirlWind let loose
in their native land. In view of
the recent excitement over the
awarding of the Bollingen Prize
to Ezra Pound, his structures on
the subject are much to the point.
He says: II am deeply worried
by the growing tendency of con-
doning any sort of spiritual high
treason committed by writer's or
artists. 1t is an unacceptable ex-
cuse that they are politically illit-
crate and therefore not really
responsible. If the cultural and
intellectual elite of a people is not
responsible. who is?"
But THE Inside Story of an Out
sider," which iSa continuation of
Evening star., 1949-07-03

keeps tossing away cllmactic
scenes to get on to the next one.
X X X X
"The Case of the Journeying
Boy" by Michael Innes. Dodd,
Mead & Co.; S2.75)
Red Badge.
An elderly tutor, more expert in
Roman ruins than modern esplo-
mage, finds himself wondering
whether his young charge-son OF
a famous scientist-is lndulglng
in frightful fancies or is really
pursued by fearful dangers on a
journey to Ireland. He'd be even
more worried if he knew young
Humphrey had actually been in
the movie house when fatal shot
was fired during the unreeling OF
"Plutonium Blonde" Train scenes
are reminiscent of The Lady VAN
ishes," but the overall pacing OF
this yarn is eXpertly contrived to
get the most out of such raw
material as atomic secrets, sinister
impersonation. blackmail, kidnap-
ing, espionage and counterespio-
mage.
81 Am Afraid" by Elma X. Lo-
baugh. Doubleday g. Co., Inc;
So 25.l
Crime Club.
One of the seasons .dumber
damsels in distress thinks maybe
she's going mad-What with the
feeling eyes are following hers
around the room and strange
noises in the night and martins
that make her sick and mysterious
snubs from the neighbors. Her
stepchildren, she figures, don't
like her bit and her husband
keeps himself locked up with that
book he's writing. This one has
all the shock value of weak tea.
Evening star., 1949-07-03

ming an admiration he retains to-
day. The writer defends Gene
Tunney, "one of the truly great
holders of the heavyweight title, y
who was victim of the innate
prejudice of the sporting gentry
against education, culture and
seclusion. Mr.. Fleischer explains:
LAS everybody knows. the indis-
pensable prerequisite OF an Ameri-
can hero is the quality of being
average
There are many informative il
luStra tions. C. B. j.
Evening star., 1949-07-03
GIobetrotting Novel
Smocks of Amber
LOLA
BY Philip Van Doren Stern
(Rinehart & Co, Inc, $2.75J
Reviewed by
JOSEPH A. FOX.
Reviewed by
JEANNE ROGERS.

JEANNE ROGERS.
From the middle of the pro-
logue, Lola" seems to be an old
love story.
The heroine Of this historical
novel is listed in the Dictionary
of National Biography as Maria
Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert.
Under the alias of Lola Montez.
the dancer and adventures, she
globe-tr trotted with the readiness
of George Sand. And she trif1ed
with the kings men, the king,
composer, an orator and a
writer.
The form of the book and the
Infamous character also smacks
of Amber. Unlike her paralleling
sisters, Lola gets to California IN
1851 and lives riotously and then
repentantly until 1861.
Despite several novels to his
credit, including. "The Man Who
Killed Lincoln" the author could
use a good property man. His
town in the Sierra foothills has
more holes in it than gold dust.
Evening star., 1949-07-03
Giving the Disabled
Civilian q Break
NEW HOPE FOR THE
HANDICAPPED
BY DR.. Howard A. Rusk and Eu
gene J. Taylor. (Harper 4
Bros, So
GEORGE BEVERIDGE.

GEORGE BEVERIDGE.
With the growing public aware
ness of minorities, the authors call
attention to the needs and future
possibilities of one of the greatest
minority groups-those physically
handicapped by injury or disease.
DR.. Rusk, associate editor of the
New York Times, who is probably
the leading authority on physical
rehabilitation, and Mr.. Taylor, his
assistant, use actual case histories
to trace the development of re-
habilitation-a new field of medi-
cine which takes the handicapped
patient from his hospital bed back
to his job. Outlining the rapid
progress made to aid war wounded
-servicemen and veterans, they
stress the lack of comparable IA
cilAies for the far greater number
of civilian disabled.
With adequate and understand
ing training, the handicapped
person can learn to live within
the limits of his disability and
compensate it by increasing other
skills. When the rest of us have
learned this lesson the authors
add. I'VE will need no other rules
to guide us in our everyday rela-
tionship with the disabled and
handjcapped "
Evening star., 1949-07-03
Eugene Debs Book
Portroys Growth
Of'Lubor Unions
THE BENDING CROSS, AN
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF
EUGENE VICTOR DEBS

THE BENDING CROSS, AN
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF
EUGENE VICTOR DEBS
BY Ray Ginger. (Rutgers Uni
uersity Press; So
Reviewed by
JOSEPH A. FOX.
The name of Eugene V. Debs
means little to the present gen.
Grafton, and their elders probably
recall him principally as the So
cialist Party head who went tc
Federal prison under a l0-year
sentence, when the Supreme
Court. in one of Oliver Wendell
Holmes oft-quoted decisions, af-
frmed his conviction for violating
the Espionage Act by an antiwar
speech in 1918.
Largely overlooked is the impor-
tant part the gaunt Indianan had
in making the country labor union
conscious in the early 1905, and
his unremitting fight to aid the
cause of the worker.
Debs was the first effective ad-
vocate of the theory of industrial
unionism which the Congress OF
Industrial Organizations was to
bring to fruition nearly a halt
century later. The opposition OF
the craft unionists led by Samuel
Gompers, president on the strug-
Cling American Federation of La
Dor, and Of the infant railroad
brotherhoods which Debs sought
to weld together in his ill-starrec
American Railway Union contrib
uted largely to his failure, but il
took the Federal courts and the
use of troops in the second Cleve-
land administration to doom the
Debs movement. eliminating ir
the historic Pullman strike o1
1894.
The Debs biography is of doubt.
full appeal, and often 1t is bur.
dened with too much detail, but
Mr.. Ginger has done an excellent
Job in portraying two notable
phases of American history: The
genesis of the labor movement
and the witch-hunting days o1
World War I.
Evening star., 1949-07-03
Gide's RecoIIections
OF Oscar Wilde
OSCAR WILDE

USCAR Wide
BY Andre Glide. (Philosophical
Library; S2.75.)
Here is the first authorized
American translation of Gide's
"reminiscences of Oscar Wilde.
They are largely personal to Glide
and shed no new light pn the long
and much exploited life of the
English poet and dramatist. Glide
saw comparatively little of Wilde
but rallied to his defense when
trouble came his way. The book
is slight, in every respect.
E r.
Evening star., 1949-07-03

Hugh PentecoSt. tDOdd, Mead d
Co., $500
Red Badge.
Gossip travelled fast in the small
Vermont town, particularly with
an assist from the spirster who
presided over the telegraph Office.
That's how everybody in town
knew Terrence Vail was coming
home to find his wife had been
carrying on with his protege who
had been engaged to a sculptor S
daughter previously in love with
a farmer. And the stage was set
for murder! Enter Dr.. Smith,
self -efacing psychiatrist who left
clue e-hunting to the professionals
and concentrated on psychological
pressures. Naturally, DR.. Smiths
method succeeds even if it does
involve asking the prime suspect
such penetrating questions as:
How old were you the first time
you ever fell in love?"
X X X X
"He Didn't Mind Danger" by
Michael Gilbert. Harper & Bros,
S2.50.)
What appears to be a crime
wave directed by a master sadist
and operated by adolescents is
giving Scotland Yard sleepless
nights. Maj. McCann. formerly
of the Commands, gets involved
through a minor request for in
formation and stays on to see
the fun. He encounters consid-
cradle rough treatment in the
course of unraveling several new
wrinkles in jewel smuggling.
There's enough plot hereto stuff
couple of thlillers, but that S
as it should be for an author who
Evening star., 1949-07-03

r e m / nlscences
begun in Con
fessions of a Eu-
ropean Intel
lectual" is not
all so stern.
Being German.
Mr.. Schoenber-
ner inevitably
extracts a mo-
raj lesson from
all that hap
pens to him,
both great and
small. But he
has a fine ap-
rrocjotjon Of
Evening star., 1949-07-03
neHundbook
For Doll Lovers
ON MAKING, MENDING AND
DRESSING DOLLS
BY Clara Hallard Fawcett. III. L
Lindquist Publications; $500
Reviewed by
BETSY CASWELL.


Not only the maker and men
der of dolls will find interest in
this book; the sidelights on the
history of costume which it offers
make it fascinating reading for
any one. Mrs. Fawcett has pre-
sented her subject with light
ness and humor that almost
makes one forget the experience
and hours of research that must
have gone into the preparation of
the material.
Lavishly illustrated with dia-
grams, patterns and sketches by
the author, the book offers the
beginner simple patterns for max
ing different types Of dolls, while
the veteran collector will revel in
the wealth of detail given in the
making of fine dolls with fancy
nodded coiffures, the clothing of
period dolls with authenticity.
Dolls in famous collections, such
as that of the late Mrs. Frank
B. Noyes. are cited and sketched
for the edif1cation of other COZ
lectors. Dolls goWned in minia-
ture versions of the costumes worn
by the wives of the Presidents of
the United States are also de-
scribed to the last bow or buckle
on a shoe.
The section devoted to mending
dolls is most interesting, and "the
tricks OF the trade" are explained
in detail-frpm mending broken
legs. replacing missing heads. re-
stringing, and so on.
Evening star., 1949-07-03

summer to celebrate with gentle
satire the innocent gayety of an
earlier, happier England, where
country squires had to contend
with nothing more taxing than
the marrying off of their daugh-
ters
Mr.. Pakington moves gracefully
in this abundant. secure world OF
marriageable maidens and schem-
ing mammas, of dance programs
and whisperings on the terrace
This trip, however, his sunny tale
has bit more bite and his affec-
tionate tongue in-cheek attitude
fails every now and then. Carica-
ture creeps in when he writes
tartly of the gossips of naval
circles at Malta; farce, when he
describes his impetuous hero in a
cathedral tower, where. having
cornered his lady love, the rendez-
vous is interrupted by an invading
band of pilgrims.
Said hero, William WaShbourne
young naval officer. is one of
those naive, prickly, strong
minded Engishmen whose inept
but ardent courtships Mr.. Paking-
ton delights to relate. The heroine
witty Cynthia SedgWick, embodies
as much social significance as the
author has ever permitted himself
A typical Edwardian waif, she has
no parents and so must marry or
die, socially. And young William S
rival asks her first, which sets off
a long train of complications.
Mr.. Pakington's fappiest cree-
ton here is the mother of Myrtle
Smalley. to whom William half
heartedly gets himself engaged
when his suit for Cynthia fails. A
kind of artsy-craftsy Mrs Bennett,
Mrs. 6malley is eternally lurking
in the rhododenrons to oversee the
courtYng of her daughters. She
cannot bring herself to approve of
william VINO never would puff out
the cushions when he rose from
his chair. William is equally leery
OF her, and finally engages the
help of two efficient older women
to assist in his Acknowledgement.
The story gets off to a slow
start. but once it is underway it
moves along with subdued hilarity
and a poignant moment or two
You could scarcely find a more
reviving book for a warm summer
day. * X X
CANNON HILL
BY Mary Deasy. (Atlantic-Little
Bro1Un, So
This grave, quiet chronicle OF
family life in a Midwestern town
centers on the Brands and the
Beauchamps, whose fortunes are
Evening star., 1949-07-03

JOlllCO uOl AlS
the early years
of the century.
Its main char
acters, m o S t
p e r c e ptively
d r a W n, are
Rhoda Beau
champ, a stur-
dy. outspoken
pi n ster, and
Robert Brand,
a WEIGH miner
who is deter
mined to be-
come a doctor.
In the hack.
Evening star., 1949-07-03

ground are the Kronstadts. the
opinionated, close-knit German
clan into which Rnodas brother,
the impractical Virgil, had married.
Their numerous meetings and
quarrelings are detailed with ad-
mirable fidelity. Miss Deasy has
great gift for characterizing
people in both. their national and
individual traits. The only fault
to be found with her novel is that
she sets these acutely drawn fig
ures down in a narrative that has
little accent or emphasis. Life,
of course, is apt to be like that,
but fiction needs more form.
M, Meg,
Evening star., 1949-07-03
Further BeguiIing Memoirs
OF d Good German in Exile
THE INSIDE STORY OF AN OUTSIDER
By France Schoenberner. THE Macmillan Co.; $500


by MARY McGRORY.
German whose long and
the closest scrutiny But
that editor of Smplcssimus he German New
Yorker earliest political refugees
philosopher humanst and wit possessed OF
of of could
Evening star., 1949-07-03
New Robert Stundish Narrative
Is Hiqh-Proof Entertainment
WALh
BY Robert Standish. Macmillan; $3)

Reviewed by CARTER BROOKE JONES.
tired of reading dark forecasts of atomic future and
intermnably through psychological byrinhs
something little this
quote the author and would like to look
spacious and coou epoch should
Elephant Walk" that cherished debated vacation
of adventure about the East
Evening star., 1949-07-03

YOU LIVE AFTER DEATH
BY Harold Sherman. (CreatlDe
Age Press; 81
The eternal riddle of what hap
pens beyond the grave is the quest
of this work. The authors answer
is an optimistic one. &C. N.
Evening star., 1949-07-03
Notes
By Donald H. Mueridee

played under the now universal
Swiss system. which Is ideal for
including a large group of un-
classified players ina single event.
Hermann Helms, the grand old
man of American chess, will go
from New York to direct the tour
ney and incidentally to report it
for the New York press.
The eighth annual United States
Rapid Transit Championship will
be played July 16. which means
in effect that it will be limited to
participants in the Open. Omaha
is rather far afield, and WASH
ington may not be represented in
either event.
HUMAN RELATIONS IN A
CHANGING WORLD
BY Alexander H. Leighton. (Dut-
ton, S4.50.)
An evaluation of social science
methods used by the wartime For
eign Morale Analysis Division. DR..
Leighton, its chief. says it an
alyzed weakening japanese mo-
rale accurately, but failed to con-
vince policy making officials that
the use of the atomic bomb was
unnecessary. In his description
of Hiroshima he expresses the
urgency of his view that the study
of human behavior holds the key
to permanent peace. B. F.
Evening star., 1949-07-03

The 50th Annual Congress OF
the United States Chess Fedora
ton. continuing series begun at
Excelsior, Mimi, under the aus
pices of the old Western Chess
Association, in 1900. is to be held
at Omaha, Neb.. from July II to
July %. Twelve rounds will be