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Evening star., 1949-03-20
Reading and Writing

The Daily Digest, that little
known section in big print at the
back Of the Congressional Rec
ord, Is edited on the Senate side
by a lively, cheerful man named
Floyd M. Riddick, who was Bit
terly disillusioned by his first
glimpse of Congress IS years ago,
Ibut who has been feeling pro-
gressively better about 1t ever
since.
His introduction to the legis-
lative branch came about when
he visited Washington in 1884 as
a member of the Duke University
boxing team. an association which
left him with his nose slightly
askew.
He was disappointed" thought
it all terribly confusing, but In
the years between he has devel-
oped an enormous respect for
Congress. BY way of proof there
| is his new book, "The United
States Congress, Organization and
Procedure" q complete revision
Of an earlier clarifying tribute.
This new one incorporates all
the changes called for by the
La Toilette -Monroney Reorgani-
zation Act, q piece of legislation
which instituted the Daily Digest
an admirable summary OF all
floor action and action in
standing committees. The Rec
ord's $4,000 subscribers aren't all
on to its existence yet. but Mr..
Riddick hopes they will become
increasingly aware Of it.
Mr.. Riddick, who has taught
a course in Government at George
Washington University for the
last nine years, and who is q
veteran editor of congressional
news letters, plans to write yet
another book about his favorite
institution. which will be q
treatise on the fundamentals OF
representative government.
Entirely convinced that the
more people know about Con-
gress the better they will like it.
Mr.. Riddick lectures constantly
on the subject and has also writ
ten a gay little cartoon illustrated
book with George H. E. Smith
called Congress in Action"
Meanwhile, Mr.. Riddick's erst.
while collaboration, Mr.. Smith, who
agrees entirely that familiarity
with Congress will not breed con-
tempt, has retired from his post al
the Senate Minority Policy Com.
mittee in order to go to Connect.
cut and write a book about his
five happy years in the Capitol.
It will be q different inside
Washington" book, Mr.. Smith
promises, in that it will be neither
a smear nor a lampoon; will revea
frankly his admiration for the
men and respect for the institu.
ton and will feature a defense o1
the 80th Congress.
Evening star., 1949-03-20
The Pen Is Mightier
Than the Bow

Gregor Piatigorsky. the eminent
cellist, will lay aside his bow IN
favor of the pen for a year. ac-
cording to his manager. The large
and genial virtuoso. who will be
heard for the last time by WASH
ingtonians before his sabbatical
on April II, has as his first literary
chore the polishing up of a trunk
full Of autobiography which is at
present in Russian.
Evening star., 1949-03-20
The Post-Liberotion
Letdown in Italy
As a Bockdrop
THE GIRL ON THE
VIA FLAMINIA

BY Alfred Hayes. Harper &
Brothers,; $780,
This is a vivid, bitter little cpl
sode of post Liberation letdown IN
Italy, Of the bitter-sweet romance
of an American soldier who want
ed q nice girl to come home to, and
an italian girl who reluctantly be-
came that girl because she was
hungary. Mr.. Hayes, with poets
economy, conveys the sour and
bleak atmosphere Of Rome. the
ferocious resentment Of wounded
italian soldier; but his characters
are quite a while coming to life,
since the lovers seem more to per-
sonify their respective national
shortcomings than to be two
wretched young people in one OF
the thousands of impossible situa-
tions which war can create. Terse
and poignant, "The Girl may
we'll outlive other more preten-
tious war novel. M. Meg.
Pilgrims In New Land, by Lee
M. Friedman (Jewish Publication
Society; $3.50. The Jews place IN
American life is analyzed in a
thoughtful book. It discusses the
Jew in American history and eco
nomic life, his problems Of adjust
ment and his relation to the
American spirit.
Paratrooper Padre, by the Rev.
Francis L. Sampson (the Catholic
University of America Press;
$2.50). World War II as seen by a
Catholic Army chaplain who saw
service from D day to We day.
Evening star., 1949-03-20
PAUL.. WeHmdn
Writes a Sequel
To Walls of Jericho
THE CHAIN
BY Paul I. Wellman. doubleday
G. Co.; 49,
Reviewed BY
JEANNE ROGERS

Paul Wellman has tumbled the
walls of Jericho" again IN its
sequel, THE Chain"
Use of original characters. en-
hanced by their offspring, speaks
of the grass-roots hardness OF
Kansas, products of the novels
setting. Fast action is necessary
when a town of $4,000, even fic-
tional, stands more than 600 pages
of treatment In two books.
A-man-of- the cloth who wears
real chain against his skin as
symbol of penance in this day
points more to the Hollywood in
fuence than that of the Mid
west. The author, a former news
paperman in Kansas and Missouri,
now writes creatively from fash
ionable Westwood, a suburb OF
Los Angeles.
Mr.. Wellman chose several
morals. One is directed to the
rich, one to the rich in church
and one to newspaper publishers,
the rich and church. The poor,
the foreign-born and the heroine
second-generation product OF
opulence, are uplifted.
A 1949 Episcopal rector-with a
medieval bent-writes his demise
when he ties fashionable st. AL
bans Church more to it's Jugtown
surroundings than to its financial
founders on Tower Hill. Makes
no difference that the latter drew
its name from a simple water con-
tainer.
What did a chain suggest to the
author? Life. people and events
linked-and that Is plot, 50 the
book.
Evening star., 1949-03-20
The End of an Era
Deep Down Within
The Heart of exos
FAIR HAVENS
BY B. C. Jefferson. (The Mac
milan Co..: So 50)
Reviewed by
ROBERT K. WALSH.

A novelist in these hurried days
needs daring to write story that
takes its time in the telling-es-
pecially when that time Is the
horse -and-buggy era and the
Western locale gets along without
rootin' and tootin' and shootin'.
Mr.. jefferson, a Dallas news
paper editorial writer has pro-
duced a novel that proves he
knows his subject and State. The
eastern, wooded" section of Texas.
as distinguished from the more
flctionized wide open spaces OF the
cattle range, ranch and chuck
wagon, is the setting for this mar
rative of a small town and q big
visioned boy growing up together.
Thad Harmon came to Fair
Havens with a reputation to live
down. It was the reputation OF
his horse thief uncle. He became
a citizen of influence and finally
won Alicia Raisinwood, the proud
beauty of the place. The real
story, of course, is in the passing
of an era, for better or for worse.
the decline of the farm soil be-
cause of waste or misuse, and the
coming Of oil, for richer or poorer.
Mr.. Jefferson didn't have to
capture the speech idioms and
spirit of the independent, home.
grown Texan" All he had to do
was to put into print what he has
known all his life. He does it In
a leisurely, neighborly way that
will surprise a lot Of folk who
thought they knew all about tho
heart Of Texas.
Evening star., 1949-03-20

mantle liaisons. He says, in a
foreword, that he has tried to de-
pict the age realistically while
greatly playing down" its bru-
tality. intolerance and licentious-
ness. What he has set down will
make no one envy the poor
wretches who got into the wrong
hands in those days.
Evening star., 1949-03-20
Reviewed by
GEORGE BEVERDGE.

Harold Russell, former Boston
grocery store butcher, lost both
his hands in an Army training
explosion. He recovered to marry
his girl and become the best
known disabled veteran Of World
War II. This is the story Of how
it all happened.
Thrown by q fast train Of events
from his Walter Reed Hospital
ward to national fame as a star OF
the film, BEST Years Of Our
Lives" Russell describes in great
detail his impressions of Holly
wood and the movie-makers he
knew. Tracing the long steps of
overcoming his great loss, the vol
ume as well is the story OF Mr..
Russell's intellectual maturity. He
ends it with a plea for racial and
religious tolerance, a project to
which he has devoted considerable
time.
The book is best when its locale
is the amputee ward rooms at
Walter Reed. The former para
troop sergeant speaks for thou
sands Of disabled servicemen In
his account Of the first frightening
entry Of q group Of amputees into
an unfamiliar civilian world.
Evening star., 1949-03-20
Reviewing he New Books
Charles Williams
Offers q Fierce
Psychic Drama
DESCENT INTO HELL

DESCENT INTO HELL
BY Charles Williams. (Pellegrtns
G. Cudahy; $2.75J
Charles Williams Is a metaphys-
ical novelist. You have to 60 back
to John Donne for such knotty
imagery, to William Blake Tor
such intensity of vision. In his
writing the quick and the dead
meet and mingle, the real flows
into the abstract, the literal into
the figurative, the natural into
the supernatural without a pause
for breath. One characteristic
passage will illustrate the fusion
of these elements. HE went out
of the room, down the soft, swift
stairs of his mind. into the streets
of his mind, to find the phantoms
of his mind. He desired hell"
It is Mr.. Williams concept that
the grave is too shallow" and. in
deed, Descent Into Hell" Is peo-
pie with unquiet spirits on both
sides of eternity. In his world
the living haunt the dead as the
dead haunt the living. and with
true christianity, they bear the
burdens of each others troubles.
Let me carry your fear for you"
says the poet Peter Stanhope to
Pauline Anstruther, who. since
childhood. has been terrified OF
coming face to face with vision
of herself. But she is liberated
by Stanhope's assumption OF her
parcel and she discovers that
the pursuing apparition has SIM
ply been her "incapacity for Joy" !"
Another obsessed character. a re-
jected lover named Lawrence
Wentworth does not partake OF
this boon of substituted love and
exchanged good" for he comforts
himself to eventual damnation by
conjuring up a voluptuous vision
which is a Substantial illusion"
Of his cold mistress"
StIduSCly SOHpCAAA6s
# 1t sounds merely fanciful. 1t
does Mr.. Williams a grave injus-
tice, for he is moralist as well as
a mystic and an artist of the first
rank. Even when he is not en-
tirely comprehensive to the mind
less swift than his own. he is
strangely compelling. He has
wisely chosen to cast this fierce
psychic drama-wherein the fam
tastic is perfectly matter of fact
and the eerie is everyday-against
a background of that most harm
less of human activities, the anna
teur theatrical. Interspersed with
scenes Of struggle between good
and evil. Of love casting out fear,
are playful little sequences OF
sunny, pretentious, tea-party chit
chat and backstage filters.
But the setting is portentous. A
village 80 miles from London
called Battle Hill is in a place
where there has been "a compress
sion and cumulation of death, and
at the climax of the story suicide
and a martyr who have haunted
the hill are restored to death by
the kindness of Pauline.
Mr.. Williams was introduced to
the American public last year
through q book called "All Hal
lows Eve" which was prefaced by
r. S. Eliot. Since then he has
died. Descent Into He'll" which
is difficult to describe, may give
the reader the impression that he
has read a sermon on the power Of
love In an Illuminated text. Even
when it is not perfectly under
stood, 1t Is enlightening.
M. Meg.
Evening star., 1949-03-20
reviewed Dy
r. M. KAUFFMANN

Morris Bealle, who Is fast put
ting the National Capital on the
map insofar as sports histories
are concerned, has done it again.
What he accomplished for the
Washington Senators" and the
Georgetown "Hoyas" he now du-
plicates for what comical-minded
sportswriters call "The Harvards'
and cultured ones 1.-THE Cantabs. "
ANY one who has read Bealle
knows the exhaustive research
which he undertakes for any book
along his speciality, and this time
he has dug deep. Even with a
corps of persistent assistants to
delve into old publications, his
achievement is remarkable. He
starts in with the very beginnings
of the sport, In 1874, and ends
with the season of 1948. He traces
the Crimson gridiron doings on
ward from the days when team
rosters were composed largely of
Back Bay and Beacon Hill names,
through the infiltration Of the
South Boston Celts and on up to
the more recent fair sprinkling OF
Levantine and Central European
cognomens. And, reading along
it is hard to decide which group
played the tougher football.
There Is naturally a great deal
about the 1amented Percy Haugh-
ton, for 50 many years the uni
versity's football mentor, to whom
the book is dedicated. There are
interviews with and amusing and
enlightening stories by old players
and coaches. There are many Il.
lustrations. Particular attention
is paid to the contests with the
colorful Carlisle Redskins. fol
these aborigines seemed to take
special delight in pulling their
newest tricks out Of the hat
against John Harvard.
The volume includes the best
possible account of every game
Harvard has ever played, while
the lineups are given for every
one Of the Yale Harvard games
since these classics began in 1875
There is a complete index Of every
man who ever played for the
Crimson.
The volume should be a well
come addition to the bookshelf OF
every gridiron enthusiast. It Is
almost required reading for every
Harvard man. and adherents Of
every eleven which has ever played
q Harvard tean1-and there are
many such-will find the book of
absorbing interest. especially the
followers of the so-called Ivy
League. Mr.. Bealle contemplates
an extension of his series to in
clude other outstanding college
football teams, and it Is hoped
that he accomplishes this aim.
Evening star., 1949-03-20
John Marshall and the People and Issues
Of His Time Brought VWid|y to Life
1uTEF 1TISTTrE
V. w. Norton & Co.; So
Reviewed by FRANCIS P. DOUGLAS

Reviewed by FRANCIS p. DOUGLAS.
The subtitle Marshall and the Growth OF
the only excellent book the great Chief
Justice people and issues of his time we'll The men
who played the Nation become
leke as those speak-pehaps Capitol Hill today
Evening star., 1949-03-20
A Talented Jamaican UnfoIds
His Country's Troubled Past
NEW DAY
NEW DAY
Nv " q d,
cid. (Knopt; $3J
Reviewed by CARTER BROOKE JONES.

Through fighting for their free
DOM gaining losing there seldom certain whether the next
would Some Of these
ses like the French and American Revolutions spectacular
world history paused to listen Other
fought in obscu
Evening star., 1949-03-20
With the Hurvurds'
And the Cuntubs'
On the Gridiron

THE HISTORY OF FOOTBALL
AT HARVARD
BY Morris A. Bealle. columbia
Publishing Co..
Evening star., 1949-03-20
Our Best-KnoWn
Disabled Veteran
Tells His Story

VICTORY IN MY HANDS
BY Harold Russell, with Victor
Rosen. (Credtire Age Press, Inc ,
$2.50.)
Evening star., 1949-03-20
CUTIASs EMPIRE
BY r. Van Wyck Mason. (Dou-
bIeddu: $3.)

OtSuuy, pol
This popular historical writer's
new romance is based on the ca
reer Of Henry Morgan, surely the
most glamorous of the adven-
turers who sailed out Of Europe
to try their luck in the New
World Of the 17th century.
Morgan, the author feels. was
no more a pirate than any OF the
buccaneers-and the terms are
not synonymous-who were pick
ing up ships and stray treasure In
the Caribbean and at the same
time doing their patriotic duty by
England or France against the
Spaniards. It's a pity, Mr.. Nor
gan says, that Admiral Harry's
memory has been so maligned by
biased writings. And it is a SYM
pathetic narrative the writer has
woven about Morgan's almost In
credible adventures, most OF them
historically authentic.
"Cutlass Empire" opens with
Morgan q lad Of II. lately come
out of Wales, hiding In Bristol
against the sharp eyes Of Crom-
wells troops because Of the youths
known royalist sympathy. He has
to run for his life aboard q ship
and he and q few comrades are
shipwrecked on q Caribbean is
land. From then on Henry rises
in prowess and influence until In
capturing Panama City from the
spaniards with a fraction Of their
numbers he achieves one of the
great feats Of military history.
Mr.. Mason has told the stirring
story absorbingly. He has not
neglected Morgan's various ro-
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-11-04
Children Aids
Are Meet Topics

A small but interested group of
mothers met with Miss Edna Cal
lahan, clothing specialist from
Ohio State University, last Tues
day at the Extension office in Oak
Harbor to discuss the selection of
children's clothing.
Among Miss Callahn's sugges-
tions for buying she emphasized
the Importance of colorfast, pre-
shrunk material, even lock-stitch
machine stitching, strong secure
ly tied thread, seams wide enough
not to ravel, plenty of hem let
out, readily cleaned, and styled
for the child's comfort.
The group present agreed not
to have follow-up construction
meetings, but suggested holding
other meetings for mothers on
topics of child development. Miss
Spaulding, Home Demonstration
Agent, hopes TO secure number
of speakers ON this subject and
will schedule them for evening
meetings. Watch for further an
nouncementS.i
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-11-04

about economics in generation and
assurances of efficient service, al
most without interruption.
Departing from a description of
the physical property of the COM
munity, Bowden stated that one of
the important activities of the en-
ployee group is the promotion of
safety consciousness, accident pre-
vention and first aid to the injured
As a result of constant diligence
on the matter, he said, The Ohio
Public Service Company for six
continuous years was awarded
first place by the National Safe
ty Council for it's record of safe
operation. 1t is believed that
few, if any, other electric COM
panies in the country have such
record. In recent years, Bow
den pointed out, the Company
never finished lower than third
place. Bowden also pointed out
that OPS was the first electric
company i'm the, State of Ohio TO
use short-wave radio in it's emer-
gency operations. He stated that
every one Of it's ten divisions are
now equipped to use such radio
service.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-11-04
Ali Achievement
Week Is Slated

In Ottawa County, as elsewhere
throughout the nation, one of the
most important organizations is
the All Club which is no longer
limited to rural youngsters but
also includes many urban children
in it's l.S50,000 membership.
Once each year, National Al
Club Achievement Week is fea-
tured. Dates this year are No
vember 5 through 13, and during
the week all All Club members
are honored at Achievement Night
programs.
Everyone knows that All Club
members raise livestock and that
the girls learn home making and
sewing, but few laymen realize
that All projects are more di-
versified and include home beauti-
fication, meal planning, menu
planning, agronomy, nutrition and
scores of other subjects.
In Ottawa County, most of the
All Clubs are concentrated in the
central and western area with
scattered clubs in Erie, Bay, Por-
tage and Danbury townships.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-11-04
Local Pilot Joins
In Negotiations

Harvey Barnholt returned to
his home in Ell Granada, Calf,
Sunday, after a short visit here
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
r. A. Barnholt, and his parents
in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Sample in Fremont.
Barnholt stopped here last
weekend after having spent 10
days in New York where he was
a member of the Pilots Contract
Negotiating Committee of the Pan
American Air Line Pilots Asso-
citation.
The local pilot last month pi-
loted a plane on a 20-day trip to
Calcutta, India. After leaving San
Francisco, Barnholt's plane stop
ped at Honolulu, Midway, Wake,
Tokyo, Okinawa, Hong Kong,
and Bangkok, Siam, before arriv-
ing in Calcutta On the return
trip, Barnholt's plane also stopped
at Manila, P. l.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-11-04
0. P. S. IMPROVEMENTS CITED AT
annual SERVICE AWARD Dinner

The Nation is at the crossroads
and must soon make up it's mind
whether it is going to concentrate
its attention on those basic prin-
ciples which made America great
or whether it is going to continue
the Socialistic trend and find it's
citizens lives and economic affairs
controlled by Bureaucracy; three
officials of The Ohio Public Ser
vice Company emphasized at the
Company's Annual Service Pin
Award Dinner held last Friday
night at the Log Cabin at the
east end Of Sandusky Bay Bridge.
A total of la Port Clinton Di-
vision employees and their wives
or husbands attended. Nine en-
ployees were presented service
pins, the years of service rang
ing from five to forty years.
The occasion was presided over
by Stanton Markell, president of
the local chapter Of the Doherty
Mems Fraternity. Ralph Corbin
was POSTMASTER. A forty-year
service pin was awarded Henry
A. Cowgirl, Vice President and
Port Clinton Division Manager.
First speaker was C. S. Bowden,
Production Manager, who is in
charge of the Company's six gen.
Grating stations. The second
speaker was N. j. Roberts, head
of the Industrial Engineering De-
partment of the Company.
r. E. Burger, president of the
Company, who was the principal
speaker, announced that under
provisions of the Holding Com
pany Act, Cities Service Com
pany, which owns most of the COM
mon stock of The Ohio Public
Service Company, will dispose of
this stock within the near future;
thus making The Ohio Public Ser
vice Company completely indie
pendent, owned by men and wom-
en- throughout the country who
will buy the shares. He stated
that this will place a great re-
sponsibility not only on the man
agement but on all employees as
well, in the matter of continuing
efficient electric service to all it's
customers and maintaining the re-
spect of all the communities serv-
ed.
Mr.. Bowden discussed the early
history of the Company, illus
trating his remarks with some
beautiful photographs and some
colored charts. He pointed out
that prior to the formation of OPS
in 1921, the Company had electric
generating stations at Mansfield,
Alliance, Warren, Lorain, San
dusky and Port Clinton; no one of
which was connected with anoth-
er If power failure occurred,
the community was without cleo
trio service for days or even
weeks. He then showed a chart
showing the Company's generating
and transmission system as it
exists at present. All of it's gen
Grating stations are connected
through an integrated transmits
sion system so that if trouble de-
velops at the Company's general
ing station at Marion, power can
Immediately be pumped in from
any one of it's other five general
ing stations; the farthest away
from Marion being the Uorain
and Warren stations.
Bowden stated that through its
SiX-year construction program,
beginning with 1914 and ending
with 1850, the Company will have
spent 62 million dollars in addi-
tions to generating stations and
the construction of transmission
lines. This, he said, will bring
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-11-04
q Church News CD
TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH
Cor. Second and Adams
Rev. L. q. Miller, Pastor

Sunday, Nov. Sunday school
at $3.50 a. M; Worship at 10:30 a.
m. Children's sermonette, "Our
Sea Friends Tell U.s." Sermon,
"Why ! Am a Protestant" Youth
Fellowship at TOO p. m.
Tuesday--Pancake supper and
meeting of Methodist Men at
$50 p. m. Speaker, Tom Ire
land. Music, Harbor Lights
Quartet
Wednesday Circle at the
home of Mrs. Blanche Doren, 521
West Third street, at 200 p. m.
Thursday--Junior choir rehear-
sal at TOO p. M; Senior choir
party at $50; rehearsal at 500.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-11-04
PILGRIM HOLINESS
CHURCH
517 East Fifth st.
L. E. Stewart, Pastor

Sunday school, $50 a. M; Cor
don Dixon, Supt.
Morning service at 1920 a. m.
Young Peoples service at GAS
p. m. Mrs. l.. E. Stewart, Pres.
Evangelistic service, 1880 p. m.
Thursday prayer meeting, 1880
p. m.
Revival meeting, November 7-20
with Rev. c. l.. Odcn, of Ashland,
Kentucky, as the evangelist. Rev.
Oden is a good preacher of the
Word of God and his ministry
will prove a blessing, Come.