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Evening star., 1949-10-10
Plans for j. n. Week
Include illumination
0fCity on Oct. "a

Plans for Washington's observ-
aAce Of United Nations Week. cli-
NAKED on United Nations Day,
October "a. with an extraordinary
illumination Of the Capital. will be
completed by the Citizens Com
mittee for United NATIONS Day to-
morrow.
The committee, headed by Mel
vim D. Hildreth. will meet at 2
pm. at the Carnegie Endowment
for international Peace, TOO Jack
son place NV.
It Is hoped that all visible lights
In Washington will be turned on at
7:45 pm. October "a, the fourth
anniversary of the founding of the
U.N. Householders will be asked to
turn Oh porch lights and business
and government will be asked to
add to the illumination. symbolic
Of the light of peace and freedom.
Warden Reactivated.
Wartime deputy air raid wardens
al bCl11S 1CdSOlNdOSd AA0SA UAAS
direction of Deputy Director Frank
Norton of the Selective Service
System. The wardens will be asked
to urge illumination instead OF
darkness.
Other events also are planned
for United Nations Day, accord
ing to Nelson B. Bell, publicity
chairman for the committee.
They will include ceremonies at
the National Archives where the
U. N. Charter will be displayed.
This program will be under the
Craftsmanship of Mrs. Charles F..
Brannan, wife of the Secretary
of Agriculture.
There will be ceremonies at the
Tomb Of the Unknown Soldier in
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Arlington Cemetery. Veterans
organizations and the military
attaches of the 50 member coun-
tries of the U. N. will participate
Waldron E. Leonard, director OF
veterans services for the District
will be in charge.
Exhibits Planned.
In addition to the display at the
National Archives there will be
appropriate exhibitions at the Ii.
brary of Congress and the Smith
sonian Institution during the week
of October IT.
On Sunday. October %, there
will be special morning and after
noon services at the Washington
Cathedral and churches Of other
denominations also will mark tht
day.
Evening star., 1949-10-10
Cub Scout Leaders
To Attend 'Pow-Wow'

A "pow wow" for. adult leaders
of Cub Scouts will be sponsored
by the National Capital Area
Council, Boy Scouts OF America,
beginning at noon Saturday at
the Naval Receiving Station. Ana
costa.
The approximately 500 leaders
expected to attend will be given
specialized training in. cub pack
administration. games, handi-
crafts, ceremonies and entertain
ment. They will represent about
5000 cubs of the 1876 packs in
the area. A banquet at 1880 pm.
will conclude the event.
Evening star., 1949-10-10
Gen. HowIey to Address
Food Chains Association

Brig. Gen. Frank L. Howley,
former United States Commander
in Berlin, is scheduled to address
the annual meeting of the Ma
tional Association of Food Chains
at the Hotel Statler Thursday, the
association has announced.
The address will be at lunch
con meeting. Some TOO delegates
are expected for the three-day
meeting, which opens Wednesday
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Mai. H. P. Long to Speak

Maj. Hallock p. Long, past
president of the National Genea-
logical Society. will address the
organization at 8 pm. Saturday
at the Mount Pleasant Public
Library, Sixteenth and Lamont
streets NV. on the early days of
the society,
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Are you shy? Do you stutter?
Do you haze stomach ulcers or
migraine? Do you haze anxiety
attacks? Are you alcoholic?
If you are. it is all Dery simple
you are suffering from "inhibi-
ton" and a fen simple treat
ments to oiUe you "ercitation"
tDiI cure you. Simple, isn't it,?
OF course, when we are giver
such startling bits of information
we like to know the source. Un.
fortunately, your reviewer can give
you only the name of the author
the publishers vouchsafe us nc
information as to his background
or authoritativeness. I have beer
unable to find his name in the
American Medical Directory or ir
the list of members of the Ameri.
can Psychological Association
Serious students of Pavlov's con
ditioned reflex" work seem un.
familiar with his activities.
Apparently Mr.. Salter does not
like psychoanalysis or psychiatry
in general. In the first paragraph
of 1.-The book we are told that
"Psychoanalysis has outlived its
usefulness. An approach that
reminds one of the legal adage
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MAUPASSANT:

MAUPASSANT
A LION IN THE PATH
BY Francis Steegmuller. IRAN
dom House; So
Mr.. Steegmuller. who wrote a
book on Flaubert and his greatest
novel. Madame Bovary." has
turned now to the French masters
protege, Guy de Maupassant.
The biographer presents clear,
well-documented account of Maui
PEASANTS childhood, youth and
productive years. Through Flau-
bert, who was mentor and fatherly
friend, the young writer met the
eminent literary men of the late
10Th century. Gathered at the
Flaubert salon regularly Sundays
were the great Russian novelist,
Turgenev; Emile lola, Alphonse
Daudet, the poet Mendes, Hugs
man, Edmond de Goncourt, others
of fame. Maupassant's career was
cut tragically short in 1893 when
he succumbed at 43 to the disease
which had brought madness.
IN discussing the great short
story writer's work. Mr.. Steegmul-
L.: ne kes startling charge, that
C5 lake" Maupassant stories have
ined wide circulation in English.
--e traces their first publication to
a l7-volume edition, purporting to
contain all Maupassant's work, put
out in the United States in 1908.
None OF the IS stories, Mr.. Steeg-
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SteegmuIIer Biography Lists IS Stories
Falsely Attributed to De Moupossont

muller found, was ever included in
any French edition of Maupassant.
Four the biographer says he
traced to one of Maupassant' S
fellow journalists; the authorship
Of the others lis unknown" al
most all of the 65." Mr.. Steeg-
muller adds, give the impression
of having been trash in their orig
inal language or languages"
Essentially a Poet.
Despite the simplicity of Maui
PEASANTS style and his naturalistic
method, he is particularly difficult
to translate, because, Mr.. Steeg-
muller says, the Frenchman was
essentially poet and he expressed
his descriptions of everyday peo-
pie and situation in poetic nu-
ances never easy to transfer to
another language. Mr.. Steegmul-
Ter says of the 1903 American
edition that the "translations are
anonymous and for the most part
of appalling crudity."
There have been, of course, later
and better English editions of
Maupassant, but. according to Mr.
Steegmuller. so of the 233 stories
appearing in a book published as
late as 1947 were not by Maui
PEASANT.
One fairly well-known "Maupas-
SAINT story" is on Mr.. Steegmuller's
list of falsely attributed stories
Marquis Tapers."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16

under a Rockefeller Foundation
grant. What has resulted is, in
all the literature about the South,
the first comprehensive analysis
of its politics. There is a chapter
of critical examination of each
State, and whole sections on gen.
eral political aspects of the region.
With slight exceptions the whole
complex tapestry of Southern
politics appears in all its variety
and nuances. Several popular fall
lacies go by the boards, among
them that of the political unity
of the region.
The work could have been
better. DR.. v. o. Key. jr.. a Texan
now a Yale professor. does the as
sembly job for all the findings
la well-organized execution of a
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good manners and graceful
demeanor' she attributes to the
segregation of the sexes at all
social events. The women, so
priggish a lot that for a gentle
man to mention the word
"corsets' in their presence was to
be banished forever, went discon-
solately to all-female tea drink
ings or to orgiastic camp meetings
and REVEALS. Their church was
their only diversion. according to
Mrs Trollope The men, left
thankfully to their own devices,
bolted their food. sWore, drank
strong whisky, cheWed tobacco
and spat. Their eternal splitting is
kind of obbligato through all of
Mrs. Trollope's jaundiced obser-
vations.
After the failure at Cincinnati
Mrs. Trollope journeyed along the
East Coast. Washington pleased
her. Capital hostesses will read
with envy her observation of the
great majority of gentlemen" at
Washington evening parties. She
comments dryly on the happy life
of the members of Congress, who
pass several months every year
in this lounging, easy way with
no labour but little talking"
| With no Marshall Plan to stay
her pen. Mrs. Trollope speaks her
mind on all subjects. She points
out triumphantly the "glaring
falsehood of slavery Although
she found Americans almost
totally lacking in humor, some of
them evidently fed her few tall
tales which she scrupulously took
down in her notebook. The thin
skin of Americans she particularly
deplored. Our passion for ap-
probation has been commented
upon by almost all English OBJ
servers. We can today read Mrs.
Trollope's witty diatribe with a
smile, however, knowing that her
own country under a Socialist
government would outrage her as
much.
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ted by the University of Alabama

formidable task. But as he says
in his forward, he has certain
predispositions." In depicting a
broad struggle between "haves"
and "have-notS," DR.. Key is not
above sailing an intelligence
report with the tricks of semantics,
Politicians whose aims he likes act
with skill and courage; the 9TH
ers are "demagogues." An idea
he agrees with is "a principle;
one he doesn't, "a myth" His
favorites voice Indignant pro-
tests; the others "sduawk.
But the factual evidence is not
sighted, and it has been accumu-
lated first and conclusions reached
afterward. There is no sign OF
card-stacking. The source ma
terial is a requirement for any one
who intends intelligent discussion
of the Southern scene. And it
amply supports DR.. Keys point
that changes of profound con-
sequence for political behavior are
taking place, chiefly the dilution
Of an agricultural economy by the
rise of industry. the growth of
cities, and shrinkage in the Negro
population. AS he says, these
changes set a severe strain, the
broadest conception of respon-
sibility for long-term community
welfare. on the entire body of
public and private citizens who set
the pace. Irresponsible Souther-
ners see that a readjustment is
inevitable in the long run and
that without the most intelligent
and unself1sh leadership the new
equilibrium may be reached only
at great cost"
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research-and this is a matter for
historians to THE Con-
querors" makes an absorbing
chronicle. It's characters take on
sharper outlines than emerge from
most histories.
Mr.. Costain, while conceding
the tragic appeal of King Harold
as he died on the field of Hastings
in 1866. with the cause of the Sax
ons lost, thinks the victory of the
Normans under William was lin
the long run a great benefit for
the English people" He points
out that "the Normans possessed
the qualities lacking in the Anglo
Saxon" and the "mingling of Sax
on and Norman blood produced a
great race"
A writer of historical romances
might be expected to glamorize
such a fighting king as Richard
the Lionhearted. But Mr.. Costain
views the leader of the Third Cru
SADIE without Illusion. While giving
full credit to Richards qualities
as a warrior and to a streak of
idealism he showed at times, Mr..
Costain sums up pungently both
the king and chivalry.
"Chivalry was a shield of two
sides, the outer a shining promise
of high honor and courage and
self-sacrifice, the hidden side a
hideous picture of darkness and
superstition and cruelty" Rich
ard was "the perfect product of
the code, and all his life he was
base and cruel to those under
him and willing to be dishonest
in his dealings with his subjects
in order to achieve few moments
of high triumph on the field of
battle"
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When your case is weak, abuse
your opponent" Further. it ap-
pears that Mr.. Salter likes the
arresting phrase. especially if il
be paradoxical. Self control
comes from no control at ALI
(p. 40: THE psychoanalytic in
depreciation of dreams is poker
with everything Wild Up. 90)
Ninety per cent of the persons
who consider themselves 'extro-
verts' are really inhibitory" (p. 49,
If the human being, if life, were
as simple as Mr.. Salter's formula
!of "cure" is. living would be q
sweet dream indeed. But people
are individuals, with their own
different heredities and back
grounds, their own peculiar
physical structures and functions
their own desires, dislikes. re-
Isponses to their environment.
Alas, there is no ready formula,
no magic word, which will apply
to all situations, all problems, all
people. The would-be vendor OF
'panaceas. whatever their nature,
oyersimplifles. encourages self
diagnosis and treatment. and by
his claims adds only confusion.
This volume will hardly help
either the therapist or the patientI
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16
Oriono Atkinson Presents
A SmoIl-Town Becky Shorp
BIG EYES

BIG EYES
BY Oriana Atkinson. (Appleton-
Century-Crotts; So
Big Eyes is a kind of rural
Becky Sharp. Catskill Mountains
model. An orphan with an Indian
strain, she is taken in by kind
uncle and aunt, conscientiously
applies herself to the dishpan but
finds her interest wandering to
the boudoir at an age that shocks
the flint eyed. adder tongued
community of Alta. "Eyzie"
flaunts them all. pores over her
mail-order catalogue and sets
her sights on handsome 30
Bedell, whose idiot brother she
weds just to get within range.
Mrs. Atkinson, wife of the New
York Times Thoreauesque drama
critic. weaves into her hearty tale
some telling observations about
the ageless friction between town
and country. and villainous small
town gossip. But she slows things
down with garrulous recitals from
various local raconteurs, and
throughout wavers between writ
ing as a country spokesman and
a citified novelist. M. Meg.
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Pearl Buck Reoffrms Her Proposition
That Men and Women Are Created EouoJ
THE LONG LOVE

i -" AO4So Dofc
BY John Sedges. (John Day
1t is now an open secret that
John Sedges is just another name
for Pearl Buck. But even when
using masculine pen-name, Mrs.
Buck is still an ardent feminist,
and here. as in other books, she
sets forth anew her proposition
that men and women are created
equal, and that married women
have certain inalienable rights.
This is an account of a long,
happy marriage. which is made so
by the perfect devotion of the
husband. from whose point of
view the story is told. Edward
Haslatt may be a George Apley in
his outlook, but he is also the
counterpart of Coventry Pat
more's Married Lover" And in
his 40 years welded courtship of
his beautiful, willful Margaret, he
upsets the contention of another
English poet who said: Mans
love is of mans life apart; it's
woman's whole existence" In the
prim Massachusetts, town of
Chedbury Edward cautiously
builds up a select publishing
business. but he never lets it in
terfere with his marriage, which
he has sworn will be his career.
Through the years. he painfully
learns that despite his wife's love,
she sometimes must be free of
him. She insists on the right to
set the emotional pace of their
life together; his reward is her
complete fidelity when she is
tempted by one of his brilliant
authors.
Mrs. Buck. expert as ever, eX-
plores this theme with consider
able delicacy, but The Long
Love-" even so, seems a trifle un-
inspired. So many cliches might
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chase beneath the Third avenue
81" in New York City helped to
find the hidden ransom money in
Hauptmann's garage and took
samples of his handwriting for
comparison with the ransom
notes. There was never any doubt
then or since in Mr.. Turrou's
mind as to Hauptmann's guilt of
the crime of the century"
Mr.. Turrou's command of half
a dozen languages aided him in
his investigation of a far-reach-
ing Nazi spy ring before the war
an investigation which ended in
the indictment and conviction of
some of Hitler's key agents in
America. And the former Oman
is convinced that the menace of
Communist espionage is even
worse than that of the Nazis. For,
he grimly reminds his readers, if
we are not alert to the Red men
ace and prepared to meet it effec-
lively with counterespionage and
armed strength, third world war
will become more than just a
threat.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16

When Leon Turrou's shadow
fell across a crime case, it usually
meant trouble for the subject of
his investigation. For 10 years
as special agent of the Federal
Investigation and later as a men,
Der of the Army's Criminal In
vestigation Division and of the
Central Registry of War Crimi-
mails and Security Suspects. the
versatile Mr.. Turrou matched
wits with a succession of kid
napers, white slavers, extortion-
lists, international spies and other
enemies of law-abiding society.
His "reminiscences of some of his
outstanding cases make "stran-
ger than fiction" reading of a
most unusual type.
Mr.. Turrou did not invariably
get his man during the decade of
exciting service with the FBI, but
he got enough of them to pro-
vide him with an absorbing case
history. Frequently he gives a
closeup of a Oman at work
an inside story of how j. Edgar
Hoover's gang busters do their
stuff. In the dirigible Akron sab
otage case, for example, Agent
Turrou obtained a mechanics job
at the airship plant. located the
source Of sabotage, made friends
with riveter responsible for it
and possibly saved the Inflated
dirigible from destruction by sab
otage. The possibly" is inserted
because Agent Turrou, worried
that all of the defective work.
manShip had not been detected
and corrected, urged that the
launching of the airship be called
off. The ship broke up in a test
flight during a storm off the New
Jersey coast. For the record"
he says, II choose to think that
the destruction of the Akron was
an act of God"
There will be wide interest in
Mr.. Turrou's f1rst-hand account
of the Lindbergh kidnapping case,
in the investigation of which he
played q key role. He was one of
the officers who captured Bruno
Richard Hauptmann after 4 brief
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THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington, D. C.
SUNDAY. ocIobER
Reading and Writing
Harry Behn, the Children's Poet, Says
All He Had to Do Was Listen
By Mary McGrory

gan writing thrillers about Black
shirt, but he had to shop around
for a new one when he wanted
to change his style.
Peter" was the name of
favorite dog, and Bourne the
name of his centuries old Kentish
farm. But on the rolls of Social
list Britain he is known as Bruce
Graham Montague Jeffries.
His identity finally established,
Mr.. Bourne, as he is known dur
ing a tour of America in con-
nection with his new novel.
Flames of Destiny" went on to
chat about other things. No apol-
ogist for the Socialist govern
ment, he has been travelling
around to authors luncheons and
bookstores talking about Maxmil-
ian, a key figure in Flames" and
leaping lightly from that to a dis
cussion of the new medical pro-
gram in Britain.
Nothing but writing has ever
occupied Mr.. Bourne. You've got
to take the hard with the smooth
in literature as in life" he :ays.
recalling that his first Blacksh:,t
book was so successful he spent
years living it down.
Now he hopes to turn Black
shirt over to his son, who is just
out of the merchant navy. He'll
have a fresh outlook" promises
his father. And which among this
rich choice of names will the son
use? Surely not his own. Surely
not. He will be called Roderick
Graeme."
Washingtonians will have a
chance to meet some of their
favo-ite authors when the new
Town Hall series of lectures gets
under way. Among the literary
luminaries who are famous also
for other activities, scheduled for
appearance are: Nine. Pandit
November I'D, Bennett Cert de-
cember 81, William L. Shirer
December 49,, Marc Connolly
January 49, and Ilka Chase
February 81.
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A Mirth-Inciting Interlude Among
A Lot of Bleak and Forbiddinq Books

ington and Chicago newspaper
man, at one time a reporter on
The Star, has simply told what
happened when his wife was
forced to take a prolonged rest
cure and he returned from Eu-
rope to take over care of their
three children. The boy was 10,
the girls 7 and 4, respectively
The father. installing them at a
country place in Maryland, had
to learn overnight to cook, keep
house and see that the children
didn't get into more trouble than
was inevitable. He had never done
any of these things. When the
family went to Florida for the
winter. taking a house the owner
ironically called furnished. they
were in for some real expert
ences.
Raising a Riot" is a mirth- in
citing interlude among a lot of
bleak and forbidding books.
&C. B. j.
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disgust of Americas raucous en-
dearments to liberty. as she OBJ
served their honeymoon" in the
age of Jackson.
The doughty, outspoken traveller
has since been overshadoWed as a
writer by her famous novelist son
Anthony, and as a commentator
by subsequent tourists such as
Mrs. Martineau and Dickens. But
when her scathing bread-and-
butter letter to the new republic
was first published in 1882 it
caused a sensation. In America
the stout. opinionated gentle
woman was the inspiration OF
brutal lampoons. In England
where liberalization of the House
of Commons was under fire, he1
book bacame political weapon
This reissue which was edited by
Donald Smalley, who has made
use of hitherto inaccessible rough
drafts, and which has been illus
trated by the excellent original
Hervie illustrations, makes piquant
reading often because the charac-
teristics she scores have changed
and just as often because they
have not.
Mrs. Trollope's social conscious
ness did not extend beyond the
tea table, and she has wisely con-
fined. herself to gossip about the
trivia that make up daily life. She
did not come here to study 8
brave new world, but to found q
department store which would re-
store the fortunes of her family
The venture failed, but in the at.
tempt she saw enough of America
to know that she didn't like it anc
to convince herself that "the ad.
vantage is on the side of those
who are governed by the few
instead of the many"
Our forefathers she found ar
uncouth, stiff-necked lot. avari,
clous, ill-tempered. boastful, UNI
lettered louis. nurtured on the
"mischievous sophistry of equali-
ty.' The universal deficiency in
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on politics, society and INTEL
lectual pretense today. 1t never
descsnds into farce. despite some
broad takeoffs on situations we all
know. Mr.. Kelly is nearly always
amusing, at times brilliant, and he
proceeds with a strange, oblique
sort of subtlety.
His frs: novel, "All Souls
Night" attracted no little atten-
ton. "Alexander's Feast" should
establish him as satirist of rare
ability.
The story revolves around Alex
ander Orville, a man of immense
wealth, who has gone into politics
for reasons that are not entirely
clear-nothing he does is quite
clear-but apparently because it
amuSes him. He controls his party
in the State and is about to 60 to
the United States Senate.
His Personal Life.
But the narrative is more con-
caned with Alexander's personal
life. Living at his sumptuous
country estate in New England
are his new wife Norma, much
younger than he, and the two
young men, cousins. Paul and
Stephen Carewe, whom Alexander
has looked after for years. Norma
and Paul are in love. Everybody
especially Alexander, knows that
and he and Norma never have
Lived together. never intended
to. But when Alexander's 20
year-old daughter by his first wife
returns from years of schooling
in Europe and makes the &C
quaintance of a father she re-
members vaguely, everything