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eighteenth birthday.
Those present were Johnny
Glumbik, Joe Claws n, Stand
ford Lyndes, Earl Gross, Alex
NayeS, Harry Williams, and
Douglas Clanin.
HEALTH COUNCIL
The Lodge Grass health coun-
ell met at the Little Brown
church, with Miss Wava Dixon
onSultant for the tuberculosis
division of the state health de-
partment, as speaker for the
evening.
Mrs. Lee Curry, council pre-
sident, presided over the BUSH
ness meeting. Two vice presi-
dents and five members were
named to the executive councIi.
The vice presidents named were
E. Ruth Nelson and Donald
Deernose. Mrs. Ralph Metcaife,
Mrs. Carol Graham, Mrs. Murry
Brown, Mrs. Winfield Jeffers
and Arlis White Arm were APP
pointed to the executive coun-
ell.
The meeting was well attend
ed, with about seventy-five pre-
sent.
BIRTHDAY PARTY
Billy Smith was honored on
his sixth birthday, by a sur
prise marty given by his mother,
Mrs. William Smith.
Guests who attended were
Cleta Jean Morrison, Rita and
TWila Farmanack, Chuckie Six
berry, Chuckie Green. Larry
Wilson, Eddie and JEANNE
Nichols, Vonda, Joyce and Hazel
Taught, Terry Dele Miller,
Nancy, Laurence and Rose Lynn
lSixberry.
Games were played and cake
and homemade ice cream were
served. Billy's grandmother, Mrs.
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Lodge Gross Society

SCOUT NEWS
The Boy Scouts entertained
at a party February 10, which
was attended by about fifty
Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts.
Guests were dressed as char
acterS from comic books. Most
unusual and best costumed
guest was Pete Mason, dressed
as Gravel Gertie. Lyle Chick,
Kim roman, Keith molly ana
Stanford Lynde were in charge.
1lne Boy scouts are making
plans for an early spring camp
0ut.
The Girl Scouts are working
on a talent night program, to
be put on in the near future. :
The Cub Scout program is
making splendid progress under
the direction Of Keith Holly, Jr.,
assistant Scoutmaster. Lyle
Schick is helping him.
SUNDAY SCHooL PARTY
Mrs. Bobby Mason entertain
ed her Sunday school class at
a Valentine party at her home
Saturday.
Guests were Fay and Phillip
Mccoy, Peggy Green, Gary Ma
son, Jimmy Buckingham, Nancy
OVerturf, Thelma Metcalfe, Dean
Schroeder, and Richard Al
bredhc.
BRIDAL SHOWER
Miss Christine Erickson and
Mrs. Sam Stevenson entertained
at a bridal shower in honor
of Miss Agnes Liz Friday even
ing at the Stevenson home.
Miss Ruth Nelson, Mrs. Helene
Miklovich, Mrs. Elan Swanson,
Mrs. Ruth Albrecht and Mrs.
Marjorie Clanin were guests.
BIRTHDAY PARTY 4:
Mrs. j. w. Holley entertained
at a surprise birthday-dinner in.
honor of her son, Keith, on his
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Sugar Quota Cut

Senator Zales NJ. Ecton (R-
MONTE said today that he vii!
resist any change in the 1913
Sugar Act which might con-
ceivably retard development of
the sugar beet industry in Mon
tana or reduce prices for the
sugar beet growers of the state"
The Senator disclosed that
Cuban sugar interests have
Launched a campaign to subtle
propaganda directed at the
members of Congress in which
it is suggested, among other
things, that the domestic beet
sugar quota under the 1913
Sugar Act is too high.
The quotas of beet sugar
states should be high enough
to encourage expansion. This is
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especially true of Montana. AS
more land is brought under ir-
~rigation, the sugar beet be-
comes increasingly important in
a sound and stable agricultural
economy.
7 am vigorously opposed to
any change in policy which
might prove to be to the dis
advantage of Montana sugar
beet growers"
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Euster Seul Sole
Cdmpoign Begins

Two thousand letters were
mailed last week to Montana
business and professional leaders
ny state chapter officials of the
National Society for Crippled
Cnlldren and Adults, it was an
nounced by George E. Smell Of
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Ruby Smith, Mrs. ueta Farman-
ack and Mrs. Jean Sixberry as
sisted with the party.
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AUCTIONS

there is no better wuy TO
dispose OF property. II is fust.
and puts the money in the
bdnk IN q few hours. You
choose the dote. I'll do the
rest.
Bill Hagen. Experienced
Auctioneer. no further owuy
thun your muil box or tele-
phone.
Coll me Collect at 6497 or
2565
BILLINGS. MONTANA
or write Box l458.
Alwuys busy. thut.s why
you will have a good sole.
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D RI SECTION
Lodge Cross Locals

LOCALS SOCIETY
Evening star., 1949-12-18

"disappeared' because they dared
disagree with LySenko. There is
voluminous literature on the whole
subject. Perhaps the finest con-
tribution to date has been that
OF Robert Cook, editor of the
Journal of Genetics, published
here in Washington. which fills
a recent issue of the publication.
Lysenko's actual theories Of
heredity are of little significance.
He and his followers would be
subject to the same criticism ever
if his views were unquestionably
true. Prof. Huxley thoroughly de-
moliShes any case that can be
made for the Russian.
If Russian science is all in the
same class as Lysenko's, 1t need
give the Western world little con-
Germ. Nothing could come of it
except by accident. But there is
no evidence of theology in Soviet
physics or chemistry, the weapon
forging sciences.
It may we'll be that Lysenko's S
genetics Is in itself a weapon, and
one of the most significant ever
produced. It is an out-and-out
denial of the existence of those
chains of heredity which have
been the excuse for a lot of in.
justice in the world. Actually the
accepted genetics of the West
teaches the same, but in a round
about way which is not likely to
be comprehended by the rebelling
masses.
Evening star., 1949-12-18
Study and Analysis
Of Arab Education

EDUCATION IN ARAB COUN-
TRIES OF THE NEAR EAST.
BY Roderic D. Matthews and
Malta Akrawi. Published by the
American Council on Education,
$6.)
Present-day efforts to construct
a bold new program" for eco
nomic revitalization of the Near
East call for serious study of all
the basic elements in the society
of the Arab countries of that area.
One of those basic factors is that
of education with its potentiality
of training the native population
in the direction of mature citizen
ship. For this purpose the authors
have here provided what is prob
ably the best background study
and analysis Of education in those
countries. It is q valuable work
in its field, carefully and author1-
tatively prepared. j. c. H.
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Diamonds to Amsterdam, by Man.
ming Coles. doubleday g. Co.,
Inc; S2.25.)
Crime Club
Possible international implica-
tions of the murder of man who
seems to be able to make gold
draws our old friend Tommy
Hambledon into this pedestrian
cops-and-robbers production. A
series of disappearances-by the
metallurgist's manservant, his fel-
low scientist and an unknown
masquerading as the scientist
tail to contribute much to the sus-
pense. It's pleasant to have Ham
pledon aboard, but whatever hap
pened to the Hambledon Of old.
the impudent rogue who knew all
the tricks of the spy trade?
X X X
The End Is Known, by Godfrey
Holiday Hall. (Simon & Schus-
ter, Inc; ST.
Inner Sdnctnm
Motivated only by his wife'S
story that an unknown came to
see him as "the only man in the
world who can help me now" and
then jumped out of window, an
otbor1,;ce sepsih1e department
store executive sets out to find
why the suicide victim wanted to
see him. He flies about the coun-
try, interviews acquaintances Of
the dead man and pieces together
the story of the mans life. In the
end his knowledge doesn't do him
a bit of good. This one IS off the
beaten track, but the motivation
Evening star., 1949-12-18

our. regeneration, future OF
peace and humane. living for
ALL"
Animals and Angels.
Gorky faced further trials when
he left home. AS servant to dis
tant relatives he was overworked
and abused. But under the icon
lamp he began to devour books.
Though any minute might bring
the footsteps that would mean a
beating for him and burning
for the books. II strained my
spiritual as we'll as my physical
powers, and it was a matter of
luck that did not overstrain my
self and blast my life with some
deformity." It was apparently
Gorky's passion for people that
saved him. Every person he met
he responded to with his whole
heart and he describes them with
a wealth of detail, both mental
and physical, that make the hui
man procession in his book end
less and sometimes bewildering.
It was this avid interest in others
that brought him back from the
soothing sadness" of his race,
and from the suicide with which,
like so many of his contempo-
raries. he sought to end his life.
AS bargeman, a night watch
man. an apprentice in an icon
shop, Volga boatman. Gorky
never lost his ability to see the
animal and the angel in the
people around him. Himself con-
tinent, despite the vicious promis-
Guilty he saw all around him, until
his marriage. he describes his first
love with a frankness and fervor
that are rare. AS the book closes.
he was drawing to Marxism, but
it is humanity, not politics. that
animates these memoirs, which
are among the greatest in the his
tory of photographed litera-
ture. Isidor Schneider's transla-
ton is fine. with only occasional
awkward moments; but with all
justice to him, one gets the i'm
preston that the torrential orig
inal could scarcely have been
damned up.
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evidence of disordered and partly
disoriented genius.
However, despite the many
Joyce neologisms, the portions of
"Finnegans Wake" are easy to
comprehend compared with inno-
vations republished in the sec
tions called "Sonorists" and Met
amorphosis of the Word" One
poem, by a Romanian named
Tristan Tiara begins: "ka tangi te
XVI kivi." Mr.. Tiara writes
in French, and this was supposed
to be an English version. Ger
trude Stein was being typical
when she wrote: 60" We feel
or if we feel if we feel or if we
feel. = ="
Where Have They Gone.
On the other hand. there is
nothing revolutionary in syntax OF
theme in Mr.. Hemingway's sketch,
Hills Like White Elephants" 1t
is simply early Hemingway-terse,
swift, mostly dialogue. Two other
widely known writer's. Erskine
Caldwell anG Morley Callaghan.
contribute stories that could be
published today without puzzling
or startling any one. There are d
number of other stories equally
clear.
In June, 1929, Mr.. Jolas and
his associates issued a manifesto
declaring, among other things:
"The writer expresses. He does
not communicate. The plain
reader be damned"
The pat reply is: Then why
publish?" Instead, though, I feel
a nostaglic sadness. Where are
the innovators of yesteryear?
Where are the futurists in prose,
the imagists in poetry, the cubists
in painting, the atonalists in
music?
At least there was color in their
day.
Evening star., 1949-12-18

LutCoy pc.oo|
around to the Americans until
near the close of his novel. Two
American officers meet Osip. the
sterling Russian major. They
have some drinks and discuss the
collapse of Germany. Afterward
Osip reflects: They're strangers.
of course, nobody pictured them
otherwise. But I thought they
had more sense. I thought the
war had taught them something.
The (American) major said: The
Germans are good organizers.
What he likes in Germany is OBJ
vious. How does he differ from
the Fascists? And the captain
blurted out all the slander, lies.
malice. Ones a slave owner. the
other a money grubber."
1t is not that Mr.. Ehrenburg
lacks skill at writing. At times,
in spite of constant propaganda,
he touches. a situation deftly or
paints a poignant picture. It is
simply that the only colors he
uses are black and white; there
are no pastels. The translation
by j. Fineberg is adequate.
The Storm" is a good illustra-
ton of the state of literature in
Soviet Russia.
Evening star., 1949-12-18

ming of this century. but it is
unlikely that the last so years,
despite their ferocious upheavals,
can have completely altered the
national character which he por-
trays with such vivid and soaring
candor. Although he lost his faith
in God, Gorky never lost his faith
in man, nor in his Russian coun-
trymen. From the evidence OF
these astonishing pages, which
explode with life and throb with
soul. it would seem that few men
have been tried in a more bitter
ordeal of injustice, brutality and
depravity.
Gorky's childhood in the Nizhny
Novgorod household of his grand
parents would have smothered a
less hardy plant. In that swarm
ing, savage hearthside, horrors
were a part Of the daily routine.
His oafish uncles beat their wives
with grim and senseless regular
ity Gorky himself was thrashed
insensible by his fierce grand
father. One of his youthful memo
ries is of his stepfather kicking
his mother as she lay on the
floor. But to offset this was
Gorky's grandmother. a superb
old woman who was both forceful
and fanciful, who defended him
from blows and fed him on folk
tales. Among the most beautiful
passages in the book are those in
which he relates her long and
ardent conversations with the
Lord at the end of each narrowing
day.
Defending his frank and detail
ed accounts of these brutalities.
Gorky says. "Repellent though
they are, and though many beau
tiful souls are burdened and
crushed to death by them. yet the
Russian remains spiritually so
young and sound that he can and
does transcend them. In this ex-
traordinary Russian life not only
does animal self thrive and fat
ten. but along with 1t and tri-
umphant despite it, grows a bril-
liant, creative. wholesome human
type which encourages us to seek
Evening star., 1949-12-18
The Background
And Evolution
The Law
Reviewed by
WILLIAM A, MILIEN.

WILLIAM "A. M1LLEN.
THE LAW
BY Rene A. Wormser. fSimon q
Schuster: s5J
This 610-page survey of the
law through history that has most
influenced "the growth of Amer
lean legal institutions and legal
philosophy was a suggestion Of
Wendell Willkie, the author says.
It is a comprehensive treatment
of complex subject, written for
the layman in simple terms. The
work draws on the experiences Of
the Jews. Romans. Greeks. Ger
mans and feudal system, the
churchmen. Western Europeans.
English, Americans and the in
ternationals in presenting the SUBJ
ject. It was penned in the hope
that it would "give some idea
of how the law which governs US
today came into being" to cite
the author. Many centuries and
civilizations are spanned in the
task. The author expresses the
hope that "our desire for reform
will not lead us further along
what has been called the road
to statism.'" Concerning inter-
national law, he says, Il am not
so sanguine for the future" be-
cause of vicious retrogression."
He says there has been "a de-
preston of the conscience of man.
kind" and asks how soon there
will be recovery,
Evening star., 1949-12-18

BY Ilya Ehrenburg. (Gaer Assoc
The author is a leading Soviet
Journalist and novelist. He was
a war correspondent and has WIS.,
tied this country.
His new novel should not cause
him any trouble at whatever they
call the bureau of literary CEN
sorship in Moscow. Mr. Ehren-
burg never forgets the party line,
even for a page. Whenever you
see an apti-Communist straw
man being fashioned, you know
that before long he'll be demol-
ished to the last straw.
THE Storm" is a story of the
war. starting in Paris in 1889 and
ending with the conquest of Ger
many. 1t is a 500-page book, so
crowded with characters it is hard
to keep track of them, teeming
with detail. We see the collapse
of France as reflection of
French character. The French
preferred fascism to the solidarity
of the workers. The workers, ?"
says a character, "are so strong
the bourgeoisie dare not fight
Hitler in real earnest; yet too
weak to seize power"
Mr.. Ehrenburg does not get
Evening star., 1949-12-18

q cereal ,DltH TO premium
in it,"
Prom the new book. Home Sweet
+ Zoo," by Clare Barnes Doubleday.
are secretly relishing the sight OF
creatures who look like people
they know-people they would like
to see behind bars, too.
Clare Barnes, jr.. a New York
advertising man, has penetrated
this relationship between us and
our four footed friends; but has
attacked it from a different angle.
He starts out from the premise
that we look like them rather
than that they look like us. A
subtle distinction, perhaps, but
one so hilarious that his first
book, white Collar Zoo" has sold
hundreds of thousands of copies.
Now further putting some OF
our words in their mouths, he
makes us see ourselves in mo-
ments of daily crisis. From the
anguish of the too-hot soup "a
believing baboon) to the ecstasy
Of Its a boy "a yawning Boston
terrier, we are depicted in beast
|ly fashion. Home Sweet Zoo"
may not have the devastating ef-
feet of the first book, because the
novelty has worn off a little, but
it is still a mighty amusing little
volume. Incidentally. the frequen-
cy with which Mr.. Barnes pic
lures cats to depict the female Of
the species In moments of spite
and plant brings home almost too
sharply the justice Of the term
"catty." M. Meg.
Evening star., 1949-12-18

oy du1 oOWlcS. tNEW DH CCttOfL
In this first novel by Paul
Bowles-as strange and striking
performance as the year has
brought-the Sahara is the main
character. It dwarfs completely the
human beings, particularly the
main figures. neurotic pair
whose marriage has become as
arid as the sand-swept wastes
where they wander without pur-
pose or principle.
New York intellectuals, Port
and Kit are bored with each other
to the point Of nausea. He re-
counts his dreams; she categor-
ICES her omens. Only in motion
do they find any surcease from
the glacial deafness and nameless
terror which aff1icts them. In
their apathetic flight they have
perversely included a friend
named Tunner. His ambition to
seduce Kit is easily realized when
they travel together on train,
having been deserted by Port. who
petulantly drives off with a weird
couple who represent themselves
as mother and son. The Arabs,
however, insist they are lovers.
The disintegration of Port and
Kit amid the filth am the flies,
the decadence and cynicism of the
desert towns is absorbingly told by
Mr.. Bowles. although whether his
prime purpose is story or SYM
bolism is not always clear. Port
succumbs to fever. Kit leaves him
in his agony, roaming into the
desert. where she meets a camel
train. Follows an Arabian
Nights" sequence, in which she
quite fervently becomes a member
of a harem.
Port and Kit never become SYM
Evening star., 1949-12-18
Bridge Players
By Margaret l. Fisher

ton, E. r. Sheppard and Wassal
Stewart yielded top score with
the only over-average game in
MS direction. Col. and Mrs. D. D.
Brodie were E-W winners.
Other master point winners OF
the week were Col. and Mrs. j. G.
Seaborne, Mrs. Fred Staver-
Comdr. Liebschner Darlington
Farms. December 81; Mr.. and Mrs.
Bernard Rosson (WBL Women's
Auxiliary, December 1O; Fred
Staver-Fred Staver, jr, Ray
Fetzner-Charles Richter CF. Ar
thur Walker Club, December ID:
Mrs. Florence Millspaugh- Man.
fried Sobernheim, Clara Ster-
necker- Ella Welker Count Club,
December 13.
Runners-up- in these respective
contests were D. j. Harris-Fred
Staver, ST.; w. M. Lingley- Fred
Staver, jr.; Mr.. and Mrs. j. T.
Lyons, Virginia Kinnard-Robert
Wilson. j. F. Serles-Col. Henry
Walker, and Col. and Mrs. Sea-
bourne. Mrs. T. M. Boyle-Mrs. M.
r.. Reddv
Evening star., 1949-12-18

from "Out of the Cocodles Mouth
by the Public Affairs Press ($25O)
than hundred cartoons from kROkOD the
the Soviet Union Editor Will
of the Office of War Information Mos
thinks that the Russian government is finding
U. s. line the people still
help the and still retain healthy
technology Through his selection OF
Krokods propaganda
picture land of mad mpeasts and
credit United States Inventions The
sometimes incredibly naive and sometimes unoeevaby ac
Joint Committee of Slavic Studies
Societies and the Social
Sciences Research Council part Soviet Thought
Evening star., 1949-12-18
Crime and Mystery
By Miriam Ottenberq

lis too weak and most of the char
acters too unbelievable to sustain
the detour.
The Screaming Mimi, by Fredric
Brown. (E. P. Dutton & Co.;
S2.50.)
Gilt Edged
Godfrey the bum told Sweeney
he could get whatever he wanted
If he wanted it bad enough. What
Sweeney wanted-even enough to
pull out of two-week drunk
was the beautiful Yolanda, q
dancer saved from the knife of a
ripper only by the fangs of Devil.
her wolf dog. Sweeney figured II
he found the blond-happy ripper.
he'd win Yolanda. This one IS
more literate than it sounds and
the climax carries jolt.
Bland Beginning, by Julian Sy-
mons. Harper g. Bros; $2.5O)
A first edition OF Cne SdCleu
and profane sonnets Of minor
Victorian poet seemed an appro-
pirate engagement present for the
poets ever-so-intellectual grand
daughter. But some one had an
unhealthy interest in retrieving
the slim volume-particularly un-
healthy for literary scientist. a
bibliophile and bookseller. Thus
murder makes it's way into this
ingenious photographed thriller.
It's based on the expose by John
Carter and Graham Pollard of the
10Th century forgeries, but 1t
stands on it's own as a witty and
intelligent puzZler.
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CNEll /. hANE
Of Fortune" New Orleans Woman" etc.
the drawing rooms, who hardly
hesitated to use a certain personal
glamour to advance himself. Per-
haps some of the ballroom con-
quests were thrown upon him.
Didn't the ladies swoon when they
described him as looking like the
hero of a Wagner opera?" And
perhaps it was not entirely the
fault Of this big-eyed blond Of
superb profile that he got himself
more or less engaged to four Con-
federate ladies at once. But Mr..
O'Connor admits that his subject
was bitten by the glory-bug."
Hood, unfortunately for his own
repute, grew involved in the clash
between President jefferson Davis
and Joseph E. Johnston. the gen.
eral whom Davis mistrusted and
eventually hated. Hood. 1t would
appear, managed by varying
means to win the personal favor
of Jefferson Davis; and when the
cautious Johnston was at last
withdrawn before the crucial
Battle of Atlanta. Davis chose
Hood for the strike. The stage
was prepared for a bloody loss,
Hood for sometimes unmeasured
abuse.
Mr.. O'Connor, working care
fully. judiciously. has followed a
middle course. granting Hood his
due whenever he can, conceding
him his defects. He does not join
the school that has pictured john
ston as villain of the piece. "
nor does he accept the verdict that
Hood was a wretched incompetent.
The result is a narrative-portrait
that gives certain new high in a
complicated situation. a military
personal conflict that helped make
a major f1asco of the hour. Clos
ing the book, the reader remem-
bers above all the authors
lack of bias, his understanding of
his main figures and their motives.
Equally important is Mr.. O'Con-
nor's obvious liking for his ma
terial; he has good time with
his battles, his accounts of the
social in-fighting among the
ladies, the swords and roses and
little knives In the backs of Rich
mond dowagers and soldiers. Out
of it emerges a picture of Hood,
often naive. gauche in some
laughable situations, but a very
human human being. Mr.. O'Con-
nor is not only an excellent re-
searcher. but he knows how to
write. He has given us an i'm
pressive and diverting book.
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pathetic, largely because Mr..
Bowles details their sensations,
never their emotions, their re-
actions rather than their motiva-
tions. They seem paralyzed by
their own sense of futility, blind
ly seeking to arouse themselves
through physical experience. In
the case Of a French colonial off,
cial, and several other minor
characters. Mr.. Bowles is bril-
liantly specific. But as has been
indicated, it is the overwhelming
atmosphere Of the desert, with its
sand-laden winds. the native
drums, the limpid. burning sky
that make "The Sheltering Sky
memorable,