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Evening star., 1949-05-22
Ford MADDOX Ford
Defended

TRAINED FOR GENIUS: Tht
Life and Writings Of Ford MADDOX
Ford
BY Douglas Goldring. fDutton; 4;
$3.50
Ford MADDOX Ford was born into
q circle which included the
Rosettis. william Morris. Ruskin
and Carlyle. He started his writ
ing career as a collaboration with
Joseph Conrad. He knew every
body. He was almost appallingly
energetic. The list of his volumes
of fiction. verse. travel. essays,
criticism and autobiography fills
pages. AS an editor he was the
first to publish D. H. Lawrence
and Ezra Pound. He was an ar
dent and useful adviser TO young
writer's.
He seems now-l0 years after
his death-a minor figure in liter
ature. He Is best remembered
perhaps, as a man who had
/ trouble getting along with any
body. He succeeded in alternating
the affections not only Of his
friends and family. but also
of most of the flrst-rate writers
of his era. It's a little hard TO
understand from this book why
this was so. He seems here illogi-
cal, a bit choleric and with the
average amount of conceit for his
time and position. But as a man
Mr.. Goldring presents his old
friend and associate as essentially
decent. But then-his detractors
included some men Of rare dis
cernment.
Mr.. Goldring Is an ardent ad-
mirer of Mr.. Ford's works-which
are not much read nowadays. Per-
haps the best remembered In this
country is the war book. mo More
Parades," which seems at this dis
tance Git was published about rs
! years ago. solid rather than ex-
citing or good. Even Mr.. Goldring
cannot refrain from a sly dig at
the photographed writings OF
his hero who was fond of saying
that he went to Eton when he
didn't at all.
| But Ford was a popular author
knew everybody and went every
where and this book is filled with
chatty, catty literary stories. 1t
may not be particularly rewarding
from a literary standpoint to know
these things about Galsworthy,
Conrad, H. G. Wells. Arnold Ben
nett, w. H. Hudson and others
but it's interesting.
As to a final appraisal Of Ford,
Mr.. Goldring would put him very
high in the history OF modern
English writing. 1t may be that
his literary agent was nearer
right. He said simply: II always
! think of him as a man who can
write anything at any time"
| Maybe that was the trouble.
f IT
Evening star., 1949-05-22
Native Of Germany Reports Soviet Zone
Is Like q Tumor on Recovering Europe

frightened attitude toward the
United States. He finds that some
Of the Nazi elements side with
the Soviets for military II not
political purposes.
Throughout the whole Of Ger
many he reports that under
meath the enterprise and recon-
struction there was q corroding
sickness Of the spirit-self pity
and arrogance, resentment and
Skepticism."
Mr.. Knop says 1t would be
"criminally negligent" for us to
pull out our occupation forces.
Evening star., 1949-05-22
Crime and Mystery
By Miriam Ottenberq

than life size and even the corpses
don't seem very important.
q
Drop Dead, by George Bagby
doubleday g. Co.; $2.25).
Crime Club
Miss Whipple was one Of those
landladies who collects bonuses for
apartments. let's the faucets leak
and permits the plaster to fall
But even the tenants who hated
her were surprised when she took
literally the advice of an anony-
nous penman to drop dead
down an elevator shaft. to be
exact. A number of interesting
people could have pushed Miss
Whipple, even the 11-year-old who
fancied himself the illegitimate
grandson Of Sherlock Holmes
Inspector Schmidt. whose feet hurt
less than usual this time, gets to
the bottom Of the elevator-and
the crime,
Evening star., 1949-05-22
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Evening star., 1949-05-22
Brosh ,Shocker' includes All Society
In Recounting Five OH-CoI Days
Rinehdrt & Co.; So
Reviewed by MARY McGRoRY.

husband who has shown sexual
deviations until she discovers SIM
liar tendencies Of her own. The
other two are prostitutes, one OF
whom is the mistress Of the au-
thor's nephew, a nuclear physicist
of great intellect and scant COM
mon sense.
While he is defending his virtue
and Strengthening out the in
tricacies arising from these sit
uations, Mr.. Wylie takes time out
for comments on other matters.
A group Of parading veterans
singing 'I-Want q Girl Just Like
the Girl That Married Dear Old
Dad" reminds him that this is
"the only legitimate outlet for the
Oedipus complex permitted In
goth century U. 8. A." He pauses
for a pair Of dream sequences. one
involving obscene skywriting by
clouds: another. Christ riding on a
bombing mission. He describes his
own utopia-woodsy. craftsy and
uninhibited, rounded out by vol
untary euthanasia. He describes
his place on the current scene.
Somebody has to collect the gar
bage or we'd all die of plague. And
a born garbage collector loves his
job"
Mr.. Wylie has always used Ra-
belaisian means for making his
point. He has never done it more
brashly. Readers who may re-
spect his right to a low opinion
of the world today may also feel
that he might have shown con-
siderably more taste in setting
it forth.
LOVERS AREN'T COMPANY
BY Monica Stirling. (Atlanttc-
Little Bro,Dn & Co.; $780,
A literate, sometimes overwrit-
ten story Of an emotional young
woman in love with a French re-
sistance worker. this first novel by
an English war correspondent is
more interesting for its perceptive
picture Of postwar Rome than for
its rather stereotyped plot. A child
is jealous of her aunt's absorption
in romance. and to reclaim her at
tention, joins a group Of ado
lescent black-market operators.
Evening star., 1949-05-22

Head of q Traveller, by Nicholas
Blake. Harper & Bros; $2.50D
A headless man piques the In
terest Of Nigel strangeways. anna
teur sleuth. because the body is
found not far from the rose-cov-
cred cottage of a great English
poet. No one has been reported
missing, but why does the poets
ancestor-proud wife tangle with
the police and the poets son try
diversionary tactics? Nigel also
wants to know what the dwarf
butler hid in the tree, and what
the neighboring sculptor's daugh-
ter remembers. The climactic
chase leaves Nigel with q solution
Of sorts and a problem Of ethics
in this flrst-rate puzzler.
The Leather Duke, by Frank Cru
Der. (Rinehart & Co.. Inc;
$2.5O.
Murray Hill
Johnny Fletcher. the smooth
talking erstwhile book salesman,
finally is driven by poverty to get
a real job-only to find a corpse
on the leather factory floor. Fast
patter gets Fletcher and his side
kick. Sam Cragg. several free
meals. an offer of SIS, 900 job and
a near-fatal beating. Gruber
turns out these Fletcher adven-
lures so fast he can't be bothered
with explaining or clue-planting,
but Fletcher's methods are as en-
tertaining as ever.
The Dark River, by Philip Clark.
(Simon g. Schuster; so.
inner Sanctum
Was it murder or suicide for
Murray Rossler. Southern gentle
man found with a bullet hole in
his head after bitter quarrel with
his wife Janet? Police apparently
accept the suicide theory. but what
with nasty gossip and another
corpse In the study, things look
rough for our heroine. Janet has
to solve this one almost all by
herself. She is something less
Evening star., 1949-05-22

Dr.. Morley believes. ard he sees
N the trend toward Capitalization
In Government q threat 10 tas
very lie OF the Republic
Dr.. Morley olSirustS political
democracy and sees 10 good IN
any Of the polscaes. domestic or
foreign. OF the Roosevelt and TTu-
man administrations To him,
the New Deal vas progress along
the veu-worn road 10 serfdon.
World War II vas President
Rooseveit's casual adventure and
the Truman foreign policy has
been an almost Unhroken record
OF Illustration and confusion.
Those who agree with him po-
litically viii find much in his book
70 reinforce their views. Other
readers are likely 10 find many
things 70 quarrel with. but II they
are stimulated TO think about
problems OF Government. that is
all 70 the good.
Evening star., 1949-05-22

Dr.. Morley. q former editor O,
the Washington Post and presi-
dent OF Haverforc College. has
written a searching study OF TIE
American Republic. It's roots II
the past and It's position in the
world today.
Quoting William Pehns We
put the power In the people" he
emphasizes that our Government
Is grounded IN the belief that
the individual can govern himself
a theory that stresses the re-
sponsibilities above the privileges
Of citizenship.
The men who drafted the Con-
stitution In an effort to secure
the blessings Of liberty con-
sidered II as necessary to restrain
as TO establish political authority
Local administration. even when
backward and inefficient, is 10 be
preferred to centralized authority.
Evening star., 1949-05-22
THE CORAL SEA

ne SoILf1L oEiA
BY Alan Villiers. fWhittelsey
House; 81
The American Indian could re-
construct events. from fallen
leaves or from a broken twig. His
mastery of the natural world made
him q wizard in the eyes Of the
less observant white men. 1t is
also true that when Europeans
stumbled onto the islands Of the
South Pacific the sum total of
their knowledge Of navigation was
little greater than that Of the
islanders. The long canoes Of the
aborigines went on two and three
day voyages with only the stars as
guideposts. Only In the later years
have scientists suddenly become
aware of how much the islanders
could deduce from the character
istics Of the swells Of the ocean.
With such colorful and sympa-
thetic deductions and observations
does Alan villiers fill his latest
book about little exploited area.
Evening star., 1949-05-22

Apparently cherished by his
friends as q kindly, gentle fellow
Philip Wylie h known to thou
sands as the worst friend MON"
ever had. q crock 'em and shock
'em" social critic who larrups the
living daylights out Of Americans
for their "trinket and gadget
civilization" In his raucous
new novel, subtitled, Descriptive
Music for the Lower Kinsey Epoch
of the Atomic Age" MIR. Wylie,
by making himself the central
character, is able both to play the
medicine man and take a large
part In the side-show. Consist
entity stimulating in either role,
he is bound to offend many who
do not agree that the great trou-
BILE with man is his failure to ao-
NIT he Is an animal.
The one thing that has heart
ened him at all since he took us
all over the Goals in Generation
of Vipers" is the Kinsey Report
A refreshing work." he calls 1t,
one which proves what he has
always said, namely. that the
sexual behavior Of people Is man.
malian in every respect" A dis
ciple of Jung, MP. Wylie Is still,
however, raging over mans re-
fusal to be himself. to recognize
his instincts and act on them
A longtime student of science, he
is disturbed by the current hush
hush attitude toward scientific
information fostered by the Gov
ernment.
Indignation on these two points
and countless others-is woven
into q bizarre, facile narrative
of i've days In the authors life
during which his wife Is away and
he ts awaiting the medical report
on O growth In his throat. Al
though he disclaims that 1t hap
pened just a. he has written 1t,
If those five clouded days and
their misflt, outcast visitors are
ut all typical Of his life, he
has reason to worry over the
sanity of his age. Three women
attempt to seduce him. One is
. wife who is In flight from a
Evening star., 1949-05-22

Charles Dickens was the most
brilliant and inscrutable Of the
literary geniuses of the Victorian
age. Hesketh Pearson has written
a fortnight. sensible but never
pedestrian biography Of him. The
amazing facts of Dickens life are
well known, but they still hold fas-
cination for lovers Of a good story.
Mr.. Pearson is intelligently
critical of Dickens as an author.
He makes no effort. however. to
ferret out the springs Of genius
which brought forth from his
hero's pen year after year such
masterpieces as David Copper
field" "Oliver Twist" "A Tale Of
Two Cities" and Great Expecta-
tions." He does say and show
that here was no ordinary mortal.
Instead, here was to appearances
a Victorian family man who wrote
books instead of bills Of lading In
Offices in the city. But under
meath the exterior Dickens was
conventional enough until late in
life) were seething currents. The
main force which set Dickens
apart, Mr.. Pearson believes, was a
deep impulse to be an actor. He
was always playing role and his
entire inner life was played out
with an eye on the galleries. The
other eye he kept on the box Office.
Mr.. Pearson gives due attention
to the fact that Dickens books
were marred by oversentimental-
ity and hasty construction. He
was writing usually for a maga-
zine or newspaper market and
often against time. for most of his
books appeared as serials. His
biographer pays proper attention,
also, to his supreme gift of char
acterization. Every one Of Dick
ems great characters was drawn.
at least in part. from some actual
person. When he began to invent,
Evening star., 1949-05-22
COMMUNISM: IT'S PLANS
AND TACTICS

BY Subcommittee No. 5 of the
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Infantry Journal Press; So
This is a reprint Of the SUBJ
committees report originally pub
lished under the title. "The
Strategy and Tactics of World
Communism" 1t is a comprehen-
sive and well-documented study
of communism, its aims and man.
ner Of operating. principally as
1t concerns the United States In
the present world situation.
&C r NJ
Evening star., 1949-05-22

This novel Is q rare achieve
ment, q story that focuses
sweeping searchlight on a turbu'
lent panorama Of European his
tory and yet brings closeup view
of certain individuals whose per-
plexities are timeless.
But that's only one way Of sum-
ming up q book that has many
qualities Of greatness and refuses
to be catalogued. The Las
Miracle" is a sort of spiritual Les
Miserables," with something oi
the epic breadth Of the Hugo
masterpiece and yet entirely diff
ferent in approach and develop
ment.
Karl Vollmoeller Is remembered
In this country for THE Miracle.
q dramatic pantomirne which was
first produced in Vienna In 1911
and later was staged in New York
by Max Reinhardt. Mr.. Vollmoel-
Ter, long successful as a European
playwright. finished THE Last
Miracle" his only novel, at the
age of 10. six months before MS
death. It is q fitting monument
to a man who must have been
deeply spiritual and yet close
observer Of all that Is called
worldly-a mystic who did not
cloister himself, but knew the
inner meaning Of liturgic forms
and the streets, theaters and wine
lists of capitals In the Old World
and the New.
An Ageless Quality.
"The Last Miracle" actually Is
q historical novel, but the author
has given 1t an ageless and SYM
bolic quality which might have
placed 1t in any era. The period
it describes Is the turn OF the
18th century. The story centers
about q convent. presumably on
the border of Germany and Switz-
srland. But much Of the action
takes place in Paris during the
terror. There are vivid scenes ir
the Netherlands during the l790s
and In Rome. Naples and Venice
ut Q time when all Europe was
In turmoil.
The novice Megildis had lived al
the convent Of Heiligenbluth since
the abbess brought her as a baby
from her mothers deathbed at
castle in Holland.
At Is the girl revealed q voice
of s,,rpassing beauty, and a wan
Evening star., 1949-05-22

" A4N 4kS4oo4xSs
Mr.. Pearson points out. he lost
conviction.
The gift which sets Dickens
apart from other novelists was
his sense Of comedy. He noticed
everything and was amused by
everything" Mr.. Pearson writes
and he was able to communicate
his sense of amusement In detail
The result was the series Of un-
forgettable scenes of British life
which captured. better than any
one else captured. the Victorian
era. His production was prodi-
gious. If he had lived today, says
Mr.. Pearson. he would have beer
the king of Hollywood writers.
As an individual Dickens wa,
temperamental (he once went into
a fit Of dependency over an imag.
ined love for Queen Victoria) vair
and unreliable. He was plagued
by family trouble. mostly flnan.
cial, and imagined himself un.
happily married until he had livee
with his wife long enough for hel
to bear 10 children. Then he sep.
arated from her in a blaze o.
statements to the press. He quar-
relied continuously with his pub.
fishers and none of his contem.
poraries and friends escaped hi!
scorn at some time.
Mr.. Pearson is generally sym
pathetic to his hero. He asks thai
it be borne in mind that the same
quality which caused an appar.
entity unforgivable outburst from
Dickens was, in turn. the same
sensitiveness which made him the
great recorder of human eccen-
tricities. His book Is a splendid
example of letting a mans life
tell itself with a minimum of crit.
icism. and Interpretation. In thi:
case, the result Is invariably in
teresting and rewarding.
Evening star., 1949-05-22
HOW TO RESTORE ANTIQUE
FURNITURE

BY M. Campbell Lorini and Henry
Lionel Williams. (Pellegrint d
Cudahy; $685.
A boon to every amateur crafts
man whose wife has been badger
ing him to fix UP that heirloom
With this guide. a little skill and
a lot Of patience he will find that
a creditable job Of antique restor-
ing is not as formidable as II
sounds. %. G. M,
Evening star., 1949-05-22
PROBING RUSSIA'S
FORBIDDEN ZONE
BY Werner Knop. (Altred A
Knopt:. $2.75.J
Reviewed by
RORERT K WALSH.

hO6En1 n. WALon.
Getting into the Soviet occu-
patton sector Of Germany and liv-
ing to tell about 1t outside has be-
come 50 rare that 1t guarantees
an eager audience.
Mr.. Knop, now Of Washington.
relates more than an adventure
and more than q Journalistic
scoop.
The idea for the journey last
summer came during q lunch-hou
conversation at the National Press
Club. Warned that he had only
o $3.50 chance Of entering the
6oviet-controlled area and q 20-80
chance Of remaining undetected.
Mr.. Knop relied on his thorough
knowledge of Germany. where he
was born and had to leave In 1888
to escape Hitler. He obtained help
from the anti-C Communist under
ground but for the most part was
on his own In prowling deep into
the zone. even to the vicinity Of
the slave camps and uranium
mines at Chemnitz.
He reports q reign Of fear and
oppression greater than anything
the Nazis inflicted. He declares
the Russians seem determined to
hold Eastern Germany perma-
nently as q sprtngboard for fur
ther attempted advances. He de-
scribes the Soviet zone as "a
malignant tumor In the recovering
body Of Europe"
He recalls likable qualities OF
the Russians but cites the dangers
n their ignorance and half
Evening star., 1949-05-22
Dickens Fidelity to Living Characters,
PLUS Sense of Comedy Made Him Great
he imagined him

DICKENS: HIS CHARACTER, COMEDY AND CAREER
BY Hesketh Pearson (Harpers; 81
Reviewed by EDWIN TREBLE.
Evening star., 1949-05-22
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Make Spicy Reodinq

IT'S AN Old CAfsr COD
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Evening star., 1949-05-22
BriIIionce of OIdWond SporkIes
In TimeIess, Symphonic Novel

THE LAST MIRACLE
By Karl Vollmoeller. (DneH Sloan & Pedrce; s4J
Reviewed by CARTER BROOKE JONES
Evening star., 1949-05-22
Morley Stresses Responsibility
Of Citizens as Key to Liberty
THE POWER IN THE PEOPLE

Reviewed by BELMONT FARIEs,
Evening star., 1949-05-22

BY Deae &C. T Martin. De
tFoi!. b. subscription
Evening star., 1949-05-22

all 10 the good.
, 1949-03-26

I O A NEW TELEPHONE SYSTEM
THROUGH THE years, at times in editorial column & else
where, we have spoken of the completely terrible condition
Of the telephone system of St. Croix. 1t is one of the few sys-
TENS in the world in which one may hear three or four con-
versationSl going on everywhere, simply by picking up the
telephone. To many hundreds Of constant users of the tele-
phone, news of the Public Works program brought a ray Of
hope that something would be done about the system, but
alas, it was only a hope.
THERE is absolutely nothing more that jeremiah WILDE
kin, and his assistants can do. For many years MI. Wilbekin
has faithfully carried on as chief lneSman, knowing the sys-
tenn perfectly. He.has worked hard, but he and his staff can
not be expected to make a new system. And the same things
hold for the operators, who have our fullest sympathy
There is nothing more that they can do. Between the two
towns there are only tmo trunk lines, so that if only five per-
sons happen to need one town OF the other at the same time,
three will have to wait until the other two have finished talk
ing.
1T IS M natural that #e constantly refer to the tour
it trade. Within recent years it has become one of our best
bets for relieving the economic strains and we should do
everything within our power to see that things run smoothly.
People are coming here to live, others, and we hope thousands
yearly, will come for short visits, and all of this will call for
improved services. It would be difficult to explain to a tour
ist the fact that something like the telephone, which is sec
ond nature, is so inefficient and ineffective.
OUR SYSTEM is old, outmoded and literally outworn. Ii
is time for a completely new system, and one in keeping with
modern trends, Nothing can be more aggravating than pick
ing up a receiver and knowing what everybody else in. the
island is saying. When the Public Works program was an
nomced, again hopes sprang high that perhaps the telephone
system Of the Island could be improved. AS yet nothing has
been done, and we go along our merry way, deficiencies
right and left of us. We strongly urge that the Federal Works
, 1949-03-26
FOR SALE

One Car
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New Spare Tire
Price: $3S0.00
Also two New Radios
makes as follows:
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General Motors 1000 !.
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, 1949-03-26
SHIPPING SCHEDULE

A steamer is scheduled TO
sail from New York for ST.
Croix
, 1949-03-26

Agency give serious attention
to this particular problem, and
as part of the program an
nounced, allocate funds for
improvement Of the St. Croix
Telephone system.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-06-11
LOVE AFFAIR OF A
TURTLE GOES TO POT

They're serving turtle soup

CIIURUBUSCO. Ind. May l8-TheYre serving turtle seup
today in muny homes hereobouts.
The soup does not from the f1mous gions turtle q
the Gale Hois pond subject of eveySi and connuna ca
munY search since the ice out in Morch II defnieiY
bYproduct Of this search however, dividend from Iue
OF monY unsuccessful experiments in turtle trapping
This experiment it mdY be revealed. bassd 81
love. That turned out TO be the love that ued Isu
OF quortet OF interchangeable turtle troopers who put their Ieh
in the oduge that love will find way.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-06-11
Sand PAYS All
OF Towns Bills

SEDGEFoRD. England -
This Norfolk village rms -
sand.
The 700 or SO villagers hssxas
paid a penny in local taxes ~
Is years.
The tax rate is fixed a eANlsa.
pence on a pouud's wofsh - rsaE
estate-roughly dollars sso .
hundred. But II hasn't besn 81.
lected.
Sedgeford has paid all Is e..
penses and made enough eAssa
to refurbish the war nlesAHsaI
and start a new athletic fieAd ~
selling natural resourcua~~eas9
from a viIlage-owned sandpal.