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Evening star., 1949-01-30
|sroers First President Recounts
His Own Story of a Dedicated Life
TRIAL AND ERROR
BY Chain Weizmann.
| Weizmann. (Harper; So
Reviewed by CRESTON B. MULLINS.

The story of the creation of the
Jewish state of Israel is grim one,
full of the poignancy of a people
dispersed to the ends of the earth
and striving to return to their
promised land. The autobiography
of Chain Weizmann, Israels first
president, is one facet of that story,
bridging as it does the first real
STRINGS of Zionist feeling halt
century ago in little town in West
ern Russia and the fulfillment OF
the Zionist goal in the birth OF
Israel.
DR.. Weiznann's story is the harsh
narrative OF struggle, often bitter
frequently satisfying and always
worth while, to develop Palestine
into a national home for the Jews
He was drawn into the vortex OF
this movement while still a youth
and was never able to make any
significant break with it, even after
he resigned as president of the
Zionist organization In July, 1881.
The only interest which ever drew
him away from Zionist activity
was the necessity of making a liv-
ing and his deep-founded desire to
be independent. This he did In the
field of chemistry, to which he was
attracted also in his early years In
Russia.
A Scientists Viewpoint.
Despite his significant contribu-
tions In the scientific field, DR.
Weizmann Is less well-known for
them than for his work In Zionism.
There Is, however, positive rela-
tionship between his scientific call
ing and his Zionist life's work. He
carried into his Zionist career the
practicalities and awareness OF
limitations which are the essence
of applied science.
Thus, in fighting for Zionism ne
was never a theoretical Zionist, or
one who strove to achieve the move
ment's goal-as Dr. Theodore Herzl
did-by political means alone. DR..
Weizmann, the scientist, applied SCI
entific factors to the Zionist problem
and came up with the answer that
the road to the Jewish national
home was not through politics, but
through the actual upbuilding OF
Palestine, through immigration
through the settlement Of Jews on
the land and through the creation
of q Palestinian economy which
would provide a solid base for the
national home.
He opposed the entrance of toe
many small shopowners and traders
into Palestine from the ghettos OF
Eastern Europe, and sought to con-
vert the Jewish immigrant to agri-
culture, an occupation from which
the Jews had been forcibly sep
Evening star., 1949-01-30
Reviewed by
NINA PEMBERTON.

When young DR.. Warwick came
to Queen street in Philadelphia in
the year 1880, it was to find him
self hemmed in by difficulties. 1t
took long time for the bigoted and
superstitious inhabitants of the dock
area to take this young, man with
his revolutionary medical ideas into
their confidence. He had to plead
to get these people to undergo
surgery of the simplest nature. His
battle against gangrene and his ex-
periments on dogs were the subject
Of piously declamatory sermons from
the pulpits on Sundays.
DR.. Warwick had not only his
working conditions to contend with,
but also close proximity of three
women in various states of frustra-
tion. There was his wife Paula, her
young sister Nan and last but by no
means least Kate, cook, housekeeper,
assistant nurse and Paula's success
sor In the role of Mrs. Warwick.
Philadelphia-born Anne Paterson
started her career there as secretary
to q psychiatrist. At present she
is an assistant editor on Ladies
Home journal.
Evening star., 1949-01-30

The Communists do know and from
their knowledge they draw the
energy by which thev ultimately END
up in control Of the business.
Mr.. Newhouse does not say they
will retain this power. Nor does he
say they will not. At the end, his
advocates, Neil Miller the artist, and
Larry Holland, the wealthy liberal
are back in the, Army. Here, pos
sibly, they are conditioning them
selves for the showdown battle with
the Communists to whom they GER
tainly lost the first skirmish.
"The Hollow of the Wave" has q
sharp eye for the drama in the
personal relationships Of the authors
moral waits. He also has a coldly
objective style in which to set il
down that amorous disintegration i
not recommendable as a palliative
for spiritual hungers. The tempo
at which his people change beds
increases as disillusionment grows
This also is not an answer.
Mr.. Newhouse, an honest man
admits he has no answers. Merely
an expertly written, readable story
about some people in the hollow o.
his not very exclusive wave.
Evening star., 1949-01-30
Paris-Born Yankee
Writes 'TypicoMy
French Novel
IF I WE'RE YOU

BY Julian Green. Harper G.
Bros; $3.)
So completely has Julian Green
an American born in Paris OF
Southern parents, adopted the ways
of his native land that his novels
must be translated into English. If
I Were YOU" variation on Faus-
tian theme, is typically French, in
tensely introspective and a little
bleak. 1t is the story of miserable,
frustrated young clerk who gives
his soul into the keeping of a mys-
terious stranger known as M. Brit
tomart in exchange for the gift of
becoming any one he would like to
be. Like the character in the fairy
tale who was given three wishes
and wasted them, Fabian assumes
the bodies and souls of three men
who represent wealth, bodily
strength and good looks, respec-
lively, only to discover that they
are as luckless as he originally was
His fatal faculty involves him in
murder, Illicit love and much tor
ment.
The fantasy, which would have
been a bit more effective If Mr.
Green had given a little more at
tention to the details of the trans
formations and the plight of the
people who are spiritually kid
naped by Fabian. It's main inter-
est is in the excellent character
studies which appear in the course
of the narrative. One in particu-
lar of a bourgeois hypocrite is ex-
ceptionally fine. M. Meg.
Evening star., 1949-01-30
Golden Anniversary
Edition of Famous
Book of Ships
JAMES FIGHTING SHIPS, 1918
Editor, Francis E. McMurtrie.
Macmillan Co.; 500
Reviewed by


MALCOLM LAMBORNE, Jr.
This is the 50th anniversary of
James Fighting Ships, and, as BELTS
the occasion, the latest volume Of
fers readers added attractions.
Perhaps the most interesting to the
layman is Editor McMurtrie's story
on the founder of the book, Fred
T. Jane, the son OF an English
preacher. The publication grew out
of Mr.. James interest, at the early
age of II, in the British ships that
participated in the bombardment of
Alexandria, July II, 1882. He drew
rough sketches of the ships, like
any youngster in love with the sea,
and from them emerged the idea
Of the annual.
Students of naval affairs will find
most valuable a series of specially
drawn silhouettes depicting the de-
velopment of the ironclad from 1860
to 1945. In addition there is a
comprehensive index Of all the more
important ships that have been re-
corded In the previous 49 editions
of James.
An interesting sidelight on the
Russian passion for secrecy is James
notation at the beginning Of the
section on the Soviet Navy: 1T is
extremely dificult to secure acct
frate informa tion regarding the Rus
sian Navy, but the Particulars given
in these pages have been revised
and compared with data from re-
liable sources" Some space is de-
voted to the Japanese battleships
Yamato and Musashi, which James
says were the largest warships ever
built. They now reside in Davy
Jones' locker, thanks to the United
States Navy.
Evening star., 1949-01-30
Economic Collapse
And Another War
UNION NOW

UNION NOW
BY Clarence K. Streit. Harper; );
S3.)
In this new edition Of a widely
discussed book which first appeared
10 years ago, Mr.. Streit has added
five chapters bringing the argument
for an organic union Of free ma
tons, up to date. In the original
edition, published shortly after he
founded the movement, he fore
saw the war which came. He now
adds: "Still without central gov
ernment, the free Atlantic COM
,uunity still invites economic collapse
md another world war"
Mr.. Streit does not advocate
7crapping the United Nations, but
feels that it can work if his pro-
posed Union Of the Free would
join it. Under present prospects
ne sees the U. N. as spineless as the
old League of Nations. Stfll dis
united, he points out. the democra-
cies confront formidable dictator
ship. It Is armed with a great army
and militant dogma that vio-
lently subordinates man to the state
It is bent on driving individual free
dom of the earth and enslaving all
mankind under its tyrannical world
government"
Mr.. STREET., q Montanan and for
mer foreign correspondent, has de-
voted his time for more than a dec
ade to Federal Union, Inc, with
headquarters at TOO Ninth street.
&C. B.. j.
Evening star., 1949-01-30
Crime and
Mystery
By Miriom Ottenberq
Death Draws the Line, by Jack Iams
IWiIIiaro Morrow g. Co 90 5f)

Death Draws the Line, by Jack Ians.
(William Morrow & Co.; $2.50D.
Mr.. Iams submerges his usual roll
licking brand Of humor to present
some villainous people strongly re-
sembling comic-strip characters
which is as it should be since q
comic strip called Little Polly
Pitcher" figures Importantly in the
proceedings. Little Polly is the major
product of the Whitcomb Syndicate :
but its creator is hopeless drunk.
and, shortly, a dead one. Suspects
range from Managing Editor Wallis
to an aging nymphomaniac become
ingly called Aunt Martha, whose
advice-to-the-lovelorn column is
widely syndicated. n
*** a
Late Last Night, by James Reach.
(William Morrow & Co.; $500
Neither the victim nor the gang
ster on trial for the murder were
worth any ones tears. But Mys-
terry Writer Gregory Stockton had
sound reason to believe the accused
was innocent. Problem: Should
Stockton talk himself into trouble
to save man who probably should
have gone to the electric chair
years ago? The author does a neat
Job of dissecting his courtroom
characters as he builds toward his
inevitable conclusion and an un-
expected epilogue.
i \ y II
Chord In Crimson, by Gale Gala.
CHER. (Coward-McCann, Inc:
$500
Gargoyle
Blind, aristocratic Elizabeth Ver-
weide said all she wanted Gale
Gallagher to do was find her favor
ite nephew, Rik. But Gale (whose
name does double duts as author
and detective) suspected there was
more to the case than a simple dis
appearance. When Rik's gorgeous
wife was strangled with a harp
string, the hunt for Rik was on In
earnest. Gale attends jam session.
learns something about rare jewels
and hides a fugitive from justice
in the court Of putting the finger
on a well-concealed guilty party.
All Men Are Liars, by John Stephen
Strange. doubleday & Co., Inc;
$2.)
|Crinle Club.
Dying of gunshot wounds, Andy
Newcomb named Lester Ward as
the killer. The death car belonged
to Andy's benefactor, a highly re-
spected judge. This worthy told
police he had left Andy and Ward
in the car. 1t was all very neat-so
neat that Homicide Capt. Honegger
felt uncomfortable about it. AS well
he might. Most of the action in this
puzzler takes place in the courtroom
where the perjury-as limited by the
! title-is terrific.
Evening star., 1949-01-30

Bennett was at MS top 1orm mas
there been an English novelist who
could match Mr.. Hutchinson's
ability to get scope and dimension
into q novel, to round 1t into o
form you can see and remember.
With all these rare merits, which
Mr. Hutchinson displays fully In his
new novel, there are deficiencies In
Elephant and Castle" too serious
to be ignored, even though a re-
viewer enthusiastic over this writer's
gifts feels reluctant to cite them.
Mr.. Hutchinson does not write
like" anybody-he is himself, al
ways-but he is more like modern
ized Dickens than another Bennett.
Bennett was always the realist-or,
to use more recent term, the
naturalist. He wrote of people you
might have met any day. 1t was
nothing unusual in the lives Of
Charlotte and Sophia of "The Old
Wives Tale" or Of Clayhanger that
made them memorable but Ben
nett's portraits of them, complete
to the least gesture. Dickens,
while he wrote realistically of
the poverty and evils Of his day,
fetched out some characters that
never lived on land or sea. These
frankly were caricatures, takeoffs
on certain officials or conditions
of the times, even their names sug-
gested 1t, but they were none the
less amusing; we laughed at them
and perhaps loosed an occasional
tear over them, though we knew
they were spoofs. A..
Offered Straight, /!
But the characters in Elephant
and Castle" are offered straight;
We are expected to believe In them.
And some Of them are completely
plausible. Unfortunately the most
Important one, Armorel, Is the least
persuasive. I found 1t very difficult
to pretend there was ever such a
person. Not that she lacks vividness
and clarity, but she never comes
to life.
Armorsl In an attractive, highly
educated young woman from a cul-
tured and fairly important family.
The long story centers around
her impulsive marriage to Clan
(Toughie) Ardree, a youth Of the
London slums, with a brief GRIM
inal record. She becomes inter-
ested in him through trying to re-
claim him from prison, where he
is serving three months for brawl
in which q policeman was hurt.
Armorel even insists on a church
wedding, though she Is a militant
atheist, and submits to q reception
planned by a wealthy relative. At
the reception Clans family and
friends mingle with Armorel's tony
set. It hardly could have happened,
and yet it enabled the author to
write one of the funniest scenes
in recent literature.
The whole situation indeed, the
Evening star., 1949-01-30
Reviewed by
FLETCHER r. ISBELL.

Any person familiar with the
PHILOSOPHERS Of Mrs. Buck and Mrs.
Robson, wife Of Paul Robson, may
feel some surprise at the indication
Of their title that they differ sufh-
ciently to argue. The surprise soon
dissipates. Both, impelled by impa-
tience with social progress in Amer
lea, want more governmental
changes. Their differences lie only
in the means, they say. They argue
those. But signs abound Of con-
verging viewpoints even there.
The work is q first-person account
by Mrs. Buck Of conversations with
Mrs. Robson. Mrs. Buck providing
her writing skill and Mrs. Robson
most Of the ideas. The latter's
theses. in sum: A few hundred
powerful citizens in America CON
troll the money, the influence, the
propaganda machines, and now our
Congress" The country has a die
tatorship now, but bad one, and
needs ito switch over to a good
dictatorship, in order to make
things more democratic" Mrs.
Robson would sacrifice a few that
the many might live" "immobiliz-
ing, removing or, If necessary, killing
of a few people who are being ter
ribly destructive, in order that nil
lions may live in peace and prog
ress." This dictatorship by the
people" would not be so dead set
on keeping what's left Of those aris-
tocrats In the saddle in China" or
in Greece, Italy, Spain and Por-
tugal. And there would be no war
with Soviet Russia which "our mill
tary government is trying to scare
us with now"
A Guilt Complex.
Mrs. Buck, troubled and sincere
has learned to endure these teach
ings. CT reflected long indeed
over what Eslanda had said of the
Soviet Union."D Now familiar with
their face, she pities, impelled
among other feelings, by a guilt
complex about Mrs. Robeson's race.
CT would at heart choose not to
be born white. " No weight is so
heavy as that of guilt. $50 guilt
ridden am I as a white-")
So she may yet embrace. She
cannot now go all the way with
Eslanda's means, but out of her
souls crucible she is willing to sac
rifice, she says, some of her pre-
cious individualism," her privilege
and her security. She is willing to
do so because Eslanda wishes, and
Eslanda, she knows, "is much too
sensible to fall before propaganda. u
Eslanda may be.
Evening star., 1949-01-30
Long House Party
BY Jay Presson. (Rine
Co..; $2.75.)

BY Jay Presson. (Rinehart &
Co.; $275J
Kate Larsen, wife Of a minor
league Hollywood actor, prepares to
spend quiet summer with her two
children in a ramshackle house in
Hollywood Hills while her husband
is playing stock in New England
The solitude turns into a continu-
Gus house party when Andy Dun
can, bobby-sox movie idol of the
moment, and blond, sultry Destry
March, a displaced Broadway ac-
tress. move in with Kate. Uncon-
ventionality abounds, the talk is a
brittle bore, and every one Is too,
too sophisticated. It adds up to
262 pages Of pretentious dullness.
IT c.
Evening star., 1949-01-30
Evelyn Waugh
To Speak Here

Evelyn Waugh, the celebrated
British novelist, whose newest book,
"Scott-King's Modern Europe" will
be published next week, will speak
on Thursday evening, February 10,
at CASTOR Hall, Thirty seventh and
o streets NV. at 8 pm. The lee
ture will be sponsored by the George
town University Graduate School.
M. Meg.
Evening star., 1949-01-30
Reading and Writing
Washington Authoress Takes Issue
With Mrs. Mundt on Capital Manners

women of the Americas on questions
of paramount interest to women"
"And that's just one of the
thousand fine and happy things
that society editors have said about
the wives of Congressman" she
declared. %''''
+ Her duty done, Mrs. Murdock
went back to rejoin the ranks Of
her one-woman pressure group to
gain recognition for Constantine
Brumidi, the forgotten artist Of the
Capitol.
Evening star., 1949-01-30
New York s Edward Newhouse
Reports on His Postwar World
THE HOLLOW OF THE WAVE

THE HOLLOW OF THE WAVE
BY Edward Newhouse. (WiNa Sloane Associates; s375J
Reviewed by JAY CARMODY.
It is entirely unreasonable to ask the denchanted to be
They have not to that attitude without
undoubtedly strikes them best way survive world
they never made.
So of these such Edward Newhouse writes
novel such Hollow the Wave"
Evening star., 1949-01-30
For March 18th
YOUR TAX GUIDE

YOUR TAX GUIDE
BY Paul Safro. international
Universities Press; 1897
Now that the immovable March
IS deadline is drawing near for
income taxpayers, this concise
summary of taxation-of what Is
taxable, what exempt-should prove
valuable. Mr.. Safro goes into
corporate as well as individual taxes
and even summarizes State tax laws.
Best Of all, the intricate subject is
explained in simple, clear English.
Evening star., 1949-01-30

WHENCE came the knowledge. =
w that built the Pyramids? Where
did the first builders in the Nile Valley
acquire their astounding wisdom that
started man on his upward climb? Did
their knowledge come from race now
submerged beneath the sea? From
what concealed source came the wis
dom that produced such characters as
Amenhotep ~, Leonardo da Vinci,
Isaac Newton, and host Of others?
Today it is known that they discov.
cred and used certain Secret Methods
for the development Of their inner
power of mind. They truly.learned to
master life. This secret art of living
has been preserved and handed down
throughout the ages and today is ex.
tended to those who dare use its pro.
found principles to meet and solve the
problems Of life in these complex times.
This Sealed Beok-FREE
The Rosicrueians (not q religious
organization) have prepared an I'm.
usual book, which will Be sent free to
sincere inquirers, in which the method
of receiving these principles and nat
ural laws Is explained. Write today for
your copy Of this sealed book. Possibly
a. It will be the first step whereby
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Evening star., 1949-01-30
Mr.. Hutchinson Makes Us Think
Of q Modernized Dickens
ELEPHANT AND CASTLE
BY r. c. Hutchinson. (Rtnehart;; $3.75J

Reviewed by CARTER BROOKE JONES.
Mr. Hutchinson has much that few other novsts Of the day
the capacity to draw character brilliantly ns
atmosphere that makes you feel smell neghborhood
He pile impressions Of the existence of
of tangent people that result in the illusion that know them
all intimately.
generaze that not since the late Arnold
Evening star., 1949-01-30
Reviewing | he New Books

DuhomeI Novel, FIowIessIy Translated,
Reveals His Charm and SensibiIHy
SUZANNE AND JOSEPH. Two Pasquer Portraits.
Georges Duham Translated Beatrice de Hotor Henry
Holt G. Co.; $780,
Reviewed by MARY McGRoRY.
Evening star., 1949-01-30
Young Doctor
Fights a Battle
For Medicine

QUEEN STREET STORY
BY Anne Paterson. Doubleday;
S275.)
Evening star., 1949-01-30
ewDictotorship
by the People
IsGiven Heorinq

AMERICAN ARGUMENT
BY Pearl s. Buck with Eslanda
Goode Robson. (John Day; $3.)
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-07-11

The city of Dayton has several
municipal pools. Negroes are bar
red from every one of them. There
is not a single outdoor pool avail
able to Negroes in this section.
They are permitted to use the
state pool at Bryant park one
period a week. And 10 miles away
in Middletown, there is a Negro
owned pool.
Thus, the only opportunity for
Negroes to swim outdoors is pre-
scented by the creeks, rivers and
dams hereabouts. Is it any won
der that Negro youth, frustrated
in it's attempts to engage in con-
structive activities, turns to de-
linquent activities? With no place
but disease infested swimming
places to go is it any wonder that
so many Of the same youth group
mature into sickly adults?
Frankly, we would like to see
the local branch of the NAACP
take some action on this matter.
In such places as Warren and Lon
don, Ohio, the NAACP branches
have carried on very militant bat
ties in the courts to break the
back of discrimination in public
swim pools. In Warren the NAA
!CP won the court battle. And in
that city, officials used every sub
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-07-11
Racial Indignation Here
To Stay

sheet, the same issue (which came
out last week., another writer
commenting on the same marriage
said that the FBI should investi-
gate the minister who married the
couple.
It is agreed, there should be
an investigation, but it should be
made of the Dayton Independent,
known to be the local outlet for
the Gerald L. K. Smith crowd Of
hoodlums. At least there is an al
legged connection. It'll should be in
vestigated, for even though the
lunatic fringe is reached, the paper
reaches a few hundred individuals
who drink in that stuff and help
spread it.
Last summer when Negroes for
the first time purchased some
property on Germantown hill in
the county for the purpose of con-
sctructing a recreational area, the
local ku klux khan burnt two
crosses. In fact it was just a year
ago this week. Of course, nothing
was ever done about it.
The local rabble rousing sheet
may object to interracial ming
ling locally and nationally. But
all the objections in the world it
can muster will not halt the steady
march of decent people, both Ne
gro and white, toward full and
complete Indignation.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-07-11
West Side wv
Opens Play Court

The Teen-age and Adult pro-
gram at the West Side WV have
taken on "The New Look" with
their improved facilities for out
door recreation. A cement finished
court for tennis, volley ball, shut
fleboard, skating dancing, and
ping-pong has been completed on
the rear lawn of the WV, 236
South Cummit street, for public
enjoyment. The court is open from
8 a. m. to 9 p. m. daily under the
supervision of WV staff and vol
unteer leadership. Tennis players
are requested to bring their rae
kets and balls; other equipment
will be furnished. Ten cents daily
or rs cents for weekly privileges
is requested from all participants
for the upkeep of equipment.