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NON FICTION
AS F. d. r. SAID. BY Frank Kingdom:
DueI. Sloan 81 Pearce. A treasury of
his speeches, conversations and writings,
THE Wit AND WISDOM OF ROOSEVELT.
Eddte Edited by By Maxwell Meyersohn. Beacon
CHIMP oN On MY SHOULDER. By Bill
IVES Wesley ;S .t[;ss paston "a Travel and adven-
HISTORY OF OIL WORKERS INTERNA-
Td0NAL UNION CLIO. BY Harvey
A HISToRY OF PHILOSOPHICAL sYs-
TENS. Edited by Vergtlius FERN. Phil
osophical Library. SO.
HOW TO LAY NEST EGG. BY Edgar
Scott: Winston. Financial facts of life
KAHLIL GIBRAN. BY Mikhail Nanny.
Philosophical Library. A biography.
THE RopEMAKERs OF PLYMOUTH. BY
Samuel Eliot Morrison. Houghton-Mif
fin, A history of the Plymouth Cord
age Company: 1S24-1949. SO.
SCIENCE AND THE PURPOSE OF LIFE.
BY Boris Sokoloff Creative Age Press.
Science against materialism. So.
THE SENSE AND NONSENSE OF PROPH-
ECY. By Eileen ]. Garrett. Creative
Age Press. A study Of soothsayers and
false prophets who do business in
WHEN RisiS0nS sosRoM oS COMES. By Grace
Perkins Oursler and April Armstrong.
Doubleday. friendly and practical
message of consolation for the be-
reaved. So.
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18th Metropolitan

The 18th Metropolitan State Art
Contest will be held in the foyer
of the National Museum from No.
vember S through 26, under aus
Ipices of the District of Columbia
Chapter, American Artists Profess
sional League assisted by the En-
tire Nous Club, as in former years.
The exhibition is open to all
artists living within 20 miles of
Washington. They are invited to
submit paintings in oil and water
color, pastels, prints, sculpture,
miniatures, jewelry and metal
craft work. But only works done
within the last two years and
not previously exhibited here, are
eligible. Each entrant may sub
nit not more than three works,
all of which are covered by an
entry fee of 81. The fee with the
designated portion of each entry
card, must be sent to Mrs. Miles
C. TroWbridge. chairman of the
District of Columbia Chapter,
A. A. P. L., on or before October
26. Artists who have not received
cards and complete information
may obtain same from Mrs. Trow-
bridge, 5000 Jones Mill road, Chevy
Chase, Md.
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write with a more extensive
knowledge of his subject.
Starting with the dramatic
story of the foundation of the
institution, Mr.. True describes it's
major contributions in the fields
where it has specialized-geology,
mammalogy. ornithology, anty-
mology, anthropology, solar astron-
omy and American history.
Through the years 1t has become
Americas scientific and historical
treasure house with collections
ranging from obscure insects to
historical airplanes. Mr.. True de-
scribes vividly some of the most
significant of these treasures.
He has produced a genuinely
worthwhile book about a fasci-
mating subject.
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Vivid First Novel
Studies Women
On Home Front.
LOUISVILLE SATURDAY

LOUISVILLE SATURDAY
BY Margaret Long. Random
House; $2.75.)
The battle of the sexes on the
home front during World War II
is the subject of this vivid,
candid first novel. Mrs. Long
investigates a day in the lives of
some II members of the female of
the species and many conditions
of love, most of them Illicit and
only one or two that give promise
of any long-range harmony. There
is a kind of bitterness in the in
tensity with which she studies
their weakness and their strength
in their Saturday night, man-made
dilemmas.
Mrs. Long has created the ur-
gent, feveriSh, overstrained atmoS-
phere of wartime city and the
terrible toll it takes of the un-
certain, the unwanted and the
unarmed. She has sharply OBJ
served the personalities who range
from a frustrated social worker
to a Junior Lacquer inappropri-
ately in love with a Jewish SER
geant, but her presentation is just
a bit too shrill and specific to
arouse the readers complete SYM
pathy.
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|HowWouIdYou You
Tell Your All
ToDr. Kinsey?
NUTS IN MAY

NUTS IN MAY
BY Cornelia Otis Skinner, with
Illustrations by Alajalov. (Dodd,
Mead & Co.; $275J
Reviewed by Jay cormody
Now that DR.. Kinsey. that
curious fellow. has turned his
scandalously scientific attention
to American womanhood, suppose
he called you one day.
How would you face up to it
your private life and DR.. Kinsey's
QUESTIONABLE?
This is something for which
neither higher. lower nor middle
education has prepared woman
kind. Happily into the breach
has stepped Miss Cornelia Otis
Skinner, the actress whose avoca-
ton is brilliantly amusing writing
and whose fate 1t Is to be caught
in just such unlikely jams as
DR.. Kinsey in person.
OF the thousands interviewed
by DR.. Kinsey. and his colleagues
who have been called his "sex-
mad associates" Miss Skinner
alone has had the wit and the
mercy to- record the experience
for the world to read.
It will be found as the climac-
tic chapter in her latest collec-
ton of wise and brittle essays.
Nuts in May" Miss SINNERS
eighth, and best, volume.
Nuts in May" is a very funny
book. 1t is the work of a woman
whose candor is equaled by her
mirthful conviction that the way
to face life is. well, laughingly.
The brave, resigned smile is not
for her. She will employ, in
stead, the fortnight laugh in the
face of such foreboding expert
ences as day at her sons board
ing school. first nights in the
theater, making a transatlantic
telephone call, amorous overtures
in Paris. and many others.
Alajalov's illustrations for Nuts
in May" make him the ideally
droll companion for Miss Skinner
in these strange encounters with
life which she turns into such
amusing books.
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back slappings the jovial author,
who is also editor of the Raleigh
IN. c. News-Observer, explained
the difficulties of writing a biog-
raphy of a living President
who everybody knows you're
friendly to.
Hardest thing in the world" !"
said Mr.. Daniels. IT had to walk
a tightrope between a barrel of
vinegar on one side and a barrel
OF sugar on the other"
Duncan Enrich, chief of the
Folklore Division of the Library
of Congress and author of Its
an Old Wild West Custom" is
midway in a novel, his first, which
is a satire about Washington. His
publishers wanted a western, but
Mr.. Enrich hopes they will be just
as pleased with a slightly Off
center view Of the Capital round
up.
y X X
The National Literary Agency
OF 1920 street NV, in re-
sponse to publishers requests for
Washington novels, is offering $40
in cash for any acceptable synopsis
submitted to them during the
month of October. The agency
will want to handle the completed
manuscripts.
.. X X X
"Coat of Many Colors," a re-crea-
ton Of the story of Joseph for
teen-agers by Marian King, promi-
nent local author of children's
books, was published this week.
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ress to the presidency and his
years in Office, or are at least
mentioned in the book.
Presidential Adviser William D.
Leahy, who provided the author
with some of his liveliest anecdotes,
was on hand. So were Chief
Justice Vinson, Presidential Press
Secretary Charles G. Ross, Presi-
dental Secretary Matt Connolly
and Military Aide Gen. Harry
Vaughan. Postmaster General
Donaldson, Secretary of Agricul-
ture Brannan, Attorney General
McGrath and Secretary of the
Army Pace were other men around
the President who appeared. Eel
low members of the Democratic
National Committee, India Edwards
and Charles Van Devander, who
might conceivably find use for the
book in forthcoming campaign,
congratulated the author. Sena-
tors Hill. Graham and Kefauver,
all stanch Democrats, came down
from the Hill.
In between hand shakes and
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Music I Heard With You," used
my first name in reverse, 'D'Arnoc,
and they took it. When Harriet
Monroe. the editor, found out. she
was furious and wouldn't speak
to me for 10 years."
Mr.. Aiken regards the upcom-
ing generation of poets with warm
approval, sees "a whole cluster of
young poets who could very well
be the real thing" Robert Lowell
"a prickly predecessor at the Lii
brary) he sees as the white hope
Of modern poetry.
"Anti-social'' by nature, Mr.
Aiken finds his recreation in
movies. good, bad or Indifferent
eats up comic strips, mystery
stories and news magazines, al
though he can't read a novel. He
is an ardent baseball fan, roots
for the Red Sox.
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Scheier Ceramics

An exhibition of work by emi-
nent ceramists Edwin and Mary
Scheier will open to the public
this afternoon from 3 to 6, at
Ursell's, 3243 @ street, George
town. Beginning tomorrow, it will
be on view weekdays from $50
to $50, Wednesdays to $50.
through Saturday, October 81.
Since 1910 the Scheiers have
been teaching ceramics at the Uni
versity of New Hampshire, except
for two periods. During the war
Mr.. Scheier was in the United
States Army Air Force and one
year since then, both were invited
by the Government to organize 8
pottery in Puerto Rico as part OF
a program to revive native crafts
Their work ranges from such
practical items as casseroles, cof.
fee sets, vases, ETC., to ornamental,
bowls and plates. It has fetched
many awards, including severa.
Iat the most recent 14th) Ceramic
National Exhibition sponsored by
the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts
Examples of their work have been
purchased for permanent collec-
tions of the Metropolitan and Mu-
scum of Modern Art. New York
City; the Syracuse, Rochester
Newark, N. j.; Cincinnati and
Richmond, Virginia Museums and
several others. The Scheiers have
participated in numerous group
shows. and have also had exhibi-
tions entirely of their own ceramics
at eight or more museums and
university art galleries.
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In the bustling, vibrant home
land he talked with pioneers from
different waves of immigrants. He
talked with beautiful girl soldier
who had jumped into the sea with
a 3-year-old illegal immigrant,
blown up bridges and run arms,
with an American CT, who had all
his life resisted Zionist propa-
ganda and finally settled down to
work and fight "in the mystical
unity" of Jewish Palestinian So
ciety. These and many others he
talked to, and he has let them tell
their own stories. which rather
mixes up the chronology of the
whole book, since all their expert
enceS cover the same period.
Mr.. Sugrue might, with perfect
modesty have put more of him.
self into the story; for his travels
had their own element of drama.
!. The former Herald Tribune re-
porter and biographer of "Star-
ling of the White House" is Grip
pied with arthritis and he traversed
Israel from Dan to Bersheeba in a
wheelchair. He might also have
mentioned that he is a Catholic, a
fact which adds to the interest of
his overwhelming enthusiasm.
Relaxed and Expanded.
AL the people he met he found
illuminated by a serenity whose
source apparently was the simple
fact Of living in Palestine, a hard,
small, difficult country which was
as short of peace as it was of
water" Whether they came from
Canada, or Yugoslavia or Brook
lyn, "they were on a permanent
binge Of idealism." Even while
they faced broken promises of
the British or Arab threats to
push them into the sea, they re-
laxed and expanded, home from
their long exile. free for the first
time in their lives from anti
Semitism.
Mr.. Sugrue relates in exhaus-
tive and sometimes confusing de-
tail their fight to insure the birth
of their state after the U. N.
voted to end the British mandate
in 1947. Their victory was due
in large measure, he feels, to the
low morale of the Arabs, who dis
trusted their leaders.
Watch for the Morning" is no
reasoned tract aimed at those who
seek to understand the compara-
tive merits of Jewish and Arab
claims in the Holy Land. The
writing is, for the most part, SIM
pie and direct, although Mr.. Su-
grue is now and again carried
away in reproducing the emotions
of the pioneers. It is an exulting
history of Zionism, told by Zion
lists, who went to the homeland
not only to restore the land, but to
restore themselves.
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Savannah, Ga.
It's a re a l
home c o m n g
for his artist
wife, an alum
ma of Central
High and the
Corcoran Gal
lery.
Frankly zap
palled at the
thought Of be-
ing cooped UP"
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Guydosh in Ponomu

The Pan American Union will
open tomorrow in the Hall of the
Americas. to remain only through
next Saturday, an exhibition Of
paintings by Rosamond C. Cay
dash. Her husband, 1t. Col.
George G. Gaydash. had been sta
toned several years at Fort
Amador, Canal Zone, before re-
turning to Washington last May.
and she took advantage of the
country's natural beauty and pic
turesque age, to paint industri-
ously in oil and water color.
Opening too late and closing
too early for review in these coll
umns, Mrs. Gaydash's exhibition
promises to be a pleasing one.
Not a few of the paintings to be
shown here were in her large ex.
hibition last February at the Uni
versity of Panama, which display
drew extensive enthusiastic re-
views in the Panama press, both
English and Spanish.
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OF the PreSi-
dent, "The Man
From Independ-
e n C e." Th e
White us e,
the cabinet, the
Supreme Court
and the Senate
were all repre-
S e n t e d, a n d
m st Of tn e
G u e S is h a d
helped the au-
thor in his be-
hind-the-Scenes
record of Harry
TrrIman's nroo.
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Reading and Writing
Conrod Aiken Celebrates Homecoming
Jonathan Daniels Gets Warm Reception
By Mary McGrory

One Wasngtons distinguished
the poet Conrad Aiken settled
has, matter of fact already turned praise
fair city.
For Mr. Aiken who succeeds Elizabeth Bishop
in poetry at the Library Congress- the
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associated with all the major de-
velopments in its history for more
than three decades, which cover
the major advances in man S
knowledge and understanding of
nature. No man could possibly
Evening star., 1950-10-01
Administration CIambuke
In Honor of On Author

It was a real administration
clambake the other evening at the
Mayflower when Jonathan Daniels
publishers launched his biography
Evening star., 1950-10-01
By Florence S. Berrymon

active. In two decades of its trav-
cling exhibition service. its shows
have been displayed in every State
and in about 1000 cities and
towns.
The museum selects its shows
with care, prepares and packs
them so as to take care of all pos
sible details, enabling borrowers
to handle each group with COM
parative ease. Some of the exhi-
billions are from the museum s
own collections, others are loans
from museums, private owners and
dealers.
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completely Anglicized now) and
the same deft painting of person
ality and interiors that give his
adventure stories a high finish.
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Institute Has Made World
Scientific History for Over q Century
Reviewed by Thomos R. Henry
THE SMITHSONIAN
BY Webster P. True.

Mr. True who retired this after IS editor Of
Smithsonian publications. has written dentive history of
great institution which history
than
America.
The author with the Smithsonian intimately
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Books In Review
Tom Suerue Writes Of Israel by the LIGHT
or Cundle in the Night of Time
WATCH FOR THE MORNING

BY Thomas Sugrue. Harper G. Bros; $780,
Thomas Sugrue state of Israel is WARMLY
even yreay partisan He says in the introduction
the oecideo whether 1t historical accident
possible with something created by the
life OF humanity but plainly might be
canoe IN the night OF time
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Washington Water CoIorist.

An exhibition of work in water
color, pastel and graphic arts by
members of the Washington Water
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from MS nome IN Brewster, Mass,
turned out to be something of a
homecoming. The Capital re-
minds him of his boyhood home,
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Color Club will open at the Arts
Club this afternoon to remain
through October 20. All members
and their friends are invited to
attend the opening tea from 5
to $50.
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McGRORY.
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way of routes 40 and 219.
FrankVille


A railroad station west of Bloom
ington is named in honor of Francis
Thomas, the Governor of Maryland in
1871. When the railroad was surveyed
over the Alleghenies in 1S48, he
bought 2000 acres of mountain land,
beyond Bloomington. High on the
mountain side, land was cleared and
plain frame cottage was built. In
his home the furnishings were hand
some, with choice books in his library.
Farm land was cultivated and good
barns were built; work being done by
slaves. On November 3, 1858, an
auction was held in the Jail at Oak
land and slaves owned by the ex-Gov-
ernor were sold. The sale was forced
as he was pressed for money" and
$13,257 was realized that day.
At the time of the Civil War in
1861, he chose to stand by the Union,
and promoted the measure, which
emancipated the slaves. At one time
General Lew Wallace came as a guest
to the mountain home renewing a
friendship established during the
Civil War. His last official position
was Minister to Peru from 1872 to
1875. The Ex-Governor returned to his
mountain home, where he lived sim
ply, with William Upole to assist him.
His death was tragic, just one year
after his return from Peru, he was
walking along the railroad and was
struck by helper engine and killed
instantly. His intimate friend, John
Sifford, of Frederick, arranged for his
ty. The inscription on his tomb reads:
"EX-Governor Francis Thomas, born
February 8, 1899, died January %,
1876, son of John Thomas and Eleanor
McGill." "The author of the measure
which gave to Maryland the Consti-
tuition of 1864 and thereby gave free
dom to 10000 human beings"
Through his mother, Eleanor Nc
Gill, he was a connection Of the West
family at Swanton. They were his
nearest neighbors during his life at
Frankville.
On the records of the Orphans
court in the Court House at Oakland
is an inventory of the property Of eX-
Governor Thomas. Beautiful Jewels
listed are valued at $4,000. In 1872,
while he was plenipotentiary minister
to Peru, large sums of money had
been borrowed from him-the jewels
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were given as security and never re-
deemed.

were given as security and never re-
deemed.
SwantOn
In 1889 the Maryland State Road
crossed Crab Tree Run and formed a
good location for a grist mill, called
Swans Mill. The name was changed
to Swanton when the railroad was
built in 1851. Swanton was located in
the midst Of great forests, and the
new railroad could use lumber of all
kinds. Large lumber mills were es-
tablished and operated by Captain
Truman West and his sons, Richard
and Charles and their friend, Alex
ander Fairall. A tram road was built
to the saw mills. Cars pulled by mules
hauled the lumber to the railroad at
Swanton. Good houses were built for
the family, which were occupied in
later years by Charles West and
Charles NJ. Miller.
Mr. Charles West continued the
business in Swanton and at one time
he operated a grist mill and produced
buckwheat flour. He moved to Balti-
more in 1890
The West Family were pioneers in
Colonial days in Virginia and Mary
land. In 1900, Truman West was born
at Merryland, near Frederick In
1881, he was married to Susanna
johnson, cousin of Gov Thomas
Johnson. They came to Accident to
establish their home. Their farm was
called woodland Farm" and it is
now owned by the Haenftling family.
Their six children were Richard,
Charles, Thomas Hilleary, Joseph,
Elinor Johnson and Sarah McGill At
the time of the Civil War, the family
were ardent Southerners, Mr. West
and his sons, Richard and Charles,
entered the Confederate Army, in
this way he received the title of Cap
tain. One son, Thomas Hilleary West
studied medicine, and established his
practice in Keyser, West Virginia.
The name of Truman Fairall is
mentioned as one time proprietor of
the Stone House Inn on the National
Road. A select school was established
by him at the Stone House for chill
dren Of that neighborhood. Later he
was a merchant in Accident, and pro-
prietor of land on which the town of
Accident is located. 1t was there the
friendship with the West family was
established.
Alexander FairaIl was born in
Charles County, 1880, married Elinor
johnson West. Mr.. Fairall was for
many years station agent, and post
master at Swanton. Richard Fairall
was a member of the House of Dele
gates, came to Accident in 1919; mar
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and Elkins in 1889. This railroad fol-
lows along the Potomac River-the
dividing line of Maryland and West
Virginia. The President of the West
Virginia Central Railroad was Hon.
Henry G.. Davis, us. Senator from
West Virginia from 1871 to 1882 In
Washington, he was associated with
men of prominence and the railroad
stations were named for his friends
and family: Blaine, German, Thomas,
Bayard, Davis, Parsons and Elkins.
Blaine or Kitzmiller is one of Gar
rett county's most successful mining
towns. The Wilson, Dixon, Kitzmiller
and Harvey families were its pio-
neers.
Gormania, West Virginia, and Cor
man, Maryland, are on U. S. Route
so, with mining and lumber interests.
Steyer, near Gormanfa, has a busy
lumber mill for its industry.
Bayard extends along both sides of
the river, recently a modern coal
cleaning and preparation plant has
been built there by the Davis Coal
and Coke company. This plant will
process 5000 tons of coal daily, taking
coal from Garrett County as well as
West Virginia mines. 1t was at Bay
ard that former State Senator w.
Mccullough Brown established his
home, "Corunna" on mountain land
inherited from his parents. Senator
Brown was educated as a Civil Engi-
neer and was associated with the
final survey of the Western boundary
of the State of Maryland in 1912.
During Mr. Browns life some of the
land owned by the Mccullough family
was returned to the State. In recent
survey, a report was made that half
of Garrett County is underlaid with
coal bearing formations, much of it
in this section.
In 1902 the West Virginia Central
Railroad extending from Cumberland
to Elkins was sold to the Wabash
Railroad, under control of the Gould
family. The name was changed to
T he Western Maryland Railroad,
which extends east to Hagerstown
and Baltimore.
At Crellin, the Preston Lumber
Company operated a large saw mill.
Crellin was dependent upon this in
dustry. When the lumber mill closed
the land owners were surprised to
find, under the hills, where the giant
oaks had grown, abundant veins of
coal. Mining has been of steady bene-
fit to the friendly town of Crellin.
Every day many car loads of coal are
hauled on the side track to the main
line of the & o railroad at Hutton,
Maryland.