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Evening star., 1950-12-10
Mr.. Thurber Takes
"A Trip to FoiryIond
THE 13 CLOCKS
By James Thurber. (Simon e.
Schuster; $2.5O.)

The Is CLOCKS
BY James Thurber. (Simon &
Schuster; $2.50J
James Thurber went to Ber-
muda to finish a book, but wrote
this one instead. He thus becomes
the second famous author to be
sidetracked this year. The first,
OF course. was Mr.. Hemingway,
who threw aside a manuscript
that has been 10 years in prepara-
ton to turn out Across the River
and Into the Trees" which caused
much cackling and kissing in the
critical flock. Mr.. Thurber's little
detour is not apt to arouse any
such CONSERVATION, unless the
Hopalong Cassidy set has suddenly
started packing typewriters.
Here the foremost chronicler of
the war between the sexes has said
good-by to all that and gotten
himself up like Hans Christian
Anderson. So free is his fancy
that in several places he makes
the master seem on the conserva-
tive side.
His tale Of a cold, cruel Duke
who keeps his beautiful niece, the
Princess Saralinda cit was not
easy to tell her mouth from the
rose or her brow from the white
lilac") locked up, has not only a
hag who weeps jewels, and hand
some prince disguised as a wan
dering minstrel, but also the only
golux in the world. A golux ap-
pears to be kind of a half-baked
magician. He sounds more like a
Damon Runyon character in
pointed shoes as he advises the
prince in his courtship of the
princess.
One Of their problems is to
bring time back to the castle. The
duke has slain time because he
prefers then to now. The Prin-
cess Saralinda. not a clock STOP
per but a clock starter. is very
helpful in this part of the ordeal,
1t is little hard to say lust
how the young fry will take to Mr..
Thurber's fable. Those small
enough to swallow the magic may
balk at the long words. The asides
are too good to waste on youth.
But any grownup who isn't cap
tured from the "once upon time"
right through to the end. doesn't
deserve respite from the head
lines. MARY McGRoRY.
Evening star., 1950-12-10

STUDY IN American LeCCefS. Inc
young writer's fame languished ir
the '3Os and climbed again with
the war in the '40s.
The association of a war with
Crane was natural, since his most
celebrated story is the short novel
"The Red Badge of Courage" and
a considerable number of his short
stories concerned war. He was
too, a war correspondent of con-
troversial achievements.
"For some reason" Mr.. Berry
man says, "he seems now to be
accepted as standard, though few
read his best tales and no critical
study has ever appeared"
The late Mr.. Beers book could
not be accounted a critical study,
nor was it really a biography,
though it was colorful, stimulat-
ing book. Mr.. Bergman un-
doubtedly has written the first
complete Crane book. It is both
a biography and a critique. 1t is
doubtful if any one will be able to
explore more thoroughly Cranes
brief life. Even so, there are
many gaps, as Mr.. Bergman Is
quick to point out. These spaces
are not the biographer's fault
The very nature Of the few years
of adult life Crane had-his early
poverty, almost destitution. the IL
logical sequence of his comings
and goings, his personal reticence
would battle at times the most
careful and patient researcher.
The Clearest Picture.
1t is to Mr.. Berryman's great
credit that. in spite of these diff
ficultieS, Stephen Crane emerges
from this book more nearly an
understandable human being than
any one else has been able to
make him. In his sound critical
summation, Mr.. Bergman does
not neglect Cranes highly original
poetry, of which new edition,
published in 1948, has sold sur
prisingly well. He feels, justifi-
ably, that The Open Boat" 1.-The
Blue Hotel and other short
stories are as fine as anything
Crane wrote or any other Amer
lean writer has done. Cranes
influence on American writing has
been enormous.
The word genius, which those
who have due regard for words
do not use lightly, could be ap-
piled more justly to Crane than
to almost any other American
writer, at least as readily as to
Poe. At 10, Crane, in and out
of college, where he never got any,
where except in baseball, was
working on the first draft of his
famous novel of the New York
slums, Maggie: A Girl OF the
Streets" His father, Methodist
preacher, left the family nothing,
and, though at least one of
Stephens brothers was prosper
GUS, Stephen hated to borrow or
beg. There was something Of the
fiagellant in the youth. He never
seemed to care, in his early 20s,
whether he had a dime, and
he subjected himself needlessly
to hardship as if that were part
of his apprenticeship. Under
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Air Police Patrol
For World Peace

A WORLD AlRL1FT
BY Elvira K. Fradkin. Funk &
WagndHs Co.: s2.S5.J
Reviewed by William H. Shippen
This plea for a United Nations
Air Police Patrol" to enforce peace
in our perilous time is packed
with quotations from U. N. docu-
organization charts, airway
maps, statistics and optimism as
to the cooperation of the Soviet
Union and its puppets.
Very little has occurred since
Mrs. Fradkin finished her book te
confirm her belief that the Soviets
will go along with a plan which
did not originate in Moscow.
Mrs. Fradkin is the author Of
Chemical Warfare, It's Possibil-
tiles and Probabilities" and "The
Air Menace and the Answer"
Her new book contains a fore
word by Gill Robb Wilson, Worlc
War I combat pilot and "Ail
World" columnist for the New
York Herald Tribune.
Evening star., 1950-12-10

and their moderate prices, would
make them more likely buys
than some of the works priced at
three figures in other art gallery
sales shows.
Miss Kumm, who lives in Falls
Church, Va, has particularly
varied and attractive group with
some familiar subjects, such as
Mount Vernon Dependencies" in
Ia chiaroscuro wood engraving
and another Mount Vernon sub
ject in a linoleum print. She
shows other landscapes, carica-
tured types and groups of people
and one religious subject, a color
aquatint, TRANSPORTATION. which
is reminiscent of a medieval
Woodcut.
Born in Minnesota, Miss Kumm
began her art education there
later studied painting and etch-
ing at the Corcoran School OF
Art. She has received several
awards, and is represented in six
American permanent collections
including the Library of Congress.
Mrs. Hutton, a native of Cleve-
land and a resident of Philadel-
phia, in whose art circles she is
now active, studied in Minneapolis
and Paris, and under a large
number of individual artists, in
cluding Andre L'Hote and STAN
ley w. Hayter, which avant garde
artists doubtless account for the
distractions included in her pres
ent group such as Fluid Forms, u
quite different from her natural
istic Barnegat Lighthouse SUBJ
jects, her flowing lithograph
"Fairmont Park" and other
landscape and coast scenes.
This two-artist show will re-
main through January /.
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Peter Covonoeh Arouses
The Arts Club Book Fair

An Irishrnan with a chip on
his shoulder strobe into town last
week and trod purposefully on a
few corns in passing.
He was Peter Cavanaugh, au-
thor of "The Story of the Abbey
Theatre" who took a fighting
stance Zone hand on lectern, one
hand on hip) at the opening ses-
Evening star., 1950-12-10
Two at Smithsonian

The Division of Graphic Arts
does not designate it's December
exhibition as a Christmas sales
show. But the pictorial appeal of
some of the prints by Dorothy w.
Hutton and Marguerite Kumm
Evening star., 1950-12-10

Constantine Brumidi's best
friend, Myrtle Cheney Murdock
wife of the Congressman from
Arizona, will autograph copies OF
her new biography of the artist of
the Capitol "a handsomely Illus
trated volume with some full-color
plates tomorrow at Kann's Book
Store from 2 to 4 pm.
Evening star., 1950-12-10
Reading and Writing
Wonder if Ernest Hemingway Knows His Title
Came From the Pages Of q Methodist HymnoI?
By Moy McGrory

Did know that the title of Ernest Hemngways
the River Into the Trees originally
pages of a Methodist hymna?
bit of turn and wondering if the
Champ of it,
Willard Webb chief the
Evening star., 1950-12-10

Division OF the Library OF Con-
gress, for this intelligence. In
line of duty, Col. Webb was brows-
ing through bound volumes of the
magazine, the Confederate Vet
eran for 1901, when he came
upon the text of a hymn with
words by Kate Cameron and music
by R. M. Mcintosh, that begins
When our work is ended" What
caught his eye was the last line
of the refrain which reads:
LET us pass ouer the riUer and
rest under the shade of the
trees"
At the back of his book Hem
ingway has acknowledged that he
took his title from the last words
of Stonewall Jackson, who as he
lay in his final delirium in 1868
was heard to say, Let us pass over
the river and rest under the shade
of the trees"
Every one who knows anything
about the Civil War knows. of
course, that Stonewall Jackson
was a fire. and birthstone Presby-
terian. But Col. Webb has ascer-
tanned from sleuths in the Lii
brary's Music Division that de-
nominational lines were fire.
quently crossed in hymn singing.
Hemingway edited the lines
down a bit for his title, always
having been man for the clipped
phrase, but the source seems plain.
guess the next thing we can
look for is John O'Hara writing
under the title of Brighten the
Corner
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New Administration

The American Federation of
Arts, which has made Washington
its headquarters since it was
founded here in 1909 by a group
Evening star., 1950-12-10

for instance, the curving high
ways, ETC., in her Bridges Over
Rock Creek"
This exhibition will remain
through December 30.
Evening star., 1950-12-10
Books In Review
A New Understanding of Stephen Crane
One of Americas Great Men of Letters
STEPHEN CRANE
BY John Bergman. (Wliam Sloane Associates $3.75J
Reviewed by Carter Brooke Jones

In the half century since Stephen Crane died at 2S interest
in his has fucuated violently. For 20 after
death Bergman points forgotten by all but
mostly other he had influenced. There
Of Thomas Beers Stephen Crane
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-01-17
DEATH RATE IN 194s

Only 90 deaths were recorded in the
United States for each thousand inbahi-
tants during 1948, according to a recent
report from the National Office of Vital
Statistics which says this is the lowest
death rate recorded for the country.
Deaths from all causes numbered y
444,3 37, or about 1000 less than in 1947,
despite an increase in population. The
leading cause of death remained the same,
with heart disease first and cancer second.
The former took off ALL 1859 victims while
the latter claimed 198,042. These and
chronic diseases associated with advanced
age accounted for sixty-three of each 100
deaths.
1t is interesting to note that, during
1948, 1854 persons decided that they had
enjoyed life long enough and killed them
selves. BY contrast, there were only 81
536 persons killed by other people with
homicidal and effective intent to Stay.
These figures indicate, first, that the
health of the people of the nation Is inn
proving and, second that heart disease
and cancer deserve the studious attention
of those who work to save human life.
BY comparison tuberculosis, long-dread-
ed scourge, claimed only 1888 victims
and poliomyelitis 1895. Incidentally,
nephritis caused more deaths than tuber-
culosis, the number of its victims being
1877.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-01-17
sTEP-uP CONDEMNATION
PROCEEDINGS

# Monroe county does not come into
nossession Of Meacham Airfield, the near
est place to Kew West where suitable
commercial airport can De cons1rue.eu Z
Cudjoe Key, 20 miles away, accoruins =
information given members of the county
commission by a representative q the
Civil Aeronautics Administration.
Kew Westers should bear that report
IN mind and rouse themselves into activity
70 have the county commission press the
condemnation proceedings that nave peeh
instituted to acquire Meacham Alrfleid. 4.
The suit was filed against the Key
West Realty Company. which sold the
field to 4 Chicago syndicate. The county
has available 100000, which It received
from the federal government for the acre
age included in the Naval Airport at Boca
Chica. The CAA has agreed to give the
county S20. O00 to add to the $4,000 IN
the event that the suit is brought to a sue
cessful conclusion.
Two county commissioners, Joe Allen
and Gerald Saunders, favor passing re-
solution to press the suit to final decision.
All that is necessary to bring that acton
into play is for another commissioner to
Join with Allen and Saunders to put life IN
to the court action against the syndicate
Inactivity resulted from promises to
make variety of improvements to the
field. The improvements have not yet been
made. Meanwhile, the county's expenses
in maintaining the field is $4,000, less
rent receipts of few thousand dollars.
Property owners in Monroe may re-
call that they approved bonding the coun-
ty to buy 1000 acres on Boca Chica for an
airfield. Today the county would have had
one of the best fields in Florida had not
the federal government, shortly before
the beginning of the second World War,
at first rented the acreage to build an air.
field for the Navy, with promise that it
would be returned to the county within six
months after the war formally had been
declared to be over Instead, the Navy pur-
chased the acreage for 100000
One of two things must be done if
Key West is to have an airfield: acquire
the Meacham Airfield through condemna-
ton, or construct an airfield 20 miles from
the city:
It should be plain to the county COM
mission that Key Westers prefer to have an
airfield'in the city limits to having one on
Cudjoe Key.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-01-17
TRAVEL IN NATIONAL PARKS

Visitors to National parks, national
monuments, and other areas administered
by the National Park Service, Department
of the Interior totalled 31,864,l0o IN the
travel year ended September 30, 1949. In
the previous year, 29,6O8,31s visitors were
reported.
Some of this travel increase is attrl-
butable to special programs and exhibits
in many areas in observance of the Tooth
anniversary of the establishment of the
Department of the Interior and the role
played by National Park Service areas IN
century of conservation"
Good news for this area and the
Everglades National Park.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-01-17
HOME RANGE
sy lynn WEsTlAND

He gestured to them to take her
away. and that, plainly enough,
met with the approval OF " hiss
Bear and the others. But oarelss
seemed to guess that ne was =
ing to put something over on net;
and She was in no mood 70 STAND
for ANYTHING of the sort Beiore
Zachary suspected her intention;
she stepped forward and slapped
him resoundingly across the race.
Then she turned and made q oaSn
for the darkness.
I The unexpectedness of the .ges-
lure almost won for her. zachary
was frozen for a moment, then
red with rage at the affront be-
fore the others. "A dancing brave
ieaped out suddenly from the cir
Gle. made a quick dash, and
caught her. He dragged her back,
fighting every step of the way,
vet he held her easily enough.
Valse had to. restrain himself
from stepping out into the light
For moment there was silence.
The other chiefs were watching
with interest, wondering what
Zachary would do. The drizzle OF
rain had stopped, and there vas
4 faint Tightening in the east.
Rage was in Zachary's face. Il
was as If, casting off his rusty
black clothes, he had become
complete savage.
so that's what you want. Is
|it9n he asked. soTo be on your
own? Do you know what that's
going to mean2 But think I'll
Just let it 90 that way What d.
] want of you, anyway | don I
have to take anything second
handl L."
He was going on. TRADE which
left Saralee white-faced. whine
something of fear began to show
in her eyes. De Polo moved.
swinging back into the saddle
more effective entrance this
way" he said. 81 guess it's time
for us to tell the chief a few
things that he doesn't know about
his friend Zachary. Ell. Trib?"
40 be consinuedl
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-01-17

was news to Saralee. Ignoring the
Indians. she blazed back at him.
Save yourself, il that's the
way you want to do it,, she re-
torted. Its what I'd expect Of
you But as for me. ] don't care
for any Of it.
Zacharys smile was tolerant.
do y0u know how yonsd be
treated, right now. III L wasn't
for me2P he demanded. Look at
these people--at the mood they're
inl What I've brought YOU here
now for, at this time, which is =
poor one for me, is to marry you.
AS my squaNt. you'll be safe.
whatever happens. And its the
only way you viii bel"
Saraiee did not bother % look
around. Her courage was as fine
as her contempt.
Z ran away yesterday, rather
than marry YOU" she said Now
that ] know SO much more about
you, do you think that I'd be your
squaWgh
NXfHITE BEAR and the other
w chiefs had been waiting inn
patiently. They did not under
stand what was being said, but
that did not matter to them.
White Bear interviewed now.
There is other business" he
said naeaningly. And time grows
Shorsln s.
Zachary nodded. But before he
could speak, Saralee answered.
ITS not going to be that way,
I'd sooner die than marry you,
or even owe my safety to you,
now that / know what you aret''
Zachary looked at her, his an
ger showing in his face for .
moment. But this was not the
time to chastise her, he knew,
VITA the others looking on. He
tUrhed back TO White Bear, ig-
noring her.
"She is my squaw," he an
nounced shortly. "There is no time
for anything more now. See that
she is kept safe until I return" he
added to the squaws. There is
much to do now"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-01-17
chapter 2s

- 80 - - =
a DECISION had been reached
"A White Bears face expressed
displeasure, but he shrugged his
shoulders as if to wash his hands
Of the matter.
Now Saralee was coming. led
between two squaws. She was
dressed in Lewis. her hair la dis
order, her face white with strain.
but her head was held high, her
eyes steady. Valse eyed her
anxiouslys Apparently she had
been subjected to no indignities.
Valse saw her pause for a mo-
ment in sheer arnazement, her
eyes widening. Then, as she saw
Zachary's attitude, how he was
painted and accepted as an equal
by the chiefs, understanding
came into her eyes. And with il d
scorn and contempt which was
unmiStakable.
Zachary saw it, too, and his
own face whitened, so that the
paint showed more garish by
contrast. The tempo of the war
drums faltered for a moment,
then went on, and the dancers
continued. But there was aston
ishment and bewilderment on
more than one face. This was
something unusual to say the
east.
Zachary took step forward
"Saralee!" he said.
$50 this is what you arel" she
said. "a renegade" =
Zachary had determined not tc
be- disturbed by what she might
say to him. He had foreseen what
her reaction would be, and was
prepared for it.
II was adopted into the tribe
years ago." he explained. TITS q
fortunate thing for both Of US
now. Two of the tribe have beer
killed in the last twenty -fouI
hours. They are determined or
war. That's why they picked you
up. AS it is, can save both Of
US. and it's the only chance we
have"
None Of it. except his own part
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-01-17
WAR IN THE CARIBBEAN?

= The president of the Dominican Re-
y puhlie recently demanded that his Con-
Z gress vote him authority to declare war on
any country that knowingly tolerates or
+. protects" forces hostile to his country.
- When the law was passed there were
protests from the United States and from
countries throughout the Caribbean area.
President Trujillo has frequently accused
Cuba, Guatemala. Venezuela and other
nations Of harboring enemies and plotting
: attacks upon his regime. The Dominican
pross. which is not at all free, often pub
fishes reports of alleged notifications de-
signed for the invasion of the republic.
Just why the dictator wanted his Con-
rress 90 pass such law is uncertain.
-whsther il means possible attack on
s,,a,e ether nation or represents nothing
bee propaganda TO Justify heavy expendi-
--tusss for Trujillos army is not known.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-01-17
COMPULSORY RETIREMENT

Some years ago, when society began
20 worry about the fate of WORKOUT work
ers. the theory was advanced, and some
what widely accepted, that old-age pen
sions would be the solution of this social
problem.
Now, with the old-age security and a
steady extension of industrial pension
plans. the sociologists are not quite sure
that the desires of all people can be taken
care Of by an old-age pension.
There are many reports of workers,
reaching the xty-five-year-old retire
ment age. who complain bitterly about the
assumption that they are unfit to work.
II seems that there are people who desire
% continue TO work Many men and wo-
men. facing difficulty in finding employ
ment because of their age, insist that bus
iness and industry make serious mistake
IN Nressing age in connection with en-
ployment.
These unwanetd workers denounce
the prejudice against age" and assert
Ftiid older employees, through the benefit
~ past experience, can be productive and
profitable They intimate that age and
experience are assets which often offset
The pep. enthusiasm and exuberance of
youth.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-01-17
MONOGRAPH

Dear Citizen Readers:
Apropos of the matter concerning
Of Meacham airfield, The Citizen stated
editorially 10 years ago that key West
was the first air port of call between it
and foreign country, when the old
Aeromarine Company established air
communications between this port and
Havana. Certainly the first United Stat
Is air port should not be the last to have
an adequate landing field for CONNER
cial air liners of government air ships.
Key West, the city nearest the Panama
Canal, should be so provided, and now
Is the appropriate time We got the air
port. had it for long time, and now we
may not have it again.
THE ORACLE
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-01-17
Your Horoscope

TUESDAY, JANUARY u, 1850
"A rugged, natural life IS TINS.
II win prefer the isolation OF
hermit with an opportunity %
study or mediate by himsens
There IS a certain unevenness 81
temper that viii try the patience
of friends except those VINO can
see beneath the crusty exterior.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-01-17
BRITISH SUNDAY
CALLED DULL"

LONDON up. Investigators
who wondered what the British
do on Sundays have the answer:
nothing particular" The report
was by MASS Observation a
group of sociologists and mass
opinion experts who market
studies of British life and. habits.
Totting up the average Briton
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-01-17

on Sunday, the surveyor said IA
out of 20 listen to the radio, eight
out of 20 visit or entertain, eight
go for a walk, four putter around
IN the garden, four visit the pub,
two go to the movies, three go to
church. Most people do at least
two of those things.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-01-17
ASTHMA

DUE TO ASTHMA ATTACKS. RUSHED HenH
New hope for relief from asthma paroxI
ysms is seen today in reports of success VITA
congestion. Men and women who forneflS
suffered with dread coughing, choking.
wheeling asthma attacks now tell Of bleaEe3
relief after using IL. pRoMETiN costs So. ma
considering results. this is not expensiVN
amounts to only a few pennies per acna
tCaution-use only as directed PRoMkTIn
Is sold with strict money-back guarantee -
Central Pharmacy, Cor. White st. A
Truman AVe.-MaIl Orders Filled.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-01-17
Key West In
Days Gone By
AS TAKEN FROM FILES
OF THE CITIZEN OF
JANUARY II. 1910

Spiking all reports to the con-
trary, naval officers here today.
announced that Key West naval
neutrality patrol was here to stay
until the present emergency ends.
It was indicated that the station
would remain open even beyond
the emergency. o@'