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friend Jefferson is Adrienne Koch.
warm and bouncing intellectual
who teaches philosophy at New
York University and who has
written Jefferson and Madison. ="
Miss Koch. in private life Mrs.
Lawrence Kegan. wife of a Com
merce Department aide, thinks
that Madison's boldness in ex-
pressing his sympathy for the
French Revolution was more or
less in keeping with the party line
Of the Republicans.
She agrees with Mr.. Brant, how
ever. that Madison has never been
properly appreciated for his enor-
nous contributions. She feels that
what has come to be known as JEFF
fersonian democracy was in good
part the result of the friendship
and exchange of ideas between the
two men. and that Madison
brought to the team the political
know-how to keep them both in
power.
Mr.. Brant. who came to under
stand Madison's worth through
study of the Constitution is of the
opinion that Jefferson often cap
tured the limelight because of his
gift for catch-phrases, fair that
Madison did not have. He admits
that the evidence as to Madison's S
charm must be taken on faith,
since his own papers do not con-
firm it. He once even confided to
fellow-laborer in the field that
reading too much Madison Is like
eating chalk"
Miss Koch. on the other hand,
Joyfully maintains that is years
OF reading in Jefferson have
never for minute bored her and
have simply whetted her appetite
for the new jefferson papers
which will be opened next month.
She is currently engaged in a
short history of American thought.
Although at the moment immo-
bilized in her Sixteenth street
apartment by the flu, she is known
among her friends as a regular
Mrs. Roosevelt of a girl" con-
stantly on the move. shutting be-
tween Washington and New York.
y y X \
Correction: 1t was enormously
stated in this corner several weeks
ago that Justice Douglas of the
Supreme Court broke II ribs do
ing research for his book, "Of
Men and Mountains" Actually.
Mr.. Douglas gave 23 out of a
possible "a to the cause. 1t was
not our intention to minimize his
contribution to literature.
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james Madison Comes In
For Some 'Investiqutinq'

If James Madison were alive,
says his biographer, Irving Brant,
he would be not only a critic but
a victim of congressional investi-
eating committees. The fourth
President. a rather dim figure in
contemporary minds. was consid-
cred "a wild-eyed radical in his
day." according to the former ST..
Louis newspaperman, who is now
coasting into the fourth and final
volume of his definitive study.
Mr.. Brant cites in evidence
Madison's acceptance of honorary
citizenship in the newly formed
French Republic, a move which
caused the French Ambassador to
call him "the Robespierre of the
United States"
Another Washingtonian bent on
giving Madison his due while re-
tanning a partiality for his great
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known historical framework.
The sequence of larger events,
as described in accounts and jour-
nails of the voyagers themselves
has been followed closely. Unfor-
tunately the resulting story has
the difficulties usually encountered
in documents describing explora-
tions and unusual journeys-ver-
bosity and tedious detail-and lit
tie of the redeeming color of his
torical romance. 1t is true that
Mr.. Gebler has deliberately avoid
ed a romantic conception of the
Mayf1ower colonists, and this per-
haps is commendable, but what he
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joined a devil-may-care branch
of the British Army which spe-
cialized in suicidal desert raids.
One of his great feats was the
kidnapping of a fractions Persian
general. 1t was as Mr.. Churchilps
personal, parachuted representa-
tive to Tito that he found an al
most inexhaustible outlet for his
clift-hanging spirit. He rose, un-
derstandably, to the rank of
brigadier general. Now, having
come to rest after his Arabian
Nights experiences, he is dec
orously sitting as the Conservative
member of Parliament for Lam
caster.
Historically Valuable
For all its pervasive humor,
much OF Mr.. Maclean's account is
historically valuable. His account
OF the Moscow trials, for instance,
are superb, rejecting his bewilder-
ment at the spectacle of dedicated
leaders abjectly and even eagerly
discriminating themselves and each
other in crude and implausible
conspiracies. His descriptions of
his illicit travels into Soviet Gen.
trail Asia, with their reminders of
1.-The inevitable undertone of vio-
lence and repression" make rele-
want reading today.
But perhaps the most vital
chapters are those which deal with
his 18 months service with Tito,
when he shared all the hard
ships OF mountain warfare, with
the Partisan leader. The Cam
bridge humanist and the profess
sional revolutionary got along IA
mously, despite Maclean's grave
doubts about Tito's postwar as
pirations. Clearly. and with no
recourse to hindsight, he explains
the tangled web of Balkan politics.
the role of the Chetniks, the fatal
hesitations of the government in
exile, the arrival of a Soviet mis-
sion, and the advent of Soviet
troops for the liberation of Bel
grade. His estimate of Tito as "a
fervent nationalist. and a prin-
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use; S3J
that may not seem plausible at
first are resolved into clear
chords before the close.
The town boy, rescued from two
bullies by the mountain boy, who
routs his enemies with unerring
|squirts of tobacco juice in the eye,
follows his new friend Sparkle
back to his mountain cabin. There
the smaller boy, Did" Hargis, is
welcomed by Sparkie's parents.
The mother comments: "Ye've
brought home stray hound dogs.
cats, guns, roostersy ducks and
hides, but this is the first time
we've ever brought home boy"
Did" whose father is the richest
man in the town, decides he pre-
fers the mountains. Of course, his
father comes after him REIN
forced by the sheriff when the boy
hides out and refuses to return
but the boy manages to stay on
for months. Meanwhile there is
plenty of trouble, including what
looks like a war between the fox
hunters and the tobacco growers.
with tobacco barns burned and
hound dogs that tramp down to-
bacco plants poisoned.
1t all works out at the end of
Mr.. Stuart's easy-f1owing narra-
tive, leaving a fresh respect for
the last stronghold of individual
lists in America.
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Undeveloped Areas
OF Africa and Asia
Need Western Aid

AFRICAN DEPENDENCIES: A
Challenge to Western Democracy
BY Nwankwo Chukwuemeka.
(William-Frederick Press; $780,
Reviewed by Sam Eostmon
The chief role which the worlds
colonial territories have played
since the age of discovery has
been that of source of raw ma
terial for competing European
powers. Today. these territories
are becoming more and more
conscious of national identity in
the world scene. Nwankwo Chuk-
wuemeka. now a professor at
Howard University, presents here.
in terms of social, economic, legal
and educational factors, exactly
what the colonial system has
to his native Nigeria.
The author deals in even more
detail with the problems which
now face Nigeria, and with pos
sible solutions to these problems.
Although the road which Nigeria
must travel in order to gain an
independent nationality based on
a firm self-substaining economy
is peculiar to it's own potential re-
sources, the general problems are
the same as those which are be-
ing faced by countries throughout
the world. Among Mr.. Chukwue-
meka's criticisms of the ad-
ministration of technical aid
through the point-four program
is that the dependent territories
may receive aid only by the re-
quests of the controlling nations.
Mr.. Chikwuemeka warns that
unless the Western nations recog-
nize and act upon the needs of the
undeveloped areas of Africa and
Asia there may we'll be a COM
plete break with Western ideals.
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pioneers and the generation that
followed in the earlier decades of
the 10Th century.
1t does not matter whether you
have read the other books of the
trIogy, THE Trees" and THE
Fields" which took Worth and
Jary Luckett from the settled
ways of Pennsylvania into the,
wild frontier of Ohio at the be-
ginning Of the century. THE
Town" Is a complete story and
probably the most sensitive and
lyrical of Mr.. Richter'S eight
books.
AS THE Town" opens, Sayward
and her colorful husband. Por-
thus, the lawyer, still live in the
cabin they carved out of the
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dpPl CSLdtC DIAM N1SI0. AAA o
Gibson wadeS in to tell story.
and tell 1t she does. with both
barrels, with a rich Texas ZeSt and
a determination TO beat all getout.
In this successor to her Joshua
Beane and God" she sets out to
give us a hard-drlving. hard-liv-
ing oil town of 1904. and she has
caught the atmosphere. the set
ting and the people with a pun
gency and resource that more
precious writers might well study
Here are Black Cat Sims eat
ing place. Hooker row. half breed
CherokeeS. people who are funny
people who are outrageous, peo-
pie who simply have themselves
a good time. Mrs. Gibson's hus-
band has been a driller. she a
farm girl. and NOBODY can ques-
tion the authenticity of the Texas
details.
BLACK Colds" people are hus-
tiers. madams, drillers, high-bind-
ers. trickster lawyers and other
assorted folk. Young Bass Chal-
mers shows up IN town for the
funeral of his mother. who
queened the towns best sporting
house. (Somebody in a barroom
gave her bullet or two.) There S
a heroine; girl who lives for a
time as guest IN another such
house; zesty old character
named Mrs. Rooney. a town row,
and a great deal OF oil.
Mrs. Gibson has hit a good lit
tie gusher here. Watch for the
assorted excitementS in the fields,
and don't miss the titillating
Evening star., 1950-04-30
BY Donald n. Muoridqe

The well-known American mas
ter and editor of the Chess Re-
view. Israel A. Horowitz. will give
a simultaneous exhibition against
80 opponents at the Washington
Chess Divan. 2445 Fifteenth street
NV. on May II at 8 pm. The
fee will be 50 a board. but each
opponent will receive as a bonus a
bound volume of the Chess Re-
view for 1916 or 1947, worth $5.
Mr.. HorowitZ is famous for his
elegant style and combinative
brilliance. The seventh round of
the District championship will be
postponed one week in order to
allow the participants to take ad-
vantage of this opportunity.
The United States has Just
made its first impression upon
international chess since Reuben
Fine won the Manhattan Club
Tourney in December. I948. The
agent was Arthur Bisguiser,
United States junior champion,
who finished in a tie for first place
in the tourney of the Southern
Counties Chess Union at South
sea, England. Both he and the
veteran master. DR.. Savielly Tar
takover, had scores Of 71a-71a. In
a triple bracket, half a point be-
hind, came Harry Golombek, the
British champion; Jonathan Pen
rose. the talented London teen
ager. and Lothar Schmid, a new
German player. The veteran Rus
sian master resident in Germany,
E. D. Bogoljubow. just missed this
bracket. and stood sixth with 6Ea-
3h. Bisguier's finish was event.
full: In round 8 he defeated Pen
rose and knocked him out OF the
lead, in round 9 he was beaten
and knocked out of the lead by
Golombek. but in the final round
he beat F. F. L. Alexander and
so caught up with Tartakover.
Donald H. Mugridge entertained
and was entertained by the Para
gon Chess Club at the Twelfth
Street YMCA on Friday evening.
April 81. Sixteen games we're
contested on 13 boards. Frazier
Miller accepted a draw in a posi-
ton where he was the exchange
ahead but exposed to some coun-
terattack, and j. H. Pinkard
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In round four of the District
Championship, Edmund Nash and
George S. Thomas remained tied
for the lead. with 3l2-la each.
after drawing a game in which
Nash missed good winning chances.
The only players VINO had ths
possibility Of overtaking them.
Oscar Shapiro and Martin c.
Stark, remained behind by reason
of drawing their encounter, an
English opening. Stark blum
dered away a pawn. and In the
adjourned position Shapiro stood
to win the ending with a rook
apiece and bishops OF the same
color. But soon after resumption.
Shapiro erred in exchanging the
bishops. and on move 81 conceded
that the extra pawn could not
win the rook ending.
Shapiro and Stark. with 81.
are now in a large bracket which
also includes Hans Berliner. The
odore BullockuS, Nathan Robins
and Sam Schwartz. Berliner won
from A. Stein. Bullockus from
w. F. Gray and s. Schwartz from
M. L. Seidelman. Robins was pre-
sented with point when A. @.
Carleton blundered in a favor
able position. Carl F. Sieweke
and Heinz w. Steinbach have
2l2-li2 each; the formers VIC
tim was Charles Miller and the
latter's H. E. Cimermanis.
Other results: F. Dubois, /; q.
O'Rourke. 0: c. Gardner, /: j. r.
Rice, o: E. j. Hover, l.; H. z. Fake,
0; B. Schwartz, /; r. J. Torcaso,
O.; F. Miller, u; D. Stetzer, "A.
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How the Russians
Live, Doy-by-Doy
IF YOU WE'RE BORN IN
RUSSIA

ANO0SxA
BY Arthur Goodfriend. Ear
rar, StrGuS & Co.,; $5.)
Arthur Goodfriend does not tell
US much we do not already know
in broad outline about life in So
Wet Russia. What he has done,
though. is to present in docu-
mentary fashion pictures and
text which build up to a depress-
ing panorama of day-to-day exist
ence in a country where the state
prescribes every thought and ac-
ton for its citizens, where every
thing a man reads and hears is
presented from the monolithic
point Of view of the Stain regime.
Apparently only the ballet has re-
sisted Sovietization. In all his
other activities the Russian, from
cradle to grave. is putty for prop
aganda. Mr.. Goodfriend's book
with its generous selection of anti
American cartoons and scarcely a
single scene without its back
ground picture Of Stain, is bleak
confirmation Of all that we suspect
OF life behind the iron curtain.
MARY McGRoRY.
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SERGEANT SHAKESPEARE

BY Duff Cooper. THE Viking
Press, Ne1o York; $780,
1t is possible to find evidence
for any number of careers for
Shakespeare. Mr.. Cooper thinks
he must have served in the army
and cites references to prove his
familiarity with the military life.
Delightfully."- written, his essay is
OF fast-disappearing type:
Purely meditative, slightly be-
unused and always good-natured.
EDWIN TRIBBLE
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Chess Notes

reached a safely drawn rook end
ing although pawn behind. The
performer won double games
against H. E. Carpenter, H. Stew
art. and r. WEIGH, and single ones
against o. NJ. Bertrand. Z. Ed
oington, c. Gardner. T. Garmon.
D. Howard. E. P. Lovett. d. c.
Stewart and d. Vessels. Play
was completed in one hour and
As minutes. Chester Eddington
permitted the kind Of attack that
Cole used to make.
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Fitzroy MocIeon's Adventures Make One
Of Best Books to.C Out of the War
ESCAPE TO ADVENTURE


BY Fitzroy Macean. little, Co., 81
Fitrzoy Maclean restless British happes
when He exdiplomat with undipomatc
thirst for adventure soldier with Of his national
sangfroid doubtful the ordinary would
his ALL who
the small vivid details that alive
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Macleans, but
in the span be-
tween his 25th
and 34th birth
days he crowded
enough alarums
and excursions
to satisfy any
man not aspir-
ing to be a
John Buchan
hero. After
service in the
Foreign Office
in Paris and
EHncno1t, ho
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THE PLYMOUTH ADVENTURE
BY Ernest Gebler. Doubleday,
So
This narrative of the. voyage of
the Mayf1ower and the early days
of the Plymouth settlement, Mr..
Gebler explains, lis a form of doc
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of l6.. But, as usually happens in
a Jesse Stuart book, there is much
more hidden in that steep, tangled
land than at first meets the eye.
BY the time you're through you've
had an exciting time and you've
acquired new admiration for the
kindness, the unselfishness and
the rugged self-reliance of the
mountain people. Several adults,
you'll find. are quite as important
to the story as the two boys
through whose eyes nearly all the
narrative unfolds. And discords
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u m e n t a r y
chronicle rath-
er than q his
torical novel,"
Thus all the
characters ac-
tually lived and
in a general
way did the
things attribut-
ed to them, but
the author has
rou n d e d out
their personali-
ties and in
vented episodes
within the
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effectively in a
dozen books of
prose and po-
etry.
HE to the
Hunters" starts
out as a sort of
juvenile adven-
ture in nature
and Gust m,
with a 14-year-
old town boy
le a rn i n g all
about the hill
country and its
DeoDle from a
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"OOuS, UuG IIley
are m ! d d ! e.
aged, and their
oldest children
are growing up.
The town. too,
is growing up,
and the time
c ON eS when
Portius decides
they must build
a m a n S ] o n
proper for his
new dignity as
a judge a n d
their increased
prosperity. But
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opening in which friend of the
dead madam brings a Skyrider
TO her funeral and makes him
give a sermon. with a pistol to
bring out his piety.
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even the cabin.
The youngest child, Chancey, is
delicate and supposed to have
heart trouble, but his wise, in
tensely practical mother and
doctor with surprisingly modern
ideas determine the boy needs to
get out and play like other chill
dren. So Chancey grows up
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Reading and Writing|
Louise Hall Thorp Tells of Research
Plans for Horace Mann Biography
By Mary McGrory

Louise Hall Tharp winning author Of that completely winning
biography Peabody Sisters Salem through
southwark recently an early date
Still involved with the fabulous trio biography of Mary
husband Mann whom she
she research on his congress
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a true wit, whose deadpan under
statements. render his dashing,
debonair and eminently civilized
account of his exploits quite unfit
for reading in public places.
Escape to Adventure" covers
scant 10 years in the life of this
Evening star., 1950-04-30
THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington, D. c.
SUNDAY. Assl %. 1sso
Jewell Gibson Hits q Gusher
With q Two-Gun Tale of Texas
BLACK GOLD
BY Jewell Gibson
(Random House; So
Reviewed BY Hornett T. kone

81 Queen New orsens.' 'srSs 81 'e'V~." tNl
Gibson like her native Texas special
This book rather different from anything
offered generS rambuncous
the late frontier days Of the Lone Star State
highly indvduaiStic individuals,
like finely etched defty
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Jesse Stuart Writes a Kindly Story
Of the Mountain Folk He Knows So Well
HE TO THE HUNTERS

TIE IO TIE 11ON EICO
BY Jesse Stuart. (WhittleSey Ho
Mr.. Stuart's new novel is a
warmly sympathetic story of his
own people, the Kentucky noun
tain folk he has written about so
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Theatrical Effects
Enhance This Novel
By Donald Windhum
THE DOG STAR
BY Donald Windham. Double
day e. Co. Inc, s2.50.j
Reviewed BY Jeonne ROGERS


Reviewed BY Jeonne Rogers
Blackie Pride in his short and
sorry life makes as fieeting an i'm
preston on this world as the Dog
Star-which rises unnoticed with
the sun.
Covering a month--the last-of
the boys life. Donald Windham
writes in the character study pat
tern of Steinbeck. Some OF his
shocking descriptive passages also
bring to mind Tennessee Will
liamS, with whom the young
writer co-authored the play, You
Touched Me"
Mr., Windham draws the read
er's sympathy for the dark. over
grown youth all along his reform
School-back home route.
The writing is pure in The Dog
Star" and the novel enhanced by
the entrance and exit of char
acters handled in theatrical
fashion-fadeoutS and all.
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Books In Review
Conrad Richter's Town Takes Shape
In Ohio's Wild Frontier Land
THE TOWN
BY Conrad Richter. (Knopt;; $500
Reviewed by Corter Brooke Jones

Here the third novel about the Luckets and their descend
story of daughter Sayward children
transition the
Drisng
industries
Mr. Richter writes with deep feeling fine Of
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1950-05-19
Needed, A New Flag!

For the past three thousands people Mnnapo
las alike closely watching
the Minneapolis hall courthouse We admit that
along with other spectators nccs
All cranng curiosity
a feeling pride part
Just cmarIung bright sunny morning just
would look completed their
when thing the
Of the building
The American Flag which the city hall eembled
s forgotten battle World War
The stripes
frayed; this the flag three holes which
makes the idea battle all the authentic
Now that the hall undergo
certainly afford buy flag Also shows
"A a
of the United States which reads The Flag when it such
condition that 1t longer fitting emblem for display should be
destroyed in dignned way, preferably by burning"
Remembering the building
City forgetting symbol
American independence which certainly ourans the
lazness.
1t would be the city council would just take little
time off other problems they
flag At least by Memorial Day Heaven
forbid present flying hall Flag Day!
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1950-05-19
Racial Signs Of The Times

Some milestones OF Southern progress 1919:
1859 900 bond
a recreatonal facilities
awarding honorary Mrs Marc Mcleod Bethune
College believed first
white college Negro for achievement Mrs
s a prominent Negro educator.
Association composed
pus colleges nterracay during
year for the first time
Legislature enabling Miami
discriminatory advertisements of either
reIg racial nature
Legislature passed law requiring the counties of
he 10 a ballot" in all elections.
ruled that counties with substantial
Negro populations Negro citizens their grand
Negroes being called for service in
MANY counties reconstruction
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1950-05-19
They've Grabbed A Beer By The Tail

we sa the it
and will be- by the last of The Moose Lake Starazee
reported businessmen" village to
boycott, compete with The Star-Cazette"
m gives dignity
they Storekeepes
of the who engaged in various
equations but businessmen well
is supposed ethical honorable.
businessmen
that Etze the ideals that the function
newspaper publish This he did without fear
fearlessy invariably with
justifable matters editorial columns.
Cthey just can't along without
advertsng) They propose publish
shopping avowed being Eze out bust
of Moose Lake
SUIT boys coming A newspaper
struggle along fairminded
honorable citizens bring to weather such tempest in
teapot starting
badly newspapers of Min
will through help Etze weather the storm that few
blowing against him.
paper circulation the Deer River News
Mr.
equal biggest advertising
weeks payroll months subscription receipts be forth
help the freedom of the Minnesota
Maybe all of the $50 of the state will liberal
Minnesota that would
probably weeks Etze of business And
that will help much extent
The News keep Mnneoa outstanding and its
outstanding
by misguided
Lake pulling Etzen and his
ground the action being taken by the
The best advice this
they like the kind Ezeu
prints they should not make that kind Of news
circles will watch Etzs fight for the life
and his right to print the with deep interest
the way IN "meh tney are at'epns no newspaper a
that wanted to exercise the free
the cardinal principles which this nation
founded would be safe Dators like the Moose Lake business
and dangerous and
dictator like staln-Deer River nn) News
This writer can't join Republicans crcising
cross-country nonpocal is political
politics during
siona elections? Sleepy Eye Herald Dispatch