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lif7in Co.,. $3J
really matters. In her genteel
world of superlatives and COM
pliments, Jim is restive until he
meets driving woman who urges
him into politics under the banner
of Huey Long. Jim is ultimately
undone by a vindictive nobody,
without clan or cousins, an evil
lost soul with no family tree
to lean on.
Young MFR. Lamkin draws some
vivid scenes of interracial vio-
lence and nasty political cam
paigns. He observes subtly the
stagnant Southern town and it's
ghoulish gossips. But, perhaps
because he tells the story through
a subservient distant Richardson
cousin. he never gets close to his
characters. Jim changes into a
rampaging tycoon overnight, and
the motivation of the Sleep walk
ing Caroline, unprotesting in the
face of her brothers decline and
her husbands infidelity, is never
made clear to an outlander.
There is no question that the
young author has considerable
gifts, but, as of now, they are
giving off more smoke than fire.
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Mr.. Dowdey Indicts State Governments
NeqIect of BorderIine Mental Cases

brother or at least keep him out
of Jail, neglected his work and his
wife. Chris marriage finally was
broken up because of Lacy. And
Lacy's parents aged under the
strain until the father died before
his time.
The effect of Mr.. Dowdey's
novel about this Richmond family
is an indictment of a certain type
of bureaucracy, whether in Vir-
ginia, as this case happened to be,
or in some other State. Most
States are alike in their incapacity
to help a sick man like Lacy or
his harassed family. Any one OBJ
viously a mental case is given at
least custodial care. Others are
released when they improve.
picked up again and thrown into
Jail if they get drunk or violate
some other law. Officials are
strangely Indifferent. The buck
is passed back to the families.
AS a novel, Weep for My
Brother" suffers from the pre-
ponderance of thesis. And yet
it is a moving story. Mr.. Dowdey
is too good a novelist not to draw
his characters carefully and to
permeate his pages with the at
of Richmond. And
he has emphasized a result of per-
sonality disorders neglected in
most of the books written about
them-the devastating effect on
parents and others close to pa
tients.
Evening star., 1950-02-12
The LowIy Potato
Was News Way Back
In" Elizabeth S Duy
NO BED FOR BACON

Avn DA1N = 0AS @~&&So4N
BY Caryl Brahms and S. j.
Simon. (Thomas Y. CroUell;; $3.J
The potato, much in the news
these days, figures largely in this
raucous farce of the court of
Elizabeth. The spud was news
then, because of it's importation
by Sir Walter Raleigh, and the
ceremonial tasting was a great
occasion, which, Of course, it no
longer is. This incident is just
one Of many slam-bang episodes
designed to show that the Flower
of England was a rowdy lot with
many petty problems. Bacon
wanted a bed that the Queen had
slept in. Sir Walter Raleigh has
a terrible time. with his cloaks.
Shakespeare, a genial hack, as
harried as any rewrite man on an
afternoon paper, just wanted
time to finish the play he really
wanted to write, Loves Labour
Wunne." Threading through all
the conspiracies to blow up the
aters, behead enemies and defy
the crown is a girl boy-girl player,
who is whisked out of the court
when Essex. the Queens favorite,
is caught chucking her under the
chin. The authors use of some of
Shakespeare's lines out of con-
text is amusing. but long stretches
of their Mack Sennett-type COM
edy are quite dull. M. Meg.
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WEEP FOR MY BROTHER

WEEP FOR MY BROTHER
BY Clifford Dowdey. Double
day; S3J
Mr.. Dowdey, whose novels of
the Civil War are ranked high
among period stories. turns for
the. first time in his new novel
to a problem of contemporary
life.
Weep for My Brother" deals
with personality that must be
common to a vast number of FAM
lilies, though it is too little dis
cussed even in this era of candor
the member with a warped
mind. The brother in this fic-
tionized case history was not
legally insane"-that meaning
less aphorism of the law-but a
psychopath, a borderline patient,
whose trouble the doctors were
not even able to diagnose clearly.
Lacy Mathers had grown up never
quite adjusted to life. He couldn't
get along with people; he hated
his jobs. Later, in young man
hood, he had more serious spells
which would end in prolonged
drinking if not in worse esca-
pades.
Doctors were tried. Lacy was
In and out of institutions. Moth
ing helped. He would seem to
recover, then he would slip back
and the pattern would be re-
peated. Meanwhile, his older
brother, Chris, a research man in
history, doing his best>to save his
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sharply what was happening to
them everywhere he went. In the
gold mines at Johannesburg he
found them exploited ruthlessly
and in such cities the color line
was drawn with tightness that
would make Mississippi look as if
1t were practicing complete equal
ity. On the other hand, In the
Belgian Congo, which was an in
ternational scandal some decades
ago in the reign of Leopold II, he
reports a real effort to help and
enlighten the people. For better
or worse, the natives of the Congo
are being civilized-an excursion
which. once embarked upon, can
neither be halted nor reversed" ]"
However, Mr.. Flavin found a more
tranquil and idyllic existence in
the mountain kingdom of Ruanda-
Urundi, where black people run
their own affairs, with a pastoral
class ascendant.
Readers may miss the fantastic
charm of THE Enchanted, to
mention Mr.. Flavin's last novel,
but they should find BLACK and
White" deeply, If more soberly,
interesting. The author makes
nothing of taking such trip at 65.
Evening star., 1950-02-12
New Books
FICTION.

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February IA.
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set in modern Europe. So. Febru-
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MEAT AND MAN. By Lewis Corey. vik-
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Story of an immense forced migration
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ROCKY MOUNTAIN COUNTRY. BY Al
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panorama of goth century Mexico.
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Evening star., 1950-02-12

and aggravated little hunger
strikers in a Washington kinder
garten.
Ruth McKenney possesses an ex-
cellent thing. in wives: A tendency
to laugh at herself-nay, hoot and
howl. She jeers at her youthful
militancy (the Lymans now in
London have broken with the
radical movement), at her bridal
efforts to fatten her husband (she
gained 81 pounds, at the dismal
failure of her proletarian novel,
Jake Home" (the Times thun-
dered. the Daily Worker snorted) :.
And with the much-loved Mike at
her side she can be philosophical
about her own illness and gallant
about the awful moments when
they almost lost their only daugh-
ter. She is bitter only about
Hollywood, where her precious
marriage nearly went on the rocks
of ulcers and story conferences.
Love Story" has moments to
cause the most hardened reader to
fight the tears; other moments
OF uproarious mirth and nothing
in between. Ruth McKenney is
palpably proud of her marriage, of
her family and it's solidarity
through world and hearthside
crisis. Her book is enormously
cheering and will probably make
old maids and bachelors sigh.
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GUS LfLG JUL SLOf "! LFtC uH
lift which forced the Russians
to back do1Dn.
engulfing Europe but also con-
vinced it's free people of our in
tent to hold our position until
peace is assured"
Gen. Clay, who was deputy
American military governor in
Germany for two years and then
military governor in his own right
two years, retired last year when
occupation authority was trans
ferred to civilian hands on agree
ment for formation of the new
West German republic.
Many Problems.
Gen. Clay writes that the new
government faces many prob
lens, with East-West division of
Germany tending to develop ma
tionalism. He believes that uni
f1cation will be brought about
somehow when West Germany is
fully accepted into the family of
free nations and restored to eco
nomic self lf-sufficiency.
"Of utmost Importance to the
future of the world, Gen. Clay
emphasized, "are the questions of
how and when West Germany is
readmitted to the fellowship of
nations and how and when it may
reunite with Eastern Germany,
from which 1t is separated now
by the barrier Of Communism.
Now that we have created a par
tial government. we must deter
mine its place in world affairs,
and in this determination lies the
hope of peace"
Evening star., 1950-02-12

her foster mothers funeral. The
old white man, meanwhile, thawed
out to the extent of giving a
picnic for a lot of children, white
and colored. All would have gone
well if a little white girl hadn't
told a lie about Bill. The word
spread over Beetlecreek and into
the white town that he was a
sinister character who would harm
children. From this point Johnny,
his uncle and old Bill were drawn
into separate situations which
were strangely related-climactic
moments none could seem to
avoid.
William Demby is a young Negro
novelist of unusual promise. He
has pictured some of his people
with sympathetic perception, yet
without sentimentality or melo-
drama. The ghetto life of the
colored families is not CLOSED over,
and still there is none of the
contrived violence with which lib
eral noveliSts usually strew racial
stories. The old white man who
meant so we'll is portrayed with
deep understanding. The Ne
groes, except Johnny and David.
never trusted him simply because
he was a white man and chose
to live on their side of the fence.
The boy and his uncle emerge
clearly. David's wife. whose con-
suming ambition was to be presi-
dent of the Missionary Guild, is
particularly well developed.
Mr.. Demby is a writer to watch.
Evening star., 1950-02-12
.GermonyHolds
TheMusterKeyI
To Freedom
DECISION IN GERMANY
BY Gen. Lucius B. Clay. Double
day G. Co.,, $4.50.)
Reviewed by
GARNETT D. HORNER.

Gen. Clay, who retired as Amer
lean Military Governor in Ger
many last year. believes that the
problem of Germany's future
must be solved finally and fully
before we can be certain of last
ing peace"
His comprehensive, readable re-
port in this book on what has been
going on in Germany since World
War II is an important contribu-
ton to an understanding Of the
complex problem.
Frankly saying that he does not
claim to be "dispassionate" in his
account. Gen. Clay defends Amer
ican policy in Germany as prov
ing successful in clearing the way
to solution" of the problem and
writes that it must be continued
until full success is achieved"
Gen. Clay tells how early post
war cooperation among the four
major allies in Germany soon
broke down over differences be-
tween Russian and Western power
interpretations of the Potsdam
Agreement, leading to moves for
fusion of the Western zones and
the eventual creation of q separ-
ate government IN Western Ger
many.
Blockade Busting.
He writes in detail of how the
famous airlift broke the Russian
blockade of Berlin last year and
asserts that the firm stand" of
the Western powers then mot
only prevented terror from again
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community OF hard-Worklng peo-
pie, most of them with jobs in
the white town uptown. But
Beetlecreek has it's own society,"
church, lodge and tavern.
Johnny was about 13, and when
his mother went to the sanatori-
uu. he had to leave his home in
Pittsburgh and go to Beetlecreek
to live with his uncle David and
Aunt Mary. Johnny was a
dreamy, contemplative boy, but he
took up with a Club" of tough
boys because he was lonely and
wanted desperately to make friends
in the new place. They raided
Bill Traps orchard. Bill, the
only white man around Beetle
creek, had been a recluse for Is
years, had spoken to no one ex-
cept when he went to the store
for supplies. Bill caught Johnny
and punished the boy by treating
him to sweet cider. Johnny found
old Bill a pretty good sort, and
Bill discovered that 1t wasn't bad
to talk to some one again.
Shows Unusual Promise.
The episode ended with Uncle
David getting to know Bill Trapp
and taking the old hermit for an
evening of beer and talk at the
tavern. David. who had been to
college and had wanted to be an
artist, but painted signs for a
living, was a frustrated, unhappy
man. He didn't realize how
trapped he was, married and tied
to Beetlecreek, until the girl he
had loved at college came back for
Evening star., 1950-02-12
Another Early Bud Bursts Into Flower
In the South's Hothouse for Authors
THE TIGER IN THE GARDEN

44&G 4oG4b 41N L LII ST1xtbEIN
BY Speed Lamkin. (Houghton, 4
The South seems to be kind
Of giant hothouse for writer's,
forcing early and spectacular
blooms. Truman Capote, Carson
McCullers and Elizabeth Spencer
are just few of the remarkable
youthful talents that have re-
Gently appeared, full-blown, below
the Mason-Dixon line.
Latest of this precocious array
is Speed Lamkin, a 23-year-old
from Louisiana. He moves with
an oldster's ease through this tale
of people on the wane, a fine old
Southern family gone to seed, or
rather driven into the earth by
the new spirit of greed and gain
exhibited by home grown carpet
baggers.
The tiger in the garden" of
the title is Jim Conway, a poor
but ambitious mill worker. who
marries Caroline, heiress of the
Richardson's. She does not mind
her brothers drinking and de-
bauchery because they were born
gentlemen" which is all that
Evening star., 1950-02-12
The Two Men
.WhoCrusuded
ForAboIition
TWO FRIENDS OF MAN
BY Ralph Korngold. little,
Bro1Dn G. Co.; S5.)
Reviewed by
FRANCIS P. DOUGLAS.

Bro1on G. Co.; S5.)
Reviewed by
FRANCIS P. DOUGLAS.
What moved William Lloyd
Garrison and Wendell Phillips
and how they achieved their end
might we'll be studied to learn
how to carry on a crusade.
Mr.. Korngold has done a thor
ough work on the two men and
their campaign for abolition
which is an important part in
any history of slavery and eman-
cipation in America.
Reviled and their lives threat
ened. the two achieved victory,
although through a bloody Civil
War.
In the first place they were i'm
PEELED by their consciences and
were doing their duty to them
selves rather than toward the
slaves. Secondly, they regarded
the slaves not as the descendants
of imported African tribesmen,
but as white men, human beings
like themselves. And they were
agitators; they stirred things up.
Effective Propaganda.
Garrison, writing in the Lib
orator" Stunned temperatures.
The stereotype he made of the
Southern slave-owner was over
drawn, but effective propaganda.
Phillips, one of the foremost
orators of the day, was member
of the Boston aristocracy. Garri-
son was the son of a shipmaster
who deserted his wife. The two
complemented each other.
Lincoln, of course, is part of the
story. The author portrays him as
the reluctant emancipator rather
than the Great Emancipator,
moved not by morals but by ex-
pedience.
Mr.. Korngold also is the author
OF the widely read "Robespierre
and the Fourth Estate" and
Citizen TouSsaint."
A HISTORY OF THE OLD SOUTH
BY Clement Eaton. Macmillan :
ST.
The adjectives interesting and
scholarly do not necessarily go
together. In the case of this book
they do, to the great advantage
of the reader.
DR.. Eaton, professor of history
in the University of Kentucky,
takes the story of the South from
Colonial days to 1861. And he does
not overlook the fact, frequently
lost sight of, that the South ex-
tended to the Mississippi and be-
yond.
He dispels the idea that the
land was one of big planters liv-
ing. in white porticoed homes, on
the one hand, and Negro slaves,
on the other. The social pyramid
"bulged greatly at the Sides" he
writes, and the South of slavery
days was predominantly land
OF small independent farmers.
The preface points to the long
history of Southern resentment to
outside interference and criticism
To understand the South of today
you must know Southern history
Evening star., 1950-02-12

THE CANNIBAL
BY John Hawkes.. (Ne1D Direc-
tions; $780,
This first novel by a 23-year-old
author ostensibly is story of a
town and a region in postwar
Germany, with the action some
times shutting back to 1914. 1t
often is difficult to figure out what
is happening. There are some
extraordinarily vivid descriptions
of places, people and events. The
trouble is that Mr.. Hawkes. shifts
his scenes like dream sequence,
following some advance-guard
plan or no plan at all. In an
introduction, Albert j. Guerard
says: THE plot is simple one,
but not to be simply apprehended." /"
He also concludes; "Of the true
solid ingredients of surrealism-
illogic. horror, macabre humor-
The CannibaF has full share"
Mr.. Guerard also sees "some tradi-
tional symbolism" and "even per-
haps a little old-fashioned ale
CORY" in this novel. No doubt he
~is right. But why write novel
that requires a key and a compass?
&C. B, j,
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Mike Lyman had their social
problems. There was Mixes first
wife, for instance, a beautiful.
noble, well-heeled creature, al
ways coming around, always for
giving them. They had their little
quarrels, inevitable when she dis
covered he didn't like Whitman or
newspapermen or sharp practice
with charge accounts. And dur
ing those days of Munich and
Spain, they both had to explain
to their proletarian and only
mimeographed writer friends how
Ruth just happened to write that
bourgeois fluff" "My Sister
Eileen" which just happened to
make her famous.
Child Feeding Hero.
The fabulous Eileen drifts airily
in and tragically out of the
chronicle which begins with the
sisters in uneasy residence in a
17-room Connecticut clapboard
castle with no inside plumbing or
electric lights. Eileen's death in
1910 was the cruelest blow Ruth
ever suffered. Eileen's son John
was the first of the trio of chill
dren whom the Lymans fashioned
into happy family. Johnny be-
came the hero of Government
pamphlet on child-feeding after
he had wolfed his way through
the lunches of all the habitual
Evening star., 1950-02-12
Crime and
Mystery
By Miriam Gutenberg

The Reckoning Door, by Mabel
Seeley. doubleday g. Co., Inc;
S2.50.l
Crime Club Special
After seven years absence
from the whodunit haunts, Mabel
Seeley returns to battle in explor-
ing the problems of one Cathy
Kingman,. who didn't hate her
cousin Sylvia half as much as
the town thought. Sylvia, unfor-
tunately, was a touch too mysteri-
GUS before her sudden demise to
give Cathy enough of a clue to
extricate herself from the towns
cold suspicion. Several frantic
scenes-including a nearly sue
cessful attempt on Cathy's life
add the proper flavor of night
mare to this puzzler.
X X X X
The Flying Saucer, by Bernard
Newman. macmillan Co.; $2.50.)
Wishful thinking though it may
be, this fantasy from the prolific
pen of Bernard Newman couldn't
be more timely. A world-re-
nowned scientist conceives the
idea of bringing peace to earth
by spreading the illusion of an
attack from Mars. Naturally, the
United Nations can't spend their
time arguing about capitalism
versus communism in the face of
a common enemy. How the scien-
lists of the world cooperate to
create the phony Marian inva-
sion not only makes fascinating
reading but provokes some new
thinking in these days of the
H-bomb. ..
Something About Midnight. by d.
B. Olsen. doubleday G. Co.,
Inc; S2.25.) .
Crime Club
A college girl by day, dance
hall pickup by night. That's
Ernestine, the victim of this
coincidence packed item. The
sleuthing job is taken over by
Prof. Pennyfeather, who wants
to find out which of Err
nestines roles proved fatal. Sus-
poets range from missing hus-
band to onetime dope-ped-
ding music teacher.
X x X X
The Widows of Broome, by Arthur
w. Upheld. doubleday g. Co.,
Inc; S2.25.)
A killer distinguished by click
ing teeth, tidy habits and an af-
finity for silk nightgowns, is loose
in the Australian town of Broome.
At least he's consistent. His vic
tins are always widows. That
naturally leads Detective Napo-
leon Bonaparte to set his trap
with another widow for tense
but not completely surprising
climax.
X
Death in 4 Colors, by Brandon
Bird. (Dodd, Mead & Co.;
S2.50.)
Red Badge Prize Mystery
The free-lance illustrators de-
tested the art director. One of
them, Hamp Hume, inevitably be-
came prime suspect when death
came to the art director by way
of a knife similar to one Hamp
had used to illustrate a jungle
story. No use for Hume to pro-
test he had dreamed up the knife
He had to prove to a skeptical
homicide squad lieutenant that
creative Imagination could be
subconsciously inspired by reality.
Evening star., 1950-02-12
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Evening star., 1950-02-12
WESTERN UNION

BY Andrew and Frances Boyd.
Public Affairs Press; $3J
The study. prepared and pub
lished under the auspices of the
United Nations Association, ties
together all the strings which are
leading to fulf1llment of the long
cherished dream of a united Eu-
rope. For the present it is only
Western Europe which is being
drawn together In a tight bloc
under American auspices. This
detailed work presents In co-ordi-
mated form all of the significant
information dealing with the
united Europe movement.
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Evening star., 1950-02-12
Travels Through Darkest Africa
On Everything but a Donkey
BLACK AND WHITE

oLASh F1ND VII L Z
BY Martin Flavin. (Harper;; 3d.,
The novelist whose Journey in
the Dark" won the Pulitzer and
Harper prizes in 1943 has written
in his first book of nom fiction his
impressions of a journey through
Africa by plane, train, boat, motor
and afoot.
BLACK and White" is an indivi-
dual evaluation of what Mr..
Flavin encountered on his long,
strenuous trip. He was chiefly
interested in the natives-in what
effect white infltration was hav-
ing on their ancient ways of life
and how much the so-called re-
finements of modern civilization
were changing them. His opinions
vary with the widely diverse
regions he visited.
His sympathy obviously is with
the natives and he questioned
Evening star., 1950-02-12
A High-Heorted, Teor-SprinkIed Report
On the Married Life of Two Radicals
OWE STORY
i BY Ruth McKenney. (Harcourt Brace Co.; $3J
Reviewed by MARY McGRORY.

She natualbon anarchist who wanted to be "a hammer
Of the working class He rich intellectual radical editor
of the New Masses They fell in love file of rubber
married II later the sound of Ruth Mcen
earsprnkled report they regretted
After the state of the union is better than
with less social consciousness Ruth