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LUDWIG E. HARRIGAN PASSES

LUDWIG E. HARRIGAN PASSES
WHEN LUDWIG E.. Harrigan, Member-at-Larg of the
St. Croix Municipal Council and President of the St. Croix
Labor Union passed away yesterday, there passed fromthe
scene one of the most outstanding native leaders this Island
has ever seen. Up to several months ago, apparently possessed
OF interchangeable energy, Harrigan was always busy with his
legislative duties or on business for the Labor Union.
HE FOUND time to take visitors from the mainland and
elsewhere around the Island and show them the natural
scenic beauties; he particularly took pride in pointing out the
lands owned by the workers of the Union including the ia
nous Grove Place grounds.
AS A LEGISLATOR, he was probably the most in
formed. At every meeting or conference he could be seen tax
ing copious notes. He could give ready replies to questions
put to him by Congressional committees, as the records will
show. Whenever delegations have visited the island one or
two members have been sure to produce a notebook showing
that a previous visitor had advised them to see Harrigan be-
fore returning" to the mainland.
HARRIGAN w probably the best public speaker in
the entire Virgin Islands. He was at his best when stung in
verbal battles. He could swing the most hostile audience and
make them applaud. Few men, interested in politics cared to
oppose him. His drectness and blunt language sometimes
brought criticisms even from some wel-wishers; but Harrigan
diSiked doubletak and inSincerity. He d! not like to plav
politics, which at times made him unpopular with his col
leagues.
THERE IS NO doubt that St. Croix, the legislature and
many a community activity will miss the resonant voice of
Ludwig +" Harrigan. He was sincere. He loved his people
tar more than they realized. The workers will miss him. Saint
Croix has lost a man whose place may not be filed for some
time to come.
WE JOIN WITH many in expressing our sympathy to
his wife, Mildred, daughter, Ruth, son Ludwig, his mother,
sister and brother, and others closely associated with hin in
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Explosive Material
That Fails to Go Off

10th MERIDIAN
BY Robert Travers. Nv. w. Nor
ton Co., Inc; s3.)
Reviewed by Margaret S. Diekey
This saga of a merchant ships
voyage from England to New York
with q cargo of whisky during
World War II draws on every peril
in the annals Of shipping for
drama and fails to succeed in be-
ing anything but quite dull.
There Is some merit in Mr..
Travers' description of a terrific
storm in which the Branten, his
ship, loses its convoy and three
crewmen lose their lives, but this
episode, unfortunately, is well
toward the end of the novel and
nothing that happens before the
ship reaches goth Meridian would
induce the reader to stay with the
voyage.
The first half of the book is
spent analyzing the members OF
the Branten's crew. And, al
though the technique for develop
ing them-a fash-back method
is well handled by the author, the
characters. themselves. are far
from arresting.
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49, WV ~"
contact with her is only as the
old school friend of her husband
Eve Camberley was decidedly
attractive. She had to be or there
wouldn't have been any story
Harry was a stolid sort, without
much imagination, and he found
his bride battling in some ways.
She seemed to have had a ro-
mantle youth, with quite few
adventures. Then he discovered
that these experiences could all
be presumed mythical; sh e
seemed to be a pathological liar,
who invented to make a colorless
life take on a glow of sophistica-
ton. But when the young married
couple and their friend, the mar
rator, went to the south of France
for holiday, Eve proved that she
could get herself enmeshed in an
adventure which was no chimera
The husbands friend learned
what was going on and he was
confronted with the dilemma of
whether to tell Harry or look the
other way.
The relationship between the
couple and the friend does not
always seem plausible. It hardly
appears probable that the rather
thick Harry would have depended
on his brighter school chum to
eXtricate him from difficulties
with his wife and help him under
stand her. Such men usually have
a fierce pride that replaces dis
cernment. But if that is a short
coming in the novel, it does not
detract from the interest and en-
joyment of the story.
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jewelry and design prints, cal
|ligraphy and other items Of in
terest such as photographs, coins
and stamps. Books on Arabian
life, culture and history round
out the show.
The textiles are in the form Of
articles of wearing apparel: A
"quaffia," or brightly colored skull
cap a "quattra," or headcloth
which is folded diagonally over
the quaffia to protect against sun
and sand; an "agal" or coiled
headrope worn in a double circle
over the quattra to hold it in
place, and sandals worn by all
Arabs because they are more COM
Portable than shoes in walking
over the sand.
A printed photography of Sc
lected reading on the Persian Gulf
area is available for visitors.
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combat, and Raymond seemed re-
strained beside the vitriolic Ben
nett and the fuming Greeley. Ray
mond often was the object of
their wrath. There was nothing
sleepy about those papers, if they
did devote eight columns to a
speech by Daniel Webster. 1t was
nothing unusual in the pretele-
graph period for a paper to hire
steam cars" to rush a reporter
from some other city with a news
beat.
Like most outstanding editors,
Raymond remained always re-
porter at heart. When anything
big broke he wanted to get out
on it, and often did. In 1859 he
covered the decisive battle of Sol
ferino in the war of the French
and Sardinians to free Italy from
the Austrian yoke. In the Civil
War he was under fire at Bull
Run and followed Mcclellan on
his luckless Peninsula campaign.
His Lincoln Biography.
On the political side, Raymond
was a protege of Thurlow Weed,
the political boss, himself an Al
bany editor, and of William Henry
Seward, Senator from New York
and Lincoln's Secretary of State.
Raymond was. successfully, Speak
er of the New York Assembly,
lieutenant governor and Repre-
sentative in Congress. Naturally
conservative, he was a Whig and
later espoused the new Republican
Party. Slow to accept Lincoln,
Raymond became one of the Pres
ident's Stanchest supporters and
after the war published what still
is regarded as the best contem-
porary biography of the martyred
President. Because Raymond was
essentially a man of good will who
wanted to see both sides of every
question. he frequently was ac-
cused of playing both sides of
the street" and of lacking polit-
ical principles. His political career
ended in bitter disillusion when,
as a member of the postwar Con-
gress. his efforts to conciliate the
country were thrown down by
Thaddeus Stevens and his Radi-
Gals.
Raymond died in 1869 at 40.
Even his enemies paid him tribute.
He had won fame and riches in
less than 20 years and left as an
enduring monument the great
newspaper whose centennial oc-
ours in September.
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Crime
By Mirion Ottenbero

A Time to Kill, by Godfrey House.
hold. Little, Brown and Co.;
$2.25.)
A plot to infect British cattle
with deadly hoof land mouth dis
ease isn't quite believed by the
authorities, considering the source
is a broken naval officer who over
heard two scientists in their cups
But the potentiality of such dis
aster can't be dismissed, either
So Roger Taine. reluctant hero
of "A Rough Shoot" agrees tc
listen. That's an almost fata,
mistake for him and his lovec
ones. In a battle against time ano
tide, he braves the whirlpools ot
the Portland Race, shoots it out
in black tunnel and finds him.
self af1oat in a lifeboat. AS al.
ways, the author of the classic
Rogue Male" chooses a fantastic
situation and makes it more thar
acceptable through sheer crafts
manship.
y X X +
The Long Divorce, by Edmund
Crispin. CDodd, Mead g. Co.,
$2.50D
Red Badge
Mr.. Datchery. who could have
taken his name out of Dickens
and might be some one much bet.
ter known to Crispin additcs
strolls into Gotten Abbas to finc
that a splurge of anonymous let.
ters has produced suicide. Muir.
der follows in its wake and ther
another attempted suicide which
Mr.. Datchery averts in a classic
chase. Meanwhile. the evidence
points unmistakably toward {
young woman doctor who get!
two sudden proposals and a for.
tune in one day. Mr.. Datchery, o1
course, sets everything straight
and fingers to race spiders with
his landlord. 1t would be a happy
day for whodunit fans if every
mystery carried Mr.. Crispin's rich
humor, clear-cut Characterization
and devious plot.
X X X
The New Shoe, by Arthur w. Up.
field. doubleday & Co.; $780,,
Crime Club
That endlessly patient Austral.
ian Sleuth, Detective Inspector
Napoleon Bonaparte, is handed 9
tough one-identify the unclothed
body of a man found dead in a
lighthouse two months earlier
and name the killer. The inkeep-
er's dog lends an important as
sist, but it's the detectives appar-
entity random conversations with
the natives that convinces him a
local is involved. Bony learns how
the dead feel in their coffins be-
fore he settles things to suit his
own unorthodox ideas Of justice
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acquit themselves unusually vel
In this form. The high qualit,
Of the English novel was recently
praised at the oxford Union, al.
though it was also the sense of tn,
meeting that "the young novel
ist is brought to a pleasant stat,
OF civilized sensibility and ther
round and round he goes on tn,
same circular track"
"The Consul at Sunset" i
rather an illustration of this. I
is a highly competent novel b!
Gerald Hanley, which Away
promises to be much more thar
that. and somehow never is. I
is hard to say just where HI
fails, since the subject-the las
gasp Of Empires timely. hi!
style articulate, and the plot full
Of neat and violent turns. Perhap.
the author has too firm a gril
on his material, which means tina
the book is always highly intelli'
gent, but never quite inspired.
He gets off to an excellent star
with a merciless character stud!
Iof Colonel Casey, to whom tht
Empire is a religion in the shape
Iof a filing cabinet, cherished anc
Iinvulnerable, to be administered
by gentlemen to the dark, wolf1sf
people outside" Briefing Sole, the
new political officer about to TAXI
over at Ell Ashang, a God-forsaker
patch of desert just wrested from
the Italians. Casey voices regre
that the military officer in charge
lis mot one Of U.s."
This ranker, Turnbull, is q new
kind of British officer, an ex'
coalman. A superb soldier him
self. he treats the natives in hi!
command as soldiers, not slaves
being guided scrupulously by reg.
ulations, and by humanity only
when it was really required. Turn.
bull chafes under the rule of the
present political officer, Milton
whose mistress is a woman of the
Yonis Barras. one of two desert
tribes who, regardless of the white
men over them, continue theil
bloody feuds, their centuries-olc
search for camels and water.
For Turnbull, discipline is all
And when on the night of Millions
murder by a member of the Yonis
Barras he is seduced by the deae
mans mistress, his pride anc
purpose begin to crumble. Ir
the riots and killings which
follow. Sole. known to the
tribesmen as a temperate man
lis approached by a chief with ar
offer of negotiation. But Sole
sickened at a system whereby
the Englishman tells the NATIVES
with one voice that we gre al
the same and with another tina
all the rooms are engaged >
refuses to bargain. So it is lef
to Casey, with the new genera
ton in disgrace, to bring out th'
time-honored methods of pressure
and bluff. of humiliation and re-
lprisal. But he does so only half
heartedly, for he realizes tina
while the sun may never set OF
the flag of empire, "it is setting
in the hearts Of those who sa.
Iluted it,"
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New Books
FICTION.

FICTION.
POWDER MISSION. By Herbert z. Slower
tDodd, Mead A story of the Revo-
lutionary War. So
10Th MERIDIAN. BY Robert rravers.
Norton A freighter's exciting war
NO MUSIC FOR GENERALS. By Frederick
Howard, Duell Sloan & Pearce.) War
story laid IN the Far East. So
NON-FICTION.
WILLIAM FAULKNER. By Harry Modean
Campbell and Ruel E. Foster. Univer-
sity Of oklahoma) A critical appraisal
LETTERS TO THE MARTYRS. By Helen
Walker Homan. David Mckay Ad-
dresses both to early Christians who
died dice for their faith and to certain con.
same reason in our own century. So
EPICs OF ESPIONAGE. BY Bernard New
man, Philosophical Library.D Out
standing cases Of history presented In
dramatic form. S4.50
NOW I'll TELL ONE. BY Jack straus.
berg (Wilcox & Follett.l Laughs with
favorite sports figures. illustrated with
cartoons. 81.
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Arubiun Arts
Current Exhibitions

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Con-
stitution avenue and Sixth street
Paintings, sculpture by masters,
Guibenkian collection of Egyptian
sculpture and European paintings.
Paintings and sculpture acquired
BY Kress Foundation, 1945-1951, ,
American paintings from the COL
lection through August.
NATIONAL MUSEUM, National Col
lection OF Fine Arts, Constitution
can paintings and old masters.
SMITHSONIAN BUILDING. Division
OF Graphic Arts, Tenth street and
JEFFERSON drive-Early Autographs
presented by Sun Chemical Corp.
FREER GALLERY OF ART, Twelfth
street and Jefferson drive-ori-
entail and Far Eastern arts. Paint
lngs and etchings by whistler and
other American artists; changing
CORCoRAN GALLERY OF ART. Sew
enteenth street between New York
avenue and street-American
paintings and sculpture.
PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY.
1900 Twenty-lrst street-Paint-
&i ings and prints. Exhibition by
American painting. Exhibitions by
DUMBARTON OAKS collection, 1908
Thtrty-second street N.W.-Early
Christian and ByZentine art, Tues
days through Sundays, 2-5.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. East Capt.
tol and Fir streets-Ninth an
nmsl 1,,1 exhibit of prints. through
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARcHI-
TECTS. 1741 New York avenue
NW-Joint exhibition of Artists
Guild and Washington Scultors'
PUBLic LIBRARY. Eighth and x
streets N.W.-Arabian decorative
arts, through August
SILVER SPRING ART GALLERY,
9216 Flower avenue. Silver Spring
Summer exhibition. paintings
and sculpture.
INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY
ARTS, 1922 New York avenue NV
Exhibition by students
TRUXTON-DECATUR NAVAL MU-
scum, 1910 H street NV
Naval Aviation" to September.
BARNETT ADEN GALLERY. 127
Randolph place Midsummer
group exhibition.
PAN-AMERICAN UNION, Seventeenth
street and Constitution avenue
N.W.-Exhibition of photographs
THE NEW GEORGETOWN GALLERY,
1928 Prospect avenue N.W.-Sum-
mer group show.
COLONY RESTAURANT. 1887 De
Sales street Naturalization by
students of James Cupoli.
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Washington ScuIptors

Miss Clare Fontanini, presi-
dent, announces that the Wash
ington Sculptors' Group will hold
its annual show of work by sculp-
tors of the District of Columbia.
Maryland and Virginia from Au-
gust 80 to September "a, at the
National Museum. It will be q
Ijuried show. Work is due August
27. For further information.
write Florence Higgs, 5505 Forty
third avenue, Hyattsville, Md.
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place in the life OF New York and
eventually of the whole country
His personal impact on journalism
was decided, aside from the fact
that he started great newspaper
In a day when editors often were
more opinionated than informed,
he was a cultured man, as inter-
ested in the fine arts as in the
questions of the day and the po-
litical fortunes of his State and
Nation. Although he had his
share of disappointments and
Illustrations. political and personal,
he packed a great success into a
short life.
Mr.. Brown, who is editor of the
New York Times Book Review, has
written the first complete biog-
raphy of Henry Raymond. 1t is a
searching portrait of the newspa-
perman and politician. Few rele-
want details have been overlooked,
and the story is attractively pre-
sented. Raymond's private life is
explored less exhaustively, but
enough is told to give a rounded
view of the man.
Learned to Read at 8.
Raymond's father was a farmer
in Western New York. The family
had scant means, but the boy who
according to regional legend
learned to read at the age of 3
managed to go to the University
Of Vermont and graduate with
honors. Henry served his news
paper apprenticeship under Hor-
ace Greeley on the New York Trib-
une. He became known as one
Of the best reporters in New York
He and two businessmen started
the Times in 1851. They did not
have much capital and the paper
necessarily began in a modest way
It's growth was not spectacular
but steady. and within a decade
it was established as one of the
important dailies Of the country.
Prophetically Raymond planned
q paper much like the Times OF
today, which would cover world
news thoroughly, present it i'm
partially, and maintain clean
standards of journalism. He had
to compete with James Gordon
BENEFITS sensational Herald and
Greeley's crusading Tribune. Ray
mond proved as enterprising as
any, though, unlike Greeley, he
was no reformer. and he refused
to follow Bennett in sensational
izing the news. 1t was an era
Of rough and tumble editorial
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William Sonsom's Strange New Heroine
Is Not One You'll Find Easy to FORGET
THE FACE OF INNOCENCE

he FACE OF 4NNOCENCE
BY William SAMSON. (Hdrcourt,
Mr.. SAMSON has several of the
virtues that many English novel;
lists have. He is urbane, clever,
amusing. But he has something
more subtle. more elusive. which
may cause you to remember his
stories longer than those of the
crop of his young contemporaries.
Perhaps it is his capacity to draw
character with few deft strokes
and to establish in equally short
space a memorable atmosphere.
His previous novel, "The Body"
had a cordial reception in this
country. So did three volumes of
short stories. His new novel is
an oblique physiological study of
very peculiar young woman.
She is seen only through the eyes
Of the narrator, a writer, whose
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compensation for a lonely girl
hood. Her minister, Mr.. Sorley-
son, is helpless to bring her to the
paths of Righteousness after the
birth of her son, whose paternity
she truly cannot tell. Watching
her with the baby, the Presby-
terian cleric thinks: "Of what
avail was virtue, if lust and ire
sponsibility were to be crowned
with contentment?"
Among the three, love is never
mentioned, although the elder
brother, Hamilton, is always will
ing to marry the deft, patient
Sarah. AS for Frank, the
younger, he has no wish to marry
such a woman who was like a
pool you lash into foam with a
branch and in a twinkling the
ripples die and it stares up cold
and impersonal." AS for Sarah
herself, despite an occasional
twinge of conscience. she is
pleased with her hearthside and
oddly won security.
When Mr.. Sorleyson, himself a
victim of her magnetism. charges
her with the necessity of giving
the child a father, she says only,
What right have I to give my
self and the child to one man over
the other?" The child, in fact,
seals the league among the three
against the tongues of the lonely
countryside.
The Farm Took Them Away.
Besides, as the author puts it.:
despite the fact that there was
sufficient passion and confusion
present which in a more inactive
and leisured household might
have broken out in violence, the
insistent demands of the farm
took them away from each other
for long periods"
AS time goes by, the neighbors
become used to the ambiguous
state of affairs at prosperous
Rathard, although they never ac-
cept it. Their Catholic tenants,
however, dare to show their dis
approval, and for this Sarah dis
possesses them of their house. But
inevitably comes the day when
little Andrew is told by a neighbor
that he is "a wee by-blow," and
Hamilton must fight the man.
Then Frank, weary of Sarah
and anxious to show the world
that che is wholesome and honest
in heart and worthy of affection"
begins to court pretty maiden.
and brings into the open the long
suppressed hostility Of conven-
tional people.
Mr.. Bell tells his pastoral story
in stark, quiet terms in the sinewy
idom of Northern Irish speech.
He writes with a glowing appre-
citation of the rocky, brooding
landscape and the soothing rhythm
'of farm life. But in the last anal
ysis, December Bride" must
stand or fall by the character of
Sarah, the pivotal figure in this
Strange household. And Mr.. Bell,
never studies her motives or her
reactions, simply presents her as
a stolid primitive answering mems
needs and gaining power in re-
turn. She has, he says, "the clay
of avarice," but this is not enough
to explain her. So the novel is
never much more than a flavor
some episode in regional fiction.
X X y 4
THE CONSUL AT SUNSET
BY Gerald Hanley. (Macnil-
Ian; s3.)
Englishmen must be taught to
write novels as they are to be
kind to animals and tn sav their
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RILKE: Man and Poet

RILKE: Man and Poet
BY Nora Wydenbruck. (Apple-
ton -Century-Crotts, Inc, Neu
York; $4)
The fullest and most perceptive
biography yet to appear about the
great Austrian poet. The growing
Rilke cult will find much light
shed upon the poets elusive verse
e. T.
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By Florence S. Berryman

painting peasants with startling
naturalness a century earlier, We
can recognize the personality and
appeal Of the Le Mains peasant
children.
OF two by Louis LIE Main In
the National Gallery. I prefer "A
French Interior" in gallery II
All these faces are arrestingly in
dividual, convincing the observer
Of the essential truthfulness Of the
painting. Despite his unkempt
hair, and ragged clothes, the boy
is a winsome child with beauti-
fully modelled features, luminous
eyes and a sweet expression.
The National Gallery has three
paintings reproduced in Miss
Hurlimann's book: Van Dyck's
William II of Orange" (Which
she enormously continues to place
in the Hermitage; Chardin's
Young Schoolmistress" and Ma
nets boy Blowing Bubbles
(Which she is also unaware has
changed hands,.
Others. equally if not more in
teresting and ensnaring, are tc
be found throughout the Ma
tional Gallery, also the Corcorar
and Phillips Galleries, the Freel
and the National Collection OF
Fine Arts. Washingtonians spend
ing the summer at home can en-
Iploy many pleasant afternoons
becoming acquainted with them
Arubiun Arts
Because of current interest in
the Persian Gulf region the Cen.
tral Public Library recently
opened an exhibition Of Arabian
decorative arts. lent by the Ara.
bian American Oil Co. 1t will re-
main through August.
1t includes textiles, metalwork
Evening star., 1951-08-12
"He lett enduring great York Times
Sam Bells Novel of Northern ireland
Has q Theme Worthy of Thomas Hardy
DECEMBER BRIDE
BY Sam Hanna Bell.
i. (E. P. Dutton;: $3.J
Reviewed by Mary McGrory

situation worthy of Thomas Hardy provides the theme
Sam Hanna Bells somber novel Of the peasany Northern
land is the of two brothers who share the
shrewd earthly their with
mother and who gradually mastery
family and management of the farm.
of the brothers.
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Books in Review
MidcentuY America Comes Back to Life
In Biography of the Times; First Editor
RAYMOND OF THE TIMES
Reviewed by corter Brooke Jones
RAYMOND OF THE TIMES
BY Francis Brown. Morton; So

Henry Jarvis Raymond founder of the
and its highly influential editor for 8 leading
political figure in the middle decades of the 10th century
And yet such of achievements which him
ncan place American history hardly the diversity
Evening star., 1951-08-12

others, Sarah Gomartin finds guilty