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Evening star., 1951-10-14

Florida home and his manu-
scripts half a dozen times in
the past year to give a hand
to CD Administrator Millard
Caldwell.
He was tapped by Mr.. Cald-
we'll right after he had written
a magazine piece in which he
predicted the outcome of the
next war would be decided "in
the streets of America, by the
valor of civilians" CDA's line
then was that a spontaneous
demand for civilian defense
measures would arise from the
people who would in turn apply
pressure to the Congress. But
in the face of marked civilian
apathy and sharp congressional
budget cuts, CDA decided to
take the offensive embarking
on a campaign to awaken peo-
pie to the dangers of atomic
attack and the countermeaSureS
that can be taken.
Speechwriting For CDA.
Mr.. Wylie has been helping
out with speechWriting and
buttonholing policy-makers.
His acquaintance with atomic
science goes back to the early
30s, when. as a script writer in
Hollywood he hung around with
some California Tech scientists
who later took leading parts in
Manhattan Project. His dis
Illusion with the Soviet set in
much earlier than most
peoples. During a trip to Russia
in 1887, he and his brother
decided that they were seeing
the worlds worst tyranny and
began writing to that effect.
Mr.. Wylie tells how his brother
was killed by Soviet agents in a
Warsaw hotel. Then he decided
we would have to fight them
some day.
Meantime. he is doing all he
can to convince Americans that
they must not regard atomic
warfare as IAN act of God"
against which they are power
less. Once he's made any prog
reSs on that score, he'll settle
down to do the writing he's
been wanting to get at for 80
years.
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Now at so, life as an author.
is really just beginning for him.
AS a retired gadfly. he will write
about the subject that interests
him more than any other: The
relation between religion and
psychology. Descendant of a
long line Of fire-and- birthstone
Scotch Covenanters. Mr.. Wylie
has always deplored the intol-
erance people practice in the
name of religion.
But won't rant or attack.
Look at me. I'm a happy guy.
Do I look like somebody who
had ulcers?"
And indeed to see Mr.. Wylie
on a recent trip to town, was
to admit that he did not. An
amiable, intent man with a
lined but still youthful face and
kind brown eyes. he does not
at all appear the sort who
would take out after his coun-
trymen with a verbal fame
thrower, as he did. for instance.
in Generation of Vipers."
Assumed Angry Pose.
Whence then the blistering
attacks on modern American
morals. manners and sex life?
Didn't he mean them? The
answer is yes, but the angry
pose was assumed.
Il wrote like that to build up
an audience" says Mr.. Wylie.
IT attacked as deliberately as
you ring a bell to get people to
come to church. I spent half
my life getting people to read
my books. Now I've got a huge
audience and I'm going to
write the books that really
mean something to me-"
Mr.. Wylie's undisputed abil-
ity to make Americans not only
take his pounding but also like
1t is proven by the fact that
Generation of Vipers" is still
selling at the rate of 10000
copies a year.
This was the volume in which
he said things about mothers
that nobody ever thought they'd
live to read. It quite naturally
gave rise to a feeling that Mr..
Wylie did not care too much for
the gentler sex as a whole.
Friend of Womankind.
This he denies. There's not
a man in America who loves
women more than I do" he says
stoutly. That's why I can't
stand it when one of them goes
wrong" AS a matter of fact,
only one out of every hundred
women who wrote to him took
issue with what he said on that
score.
But the new and mellow
Wylie must wait on patriotic
duty. AS an expert consultant
to the Civilian Defense Admin
lstration, Mr.. Wylie has left his
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spiritual quality in which pa
tience is bound up with pity
and an understanding of the
shortcomings of men.
Mr.. Freeman carefully traces
and documents the develop
ment of Washington's qualities.
In the wilderness in the 1750s,
Washington had experience
with making the best he could
of feeble materials, including
men. Revitalizing the run
down plantation of Mount Ver-
non was an uphill job and
Washington was continually in
debt. The soil between Little
Hunting Creek and Dogue Run
failed to produce tobacco of
the quantity and quality he
wanted.
He turned to wheat and
then, for more profit, built
mill so he could sell his wheat
as flour. He raised hemp. He
took herring in large quanti-
ties from the Potomac and sold
them. and salted down shad.
His Neighbors' Counsellor.
He became for his neighbors
their counsellor, executor. surety
and banker, the last in a period
in Virginia when it was more
embarrassing to decline a loan
than to ask one. All this, Mr..
Freeman writes, gave Washing
ton a longer patience and new
understanding. Contact with
human woe subtly slackened his
acquisitiVe impulse and tight
ened his self-discipline."
The Is years he spent in the
House of Burgesses taught him
the workings of the legislative
mind and that there was no
way to avoid debate. This was
beyond value when he had to
deal with Congress.
He was not without occa-
sional lighter moments. Mr..
Freeman quotes the letter of
colonels lady to her sister de-
scribing the general as taking
on the role Of "chatty, agreeable
companion-he can be down.
right impudent sometimes
such impudence, Fanny, as you
and I like. :" And he would
catch ball" with junior officers
in a nearby field.
His Boswell.
1t is a tragedy that he had
no Boswell near.
Mr.. Freeman, the biographer
of Robert E. Lee, is now correct
ing that. In his introduction to
this section of his work he
speaks modestly of its un-
adorned style. What the style
lacks in decoration it makes up
in clarity. Mr.. Freeman succeeds
magnif1cently in never obtrud-
ing himself between the reader
and the picture he is drawing
ever more clearly on his canvas.
Evening star., 1951-10-14
John Roy Carlson
AMONG the Arabs

CAIRO TO DAMASCUS
BY John Roy Carlson; (Knopt;
S4.50.l
Reviewed by Belmont Fories
For this study of political in
trigue in the Arab world, Carl
son used the same investigative
technique that he applied to the
lunatic fringe of American poll
tics to produce Under Cover"
and The Plotters." Posing as
pro-Arab. pro-Fascist or pro-
Communist as necessary, he
travelled for many months in
the Near East.
1t was dangerous work, but
Carlson had an ideal disguise.
In an area where an American
was suspect because of United
States policy on Palestine, he
could use his real name to ad-
vantage, Arthur Derounian, an
Armenian sympathetic to the
Arab cause.
AS an expose of "the forces Of
hatred fostering below the sur
face from London to Cairo to
Damascus" the book falls a lit
tie fiat.
But Carlson writes of the
Arabs as only one who has
lived with them can. His vivid
pictures of the Holy Warriors"
on their way to fight the Jews,
Of the filth and poverty of
Arab villages, of the rivalries
and hatreds between Moslem
groups, give some hint of how
the surrounded and outnum-
bered Israelis were able to hold
their own.
Evening star., 1951-10-14
Work of Italian
Novelist Is Story
OF Frustrution
HOUSE OF LIARS

dOCOE Oc L1AftO
BY Elsa Morante. (Harcourt,
Brace & Co.; $4.)
This enormous. old-fashioned
novel by Elsa Morante. wife of
the prominent Italian novelist,
Alberto Moravia. won the Via
reggie Prize in Rome. A forid.
turgid piece of work, with nary
q glimmer of humor in its SGT
finely printed pages. it still has
considerable power II accepted
on Its own fierce, Latin terms.
Despite its length, "House Of
Liars" is no epic. 1t is, instead,
q narrow, intense study of three
generations of women who are
Italian versions of Nine. Bo-
vary-resentful creatures smol-
dering with wrath, suppressed
passion and Illustration. To the
Anglo-Saxon reader-who may
see them as a succession Of roles
for Anna Magnani-they appear
totally unreasonable people dedi-
Gated to the pursuit of unhappi-
ness. The scene of their hair
tearing and breast-beating. an
unnamed Italian town, is ig-
nored; the time could be any
where from the medievel to the
present, since Miss Morante
goes in heavily for the ominous
chapter heading GA Girl Buried
Alive and Lost Lady'D and the
baroque aside to the readers Il
should have liked to offer you
some dramatic. turbulent, pas
sionate intrigue"
Has It's Moments.
But in spite of such excesses,
the story has its moments. 1t is
told by the granddaughter OF the
vindictive old Cesira, who had
married out Of her class a used
up nobleman. Their daughter
Anna, at II, falls in love with
her cousin. an utterly spoiled
young puppy. whom the author
never makes any more convinc-
ing than little Lord Fauntleroy
run amuck. He brands her with
her curling iron, storms out of
her house amid taunts and jeers
and goes off to die. Poor and
despairing. Anna marries Fran
cesco Di Salvi, a pock-marked
student with communistic lean
ings and fake title.
This miserable wedlock is re-
counted at first hand by daugh-
ter Elisa, who adores her beauti-
full mother and despises her
father on her mothers account.
Anna never let's Francesca for
get for a minute that she does
not love him and that she
loathes their life together. Her
obsesSion for her dead child
hood sweetheart crosses over
into the psychopathic when.
to expatiate for 'infidelity"
with her husband, she cuts
off her hair. After a child
hood so macabre it makes
Wuthering Heights seem like a
All Club, the child Elisha goes
off to live with a prostitute who
Is an old friend of her fathers.
Like most old-fashioned novels,
House of Liars" has moral.
1t is that women who live on
dead dreams and old woes poi
son their own lives and those
around them. Miss Morante
could have made the point in
half the length, but she is a
novelist who demands persever-
ance as well as interest from her
readers.
MARY McGRoRY.
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Forthcoming

Merle Miller, author of THAT
Winter and THE Sure Thing"
is writing a book which will
analyze the methods of the
publications, Red Channels"
and "Counterattack," in pub
licizing alleged Communists and
sympathizers, and the general
subject of blacklists and 10y
alty-security problems in radio
and television. Doubleday will
publish it in 1852. Mr.. Miller
got a lift from the American
Civil Liberties Union in his re-
search.
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years at Wittenberg. Episodes
and descriptions are salted now
and then with some of the
conclusions which the author
had reached after his half CEN
tury as clergyman and novelist.
He was essentially tolerant and
understanding, as his novels
revealed.
In the course of his ministry
Mr.. Douglas once was pastor Of
the Luther Place Memorial
Church of Washington. He pro-
jected a second book of his
memoirs, dealing with his later
life. But he died on February
l3 Of this year.
CARTER BROOKE JONES
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American Freedom

A book-length reply to Paul
Blanshard's controvers siaI
American Freedom and Cath
olic Power" will be published by
Harper & Bros. on Novem-
ber IA. Entitled Catholicism
and American Freedom" it is
the work OF James M. O'Neill, a
professor of Brooklyn College
and longtime leader in the
American Civil Liberties Union.
Evening star., 1951-10-14
"reminiscences of the Late Lloyd Douglas
From the Pages Of His Own Life Story

TIME TO REMEMBER

When Mr.. Douglas COM
pleted THE Big Fisherman"
a story of Simon Peter, the
18th of his highly popular
books, he announced that he
would write no more novels.
He intended to retire-he was
II and his health was far from
good. But he found he had to
do something, and so, at the
insistence of his publishers, he
started writing his reminis-
cences.
This volume is the result. It
is an entertaining account Of
his childhood on a Northern
Ohio farm and his college
Evening star., 1951-10-14
Bridge PIoyers
By Margaret l. Fisher

Fifty Washington bridge fans
trekked to Richmond last week
end for the 18th annual Old
Dominion classic.
Washingtonians put up a stiff
fight for the team title last
Sunday, losing to the all-Vir-
ginia team of Mrs. Frank Meyer,
Mrs. Louise Eisenman, Wallace
Jones, Ed Lloyd and R. l.. Miles.
Four of our teams ended in the
master point division. Run
nerup awards went to Israel
Cohen, Al Roth and the John
C. Kunkels. Tied for third were
Mrs. Marianne BoSchan, Lewis
Tubbs, William Poissant, j. G.
Stone and the j. R. McGhees,
Mrs. Jenny Bryant, Michael
Michaels, the latter foursome
topping the evening session.
On Saturday Mr.. and Mrs.
Julian Barth of Jersey Shore,
Pa, captured the open title.
Stone-Poissant, topping the
championship round. ended a
strong third.
In the consolation game, Mrs.
Florence Millspaugh-ISaac York
lost first prize by half a point.
Only Washingtonians to make a
showing in the mixed pair event
were Bentley-Levenson.
-Four duos staked a claim last
Wednesday to double master
point awards at the Washing
ton Bridge League when the
monthly winners contest was
held. They were r. A. Ashton
Fred George and Mrs. Howard
Campbell-Mrs. Florence Mills
paugh in section A. Mrs. Freda
Bentley Lew Levenson and
Miller Roberts-Dr. E. M. Short,
section B. the latter duo WIN
ming with 66 per cent game.
Runnerup scores were credited
to w. M. Lingley-Fred Staver,
1t. Col. r. B. Carleton-M. E.
Sheedy. Mrs. j. A. Dearing-
Mrs. Ann Scruggs and 1t. Col.
John Geddes-Paul Neff. In the
winner section Mrs. Anne
Kaplan-Robert Reynolds turned
a II per cent game to top
E-W contestants. G. Allen
j. Holman leading Ms. Their
runnersup were Mr.. and Mrs.
H. S. Klein and the Louis Sal
vatorels.
1t. Col. and Mrs. John Geddes
are Arlington Duplicate Clubs
new open pair champions. They
claimed the honor at the con-
clusion Of two sessions of play
on October 5, leading runners
up Mrs. Ann Scrugges-D. S.
GoalWin by % match points.
The Geddes will receive the
Marian Barre trophy for their
victory. Defending champions
Evening star., 1951-10-14

Wa Ala Ava Wv
bate for a
long time to
come. A Sc
rialized ver-
sion is being
carried daily
by The Star.
c o v e ring
tn e fl n a /
p h a ses OF
w orld War
II and a long
stretch of the
grim post
W ar period,
the day to.
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in g b a c k
what he said
about er.
But he's done
with froth-
ing at the
mouth. And
besides, the
W ra t h h e
pour re d on
her and other
contem p or
ary ne er-
do-Wells, was,
he insists,
"only liter
orI, -
Evening star., 1951-10-14
Books in Review
Two New Volumes
Trace Evolution
OF foGreot Leader

GEORGE WASHINGTON: A
BIOGRAPHY. VOL. III,
PLANTER AND PATRIOT;
VOL. w, LEADER OF THE
REVOLUTION
BY Douglas Southall Freeman.
(CharleS Scribner'S Sons, SIS,
bored.)
Reviewed by Francis P. Douglas
In these two volumes of the
great biography Mr.. Freeman is
writing there emerges a Wash
ington who lives, breathes and
has flesh and blood, to take the
place of the marble effigy WASH
ington which is the impression
most of us have.
What was originally planned
as four volumes, then six, is
now to be eight. One suspects
that this is due more to Mr..
Freeman's increasingly excited
interest in his subject than dis
covery of new material. In these
two volumes he takes Washing
ton from 1883, after the French
and Indian War, to April, 1878,
when word came that France
had recognized the independence
of the United States.
Whence Came His Leadership.
Mr.. Freeman faces-and ans
swers-a big question. Whence
Evening star., 1951-10-14

~ (" AAA v " ~ u
qualit les Of
lea d erS h ip
which Wash
ington dis
closed when
he took COM
mand of the
Continen t al
Army before
Boston?
Wash in g.
tons patience
Is what Mr..
F r e e m a n
stresses. But
hnUOnI fhot q
Evening star., 1951-10-14
Reading and Writing
AmiobIe Philip Wyie, in Reflective Mood,
Says He Was Never Mad at Anybody
By Mary McGrory

The news about Philip Wylie
is not so much that he isn't
sore any more, but that he says
he never was.
Mons worst enemy isn't tax
Evening star., 1951-10-14
THE RISE AND FALL OF
HERMANN GOERING.

BY Will Frischauer. (Hough-
ton Miflin; $500
An Austrian journalist whose
parents died in a Nazi concen-
tration camp here gives a sur
prisingly friendly portrait Of the
most fantastic Nazi of them all,
the bullying buffoon who was
Hitler's heir-apparent. Her.
mann Goering's crimes were de-
tailed at Nuremberg. Here is
the man as his wife, friends
and subordinates saw him. Not
a pretty story at best, it is an
object lesson in the corruption
that comes with almost unlim-
tied power.
BELMONT FAIRIES.
Evening star., 1951-10-14
Reviewed by Joseph A. Fox

These papers of the late James
Forrestal. former Secretary of
the Navy and first Secretary Of
Defense, promise to furnish ma
kae;o1 fNS. ID
Evening star., 1951-10-14
ForrestoI Book
Is Likely to Stir
Lasting Debate

THE FORRESTAL DIARIES
Edited by Walter Mills, with
the collaboration Of E. S. Duff
field. Viking Press; $5.)
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-07-06

TWENTY FIVE YEARS AG0-l91o
2SAI r. 62 member DNyer Bros Hardware lIH
ainent henc South
pa Wright Logan county appointed Maolso Nousy sla
cultural agent, succeeding r Heffron, resigned
Albert Nunemaker 3d. Plain City dies of locJaW
special services to give emphasis 10
Centennial countvs BIRTH
July Directors county
back house clock hour Cflce LONDON ram S
and West jefferson % adopting Fast Time
Harley Roberts elected delegate to national
Church Columbus In 1927 at State cone
ton in Wiberforee -
July 4aurice Neville London and George w larzaane ~
Surnmerford prominent farmer dies
July celebration in London thousands
attend parade and alday program
dedicated Building turned
Capt Herbert c. Slough, head of Co G O unit LONDON n 1o
Haubrc commanding the 166h Infantry Regiment
of which Co. G. is a part.
July position in art de-
partment store, Columbus
1941-TEN YEARS AGO-1941
28Lws Wcne % evangelist of Mt Sterling browns
while swimming in pond in Logan county.
Metal Products London eneanS l30
officials of city and county at
appreciation dinner London Country Club Ed Lannng vice pre
dent and local POSTMASTER
Williams London elected commander of Sixth
Ohio District, American Legion
July T. Reg, Madison counys in
Home Guard recruited full strength mustered in Charles Morcer
London. captain
County
registration house. including
from county; 25 from other counties and states
July 3Oho Tubular Products Co. London fifth National De-
H. A
3-New wheat crop coming excellent quality reported
County's crop estimated a 100000 bushels.
II. Burkholder
moved here from Milford.
July-Stanley shop High
away he
July 4London celebrates fourth quietly Plain
county staging celebration
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-07-06
our FAVoRITE POLICY
'The tumuIt Enc fhe Shouting dies,
The Captains and fhe Kings depart /


So wrote Kplne long ago in of the most memorable OF
English poems. And those two lines certainly apPY ymboeaY
the great debate Far Eastern policy which began
with The Macarthur testimony and continued with Marshall me
Joint Chiefs of Staff Acheon Wedemeyer and others The hot
excitement that swept the country has largely cooled The leaders
have been heard But the tremendous problems remain
In recent column Holmes Alexander, the commentator
Washington affairs wrote The mistake that anybody
make offer simDficaons of the matter That where
President Truman and General Macarthur both went the
former in defending administration policy and the latter in
demnng it. You cannot complicated subject IN easy
phrases In The cold unfckeng light OF history
Just about everybody ANYTHING with Eastern policy
and Roosevelt made the basic mistake al Yaa when
following his advisors he the Soviet important concessions
in and about China Following that Truman Macarthur Marsh
n and all the others made mistakes Al OF them made one
outstanding mistake when apparently they thought
that there small chance OF Red China involving herself IN
the Korean
In some RESPECTS the testimony Of General Wedemeve
Tho positive and interesting of all General Wedemeyer
prophet OF high orderfhe report he made after his l947
Chine which recently released after being ca
fled Secret for forecast much that has happened Nov
Wedemeyer thinks that making ghasty mistake in
spending and resources in Korea his words
+ don't believe getting at the right enemy at all In
his view. the real Russia and its time faced to
would involve calculated risk Of a-ou+ goba He would
have break off relations with Russia and the satellite countries
end establish economic btoekade around their
Then he said thing which not nearly widely
reported bis views the military phase of the struggle
He said that also moral force Of this David Law
wrote The most IMPORTANT recommendation of all
General Wedemeye proposal that the United
its psYchosocia warfare broad scale This the pledge
OF economic help to friends the communication TO the people
OF Russia OF the truth about American Intentions and the sending
OF military missions TO all those countries large and small whose
armies could possibly form of the defense of the free
world Surely the genius of America in the field Of
cation should be the chance to demonstrate what has
been believed by uha moral force be Of
value than military force in preventing war.
very large number OF people, looking at the appalling world
OF today will hoeheartedy support that idea Something
sombOg vary well mark the phase Of changing
foreign policy.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-07-06

and going after the thieves IN earnest. Nothing In
the world dscourages thief faster than a loaded
shotgun. s# .dS.s3
AID IN A WOMAN'S MAGAZINE shows pic
ture Of strapless bras and below caption states
rather smugly -. Million Dollar Holdup!' fOf
course as the fellow says, Its all in the way you
look at IT'D Best advertising | concern
ing this sort of thing in window out in Chic
ago little card set amidst about ten thousand
dollars worth of these things simply stated -
WE FIX FLATS!"
THE ARMY HAS ISSUED AN ORDER THAT
henceforth all personnel will be termed soldiers
and that the term "GI" be done away with We
seriously doubt if the Army gets its way since
"GI" is so firmly established Incidentally GI
comes from Army slang meaning Government Is
sue
OLD HEYWOOD SNUGG, Perveyor of fine
prmping materials for frivolous females, says that
he's invented new perfume that drives WON e n
M-a-a-d! 1t smells like MONEY!
AND JUST REMEMBER THIS if you are de-
termned to make honest living you'll find
that you won't have much competition.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-07-06

"REcIPE FOR THE LUNGS" is the title Of this
formula found in an old druggists manual publish
cd in f645. The ingredients are as follows o.
extract of dandelion,2 Or. extract of hops, o.
extract of Peruvian bark OK Sterngia, 10 gr
cum OF myrrh and Pt. Of gin! tthe recipe dldn't
say whether this willNgive you lung trouble or re-
lieve the condton.1
COON DOG RACES HAVE MUCH FASCINA-
TION. Yes they are fascinating to watch an d
even more so when one considers that lovers of
the sport pay big prices for the hounds Too, we
like the names given these talented animals
Lum Jr. Tennessee Pete, Blue Frost, Golden Dawn,
Truman Little Bob and Dannie Mite, to name
few.
OUR CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR LONDON
JAYcEES. The organization put on field day
at the local athletic field which attracted over a
hundred kids who took part in the many events
Lunch was served to all and from all reports the
event was smashing success. The Jaycee or
ganixation plans to make the thing into an an
nual event and one which heartily endorse.
. LIVESTOCK RuSTLtNG NTiNuES IN
MADISON COUNTY, Looks like the farmers will
have to resort TO the time-tested tactics used in
days gone by that of cleaning the old shotgun