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Hold Initiation
Wide-AtUake Debs
SIumber Party

A "Slumber party" for II jun
ior Debs was celebrated Wednes-
day night beginning at 7:30 pm.
and lasting until noon on Thurs
day.
The teen-agers gathered at the
home of the clubs president,
Evelyn NettleS, 532 Fleming
stree and three members were
initiated into Cardinal Post club.
Part of the ceremony was a
hilarious journey down Duval
street with Joyce Loundres made
up as blind beggar, Betty
Sheppard in odd old clothes out
fiji including tail hat and
Edythe Hampton parading the
main street with a loud noise
maker
After the fun in public, the
girls returned to the Nettles
home for late evening snack
and then dressed for the "slum-
Der" session, A pillow fight was
followed by what is known as a
CAB" session which lasted until
8 am.
Secretary Carol Dalton re-
ported, Some of uS went 10
sleep. but about $50 =. ann a
passing str u chs crew efasHed
AROUND ist'sWoi,k sand bf cogrse
we All cot UP Is see, what sths
noise was. We finally went back
to map and the party didnt
break up until noon"
The wide awake 'slumber
group included the Misses Dale
Mitchell. Margaret Cormack,
Yvonne McCartle. Joyce Loun-
dres. Jeanne Canova, Carol Dali
ton. Evelyn Nettles, hostess;
Nancy Brooks. Joan Davis, Bet
tv Sheppard and Edythe Hamp-
ton.
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music of Gus Ayala's popular
orchestra. Guests wore informal
sports clothes and bathing suits.
Soft drinks and beer were
served from small bar set up
Just off the pool patio. Hosts were
20 new ranking officers. They
circulated through the crowd
which came 10 over 100, serving
beverages from large pitchers and
then set up their own buffet sup
per on long tables.
Enthusiastic party goers cued
up at 7:30 p. m. to consume ham,
iellied meat, beans, stuffed olives,
potato salad and enormous Key
West pink gold" shrimp dipped
in savory sauce.
was escorted on the buffet
trek by Ensign Sam Aydelotte
who halls from Texas. All officers
present We're equally as cour-
teous in seeing that guests re-
ceived well-filled plates and
glasses.
After the serving of food, the
Promotion dip" began quietly.
was first aware of the ceremony
when someone handed me a pair
of shoes and wrist watch be-
longing to 1t, K. N. Bebb,
USNR, who was thrown into the
water wearing sports shirt and
khaki trousers. LCDR. Hugh F.
McLinden. Jr., USN, must have
been a Boy Scout. He was pre-
pared, having donned swim
trunks. Tossers We're considerate
of their victims, carefully screen
ing them for watches. shoes and
other perishable articles. They
were equally careful not to dis
turb ladies in the sidelines. The
only pon-official tossing was
awarded William Berezovsky,
helicopter agent The horseplay
was given and received in good
natured spirit of fun.
Those who have already gone
through the ducking ceremony
include; CDR. w. E. Lemos,
LCDR. J. C. Kemp, LCDR. L. B.
Blair. LCDR w. G. Stearns, Jr.,
chairman of the entertainment
for the evening; LCDR H. F. Nc
Linden, Jr., LCDR. j. r. Thomp-
son. LCDR. r. H. Koch, LCDR.
S. R. Graham, 1t. w. A. Bache,
USNR, 1t. K. N. Bebb, USNR,
1t. j, l.. Reilly, 1t, w. w. James,
USNR, and 1t NJ. Morton.
The remaining is who were
among the promoted group are
CDR. r. M. Streiter, LcDR. G.
w. Girard, LCDR. v. A, Lingle,
LCDR. j. S. Moore. a native Key
Wester; LCDR, G. r. Otis, LCDR.
G. x. Herman. 1t. Casco, 1t. C.
d. Cook, 1t, r. Cummings, 1t,
w. E. Skinner, 1t. T. w. Tucker,
1t. w. M Halentic, Lit. b. d.
Lucas, 1t. j. H. Glare, 1t. w, H.
Neil MGR, USNR, and 1t. w. A.
DickerSon.
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Promotion Party At Sea Plane Base
Includes Dunking OF Thirteen Men

Thirteen lucky doused in the Officers Pool
Seapane Base last The dnked group
OF 70 MI officers who recently received step rank the
That's - the
mild form of hazng the promoted The
escaped temporarily VIII unscheduled
all of the eShlerang promotion party
VX1 their guests held
the pool The affair began $50 lasted until midnight
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Mrs. Louis BHstO
NO,o Grandmother

Mrs. Lois Busto, rear of 822
Fleming street, has received
word of the birth of a grand
daughter in Canton, Ohio.
The eight pound, quarter
ounce baby was born last night
at 9:l5. Mother and child are do
ing well at the Mercy Hospital,
Canton. Ohio.
The new mother, a daughter of
Mrs. Busto, is Mrs, r. E. McKim-
mey, the former Miss Lois Busto
of Key West. She has been away
from this city for over a year,
Her husband is a laboratory
technician for a steel plant at
Canton
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Inc executive board VIII gave
q luncheon at the school next
Wednesday for the faculty Key
West dishes will be served 10 &C
quaint the new members OF the
teaching staff with local tasty
food.
Mrs. Adams served a delicious
fruit punch and cake delicacies
at the Thursday night meeting
She is president of the organiza-
ton.
Also present al the meeting
were: Mrs. Flora Carols. vice
president; Mrs Jane Bayty. sec
rotary; Mrs. Vivian Bass. has
torian; Ralph Noble. treasurer,
Mrs. Christine Rash. Mrs Mont
gomery, Raymond FELTON, and
Wilbur Franklin, the new princi-
pal of the Truman school.
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CLERKS SECRET AIRY
TO co TO PITTSBURGH

Mrs. Mary August, secretary
to City Clerk Victor Lowe, leaves
her post next Friday, Aug. 81,
prior TO her departure for Pitts
burghburgh. Her husband, Ed
ward August, USN, expects to be
transferred to Norfolk, Va.
She has been resident of Key
West for the past three months.
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This is a happy day for Matt
Brown. 44-2 Poinciana Place. It's
MATHS l4th birthday Route boy,
his delivery route is in the area
between First and Fifth streets.
Matt says he doesn't have
trouble with people. but he does
have time with dogs who are
constantly nipping at him as he
delivers his papers But he likes
his job, his first regular one, and
plans TO keep it even though he
will give a portion of his route to
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PROBE IS ORDERED
Continues from Page One)

NOHtlIlueCN IfOin rags OH6j
loans-totaling over half a mil
hon dollars-and President Tru-
man has stood by him. The loans
were made by the ReconStruc-
ton Finance Corporation to the
American Lithofold Corporation.
Senator Clyde Hoey, Chairman
of the Senate Investigations Sub
committee, says the probe prob
ably win get under way next
month. A subcommittee member
Republican Senator Richard
Nixon-assumes Boyle will be
called, as e witness.
Boyle. formerly was, AN sttof Z
ney fol tho eorporatipn
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TOddy's Horoscope

Today's degree brings fortune
and friendships, through a pleas
ant and convivial spirit. And, if
opportunity is seized at the
height Of the flood the end of
life should be an enviable one.
There is tendency to procras-
tination, which should be guard
ed against.
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Union, First Baptist Church,
7:30 pm, Church Hall.
TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER A.
Dinner Meeting, Kiwanis Club,
Gas pm, South Beach Patio
Restaurant.
Bridge, Officers Wives Club, 8
pm, Fort Taylor Officers
Club.
Bowling. Navy Wives, 8 am,
Naval Station Alleys.
Meeting, Key West Assembly
No. 13, Order of Rainbow
Girls, 7:30 pm, Scottish Rite
Temple
Meeting, Sea Finigee Cootiette
Club 37l, 8 pm, VIEW Home.
Meeting, Minoca Council. De
gree of Pocahontas, pm,
Redmen's Hall
Meeting, Key West Players, 8
pm, Barn Theater.
Meeting, Catholic Daughters of
America, Court Mary Star of
the Sea, No. ga, 8 pm, St.
AIMS Hall.
Meeting. Key West Woman's
Club, 800 pm, Woman'S
Club Auditorium.
Meeting, Key West Chapter No.
283, National Sojourners, 2
pm, First Presbyterian
Church.
Meeting, Junior Woman's Club,
! 4 3 pm, Wonan's Club Audi.
( q toriliin. = -
"WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER s.
I Teensgefs~ and Sefvicemen's
Dance, 3 pm, ST. Paups
Episcopal Church Parish
Hall
Meeting. La Concha Navy
Wives Club No. "a. 1890 a m,
Building l78. Naval Station.
Meeting, Junior Chamber of
Commerce, 8 pm, Club
House.
Bowling, Officers Wives Club.
1870 pm, Naval Station
Bowling Alleys.
Meeting, Key West Cupboard
Club Auxiliary. $50 pm.
Clubhouse, Stock Island.
Meeting, Dade Lodge Ne. IA.
Masonic Group. B pm. Scot
fish Rite Temple.
Meeting, SubRon Four Wives.
10 am, Fort Taylor Officers
Club
Duplicate Bridge Club, 7.45
pmr Coral Room, Overseas
Hotel.
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER e. :
| Swimming Glasses, Officers
Wives Club. 2,30-3:30 pm.
Seaplane Base Pool.
Meeting. V. F. W. Post No.
1911. 8 pm. V. + w. Post
Home.
Meeting, Elks Lodge, 8 PM,
Clubhouse.
| Sewing Group, Monroe County
Hospital Woman's Auxiliary
| 2 pm, Hospital
| Tennis Glasses, Officers Wives
| Club, 8 am. Tennis court
near pool
| Meeting, Officers Of Fern Chap
ter. Ne q, Order of Eastern
Star, 8 pm, scottish Rite
| Temple.
| FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER =
/ Meeting. Alcoholics Anony
nous, 8 pm, First presby
! terrain Church Annex.
| Meeting, Key West Amateur
| Radio Club. 1880 p,m,, Ma
d tlonSl Guard Armory.
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SUNDAY. AUGUST rs. 1851

Today endoWs with shrewdnesS
and penetration The thought
will be mathematical and hard,
but just, lacking the emotional
qualities that appeal. There is no
indication of great fortune, per-
haps due to Incidence or pos
sibly an inability to make one
self fully understood.
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.JureniIe Council
To Meet Monday

All officers and board MEM
bers of the Juvenile Council will
meet Monday night, at o'clock,
in the Juvenile Court Room.
Clinic building,
Chairman of the various COM
mittees are urged to attend
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his helper, Sammy Harris, when
school starts.
In the seventh grade, Matt is
very honest and admits, Il don't
exactly like school" He is a Star
Scout, Troop 253, and likes to
swim and hunt He spent two
weeks at scout camp at Snapper
Creek this summer and earned
four merit badges in pioneering,
bird study, rowing and canoeing
Young Matt is saving his money
to buy a scooter.
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apply To We'd

Application for marriage IL
cense was made in the office of
County Judge Raymond Lord
by Estel Leroy Stewart. USN,
and Joan Marie Croits, 500 w.
Corrington street, Peoria, Illinois,
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SOCIETY
Projects Told, Chairmen Appointed
At Truman PTA Meeting Thursday

Mrs Susan Adams Won Phste Thurs
DAY evening to officers the Truman Elementary School PTA
Projects for the l95Il952 school discussed
iinal decision will be the board meeting
Chairmen of the following committees have been appointed
date 1afey, Raymond Membership Mrs Raymond
Room Representative Rash; Program
Jones; Publicity Ralph Study Course Mrs Garcia
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Menu A Day For
Key Vest Cooks
cooKING'S FUN

COOhlNG > FUN
BY cecily Brownsfone
THE BRIDE COOKS SUNDAY
DINNER
Broiled Paprika Chicken
New Potatoes
Cole Slaw with Cucumbers
Bread and Butter
Prune Whip Beverage
tReeipe for Starred Dish Follows)
PHUNE WHIP
ingredients: ] large egg white,
dash of salt, 2 tablespoons finely
granulated sugar. ! five-ounce
jar (about Y cup) haby-food
strained prunes. lh teaspoon
lemon juice,
Method: Allow egg white to
stand out of refrigerator so it
viii be at room temperature: it
will give greatest volume this
way Beat egg white and salt
with rotary beater electric or
hand) until peaks form that tip
over slightly when beater is slow
ly withdrawn. Beat in sugar
gradually and thoroughly. Fold
in prunes little at time, then
lemon juice. Spoon into serving
dishes; chill Makes 2 servings.
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Coming EUents

L0nisng EUeHfs
SATURDAY, AUGUST rs
Birdwalk. Monroe County Aud
abon Society, 9 a. m, Main
Entrance, County Old Folks
Home, Stock Island, Public
Invited.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 20
Cocktail Hour. 40 p. IA. Elks
Club.
MONDAY, AUGUST 81
Hammond Organ Recital, Ma
sonic Orders, o pm, Key
West High School
Meeting, Anchor Lodge No. 1872.
8p. m. Scottish Rite Temple
Swimming Glasses, Officers
Wives Club, $3.50 - 4:30 p. m,
Seaplane Base Officers Pool.
Meeting, Mariner Scout Ship
No. 8, Flying Cloud. p.
M, Sea Scout Headquarters.
Hammond Organ Recital, Ma
sonic Orders, 8 p. m. Key
West High School Audltori-
UNI. Z
TUESDAY, AUGUST %
Meeting. Ever Ready Star
Club, 3 pm, Scottish Rite
Temple.
Meeting, Ever Ready Star Club,
3 p. m, Scottish Rite Temple
Dinner Meeting. Kiwanis Club.
6:45 p. m, South Beach Patio
Restaurant.
Bridge, Officers Wives Club, 8
p. m, Fort Taylor Officers
Club.
Bowling, Navy Wives, a. m.
Naval Station Alleys.
Meeting, Order of De Molay
Boys, 1880 p, M, Scottish Rite
Temple.
Meeting, Young Adult Fellow
ship of First Methodist
Church, . p. m, Church An
mex.
Meeting, Sparkling Waters Re
bekah Lodge No. IA, 8 p. m,
Knights of Pythias Hall.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST %
Teenagers and Servicemen's
Dance, 8 p, m, ST Pauls
Episcopal Church Parish Hall.
Dessert Bridge, Airship Devron
Officers Wives Club, p. m,
Aeropalms Seaplane Base CT
ficers Club.
Meeting, La Concha Navy Wives
Club No. 8s, 1890 a. M,
Building l3S, sNaval Station
Meeting, Junior Chamber pi
Commerce. q p. m. Gut
House. q .
Bowling. Officers Wives Club
lao p. m, Naval Station
Bowling Alleys.
Duplicate Bridge Club, Key
West Bridge Club, 7;45 D. m.
Coral Room, Overseas Hotel
Dessert Bridge, Airship DevRor
Eleven Officers Wives Club
. p. m, Aeropalms, Sesplant
Base Officers Club
Swimming Glasses. Officer,
Wives Club, 2;30-330 p. IN,
Seaplane Base Pool.
Sewing group. Monroe Count,
Hospital Women's Auxiliary
2 pm. Hospital
Tennis Class, Officers Wlve
Club. 8 a. M, Tennis Cour
Near Pool
FRIDAY. AUGUST 81
Meeting, Alcoholics Anony
NOUS, First Presbyterian
Church Annex.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER l.
Birdwalk, Monroe County Aud
ubon Society, q m. Mar
Entrance, County Old Folk
Home, Stock Island, Publ
Invited.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 3
Cocktail Hour, Elks Club, 4
d. M, Club House
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER B.
Meeting, Key West Minister'S
Association, II am, Firs
Presbyterian Church.
Swimming Glasses, Officer
Wives Club, S:30-4.30 pm
Seaplane Base Officers Poo
Meeting, Mariner Scout Shi
No. 8. Flying Cloud" 7 pm
Sea Scout Headquarters.
Meeting, Key West Temple M
30. Pythian Sisters, . Pan
Knights of Pythias Hall
Handicraft Glass. Uiicel
Wives Club, 7;45 PM he
reation Building, Naval S''
ton.
Meeting, women's MISS
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Farewell Party Held At Duual USO
HOn0rs Miss Christine Sanchez

Wednesday evening August % the Duva Street USO the
farewell party Miss Christina Sanchez by
her friends including Olga Bost Betty Anayor conchta
Herrera and Magdaena Russell
Miss Sanchez leaves for New Orleans Sunday
qualified will
5 Charity Hospital in New Orleans.
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: Raw steel output for July and
first seven months a record.
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SH4RPLEY'S DAUGHTER
VISITING IN KEY FEST

Guest of Capt and Mrs. A. f.
Sharpley, 4l8 William street, is
Mrs Elizabeth Sharpley Mowatts
their daughter. who arrived here
Sunday
Mrs. Mowatt makes her home
in San Diego. Calf. and expects
Ia visit with her parents until
after Labor Day
A former resident, she IS an~
xions TO greet old friends.
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MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 10

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10
Meeting. Circle Two, Women of
pm. Home of Mrs. Bernie
Parry, 1921 Washington
Street,
Meeting. Circle Three of Wo-
men of First Presbyterian
Church, 8 p, m, Home of Mrs,
Earl Julian, l435 Flagler ave
nue.,
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER IL
Meeting, Circle One, Women OF
the First Presbyterian
Church, p. m, Home OF
Mrs. Joseph Bringman, l4lo
Won Phister Street,
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER IT.
Meeting, Women of First Pres
byterian Church, 8 p. M,
Church Hall,
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Interesting Notes

37,000,000 tested in drive on
tuberculosis, U. N. reveals.
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Admiral Fechteler says u. S.
must Ssweat" for: freedom;
, 1951-02-15

ivity on interracial matters with
disloyalty and to regard active op-
position to discrimination, segre-
cation and other inequalities and
injustices as subversive." He cited
numerous, instances of the dismis-
sal of Negro government employ
ees on irresponsible disloyaity
charges.
, 1951-02-15
'Spingarn Medal
Nominations Open

NEW YORK, Feb. 15.-Nomina-
tons for the Spingarn Medal, a.
warded ~aniually to a Negro A.
merican for distinguished achieve
ment, are now being received at
the national office of the National
association for the Advancement
of Colored People.
In making the announcement,
the NAAcP urged the early sub
mission Of the names of addition
al candidates. Nominations should
be sent Immediately to the Spin
garn Medal Award Committee,
care of the NAACP, 20 West 10th
St., New York 10, N. Y. Each no
mination should be accompanied
by a statement of the quailifica-
tons of the nominee.
The medal will be presented to
the candidate selected by the com
mittee at the NAACP annual con-
vention in Atlanta next June. Win
ner of the 1919 award was the
late Charles H. Houston, famous
constitutional lawyer. The medal
was presented posthumously and
accepted by his son, Charles Jr.,
at the 1850 NAACP convention in
Boston.
Others to whom the medal has
been presented include DR.. Ralph
J. Bunche, Mrs. Mary Mcleod Be-
thune, Richard Wright, Miss Mari
an Anderson, Walter White,
Judge William H. HASTE, DR..
Charming H. Tobias, Thurgood
Marshall and DR.. Louis T. Wright.
, 1951-02-15
Ohio's Chief Exec.
Gets Himself Lost
BY AL JACK


COLUMBUS, Feb. Is While
escorting Minnesota's governor
through the State House the other
day, Governor Lausche lost his
way. To the tune Of laughter
from the visiting governor, Lau-
sche admitted he was lost and
in his own Capitol, too. Striking
his brow, the Ohio governor chided
himself for having taken the
wrong turn.
The governor should't feel too
badly. The way things are around
the Legislature, lost of thing are
likely to get lost these days. We
, 1951-02-15

Suppose you were an insurance
agent, a collector Of the small
weekly payments made by the
poorest Of the very poor who dwell
in New York's Harlem, a short fat
man with a pink-and-white COM
plexion, a family man. And sup
pose that on a hot summers night
when your total collections had
reached the sum of one United
States dollar you were standing in
the hallway of a tenement, a hall
way dark as the grave, when you
became aware of a stealthy move
ment behind you and a voice said,
"This is a stick-up!" A knife mud
ges you (you know it is a knife
without seeing it, you have al
ways known that some night a
knife would be stuck in your back
while you were making collect
ions in Harlem) and you say,
Don't hurt me. I got a wife and
babies. I never did anything to
anyone. Pm only trying to make
a living"
What happens next? Your wal
let is removed from your pocket.
It is examined, discarded. You had
only one dollar so the knife is
plunged into your back. And then
into your neck. This second blow
is SO violent that it spins you a.
round and you see the man who
stabbed you.
You expect to see a Negro and
you do see one but you thought he
would be big and dark Of skin.
Instead, he is samll and his skin
is a muddy yellow. The sight of
the whole small-boned structure
Of him, the hate-contorted face,
with its yellow, sallow skin bruis-
ed and bloody from a recent beat
ing, the ta~ffy-colored hair, the
: crazy eyes, the dirty clothes, tells
you you should cream for help,
FOR the police, for all the forces
Of law and order and decency, be-
cause this small dirty young man
obviously represents everything
that is indecent, illegal, disorder
ly. He is only a kid, and so, just
before you die, you wonder how
he got to be like this.
The Insurance agent never found
out how and why Taffy Johnson,
wielder of the knife, became a
petty thief and a murderer. But
you can find out by reading Philip
B. Hayes "Taffy." You will dis
cover that Taffy, American Ne
gro, is blood brother to Farrell's
Studs Lonigan, to Shulman's
Frank Abbott to Algren's frankie
Machine. All of them are the spi-
ritual descendants of the cut
threats and footpads of an earlier
, 1951-02-15
BOOKS OF The DAY:
MewAmencm Outlaws

uoy > 0AAN l yVU SONAN soy
they had a common ancestor in
Gesmas, the impenitent thief. But
these contemporary figures, these
new American outlaws are, like
Taffy, spawned in city slums.
Taffy grew up in Harlem. At
seventeen he was a lush and a
smalltime hood; at eighteen he was
a murderer. Mr.. Kaye has written
frightening, brilliant scenes that
show Taffy and his gang getting
drunk, robbing an apartment,
playing pool, fighting. Taffy and
his friends Eggie, Grip, Homer,
Ralph and Dude and the prosti-
tutes Frazzles, Cleo, and Lady are
terribly alive, completely believa-
BILE.
Compared to these gaudy young
criminals the other characters in
the book are only waxwork fig
ures, bearing labels to show their
relationship to Taffy: the quiet
patient sister, he ambitious
mother, the Woodworking Pullman
porter father. Perhaps the un-
reality of Taffy's family is due to
the fact that the arch Williams of
fiction always make a deeper i'm
preston than the good gentle
people. All of US remember Fagin.
Few of us even recognize the
name of Riah, though he, too, was
a Jew and a creation of Dickens.
Be that as it may, "Taffy" is a
vivid and unforgettable book.
THE WIND is RISING, by Will
liam Russell, Scribner. SO. This
novel, by a Southerner about the
plight of the Negro in the South,
is a strong and able presentation
of the problem of racial bigotry
and injustices which continues to
plague us, and Of the paths to-
ward it's solution. The wind of re-
vole against prejudice and discri-
mination, William Russell says, is
rising. This is the books affirma-
tive note. Otherwise the picture
Mr.. Russell paints is a bleak one.
His materials are familiar. Young
Beal and Brother Jackson grew
up as sharecroppers on a Delta
cotton plantation. They were in the
main good" Negroes who "knew
their place." 1t was not, as Mr..
Russell shows, a "good" place.
Cheated by the plantation owner,
victimized by the other white
folks, harried and fenced about by
laws which they had no part in
framing-the Negroes lived lives
of desperate poverty and back
breaking work.
They could not be content with
their lot, but their lack of ex-
perience and education smothered
their discomfort. It was not until
Brother was framed on a murder
, 1951-02-15
Appointment Urged
On Security Group

NEW. YORK, Feb. Is Presi-
dent Truman was urged to enlarge
the Presidential Commission on
Internal Security and Individual
Rights to investigate subversive
activity, so that a Negro Ameri-
can might be appointed to the
group.
In a letter to the Chief Execu-
tive, AAC Administrator Roy
Wilkins referred to the "disturb-
ing and unfair tendency of gov
eminent agencies to associate act
fervently hope that doesn't hap
pen to liberal legislation in this
session.
, 1951-02-15

charge and Deal attempted the
hopeless task Of clearing him that
the realization Of injustice began
to percolate and the wind of re-
volt to rise.
Some of Mr.. Russell's characters
in particular his white folks
are too simply drawn. But in Beal,
his hero, he has created a real
person and accomplished the diff
ficult task of portraying the trans
formation of a true innocent into
a mature, socially aware man. His
scenes of Delta life and of New
York Negro life ring true. He
writes with a fine indignation that
is very persuasive. Though his
story has been told before, it is
good to have it told again.