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Evening star., 1951-10-28
The Railway Mail
Goes to own
MAIL BY RAIL

MAIL BY RAIL
BY Bryant A. Long and William
J. Dennis. fSimmons-Bodrd-
man; $4.95.J
The authors have written the
interesting and sometimes dra-
matte history of the postal
transportation service, more
popularly known as the railway
mail. Probably few outside the
service realize the speed. agility
and memory required for the
crack postal clerks who are as
signed to railway runs; the
hazards they often have had to
face when there were holdups
and wrecks, and their central
role In the swift distribution Of
the mails. Mr.. Long, a veteran
railway mail clerk, is a native of
Hyattsville, Md, and has writ
ten for The Star and many other
publications, including national
magazines. Mr.. Dennis, a for
mer mail clerk, Is professor of
Spanish and Latin American
history at Parsons College, Fair
field. Iowa.
Evening star., 1951-10-28
He Was the Last
Of the Titons
Of the Press
MARSE HENRY: A
R~Yy1r ~

MARSE HENRY: A
BIOGRAPHY OF HENRY
WATTERSON
BY Isaac F. ,MarcoSson. (DodG,
Mead; $4.)
No editor in the era Of per-
sonal journalism was so color
full as Henry Watterson and
none turned a sharper phrase.
AS the biographer says, when
the veteran editor of the Louis
vile Courier-Journal laid down
his pen. "the heroic age of edi-
torial writing came to an end"
Mr.. Marcosson adds: Never a
vindictive scold like Greeley or
a ruthless critic like Dana, he
could employ the scalpel but he
never injected poison. He was
the last of the titans of the
press"
1t is not so generally known
perhaps that Mr.. Watterson was
born and grew up in Washing
ton. His birth took place in
1910 near the foot of Capitol
Hill at a time when his father.
Harvey MCGEE Watterson, was
editor Of the Union. The father
later served four terms as q
Representative from Tennessee.
and the boy remembered well
the great Of that day. He was
to know personally. in time,
every President from Fillmore
to Harding.
In his youth Henry served as
a staff officer in the Confed-
crate army when he was not
editing some peripatetic paper
which followed the retreating
armies. He became editor of
the merged Courier and journal
in 1868 a post he was to hold
for half a century.
Despite his war service Mr..
Watterson was no professional
Southerner. He fought valiant
ly for justice to the Negro and
for an end to i'll feeling between
North and South. He had q
great admiration for Lincoln
and never lost a chance to ex-
press it, particularly in the
South. "Marse Henry" welded
immense political infiuence-he
often helped write Democratic
national platforms-but, unlike
Horace Greeley, he never sought
public Office. He was a Won
vivant and a charming COM
panion, as widely known in New
York, London and Paris as in
Louisville. He died at 81, some
thing OF a national institution.
Mr.. Marcosson. a veteran
journalist, once worked for
"Marse Henry" in louisville. He
has done a pretty thorough job
on the witty, opinionated editor.
He sums up the Watterson per-
sonality nicely: "a D'Artagnan
OF the pen. he emulated the
Dumas hero in that he was ever
ready for a fight or a frolic."
Unfortunately Mr.. Marcosson
too often slips into the smooth
groove OF slick writing, path
strewn with cliches. His sub
ject and early mentor, to the
contrary, had a crisp and orig
inal style.
Evening star., 1951-10-28
Great Love Letters
Wholly Unstudied
KATHERINE MANSFIELD'S
LETTERS TO JOHN
MIDDLETON MURRY,
snan annn

KATHERINE MANSFIELD'S
LETTERS TO JOHN
MIDDLETON MURRY,
1913 1922
Edited by John Middleton
Murry. fAlfred A. Knopt;
$6.50.)
These letters Of Katherine
Mansfield would be remarkable
if only because they plainly
meant for the person to whom
they are addressed, rather than
AS is so often the case-for
posterity. They are love letters
to John Middleton Murry, her
lover and husband, and they
are intimate, intense and wholly
unstudied.
Due to her precarious health
she was to die Of consump-
tion-they were often apart.
Her letters are the record of
her desperate attempt to share
everything with her beloved
Jack. Everything. that is. ex-
cept the despair which engulfed
her with the progress of the
disease.
This Cruel Barb"
They were also plagued with
money troubles. She understood
he must stay in London as
editor of the Athenaum, if she
is to live in the south of France.
Ordinarily her letters sparkled
with whimsy and tenderness
and cajoling descriptions of the
life around her. Yet in one of
those fits of blackness she
wrote him laceratingly bitter
poem. It brought him to her
side. and she reproached her
self for "this cruel barb that I
plucked out of my bosom only
to drive it into yours"
Ultimately, she dreamed Of
being healed body and soul at
a kind of Brook Farm faith
healing institute near Paris.
There she died at "a.
The collection. which is COM
plete and unabridged, is very
long. containing over TOO pages.
Utterly free of the conventional
literary chit-chat-yet full of
spontaneous. intuitive judgments
on the writer's of the day-it
offers a wonderful self-portrait
of a fastidious Bohemian, the
story Of a love affair that was
q marriage of true minds.
MARY McGRORY,
Evening star., 1951-10-28
Collectors Item

Public librarians, busy getting
book report material into grubby
little hands and answering radio
quiz questions may ponder with
envy the life of Francis Thomp-
son. librarian to the Duke Of
Devonshire.
Mr.. Thompson lives in a beau-
tiful little house on the edge Of
the park at Chatsworth, the
Devonshire's principal stately
home in England. During his
working hours he presides over
a fabulous collection of literary
treasure which dates back over
three centuries and includes in
valuable first editions and
illuminated manuscripts not
to mention a little art gallery
that has 1000 drawings by old
masters.
Word Of this medieval hold
over was brought here by DR..
Percy Muir. president of the
International League Of Anti
quarian Booksellers. and a re-
cent speaker at the Folger
Library.
A scholar himself. Mr..
Thompson has prevailed upon
the present Duke to allow other
scholars to examine the books,
an unusual privilege in noble
mans library. according to DR..
Muir. Priceless books. he says.
were always considered part of
the natural furnishings of an
aristocratic household and no
ones concern but the family's.
Besides, most such collections
have long been dispersed under
heavy economic pressures.
Great book people since the
Evening star., 1951-10-28
No Need to Fear
Race Suicide
For All of This

I'M TELLING YOU KIDS FOR
THE LAST TIME
BY Parke Cummings. (Schu-
man; $2.75.J
Reviewed by WiIIiom Hines
For ages past it has been the
practice Of couples planning
parenthood to take a conven-
tional series of steps. marriage
normally being the first. Now
comes a book, the reading of
which must be fitted into the
series somewhere.
Mr.. Cummings, having suf-
fered two seizures of father
hood, has a journeyman's
knowledge Of his subject: The
lovable cantankerousness Cor is
1t cantankerous lovability?) of
the human young.
If today's prospective parents
are abnormally chicken-heart-
ed, widespread reading of this
book may well lead to race sui
eide; after learning what Mr..
Cummings has to say. no one in
his right mind would set out
willfully to beget children. But
since the begetting of children
is not the most cerebral of hui
man activities, we may dismiss
fears Of racial extinction as
groundleSS.
Mr.. Cummings catalogs the
foibles of the young with charm,
completeness and an apparent
detachment which another
father of two is unable to at
tain. He lists 20 reasons why
children don't want to 60 to
sleep; he explains why a child
who normally rejects food at
noon gets ravenous at 10 while
on car trips; be tells how the
wings they wear on Christmas
eve are miraculously trans
formed into horns on Deem
ber 25-
Oh. read it yourself; I can't
stop laughing.
Evening star., 1951-10-28


Mr.. Greene's new novel Is
more rewarding in retrospect
than in the actual reading. No
such sympathetic character as
Scobie, the unwilling blasphemer
racked with pity who was the
hero Of THE Heart Of the Mat
ter" is found in this acrid
drama of the soul.
His heroine is a modern Mary
Magdalene. a woman who. we
are left to believe, is forgiven
because she loved much. But
her miracle. story is told by a
rejected. unbelieving lover who
brings to the telling the brusque-
ness and vindictiveness that
might be expected Of a man who
considers himself a rival OF God.
Now this is a strong theme
and Mr.. Greene handles it
starkly and with no concessions
to merely human feelings. The
illumination all comes from the
relation between man and God
rather than between man and
man. That is perhaps why its
artistry and power is realized
only when the book is finished.
1t is the story Of Gods grace
as made manifest in adultery.
The narrator of this ex-
traordinary triangle is an au-
thor. a cold -blooded man named
Bendrix, who nevertheless loves,
in his way. the beautiful. pro-
miscuous Sarah. Blithely, the
pair deceive Sarah's husband,
the wistful Henry. But even as
they are spending themselves in
passion, Bendrix begins to re-
alize that "love had turned into
a love affair" It finally ends
on the night of a frightful
V-bomb raid when he is nearly
killed and Sarah seems disap-
pointed that he has survived.
Sometime later, Bendrix meets
Henry, who, though often cue
kolded, is at last suspicious.
Bendrix, his hatred of Sarah
now a mania. engages a private
detective. and together they
rifle Sarah's soul. Her diary is
filched, and Bendrix learns that
she had vowed to give him up
If he was spared in the raid. He
learns, too, that what he had
assumed were rendezous with a
new lover were actually dia-
logues with a nationalist whom
she is unconsciously converting
while unwillingly she is being
converted to the faith Of her
baptism.
Bendrix, it appears, has en-
tertained a saint unawares,
although why Mr.. Greene in
PRODUCES miracles when the mir
acle of her reconversion would
have been enough, is not quite
clear. Added to this is the final
wonder that the selfish, cruel
Bendrix is gradually being
dragged towards some kind of
Evening star., 1951-10-28

Among 1952's more provoca-
tive titles will be How to Get
Rich In Washington" by Blair
Bolles. Not a guidebook for the
greedy. as the title might indi-
cate, 1t is a factual history Of
corruption in government since
World War I1-from the Ave-
percenters to the Finnegans.
Mr.. Bolles, formerly q Star
reporter and director Of the
Foreign Policy Association
Washington Ofiice. embarked on
his own private Investigations
last February. somewhat in ad-
vance of senatorial sleuths hot
on the same trail. He finished
up his laborious combing Of the
public records-where all the
evidence is writ plain-last
month.
Not Just a rehash Of news
paper accounts Of mink coats
and daily doubles. his book goes
into the reasons why so, many
well-manicured hands have
been caught in the public
trough. Mr.. Bolles doesn't be-
lieve these revelations indicate a
general decline of public moral
ity. He just thinks the tempta-
tions have been greater during
the Truman administration.
"They inherited a tremendous
apparatus of government and
didn't know what to do with 1t.
With these vast amounts OF
money pouring in in revenues. 1t
seemed the natural thing to
give it to your friends"
What he has stressed, Mr..
Bolles says. is "the intellectual
failure to realize what the Gov
ernment of the U. s. A. means
In the goth century,"
Actually the story has been
told since 1914, he says, notably
in a dry, factual way by Con-
troller General Lindsay Warren.
Mr.. Warren is indirectly re-
sponsible for this first histori-
cal study Of postwar influence
and privilege. He had some cor
repondence with an editor OF
w. w. Norton, who wanted him
to write q book. which Mr..
Warren didn't feel he could
write while still In Office.
The editor then got in touch
with Mr.. Bolles. whose biogra-
ply of Speaker Joe Cannon.
"Tyrant From Illinois," the
firm published last spring. After
some hesitation. he began to
ferret out the facts, working in
a little attic study at the Library
Of Congress.
How to Get Rich In Wash
ington" will be published In
February.
Evening star., 1951-10-28

Press; So
human compassion which will
lead him undoubtedly one day
to God.
The suspense In this narra-
tive, unlike that of any other
Greene novel is all inward, in
the tension between the lovers.
in the terrible tug of war be-
tween human and divine love.
Mr.. Greene has not troubled to
make his characters affecting.
Sarah. we see only in her diary.
Bendrix is repelling and Henr!
limp. THE End Of the Affair"
touches the mind but not the
neaIt. MARY NcGRORY
Evening star., 1951-10-28

c. P. Snow Is one OF England's
most distinctive writers. He Is
a natural noveliSt-a man from
whom novels seem to flow easily,
however hard he may work at
them. He writes a sure prose.
as architecturally sturdy as
Hardy's.
This Is the third in a series
of novels Mr.. Snow is writing
about his times and some Of
their problems. Each book is a
separate entity. though some of
the same characters come into
them.
The scope of "The Masters"
is narrower, its theme less uni
versal than in the previous
novel, Time Of Hope" which
reached America last year.
Time Of Hope" dealt with the
youth and manhood Of Lewis
Eliot, with his epic struggle out
of the hopeless future Of an i'm
poverished middle-class family
in a small town. We saw him
by sheer will become a barrister
and we saw the brilliant career
that beckoned him clouded over
and finally lost by his love for
the unstable Sheila and his
tragic marriage to her. This
was q novel swept with emo
tions and perplexities common
to us all.
Faculty Problems.
"The Masters" is centered on
an administrative problem faced
by a group of fellows who make
up the faculty of a mythical
college at Cambridge Univer-
sity. 1t may seem an overem-
phasis on a cloistered dilemma
of no great concern to the world
outside. And yet the author has
drawn some memorable char
acters in the course of what is.
In way, a storm in a vacuum.
He has opened the bundles OF
ambitions. jealousies. prejudices.
hopes and fears which make up
men, whether they are univer-
sity dons, tradesmen or por-
tiers. The story is within its re-
strictions a first-rate perform
ance.
In chronology the book is a
sequel to Time of Hope" Eliot
is still telling the story. He
appears as a fellow at the col
lege, having given up or greatly
restricted his London law prac-
tice. He is a tutor in civil law.
Choice of q New Master.
The 13 fellows learn that the
master of the college Is doomed
to die in a few months, though
he does not yet know it. They
must soon decide on new mas
ter, since the statutes Of the
college invest them with that
duty. Naturally this inner poll
tics boils. though the master is
still alive. Two candidates are
outstanding and command al
most equal support.
1t is a question Of which will
eventually receive a majority.
The outsome is in doubt until
few hours before the election.
In the course of the intramural
campaign friends break. there
are charges of double-crossing,
some fellows almost come to
Evening star., 1951-10-28

BY Gabrielle Roy. Translated
Binsse. (Harcourt, Brace; $3J
The Tousignants, a French
Canadian family whose. home
is a remote island in the north
ern wilderness of Manitoba,
live in robust good humor and
courageous charm in the lyrical
pages Of this novel.
No less vividly presented is
Father Joseph Marie, the Capu-
chin monk, whose mission
stretched over a vast territory
in the northern brush. Once a
year the hardy. tolerant priest,
who spoke a dozen languages
and could talk to the people of
his polyglot parish in their own
tongues, visited the Tousignants
on the Little Water Hen River.
He heard their confessions and
the next day held mass for them
and all their neighbors, who
came from 20 miles for the
event. And there are minor
characters you'll remember, like
Bessette, the avaricious store
keeper; Nick Sluzick, the taci-
turn mail carrier, and Mckenzie,
the Scot trapper.
The Tousignant brood, a good
dozen, were threatened with
growing up without education.
HERMAN MELVILLE
BY Newton Arvin. William
Sloan Associates, Inc., Neu
York; $780,
This Is an addition to the
American Men of Letters biog-
raphr!es. Mr.. Arvin, professor
ut Smith College. struggles man
fully with our least-known great
author, but he remains an
enigma. There is a generous
amount Of Interpretation of
Moby Dick.
EDWIN TREBLE. ,
Evening star., 1951-10-28

Each Divan team has broken
even in two matches. The Red
team started inauspiciously with
a loss to Paragon. The first
board game, originally scored to
Divan Red, was changed to a
forfeit when it was discovered
that the Divan player had al
ready represented another team
in a league match. This raised
Paragon's score to So. The Blue
team, however, won from the
Department of Agriculture by
6-1. But when Red met Blue
a week later. Red scored a
sweeping victory by 80. The de-
tails of the last two matches:
Evening star., 1951-10-28
Chess
By DonoId H. Mugridee

In the District League, the
Arlington team was first to
score its second victory. On
October 18, Bald Eagle forfeited
one game out of the seven and
so lost by the odd point. The
Arlington team is an offshoot OF
Naval Communications and
most Of its members are en-
ployed at Arlington Hall. but
eligibility has been extended to
include any resident Of Airing
ton, and any one interested
should communicate with Will
liam j. Nucker. 5642 Seventh
road South. Arlington Owens
9l72).
Evening star., 1951-10-28

In the Divan champion
ship three players in the Red
section have completed their
schedules. John r. Rice finished
with So, S. Stone with 1A-5h
and Isabelle Lynne with OF.
Oscar Shapiro. after defeating
Edmund Nash and reaching 5-1.
has taken time out for a So
journ in Doctors Hospital.
A. M. Jenkins has Al and Nash
4h-1h.
In the Blue section Morton L.
Seidelman has finished and has
So. He lost his last game to
Richard S. Cantwell, who there
by reached 40. No one else has
more than 2 points.
In the Green section Martin
c. Stark disposed of the other
leader, Michael Titles, and then
reached &c by scoring a very
complicated kings gambit
against j. Galloway. White re-
signed one move short of mate:
Evening star., 1951-10-28

from the French by Harry L.
But their mother Luzina wrote
the provincial government at
Winnepeg and a schoolmistress
was sent into the north country
just to teach the Tousignant
children. This stirred the ambi-
ton of some, and they deter
mined to go on to college. AS,
indeed, when the time came,
they did.
This is not so much a novel as
a series of character sketches.
But 1t is a delightful book. Miss
Roy's first novel, "The Tin
Flute" was a Literary Guild
selection in 1947.
CARTER BROOKE JONES.
Evening star., 1951-10-28
Roosevelt Papers Reveal WiIlkie
Considered for Vice Presidency

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTS OWN STORY ,..
Selections from his papers by Donald Day. little Broton
Co.; 81
Reviewed by Froneis P DouqIos
Evening star., 1951-10-28
Books in Review
Novels Like This Seem to Flow Easily
From the Pen Of EngIondps c. p. Snow
THE MASTERS
(Macnaillan;; $3.50J

Reviewed by Corter Brooke Jones
Evening star., 1951-10-28
Gabrielle Roy Writes a Delightful
Story Set in Manitoba Wilderness
5 The WATER HEN

WHERE NESTS THE WATER
BY Gabrielle Roy Translated from the French by Harry
BinSse. (H1rcourt Brace. S3J
Evening star., 1951-10-28
Mr.. Greene Proves That the Story
Is Mainly in the Telling of 1t
THE END OF THE AFFAIR

Greene. THE Viking Press; So
, 1951-09-14
MANY ATTEND -.
OL

4NA<A1N al 4GNO Sa
Church, the Rev. Osborne
Budd, rector.
The interment service at the
cemetery was participated in,
also, by the Revs. Paul E.
West, pastor of the Lutheran
Church of the TRANSPORTATION,
New York City, and E. H.
Hamilton, rector, the Episco-
pal Church of the Resurrec-
ton, Elmhurst, Long Island.
Mrs. Nero was born in Chris
tiansted, st. Croix, April II
1880. She had lived in the
United States some 40 years
and visited the Virgin Islands
last in 1885. She was active in
several organizations, largely
t those connected with the
church, especially the Wo-
mans Auxiliary, and was once
daughter ruler of Celestial
Temple of the Elks.
In addition to the church
rites, special services were
held over the body by Celes-
tial Temple, Mary Bell Young,
daughter ruler.
She is survived by her
daughter and son-in-law, Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Smith of
Tuckahoe; a grand daughter,
Amelia Smith; two brothers,
Walter W. and Theodore A.
Sheen, both of Baltimore; a
nephew, Walter Sheen, Jr., Of
Salt Lake City, Utah.
, 1951-09-14
SPORTS
Edsel Wilson

Yesterday at Yankee Stadium
the Detroit Tigers walloped the
New York Yankees go.
Virgil Fire" Trucks pitched for
the Detroit Tigers and Eddie Lo-
pat pitched for the New York
Yankees. Tigers had a total Of:
9 runs, 11hits, no errors and 8
men left on. Yankees: 2 runs Z hits
A errors and 9 men left on.
Washington Senators defeated
the first place Cleveland 10.
Third place Boston Red Sox
walked over the st. Louis Brown
,5-4.
There were regular scheduled
games in the National League but
a rained out game was played be-
tween the Braves and Cardinals
which the Braves won 20.
All teams are scheduled to play
in both Leagues today.
, 1951-09-14
PUBLIC HOUSING -.

units constructed as a part OF
the rural n~on-farm program
will be closely similar to those
that will be constructed in ur-
ban areas.
Approval of the application
made by the Virgin Islands
Housing and Redevelopment
Authority for this program re-
servation was recommended
by Francis x. Serviates, Area
Director of the Public Hous-
ingAdministration in San
Juan, Puerto Rico.
, 1951-09-14
.ADOLPH GEREAU !.

and irrigation practices, The
latter picture will be in color
taken in the beautiful West
and Northwestern United
States. The excellent scenery
and subject will be of interest
to all.
, 1951-09-14
GOVERNOR

the P, R. Economic Develop
ment Administration has new
er given to any visitor a list of
difficulties in the Virgin IS
lands; 90 the P. R. Govt does
not offer free factory space or
free grounds to any industry;
and "a the P. R. Govt does
offer industrial financing on
machinery and equipment on
chattel mortgage and building
construction for sale or lease
, 1951-09-14
No. 1893
NO. 1913
GOVERNMENT OF
H VIRGIN STANDS OF UNITED STATES
Charlotte Amalie. ST. Thomas
CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION
OF RENEWAL
APPLICATION HAVING BEEN MADE BY:
CORN PRODUCTS REFINING co.

for registration III the Virgin Islands of the United States of
renewal of Certificate of Registration No. 80, 639, registered
in the United States Patent Office on October 3, 1911, and in
the Virgin Islands of the United States on August IA, 1915,
and it having been shown that said certificate of registration
was renewed in the United States Patent Office on July 8
1851, for a period of twenty COY years from October 3, 1851.
unless sooner terminated as provided by law, in the name Of
Corn Products Refining Co, of New York, NY. Jersey City
NJ, a corporation of New Jersey, which has made showing
of ownership Of the said trademark;
THIS is TO CERTIFY that the said renewal has been re
corded in the Office Of the Government Secretary of the Vir-
gin Islands of the United States, at ST. Thomas, in accordance
with the provisions in the Regulations governing the regis
tration of Patents and Trademarks in the Virgin Islands,
approved April ], 1916.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand
and caused the Seal of the Government of the Vir
gin Islands of the United States to be affixed at
Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, this
Goth day of July, AID, 1851.
(SEAL
Daniel w. Ambrose
Government Secretary for the Virgin Islands.
, 1951-09-14
PUBLICATION

1t is hereby brought to pub
lie notice that the Government
of the Virgin Islands Of the
United States has this date
authorized the Reverend Leon
ard Race of the Methodist.
Church, St. Thomas, Virgin
Island, to perform civil-religi-
Gus ceremonies in the Virgin
Islands.
Govt. of the Virgin Islands
of the United States
Charlotte Amalie, ST. Thomas
August 80, 1851
DANIEL w. AMBROSE
Government Secretary
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