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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-07-08

An exhibition which will surely
delight the public, is that of en-
cravings by Herb FIGHTER, on view
IN the Division of Graphic Arts
Gallery, Smithsonian building,
through next Sunday. Three weeks
ago we published here the artists
engraving of Georgetown from the
Potomac, a print of which is in
the Smithsonian show, and an
other in the Pennell exhibition
at the Library Of Congress-, which
has purchased it for the perma-
|nent collection.
Mr.. FIGHTER, an engraver at the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
uses banknote engraving methods
in many of his independent works
Visitors who study these miniature
prints, many of them the size OF
postage stamps, will doubtless con-
slider them little bits of rare COM
Ipleteness." They are so infinitely
executed, one suspects Mr.. FIGHTER
must have eyes like microscopes
His engravings comprise mostly
portraits and national landmarks
Ia few deal with rural and indus
trial subjects, and some of them
reveal romantic moods. Another
group of engravings. considerably
larger, and printed in four colors
depict historical buildings. here ir
Washington and vicinity. He is
also showing etchings and aqua
Itints, some of war subjects, figures
of service men.
| A native of New York City
(1920), Mr.. FIGHTER studied at the
New York School of Fine and APP.
piled Arts. Coming to Washington
he attended the Corcoran Schoo
of Art. During his study there
he began a five-year apprentice.
ship as a picture engraver at the
Bureau of Engraving and Print.
ling, which was interrupted BY
service in the Army in Europe
1942-45. Completing his appren.
ticeship in 1949, he began another
f1ve-year program as a junior
journeyman engraver.
He has been exhibiting since
1916 in local and national exhibit.
tons, and has won several awards
besides the aforementioned pur.
chase prize at the current (9th)
Pennell show.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-07-08
Current Exhibitions

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Con-
stitution avenue and Sixth street
Paintings. sculpture by masters.
Gulbenkian collection of Egyptian
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
avenue and Tenth street-Ameri-
can painting and old masters. De-
wing Centennial, through July.
SMITHSONIAN BUILDING, Division
Of Graphic Arts, Tenth street and
Jefferson drive - Engravings by
Herb FIGHTER, through July 10.
FREER GALLERY OF ART, Twelfth
street and Jefferson drive-Ori-
entail and Far Eastern arts. Paint
other American artists; chang
ing exhibits. Dewing Centennial
through July.
CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART, Sew
enteenth street between New York
avenue and z street-American
paintings and sculpture.
PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY,
1900 Twenty-f1rst street-Paint-
ings and prints Exhibition BY
Jack Yeats and Robert Gates.
ARTS CLUB. 2017 " street-Exhibi-
ton of Indonesian art, throush
July IA.
DUMBARTON OAKS collection. 1908
Thirty second street N.W.-Early
Christian and Byzantine art, Tues
days through Sundays. 2-5.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. East Capt.
tol and First streets-Ninth an
nual exhibition OF prints, through
July.
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHI-
TECTS, 1741 New York avenue
NV Joint exhibition by Artists
Guild and Washington Sculptors'
Group.
SILVER SPRING ART GALLERY,
9216 Flower avenue, Silver Spring
Sumner 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.
!. r. A. GALLERIES, 1929 Connect
cut avenue N.W.-American prize
prints, through July IA.
BARNETT ALDEN GALLERY, 1877
Randolph place N.W.-Summer
group exhibition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-07-08
IN DEFENSE OF THE
NATIONAL INTEREST
BY Hans ]. Mnrgentha11

(Knopf;; $500
In this critical examination of
American foreign policy Mr.. Nor
genthau, professor of political SCI
ence at the University of Chicago,
makes an eloquent plea for a more
skillfull diplomacy, based on the
realities of American power and
directed toward a single goal, our
national interest.
BELMONT FAIRIES
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-07-08


domination of Soviet citizens who
have to get permission to turn
around. He describes the literal
bondage of millions in labor camps
in the vast Soviet empire.
Even in East Germany the
policy of forcing men and often
women into slave labor has been
pursued. An account OF the
uranium mines gives this impress
sion of these weary brigades"
coming from their work: They
looked like the slave army OF a
Pharaoh of our time"
The author is director OF re-
search for the Commission of In
qulry Into Forced Labor and a
consultant to the Economic and
Social Council of the United Ma
tons. In preparing this book ne
has examined a great number OF
authenticated documents an d
talked to escaped victims OF slave
labor camps.
Free ManpOwer.
The story is the same every
where, whether in remote areas OF
Russia, where timber is being
felled and mines worked, or in the
Baltic and Balkan satellite
regions. The workers usually are
unpaid or paid a pittance; they
are overworked beyond the en-
durance of most; they are under
nourished almost to the point of
starvation; their living quarters
are squalid and usually vermin-
Gus; their medical care is sketchy
or completely lacking. AS logi-
cal consequence deaths are SO fire.
quent they hardly are noticed.
But the stream of requirements
is constant-manpower is plenti-
full in Russia and costs the gov
eminent nothing except the ex-
pense of enough MVD (secret
police to round it up. Citizens
are arrested on any charge or
none at all.
One witness says: THE secret
police constantly replenish their
forced labor reserve from the rolls
of the displaced and the deported.
Entire peoples, like the Cri-
mean Tartars or the Chechens in
the North Caucasus, were trans
ported in toto to Central Asia"
Twenty Million in Camps.
The author estimates from his
careful survey that forced labor
camps in the last decade have had
a minimum of million workers
and at various times a maximum
of 20 million.
Each work gang is assigned a
quota of production or service.
The individual who fails to per-
form his share, whether sick or
well, weak or strong, has his
meager ration cut down. The
usual work day is IL hours in
this workers paradise"
Gen. Nlcolal RadeScu, a Ro-
manian leader who was jailed by
Hitler's troops and later barely
escaped with his life from the
Russians, reports: THE most in
human form under which present.
day slavery appears is that of the
deportations of great masses of
people from the Soviet-occupied
countries, who are forcibly
rounded up and sent into the in
terror Of Russia. A part of the
working population of Romania is
in this way kept in captivity in
the mines and forests beyond the
Urals, in the dreaded Gulags,
where the life of the prisoners is
a nightmare and death means
deiiverance.
There are some poignant per-
sonal accounts of imprisonment.
Mr.. Merling concludes that "an-
Gent slavery in Egypt was a rea-
sonable system compared to the
Soviet slave system" He suggests
a boycott of all trade with slave
countries and a mobilization of
'the moral and spiritual poten-
tial which the free world still
possesses"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-07-08
American Prize Prints

In weather such as now prevails
all but the most intrepid print
collectors are likely to quail at the
sight of bullying portfolios such
as dealers galleries offer for in
spection. Hence it is a happy
idea the I. F. A. Galleries, 1929
Connecticut avenue NV. have had
in selecting from their extensive
holdings of original prints, in
many media. Is which have won
prizes at important print shows
in this country during the past
decade.
Seven of them are from the
Library of Congress Pennell shows
1913 through 1949. Others are
from Fifty Prints of the Year"
the Audubon Society, New York
City. the Society Of American
Etchers, the American Color Print
Society, the Northwest Printmak-
ers, Southern Printmakers, and
the Philadelphia Print Club.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-07-08
Tracing the Progress Of the Turks
Under the Reforms of Atuturk
!. UNIVERSITY OF Pennsylvania; So

be practically synonymous with
rule from Moscow, have insisted
upon testing friendship, as well
as enmity. by the possible effect
upon their own independence and
territorial integrity" With Soviet
states and satellite Bulgaria press
ing against Turkeys northwestern
and northeastern frontiers, hel
stand has taken courage. The
author deals sympathetically with
the Turks problems and their re-
markable progress since Ataturk's
reforms were put into effect.
CARTER BROOKE JONES
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-07-08

THEMES AND VARIATIONS
BY Aldous Huxley. Harper &
Bros, NetO York; $500
Mr.. Huxley's meditations on art
religion, philosophy and love
Learned and provocative.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-07-08
THE NEW TURKS
BY Eleanor Bisbee.

DR.. Bisbee was professor of
philosophy and psychology at
Robert College and the American
College at Istanbul for number
of years. She writes clearly and
Interestingly of the life and re-
cent history of the Turks. She
concludes that "the only insecure
relations Turkey seems to have at
this writing are with the Soviet
Union. .. Moscow currently main
tains that it is the Turks who are
unfriendly and not vice versa,
But the Turks, noting that Mos
COW has expected 'friendliness' to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-07-08

Labor Day, and the public is well
coined.
The Institute of Contemporary
Arts is continuing here through
the summer. its student show Of
paintings. pottery. serigraphs and
drawings. The gallery is open to
the public Mondays through Fri
days from 10 to 4.
+ X X \
lndonesion Painters
The exhibition of Indonesian
art, which will remain on view at
the Arts Club through next Thurs
day, has attracted much atten-
Ition. Despite the comparatively
small size of the show, it has sur
prising variety. The beautiful tex
tiles, ikats and batiks, in rich
colors and gold, probably are
easiest for the public to under
stand and admire. The exotic
Wajang puppets and carved
wooden masks also intrigue ones
interest.
But the paintings are the high
lights of this show, as they reveal
a revolutionary change in atti-
tude of number of young Indo-
nesian artists. Two of them,
Kerton and Barli, who were pres
ent at the opening of the exhibit
ton, belong to group of painters
who, became associated shortly
before World War II to modernize
1ndonesian art. They began their
study in Banding (their native
city, and Djakarta, and subse-
quently studied in the Meth
erlands and France on govern
ment scholarships. There they
were most impressed with the
work of such pioneer modernists
as Van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso and
prague. Oils, water colors, pen
and wash and pastels at the Arts
Club by Kerton and Barli, and
some of their associates, are lively
fusions of 1ndonesian and West
ern ideas. Simplification and
bright color are the most notice
able features, as the majority Of
these painters have not yet dis
carded naturalistic handling Of
subject matter.
AS in Western countries, many
artists in Indonesia continue to
paint in their own traditional
style. About a third of the paint
ings at the Arts Club are modern
conservative works. "Belinese Viii
lage Life" Cremation" and
others depict in detailed natural
ism figures, houses and objects.
unified with an intricate network
of foliage and flowers. These may
seem "old hat" to the IndonesianS,
to whom these paintings stand in
the same relation as our academic
painting does to our civilization.
Nevertheless, these modern con-
sentative Indonesian paintings
have much charm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-07-08

No summer somnolence has set
tied over the Folger Shakespeare
Library. The place is swarming
with scholars, buzzing through the
stacks on the trail of a variety OF
subjects like the literary career OF
King James I and the indigenous
background of English Puritanism
The fact that none of the re-
search fellows. who are mostly on
vacation from university faculties,
lis digging away at Shakespeare,
leaves Folger Director Louis B.
Wright perfectly calm. He points
out that in addition to its Shake
speariana. the library has vast
treasury of English and American
literature of both the 10th and
18th centuries.
The scholars are not just track
ing around in pursuit of academic
trif1es, either, DR.. Wright will
thank you to know. AS matter O.
fact, Hollywood is already making
eyes at a manuscript now being
prepared by Lucyle Hook. an as
sociate professor of Barnard.
Celebrated Actresses.
Tentatively titled zone Was
Nice" it is a double biography of
the two first great English ac-
|tfesses, Mrs. Barry and Mrs,
Bracegirdle. Mrs. Bracegirdle,
whom the playwright Congreve
pursued in vain, was known to her
lively contemporaries as "the cele-
brated virgin" Mrs. Berry was
also celebrated.
Miss Hook, an animated au-
burn-haired lady who teaches
drama at Barnard, explains that
Mrs. Bracegirdle, who lived Sc
dately with her mother. provides
one of history's few instances OF
virtue rewarded. Lord Halifax
called it to the attention of Lon
don that while ladies who granted
favors were suitably remembered
ladies who did not, were not
This apparently struck home with
the London rakes who cheerfully
kicked in to a fund of 800 pounds
and sent Mrs. Bracegirdle a lovely
letter commencing her for being
such nice girl.
Mrs. Barry, on the other hand
who suspected even then that
diamonds are a girls best
friend" had several wealthy and
prominent lovers.
Their Own Plays.
Both ladies had plays written
especially for them, with parts
for sacred" and "profane" love
Mrs. Barry could weep at will and
reduce an audience to tears.
Mrs. Bracegirdle could blush
whenever she wanted to. Despite
these gifts. they were both ex-
cellent businesswomen and ran
their own theater. John Eccles
wrote music just for Mrs. Brace
girdle. Congreve wrote her
poetry, including a little ditty
that ended.
would she could make OF me a
saint,
Or I of her a sinner"
Miss Hook has been studying
these entwined lives for some 10
years now, examining books and
papers in the Bodleian Library
the British Museum and the
Huntington Library. Unfortunate
ly. neither of the famous twain
left any diaries, but contemporary
references abound.
X X X X
Rachel Carson Swent kshoye
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-07-08
Librory Of Congress Still
Has Worlds Smallest Book

The Library of Congress was
mildly surprised to hear from an
overseas news dispatch that "a
German craftsman has presented
the Pope with the worlds smallest
book" They agree that it's a
small matter, but they can't help
pointing out the fact that they
have the worlds smallest book
right up there in the rare-book
room.
The Pope's new book is small
to be sure, being the size of a
Matchbox. But heavens, that's
about as big as a Gutenberg Bible
compared to couple of items al
the L. c. The worlds tiniest
printed volume, which is kept un-
der glass in q little red leather
bound case, measures exactly
4 by 70 inch. It contains the
Rubyat and was printed, God
knows why, in 1882 by Hamilton
Brooks Wood by photo-engravine
process.
The smallest book in the world
ever printed from movable type il
"Lincoln's Addresses" printed in
1929 by a student at the Vocationa.
School Of the Kingsport Press al
Kingsport. Tenn. It measures y
by 20 inch. still, as you see
dwarfed by the Vatican's new &C.
QUESTION.
The custodian of the worlds
smallest book is Charles P. Grange
who reports that public interest
in this little oddity is undated
He had a man in the other day
who asked to see it, who turned
out to be carrying Goals to New
castle. The visitor had his own
miniatures with him, a monkey
carved out of an appleseed, q
portrait of President Truman in
color, on the head of q pin; two
fleas dressed up as bride and
groom. The bridegroom's trousers
even had a miniature crease in
them, MIR. Grange reports.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-07-08
FRUIT AMONG THE LEAVES
Edited with a historical intro
Iduction by Samuel C. Chew

(Appleton-C entury-Crotts, Inc. J
This volume celebrates the 125tt
anniversary Of the founding of the
D. Appleton Co. and the 80tL
anniversary of the Century Co.
notable names in publishing Cir
Giles. 1t contains excerpts from
great books published by these
firms through the years. The au-
thors range in diversity from
Edith Wharton to Darwin and
Gen. Sherman to Joel Chandler
Harris. An excellent gift book.
EDWIN TREBLE
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-07-08
'Tomorrow's Artists

The Institute of Contemporary
Arts is one of Is professional art
schools and college art depart
ments included in the cart
Schools, U. S. A., 1851" exhibition
to be shown at the Addison Sal
lery, Phillips Academy, Andover
Mass, from next Friday through
September 26. This is the fourth
consecutive year that student work
from Is schools has been assem-
bled in such an exhibition at the
Addison Gallery, and subsequently
sent on a national tour under
auspices of the American Fedora
ton Of Arts. It's objective is to
sample the inventive capacity of
tomorrow's artists who are still in
school,"
None of the schools chosen for
this years exhibition has been
represented in any previous edi-
lions in this series. American
University, the Corcoran School
of Art and Howard University
have all participated in earlier
shows.
The Addison Gallery is open
daily and Sunday afternoons
throughout the summer, except for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-07-08
Singing to God
Amid the Lute
Autumn Leaves

Amid the Late
Autumn Leaves
MAN AND GOD
BY Victor Gollancz. (Houghton,
Mi67tn Co.; $3.50
This noble and reviving an
thology Is subtitled Passages
chosen and arranged to express a
mood about the human and di-
VINE" The author, Victor Col
lancz, q British publisher and
chairman of the Jewish Society
for Human Service, explains that
it grew out Of q feeling he had as
a small boy Of wanting ITO sing
for Joy amid the late autumn
leaves"
The book is really a hymn to
the God of love. the God who
created man "a little lower than
the angels" and who is wor-
SHIPPED by the lowly performing
their everyday tasks. AS Gerard
Manley Hopkins, the marvellous
Jesuit poet, says: ITO lift up the
hands in prayer gives God glory,
but a man with dungfork in his
hand, woman with sloppail,
give Him glory, too" That is a
dominant theme in these pages.
In some of it's finest passages.
it is an invitation to worship God
amid the miracles of creation.
What is all this Juice and all this
joy?" writes Hopkins, who is, by
the way. justly well represented.
And Blake, also a leading con-
tributor, says. describing the riot
of spring: "Yet all in order sweet
and lovely. Men are sick with
love-"
Emphasis on Love.
Throughout the emphasis is on
love and acceptance rather than
sin and reparation. or mans I'M
worthiness before God. Hope and
Joy are the keynotes. In Ecclesi-
asticus, it is written: Love thine
own soul, and comfort thy heart:
and remove sorrow far from thee;
for sorrow has destroyed many,
and there is no profit therein.
Mr.. Collancz has culled his Sc
lections from variety of sects
and spokesman. The Bible is
naturally the source of many
quotations; but the Talmud
IBhagavad Gita, the Hasidic
rabbis, Chinese sages. Plato and
modern psychiatrists have also
been combed. No sectarian views
as such. that is to say, dogma or
theology or cosmology are present
ed. There are some contradic-
tions, some overlapping, but ali
passages are aimed to show the
exultation Of the spirit and the
intimations of immortality.
most hospitable anthologist, Mr.
Gollancz has no place for John
Knox or Calvin. Surprisingly
enough. there is not a word from
Shakespeare or from Browning
nor from Emily Dickinson OF
Emily Bronte. Apparently womer
have not so often turned then
thoughts toward heaven. At any
rate. only four have been repre-.
sented here.
The same sentiments re-echt
through the generations. Johr
Dome said, This only is charity
to do all, all that we can" Anc
Albert Schweitzer: Ethics are re.
sponsibility without limit toward,
all that lives" The point wa.
made first. of course, in the Ter
Commandments.
From the partnership" of Goo
and man flows the brotherhood oil
man and the comfy of,nations. Mr.
1Gollancz' anthology is not merely
sweetness and light. It all pred.
icated on obedience to the com.
mandments of God. And it hold.
out reinsurance and renewal Of
the spirit on almost every page
For as st. Teresa, that eminentlS
sensible mystic, said, Believe me
we shall advance more by con.
templating the Divinity than BY
keeping our eyes fixed on our.
selves"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-07-08
Reading and Writing
Busy Bees of FoIger Library Swarm
In Non-Shukesperion Summer Clover
By Mary McGrorY

enthusiasts of her new book. The
New Yorker reports that a con-
densed version drew more mail
than any other profile they have
ever run.
A native of inland Pennsyl-
vania who never saw the sea I'M
til she was a college student and
went to the famous marine BIZ
ology laboratory at Woods Hole,
Miss Carson will take leave of
absence from her chores as editor
in chief of the Fish and Wildlife
Service. thanks to a Guggenhiem
fellowship. Sometime later this
month. when all the excitement
surrounding publication has died
down. she will go to Maine. there
Ito study the shore. which will be
the subject of her next book.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-07-08
RocheI Carson Swept Ashore
By q Tidal Wave of Letters

Rachel Carson. the lady who
wrote the years science sensa-
ton. 1.-THE Sea Around U.s." is
in danger of being swamped-by
"a riptide of letters.
A pleasant, grave young woman,
who works at the Interior De-
|partment, she is spending every
spare minute answering mail from
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-07-08
Books in Review
True Meaning of Communism Found
In the Soviet's Slave Ship of State
Reviewed by Carter Brooke Jones
THE SOVIET SLAVE EMPIRE
BY Albert Konrad Herring. Funk; $2.75J

you slavery with Civil War and after
Belgian read this book You'll learn
in all the satellite countries has
held in bondage under
known to history. revelation.
of writes metaphor1call
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-07-08
New Books Received

crime Ballamann. (simon g. Schuster. }
DOOR OF HOPE. BY Joseph S. Diamond.
1Greenbergo story of the struggle for
liberty in Rumanian town sixty years
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1951-09-26
LICENSE PLATES
FOR 81 ON SALE

Monday morning of this week,
the South Carolina Highway De-
partment began distributing new
automobile license plates through
the mails and at 13 over-the
counter distributing points IN
the state, Chief Commissioner
Claude R. Mcmillan announced.
The license windows are open
through the week from 9 a. m.
until 5 p. M. except on Saturdays
when the hours are 9 a. m. to l
o. m. In order to accommodate
those who would like to purchase
their plates before going to work
or after getting off, beginning
October 1 and continuing through
the month the license windows
in Columbia and all other points
of distribution will be open from
8 a. m. until 6 p. M, except on
SATURDAYS when the hours will
be from 8 a. m. until 1 p. m.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1951-09-26
THE TABOR CITY TRIBUNE

hogs where they are being giver
a full feed of protein supplement
and corn. Hogs being fed limit
ed ration will require more pas
ture than on full feed.
QUESTION: Just how much
extra feed should I give my hogs
if I keep them on pasture?
ANSWER. State College Speci
alists say that Is bushels of corn
and 100 pounds of protein supple.
ment should be enough feed to
raise 25O-pound hog where pas
ture is provided. A 25O-pound hog
can be produced in six months
with full feeding of corn, protein
supplement and a good Ladino
clover pasture. State College is
doing some experimental work
using APE supplement, but at
the present time there is not
enough experimental evidence to
make recommendations, says
Kelley.