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Evening star., 1952-03-23
Middle East Students
Find, U. 5. Racial Bias
Less Than Anticipated
BY The Associated Pres.

NEW YORK. Mar. 22.-Higl
school students from Asia and tn,
Middle East today proposed 1
I"junior United Nations" and tolt
America their impressions Of lel
l-on topics ranging from racia'
prejudice to electric kitchens.
They said they had found racia,
prejudice not so bad as they hac
been told but were admonishec
not to take New York high schools
as giving a true national picture
They told Americans that they
have too much Of material things
TO fully appreciate why commu.
nism gets hold on poor people
They said they had found Amer.
lean children a little too disre-
lspectful toward their parents. q
little too unrestrained in showing
their feelings.
But they applauded the inde.
Ipendence Of American youth -
particularly girls.
And they approved heartily
such Americanisms as ice cream
blue Jeans and being permitted
to talk at the dinner table.
16 Countries Represented.
The students were among "a
representing Is countries. who
have been in this country for II
weeks, living in American homes
Winners Of nationwide com.
petitions in their own countries
they were delegates to tine New
York Herald Tribune Forum fol
high schools.
Besides airing their views II
panel discussions with American
students. the young Asians anc
Middle Fasteners heard speeche.
Iby Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. Aus
Itralian Ambassador Percy Claude
ISpender, Jonathan B. Bingham
acting administrator Of the Tech
|nical Cooperation Administration
C"point four'D and others.
Samples Of Views.
Here is q sampling Of the views
of the students themselves:
Hameeda Akhund. Of Pakistan'
In America. the first prejudice
is against those who are moi
Americans. -. It is hard tx
understand how some western
people can take 1t for granted
that eastern races are inferior
and still take 1t for granted thai
they should side with the West
lin the struggle between capitalism
and communism"
Publication Valera, Of the
Philippines: IF there are Com
|munists in America. which is sup.
posed to be the land Of plenty
and democracy, it can be expected
that my country. where there il
SO much poverty and ignorance
has some Of them too. ! no.
ticed that some students in this
country don't realize how luck,
they are. So please send us more
Of your students, to live in oul
countries"
Chung Wha Lee. Of Korea
Poor and tlneducated people vii
always be attracted by commu.
|nisfh, which pretends to liberate
poor, and and abuses western
democracy. Even II these pool
people got your messages about
western democracy, they coult
hardly understand what you say ;
Kayoko Saito. Of Japan: 1--WE
Japanese {. are most disap-
pointed to find how deep and seri.
|ous the differences between the
two worlds are. My assertion /.
like this. That America anc
Russia must not fight by any
means"
Turning to the lighter side. the
students had these comments:
Iathyfah Sabarudin, Of Indo.
Evening star., 1952-03-23
Personnel Administrators

DR.. Alan T. Waterman, director
Of the National Science Founda-
ltion. will address the Society for
Personnel Administration meeting
lat $50 pm. Tuesday in Barker
Hall, Seventeenth and K streets
INV.
Evening star., 1952-03-16

Ger. But even while she is dying
he can't stay away from Nell.
his childhood sweetheart. The
author evidently thinks Nell has
q trace of nobility because she
takes In a poor tramp OF q teen-
age girl. But it is a question,
when the Waif has seduced
Sherry and after his wife's
death, married him while he is
drunk, which is more Of a tramp,
this child or Nell.
Miss Wolff can write like q
streak. Perhaps that's her.
trouble Like many facile writ
ers. she's inclined to overwrite,
and Back of Town" is much
longer than it need be. And yet
she has a remarkable UNDER
standing OF shabby characters
and the juke-box taverns where
they hang out. More than once
you have to stop to realize that
It's not a man, and somebody
like John OHara. who is de-
scribing these people and their
dramas so virilely and so surely.
But Miss Wolff and Mr.. Vidal
and other young writer's Of this
uncertain era pose disturbing
questions to any one who feels
that life is more than futility,
death more than negation.
Evening star., 1952-03-16
ConfidentioIIy!!
9. A.9 CONEIDENIIAL

y. .. A.8CDNElDENa1
BY Jack Lait and Lee Mort
inner. fCroaDfa; $3.50.
Our country is in 4 sad state
indeed. with dishonesty and de-
cadent vice winning over de-
cency everywhere If you believe
these lurid journalists.
The authors Of "confidentialp
books on Washington, New York
and Chicago have spread their
operation to include the entire
United States, with chapters on
leading cities. BY this time
their technic is familiar. They
credit the Mafia, q Sicilian So
ciety, formerly called the Black
Hand, with controlling most of
the organized vice Of the coun-
try. In individual cities they
name certain hoodlums who
have had difficulties with the
courts and probably can't be
libeied and connect them with
political leaders and police.
They give the names and ad-
dresses Of "hot" night spots and
phone numbers Of call girls.
They describe skid rows, and
dwell ON vice.
The job Is not difiicult
for newspapermen who hurl
general assertions without doCu-
mentation. The book is full OF
blanket charges.
Is there truth In IL? Nat
urally. 1t is such 3 COM
pendium Of fact, runor, in-
nuendo and back fence gossip
that no one could separate these
components and arrive at d
clear picture. The authors ac-
cuse Senator Kefauver Of ap-
propriating their material for
publicity purposes ana charges
his crime investigation commit
tee with pulling their punches.
The revised chapter on WASH
ingtcn contains little ii the way
Of public charges Or private
villifcation that has not been
aired.
cARTER 1RooEE Jo,lEs.
Evening star., 1952-03-16
Librory Of Congress
AS a Center of Culture

The Fellows in American Let
ters, the Board of Directors
which advises the Library Of
Congress poet in residence, had
a quiet meeting at the Library
recently. AS usual, much of the
discussion centered around the
duties and prerogatives Of the
occupant of the poetry chair.
They all agreed that it was
an excellent thing to have. that
it emphasized the fact that the
library is not just a repository
OF information. but a center OF
culture as well. It is not, as
presently construed, a sinecure.
designed to give the starving
poet financial security and
pleasant quarters in which to
invite his soul. One Fellow
pointed out that Karl Shapiro.
a former poet in residence has
much more leisure in his pre-
sent teaching job at Johns Hop
kins. Another, who had held
the chair. recalled that he had
done a photography and edited
the Quarterly Review "a duty
since taken from the poetry of
fice) during his tenure. Miss
LeOnie Adams, the incumbent
of three years ago spent all
her time locked in moral combat
with Congress over the Fellows
choice of Ezra Pound for the
Bollingen Prize (another duty
since withdrawn.
All agreed with Novelist
Robert Penn Warren. an alum
nus of the poetry Office when
he said he felt the poets first
job was to create an atn1os-
phere. After all by being there.
he shows that the Library Of
Congress values certain stand
ards of culture and thus helps
to spread respect for such
things"
&*M
Scheduled for April /: "Polit-
ical Zoo" by Clare Barnes. jr.
Evening star., 1952-03-16
Form IN Art and Nature

A fascinating show Is on view
In Watkins Gallery, American
University, through March 80.
One of the best-planned ex-
hibitionS I have seen in many
months. it is based on an INTEL
lectual concept, expressed by
Herbert Read in his introduc-
tory preface to the display. He
mentions the correspondence
between the formal structures of
works Of art and nature, such
as the golden section. The
show includes large chart ex-
planning the sections propor-
tions. But those whose knowl-
edge Of mathematics has been
left to rust since their school
days. need not worry unduly
about the gallery's charts.
Such are the charms Of this
show, that 1t doubtless appeals
to morons as well as intellec-
tual giants; and to children In
their first decade as well as to
adults in their ninth. At any
rate, there was a wide age
range among the visitors the
day ] viewed the exhibition,
and every one was studying it
IN rapt absorption.
The gallery has assembled
works Of art and works Of
nature to indicate "some Of the
relationships that appear to
exist between the genesis OF art
forms and the growth Of nat
ural FORMS" and hopes that
visitors will find enjoyment in
the recognition Of relationships
deeper than surface resem.
blance. But the gallery con-
cedes that visitors who do not
make the effort can look at the
paintings sculptures and prints,
also the shells. plant forms,
fossil impressions and a host of
other things. for themselves
alone. and will probably enjoy
them in a shallow way.
But the relationship is the
thing. in pursuit of which the
art department of American
University has obtained CO.
operation and loans from sew.
eral sources: Specimens of
many kinds from the National
Museum. particularly the de-
partment OF geology: paintings
from the Phillips Gallery and
10 mounted photographs and
several sectioned shells from
Mrs. Fiske Warren, which were
part of her exhibition at Har-
wards Fogg Museum nine years
ago.
! left the show at Watkins
Gallery with information new
to me, and / recommend Form
in Art and Nature" highly to
every one who wants to extend
his knowledge of man-made
and natural esthetic objects
and their kindred aspects.
Evening star., 1952-03-16
Elizabeth Spencer

THIS CROOKED WAY
BY Elizabeth Spencer. fDodd.
Mead; $3.J
Miss Elizabeth Spencer, one OF
those young writers the South
turns out so plentifully, has q
yeasty. even poetic style which
Is one Of the things that made
her first book. Fire In the NORM
ing" so memorable. Her second
shows that she writes as well as
ever. even though she doesn't
seem to have anything particu-
lar to say.
This Crooked Way" concerns
a strong-minded young hillbilly
who comes down out of the
Mississippi Mountains deter
mined to clean up the Delta. He
does well at trade. buys some
land, reclaims a swamp, takes
in a white woman-whom he
turns out just before she is to
bear their child and marries q
f1ne lady from one Of the Oldest
families In the county. Appar-
emily. however, this is not quite
enough for Amos, as he con-
tinues to plough around in his
aggressive way right through to
the end. whether Sadder or
wiser it doesn't say. The story
is told from the viewpoint. in
turn. Of his woman. his wife, his
friend. his niece and himself.
Even so. 1t sounds like many
other Southern novels that have
come down the pike ia such
large numbers these past few
years.
MARY McaRoRY.
Evening star., 1952-03-16
Distinguished Imagination

Rudolf Won HUM is the
18th contemporary American
artist to be honored with one-
man show at the Corcoran CAL
lery of Art since it inaugurated
its series four years ago. Fifty
odd paintings and prints occupy
two southeast galleries on the
first floor, across the atrium
from the Sloan memorial exhibi-
ton. Although there is no con-
nection between the shows. their
simultaneous display and prox-
unity inevitably emphasize their
contrasts.
Mr.. Won Huhn's work is just
about the antithesis of Sloan's.
Mr.. Won Huhn's impeccable
craftsmanship. intellectual con-
ceptS, reduction OF subject mat
ter to distractions Of exquisite
pattern. and imaginative inven-
ton of linear designs, are at
the opposite nole from Sloan,s
love Of actuality and his efforts
to transcribe life just as he saw
it. warm and earthly.
Incredible as 1t seems, Mr.. Won
Huhn's first one-man show was
held less than I'VE years ago.
John Galloway and William
Calfee Of American University's
art department, invited him to
display water colors and draw
ings at Watkins Gallery. The
show was no beginners collec-
ton, however. MIR. Won HUM
had been experimenting with
the visual arts along .Bauhauss
lines for some years. and had
also been interested In abstract
photography. But profession
ally he was an engineer and
scientist.
A native Of San Francisco, of
German descent. he was taken
to Germany by his parents for
two decades. After obtaining q
degree in engineering, he re-
turned to the United States in
1911 and began to practice.
Brought to Washington by the
outbreak of World War /, he was
introduced to the field Of statis-
tical method odology and graphic
presentation, in which he
achieved such distinction that
In 1882 he was elected q fellow
Of the American Association for
the Advancement Of Science. He
continued In his chosen field
until his retirement In 1947.
Visitors to the exhibition ct
the COrcoran should not fail
to read the perceptive foreword
to the catalogue. By John Gal
loWay. The greater part Of Mr..
von Huhn's show Is divided be-
tween linoleun cuts. tempera
paintings and designs on bone
board. with single examples Of
his work ID water color. encaus-
tic. pastel and monotype. Al
though the general color effect
is q combination Of black and
brown, actually visitors viii see
gamut of jewel-like colors IN
troduced into his paintings, as
well as gold and silver. His
Aquatic Garden. for example.
reminds one Of 4 black opal.
In answer to my inquiry about
the sources Of his inspiration.
he said.
The psychological process
which leads 70 inspiration y
Evening star., 1952-03-16
The Buyers Goot
JUMPING JUPITER

OOM1 4IN1 JOE j EN-
BY Ernestine Gilbreth Carey.
Thomas Y. CroWeH Co.. $3.
The co-author Of Cheaper by
the Dozen" has in her latest novel
Jumping Jupiter" a light and
humorous description of the re-
tail profession in large New
York department store.
Mrs. Carey. who wrote the story
from her own experience as a
buyer, has given the reader a
satiric account of the complexi-
ties involved in that particular
field. having as the hero Jumping
Jupiter. toy goat. Kay Linsey,
a buyer for the toy department
at Joyce's department store is re-
lying on Jumping Jupiter to in
crease sales which have taken
q tremendous drop after the
Christmas rush. Jupiter proves
to be popular fad and Kay
comes out on top after all.
CYNTHIA MEDLEY.
Evening star., 1952-03-16
Books II II Review
Iodoys Young Writers Pose Disturbing
Questions on Life, Death and Religion
THE JUDGMENT OF PARIS
BY Gore Vidal. fDutton; $500
BACK OF TOWN
BY Martha Wolff. random H0us
n - -
Reviewed BY corter Brooke Jone.

Outwardly. dramatically. these
two novels have nothing in COM
mon. InWardly. philosopher cally,
so far as they have points Of
view. there Is q significant SINH
larity.
Since Mr.. Vidal and Miss
Wolff are among our most
gifted young novelists, what
they have to say, in the form
Of fiction, takes on interest.
even a measure. of Importance.
Mr.. Vidal, a veteran novelist
at 26, mature in style, If still
cropping for a philosophy, writes
in his seventh book of educated,
sophisticated. life-weary people.
In her fourth novel, Miss
Wolff deals with characters
who live on the wrong side Of
the tracks. who express them
selves more robustly and di-
rectly, If less grammatically and
less alluSively. than MIR. VidaPs
persons.
And yet both sets Of char
acters. at least the principal
ones, would agree on certain
basic ideas. however differently
they might phrase them.
Is This . Trend?
Life. they seem to say, is q
pretty futile undertaking, so
get what you can out of it, re-
gardless Of who Is helped or
hurt. Mr.. Vidal's characters
would say morality is for the
naive, Miss VOLTS people would
say it's for suckers. Religion
is a system of myths for those
without minds or those who can
lull their minds into accepting
such simplif1ed Cor corny) be-
liefs.
Is this the trend of our young
writer's? Does life offer them
nothing more affirmative?
Mr.. Vidals novel, q modern
satire on the Greek legend of
Paris and the golden apple, is
often. highly amusing, some-
times brilliant. Philip Warren,
just out of Harvard Law School.
with the means to travel for a
year, is symbolic of a whole
generation of young Americans
VINO fought in the war and
emerged wondering what the
future could be and what life
was all about. Philip visits
Rome, Egypt, finally Paris. He
falls in with cultured, decadent
men and women, some sexual
deviationistS, others addicted to
opium or something else. I'm
like the men in some of Mr..
Vidal's previous novels, Philip
is normal. at least sexually, and
he takes on several glamorous
mistresSes in the course of his
travels. But he is tolerant of,
though aloof from, the deprav-
ity he encounters at every turn,
the sickly decadence he some
times witnesses at ceremonious
orgies in modern Gomarrohs.
At the end of his year, Philip is
as confused as ever. No won-
der.
The Basic Philosophy.
Not that Mr.. Vidal takes any
of these things seriously. He
has fun, subtly or devastating
ly, with everything, including
himself in the act of writing
this novel. But q satire, per-
haps even more than q straight
story, must have a basic philos-
ophy. "The Judgment of Paris
certainly has, although it could
be-, summed up in Ambrose
Bierce's favorite axiom: ''Noth-
ing matters" !"
Miss Wolff's young man,
Sherry, is supposed to be de-
cent sort, at heart, because he
nurses the wife he brings from
California to his home town in
the Middle West to die of cam
Evening star., 1952-03-16
r
Sloan Memorial
s xl1ibitior1 Opens
AT { orcoron
By Florence 5. Berrymon

By Florence 5. Bergman
The John Sloan memorial
exhibition, just opened at the
Corcoran Gallery Of Art, to re-
main through April 20. honors
one 0f the great figures Of
American painting In the iirst
half Of the Goth century, and
presents . stirring panorama
Of life wherever the artist met
It and inmortalized 1t In his
paintings. etchings and draw
ings.
Approximately 100 works ins
the three media MI two gall
leries on the first floor. Viewing
them. it Is dificult to UNDER
stand how radical they seemed
40 years ago. and earlier.
Sloan was q rebel from the be-
ginning. When only 81, he met
Robert Henri. q gifted artist
and d born leader, with whom
he enjoyed q lifelong friend
ship. Indeed, Sloan called Henri
"his only real friend. !" They and
q few other artists with kindred
ideals. began BY leading q re-
volt against the Pennsylvania
Academy. During the first IL
years of his career, however.
Sloan earned his living as q
newspaper artist, making pen
drawings for the Philadelphia
Inquirer and Press. At the turn
Of the century, he was the
Press outstanding artist. A
striking, colored full page is
among the earliest works in the
show.
simultaneously. Sloan was be-
ginning to paint the city streets
and their crowds. Philadelphia's
City Hall is the earliest in q
series Of approximately 40
paintings at the Corcoran, which
cover so years. In 1904 lwhen
he was 33) Sloan and his wife
moved to New York City. a dar-
ing step for q non-conformist
painter who had to support HIM
self by drawing magazine and
book illustrations. But In the
years which followed, his en-
thuSiasrn never Waned. 1t car
ried him from New York's teeIn-
ing streets, under the "El,' = into
the parks, from roof tops to
river front. wharves and ferries.
He painted tenements and those
who lived in them. indoor as well
as outdoor scenes. He painted
and etched restaurants and
courtroom scenes, the crowds in
McSorley's bar on Saturday
nights. In fact. he captured in
his oils and prints, everything
that was unfaShionable those
days, but which forms q vital
moving record Of life in the early
10th century. 1t is all here at
the Corcoran Gallery. along with
the later records Of his years in
Santa Fe. his summers in
Gloucester, and his studies of the
nude. which in the 192Os he be-
gan to feel was the painters
most difficult and most compre-
hensive problem.
The Corcoran Gallery collabo-
rated with the Whitney Museum
Of American Art, New York City,
and the Toledo Museum, in as
sembling this superb exhibition.
The Whitney opened the show
in January, and it viii 60 from
here to Toledo.
Evening star., 1952-03-16

illustrate mfr. President" They
approached the publisher.
Kismet." is how a member Of
the firm grandly sums up the
happy turn Of events which left
them publishing q book for
which the Readers Digest paid
the highest condensation rates
in its history.
Mr.. Hillman, q World War ]
Evening star., 1952-03-16

on the Griffith family, are seen
here through the 6-year-old
eyes of his daughter Corrine.
Needless to say, Corinne is more
than 6 years old at present:
she's a big girl now and she has
a lot more understanding Of
what makes men tick.
The beautiful wife Of George
Marshall, owner of the WASH
ington Redskins, apparently en-
joyed the Texas girlhood she
describes here. It amt litera-
ture, but it's good. clean fun.
Evening star., 1952-03-16
Portraits ut IFA

Portraits by IL Washington
area artists are on view at the
IFA Galleries to the end of
this week Outstanding to me
are Edith McCartney's Mary
Ann Walburn. z in pastel: Bruno
Beran's oil of Mrs. Thornton
w. Owen, Virginia Goolkasian's
head of q woman and captures
OF children by Hedo Forester
and Carl NyuuiSt.
Evening star., 1952-03-16

DOCK Illus.
tr a t e d by
photograp h S
by Afr e d
Wagg. g. vet
eran interna-
tional CORE.
Spon d e n t.
Gamer a m a n
and old friend
OF Mr.. Hill-
man. who just
happened to
be available
to take the
exclusive pic
lures which
Evening star., 1952-03-16
Civil War Nurse |
Who Outronked
Gen. Sherman
CYCLONE IN CALICO

CYCLONE IN CALICO
BY Nina Brown Baker. (LittIe,
Br0ion e Co.: $780,
Mary Ann Bickerdyke, i A.
year-old widow from Galesburg,
Ill.. was nothing much to look
at. Her speech was on the rough
side, her dress of plainest calico.
Yet there were few members OF
her sex that the soldiers Of the
Civil War were happier to have
around when the going was
tough.
Mrs. Bickerdyke. who parked
her own two boys with neigh
bors to look after other women's
boys. was Supremely useful
woman, i1lonumentally sensible
and unbelievably thick skinned.
In an age when it was thought
that no modest woman would be
q nurse. she was definitely not
wanted by the military SUR
geons. who regarded any civilian
diseases as malingering anyway.
The only ladies who appeared
in the hospital were Of the min
istering angel persuasion,
smoothers Of pillows, strokers Of
fevered broWs, readers of con-
soling passages from the Scrip
lures.
The washtub and the cook
stove were the pillars Of Mother
BIS ministry. Clean bedding
and hot food were the lot of the
lucky soldier who fell into her
hands. In an era Of opium,
cal0mel and blood lettings, she
introduced. whenever possible,
her own regime Of hot baths,
gentle vegetable laxatives, nour-
ishing food and fresh air.
Sent to the army hospital at
Cairo by her congregation, Mrs.
Bickerdyke got a pass which en-
titled her to stay on the post
until sunset. One look at the
yermin-ridden men lying on
filthy straw and she enlisted
for the duration. Her next pass
came from Gen. Grant, who
had occasion later In the war
to tell q colonel he could do
nothing about Mother B. be-
cause "she outrankS me- She
looked down on officers. She
attached herself to Grants
army without the slightest
authorization. Communicated
the supplies Of the Sanitary
Commission (forerunner OF the
Red CroSs). which finally in
self-defense made her an agent,
and followed the men all through
the Western campaign.
The Army Nurse corps, re-
.cruiting exclusively from plain-
faced ladies over 80, was Just
getting started. The amateurs
were definitely in charge. Mrs.
Bickerdyke, with the help OF
such genteel ladies as Mary
Stafford and Eliza Chappell.
worked miracles of comfort and
cheer. Channels she ignored.
Miss Bakers simple, zestful
biography is replete with
tales OF Mother BIS plain
spoken dealings with suffering
surgeons and fluttering ladies.
MARY McGRORY.
Evening star., 1952-03-16

AculCulcs tIG
exhilarat ion
that followed
thes e dos
ages: the fact
that papa
once bought
a brok NJ
down circus
in order to
get possession
of a pony for
his daughter.
The ill
health that
papa enjoyed.
and itS nMnct.
Evening star., 1952-03-16
Art Book Reviews

JOHN SLOAN m
BY Lloyd Goodrich. whitney.
Macmillan: So
In connection with the sloan
Memorial exhibition, the first
full-lengtn study Of this artist
has been published. The author
Is associate director Of the.
Whitney Museum and has.
written definitive biographies Of
Homer and Ealxins and sew
era1 outstanding contemporary
American painters.
Mr.. Goodrich,s life Of Sloan,